Category: Videos

  • Clouds timelapse in the backyard

    It looked like the clouds were going to be interesting this afternoon. They were. This is about 3 hours of them crammed into 30 seconds. Camera: GoPro, time-lapse at 10-second intervals

  • Ice blocking with the scouts

    Ice blocking with the scouts

    Last night we had an activity with the Life Scouts to encourage them to make that last push to earn their Eagles. We went ice blocking, drank cheap soda, shot tennis balls into the stratosphere, and ate some amazing dutch oven chicken and rice for dinner and apple and/or peach cobbler with ice cream for…

  • On going kind of viral

    On going kind of viral

    Over Memorial Day weekend we drove from Utah to Montana and back, 10 hours each way, to visit my brother’s family. We had a great time even though the visit had to end with the apology “I’m sorry my dog killed your chicken.” I grew up sleeping during long drives, but most of our five kids are…

  • Galta Monkey Temple

    Galta Monkey Temple

    The first time I went to India, in 2008, I picked up the paper and read about monkeys that were raiding villages and stealing food and medicine. I’m pretty sure I read that they were stealing human babies, too, although now that I try to find an article online about it I’m having a rough…

  • Angels Landing

    Angels Landing

    Angels Landing is a tall rock formation in Zion National Park in Southern Utah. It’s an awfully fun hike. It’s about 3 hours roundtrip and the views get progressively more impressive as you go. The last half-mile gives amateurs like me a little taste of the thrill of the mountain climbing I’ll never do. It’s just…