CB750 cafe racer

Well it is cooling off and I can start reworking my motorcycle. I am wanting to convert it into a cafe style bike and in the process hope to shed a few pounds off of this hog. I am currently making a new 4 into 1 exhaust from a 2004 GSXR 750 header, CBX 1200, and some small pieces of my stock exhaust. I cut them all up and am rewelding them back together. Most of it is from the GSXR exhaust. There are many more mods on the board. I will keep yall posted.

September Rain

I know some of you get rain on a regular basis, but us Arizonans it is a pretty rare thing. This is what our backyard looks like when we get 1.5" of rain, we get a little stream that runs through our neighborhood and out our backyard. It is a good thing that our yard is graded so that all of this drains off when it stops raining. This was an awesome day.

Dwight

OK, some of you may know that Kari has a sleep over in early summer for the nieces that live here. I had the great opportunity of being present this year. They ate ice cream, made music videos, got to see the chickens next door, went roller skating, and had pizza. Now on to Dwight. One of the nieces wanted to take an egg home from the neighbors chickens. We said no problem, she asked for a pen, I thought she was going to write her name on it so that we would know which one was her's. She ended up naming it Dwight.

She then added a "don't use me disclaimer" on it. That may have worked if she remembered to take it with her. We ate him, yummy.

I asked if this was his hair, she said yes. I said does that mean he has a bald spot, she said no he is totally bald, she then informed me that it was his back hair. I said oh really. She then voluntarily said "I think back hair is sexy". Yea, I was on the floor laughing. I love our nieces.

Catching up

Man it has been a while since I blogged last. Usually I blog quicker than I visit, but i have been busy the last couple of months. Last week I went up to Utah to ride for a few days with Dad, Kevin, and Eric. I think next year I will come up to ride for a month. I did not want to go back home to the heat or the non heavily forested hills around the valley. Kari and I started to roller skate several times a week. It has been really fun to get out and do some active stuff with her. In case any of you are wondering, Kari is the Activities committee chairman in our new ward and I am the Youngmens President. More fun more meetings, at least Kari and I get to go to ward council together.

Scout camp

Scout camp was a blast this year. We went for eight days, so we had church in the woods. One of the leaders is a high priest so he could conduct. When we got up on Sunday morning here were our boys reading the New Era. It was awesome.

We worked on Enviromental Science and Fishing.
Wilderness survival, some of the boys built condos not shelters.

We worked on pioneering, we built a monkey bridge for our troop project.

We worked on Space exploration, we built some model rockets.

We worked on Rifle Shooting, the boys shot until they got tired or qualified. Yes, some of them actually asked if they could stop shooting.

We worked on Woodcarving, I had them do their requirements on a pine wood derby car and then we raced them. Thank you to Jeff for letting me borrow the track.

I got to race my old pinewood derby cars too, they kicked but in the stock class. Then we had some boys take big rock onto their cars. We had rain on Monday night and Tuesday and kept right on going. One trip to the ER for a burning cinder in the eye, and one boy with some serious home sick issues. We had solar showers, all of us had at least 3, that made the ride home nice. We made a latrine, complete with toilet base and seat, which pleased all of us. We kept the boys busy from sunup to lights out each day. We did 3 hours of clean up at the lake picking up garbage. Some of the fishermen gave us some weird looks, like I can't believe that scouts actually do that. Over all it was a total blast.

Memorial day

On Memorial day weekend Kari and I went up on the rim by Happy Jack Lodge to camp out with Mom and Dad, Angie and Justin, and their friends. We went up Sunday after church and missed all of the big rain storms and mud. Here we are just chit chatting and lunching on Monday.

There a a little log cabin somene had built that Kari did not think it was upto snuff, so Kari, Carson, Kai, Camden, and Chance tore it down and rebuilt it, until it got to lifting up the big logs on the upper rows. They first took a union pee break and then came and asked for some help with the big logs. Justin and I helped with those. Warren came by and check it for structual integrity, gave us a thumbs up and walked off. Just as the boys finished putting pine needles on the top the girls got off of the quads so the boys ran off to have a turn. So instead of haveing pictures of the boys in the club house the girls took the chance to be photogenic.

Riley and Riley hanging out in the log cabin.

Trip to Big Lake

Last weekend Kari and I went up to the White Mountains by Show Low, Sunrise ski resort. I needed to go up and look for camping spots for our scout camp this summer. After we spent 4 hours driving around the forest by the lake we found a really nice spot. On the way out, Kari and I decided to stop for some lunch by the lake. It got cloudy and started to sprinkle so we thought it was really nice, so we sat on a big rock and enjoyed the weather. Everyone else on the lake decided it was time to go and hide. It was a really nice day, much better that the 106 degrees and sunny in Mesa.