I arrived home from that trip to Cape Disappointment and jumped into a few home projects right away. Three of them worked out really well, and I’ll share those with you.
But first let me share four bloggy things with you.
The first bloggy thing is the answer to the name of the plant from the recent Cape Disappointment blog post … the sunshine beach walk and the last walk through the trees with Little Towhee, where Little Towhee hopped over onto a huge green area and asked me what the tiny green plants were, remember that? And I said in the blog that they didn’t seem like moss to me. Well, the plant is moss! Here’s the photo of Little Towhee.
Photo above is from the internet.
I emailed the Confluence Project, an excellent educational organization focusing on history, ecology, and indigenous people of the Columbia River, and asked about this plant. Lily Hart replied very quickly and kindly forwarded my email to the State Park Rangers at Cape Disappointment. Aaron Webster at the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center replied to Lily … she forwarded his email to me … and now we know what that plant is … Oregon Beaked Moss. Of the billions of things in the world that I don’t know about, there is now one less thing. 🙂
The second bloggy thing is that some readers have told me that the song “Astoria’s Bar” is stuck in their head … they find themselves humming it or singing along even just in their head (or in some cases even out loud) many times a day. How to get it out of your head? Well, remember Sheep and Goats? Go back to that blog post and listen to that song. If THAT song gets stuck in your head, at least it will be a change, yes? 🙂
The third bloggy thing is that the company (Bluehost) that hosts this blog on the internet, has told me that their entire system will be down for maintenance on Friday, April 30, at 11:30pm Eastern time (8:30pm Pacific time, or 4:30am on Saturday England time). Downtime is expected to be 30 minutes. They don’t foresee any problems bringing everything back up and online. But … just thought I’d give you folks a bit of warning. If I seem to have disappeared, rest assured I will be back online as soon as possible.
And the fourth bloggy thing is great news. I have created my own list of archived blog posts. Neither Bluehost nor WordPress had an archive app that I liked. So I created my own webpage with the list of TravelsWithTowhee blog posts. The link to my Archives will always be on the right side of every webpage here, at the bottom of all that stuff on the right side. Click on the Link in that paragraph to get the list of my blogs. Once you get to that webpage, notice that every camping outing is marked with an asterisk.
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For a little more fun, as long as we’re talking about the blog, let me update the list of countries (73 now!) that people are from who have been reading this blog. Obviously, not everyone continues to read along, but these are logins that have read the blog, not scammers or spammers or hackers.
Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Boznia&Herzegovina, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Columbia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Kuwait, Laos, Latvia, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Suriname, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, USA, Vietnam.
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Please share this blog (www.travelswithtowhee.com) with anyone you know who might enjoy it. The more the merrier. Please comment if you’d like to, or just read along and enjoy. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate all of you! Thank you!
(…. sheep and goats … goats and sheep … la la la la, mountains are steep ……. )
LOL! I love that song “sheep and goats” and now it is AGAIN stuck in my head. I’ve shared the link to this blog with friends of ours, hope they’ll join in.
I hope they will come along on this adventure too, Marge. More readers make me happy. 🙂 And, I must admit, the “sheep and goats” song is now stuck in MY head too. “climbing high, we don’t need no ropes, nope nope.”
Have to laugh! We stopped in Astoria on our way to Bryce Canyon (by way of Mount Shasta) and of course started singing the song. It was still going round and round in the head when we got to Bryce , despite every effort to dispel or replace it. Glad I’m not the only one.
Love the list of countries. How cool is it that people all over the globe can share your adventures.
Ha! What fun. 🙂 That “Astoria’s Bar” song is addictive for sure.
I love that list of countries too. A very few people from countries that don’t have English as their native language have commented here … I really love that!
Oregon Beaked Moss, I didn’t know about it either, but there are lots of photos of it online. Very interesting. And, yes, I’ve got the Astoria Bar song still in my head too. Not sure I dare go back and listen to the “goats and sheep” song, that one took me months to get out of my head! 🙂
🙂 Me too, Ruby.
Oregon beaked moss?
I could swear it also proliferates in our forests in the Lower Mainland of B.C. I guess moss knows no boundaries.
(Whoops, better be more specific, for the benefit of your readers who may be from Nepal.) Shout out to you 😊
In the southwest corner of British Columbia, Canada.
Indeed, Oregon Beaked Moss grows up and down the western coast of North America. Not sure it grows in Nepal though. 🙂
Oregon Beaked Moss is common along the Pacific coast in amongst forests or woodlands where there is decomposed wood on/in the ground, usually at lower elevations near saltwater. Its range is from northern British Columbia to northern California. Little Towhee asks the best questions. 🙂
I’ve been humming along with those Irish tunes you posted lately Ann, thank you.
Thanks, Kinny. Little Towhee makes all of us learn stuff, doesn’t she?
You are welcome for the Irish tunes. Here’s the link to that blog post for those who wish to listen again. I just now listened again and I was whisked away again just like the first time I listened to those tunes.
The new ARCHIVE list of your blog posts is excellent, Ann. I sometimes find myself talking to friends and mentioning something from one of your camping trips, but then I couldn’t find the link to it in the old archive list unless I knew what month the trip happened. This new one is wunderbar!
Thank you, Steve. I’m glad to know the new one is easier to use. In the past, you had to know what year a blog post was produced, and what month. Even I was confused! It’s better now. 🙂