I arrived home from that trip to Cape Disappointment and jumped into a few home projects right away. Three of them worked out really well, and I’ll share those with you.
But first let me share four bloggy things with you.
The first bloggy thing is the answer to the name of the plant from the recent Cape Disappointment blog post … the sunshine beach walk and the last walk through the trees with Little Towhee, where Little Towhee hopped over onto a huge green area and asked me what the tiny green plants were, remember that? And I said in the blog that they didn’t seem like moss to me. Well, the plant is moss! Here’s the photo of Little Towhee.
Photo above is from the internet.
I emailed the Confluence Project, an excellent educational organization focusing on history, ecology, and indigenous people of the Columbia River, and asked about this plant. Lily Hart replied very quickly and kindly forwarded my email to the State Park Rangers at Cape Disappointment. Aaron Webster at the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center replied to Lily … she forwarded his email to me … and now we know what that plant is … Oregon Beaked Moss. Of the billions of things in the world that I don’t know about, there is now one less thing. 🙂
The second bloggy thing is that some readers have told me that the song “Astoria’s Bar” is stuck in their head … they find themselves humming it or singing along even just in their head (or in some cases even out loud) many times a day. How to get it out of your head? Well, remember Sheep and Goats? Go back to that blog post and listen to that song. If THAT song gets stuck in your head, at least it will be a change, yes? 🙂
The third bloggy thing is that the company (Bluehost) that hosts this blog on the internet, has told me that their entire system will be down for maintenance on Friday, April 30, at 11:30pm Eastern time (8:30pm Pacific time, or 4:30am on Saturday England time). Downtime is expected to be 30 minutes. They don’t foresee any problems bringing everything back up and online. But … just thought I’d give you folks a bit of warning. If I seem to have disappeared, rest assured I will be back online as soon as possible.
And the fourth bloggy thing is great news. I have created my own list of archived blog posts. Neither Bluehost nor WordPress had an archive app that I liked. So I created my own webpage with the list of TravelsWithTowhee blog posts. The link to that list of my archived blog posts will always be on the right side of every webpage here, at the bottom of all that stuff on the right side. Click on the link over there on the right side of these webpages to BLOG ARCHIVES and that will take you to the list of my blogs (in chronological/date order). Once you get to that archives webpage, notice that every camping outing is marked with an asterisk.
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For a little more fun, as long as we’re talking about the blog, let me update the list of countries (73 now!) that people are from who have been reading this blog. Obviously, not everyone continues to read along, but these are logins that have read the blog, not scammers or spammers or hackers.
Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Columbia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Kuwait, Laos, Latvia, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Suriname, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, USA, Vietnam.
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(…. sheep and goats … goats and sheep … la la la la, mountains are steep ……. )