Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category

ChrisCast 05-04-2010

Chris flips the Blackberry on for a quick video update on a beautiful drive through the Texas Hill Country.

From the eye of the beholder…

The weather the past few weekends has been amazing. That, combined with the Spring flowers, prompted me to grab the camera. Here are just a few of the recent shots. Weathered Beauty Sleeping Beauty Lone Star Beauty Anyone who tells you that life isn’t good – just isn’t looking.

A scouting we will go..

I went with the boys to Camp Ben McCullough today so for a scouting activity. The setup was that each boy had the opportunity to earn five belt loops by participating in various activities. Logan and Dallin both earned the same five belt loops Soccer, Kickball, Hiking, Marbles and Baseball. There were several other options [...]

Hell in Texas – a childhood remembrance

Upon discovering a scorpion in the bathtub of our new house this morning, I was reminded of a poem that absolutely enthralled me as a child of about 7 or 8. The piece, called “Hell in Texas” was in a book of poetry that my mom kept around the house and has stuck with me [...]

ChrisCast 04/08/2010

Chris finally lays down some video at the new homestead and reminds you to pay special attention to the “little things.”

Testing out YouTube video

I sorta walked away from YouTube years ago and recently decided to look into putting more of my content on that site. Here is the first ChrisCast that I posted to YouTube Playing around with the tagging and various other aspects to posting on YouTube.

Chris Cast 030910

0:38 On one of our bike trips we discovered Jacob’s Well Nature Area… now we delve further into the woods.

Some Enchanted Weekend

The family and I took a trip North of Fredericksburg Saturday to climb Enchanted Rock.  This makes my fourth trip up the huge slab of granite and it was an absolute blast.  First, it looked like bad weather was going to blow in and ruin the day, but I held firm to my belief that [...]

Chris Cast – 12309 – New Year message on top of Old Baldy

Maddi, Dawn and I climbed Old Badly this afternoon after a quick meal at Mima’s. It was a lot of fun and the weather combined with the view from the top made it well worth the climb.

Family pictures

We got some family photos taken shortly before Christmas and I just realized that I haven’t shared them on here. An excellent photographer and good friend, Beth Rasmussen, took the shots for us and Dawn organized the outfits etc. I think they turned out great. This first one was one of the toughest to get [...]