New Years Resolutions

1. Stop laughing at Obama's ears
2. Be more tolerant of stupid people/drivers
3. Drive slower
4. Eat less red meat
5. Eat more veggies
6. Stop smoking
7. Tell the people I care about that I love them more often
8. Spend less time in front of my 'puter
9. Learn another language
10. Ignore resolutions 1, 3, 5 and 8

Goin' Mobile

Gavin's walking!!

Next thing ya know it'll be ...

Dad, where's the keys?

Merry Christmas To All

Baby, it's cold outside

Just watched the Bears beat the Packers, Packers should have won, Bears sure as %&#@ didn't deserve to. But that's not what I wanted to rant about. It was 7 degrees, with wind chill it was 0... did ya get that "0" degrees. I used to live in that crap... what ever was I thinking.
It got down to a chilling 31 here in Eureka the other night, a nice fire in the woodstove and we were just toasty warm and snug, but "0"... no thanks. I remember getting up in the morning and having to spend 30 min. digging my car out of a snow drift before I could go to work, and the temp never getting out of the teens all day. Nope I'll take the occasional 31 (with a winter average of 45) here any day.

Gavin's First Christmas

yummmm yummmm Fresh crab!!

John, Jasmine and Gavin came up from San Jose for the weekend, and we celebrated Gavin's first Christmas (a week early) Had a wonderful crab feed on Saturday night and the kids opened their presents Sunday morning... saddly they leave today, but the time they were here was wonderful.

Christmas lights are up!!

The Hotrodders Prayer

The V-8 is my Shepard:
I shall ALWAYS want!
It maketh me burnout on black pavements:
It leadeth me down the busy freeways:
It restoreth my soul.
It leadeth me in the path of quickness
For its name sake.
Yea, though I drive through the valley of RICE,
I shall fear no turbo,
for torque art with me!
Thy headers and posi,
they comfort me.
Thou preparest a track for me,
in the presence of mine enemies:
Thou hast anointed my bearings with oil:
My car overpowers.
Surely traction and victory shall follow me all the days of my life.
And I shall dwell in the house of the High Performance V-8
Forever and EVER
Amen!!

Winter Is Back

After weeks of some really nice weather, at least for Eureka area, the rain has arrived. Lots of people "dislike" the rain here, but after growing up in and having to deal with snow intimately (shoveling the sidewalk, digging ones car out to go to work, poor traction and so on) rain is no big deal, besides, it is the main reason this area is so beautiful.
Things out at the Mill are still idle, no word yet when it will start back up. hopefully it will soon after the first of the year. Marie is getting jealous of my time off, odd thinking coming from a teacher, but I, myself, wouldn't mind getting back to work. Makes me wonder if I will be able to handle retirement?

A New Look

Set up a new blog template for this thing... tell me what you people think of it.

Here we all are

A truely great Thanksgiving

Front: Lily sitting on Marie's lap, Amy, Brady and Gavin on Jasmine's lap

Back: Me, Brian and John (what is with the gangsta look guys?)

Kathy's missing... used some lame excuse about being in France

Back to normal?

All the kids and grandkids have gone home. Our house is back to normal, or so I thought.
It seems that since this was the first time any of the grandkids have been to our house, it has changed... taken on a different air so to speak. The house will never be the same. It now echos of their presence. I've heard of this phenomena, but now I believe it. Marie and I are just so proud of everyone. Brian has a beautiful loving family, John's life is headed in the right direction, Kathy is just about done with France and her education, everyone is doing wonderful and we are so happy for and proud of them all.