Archive for May, 2009

The Robin Cam

May 19 2009
The Robin Cam

*** UPDATE: The baby Robins have left the nest and ventured into the big bad world. Best of luck little Robins. Way to take the leap of faith, it was fun watching you grow up so quickly! I’ll try to post a photo album sometime soon.***

These Robins built a nest on the ledge right outside my 3rd story office window at Doba.

They’re a pretty common bird (320 Million population). State bird of Connecticut, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Wikipedia has all things American Robin covered. But there’s something pretty remarkable about this common bird that I’ve probably seen literally thousands of in my life.

They’ve been there for a bit. The eggs hatch after 14

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Experience is Overrated

May 6 2009
Experience is Overrated

Sunday, I took Kaitlin up American Fork canyon for our first hike this year. We hiked the Pine Hollow Trail to the junction of the Salamander Flat Trail and back. Besides the fact that she did the 3 mile round trip and 750 elevation gain hike (25% which was on snow) all by herself (making me very excited for the increase in distance we can cover this year on our Adventure Buddy trips), I learned an important lesson, and it’s something that applies 110% to entrepreneurship.

On the way down the trail, there was a little bush that had very noticeable water droplets on the leafs, left there by the skiff of a thunderstorm that came through while we were hiking.

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