Dave, calling Dave!

During lunch break, it was fun to practice line drawings of native plant leaves.

Are you left handed? Great sketches....nice lunch pastime.

How did you know I was left handed?

It ain't fair, knowin' things about people, ya know!

What a fantasy-like setting. Know why you love what you do. Grin

the angle of your pencil......

The pencil was laying on the left of the paper slanted toward the right. Left handed people are also more artistic that we righties and the drawings were exceptional.

Right Moon. That how you figured it.

How tall are you Dave? From the waist up you look like 6' 4" or so.

I'd guess 5'10 or '11. Pretty much Jim. That and a couple lines tended to be a bit thicker on the left side...indicating a slightly surer stroke.

He is built a lot like me, long waisted and shorter legs. My son is a bought 5' 9" but if you see him only from the waist up you would swear he is about six feet.

If you get to the top of the mountain, you may not need reservations; very few folks make the trip!

That poor tree in the front of the picture looks like it has been struck by lightning.

That is a cool rest/picnic area....looks like you;d need it after that climb.

Gonna catch this next picture, and then call it a night. Busy day tomorrow.

I'm 5 ft. 11 in. After consuming lots of vegetables, whole grain, fish and poultry, for just six months, cholesterol levels have turned from bad to good.

I love cheeseburgers & bacon, but a once in a while taste is much more healthy than the daily habit.

Being part of the high risk group (diabetes) means being careful about what one eats, and still enjoying food.

Eating healthy, means living healthy!

Hey Jean, sorry about the grumblings. Here's a good picture for the day on Mauna Loa!

Dave you can grumble. Pics are simply beautiful..love the Koa tree canopy, looks ghostly.
Figured the angle of the pencil too...damn we're a clever bunch ;)
I have to to tell you my cheeseburgers are usually made from ground turkey. I try to be good!
Moon you crack me up.
Jim, legs are short but pretty right.
Rachel I'll see if i can find the loon pics...have to go through 3 cameras lol
Hi Trina & Venice! Trina did you get any sleep?
Rachel that plant looks worse than poor Wilty...

Dave always takes the best pics!
as for my "must have been something I said" comment, I posted that in the wrong room
and I leave the eating healthy part to others, I eat when I'm hungry and just til almost full (cause by the time my tummy catches up to my mouth that makes full) and if I'm not hungry I don't eat.
But I usually average about 5 small meals a day plus snacks, that sounds like a lot to most people but you have to figure I'm up at 5:30 every morning and I usually don't get to bed until 1 am and I never sit still (too afraid I'll grow roots and become one of the plants) but seriously with 5 teenagers, 2 dogs, and a boatload of plants who has time to sit still!

yes Lynnie with all the kids at skateland from 7 to 7 I got some sleep and "sleep" if you know what I mean....I got to go get the kids in about 30 minutes though, but they will probably sleep most of the day!

Rachel the pic is so bad I could only figure it out from the order it was in! But I said I'd post it so here it is Sorry!

I can almost see it

an overnight wow! must be quiet over there.
boy that pic is bad, I'm taking it down as soon as Rachel sees it. Wait I have a slightly better one of some kind of bird...SLIGHTLY better...

I think that white blob in the foreground is water & sunscreen *grin*
as soon as I take the camera out the kids want it (it was one of theirs anyway) and I may have gotten bonked in the head with an oar too. They had to try their hand at paddling, and then there was the mishap with lunch....

they didn't decide to sword fight with the oars and then loose them both did they?

Kassy...breakfast!

no, we wouldn't give them both at the same time hahaha

I only have one pic of me that I show people, but my mom calls it the Bait and switch photo...cause I'm dressed up in it...my sis took it....but normally I'm in jeans, a tshirt and a baseball cap, and I look way different than the dressy me

Now I'm just trying to redeem myself....

that's a good thing trust me on that! also don't let them drive the pontoon our kids managed to capsize one! I was on the darn thing and still don't know how they did that!

You did...that's an awesome pic..that's the kind of wilderness I love...I hate flat land!

hahaha Trina, that's hard to do! Kids will manage it, though. Ok here are 2 of my favorite things together (not chocolate & pb, although that's another one)

here's my little chupacabra playing queen of the world

oh now that is cool...and the exact reason I bought 33 acres in Missouri!

he looks quite fierce

she thinks she is anyway, she's trying to live up to the evil pixie name my gma gave her
Tinkerbell...she just got her first shots friday....Grandma said the dog was 12 weeks old when she gave her to us cause she was told she was 5 weeks old when she got her...and we've had her for 4 weeks....turns out she's alot younger...they gave my grandma that puppy at 2 weeks and gma only had her for 3 weeks!
at least here she's safe and slowly coming out of her abandonment issues

kids are all home now...told them all to go to bed though or I was gonna hurt em! they're all snapping at each other