We did our Saturday run this morning. It was 10 miles which is long but not terrible. The worst part was the heat and humidity. Now people from places that really get hot (Phoenix, ...) will roll their eyes and think we're wimps over here, but getting into the 70s is hot for us folks living in the wet and rainy Willamette Valley .

And the weather has been warm and humid. We don't get suck-the-water-out-of-you dry and we don't get take-a-shower-and-never-get-dry wetness. It's rather pleasent around here. Usually. We just don't get hot (80s) and humid days in May in this place. But that's what we've been having. Something is going on with the weather.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

I'm travelling to Princeton, New Jersey for a few days. It's like visiting a different country. I grew up on the west coast and have lived there my whole life and I've never spent any time anywhere on the east coast -- I've visited a time or two but I've never wandered around the countryside.

There are more desciduious trees (in the Pacific Northwest we have more evergreens. Why is it that people look different, in general? People in an east coast airport look "different" than people on the west coast. Why is that?

Pictures coming soon.

It's spring around here and the Dogwood trees are blooming up a storm,

At the Busy Mom Blog is a pointer to this little quiz: Which Peanut Character Are You? I am:

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