Fast but really tired!

4/11/2009 Fast and really tired!
After four months of doing nothing but recuperating, we have one house to build. It's on Lake Linville, Mount Vernon , Ky. This is from the back facing the lake. As you can see the view is beautiful.
We started April, Tuesday 7th, 09.


Here we are April, Thursday 9th, 09, we are top plating all the walls in the house. You can see the lake in the back ground.






April, Thursday 9th, 09, we are all finished ready to start the ceiling joists and roof. Three days and ready for the roof, we didn't work Friday because of rain so we had a day off.
I was glad for the day off, because I was so tired and sooooo sore.

Marvels that fascinate!

4/4/20009 Sailing ships.
Here is another of my favorite time lines in the world, the old ships that sailed the high seas. I love movies that have these older ships in them.


As I watch them I am amazed at how they were ale to build them and actually sail across the oceans, especially when the storms raged on them.






I don't have any desire to ever have been on one of them as a crew member or anything like that. I just love the way they moved on the seas and survived the storms.


It's fascinating to me to watch them rise and dip in the waves of the oceans. The water breaking over the bow and sides, sometimes the thing looks like it's going under, then it pops back up.

Ooooh yeeeaaah!

4/2/2009 Oooooh yeeeaaah!
A good friend of mine gave me a heart gift for Christmas 08. I work for him and met him up town for my paycheck and he opened the truck of his wife's car and said here these are for you.


This is what he gave me, a pair of hard-sided leather saddle bags. oh yeah I was happy.







Here's another shot, they look good. It's good to have good friends.

Here's a shot looking down my hyper-charger. Along with the power commander they boost horsepower and reaction to throtle response. Look out don't get sucked down these intakes.

Twisted priorities!

3/30/2009 Twisted priorities!

Well our Country has done it again. What you ask? They have went and enacted one of those idiotic laws that's about as stupid as it comes. Read on!!!!
Spokane County, Washington (the state) became the launch pad last July for the nation's strictest ban on dishwasher detergent made with phosphates, a measure aimed at reducing water pollution. The ban will be expanded statewide in July 2010, the same time similar laws take effect in several other states.

To beat it all the new detergents don't even work.

This country passes the most stupid laws I know.

They care more for the environment than they do their own people. What about all the "GROWTH" hormones and "STEROIDS" and preservatives they put into our foods everyday? There are tests that prove these are affecting our health and especially the health of our youth. They don't care for the health of the poeple but will ban everything coming down the pick to save a tree, a bush or a weed. Can't do anything to upset the mighty dollar.

When it comes down to "ENVIRONMENT vs MANKIND", man will lose everytime.

I'm all for taking care of our world, but our main concern must be the people who inhabit it first.

Things remembered!

I was sitting today reading. After I finished I was thinking of a post for the day. The last few days have been busy and I haven't gotten to do any post's.

There are several different subjects that I want to do posts on so the next several days are covered. But today I wanted to post on the small things in life we as humans kinda cherish.

They may be insignificant to others but hold special places in our own hearts that can't be easily explained. We just know we like them and that's enough for us.

Well, this is one of them, my mother-n-law, Sandy, got this for me on one of their trips. It's carved out of real antler. It's from Montana. We have had it for several years now and is one of those gifts that I hold dear. Sometimes in this life it's the little things that have the most meaning.

Look around and do an inventory, I believe we'll all be surprised at the little things we have that bring smiles to our faces today.

I want one each please!

Here is the BMW Mini XXL. I don't think I could get Sharon to drive me around in it, she'd want me to drive her.

I think we'll have to extend the garagre area??????????





1966 Shelby Cobra "Super Snake". This car is awesome. It just sold for 5.5 million. I counted all our money and I was just a little short, darn that other $5,499,998.82. Well maybe next time!






Man, 8 doors and jacked to the sky. My blood is ragging. Wouldn't this be cool to pull up to church in. I can just see the pastors eyes. Everything we do own to drive is some shade of red, even the kid's cars are red. My favorite color is a deep burgundy red. And this thing is red to beat, I think that's a sign.

Honey where's your money stash???????????

Home sweet home!

Mar 17, 09-Magen and me fishing at our pond in front of our house. I'm facing toward our house.
Miles is sitting with us, he is named after Sharon's dad, who is buried up behind where miles is sitting.


This is directly infront of our house, we enjoy fishing in this pond that was built and stocked by Sharon's parents 30 yrs ago.







To the left is the cabin her parents built 25 yrs ago, Sharon's brother (Brian) and family live there now.
Our house is to the right, we started construction in 1997, cleared the land by hand and Sharon and I did all the work ourselves exterior and enterior. My father-n-law Jimmy Wallace, helped us put on the wooden siding. Building our own house was a dream come true for both of us and as dreams go, don't really want to dream that dream again.


Our house is directly to the left and the cabin is directly to the right. They are out of picture.
The two bottom pic's are taken directly oppisite each other.
(bottom two pic's taken Oct. 2004)