MORELS!

been busy the last week. found some food in the woods, more later.

GETTIN' THERE

stupid bathroom is almost done. took me about a month, woulda took a lot longer if a certain someone hadn't picked the colors for me and wasn't regularly prodding me to follow through. so... thanks! it took 1 gallon of KILZ to cover that crappy metallic-aqua paint. first coat of primer wouldn't even stick, just slid down that garbage.

B4

AFTER!

so i've had 'send thank-you notes' to a few people on my list of stuff to do for about six months now. it doesn't look like i'll be getting to that so, BIG THANKS to mom & dad and the MILLERS for getting me home depot gift cards back when i bought this place. your nice gifts helped fund this project. (stay tuned AUNT W and UNCLE L to see what happens with the nice b-day check y'all recently sent. THANKS!)

four day weekend coming up for me, hopefully i can post about something a little sexier than painting my bathroom come next tuesday.

BAMBAMS!

i went to my first WNBA game on wednesday thanks to an invite from T-DOH and M. the SEATTLE STORM versus the MINNESOTA LYNX!!! it was free BAMBAM night! bambams are inflatable noisemakers. lady basketball players have awesome names like HAMCHETOU MAIGA-BA, SVETLANA ABROSIMOVA, SEMINOLE AUGUSTUS, and SWIN CASH. SPECIAL LADY'S favorite player is definitely SWIN CASH. Ms. CASH did very well in this game scoring around 26 points! i didn't pay too much attention to the first half because there was a lot of good people watching to be had. the storm were losing most of the game until the final few minutes when everyone put their BAMBAMS to work and the storm came from behind to win!



hi!





i think i had hair like this in 4th grade


M generating enough noise to save the day/game!


thanks for the tickets dudes!

JAM OUT WITH YOUR...

this weekend i checked off something that's been on my 'to-do' list for a couple years now...i went clamming! more specifically, i went on a razor clam dig near westport/grayland WA. rolled down solo and met up with a pal named PEELERS and his nice lady Z. Z's parents have a pretty sweet lot up on a hill with a view of the ocean and they let mr PEELERS put his shasta trailer up there. they let me camp out on the lawn!


got down there friday night and we all met up and had some beers. woke up early the next day geared up and set out to slay them clams. the beach was buzzing with lots of funny rednecks. peelers gave me a quick tutorial and we set out on the hunt.


clamming is a feel-good 'sport', you're pretty much guaranteed to bring some food home. i like that. cleaning the clams is a bit involved and takes some time. i don't like that so much.


here's the pics!


camp



beach party!



diggin


success!


my first limit, a few got smashed by the clam tube. sorry little fellas.


cleaned clams


cook 'em up


saturday night dinner


moonlighting


jackson

MT. LICHTENSTEIN

this 'river' proved tough to cross times2.

squeezed one more day out of the shred season last saturday. me, zeekers, special lady, and birthday boy went to a special zone that zeekers and frankles found splitboarding earlier this season. a 'glorious natural halfpipe with stump jibs and hits galore' we were promised by tour guide zeekers. zeekers just got done riding a bike from san diego to austin which i'm told is pretty far to ride a bike. needless to say, he can hike a little faster than the rest of us. the planning of this trip was a mess, but we managed to start hiking out around noon. the weather changed every 5 to 10 minutes but was generally good. we'd have sun, high clouds, graupel (google it if ya don't know), and mixes of those. we were near stevens pass, where about a foot of new snow fell earlier in the week. today that new snow was pretty thick, wet, and slushy, which made for some good exercise while hiking. blah, pics, pics, pics...

i like this sign!

"there's good stuff up here" -chronic belly sweater

snack time!

at one point today i hugged a tree. yup, i gave it a full-on hippy tree hug. only problem is my hug done KILT that tree. the forest found out and tried to kill the birthday boy.

UFF-DA!


hi!

OH CRAP, TOUGH COMPETITION FOR SWITCH POSER OF THE MONTH! LOOKIT THAT SNOW SPRAY!!

GLURG


jump over the sticks!

things i learned today:

-birthday boy thinks bothell is full of hot chicks. birthday boy is nuts.

-special lady is not a huge dairy queen fan

-the monroe fred meyer is great for people watching

-my boots are not waterproof

-i am scared of jumps and not very good at them

FORE!

snowboarding can be a pain in the ass and snowmobiling can be an even bigger pain in the ass. you have to get all your crap ready the night before; food, avy gear, maps, mountain money (aka shit tickets), gas, oil, etc., not to mention extra hats, goggles, gloves, and so on. then you wake up between 5 and 6 am, load up the trailer, drive to friends house, unload sled, reload sled on his trailer, drive 1 to 2 hours ($$gas$$) to get to the snowpark and cross your fingers that it's not icy, foggy, raining, flat light, snowing too hard, pray sled won't break down, etc. with all this crap to deal with each time it gets pretty easy for me to wake up in my warm bed and decide to BAG IT.

well, this past sunday was one of those days that i woke up and was pretty tempted to bag on the stevens pass sled trip that oneshot and swappy had planned. when you're going out to ride in the beginning of may you hope for sunny, slushy conditions. unfortunately today the sky was overcast, it was cold in the city, and i was afraid snow conditions would be similar to those that we had last year when i cracked a rib and bruised my kidney. showed up to oneshots around 8, did the trailer dance and headed to the mountain. the whole way up was wet, gray, and cold. when we made it to the parking lot it was kinda late (10 am'ish) and we were the only car in the lot. 'crap' we thought, are we the only ones in the state stupid enough to go ride in these conditions. we slowly got ready in the lot and a few more bubbas rolled in and swappy arrived. iron man even showed up for a bit!

we eventually started off on the sleds and the snow was pretty soft on the road at the lower elevations. then we got into the fog. flat light with very little depth perception. stoke was low. oneshot stayed motivated and found an area above the fog, which started to lift our spirits.

we set up base camp and oneshot strapped in for the first run of the day. point, point, slash....slash. holy shit, was that a pooh spray? wait, it's not icy? RAD!!

anyways, i got more sled accessed runs that day than ever before and the snow was really good and untracked. not blower pow good, but deep pooh good. and damn friggin good for may 2nd yahurd?

the usual bubba activies were enjoyed: shreddin, beers, smokes, muff-pot delicacies (i.e. hot weiners), gun shootin, sled roopin, and even a little golfing!

here are some pictures!

"hi sman, i'm iron man. you like golf?"


my snowboard has a pretty kitty!



sman getting tubed! he's taking slashin to the next level.


somebody in the no-go zone


hiking is for suckers


slashin the fairway


i got par on this hole. sman double bogey'd it. i lost my ball on the next hole. calling the match a tie.

this is a sweet ride. these skiers were pretty damn good.

sick drop bro!

nice slash too!

what the hell is all that damn rattling?! oh, oops.

here's another version of what went down: http://oneshotproduction.net/reports/050210.html