2007/11/13 – Tuesday – Not Flat

Well, tire was not flat this morning so all is good.

Lunch was with my buddy and friend to Quizno’s

I finally got all the blogs read!!! So now it am all up to date.

2007/10/12 – Monday – Flat?

Lunch was with a friend to Denny’s

Cheryl picked me up from work.

Well, this morning I had to walk to work because the Jeep had a flat tire, so now I went ahead and filled all the tires up. The tire is fine – I cannot find a leak.

I am still way behind reading all my blogs that I read…

2007/10/11 – Sunday – Drive Home

We slept in a little today.

I checked and I do have the stuff required to fix the tire. So I got the tools, but I was having problems. So I called for a friend to help and he was able to help. With his help we where able to patch my tire. I really didn’t want to have a flat tire and the possibilities of ruining the tire.

Cheryl got the inside all ready for travel. I tore down the satellite and got everything else ready to go. Cheryl took the van over to main camp to help out. Once I finally got moving, I also headed on over to main camp to say goodbye.

Cheryl followed and we headed home. Cheryl stopped at Kramer Junction for lunch, while I continued on before stopping. I stopped at the junction of I15 & 395 and got gas and to get the RV washed. Cheryl finally made it and stopped to get Eric and I lunch, while we waited for the RV to get washed. While I was pulling up to the RV wash, a good friend was there to get his RV washed also.

Our friend, Cheryl and I all traveled together the remaining drive home.

I got the Jeep unloaded and got the RV and Trailer backed down the drive – waiting to be cleaned out (tomorrow).

One of our friends that is a plumber called and said he has the camera. So he came over and ran the camera down the sewer line. O I have ruts and now we know how bad it really is and now I know why we have to have the line cleaned out about every 6 months.

Now I am trying to catch up on all my computer stuff – more for tomorrow….

2007/10/10 – Saturday – Defense Mine

I got up and headed out to go for a trail ride. But I was still undecided.

Finally I got in line for Defense Mine and of course joined in as part of the trail crew. When I finally got to waterfall zero, I tried it, well I was a little to far to the right and almost rolled the Jeep onto the driver side. Two guys had to keep some additional weight to stop me from going over. I was able to backup and recover before trying again. I finally made it up it – hurray.

The remaining part of the trail to the mine was ok. We ate lunch and now it was time to head back down.

Now a group that wanted to do Cummings Cutoff would be guided up it – well of course I wanted to.

The beginning of the cutoff has a nice hard section to climb up at the beginning. It took me about three different tries. The next hard part required me to use the boulder bars to pivot on but it did require a little finesse and not hitting the wall on the passenger side. The next obstacle had two ways of trying it. I went up the wall without any major problems. Now the last obstacle (waterfall/v-notch) was a major challenge. The first two attempts stopped my progress. The third attempt I climbed the wall on the driver side and while I was still having forward progression I could hear the passenger tail lights being destroyed. Once I completed the cutoff, I parked on the road out – I check the taillight and sure enough it was destroyed.

We had another guy break his rear hubs, so we had to do a lot of work using several jeeps including mine to help winch him up and out.

Once we got everybody out of the cutoff it was time to head back to camp.

When I pulled into camp I can hear air hissing out of one of my tires. So I dropped off my passenger and head for my trailer and put the Jeep onto the trailer.

I headed on over to the main camp and did the usual raffle activities. Eric did win one raffle item. I even won a raffle item.

After the raffle, I stayed around the campfire and had a good time with my other Desert Dawgs club members.

I didn’t get to bed until a little after one – one long day – but good!

2007/10/09 – Friday – Driving and Playing

Today is a vacation day for me.

I left for Panamint Valley Days (PVD) about 9:00; I arrived at camp at 1:30. I unloaded the Jeep and went to the line of people that I will be leading this afternoon for a sunset run.

We had 37 vehicles for the sunset run to Lookout City. This year there was more of a haze in the valley. When I was doing the drivers meeting, about half the people said they never been on this run – wow new people – cool. We all made it back without any problems.

When I got back we got a few more things squared away in the rv.

Cheryl finally arrived from her 5-hour drive in the van, because Eric did not what to miss the day from school.

Now its time for bed – even if its before 11:00 – 6:30 will come quickly…

2007/10/08 – Thursday – SICK!!!

I was sick today – it was the cookie dough. It was leaving both ways….

When I got home from work, I went straight to bed. Tossed and turn all night.

2007/11/07 – Wednesday – Prep.

Lunch was my buddy to crazy chicken. We then walked over to the locksmith and he checked out some stuff.

I got home to work on getting ready for the weekend.

Cheryl did some shopping for stuff necessary for this weekend.

Amanda finally returned from her trip to Disney Land with L.S. She had fun – they were looking for the several Mickey icons all over the place.

I will be lucky to post an entry tomorrow, but I will back date it (like if have in the past).

2007/11/06 – Tuesday – Jury Service

I got up really early and finally got on the road, I thought I was leaving early, but it took me hour and half to go 22 miles.

The morning was spending my time doing my duty of Jury service. I will type more later when it is all over with – Yes to be continued…

After lunch I was back to work.

Tonight is the Dirt Devils meeting. Meeting had a ok amount of people.

On the way home I talked to Mom M. I think our normal plans for Thanksgiving has changed. I will know more in the next couple of days. It will be only our second time that we will not be with Cheryl’s family for Thanksgiving.

I had to work on my laptop and fix the wifi properties to get thing working again – uhg!

2007/11/05 – Monday – She is Home…

Lunch was with my buddy to Denny’s – screaming kids and all.

Cheryl made it home without to much problem. Her first flight was canceled but was rescheduled for the next flight an hour later.

I talked to Mom M for a little bit, and then I called my brother and talked to him for almost two hours.

I also worked on getting information for what I need to do tomorrow.

2007/11/04 – Sunday – Watching

I didn’t really sleep in for some reason.

The kids and I watched TV most of the day. We watched the NASCAR and then Football and then a few of the Sunday night shows.

I have finally won a game on NFL Fantasy league. At then end of Monday night – I will be W-2, L-7; there is only one other person with a worse record of W-1, L-8. Cheryl is doing better then me – currently she is W-5, L-3 but it looks like she will be W-5, L-4, but we need to wait for the Monday Night Football game.

I also worked on a load of laundry, but I need to put things away…

2007/11/03 – Saturday – Party and Museums

Eric didn’t wake me up, I got up around 9:30 and got the kids up, we needed to leave by 10:00.

We left a little after 10:00 and headed to Uncle M & Aunt C for the party and boy day out.

We got to the house right on time - 11:00. We were put to work in helping out prepare for the party that Amanda was to attend – The party is for Jesse cousin – T.&G. R. baby shower.

Jesse, Eric, Amanda, Uncle M, and S.R. went for lunch at the Rose Bowl Country Club – Aunt C stay home to work on the party stuff.

Once back to the house, we help in some final stuff before guest started to arrive. I talked to Cousin T.R. a little bit.

Eric, Uncle M and Jesse went and visited the Nethercutt Collection in Sylmar – Really cool collection (see other blog for pictures.)

Afterward, we stopped at Baskin Robins to enjoy a scoop of ice-cream.

We returned to the house chatted a bit with who was left at the house.

Now it was time for dinner, so, Uncle M & Aunt C, the kids & me, went to a restaurant in South Pasadena. Again good chatting, before we had to depart and go our own way.

Another good day.

2007/11/02 – Friday – Improv

I went home for lunch to get a bowl of cereal and a quick nap.

Cheryl has already left for the weekend in San Francisco to do work for the weekend – she is not due back until late Monday

I picked up the kids and headed on over to pickup Mom D and friend. We then dropped off the kids at D&M for the evening.

We made it to the Improv in ok time. Dinner was served a little slow, but the food was good. M had made all the arrangement for the evening. So we had reserved seating in the stage area. We had a total of 9 people in the group. We had up front seating. We laughed for most of the entertainers.

The trip back went quick without all the traffic. We picked up the kids and headed back home of course stopping to drop off Mom D and friend.

2007/11/01 – Thursday – Normalcy?

Lunch was with my buddy to crazy chicken and then a quick browsing in RadioShack.

Cheryl came home early to help Amanda out ‘to be looked after’ because she was not feeling good.

I worked on the computers again tonight a little. Cheryl has been doing a lot of type tonight. We watched our Thursday night shows and relaxed.

I did some minor work for NSDC getting a picture tying to get things started on that particular front.