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Although I don’t get to water ski very often these days, I do like to do it when I get the chance. So when I was back in Idaho in June we took the boat out to Aberdeen and had some fun.

The water was pretty good and the wind hadn’t really started blowing yet, so we were able to spend plenty of time on the water. During that time I tried to ski without and hands, and this is the result.

I was able to go for quite aways holding the rope in my mouth. It kind of made my neck sore, but I forgot about that stiffness when the spider bit me two days later.

One of the things we did on our summer vacation was went to Yellowstone National Park. It was the second time the kids had gone, and they were pretty excited to see the animals. Mason couldn’t wait to see the bison, probably cause he has NDSU Bison DNA in his veins.

Whitney was also excited to be there. Luckily after only a few minutes of driving in the park, we got to a big herd of bison. We stopped and took some pictures–although I didn’t get Mason in a picture with the bison. I figured as long as I kept another tourist between us and the bison we’d be safe.

Mason found this long 1 X 4 and was playing with it in the house. He would stand it up to “scale” (measure) himself with to see how tall he was, then lay it down and jump over it. Finally he got a great idea. He put it down on the carpet and would walk along the length of it. It is about 7 feet long. He got very excited about his discovery and ran in to tell Whitney.

“Whitney! I know! We can play on this. It is a ‘balance speed’”, he said.

Whitney of course knew better. After he said this a few times, she said, “Mason, for the last time, it isn’t a balance speed. It is a balance bean!”

This weekend was supposed to be the Perseid meteor shower, but the moon is fairly bright right now and the viewing isn’t the best.  Nevertheless, I decided it would be fun to try to see some shooting stars.

So we sent out after dark and drove over to this walking path we have that leads to the top of a big hill, where we could get out of the trees.  On the way there, Mason asked if we could stay in the car so the flaming rocks wouldn’t hit us.  I had to tell him that it wouldn’t be like on his Dinosaur movie, where the meteors come blazing down and start things on fire.

Once we got there, we made it to the top of the hill with only a few trials related to fear of the dark, and then I just laid on my back and everyone used my stomach or shoulders as pillows to watch for shooting stars.  We didn’t see a single meteor, but we did hear crickets and other things that frightened the kids.  So we eventually left empty handed and got home and saw a raccoon trying to get into our garbage can.  It wasn’t a shooting star, but the kids thought it was every bit as much fun to see a raccoon as a meteor.