Richard & Misti's Blog

We celebrated Jared’s birthday party tonight, and had the Barnets, Nords, and Larsens over for cake and ice cream. Becky was a queen/princess for Halloween (she couldn’t decide which was better), and Jared was a little green frog – very cute. Happy Birthday wishes also go out to Nevada today!
We’re starting our ‘NevNugNov‘ [...]

We found the following caches today, on a breezy and fresh autumnal day:
“R” First Family CacheKings Ransom (our 350th cache find!)Haunted Canyon (just in time for Halloween!)
and also checked up on the condition of our own cache, Kitty Litter 2. Becky got another chance to step all over the Reno ‘R’ today, of course. [...]

Yesterday I WENT GEOCACHING AND STEPPED ON THE “R” AND TOUCHED THE “R”.

Well, I made an honest effort to find a free, outsourced (not on my host), group blogging service besides Blogger/Blogspot, but couldn’t find one. Most of the other ones I’ve seen weren’t free, another one that seemed to fit the bill wouldn’t load one day (unreliable), and the two (jroller and cheblogs, two different [...]

Mike has stepped up as a co-author for our NaNoWriMo ‘novel in 30 days‘ challenge. I think we’ll wait to see what we end up with before naming the book, but in the mean time, we need a nickname for it. How about ‘NevNugNov‘? Hmmm.
Watched “STTNG: The Naked Now” (episode 3, airdate: [...]

Congratulations to Femia – she won! I knew it from the very start that she’d win – and this blog is proof. I’m so glad that Linda was kicked off first thing, and that it came down to two wonderful people (Femia and Dominic) for the million dollars. “The Benefactor” is a [...]

Watched “Wynonna: Live in Venice” (2002; Wynonna Judd) last night on widescreen DVD (1.85:1), as well as “Support Your Local Sheriff” (1968; James Garner, Jack Elam, Harry Morgan, Walter Brennan) on VHS. I like the way the ’support your local…’ movies end, with Jack Elam wrapping up the narration, they’re funny.
I’m now toying with [...]

Watched “Beau Geste” (1939; Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston) on VHS. Pretty cool film, I like the ending first, then the flashback. I’m still not 100% sure exactly what happened, however.
Accompanied the ward choir on the piano in church yesterday with “I Know That My Redeemer Lives”, arranged by David R. Naylor, [...]

‘honbatz.com‘ is a weird website. Ate some BK yesterday, and discovered it printed on the side of the bag. Have you ever noticed how no matter what you order, the total price on the screen is always wrong? The screen will say “Your Total is $13.11″, but then the voice will contradict [...]

I’m only about 1/3 through “Piet Mondrian: 1872-1944″ by Yve-Alain Bois, Joop Joosten, Angelica Zander Rudenstine, and Hans Janssen, but I’ve become rather interested in the painter’s life and his early, lesser known works. As of today, my favorite early Mondriaan (his real name) works are:
“Still Life with Gingerpot I” (1911, oil on canvas)“Study [...]

I’m toying with the idea of writing a small (50,000 word, 175 page) novel in 30 days during the month of November, as part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), and the associated NaNoBlogMo participants. Blogger has an article in the knowledge base about it, and if I blogged 1,667 words everyday for 30 [...]

Do you ever just have one of those days? I’m sure everyone does! Well, yesterday was a crazy one for me. Our windshield wipers have needed replacing for a while now and, due to the rain yesterday, I decided I’d better get some blade refills so I could actually see out the window. The kids [...]

Gotta love rainy days – NOT! What’s with all this rain several days in a row? We’re not supposed to get rain in the desert! (Of course, the Truckee River is so low right now it could use some serious replenishment, so it’s actually a wonderful thing.) I was glad to [...]

Nothing too exciting going on this weekend, just lots of miscellaneous stuff. We watched the following videos (most of which we’ve seen before):
The Golden Voyage of SinbadThe Fox and the HoundStar Trek Insurrection (Patrick Stewart)Rio Bravo (John Wayne, Ricky Nelson, Dean Martin)Jumanji (Robin Williams)
and Misti made some crème pâtissière the other night – a [...]

Apparently lava is oozing out of Mount St. Helens today. Scary. This week’s violence in Haiti is also saddening, of course. Found the ‘Chocolate Peak Revisited‘ cache today during lunch – a beautiful, breezy, autumnal jaunt.
You know, I don’t mind most of the cartoons and little shows that Becky and Jared enjoy, [...]

I, like most, was saddened to hear and read about yesterday’s death of Christopher Reeve. I didn’t get to see the Reeve tribute on TV (the one that replaced “The Benefactor”), though. I spent a few hours in Verdi yesterday at the Boomtown conference center for a meeting.
Watched “Silverado” (Kevin Kline, [...]

Found the ‘Illuminati‘ mystery cache on Saturday at Teglia’s Paradise Park in Sparks. Would’ve been easier if the directions would’ve been accurate, but we finally found it just the same.
We enjoyed our ward’s progressive dinner Saturday night, and I even got to partially clear up the mystery surrounding how I already recognized David Davis [...]

Ate a wonderful lunch at Big Horn Bar & Grill yesterday while it was being reviewed for a KRNV channel 4 TV ‘hidden hotspot‘ segment. Very cool – and tasty seasoned fries!
Meeting with Brad’s approval, I’m certain, we watched “The Powerpuff Girls Movie” on DVD yesterday. The monkeys were a bit much, but [...]

Washed my hands yesterday evening with some wonderfully fragrant Vanilla Brown Sugar SoftSoap – mmmmm, smells so good! Arguably the best smelling hand soap on the market.
Sure seems like a lot of the Beagle.AR virus making the rounds lately.
Looks like Femia is still hanging in there (on “The Benefactor“) – she’s in the Top [...]

Yesterday, we listened to (via Internet audio stream) and watched (via satellite) the 174th Semiannual General Conference (different sessions), and spent some time at my folks’ place having a great BBQ dinner and talking a walk up at Galena Creek. We later had some ice cream and played a few hands of “Pit” (I [...]