Personal Products Labels

Read about stuff (including chemicals) we put on our body which may then enter our body via our pores. Check those labels!

Fascinating Web Site

Interesting concept. We routinely save our thoughts in writing, but our day-to-day sounds are another story. This site is about collecting sounds - that is, other than music. Take a look and a listen. On the page's right, is a Sounds Diary link. Or if you're in a hurry, click here to listen to the cowbells of Switzerland!

Behind Us is Long Beach CA

Here Dave and I are at the Signal Hill Hilltop Park standing on top a thin layer of earth under which is their unseen water source - a buried 1.2 million gallon reservoir of water. Oil pumping rigs are sprinkled throughout Long Beach which was once one of the world's richest oil fields. At that time, Signal Hill was covered with so many oil towers that it was nicknamed "Porcupine Hill." Photos and info about the park.

That was just one cool part of our trip to visit Jen, Patrick, Dustin, and their pets, Noah, Roscoe and Jack. Besides picnicking by the ocean in San Pedro, eating lots of Jen's yummy cooking, seeing the doctor's office Patrick artistically converted into Star Ship Enterprise, helping Jen make prop returns, observing the sea life and lorikeets at the Pacific Aquarium, and enjoying the wildlife during our hike at the nearby lagoon, we soaked in some California sun and ate some tangerines from Jen's backyard tree. I'm looking forward to our next trip there - needless to say!

A Mystery

There are over 600 acres of these approximately 8 foot by 30 foot mounds that were covered by grasses, a few saplings and many dainty wildflowers when we were there yesterday. These Mima Mounds may have been caused by earthquakes, volcanic action, glaciers or gophers - yes, burrowing gophers is one of the many theories. To learn more about this mystery, read this article about western Washington's Mima Mounds.