We don't have children, children have us. Besides without children marriage is just dating.
Posts by BrentR
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43Why Do People Have Children?
by hillary_step ini ask this with serious intent.. evolutionary imperative?
selfishness?
boredom?
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Last hike of the summer.
by BrentR inwe were able to sneak up to mt rainier national park on fri before the labor day masses came up.
i wanted to explore the far northeast area of the park and check out the mineral hot springs.
nirada falls.. .
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BrentR
It is a great playground but for trees to get that big and tall, have gushing rivers and glaciers requires rain, alot of rain. Nine months out of the year it is grey clouds and rain. And then when you can't stand it anymore and start to look at homes in AZ it rains some more. That is why we are all gourmet coffee addicts up here. If we get buzzed enough on caffiene we can ignore the rain a little easier. Seattle has more expresso stands then fire hydrants.
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Last hike of the summer.
by BrentR inwe were able to sneak up to mt rainier national park on fri before the labor day masses came up.
i wanted to explore the far northeast area of the park and check out the mineral hot springs.
nirada falls.. .
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BrentR
There are a couple spots in the park that have a slice of old growth doug fir tree and I always like to read the little tags on them. Each tag has a geological or historical event that matches one of the age rings. This one here started growing in 1390.
My daughter is 4'4" tall so that gives some perspective in the tree's size. I have been showing her pics on the net about the giant redwoods in CA.
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Last hike of the summer.
by BrentR inwe were able to sneak up to mt rainier national park on fri before the labor day masses came up.
i wanted to explore the far northeast area of the park and check out the mineral hot springs.
nirada falls.. .
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BrentR
If you guys are ever up visiting WA state be sure to spend at least one day at the park. There is alot of great scenery viewable just from the hjndreds of miles of park road. Much more is just a .1 to .5 mile hike from the roads. The ultra incredible sights require you to lace up the boots, throw on the day pack and hit the trail.
We could have used more sunshine but it came out enough to get a few good pics. The temps were also very pleasant.
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Last hike of the summer.
by BrentR inwe were able to sneak up to mt rainier national park on fri before the labor day masses came up.
i wanted to explore the far northeast area of the park and check out the mineral hot springs.
nirada falls.. .
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BrentR
We were able to sneak up to Mt Rainier National Park on Fri before the Labor Day masses came up. I wanted to explore the far northeast area of the park and check out the mineral hot springs.
Nirada Falls.
Reflection lake. The trout were feeding like crazy and I will have t go back with the flypole real son.
We hiked in a sub-alpine old growth forest of Douglas fir, spruce, hemlock and vine maple. This doug fir's base takes up the whole lower picture frame.
Ohanapecosh hot springs. These small mineral hot springs cover at least a 200 square foot area and are bubbling up 117-120 deg water and sulphur dioxide. You smell them before you see them. Back in the early 1900's they were owned by a private health spa but the National Park Service bought them, tore down the buildings and restored the area back to it's original condition.
Silver falls is a series of "stair stepping" water falls on the Ohanapecosh river.
Pinnacle peak (6600' elev.) with some cloud mist rolling in.
Momma and the youngster snagging some grub. Right after I took this pic. another fawn showed up, most likley the twin.
I shot alot of video and here are some short snippets:
Hot springs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fevuU3_D87o
Silver falls
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This would be so sad if its true
by IP_SEC inyou can check this out on snopes.comunder "the story of two houses".
house #1a 20 room mansion ( not including 8 bathrooms ) heated by.
natural gas.
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BrentR
There are alot of people that probably think I am the devil incarnate because I drive a mid size SUV. What they don't know is there are over a thousand trees on my eight acres that I choose to leave up. Three acres are massive old growth douglas firs. The amount of carbon dioxide that just one of those doug firs converts to O2 is way more then my whole family puts out in a year. But that does not matter because it's all about the symbolism and show. It's trendy and progressive but does not amount to hill of beans, much like Al Gore.
Someone living in an apartment driving a hybrid will still be lauded as being environmentally progressive even though they put out more carbon dioxide then I do.
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This would be so sad if its true
by IP_SEC inyou can check this out on snopes.comunder "the story of two houses".
house #1a 20 room mansion ( not including 8 bathrooms ) heated by.
natural gas.
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BrentR
Gore's massive energy use is really old news by now. I have posted numerous articles about it in the endless global warming threads that pop up here almost weekly.
And since Bush's house was not built to be preachy but rather to be efficient it just did not make the news. Or reporters knew about it long ago but never ran the story due to the awkward nature of it.
I don't see anything sad about it, just ironic at best. I knew Gore was a phony hypocrite long ago.
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This would be so sad if its true
by IP_SEC inyou can check this out on snopes.comunder "the story of two houses".
house #1a 20 room mansion ( not including 8 bathrooms ) heated by.
natural gas.
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BrentR
What if he does it just to save money?
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Boy howdy! I pulled a foe paw for sure!
by Gregor inon weekends i am the conductor on a first class dinner train.
in addition to my conductor duties i walk through the train and schmooze with folks.
couple of weeks ago there was a party of four, man and woman in their mid thirties with a three year old girl and a mid fifties age man.
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BrentR
My wife and I had the worst time with our daughter at three going up to older women with a bit of abdominal protrusion and asking if they are pregnant. We had many awkward moments before we were able to get her to stop that.
She had a hispanic teacher in kindergarten who did a great job of teaching the students some basic spanish. But then my daughter would go up to anyone that had darker skin and say ola! and a few other spanish words. They would always have a very confused look on thier face and probably wonder why this little white girl was speaking spanish to them.
I guess even if we as adults don't often put our foot in our mouth our kids will more then make up for it.
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This would be so sad if its true
by IP_SEC inyou can check this out on snopes.comunder "the story of two houses".
house #1a 20 room mansion ( not including 8 bathrooms ) heated by.
natural gas.
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BrentR
There are alot of people that have super efficient houses that do it to save money and not for any enviromental reasons. I have some close friends that built a solar/wind turbine compatible house because the power lines did not reach their piece of property. They did not do it to save money and they most certainly are not environmentalists. They wanted a house with a spectacular view of Mt Rainier that was not close to anyone else.
Most conservatives are very interested in saving money but don't go around beating people over the head to get them to remodel thier houses.
Al Gore does have a huge power bill:
http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=367 Yikes!!!!!!
