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!

time passes

I can't believe how fast time goees by. It's been a crazy year and a hectic spring, with the weather go back & forth so much it's hard to tell if it's spring or still winter. But we're hanging in there and trying to do all the things that need to get done!

View from the drivers seat............

After having a really nice visit with Courtney and the kids last wed it was time to head back to Spring Creek. I had taken the Elko HS band to the airport for their trip to DC for the Cherry Blossom festival. And since I was dead-heading home I took the opportunity to go visit Courtney & kids. Mom also stopped by for a bit and I took as many pics as I could. Finaly it was time to head home and I was getting abit tired so I came up with an idea to show whomever what it looks like form the drivers seat when traveling, so i poiited my phone in different directions and snapped! It was kind of fun and helped to keep me awake................... so here's my abstract version of the view from the drivers seat......................

I went back Sunday to pick them up but because there were 3 busses it just wasn't feasable to go early and visit, but I take it where I can get it! The kids are getting So BIG! It was also nice to see mom who we don't get to visit with nearly enough (wel that goes for all the family) I'll get the pics I took of me, mom, Courtney & the kids up soon!

Dogs & chickens

So far this Reno trip has been fun..... until I got the phone call from Rick this morning. Once again Chance & Seven had managed to escape & run the nieghborhood, infortunately Seven cmae home with a chicken in his mouth! Rick got the chicken away from him & got both the dogs in the house. Shortly a local deputy sheriff showed up at the door. The fine for two unlicensed dogs running loose is $268! And that doesn't count what the owners of the chickens will want for reimbursment...... or vet bills. Rick was going to go talk ot the owners. I am so angry that I might just go home & shoot the dogs myself. We knew it was only a mater of time when the dogs would run into some kind of trouble when they escaped. I really thought however that they would get run over and killed by soemone. This is just unbelievable, I am so angry and upset that they did this! I had such a nice day in Virginia City yesterday. It's a quaint historical town. They've turned the historical buildings into lovely shops with all kinds of stuff. They're a number of 'rock' shops, Virginia City being the first mining town in Nevada. It was very interesting to learn about Boulder Tourquoise, it was originaly found in Elko. No 2 pieces are exactly alike. Unfortunately I didn't purchase a piece of it, but I did find a number pf pieces that are very lovely. I bought a beautiful necklace & earring set and 10 rock 'marbles'. I picked ones that I found interesting.

One of the leather stores was having a winter clearance sale (maybe it was 2 shops) I found Rick a new mototrcycle jacket for only $45! he was thrilled that I got it for him. I also got myself 2 leather bomber jackets they were buy one get one free, who could pass that up? SO yes I spent way too much money but I felt like I was thoughtful in my purchases and looked for things that I really liked and fairly priced, now does that sound like good justification?

Whining

Needles was certainely a long trip. I missed Zac's Dr. Suess program thurs. night but Rick videotaped it for me and it was fun to watch. Zac was so cute!
It's been a hard spring traveling. I haven't been home when Rick's been off for weeks. And I have to go to Reno fri. to pick up the FFA group that I took there tues. night. It was an out & back and we left Spring Creek 2:00 PM tues. so by time we got to Reno & I dropped them off I didn't get home till 4:00 AM. By then I was wired so I just stayed up to get Zac to school and then I went to sleep. I woke up at 1:00 PM and couldn't believe that 5 hrs had passed, it felt like I had just went to sleep 5 min. earlier. I rolled over & went back to sleep till Zac got home from school.................... what a day. And to top it off I have to go back to Reno next week for 3 days! I'm almost tired of traveling. Actualy I'm tired of missing my husband & son. And to top it off we haven't been to SLC to see the kids & grandkids since Jan. OK so I'm whining! and rambling! I haven't got to enjoy the nice weather yet either! I want to get out in my yard & garden! I want to walk my dogs, I want to go for a ride on the bike with Rick! He's had it out the last 2 weekends and I haven't got to ride!
Alright enough whining for now.

traveling

Here I sit in a motel 6.............. well it doesn't quite rhyme but I'm in Needles Calif. for the Colorado River Softball tournament with Spring Creek High School. OK so the girls are here to play, I'm here to drive them around! Needles is approx. 2 hrs south of Vegas and 550 miles from Spring Creek and it looks like we won't be going home till sunday instead of sat. night which is what I had been told. I'm a bit ticked off that I wasn't told in advance. Seems like I've been on the road a lot lately, Vegas last weekend, Vegas the weekend before that and Sun Valley, Idaho with Jackpot the week before that! So now I think I'll take a nap before I have to go take them to lunch between games!