Hiking Colorado

Monday, March 17, 2014

Back Again

I have been crazy busy as of late and just haven’t made any time to get entries into the blog. I was traveling two weeks back and with work it has just been insane. This is a good thing, don’t get me wrong.

With everything going on I am now back to finishing up the basement remodel. All I had left was the bathroom and didn't want to do anything until I got the shower done. About 2 months ago we had gone to the home and garden show and found several companies that do bath remodels.

They can reface/replace the walls with panels. We got estimates and went with Bathfitters. They tore out the walls and hung new concrete board and then placed the panels up with glue, sealed and hung the new door. They were done in a day and it looks great! I will never go with real tile again, just too much work to keep up with.

With the shower being done, we went out on Sunday and found a new vanity, sink and faucets. It took me about 4 hours to tear out the old and replace it with the new. Candy picked up some paint today, so maybe by the weekend I will have the bathroom done.

When I get a chance I have been over at the shop working on the Ranchero. I think I have solved my concerns with the hood. The previous owner cut a hole in the hood so that he could use an aluminum hood air scoop. It looks cool, but not the look for me. I had been looking for a replacement hood and found a couple but they wanted several hundred dollars and it would be the same or more to ship it.

So I did find in Denver a 1958 Ford hood off a Ranch Wagon. I picked up today and this evening I hung it on to check that it would fit and to see if I would like the look. I do like it so need to pull it off and sand and primer it. The 1958 hood has a different look than the 57. The 58 actually has a hood scoop look to it.

Sunday, March 2, 2014

The Princess

Saturday, March 1, 2014

BCP

For the last couple of weekends I have been helping a friend of mine move out of his leased shop. Guessing he has been in this place for 20+ years. I did however get out this morning for a quick 2/miles. Candy bought me a new camera. We have been needing one as the quality on the one we had has dropped. We bought at Nikon D3200 and I took it out this morning for a test run.

It was cold and very foggy, ice crystal had formed on most of the vegetation. These are a couple of pictures that I snapped off as I hiked the trail

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Love the weekends

We got out and did some hiking this weekend. did just a little over 3/miles. I have a lot of work to do, so I am going to add the pictures with brief descriptions.

Bear Creek

As we were hiking along the creek we came across several deer. By the time we go the camera out, only one remained.

We had taken Mable with us for the hike. I think she had a pretty good time.

I picked up some new wall art this weekend. I plan on hanging this up in my shop on the wall. Should look pretty good. These are chrome parts off of a 58/50 Chevy Apache pickup. With a little polishing and some touch up paint they should look pretty good.

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Nice Day

Now today was a Colorado day! The temperature got up to 64 degree's and we had no wind this morning. Candy and I left the house and headed up to hike Intermittent Falls off of Section 16. I think we did 3 miles round trip. The trail was muddy and we passed several other hikers and bikers. The bicyclist were having a tough time. We came across several icy spots in the shaded area's and had to take it slow. Afterwards we went and got a coffee and then headed home.

I headed over to the Shop just before 11 AM. Once again I was there all day, but I did get a lot done. Rewired and labeled all the wire for the rear-end. Then I pulled off the bed trim, emblems, rear bumpers and side mirrors. I have been very careful to label and bag everything, so I can put it all back together. I need to make a couple of calls tomorrow. I found a website that has a database of parts in salvage yards across the country. I submitted my need and had two get back with me. One is out of PA and the other is out of MN.

We are supposed to be off tomorrow for Presidents Day, but I have a long list of things that I need to get done. I am hoping to get out in the morning and a hike and then we will see what comes next.

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Can you say windy?

Man oh man, the wind was ripping through Colorado Springs today. We had gusts today up in the 70/mile an hour range, and windy all day. The temperature got up to 62 degrees, it would have been a great day if we didn't have the wind. Supposed to be nice tomorrow and not as windy.

I spent most of the day, well all day actually working on the Ranchero. I got to the shop at 10 AM and I didn't leave until 6 PM this evening. Most of the electrical bugs have been temporarily resolved. I got the tail lights, brake lights, turn signals all working, that took me most of the day. None of the wires were marked and the way they were hooked up before, all I had was tail lights. I need to get some wire and connectors. Now that I know how it all goes together I am going to rewire what I need to and use colored connectors so that when I get it back from paint it will be plug and play.

The horns were disconnected and I tracked down the wire I needed to hook them back up. I got them both working but shortly after I lost all power. I think I might have a bad horn relay switch. I am going to pull it and see if I can find a replacement. The wipers were giving me some trouble but they seem to be working now. I think some of my issues today came from the disconnected horn wire, it was shorting out.

Candy and Mable showed up around 4 PM to check on me and she brought me a coffee. She hung out for a few minutes and then it was back to work.

At work we are in the process of creating four video's, one for each of our business units. Here is our first one for our Database Managed Services group.

Friday, February 14, 2014

Boba Fett

Boba Fett

I took this quiz and it say's I am like Boba Fett.

Because of your dark past
you don't say much, and you don't
have many close friends,
but man do you look cool!

72%

Mace Windu

65%

Qui-Gon Jinn

65%

Lando Calrissian

64%

Chewbacca

63%

Han Solo

62%

R2-D2

62%

Padme

62%

Princess Leia

60%

Obi-Wan Kenobi

58%

(This list displays the top 10 results out of a possible 21 characters)

Click here to take the Star Wars Personality Quiz

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Machete Don't Text!

So much shit running through my head this evening, I have a lot going on right now with work. I started
writing this blog 45 minutes ago and only got the first sentence done. Side tracked with work items. I had a couple of things I wanted to write about this evening and it is almost too late. So let me provide the cliff notes.

I am a big fan of Danny Trejo (pictured on the right). You can check out his story and background but here is a man that went from bad to being lucky and then making it work for him. He has appeared in numerous movies and usually plays a bad guy (based on his looks), but also in movies like the Spy Kids series. If you like Robert Rodriguez movies, then chances are you have seen Danny as he plays a part in numerous Rodriguez films.

I really like the Machete series of movies along with Grind House and Planet Terror. They are all filmed like they were made in the 1970’s and the action and gore is so over the top that it is comical. Check out a couple of the trailers and you will see what I mean.

Machete