Wordless Wednesday

Last August, I took a trip to Colorado to visit family and join them for the burial of my Dad's ashes (why, yes, it has been over two years since he died - but that's the way we roll). I had a car full of kids - my son, my niece (who is now living with us until she graduates from high school in 2012), a former exchange student of ours and another former exchange student who, while she wasn't officially "ours" became ours when her original family asked her to move out at the end of the school year. So now we claim her.

Whilst perusing the map for the trip home, I realized that I'd be driving quite close to Arches National Park (taking the scenic route home to Idaho from Colorado since we took the faster route through Wyoming on the way there). After polling the car to make sure everyone was okay with arriving back home in the wee hours of the morning, I took a detour down to the park. Well, I'm not the most fabulous map reader in the world and it looked to me like exiting Highway 70 on 128 would get us to the park just about as fast as if we drove a bit further on 70 and exited on 191. WRONG!

I think that little detour added at least a couple of hours, if not more, to our trip as 128 was a narrow, winding road for much of the way. On the other hand, I doubt that I'll ever go to Arches without driving on 128 because it was so very, very beautiful.

For miles and miles, the road passes along the Colorado River through an area filled with sheer red cliffs and wonderful rock formations. It took us an especially long time to get to our destination because every time we drove around another bend, we would all gasp in amazement and have to stop for a photo. The views would leave an ordinary person speechless.

But not me, as you can tell from my inability to provide a wordless post!

Huh?

So, I expected that about, oh, zero people would have come to my blog on purpose in the past six months or so due to there being no posting (ah, that Facebook is such a TIMESUCK).

Sometimes folks wind up here because of a search, so I figured there would be an occasional visitor who was interested in knowing about the lyrics to the Hokey Pokey or some such information.

Imagine my surprise when I checked my feed and found that quite a few folks have been visiting lately. Through Blogger and via a wide range of websites.

Why? I have no idea. Especially since I don't appear to have visited any of those blogs until today when I was trying to figure out the whys and wherefores of my traffic.

Can anyone making such a visit enlighten me? Inquiring minds want to know, and all that.

I'm Still Alive...

And, although I don't have much to say these days, I really just had to share how very hard I laughed when I heard one of the attorneys at my office explaining to his adorable grade-school-aged son (who had just suggested in his ever-so-slight lisp how they should purchase a cockroach to put in their restaurant meal so they could get it free) the concept of contributory negligence and unclean hands.

That's all for now!

The Onion Strikes Again

I don't care who (socialites) or what (ketchup) they're lampooning, the Onion always provides funny stuff! This one made me LOL - it really did!


Obama's Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner

The Gratitude Campaign

I've been entirely too busy lately, but with a daughter in the service now, couldn't miss the opportunity on Veteran's Day to pass along this video by The Gratitude Campaign.

I try to thank soldiers for their service whenever I can - either by a verbal thanks or by buying a meal when I can get to the cashier before they do - but if you find it difficult to make an overt thank you, and really want to express your gratitude, this is a nice option.