I wish I could say that my trip to Southern California was for fun. It would be great to see my cousin Critter and my friend Mike. But alas, it is a quick trip there and a quick trip back. All in one day.

p.s. iPhone 3G? I don’t know that I could be more excited.

Well. It has taken me two weeks, but I am finally back. It took a while to repair the blog… and a while for me to get myself together enough to write. I have several posts that I have hand-written and Iwill get to transferring them soon. I hope some of you stuck around.

You know, I am not a fan of his movies, but I sure do like his state park….

We went camping Mendocino this past weekend. I had worked enough overtime to take Friday off, thank goodness! It was a zillion degrees here in Northern CA and we (Winemonkey, Pebz, along with Siea and Brown Bear) wanted to escape to the coast! Winemonkey, Pebz and I got there on Friday night and found one of the last few spots in Van Damme State Park. It is one of my favorite places to camp because it is always incredibly lush with ferns, berries, and stinging nettle. Well… the stinging nettle doesn’t make it all that wonderful… The other thing that makes Van Damme such a great place is that it is in a gully, so the walk to the ocean is really really easy. No mountain climbing gear necessary.

Anyway, we took a chance going out on Friday as there were no reservations available online. I typically don’t like making reservations, but I knew with the heat everyone was going to run to the coast. Even there it was abnormally hot, in the 80’s (a far cry from the inland hundreds…). Our spot was really nice, good shading, level, pretty little flowers all around and no stinging nettle. It was nestled right next to a babbling creek. The bathrooms were located right across the street from the site, but it didn’t matter much as the light didn’t both us.

We spent the weekend cooking and relaxing, going to the beach, hanging out at a local bar in Mendocino, where they let my “service dog” in. The weather was perfect the entire time. The food was amazing. Winemonkey and I had our first grilled chicken thighs and grilled zucchini of the season. This is always one of my more favorite grilled dinners. We had tri-tip on Saturday night for dinner along with Siea’s perfect fruit salad and grilled sweet potatoes. I won’t even go into the killer ‘zza apps’ that Siea brought.

All in all, this weekend was beautiful. Even Pebz had a good time.

Click the picture to see the rest of the trip!

Today I was called a chicken. Because I didn’t want to sit around and argue… especially because the argument was making me late for a class I was taking today.

I am not an argumentative person in general. Any of my friends or family will attest that I occasionally find a high horse to ride in on, but it is rare and usually understandable. But when someone picks fights with me, I generally just want to walk away. Particularly if they are arguing with me and I agree with what they are saying. FYI - That isn’t arguing so why must we continue this?

Anyway. To be called chicken because I don’t want to waste my time is just uncalled for. Especially when I feel like I walk a thin line by staying there.