Yesterday, that was Friday, i had a very hard training day. in the morning i went running, and in the afternoon i went mountain biking with Rich and Luke. we only went 20some km. but still. it was muddy, and slippery. and lots of fun. in the evening i played. here is a picture of me playing. jump smashing.
i should also say that while mountain biking we found a 10km running trail. that is exiting, as all we have been doing lately is 5km.
this is a picture Kaleb drew for my novel. i would post the other amazing ones, but this was the only one on the computer. the white at the top is for the title.(of my novel)
i have written one book, and am working on two more. one i am writing, the other i am still outlining. if you would like to read my finished novel, just comment, and i will send it to you by email, or however works best.
i after i find the camera i am going to take pictures of my garden. it is doing pretty good right now. i am just getting ready to plant pinto beans. something that is very hard to find here, but we love to eat.
as you all know, i like to make things, and i like knives, so it was normal that sooner or later a made a knife. i have made several others, including some throwing knives. but most of them were more like machetes. i made a knife from a peice of angle iron. i cut it out with a hack saw, and then used a grinder to shape it more. it is kinda dirty in the picture, cause i was throwing it, and missed a lot. the handle is made from lacing for the super cub, airplane. the stuff used to sew the covering together. i still need to temper it. but i have to wait till the welder gets set up.
it is only sharp on one side all the way down, but the tip is sharp on both sides for about an inch down.
My friend Luke had a birthday, and he invited us to go to the longest double zip line in Asia. Richard, another friend of mine came along also. it was amazing. there was a total of three zip lines. two shorter ones, and one really long one, almost a kilometer long!!! i liked all of them, but the long one was the best, you got to lie down. and went much further. the shorter ones, you sat up, and spun in circles. this was my first time, and i was a little nervous at first, but it was all for nothing, it was so much fun.
i did not get many good pictures. but Luke did, so i will see if i can get some of his. and maybe a video of going down. not sure if it turned out. mine did not. which is too bad.
my mom and dad getting ready to go on the second longest one.
Kaleb and i walking up after the first two.
me infront of the place to go on the longest one. my heart was beating pretty fast. you cant see it in the picture. but when you get on the platform, you just see a drop off, and they open the gate, and you freak out for half a second, before you fly out. it was awesome.
the list of things to check before riding. Luke, on the far left, and Richard in the middle.
rich in his harnessthe landing place for the long one. it gave your quite a jerk to stop the starting place for the mid length one.
what you see walking back up.
well, i better go to bed now. i might post a more in depth post on this, not sure.
i am not sure if i said this before, but we changed the shocks on our car. it was a very fun job.
i just got back from training. it went pretty good at first, till a huge rain storm hit. and the building is not sealed very well, so water was running in. so we quit early.
as for writing. i am now writing two more novels. one i am just writing chapter three, and the other i am outlining, a process that took me almost six months last time.
i just decided like last week i should learn about poems. i have never read or written any, but i figured i could learn. here is one of my attempts at writing one.