Mid-October already. Wow. Time flies when you're busy.
Another Opossum... I guess you could say I'm into "catch and release". Rather than take his picture in the cage, I decided to take his picture as I let him go. Boy, he really skedaddled, too. I didn't realize these little things could shinny up a tree so fast. I got only one snap of him and bang, he was gone.
The bee, however, hung around long enough to focus on him. This was taken from the top of Reddish Knob, where we ran Net Control for the ham radio communications support for the 100-mile footrace.
Yep, that's a 100-MILE footrace! Can you imagine anyone RUNNING for 100 MILES?! It was astounding. That's why we provided communications support at every aid station, approximately every 7 miles. Check out the website on
http://www.eco-xsports.com/grindstone.php These people left camp at 8:00 pm Friday, ran all night in the woods, on wilderness trails, up and down mountains, including peaking Elliotts Knob, Reddish Knob, Little Bald Knob, North Mountain, etc.... ran all day Saturday, and some of them took until all night Saturday night. 100 miles! Stopping only to eat and drink at the aid stations, and go to the bathroom when nature calls. If you wanted to run, you had to pay $250 to register, too! These are professional runners, they came from all over the world: Spain, Germany, South Africa, Sweden, etc. 100 miles on foot! Almost 24,000 cumulative feet of elevation change!
And they did it, too! Of the 78 who started, only 12 dropped out at any point in the race. Wow.
Shift gears a little. Question: How come a tiny branch in Kings Canyon, California, gets a bigger building than our branch? This building houses a branch, their parking lot is half the size of ours, and their attendance, according to the president, averages about 30 people per week... less than a third of our average of 92 last quarter. So how come their building is at least twice as large as ours? This isn't a ward building, it's a one-phase branch building. What gives?
The bee, however, hung around long enough to focus on him. This was taken from the top of Reddish Knob, where we ran Net Control for the ham radio communications support for the 100-mile footrace.
Yep, that's a 100-MILE footrace! Can you imagine anyone RUNNING for 100 MILES?! It was astounding. That's why we provided communications support at every aid station, approximately every 7 miles. Check out the website on http://www.eco-xsports.com/grindstone.php These people left camp at 8:00 pm Friday, ran all night in the woods, on wilderness trails, up and down mountains, including peaking Elliotts Knob, Reddish Knob, Little Bald Knob, North Mountain, etc.... ran all day Saturday, and some of them took until all night Saturday night. 100 miles! Stopping only to eat and drink at the aid stations, and go to the bathroom when nature calls. If you wanted to run, you had to pay $250 to register, too! These are professional runners, they came from all over the world: Spain, Germany, South Africa, Sweden, etc. 100 miles on foot! Almost 24,000 cumulative feet of elevation change!
And they did it, too! Of the 78 who started, only 12 dropped out at any point in the race. Wow.
Shift gears a little. Question: How come a tiny branch in Kings Canyon, California, gets a bigger building than our branch? This building houses a branch, their parking lot is half the size of ours, and their attendance, according to the president, averages about 30 people per week... less than a third of our average of 92 last quarter. So how come their building is at least twice as large as ours? This isn't a ward building, it's a one-phase branch building. What gives?
2 comments:
Wow, those are some awesome pictures! And what a pretty branch building!
I love the pictures you take, I love fall, it my favorite season! I like the pic of the church too, it is so pretty, I wish we had on like that, it looks big.
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