I'm feeling the blues...

Two posts in one days. Whew!

Your Brain is Blue

Of all the brain types, yours is the most mellow. You tend to be in a meditative state most of the time. You don't try to think away your troubles. Your thoughts are realistic, fresh, and honest. You truly see things as how they are. You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about your friends, your surroundings, and your life.

What Color Is Your Brain?

On reading

You may have noticed my current reading list hasn't changed for a while. I did too.

Since mid-July, I haven't completed any of the books I listed there, with vacations and such. Probably an excuse. But we camp on vacations, and this year we spent those trips going to various tourist attractions. We did this because we could get for free. One of the perks of working for a tourist attraction (wife and two daughters), is we receive comp admissions for many of the other attractions. This is so the employees can intelligently talk about other attractions to tourists.

I just like the free part.

Post camping musing

We camped this Labor Day weekend, and Sunday after church we took the tramway to the top of Cannon Mountain. From there we could see four other peaks--all above 4000 feet: Mt. Lafayette, Mt. Lincoln, Mt. Liberty, and one I can't remember the name to off-hand. The view was incredibly clear: we could see the entire Franconia Notch from the observation tower atop the peak. A very awe-inspiring experience.

The other note on the weekend is sadder. When we checked into the campsite, we noted eight ducklings in the duck pond. By Monday morning they were all gone, victims of a blue heron that apparently has been stalking them since they were still in eggs. The owner of the campgrounds said he needed to figure out what would keep the egret away, without scaring off the ducks as well. But we missed the eight yellow fuzzballs paddling after their mother.