Author: Brent

  • Year in Review: 2017

    Year in Review: 2017

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    It’s December 31st, 2017, and here I am recounting the memories of this past year. Had I wrote this a couple weeks ago, the tone would be much different. The past two weeks has stretched our little family. So I will work backwards in events, to end on a cheerier note. Surrounding the Christmas season,…

  • Lighting up the sky

    Lighting up the sky

    I was introduced to Rudy during an assignment for work. He is the 2018 inductee to the Skyline Award for Excellence for his service to White Salmon, Skyline Hospital and the Columbia River Gorge. I was as his house to snag a couple pics for a newsletter. While chatting with him, he brought up that…

  • How the Half Became Full

    How the Half Became Full

    Is was very soon after our first half-marathon (the Missoula) that thoughts crept in about running a full marathon. We trained for some more races, 10Ks and half-marathons, mostly run together. I think it was during our training and completion of the Billings Governors Cup half that a destination was set and training schedule established.…

  • So you wanna run a half-marathon do ya?

    So you wanna run a half-marathon do ya?

    Jess recently posted about when she started becoming the marathoner we have before us today and I thought it’d be a good time to share my thoughts on the whole thang. So as she stated, just over 8 years ago, Jess’s interest in running was piqued by a family member. At this point, she was…

  • Smaller bites

    Smaller bites

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    I’m one to dream… BIG, sometimes too big. This tends to pervade most of my life. Most of the time, this is a good thing. At work, I tend to make things better because of dreaming big, but dreaming big has stalled me in my personal projects. I have these grand ideas, and the beginning…

  • Rising Early

    Rising Early

    I recently made the switch at work to a 4-10 schedule which means I now wake up (too) early, but I get Monday’s off. A while back, we had one of our favorite families over for a couple days and I decided to make the most of the early morning on my day off. I…

  • Background Photographer

    Background Photographer

    A couple weeks back, Jess had a photo session with a friend and her boyfriend in Hood River. I tagged along and wandered around with my camera while she took their photos. I’m going to try to be better about posting my images on the blog. I take a proper camera with me nearly everywhere, so…

  • Rainbows in the Morning

    Rainbows in the Morning

    Go to Thirty Five Media and see some of the work I’ve been up to over there.

  • Vantage Point

    Vantage Point

    Up above Thompson Track in The Dalles, there is a water tower. It is a steep paved road that leads up to this point. From this vantage point, you can see The Dalles in its entirety. The other day, while waiting for Jess to come home from a weekend up in Coeur d’alene, I took…

  • Stomping Grounds

    Stomping Grounds

    A couple of weekends back, we drove out to my parent’s property for the day. My brother and his two girls were up for the weekend as well, so we had some time with them too. One of the day’s tasks was to help my Brendon with moving one of the Datsun pickups to a better…

  • Belated Boise

    Belated Boise

    Last October (2016) Jess ran yet another marathon. This time it was the City of Trees marathon in Boise, ID. This run occurred at a vital junction of our lives, I had just wrapped up my time as a Systems Admin with Woodard & Curran (TREC) and we were in the process of packing up…

  • Belated Boston

    Belated Boston

    It was in September of 2016 when I visited Boston. This was my second trip to the historic city, though this time I was excited to have some more time to explore the location. It was part of a back to back work trip that had me in Casper, WY for a week and then…