Art Supplies...

We went across the pond to West Seattle to the art supply store to pick up a "Watercolor Field Kit", .01 micron pens, .05 HB mechanical pencil with extra lead and erasures, a 3" X 5" watercolor/drawing notebook.

At the school bookstore I will be picking up extra 5.5x8.5 plain and narrow ruled paper as well as a set of fold out magnifying lenses.

All told I'm 98% complete with supplies for trip and the first quarter. Books are ordered from TESC and i received the alt books from Amazon the last two days.

Started reading Cascade*Olympic Natural History and can already tell you about 'nurse logs', tree zones, who named the 'Douglas Fir' and his gory demise in Hawaii, how Hemlocks are taking over the forest landscapes (prolly in the next million years) and am moving onto timberlines.  Exciting no?

Marianne has been sooo supportive in this process and I don't know how I could make this adventure without her!

Cheers peeps, keep the home fires stoked and look up now and again you might see something!

Back to School Psychick

Birthday Ecards

Request for list...

Hey all, well after receiving several request for the "actual" book-list, here it is:

• Reference books for the field trip: 

1. The Naturalist's Field Journal: Joseph Grinnell by Steve Herman
2. Plants of the PNW Coast: WA, OR, BC and AK: Pojar & MacKinnon
3. Roadside Geology of Mt. Rainier National Park: Pringle
4. Cascade-Olympic Natural History

• Books for seminar for fall:  

1. A Year in Paradise: Schmoe
2. Where the waters begin: Carpenter
3. Windshield Wilderness: Louter
4. Wilderness in National Parks: Miles
5. The Wolverine Way: Chadwick
6. From Yellowstone to Yukon: Schulz

Sounds exciting I know, can't wait to go out and get your own copies, eh? Well there are a few titles here I am hoping increases my knowledge of our environ up here...

In the meantime, keep your socks dry and pack your own trash out!

Peace out!

OMG my booklist...

 Woaha, this is soooo great; I went online today to check my school mail and just on a lark decided to check out the bookstore and see if the textbooks were listed for our program. I feel like Kimmie the Jamba Juice Girl and in my head I am hearing "shut it, shut up, no way, are you kidding me, shut it omg!!!!". So i ordered my books and the starter kit for the field journal and I must say here quite spectacularly I am now truly excited...I am mean totally amped and am freaking out in a good way. Goosebumps and all!

Not only that but the camping gear is coming along. We as in the royal we are at about 98% collected. A big thanks goes out to the M woman & T woman for their continued support of my re-invention. M gets a big hug and kiss for the extra bandanas...

As for reality...there prolly is no cell reception on the mountain...so I will journal and enter my daily log/blog after I come back.....

In the meantime...stay tuned, same time, same bat channel!

Peace out!

Gathering supplies...

Thanks for all the well wishes!

Spent this morning at a garage sale and earlier this week at granny's attic thrift store looking for items to complete the trip "list"and found (thanks to Peter) a duffle bag and looked for wool blend shirts - no luck. With all the cooler weather we've been having you'd think some enterprising shop owner would bring out the wool...lol...

This week when Marianne and I are taking an extended weekend, we will check out the art supply store in West Seattle. I have about a third of the items and hopefully they will have the rest of what i need. Not counting on it but getting off island is good for the soul from time to time.

This all may not seem exciting to you, but butterflies are forming in the pit of my stomach and I wish they'd calm down a bit.

More to come...keeping the light on!

Field Journal...

Ok got the list for the field journal; We get to make our field journals! And as I research the materials in true academic fashion they are hard to find, except at the bookstore!


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Getting ready to jump back in!

Well here I am one month out, most of the camping supplies are gathered for my 10 day camping/working/classwork trip. We are meeting for 2.5 days in advance of our excursion to Mount Rainier. Needless to say after 30 years of not attending school I am both excited and nervous.
The program I chose at Evergreen State in the Environmental Science department is "Mt. Rainier, it's place and it's people". I love the out of doors, love to camp, haven't camped since the early 90's, got new gear, gained 5 pounds, will the new gear fit, am I making the right choice now in my life and hundreds more questions speed through my mind at any given moment.

I still need to complete a questionnaire, procure art supplies for my field journal ( I love to draw) and just a few more items for my pack, then practice packing the pack. We will be sleeping in two person tents, no electricity, showers every few days, cook our own food, and have the opportunity to work on various projects with the local people and the parks department. Additional classwork/lectures will be held at night and I would imagine reading...lots of reading.

Well I'm off to gather up more stuff and my courage to power on! check in with you later!