Custom Harley Davidson

Hi Everyone!! Look what I found setting on the corner of Main & Washington Streets today. Just parked there all by itself, all by itself, lonely, with NO one around to ride it, just setting there in an old closed service station, all alone!! So I just loaded it up in my truck and brought it home ... NOT!! But, man how I wanted too, eh!! But it is for sale and the sign said $17,999 or best offer. And my best offer not only would have been rejected, but the owner would probably have beat the crap out of me too!! ;-))

Well, enough of the 'bs' ... now here's the plain truth. Even tho I don't go for the 'wide' type of bars, the long rear fender, etc, IF I had just won the lottery I'd call up the owner and tell him that I WAS GOING TO DRIVE THIS BIKE HOME!! I'd be standing on the drivers side and he/she on the oppisite side and we'd start talking as I handed him/her thousand dollar bills (yeah, I know I'd have to use hundreds, but this isn't real anyway, right!!), and start 'hard nosing' him at about 14 grand and make it harder and harder on him/her each grand and hope that I wouldn't have to go all the way to 18 grand, eh!! But even with all of that I'd really love to own this bike, so I could ride it around town and enjoy all those other bikers passing by giving me the old wave, eh!! Right now riding my Honda 750 Shadow Spirit around town, the Harley boys/girls wave most of the time, but it's like a really weak wave, eh!! ;-))

BTW, I've added a couple pictures of my bike too. Just click here to see all of the bike pictures!! When you look at them, be sure to check out the one where I'm setting on it and holding onto the bars. If you'll note my stomach area I am carrying a large shopping bag with 4 'take-out' dinners, a lot of mail is wrapped up inside my bike cover tied onto the bars and both saddle bags are full of stuff too, like my camera, my bike dusting towel, a couple of prescriptions and some misc from the 4 dinners!! The other picture is just to show you all that I'm not only a biker, but just a good old redneck boy too!! Later, 'Viper'

Ricky

Hi Everyone, On Sunday, August 6th, the kids gave Kathy a Siamese-Lynx mix cat for her birthday. But, since the cat was still in the vets hospital being neutured, we had to wait till yesterday, Saturday the 12th. to actually get the cat. In the meantime Kathy had already named her new cat 'Ricky' because the cat we have is named 'Lucy', eh!! ;-)) Both cats are now about a year old and we're hoping that they do make up with each other soon, because last night were awoken many times thru out the night with our Lucy being a really naggy bitch. Snarling and growling at Ricky and all he was trying to do was make friends. When you look some or all of the pictures, the better shots are the last half as compared to the first half. Besure to look at the black/dark markings on both sides of Ricky's mouth and above his nose. Not to mention all of the striping from his nose to his tail too. Just a few minutes ago after I had uploaded all of the other pictures, I got a couple shots of BOTH cats sitting with Kathy on her recliner and they even finally touched noses. Then Lucy started growling again and moved off the chair. Women!! ;-)) Later, 'Viper'

Deer, Junction Fire & Misc

Hi Folks, I have more pictures of the 'Junction Fire' that came right up onto our property, where the CDF firecrews stopped it across the roadway from our driveway and around the roadway curve below our houses and down past the bottom of our old barn & garden area. I've written a few words on a lot of my pictures as normal to let you all know a little bit about why I haven taken my pictures and this time I had so many that I seperated them into 3 files to help you, eh!! The 1st group of pictures are of some of our local deer, the 2nd group is more of the Junction Fire and the 3rd group is all the rest. Hope you enjoy them, eh!! Later, 'Viper'

Junction Fire!!

Hi Everyone,
My last Blog Update on Saturday morning the 29th of Jul, I showed some shots of the smoke that was being blown our way from the Junction City Fire about 8 miles away by road because of the heavy winds. I even got some good shots of the smoke and sunset too, but Kathy & I were thinking about getting ready to leave because the high winds could blow the fire our way in nothing flat, eh!! About the time a couple guys drove up and said to 'GET OUT NOW!!', because the fire has gotten away from the firefighters and it was rushing up and over our mountain towards us!! So we threw some things like Kathy's meds, my camera bag, and a hand full of clothes really quick and all I had on at the time was a shirt and my boxer shorts. So I slipped into my shoes, threw everything in the trunk and we got out of here like QUICK!!

We had already talked to our daughter in Redding, CA, about spending a night or two and that we did. We got the ok from CDF on Monday about noon, saying that Oregon Street was open to only residents and that we could go home. So we got some lunch on the way out and headed back home. As we were climbing the 3 miles from town back home, there we 'pumper' trucks & fire crews still do some mopping up of the area, looking for spot fires and flare ups. Back in 2001 we had another fire come across the mountains and jumped the highway and was stopped just below where our 20 acres began. This time the fires were stopped right at our roadway by our driveway, even burning some of our 'lower' acreage!! That's way too close for me, so you'll notice a lot of my shots labeled that way, eh!! ;-))

I have a lot of repetative shots that are mostly for me and my family that knows the lay of our land, but you all are welcome to take a peak at them all should you want too, eh!! I tried labeling some of the shots so anyone would understand why I took the shot, right. But most all of the shots were taken from my deck, some on a ladder to get shots above the roof height, some from my driveway enterance and some as I walked to the other side of Oregon Street and took shots as I walked down the edge of our property down to our barn/garden area where you can see the nice new dirt driveway or roadway the fire crew cut for me with a 'cat', eh!! . . . Later, 'Viper'