Are you walking again?

I told myself I was going to walk every day this week.  Well I did and now I just need to keep going.  I have a new app that I have been using http://www.mapmywalk.com/.  Does a great job of keeping track of my routs, miles, calories and has an impressive dashboard for charting/reporting.

Arts & Crafts

A while back a friend of mine gave me some chrome off an old 58 Chevy truck.  I have been trying to figure out how to turn it into some wall art.   Over the Memorial Day weekend built this and hung it above my shop door.

I'm Back

Home for a couple of weeks, but do have a few more trips planned.  Oh man just so much going on.  I have been out of the groove in writing and keeping this updated, and not even sure what to write about.  I felt I had to get something down.

I did take a few pics in the backyard this weekend.  We have a wide variety of wildlife running/flying around.

Here we go!

Starting my travel day. I will be on the road for the next four weeks.  Traveling to Los Angeles, Fort Myers Florida, Seattle and then to Wichita Kansas.

Wish me luck

Happy Easter

I hope that you all had a happy Easter!  I was up early this morning and headed out and got coffee and breakfast burritos.   Then I sprayed off the patio and helped Candy in the kitchen with things that we need to get prepared for Easter dinner.

Took the weedeater to the rock wall in the back yard, cleaned out all the dead grass and dead plants from last year.  Re-stacked  the firewood on the side of the house and then raked up all the leaves and pine needles.  Clark came out and bagged it all up for me.

We ate at 2 PM sharp, both the boys were here we had ham and all the fixings mama did a great job!

Hood is done

So the hood is done for now.  It still needs a little alignment but I'll let the body guy worry about that.  He's going to have to pull it off again anyway to paint.

Front Porch

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April 18 8:05 PM sounds from the front porch

Work

I ran by the shop on my way home this evening from work.   I am just about ready to primer the hood and wanted to get a few pictures before I did.

Rats

More damn rats making their way through the neighborhood.

Thanks for the update

Wednesday evening, April 16, 6:40 PM. I am looking outside and it's snowing. Not really sticking to the streets yet. It's Colorado so I shouldn't really be surprised.

It was a beautiful morning so I got my ass up and walk to work today.  I guess I should've checked the weather reports because I didn't know we were expecting snow.  I packed up at the office about 5 PM, Candy came and picked me up. It wasn't snowing yet but it was raining pretty good.

I worked over at the shop this last Sunday. Pulled the hood off yet again, put it up on some sawhorses and used aircraft paint stripper to strip the paint off.  Worked  great, got all the paint off the underneath and top of the hood.   I took the grinder with a wire brush head and cleaned off any remaining paint and primer. Now I just need to do a little finish sanding and pound out and putty up a few small dents that have. Then I will prime it and put it back on the car.  

My next project is to do the same with the door jams.   Since my paint guy won't be ready for another month or two, at least I can get all that I can get done before hand.

So let's see I spent all of last week in Austin Texas. It was definitely springtime in Texas , the ditches were full of blooming wildflowers and the temperatures were in the high 70s.

For the next couple of weeks I have several trips planned. Going to be spending some time on the road.

So this entire blog post has been dictated.  I did it on my phone using notes and the microphone. Pretty cool!