Garden time

Kari really wanted to do a garden this year, and she wanted to start it from seeds. Here are her starters for corn, peas, carrots, radishes, green beans, an some other stuff. These will hang out in here for a few more days until I can get the garden bed ready and chicken wired to keep the rabbits out. She started this when she planted a watermelon seed with her Sunbeam class.

Painting Terrorist

Kari was painting our master bathroom a month or so ago, I forgot I had these pictures. she was doing some over head sanding and wanted some protection.

So she made her own, I have safety glasses and dust masks but apparently that is not good enough for her. Notice the sweet swim goggles. Maybe she just wanted to make sure absolutely no dust ever got into her eyes. I love my wife! I laughed so hard when I saw her.

KARI ROCKS!!!!!

Mountain Man Roundvous

Is that how you spell Roundvous??? Any way, I had the opportunity to go to Mtn Man this year, I forgot to bring my camera and totally forgot I had a camera on my phone so all I have are prep pictures from home. Black powder rifles, black smiths, trading post, tomahawk trowing, climbing tower, team wall, mirror signaling, archery, Indian field hockey, pellet guns, blow guns, fire starting, throwing knives, and the best butchering and field dressing game! yeup you heard that last part right and Varsity team that wanted to had the opportunity to clean and prep and game animal, Rabbit, duck, chicken, quail. The leader in charge killed the animal and then had the boys give hands on help. AWESOME!!


Kari making my Capote, or Mountain man Jacket/coat. We went and got two old blankets from Goodwill, one was an electric blanket so I had to remove some wires.

The hat I also got from Goodwill for $5 and reblocked/reshaped it to look like a cowboy hat.

Check these bad boys out, The smaller one is the size of a large stake knife and the big one is.. well... lets just say ridiculous huge. I made these for the Mtn Man Roundvouz. All of the boys that came up wanted to play with the big knife. I had many offers to trade for it but did not take any of them. Maybe next time.

CB 750 Continued

So this is what I have been up to in my free time. I have changed the tail section, tail light, Shocks, seat pans, foot controls, and gas tank.

Bike stripped down but mostly stock.

Gas tank has been cut up and started to be welded back together.

Shocks changed, tail section changed, foot controls changed, seat pans made, tank most of the way done.

A little more sanding and filler and this thing will look sweet and carry about 2-3 more gallons of gas.

Rain

By the way, Kari and I were bummed that we missed the big rain storm, but we have had a few more since then. My neighbor has a digital weather station in his back yard. Since the 12th of January we have gotten 9 inches of rain at out house, in the desert. That's nuts! I love the rain!!!!

Tree removal

So Kari and I went to Dallas for a week in January to be with her parents. It rained a bit a stormed while we were gone. I was bummed we missed the storm, I like storms. When had several inches of rain and some serious wind the combination of which blew over our big Palo Verde tree in our back yard. This started us thinking, we wanted to get rid of the two palm trees in front as well. Here are some Pictures of Dad and I pulling out one of the trees.

As soon as we start to do something cool all of my neighbors come out to lend a hand. We have cool neighbors.

It tipping. Pull harder Dad!

All most out, lets wiggle it back and forth a few more times. That should do it.

What did you say to me? You know you are made out of wood and I have a chain saw!

So any way a couple of afternoons labor and some really wet dirt made for some relatively easy tree removal. As we were finishing up with this one, a tree removal truck came by with some guys in it. They asked if we did this, Yeup! What did you use to pull it out with? The blue truck. You did it with that?! Yeup. They said you could have called us to take it out. I said that would have cost me some $$$. I put my money to good use and bought a chain saw instead. Is there any more loud mouth trees out there that need to be taught a lesson. Thanks Dad for the help. Kari was out photographer.

Christmas ride

Over Christmas break Kevin and Ashley came down for a few days. Kevin brought his bike so we could go riding. After a quick 10 miles, about 25 minutes of riding, I dropped my bike in a corner going about zero and smashed my water pump housing promptly loosing all of my coolant. So much for that ride.