The Green 411

Hey Family and friends and curious onlookers,

Check out our new blog, which you can link to by clicking the green 411 link to the right of this post.

It is the first step in our process of maybe one day having our own environmental education non profit. With my master's in non profit administration (on the way) I can run the org and with his PhD (on the way), good looks, humor, and nice butt (all present now!) Brian can be the front person and voice for the org!

Just a dream for now, but in the meantime read up, follow along, and spread the word! Everything we post will be things we are doing ourselves and we are poor, poor, poor so there is really no excuses for not doing them yourselves as well!

We love you all, but we'd love you more if you were working on being greenies like we are working on it! No pressure!

Brian's Birthday

I think this picture says it all(click on it it to enlarge!) This whitewater rafting adventure was my birthday present to Brian and it was an awesome and exhilarating two days! Brian had gone once before in Pennsylvania but this was my first time! We did Class III and IV rapids and this picture was taken on the class III Trouble Maker Rapid of the South Fork of the American River, which flows through the foothills of the Sierra Nevada's. We also did a day on the Middle Fork which included a class IV rapid so crazy that we all had to get down in to the boat and hold on for dear life! At one point the wave was so high that we were completely under water! On another class IV, our boat turned sideways and the only thing that kept me from falling into the water and rocks was the fact that I had my foot wedged into the boat! One of the other boat's paddlers said I looked like I was doing the "Matrix move" when I went over! Oh and in case you can't spot us in this picture, Brian is in the blue long sleeve shirt (second from the left) and I am the one with the goofy grin on my face (directly above him... opposite side of the boat)! The guy in the blue hat wore a Speedo and kept "flashing" his package but even that couldn't put a damper on the trip!