She's still reading?

I'm Cooper, the dog. Have you seen my person?

Last time I saw her, she had her face in a book. 

I haven't seen her face in soooo long. Sometimes I look at her picture just to remember what she looks like. This is a picture of her.

I thought she might be on Facebook.

But she wasn't.

I thought she might be on Skype, and that I could call her, but she's not.

If you see her, will you let her know that I want to play ball? I really like frisbee more, but she won't play frisbee with me after I pee on my frisbee, and I just did that. 

So ball will be fine. Thanks in advance, Cooper.

Where have I been?

Last week, I accidently watched the premiere of Game of Thrones. I liked it, and there was one character they showed that I was really interested in, but they only spent 10 minutes on her story out of an hour long show. 

So I bought the book and for the past week and a half, that's what I've been doing. Really, that's all I've been doing. But even in the book, probably only 15% is dedicated to the character that I was attracted to in the first place. But I'm hooked now.

I'm used to getting sucked into young adult books that I can read in two afternoons, not giant fantasy books. In the bookshelf of my mind, there is only one other book series that I've read that can go in the same section as Game of Thrones, and that's Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. Which is amazing. 

I'm about 80% finished with this thing on my kindle, so I'm sure I'll return to the real world soon, unless I go directly into reading the next book in the seven (or so I'm told) book series of giant fantasy novels.

Okay, have to go, I've only got 40 minutes before I have to be at work and I plan to spend 25 of those reading Game of Thrones.

Homemade Hummer Ads

We were infatuated with the Hummer. Obsessed even. Every so often, I would look back at the Hummer and think, "Oh, that looks like a commercial." It always looked like the Hummer had just accomplished some incredible feat, like climbing mountains or racing along mud soaked trails. I couldn't help but take pictures. We called these pictures our Hummer Ads. 

We were so infatuated with the Hummer that Husband bought one when we got home. We owned it for a whole 2 months before he realized it wasn't really for him and traded it in for his usual truck, but on this road trip, we were glad to have a big, off-roading vehicle that was totally enclosed. We could leave our stuff in the car and run off to explore. 

And if we didn't have it, we wouldn't have been able to get to roads like this one.

Or this one.

Definitely not this one.

And I don't think we would have seen these elk grazing in oceanside pastures in this state park.

Well, I think it was a state park because I took this picture. And I remember we were really close to the caretaker's house, and he was out mowing his yard so we stopped and talked to him. I think he was surprised to see other people.

Oh, did I mention the awesome dirt roads?

But I think the photo below, at a look out right before crossing the golden gate bridge, was the #1 Hummer Ad picture. You can see the dirt from our trip; it's like a badge of honor that shouts, "Hey, look at this guy. He just had an adventure."

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The Yellow Flowers

Yellow flowers! They were everywhere and they were beautiful.

 I think it looks like Broom, or the Oregon state flower, Oregon Grape, although the leaves don't look right for either of those two options. So, if you know what they are, please leave a comment!

 If you're from Texas, then you will understand when I say that these flowers were like yellow blue bonnets. They just lined the road, forever and ever.

They grew on cliffs. 

They grew on the beach.

Everywhere.

I really have no idea why I took so many pictures of flowers.

Even other types of flowers.

I think it was just so different from what I'm used to.

In Texas, you only see this many flowers if you're looking at blue bonnets or indian paint brushes.

But I'm not complaining. I think this one below is my favorite.

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HWY 101 Road Trip

HWY 101 runs along the west coast of the United States. In May of 2007, Husband and I flew into Portland, Oregon, rented a hummer, drove up to Astoria, OR and then down the coast to San Francisco, CA. 

Seeing as that was four years ago, and this is now, I'm not going to remember everything. But still, there are too many pictures for just one post. So here you go.

The Yellow Flowers
Homemade Hummer Ads

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