Rick's Rocker

Last year the hunt began for a new motorcycle for Rick. He has always been a biker guy and a few years ago he sold his to put hardwood floors in our West Jordan home. I thought it was a great sacrifice and one he chose to make but he missed riding his motorcycle. So we went looking. If you haven't heard the story go back and look at my post from last summer to get the 411 (as they say) Anyhow Rick has been looking and found a Harley Rocker that he decided was his dream bike. Low and behold (like the catch phrases?) he saw one at our local GMC dealer if you can believe that. He also played hooky today after working 30, 12 hour days. He decided he deserved a day off. To make this long rambling story a bit shorter we came home with his burgundy with black flames 2009 Harley Softail Rocker. He is thrilled and I don't have to worry about birthday, fathers day, christmas, anniversary, valentines and any other holiday gift for the rest of his life! The pic's where mostly taken by Zac to keep him occupied while we did paperwork and all that other fun stuff that comes with this kind of purchase. Hey we're trying to do our part for the economy! how about you? Oh yeah and by the way the Sportster is now officially mine!

Northern Nevada & Gardening

Since we've been renting the last 3 yrs (can you believe we've been here 3 years?) I haven't had a garden and my attempts to grow tomatoes in pots was dismal to say the least. I was so excited that our yard has stuff planted and I've been enjoying walking the yard to see what is coming up in our new yard. So far I've found numerous clumps of bulbs. Pink hyacinths and various tulips. Zac spotted yellow & red tulips at the property line by the road. The rest aren't blooming yet but it's fun to see what was planted by others. At the fence line between us & the neighbors to the north (which I refer to as up because they really are up from us) there are numerous bushes that I haven't identified yet and some of them are very, very prickly. Maybe I should say thorns because they really are sharp thorns. I've been lazy of late but I really need to get out there and start some pruning and taking out the volunteer tree's which is kind of hard to do since there are so few tree's in this area. I also have the task of identifying them! Oh yea and the pine tree's lining the driveway have bird nest's in them! Haven't heard any chirps yet but I'm keeping an eye (or ear) on them. I sure hope we have baby birds in them............... what fun that'll be!