October 5, 2009 (21/365)

So today was pretty uneventful. I only have 2 more assignments until break though!! Yay!!! I am really ready for a break! I always think about getting a new backpack, but I have had my L.L Bean one forever! Maybe Andy and I could stop in Freeport on the way home and go to L.L Bean....hmmmmmmm :D

YMCA Operation Backpack 2009

backpack straps with back flap open - 2nd step

Backpack

Lake Sabrina to Dusy Basin, via Echo Col and Le Conte Canyon

he had some very cool stuff in here. magnifying glass and loupe, compasses with instruction book, animal tracking book, various maps, whistle, teeny-tiny thermometer, how to identify emerald ashborer, 4" switchblade. and patches from some of the places he has been.

I remember going to a butterfly sanctuary Framingham MA, with him and the Naturalists Club. Afterwards we took out our lunches at some picnic tables. When it came time to eat the apples, he pulled out that switchblade and cut them into neat pieces. He totally enjoyed the shocked look on my face.

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backpacking

blogged!

Backpacks for BaghdadChildren of the Draya Elementary School in Harthiyah in Baghdad hold up newly received backpacks Oct. 10, after receiving donated school supplies from the Mansour District Iraqi Police force.

(U.S. Army photo courtesy of 463rd Military Police Company, MND-B)

moxie tries to get into the backpack, but her shoulders are too narrow for the straps

Blog Post: susanvg2009.blogspot.com/2009/08/day-221-new-backpack.html

Tutorial

in LeConte Canyon

backpack straps, handmade

Both pockets hatches open

YMCA Operation Backpack 2009

Palmetto Bay