Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Month: June 2008

  • Dead Lucky by Lincoln Hall

    It is a rare treat to find a book that I can’t put down. Don’t you love that? Reading a story that is so interesting and exciting that you just want to keep going? This week I read “Dead Lucky: Life after Death on Mount Everest” by Lincoln Hall. This book was so good that…

  • Hiking at Farragut State Park

    On Sunday Raf and I went for our weekly hike. We chose to got to Farragut State Park in Idaho. I love this park. We used to camp here when I was a kid and I have good memories of swimming around in Beaver Bay. We decided to follow a trail laid on in the…

  • a day behind

    There’s a Ladybug on my sock, originally uploaded by CraftyMoni. I didn’t get this up yesterday but here it is today. I had a visitor helping me while I was taking pictures of my finished sock :). Hope you all have a great weekend! I’m look at three days off. ahhh.

  • Quite the week

    raindrops, originally uploaded by CraftyMoni. I kind of forgot to post all week! It’s been rather eventful. 1. I got introduced to Plurk and my time has been sucked into a sinkhole. Seriously though, it is fun. Please come and friend me if you are already there. It’s a riot. Someone described it as “Instant…

  • Wallace Falls State Park

    Our original plan was to camp at Mt. Hood. However, we knew it was going to rain so we searched around for parks in Washington and Oregon with cabins or yurts. We decided on Wallace Falls State Park in the North Cascades near Mt. Baker. I had never heard of it, but liked that it…