Dive Into the Sky

It's been really hot her the last couple of months. About 90-106f. I can't really complain about it because I NEVER go outside when It's 90+ unless I really have to. Nothings really happened this month, but for some reason we're already planing Christmas? We plan on going to Arkansas to go see grand pa Herb. Uncle Herby seems to remind us every other week about this like we forgot or something. And Elizabeth, Eric, and the baby might come spend a week with us for Christmas also, I can't really pick inbetween the two, so I really want to do both. The Goo Goo Dolls are playing in Dalas in August and I REALLY want to go see them live. But nobody could possably take me to the consert besides my mom. And there is no way that she's going to drive through Dalas alone. And my dad already has time off planed for the Rob Zombie/ Godsmack consert that Jenn's dyeing to see in September. Sure, I like a few of Rob Zobie's songs as well as Godsmack's. But I don't think that I would want to pay alot to go see them live. I would on the other hand for the Goo Goo Dolls. But Jenn feels the same way that I do about The Goo Goo Dolls. So I guess we'll go see RZ/GS. I've been trying to record some of my guitar music with our mic lately. Takes alot of practice to get a song perfect doesn't it? The clips are only 60 seconds long and I don't have any way I can put them on my blog. But I can send them over Gaim, so that should be cool eh? The people next door moved out like a month ago and somebody just moved in yesterday... Mexicans... I just knew it was going to be Mexicans, because the owners had an info tube infront of the house that had fliers in it with their names and numbers in it. And they had some Mexicans clean the yard up before they left and the Mexicans took all the fliers. Not that I have anything against Mexicans, they're cool. I'm just not to fond of the way they "aquired" the house next door. But hey, in this town it could have been worse, ALOT worse.

 

Yeahsoheythatsit

 

Jake

Guess what! (Read the title) Yep. I added some new pictures, and some old pictures. I added some pictures from The beach at Kinkaid Park in Alaska. We used to live right next to the Iditarod dog sled in Alaska. So we took some pictures of the sled dogs going by one day. As you can probably see, I've added a new profile pic. It looks messed up because it wasn't a close up shot. It'll do for now though. I also added some pictures of my niece Merina (UBER CUTE!). Enjoy!

 

Happy Bloging!

 

Jake

I haven't updated in a while... I guess It's because I've been in more contact with everyone over Gaim. Nothing has really happened here except this morning my mom popped a blood vessel in her eye. Yeah, don't ask me how I was asleep. My dad got 4 days off for the 4th of July. So we pretty much celebrated all weekend. And we went to grandpa's house for a fish fry on the 2nd and hung out with everyone for a little bit. And seeming how there's quite a bit of family I sat down with my cousins ( Coby, Caleb, Mandy, Coleen, Jeremy, and my aunt Tammy) at the main table. And Jeremy desided to tell us all about him geting his nipples pierced. Yummy. So I told Jeremy that he had been eating too many paint chips. AND NOOOOOOBODY GOT IT! They were all like " Duuuuuuuuuh, what's a matter with eating paint chips?" We had my dad's friend  from work and his wife to come over to our house of a BBQ on the 4th. It was pretty fun, we pretty much just talked and ate a bit. And it got to the point to I was helping them do the dishes and they asked me why I weared rubber gloves. I of course told them that it was to protect my fingers so I could play guitar. And we found out that he has a guitar, but because of his work he can't really learn how to play. So we desided that some time he would bring his electric guitar and amp and we would mess around some time. YES! That pretty much sums up what we did all weekend.

 

Jake

 

 

I'm going to try to make up for not adding a story on Tuesday. So this time I'm going to tell you a story and another that was fairly recent. Enjoy!

 

It was around mid-winter time in Wasilla and Jennifer was just recovering from a nasty head cold. She was doing particularly well that day and begged to go out and try out my new sled.

Andy, a neighborhood boy the same age as she, decided to go with her. Andy and Jennifer traipsed up a hill when Andy suddenly grabbed Jennifer's arm. There was an unidentifiable man standing at the edge of a clump of trees at the bottom of the hill they were sledding at.

Jennifer basically shrugged it off but Andy was particularly jittery about it for some reason. There had been a vagabond wandering around the park who had been known to steal. At first Jennifer thought it was our own dad, because they could just make out the glowing of his cigarrette, but when he didn't respond to Jennifer's calls...

Just as Jennifer turned her back to continue her trek up the hill Andy cried 'OH GOD! HE JUST JUMPED INTO THE WOODS!'

Jennifer was a little startled but Andy was really freaking out. After a brief discussion they decided to abandon the sled until the next day and make a break for it by going around the other side of the trees.

AS they ran by they heard a quick shuffling in the trees. Andy screamed--SCREAMED--and bolted, completely abandoning my sister. It defies all logic, but somehow Jennifer managed to outrun him. Now Andy was in between her and vagabond.

In a few quick strides the weirdo had caught up with Andy and snatched him by the back of his jacket. But the man was laughing.

It was our dad.

She slugged our dad pretty good and, surprisingly, let Andy off pretty easy.

But she never did go anywhere alone with him again.

 

This next story was in 2003 in September when both of my grand parents were still ill with cancer. My dad was driving me up to Washington so I could help my mom take care of Grandpa Sam. Earlier that year my sister and my dad flew up to Alaska to retrieve our R.V. and give away our cat Lucy to my best friend Garret. On the trip through Canada they desided to make a list of the animals they saw. My dad woke up my sister to tell her all the animals he had seen while he was driving. Jennifer got a piece of paper and a PEN and wrote down all the animals he SAID he saw. One of them included a Jackalope ( an imaginary animal that looks like a very large rabbit with antlers.). When they had arrived back in Texas he very eagerly showed the list to everyone. We all thought it was really funny. So my dad and I were talking about this story while on our trip to Washington. I was half dozing while thinking of the story when I fell asleep. My dad almost hit a small deer jerking the car out of the way and jerking me out my sleep and dream. I loudly exlaimed "Was that a jackalope!" Because that was what I had been dreaming about. My dad was laughing so hard that he had to pull over for a little bit before he recovered. For the entire rest of the trip my dad would just start laughing and at random intervals would yell " Was that a Jackalope!?". When I would start to doze off, he would quickly snap his arm and point out the window and scream "LOOK IT'S A JACKALOPE!" startling me awake. About two weeks after he dropped me off I got a letter from my Grandpa Ron in Texas with this poem in it...

 

 

Jackalope Jake

 

Strangers rode into town one day

there must have been ten or more

you could tell by the way that they rode

they were here to settle a score

 

They had just got out of prison

a weeks ride had brought them this far

for revenge on the one who jailed them

revenge on the man with a star

 

Jake was the one they were seeking

he knew they were coming for him

with six guns strapped to his legs

he stepped out the door with a grin

 

They drew as soon as they saw him

twelve guns felt the touch of a hand

but by time the gunshots were over

twelve men lay still in the sand

 

His hands are as fast as greased lighting

his aim as true as a snake

so if you come to Longview

you better not mess with Jake.

 

I hope you liked my stories!

 

Jackalope Jake.

 

Here is one I remember from Eagle River. I wasn't able to add a story yesterday because I was totally swamped... I went to the dentist and had a check up and cleaning. After I get a deep cleaning I'll be able to get braces. They said my teeth weren't going to be a hard case, and they probably won't have to pull any teeth.

 

In Eagle River we had two neighbors--Samantha, and Hailee. Hailee was my best friend, and sometimes all of us would go to Samantha's house and hang out because she had a trampolene. We were playing a game on the trampolene with a bounce ball, where we bounced it back and forth to eachother, kinda like four square. Samantha managed to consecutively hit each  player in the face. When she finaly hit Tyson (her retarded gangsta dumb ass brother) in the eye and he said, and I quote 'You're an effing retard Samantha!' we all started fighting with each other and then a car pulled up in the drive way... It was Sam's aunt and her cousin Tara. And let me just tell you, Tara wasn't so cool back then. She was diablo in a three year old. Jennifer and Samantha both looked at each other and said exactly this-- 'Peace!' and fled. As Hailee and I walked to Sam's house we had no idea I didn't know that the walking calamity was there. As soon as I walked past the last bush up the hill and arrived at Samantha's house I saw no one which was weird, since I knew they were all there. At first I thought they were hiding from ME, so I looked for them for about 2 seconds. But then I saw Tara and realized what was going on. Illogically I screamed "RUN!" too loud and gave away our position. My sister worried about safety jumped out of the woods and distracted Tara till I could get away. Then I heard Tara ask Jennifer 'Who was that with Jacob!?'. Jennifer soon found out that Tara was jeallous of Hailee, and was determend to make me 'hers'. Jennifer then came out and told me to come back because it was all clear, and if Tara came back they would protect me...WRONG!! After about 5 minutes of hanging out stress free she came runing out of Samantha's house after me. So I jumped off the trampoleen and began to run. I figured, I was a guy and I could run faster and longer than her, so I would just run around the trampolene untill she got tired. But unfortuntaly there was a large box that all the kids kept their drinks on it. I tripped pretty hard. AND THEN TARA HAD HER WAY WITH ME!

*cries weakly*

Okay. Maybe I made that sound worse than it was... She only kissed me. But it was pretty scary! Seven years later, Jennifer and I became very good friends with Tara. She moved from Alaska to Canada, and would some times go visit Samantha for a week. We lived next door to Samantha in Anchorage, and Samantha had a job. So when Tara would visit Tara would spend most of her time with Jennifer and I in our 'awesome' (her opinion, not mine) R.V. It was summer time, and some times we would go hang at Ocean View Elementary 
School on the swings. And I pulled out another Canadian joke which provoked Tara. I jumped off the swing set and started runing. Tara quickly pursued me, grabbed me by my jacket and yanked, causing me fall flat on my back.

Jennifer, Samantha, and Me: "Whoa... Deja vu..."

Tara: "..." And then she kicked me in the stomach.

 

Jake

Hey Hey everybody! I got GAIM, so if any of you used to talk to me on MSN but took be off because I had to stop useing MSN, you can add me again. Because this messanger is special, it can use Yahoo, MSN Jabber(G talk), ect. Since we started useing our Dell computer again I can't seem to add pictures to my space any more, it makes me really angry... So if you want to see the new pictures I took of my room and the outside of the house e-mail me and I'll send you some pictures. I was going to add another story to my space, but I can't seem to remember if there was another story before it. Because if there isn't I can move on to the time when we started living in the R.V., and that's when the storys start geting funnyer, and more strange in some cases. I'm not going to give up on adding pictures to my space, cause I really want to add more. Because when I click on the command 'add pictures', it does nothing. Doesn't even want to ask me if I need to install any thing... Any advice Jeremy?

 

Happy Bloging!

 

Jake

Sorry my story was so late this time. Jennifer and I got some jobs from our uncle's in-laws, cleaning out a P.W.T. (poor white trash) house. We made seventy dollars each. That is more than enough for me to get that sweet rug for my room!

 

Anyway, this story is about a dog house that we thought was haunted in Soldotna. There was this dog house a little bit away from where we lived. It had shotgun holes in the side of it, and we never saw a dog in it. So we assumed that the dog got shot, and therefor the dog house was haunted. We were asking Josh about it one day, and he said "Undow the flow bowd it leads to the hell."

We were terrified. For a whole year we NEVER went inside of it.

 About a year later, Josh had moved away, and a new kid moved in named Jerry. He was about a year older than me.

The first thing Jerry did when he heard about it was dare Jennifer to go in. Jennifer agreed, but only on the condition that Jerry went too.

I was supposed to stand outside and watch, just incase I needed to go tell our parents that my sister and friend fell into the dark pits of hell. After about 4 seconds of being inside of the dog house, they said "This isn't so bad, is it?" And then they heard a loud crack and rushed out the small door slamming into each other, Jerry was bigger so he got out first. Jen was about half way out and then the floor fell in. We grabbed Jennifer's hands and pulled with all our might to keep her from falling. We managed to save her and quickly made a break for the hide out (aka the shed we broke into). It was geting dark, it was about 4:00 P.M., and it gets dark very cast in Alaska in the winter time. So we all decided to go home so that the angry dog ghost couldn't capture us while it was dark and pull us down into his house\gateway to hell for trespassing. After about a week of not going 20 feet near the dog house or standing still any where in sight of it, we all decided to look down the hole. Our first attempt was to throw a long stick down the hole and see if we heard it fall, or if it would shoot up balls of flame. We heard it drop down into the hole... But we still had no idea what was down there. We got the idea that it was only the door way to hell in the night time. But we still wanted to find out what was down there! So we took a flash light...Stuck it down twards the hole... AND HEARD THIS LOUD MECANICAL GRINDING!! We dropped a perfectly good flash light down the hole. After about another week of being scared of the hole we tried it again. So once again we stuck the flash light near the hole...

Only it wasn't a gateway to hell. It was a the gateway to the WELL.

It was a pump house, with an old doghouse on top of it, and that loud noise we heard was the pump turning on. Still, after nearly falling into it, we never went near it again.

 

 

Jake