This blog is closed

After two years I am closing this blog. It will still remain here just as it is but I will no longer update it. Instead I will be switching to WordPress. I will miss Google Analytics but posting from WordPress, when using photographs, is much easier in my opinion.
My new blog will be located HERE.

I will try to make my new blog much like my old one, but better.

Going over the hump

Here are some pics from going over the "hump" the other day to and from work.




On the way home:







On the rare days that we have clouds here, they make for some spectacular sunsets!

It is over

There has been a nagging issue since we moved here. It would often rear its ugly head at the most inopportune times causing severe marital distress and  even some heated arguments. NO MORE!!!!!

WE HAVE AN AUTOMATIC ICE MAKER!!!!!!!!!!


No longer will I have to sheepishly tell Karen that "I saved her one" when she finds only one lonely cube of ice in the tray! No longer will I have to threaten to throw out the remaining ice cubes if I don't think there are enough left for Karen in the tray.

Below is a picture of marital bliss:






Those that say you can't buy a happy marriage have never bought an ice maker!

Some days

my job is better than others. Today was one of those days:








I was at the speedway twice. The day before was all classic hot rods, but I didn't have my camera. Today was dragsters!

More repairs

My parents worked their butts off while they were here. I would have felt guilty about it if there was a way to have stopped them from doing it, but that would have been impossible.

Since I knew I couldn't stop them from working I had planned a project for them. I needed an 18" trench dug from my elecrical box to my garage. A distance of about 150 feet. Papa said that Nana could only use a shovel that had a 6" handle on it and, wouldn't you know it, I didn't have one so that project never got completed!

They did however fix

1. 5 broken kitchen drawers
2. 3 doors
3. Added an electrical outlet forthe TV.
4. Replace a GFI breaker with a standard breaker for our washing machine
5. Fixed the toilet that broke while I was at work.
6. Added a whole house filter to our water system.

No we were not drinking when we installed it....lol. We just didn't have enough 90s to make it straight. And yes I do own stock in the company that makes the glue for PVC!!!!! Its not pretty but it doesn't leak and now my washer screen should not get plugged up!!!

I helped with 3,4. Tom and I helped with 6.

Brian also helped to troubleshoot an electrical issue while he was here. Someone drilled a hole in one of our walls and cut the electrical lines. Brian confirmed this by pouring salt water in the hole. I would have never thought to do that....lol

I love family reunions. I'm having another one about the time I plan to wire my garage!!!!

Thanksgiving

Since my parents would not be here for Thanksgiving, Betty mad a Thanksgiving dinner before they left.






It was, as usual, great!

The fire queen

The next day we stopped at Bettys on the way to our house.


Feeding Gideon




















Later it got kind of chilly. We had picked up two packs of fire wood. It didn't last long. The call mom the "fire pit queen" in twin mills, now we know why.
When we ran out of wood, she started cutting things off our plants to burn


Here they are burning our Christmas Pine cones.


When that ran out, they started on the furniture:










No one really like that little table anyways. It was a spider pit!!!!

Hanging out at Bettys

Nana and Pappa feeding Gideon:




Watching a little bit of TV:


The last known bottle of "Rock and Rye" Wiskey:

Tom and Betty decided this was a good occasion to crack it open.

Whats in a name?

Yesterday we went to the Last Chance Saloon & Steakhouse here in Pahrump. We have been trying to find a restaraunt/bar to replace the Copper Keg that we so enjoyed back in Vegas......we haven't found it yet though.


The Last Chance has "ok" food and the prices are reasonable. The bar the is pretty good though! We were not really impressed with them last time, but that happens sometimes, so we thought we would give them a "Last Chance" as it were.

Here we are "belly up" to the bar before dinner feeding the one armed bandits.


Here we are getting ready to sit down and eat.

I ordered a "Grilled Bratwurst Sandwich" seen below.

They should have called it a boiled bratwurst sandwich instead because if any of it was grilled, you wuoldn't know it.

Mom ordered a BLT. When she got it it was cold. The toast was cold, the bacon was cold. No mayo on it.

Tom ordered a tuna sandwich with cole slaw on the side. He forgot to specify NO FLIES IN MY FOOD! Needless to say, after that most of us lost our appetites.  Now I know that it happens. Most of the time you never even know what bugs are in your food. But the restaurants response was to offer Tom some extra cole slaw after the waitress laughed out an appology. That was it. The manager never came out, no discount was offered. Tom still paid full price for his meal.

At the least Tom's meal should have been FREE. And we shouldn't even have had to ask for it!

So that was their "Last Chance" and it didn't go well for them!

We did enjoy the bar though:

Shots of Hennesey....how nasty!

Its time

The pomegranates are ripe! They are great too. I've been picking a few here and there and although some seemed ripe, after seeing these I know now that they were not.

Now when you squeeze them the juice just bursts out of them screaming to be tasted. They are sooooo good. I can't wait until next year when I'll have a better idea of what I'm doing with them and get a new crop.

If momma ain't happy,

ain't nobody happy!

about your blog header. i really liked it when i saw you and karen supper em posed in the back ground. and you have such a neat looking house that it would be nice to see the arch in the garden or something interesting like that. also the mountains that you see standing in your back yard, that is such a beautiful sight from that distance... and maybe the dogs too. all of that represents you in a nut shell. to me i get instant relief when i can go there and instantly see the things i hold so dear to me. in other words i hate the plain picture and i don't know where in the hell it was taken...where are your beautiful mountain flowers? you asked and i gave...........love ya mom i will be waiting on your reply. see you in a couple of dayssssssssssssssssssss

So...stand by for a new pic :)

More changes

to the blog. If it doens't look right on your computer, please let me know!

Stopping to smell the roses

They are back again for the second time, or maybe the third. I don't remember.






One thing for sure is that they are much bigger that the previous one.