Google Earth

Google Earth is a lot of fun. My groovykids have used it a lot to check out where their friends moved to (one to japan, and one to new yorker, and oddly both are back in washington now). I looked at Hawaii, and I thought it would be weird if you randomly looked at google earth and saw yourself in bathing suit standing on the beach. Could you imagine?

I also went to Dugway Proving Grounds. When I was in first grade my family moved to Dugway. As a kid i thought it was a fantastic place to live. We lived in the last row of houses before the desert. It was literally, our backyard and then the desert. It was amazing to go for walks out there and find all sorts of cool things. We searched for geodes, amethyst, and topaz. The base had a place where you could cut and polish your stones. Once, on the way home from school, my friends and I caught a tarantula in a jar. My mom was delighted when we showed her! She even found a scorpion in our garage when unpacking boxes. At night, wild mustangs would run through the streets... in the morning there would be hoof prints in the yard. It was very cool. Of course, later I find out that is a testing ground for nerve gas and such... but I don't think i have suffered any side effects. My mom would plant tomatoes but everything had to be pollinated by hand, there were no bees there. (Hmmmm).