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The Backward Life

“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.” —Philip Roth


I have decided to join a club. The Breakfast Club to be exact. The Breakfast Club is a restaurant downtown that is only open for breakfast and lunch and serves breakfast all day. They have thick cut bacon, obscenely large sausages, crispy hash browns, and everything huckleberry. This includes huckleberry zucchini bread that you can get instead of toast and huckleberry coconut pancakes that would make a nun swear they are so sinful. After all of that, imagine my dismay when they told me that there was no actual club, that the closest they could offer me was a coffee card (after 10 coffees, the 11th is free), and I don't even drink coffee.

Regardless of this terrible upset I do believe that I may become a frequent diner at the Breakfast Club. In fact after only one meal I am pretty sure if I go there even once a month I will gain back the 45 pounds I lost this year. I am really going to have to start going to the gym. Yoga with the Wii Fit just isn't going to cut it anymore.

So if you are ever in town, stop by my house and I will gladly treat you to a breakfast where I am currently their unsolicited newest and only member.
Well my Dell laptop is dying a slow death. First the battery started to lose charge (it only stays good for about 30 minutes) and now the charger is doing weird things, like buzzing at me and not working. So now I have a dead laptop and no way to charge it unless I want to pony up $60 for a new charger. I know that I will have to eventually, seeing as how I have a ton of stuff on my computer. Fortunately I really don't need any of it right now. Jon and I are getting new laptops for the new semester - MacBooks. We are so excited to change over to Mac. Hopefully we will really like them, they are not cheap.

Just an update for everyone: Moira turns 8 this Saturday and she will be baptized at the end of the month on the 23rd here in Moscow. She is very excited. Grandma and Grandpa Humphreys are coming and we are going to show them how good a time you can have in Hippyville. Then right after that Jon and I start school- so don't expect too much of our blogs for awhile. Today we are taking Maggie to see Prince Caspian at the dollar theater in Pullman. Then we will have to endure weeks of her retelling the story to us, even though she has already read it. Oh well, at least I get popcorn.



Jon and I finally got to go camping all by ourselves this last week. Jon's parents took the kids and we went up the Coeur d'Alene River to Graham Creek. It was so nice to be somewhere quiet. We got to fish and go on a 10 mile hike. I was not catching a thing in the river so I finally convinced Jon to go to Steamboat Pond, where I caught a fish almost everytime I cast out my lure. It was so fun. You could see the fish all chasing after your lure all at once. We also saw a river otter and her two babies, a turtle, and a bald eagle.





The last day of camp a deer went right through our camp and stood there watching Jon cook breakfast. It was really cool. With our Vanagon it is so comfortable to go camping. Jon and I put down the Z-Bed in the back and sleep in the van while all of our gear goes into a tent.

At night Jon and I messed around with the exposure on our camera and took some pretty cool photos with a lantern and the fire. We came back a little earlier than we wanted to because it started to rain and it was pretty wet. After it rains there are hundreds of gigantic snails there. Jon and I gathered a few for a photo shoot.







Next month Kyle is going to Scout Camp and Moira is turning 8 and getting baptized so we will have a busy month. Not to mention that Jon and I both start at the University of Idaho on Aug. 25th. Yeah, I will finally finish that degree that I have been working on forever.

I will blog soon about our new hometown of Moscow, which is turning out to be fantastic. We really love it here.