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BigDom is up, fed, and happy....a good start...

He is going to clean out the gutters today....then if he has time, he is going to weed whack...sounds like fun...its just an excuse to get all heated up and worn out, and in dire need of a beer...

I dont even have to cook today....he is going over to 'Luckys' a local pub, and ordering a couple orders of broasted chicken, and jo-jo potatoes...of course, he will have a couple of cold draft beers while waiting for the chicken to get done...then he will come home, and we will have our chix and jos and beer...

There is so much racket going on out in front today...a few days ago, the county work trucks came through, and were patching up the road here in our little community....we thought they were done, as they were here all day long on I think Thursday, but no, they are here again today, with loud trucks, and such....

Now, it just seems to us that the workers are getting paid time and a half for working on Saturday...and since patching this road is not an emergency, I cannot understand why the county would be making the workers work on a Saturday, and then pay them time and a half...after all, that is my tax money paying for this, and I really dont like it...I may just have to complain or at least find out the facts....

Loddy, you just know how to make me and Palo swoon, with pics of the noble basset hound....

Palo, many of the folks that climb Mt. Everest, do seem to have a close connection with the Seattle-Western Washington area....many of the climbers who go up to Everest, do practice on Mt. Rainier, which is of course, ,not as tall as Everest, but does indeed, cloak itself with all the hidden dangers, and extreme conditions that can be found on Everest...many people have died, trying to reach the summit of Mt. Rainier....If you go to the Jackson Visitor Center, at Mt Rainier Park, they have many pics of different expeditions, and people who went up Rainier, and died trying...many, if not most of those bodies have never been recovered, because the conditions for trying to retreive them are way to dangerous for rescuers...and their families say, that being as their deceased loved ones so loved mountain climbing, that is appropriate for them to have Mt. Rainier as their final resting place...

So, often its just kind of eerie, when looking at Mt. Rainier, from afar, like down here in Olympia, or looking at it close up, when you are in the park, to realize that when you are looking at it, there are many mountain climbers buried up there somewhere beneath the snow...

hi loddy
thank you for wonderful basset pic
andysmom and I are both basset addicts
Bill found this book in library, took it out and read it, recommended it to me
seems many climbers went to Heaven on that expedition and Jon feels guilty
wondering if there was more he could have done to help
(I have not reached any of this, they are still at Base Camp where I am)
Bill got caught up in Jon's dilemma and kept saying Jon did everything he could
I have enuf experience under my belt to know that death always makes everyone feel guilty
I dont have to climb mt everest to learn that
I am enjoying the book as an incredible adventure in part of world I have never been to
as andysmom said most of the serious climbers mentioned in the book live in the Seattle area
and now I feel so close to Seattle cause of andysmom, westy, and hairofthedog
Jon paints bleak ''evil'' pic of Mt Everest as killer mountain
but the natives call it Mountain of the Gods
and Mountain of our Mother
I think Jon was hurt by his experience and it colors the story
Love, Palo