Christopher

Christopher is now 14?!! Wow! when did this happen? The cute little boy is now GONE!! Now he's 6' tall, has a deeper voice than he used to talk in,(for those of you that don't know, Chris, When having something important to say, Would lower his voice,and talk with a very authoritive tone.{like his dad}). Not to mention, He's now a Teenager to the Extreme, We are working through that, He's a good kid though. He Was Ordained A Teacher on the 4th of May,and recieved his Deacons Duty to God as well, We are proud Parents. School is going pretty good for him, However he is excited for it to be over with. Weren't we all at that age? Summer should turn into a real adventure for Christopher, The neighbor has hired him to move pipe and build fences on his ranch, Chris is excited for that. I think Mom is too...

Lightning

Have you ever had one of those days where you just can't get enough of nature? I Had one of those days today, Except it was snowing, Again, or Still, and cold, And I didn't have my raincoat with me, and then I thought of growing up in Washington, If you didn't do something cause it was raining and cold, you just didn't get to do anything at all. That's when I got up and went outside, watched the rain and snow, stood in it and enjoyed the moisture. Then I started to notice other things again, like the different colors in the pine trees, and the way the birds react to the storms, and then the Lightning came, it seems weird to have Lightning and snow in the same storm, But it made me think of the Awesome power it took to create the Earth. Anyway I love to watch storms. That is one big pluses to living in the Mountain Desert, you get to see the storms coming from a hundred miles away, and then in a couple of hours, they are on top of you. For those of you who have never experienced that, it really is exillerating.(is that spelled right?)
I really do Love the outdoors.

Spring?

O.K. I know it's supposed to be spring and all, but it only quit snowing here the other day.
However, the past 2 days have been more like late summer, 85 degrees, a light breeze blowing,what a wonderful weekend it was. Well, at least the weather was good.
so I got out the hoses and sprinklers, hooked them all up to the ditch pump(about 400' of hose and 4 spinklers),then I put the suction hose in the ditch,and primmed the pump,at this point I
knew i should have left the sprinklers off the hoses when starting the pump for the first time,
but I didn't,and as a result, every rainbird got plugged up solid, The dirt was packed in so tight I had to disassemble all the sprinklers and dig the dirt out with a wire. You would have thought that I'ld learn from that experience,and turn the pump on Without the sprinklers on the hoses.
Wrong again, I promtly put the things back on the hoses and turned the pump on. Vuala the sprinklers again plugged up. well by this time I had had enough, I turned off the pump, walked into the house,and looked up the weather. What do you know, it's supposed to snow again this week. ( I can't imagine why it wouldn't be snowing in the middle of MAY ) So I'll let the stupid sprinklers sit there for a few more days. Spring is Great isn't it?

Suicide Deer

Well, It finally happened. The famed kammakazi deer, ran out to greet me, however the greeting wasn't so cheerful for the Deer.
I was driving to work, I made it about half way there, it was about 6:00 am, and I'm the only one on the road for miles. I was going down this hill,and this Deer ran out to greet me. only it didn't slow down,( oh and neither did I) so it slammed into the side of my truck,nose first
into the drivers door( if it's not too graphic for you, imagine that at 70 miles per hour +) It's
shoulders took out the rear door,and for the finishing touches it's butt came around and smashed
the bed side. Over $3000.00 to get it fixed. thank goodness for Insurance companies
My boss wasn't really happy about it,but he understands that **** Happens.

Cars

These are 2 cars I worked on.(in the slideshow at the bottom). The 33 Ford tudor custom convertible I did 90% of the build, It was done for my boss and the first build i've ever done. It was a fun project, I look forward to another. The 57 Belair is my bosses Father in Laws car, I did the wiring,and helped with alot of the assembley, the car builder is Laddie Shaw, a well known car builder. It was cool to work with him on this car. Next up is a 71 'cuda Hemi, I'll hopefully be able to work with him on that car as well. Depends on timing, since he likes to work late at night,and I have to leave for work early in the morning, that leaves little time to help with it.
Laddie wants me to do the wiring though so somehow all will work out

Winter of 2008

Here it is February 14th and it's still snowing and BLOWING, Valentines day never looked so good. We Haven't had this much snow in the valley in years, (according to the farmers) So we are Looking forward to a very soggy spring, Much like the spring of 1997 when the army core of Engineers were called out to Pump the Excess water Over the Dam so it wouldn't wash out. Hopefully the watermaster will be a little smarter this time and pull the drain on the Resivuor soon enough.
We had to bring home a bigger snow plow the other day, Our driveway was getting too skinny, The snow has really been piling up. We haven't had to shovel the roof yet(not that christopher is not begging to go up there)but it is getting close,I may have to do it this weekend
as much as i hate going onto the roof in winter.
The other Day My Boss suprised me with a little Extra, He gave me one of his old
4wheelers, it's a polaris 400 4x4, a '95, it's been used hard but taken care of too, it does need some work and maintenance done, but we(especially Christopher) are excited to have it,and are very Grateful to Justin HAll(thats my boss) for giving it to us.