In the new Star Wars movies new space fighter girl finds old space fighter guy on small land in big water. The small land in big water scenes were made at a small land in big water in the old green country. This small land in big water is filled with small pretty water birds, so many, in fact that it was too much work to take them out of the movie . So, rather than taking them out of the movie, the movie people used a computer to change them into small pretty space birds. Mother, Sister, and Aunt visited “Old Space Fighter’s Small Land in Big Water”, as it is named by some people, as part of the old green country trip.
These lines were made by a dead really good teacher of really really really small stuff. The lines show what happens when really really really small stuff hits other stuff or balls of light. Sometimes, when bits of really really really small stuff or balls of light get close together they remember even when they go away from each other. Brother is learning about these things. The drawing also talks about sex is a funny way.
Not so hard to understand, but funny because Dad really does work hard and is doing good things that are on the paper. OK, sometimes water comes out of his mouth when he sleeps during the day.
Dad, Sister, and Brother ran in this running event with a team from the town where they live. The event is long and goes all day and all night even if there is rain or cold. The people take turns running. When not running, people get in big cars and go to meet the people who are running. People who live at the event place have food and drink for the runners. This makes everyone happy. Mother would not be happy running, so she looked at horses and stuff like that.
In an old drawing story about a small boy and his big cat animal, the boy would sometimes pretend to be a space man. Sometimes the story would be made in the West of our country, in a state with big rock things. And sometimes the boy, pretending to be a space man, would be in the state with the big rock things. Mother and Dad were at the same big rock thing as the space man was. They pretend to see the space man.
When Mother and Dad visited the West of our country they made a computer story. Dad would write on paper every day. Mother and Dad would take pictures every day. Sometimes, when computers could talk to each other (not very often in the West of our country) Mother would make the computer story from the pictures and the paper. Only two or three people could read the computer story because it was hidden with special words. Mother would give the special words to people, but that did not work out very well. So, now there are no special words anymore and everyone can read the computer story. This drawing is also about the old times when nothing happened unless there were pictures; today nothing happens unless computers are talking to each other!
* Only using the ten hundred most used words, like “Thing Explainer” does (https://blog.xkcd.com/2015/05/13/new-book-thing-explainer/), which we really like.
11 National Parks: Arches, Badlands, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Mammoth Cave, Petrified Forest, Saguaro, Yellowstone
Ancient Precambrian (greater than 570 million years old) rocks are visible only in the deepest canyons, such as the Grand Canyon. They are mostly metamorphic rocks formed deep in the earth.
Bridge Day is next weekend, so we just missed it. For this event, the bridge is closed and people parachute off it. They used to also have bungee jumping for Bridge Day, but there were too many fatalities to keep that going.
It is on the shore of the Kanawha River, which was overflowing its banks due to 4” of recent rain. 
The dining room was closed, so we ate at the only open restaurant within 30 miles: Gino’s Pizza.
Dan, James, and Rachel all survived the race (and performed admirably.) Rosalind met them in Lexington and shared in the team victory jog across the finish line. 
We toasted the successful completion of the race with bourbon, and everyone scattered for flights or drives home. Dan had post race logistics to take care of, so Rosalind took the kids back to the Airbnb for showers and dinner. Dan arrived a few hours later, hungry and in need of his own shower.
Rosalind was on her own for a day and a half. She spent today blogging, reading, shopping, and seeing a movie. Also missing the others.
Then Dan picked up one of the vans (teammate Doug had already picked up the other van). We checked into our Airbnb and had a relaxing afternoon while poor Rachel cooled her heels at Washington National airport. Only 4 team members were in town to meet for dinner (Rosalind wasn’t planning to run.) We had great Cuban food at Havana Rumba, and Rachel and most of the other runners finally arrived around midnight.
Roz and Dan on the road 