Let's you and me go and ...

My new favorite words.  :)  

That was how much of Jonathan's conversations began this week.  

Aunty Leilani, let's you and me go - 

be excavators

hunt mean gophers

play in the pool

swing 

skate across the ice 

catch sharks

dig up this hole

Yesterday, he wanted me to go away  - just for the night, so he could have his bed back.  So he was trying to figure out how I could leave before bed, and when he ate breakfast, I would be back.  

Today, I said, "Hey, Jonathan, you get your bed back tonight!"  

He says, "No.  I want you to sleep here more nights."

"I wish that I could, but I have to leave."

"I am going to lock all the doors so that you can't get out."

Big 'awwww' in chorus.

I was such a good girl this week!  I went to the cycling class Darla teaches /both/ Wednesday mornings.  :)  Yay!  Exercise!  Go me!

We also painted Darla's kitchen yellow.  It looks really nice.  :)

In Billings now, Spokane tomorrow and Olympia Friday.

Clearly I am tired, or I would not (probably.. ok, ok, probably I would anyways!  Unrepentantly, too!) be inflicting this on you - but I was right!

Depending, of course, on your estimation of the value of your time; it really only makes sense to speed when the distance you have to travel is over twice the value of the speed you are traveling.  Otherwise, you don't save enough time (imo) for the possible ticket, not to mention the extra gas you'll need to buy, to bother.

Translation:  if the speed limit is 75, and you have 150 miles to go, you will only save 7.5 minutes by speeding up to 80.  The time you save only gets less as you have fewer miles to go.  With 100 miles to go, you save 5 minutes by going 80 instead of 75.  But if you have more than twice your speed value (75 mph and 200 miles to drive, for instance), you begin to save enough time that it might actually be worthwhile.  

Happy 1 am!

Have I mentioned before how I love Wyoming?  I thought I might have but, not being entirely certain I emphasized it enough, I figured it wouldn't hurt to say it again.  :)

Yes, I'm still up at this hour - there was a lightning storm going on, and it is just now moving away.  I stayed up to watch - and even got (by sheer luck!) two pictures.  As soon as I remember how, I'll post them here for your viewing pleasure.

It was the best lightning storm ever - the sky was lighting up non-stop; a strike several times every second, and a constant dull grumble of thunder.   A few bolts of lightning were bright enough that I think they permanently are seared onto my retinas.

J and I were Great Hunters today; we stalked meat-eating dinosaurs and mean deer with our water pistols.  Then we went fishing in the sky.  J caught several red lizards that he grilled with hot barbecue sauce for supper.  And I baked a cake.  (The cake was real. ;)  

Massive Drumroll!!!

I have *DUMDUMDUM* finally after I don't know and won't admit how many times of getting stuck in Wyoming for the winter (hmmm... you don't suppose there's a subconscious dealie going on here? ;) made it ALL THE WAY to Oregon City!  

Yes!  I have indeed walked, verified by my little yellow pedometer, from Independence, MO to Oregon City, OR!  Visit www.americaonthemove.org to see the trail for yourself!

Cheers and confetti and all that.

Of course, it's not /quite/ so impressive as it might be... I mean, I /could/ have actually made an effort to walk more each day, instead of simply choosing the 4 weeks during which I would be walking the most and counting them... but I don't care!  It counts!