Late Summer

In the end of August we enjoyed a brief trip to Washington to celebrate a dear friend's homeschool graduation!

Playing a group game.

Lining up for dancing!

the girls

We spent the night - our family's first time at a real campsite! (Please don't ask me why Krista appears to be roasting her foot.)

Janna and a little rainbow at Rainbow Falls State Park.

On our hike, Noah went wading in the river. He then had to suffer the consequences of wet-muddy-feet-that-need-to-go-back-in-shoes.

We went hiking on the old railroad, passing through some beautiful farms. Afterwards we enjoyed smoothies, iced coffee, and visiting and jamming with friends at a nearby coffee shop.

Before our concert at Crossroads. We had a great time - thank you to everyone to came.

We went to the coast and bought tuna from a fisherman before Labor Day.

His lovely boat was called the Grace Elizabeth

Yaquina Head Lighthouse

I buried Noah.

(and then regretted my deed...)

On Labor Day we girls and Dad hiked Bachelor Mountain near Detroit Lake with a couple of homeschool alumni friends. We found what we thought was the trail head, but all we could see was an overgrown sign and wild landscape. The state park website said the trail usage was "low", but we didn't expect it to be this low! We plunged ahead...

...and found the trail, or lack there of. ;)

Following Brian's GPS, we headed through more brush, up a steep hill, and there was the trail!

The picture Dad was taking in the last picture



Krista enjoying the view
Photo by Nathan

The Three Sisters

Mt. Jefferson



Photo by Nathan
The clouds blew off the peak just for the time we were at the top of Bachelor having our lunch. When we headed back down, they were beginning to cover it again.



We followed the trail back down and found the actual trailhead.

Krista and I at a wedding we played for Saturday.

We were thankful for the canopy that covered everyone during the wedding!

Enjoy Autumn!

Cheers,

Kathrina

Homeschool Ceili Highlights

Thank you so much to everyone who came.  It was a wonderful afternoon.  I hope you enjoy this video of highlights!

~ Janna



Password Perplexity

Yesterday morning I decided that it was about time to change my email password. It had been the same for quite sometime, and a very wise friend said that I should change these things more often for safety. Now this wasn’t just any email address, it was the email address for our music quartet, Whispering Roses, and it also accessed our website control panel. I found the place to change it without too much trouble, entered my new password then logged out and tried to log back in. Error message. Either the email or password was incorrect. Puzzled, I tried again, and again. I tried the old password, but nothing worked. So I clicked on the “forgot my password” button. I entered my country, state and zip code and then I came to my secret question: Who is your favorite historical person?

What? A single favorite historical person? I have far to many! Could it be William Wallace, Robert Bruce or Eric Liddell? What on earth made me choose that question? And I knew I didn’t have the answer written down. I began trying names, but there were far to many combinations. It could be William Wallace, william wallace, williamwallace or just plain Wallace. And maybe I didn’t even choose an actual historic person at all. Vague memories of choosing our favorite person with my sisters came flooding back; hadn’t we talked about using Aragorn or Frodo? I tried so many different combinations that I triggered the lock so I couldn’t try anymore.

Okay, so now I had to try a different way. If I had provided them with another email address while I still knew my password I could have had them send a reset link there. Scratch. If I had assigned another one of our emails as administrator, I could have reset it there. Scratch. If I had used the automatic computer password remembering part of my sign-in, I could have reset it with that. Scratch.

By now it was afternoon and I finally decided to email support from my email. They were guaranteed to reply in four hours, though in the past it had taken them longer. Oh joy of joys, they could reset it if I verified the billing information! Four hours later I finally re-reset my password, went to sign in and, oops, it was still locked. Supposedly a spammer might be trying to access my account – ahem, that was me. This time, support replied within an hour, and I opened my inbox to ten new messages. Thankfully, none of them had been important and I hadn’t lost any jobs over this. It is amazing how much we depend on electronic communication these days. Oh the relief knowing I could read my emails again!

Oh yes, and I changed my secret question.

By the way, if any of you have been contemplating trying to hack our blogger account, we have a new super secure password for it too.

~ Janna