The Kido and The HooSeee

Done with Horse Time

The the HooSeee

Since Christmas the frog has been been all about horses. She got the horse movie Spirit for her birthday and has watched it about 5,000 time. About once a week we take her to a park by our house where they break wild horses and she loves it. The top picture is her running after the big brown mule in the picture sneezed on her. She was not all that cool with horse nasal discharge.

Pool Table Redemption

Those of you who know me well know that I enjoy moving people about as much as I would enjoy having my eye burned out with a soldering iron (that does not mean I wont help when people need it, I just really do not enjoy it). Last Friday I got a call that a lady down the road had to be out of her place and had no help, so dragging my feet went to help. Once I got there I was feeling pretty good about the move because she really did need help. So I asked her if she needed help breaking down the pool table, and she said, "do you want it." Well shame on me for for having a bad attitude. We had new felt put on this weekend and are good to go. Moral of the story.....Karma is a good thing......

Death Valley and Mining Camps

Mill works for the Eureka Mine

At top of ore shoot at the Bonnie Claire Mill

Truck outside of mill

Crusher and Smelter

This place freaked me out someone had been squatting in there not to long ago, suprised there was not a dead body in there

Smelter

1880's Structure at mill

Living quarters at mill

Bonnie Claire Mill

2nd Trip to Scotty's Castle

Eureka Gold Mine (Death Valley, CA)

My Dad next to the ore cart tracks

My Dad and the Kido at Sea Level

After a stressful couple weeks I decided to take the day off, and with my dad in town I had a prefect reason to go explore a couple old mining camps around death valley. We had a great time and found some really cool places. The frog was a champ and during the tour of Scotty's Castle told me that's where a princess would live. The mines where really in really good condition, if you want to read up on them here are the links. http://home.earthlink.net/~ghosttowns/dv/dvwest/dvwest.htm (its the first post)

http://www.robertwynn.com/Bonnie.htm

The Snow Ball That Tried To Kill Me

I think I may be on my way out! Between Cars driving into restaurants and all the other crazy stuff that's happened lately this one is just par for the course. So there I was minding my own business listening to Don Ho's greatest hits and driving from Reno to Sacramento, when a two foot by two foot chunk of snow fell off the overpass and smashed the passenger side of my windshield. I about crapped my pants!!!!! It was so loud my ears were ringing all the rest of that day. If any of you have any suggestions on how I can get my luck back I would greatly appreciate it.

Number One Reason To Own An AIR HORN!!!!!!!!

Last night was one of the greatest moments of my life! After being gone in Reno and Sacramento for the week I arrived home around 9:30pm to hang out with the family. When I got home Megan mentioned that our friends kido was asleep in the other room and that our friends were out on the town. So we hung out, watched 24 and had an otherwise uneventful night (but oh how things change). Our Friends came to pick up there kido around midnight and when we answered the door our friends wife mentioned that her husband was asleep in the car. Something that I have kept suppressed for years rose up in me, and from nowhere I remembered the air horn (Barf you know what I am talking about buddy). The video tells the rest of the story, it was so sweet. One of the greatest moments of my life!!!!

Brianhead+Snow and Friends=Good Times

So after way to much time without leaving Vegas we headed up to Pup's cabin with some good friends for snow and a visit to old man winter. The trip was great and it was so nice to get on the snowboard. Sienna seemed to think that her snow suite was a device left over from the Spanish Inquisition, so needless to say she did not get much snow time in. Although I bag on winter there is a solitude found in it that can not be matched.

2008 The Year I Almost Died At Quiznos

I have been thinking allot about the past year and everything that has gone down. I must say 2008 treated me well, except for one day at Quiznos. So most of you who know me are well aware that I am a magnet for random crazy things (that includes people on airplanes having combat flashbacks, not kidding) I assure you this story is no different. In February of last year after a full morning of sales calls a supplier and I decided to stop at Quiznos and get some food. So I sit down to my toasted sub and soup and begin to eat. As I am sitting there my buddy gets up to use the bathroom and I continue putting down by broccoli cheddar. Out of the corner of my eye I see a car pulling into the parking spot, and I think to my self, "if I were her this is point where I would slow down and stop." The moment that thought ended I saw my table fly across the restaurant and dry wall go everywhere. As I stared at the front end of the car 3 feet away from me (spoon still full of soup in this moment) the only thing that crossed my mind was, "Holy S%$#." As everyone else ran out of the restaurant I sat there thinking I almost died at Quiznos. Now a honey bacon turkey is good, but not worth checking out for. Moral of the story-glad I did not die, but you never know when its coming so you better make the best of it. Oh, and never sit next to the wall if it buts up to parking spots!