On the Mend

While my leg was healing, I finished reading “Home Below Hell’s Canyon” by Grace Jordan. I read “A Walk Across America” by Peter Jenkins and “The Walk West – A Walk Across America” by Peter and Barbara Jenkins. I read John Steinbeck’s “Travels with Charley.” Steinbeck's book really illustrates the fact that you cannot get to know people and places while riding in a vehicle. I am presently reading Michael Crichton’s “Travels.”

Reading Books While Housebound

Since I fractured the small bone (fibula) my left leg, I have been doing a lot of reading: "The Land of Dead Giants" by Greg Guirard, "The Everglades River of Grass" by Marjory Stoneman Douglas, "A Land Remembered" by Patrick D. Smith, "Up For Grabs" by John Rothchild about Florida, "The Yearling" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, "The Cannibal Queen" by Stephen Coonts, and Sarah Vowell's "Assassination Vacation." I am presently reading "Home Below Hell's Canyon" by Grace Jordan who lived with her husband and children in the Snake River gorge just below Hell's Canyon during the depression years of the early 1930s.

Bruce Bjornstad's Missoula Ice Age Floods Geocache Sites

In his book "On the Trail of the Ice Age Floods" (pp. 135-137) Bruce Bjornstad talks about and lists his special Ice Age Floods Geocaches. He has created about a dozen geocaches and one earthcache in the floods' terrain of the Mid-Columbia Basin. For more information on these geocaches visit www.geocaching.com.

Lecture by Noted Local Ice Age Floods expert Rick Thompson

"Willamette Valley: Evidence of Cataclysmic Missoula Ice Age Floods"
Museum of the Oregon Territory, Oregon City
211 Tumwater Drive, Oregon City, 3rd floor

The Lower Columbia Floods Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute invites you to a lecture at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, April 22 by noted local Geologist Rick Thompson. Rick Thompson has extensively studied and mapped features in the Willamette Valley left by the Cataclysmic Missoula Ice Age Floods.

The lecture will explore the unique geology between West Linn and Salem. Features will be presented related to a remarkable history of Quaternary flooding (Cataclysmic Missoula Ice Age Floods) that occurred 15,000 - 18,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age.

Oops!

Guess what? You can walk on a broken leg. I found out this morning that I fractured the small bone (fibula) in my left leg and sprained both ankles on Saturday afternoon when I fell as I was descending the concrete stairs from Nordstrom to the Lloyd Center parking structure. Christopher and I went to the SAGA Meeting anyway in Keizer, OR (thanks to an automatic shift and cruise control). I will have a boot on my leg for a month and then take it easy for another two to four weeks. Argh!!