Archive for the 'Outdoors' Category

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The trip started out Friday evening at 8:00 p.m. when we picked up Ben. Next stop was Longview to pick up Laurel. There were five of us on this trip: Charlie, Matthew, Christina, Ben, and Laurel.
After a one-hour quick stop to pick up some worms (and a watermelon, […]

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This year’s annual Farnell family backpacking trip was to the Pasayten Wilderness in northern Washington state. We headed out from our house at about 7:30 on Monday, August 13th, 2007. There were 9 of us this time, ranging in age from 5 to 63. Our spirits were high, itinerary was planned, […]

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This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend the Men's Retreat hosted by Ocean Park Community Church. Pastor Marty asked me to help out with music by playing piano, so that was a privilege and enjoyable as well!
I've attended this retreat for about 13 years (??) or so, […]

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Once again, on January 26th, we went down for Mt. Bachelor's annual "ski free day," which is a canned food drive where each skier donates three cans of food in exchange for a free lift ticket. This year we had a total of 16 people in our group - […]

May 18th was Mt. St. Helens’ 26th anniversary since the last big eruption. To celebrate, all of the Mt. St. Helens Visitor Centers were open with free admission to the public. Jon was planning a trip and he invited me to go along. There were 22 of us total and we had an awesome day! […]

Did you know the "three sisters" (mountains) down in Oregon are named Faith, Hope, and Charity? That is so neat! Does anyone know the background or history behind these names? Maybe it has something to do with this Bible verse:

"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." 1 […]