Its FRIDAY!

Well, Todd left to work in Washington St. this morning for 4 days. It can be lots of fun to be just Elin and I for a weekend. We always do something fun when Dad leaves. Maybe we can go for a drive and hike or go fishing.

I've spent the morning updating the new AYSO web pages. I'll have them worn out before we go live with them November 1st. I swear I've opened each page at least a dozen times and still find errors. I cant wait to get them posted and start trying to raise money for the organization. We are trying to send coaches, referees and board members to Sacramento in February for the Section 2 conferences. They are so fun to go to. Not only do you learn a great deal, but you meet lots of great people who are dedicated to the kids!

When the E. gets out of school, we will take Grandma to Redmond. She's having shopping withdrawls. Oh Boy! We get to go to Walmart. Since it is just the 3 of us, maybe tonight will be a good night to get Grandma to take us to dinner.

OK, so I've had my break, now to get back to fixing typos and link errors in the web pages.

Last Saturday, Elin, my Mom and I drove up the old McKenzie Highway. As you can see from the pictures the fall foliage was fantastic! We had a really nice drive going across the high desert into the mountains climbing from 2900 feet at Prineville to almost 5000 feet in just a matter of 60 miles. It was spectacular!

If you have never been to the Dee Wright Observatory in the Willamete National Forrest, up on the old McKenzie Highway, please, before it closes for the winter, take the trip. It doesn't matter if your from the valley or from central Oregon, just take the drive. It has the most fantastic viewpoints.
That is a wall of lava behind Elin and the sign at the base of the observatory. While we were there, the clouds moved enough to see Mt. Washington through. What an eerie sight. The foreground in lava, then the boiling clouds then the Mt. peakIt was about a 160 mile round trip, with stops at the viewpoints, and at the Sno Cap Inn in Sisters for ice cream. It was a fun day all around!

From Elin

Hi I'm E'lin! Jan is my mom, Todd is my dad & we all have a lot of fun. We go fishing and driving to places to take pictures and study geology around Washington and Oregon and some times California. I am 12 years old, I like to play soccer and softball. I like to study geology and go places to camp. I have 3 rabbits named Spice, Shadow and Energizer Bunny (Ebby to the left).




This is my 2008 soccer team after our first win. Coach Jaun took us to Dairy Queen for icecream

This is FUN

OK, this is my third post today, which means I probably won't do more for weeks. I am having fun playing with the format and gadgets. I still need to figure out the widget that Todd had me download last night to help make posting easier, called Windows Live Writer Beta. I'll figure it out later.

Here is a link to Todd's World blogspot It is full of Microsoft junk and work stuff, visit if you want to become dazed and crazed with that.

Here is a link to my web site, http://www.ochoco.com/~jbony
It has the meat and potatoes of who I am and what I enjoy.

I've published some of my photos at Webshots you can see my shoebox here
The other page I published on Webshots is here

When I had my laptop, I enjoyed changing the background hourly. I thought these were great images so I published them at Webshots to give back to where I took so much. Of course, I can't remember to add any more, so I'll post them here.

Yes, my beloved laptop bit the big one. I haven't had the courage to toss it yet, it just sits forlornly in its briefcase crying everytime I walk by. But the sucker will no longer use the wall plug, so I've had to give it up.

I'm still starting

I have been playing with the tools available for this blog and finding lots of fun stuff. Can't get any of the weather stuff to work, but that is what happens when you live in the middle of nowhere. However, I would not live any where else. Well, lets state that a little differently. I would live somewhere else if the price was right and the schools were good, and the work was fun, and there was plenty of wild life roaming the neighborhood.

Where else can you find buzzards sunning themselves in the sun on a cool fall morning, where else can you find nice bucks hiding among the houses 2 doors down from where you live in hunting season. Prineville! that's where. So, don't ask me to move

The Start

So I started this as a hit to My Space. I just can't figure out the noise, ads and people I don't know or even care to know. I'm a private person to a point... I'm going to start using this blog as a contact point for family & friends who live far away to keep in touch with the Prineville family. Bless my husband Todd for his ability to find me something simple to replace web pages that I have a hard time keeping up with.