we temporarily interrupt your scheduled program to bring you an important update.

It's 7 here... I had to hijack my blog back when I saw how many web hits you were getting with your "We road an elephant" post. It appears having that title to your blog post means we are getting tons of hits from india. Our number of hits to the blog went through the roof in the last 24 hours and a high percentage of the views were from that region of the world. I was tempted to title this post "Killing whales  wears me out" or "There is hair in my gorilla soup" to see if we could pick up some interest from other continents....

Joking aside, what I really wanted to do was let trill and barrett know what is going on back home. I had to post here because I didn't know where else they might see my messages..... here goes.

Jim and I bought a telehandler and have already been having lots of fun with it. I am embarrassed to show it before its new paint job but I know you will want to see it. The pics are below. We also got a man-basket that Jim and I have already used to trim some trees and what not. Don't feel bad about not being here to enjoy it. I don't think I would want to have barrett go up in the basket anyway (its a man basket) and obviously trillion ... with you being a girl its not really designed with you in mind. On top of that, we got a truss boom which we are going to use like a crane arm with a winch and a crane hook. All in all it's going well and we are having a lot of fun. Only setback has been the really cold rainy weather and my busy work schedule with church and school and what not. Also, of utmost importance... I am now a platinum league starcraft 2 player. Which means when you address me (if you choose to at all) please be respectful of my rank.

Crusoe has been getting bigger and bigger everyday and sleeping less and less every night. Mom seems to be doing pretty well and we are approaching halloween. Leaves are about half off the trees and the woods is bright yellow.

Lastly, Reading your posts on Thailand was really hard for me. I want to be in your shoes so bad and am very very jealous. I keep telling myself not to be. This gives me all the more reason to travel to Nepal or Bhutan and skip Thailand altogether. Not quite as fun once people in my family have been there ahead of me!  However...... Just for good measure..... I need you to do something for me.

Get something and write a note on in and bury it. Leave me a message for me to dig up somewhere it won't get disturbed and give me a few landmarks to find it in the event I find myself following in your footsteps in the next 5 years or so. Maybe even take a picture to help me out!

Keep having fun and talk to you guys soon.

-7

This is a truss boom that we got with it. Jim is repainting it in this pic

Here is the telehandler from the front