Fast Cars and Bright Colors

I found some great old muscle cars, drag cars and a super car.

Good looking AMX still powered by AMC
A Ford ranger with a 460 Big Block, must be fun.
A '64 Mercury Comet Cyclone, Not as nice as my '65.
This front end needs no inroduction. ... Super Bird
What a tail.
A really rare Hemi Cuda

Good color, Anyone seen Mr. Bridges?

A home made GMT with Chevy engine and porsche transmission

Abilene Car Show "Old Stuff"

I went to the World of Wheels car show today in Abilene TX. It was a lot smaller than I expected, but still had some very nice cars. Here are a few of favorite classics. I'll post more of the other cars later.
This is a '53 chevy Bel-Air.
This is a '47 delivery cant recall the make, but it is a very small truck.
Classic '57, gotta love the turquoise interior.
Nice custom rod, notice the subtle flames.
Beautiful De Soto, don't see many like this

Lake Brownwood

This weekend Sandy and I were able to get out to the local lake and take some pictures. For me, a Colorado boy, it is a good sized lake. We went to the state park access and were surprised to see a park closed sign. It seems that currently the park has hunting only access Monday through Thursday. But being a weekend the park was open as normal. It is a very small park, but it has a lot of small cabins and lodges that are available to stay in during the warmer months. We walked around some of the areas including Oak Lodge and the eastern beach.

Here is the swim beach and picnic area
The Oak Lodge area had lots of stone work and this is a tiered stair case that went all the way down to the water.
Here is the eastern beach. I like the old fence rotting into the water.
There are lots of what I believe are mesquite trees and the sun coming through was spectacular.
This is one of Sandy's pictures. We both really liked this shot. There is just something about dead trees and water.

Tonight has been good. Sandy was off, so we went and saw Marley & Me. Good show, but it made both of us cry. I am happy the movies stayed about the dog and it was not twisted into some love story.

We came home to our very wound up puppies. We walked them and let them play a bit. Upon returning to the RV they lapped up an entire bowl of water which shortly got coughed up on the sofa. The them returned to running and playing. Sandy and I snapped some cute pics when they calmed down.
Here is Molly just being herself
Baxter looking mighty mischievous
Me being used as a puppy playground

We are now just watching some movies and play some Jenga later. We still want to get out and see a park tomorrow. Check back here or with goat girl for more Pics.

Late Night TV Sucks

I have been cleaning and cooking most of the night. I made some of my famous enchilada sauce and batch of mango salsa. I just put a bunch of stuff together and it came out pretty good, I will let it set and rest a few hours and see how all the flavor meld together. I will made the enchiladas sometime this morning.

All the issues with the RV seem to be worked out and life is rolling along smoothly. I believe I have now became fully nocturnal, waking up about 4 or 5pm and bed time is around 8 or 9am. The puppies have mostly switched schedule too. I have came to realize that there is nothing go on from 1am to 5am. I now fill my time with this blog and networking and reading other forums and blogs.

I believe that we are going to head out and explore this area of Texas a little this weekend. There are a couple of state parks south of here, so I will take some pics and start posting some of my photos.

And it Goes on

To help lessen the chance of more water leak or a burst pipe I installed a pressure regulator. I did not realize the cheap ones you find at wal-mart and camping stores are really just restricters. Sandy took a shower and only had a little more than a fast drip. This is clearly not right. I went to a home improvement store to look at other pressure regulators and found that I could adapt a residential style unit to fit a garden hose. I also got connectors and a gauge to monitor and adjust the pressure for the best possible flow and safety.

The puppies came through the little operation just fine. they rested a lot yesterday and stayed quite until late this morning. They were up and playing as usual by the afternoon.

I am hoping that I can find a night shift job down here soon, as the long nights alone are not easy, but I want to be home when Sandy is off. I don't know how this will pan out.

Of Nuts and Bolts

As the week goes on I have began to notice a few more issues with the brand new fifth wheel. it began one night when Sandy told me the lights had quit working. Well the lights that would not work run on a 12 volt system powered by two large batteries. These batteries are constantly charged by a converter when we are at a campground. Well it had quit working and the batteries were dead. Luckily I had brought a car and boat battery charger along with most of my tools, so I plugged the charger into the outlet and connected it to the batteries and we were up and running again.

While Sandy was working last night, I wanted to take care of another issue. I had noticed a small puddle of water next to the toilet. Being in an RV the bathroom is rather small, so I could not see any problems, but I know there must be something wrong. I took apart part of the toilet and found the factory had cross-threaded the water supply line on the toilet and that was the leak. 5 minutes later that leak was fixed. I went to put the tools back in the storage compartment, this time I took a flashlight out to help me. I opened the compartment and shown the light in and to my disbelief there was a quarter inch of water in the bottom. I then begin to unload every thing in the storage compartment, so I can remove a wall and crawl into the compartment and hopefully find the leak. In the area of the leak there happens to be no less than two dozen different sections of water lines all with fittings that could be leaking. I quickly found about six possible fitting and tightened them and mopped up most of the water. While I was inside the compartment I thought it would be wise to look at the malfunctioning converter and see if anything simple was causing the problems with the 12 volt system, NO. The next morning when Sandy came home we took the puppies out for their walk and I peek into the compartment and guess what, more water. I dried the area and had a couple drops hit my hand, so I knew where to look this time and found another leaking fitting. fixed it and so far, so well today. I am glad I am handy or this new home would be a big problem.

We are staying right across from a Vet, and our puppies need more shots this week. I walked over to make an appointment and to find out when we could bring them in to spaying and neutering. To my surprise they said tomorrow. So after tomorrow our little boy and girl will be a little less so.

It Has Begun

It has now been one full week since my family, that is Sandy, myself and our two kids Molly and Baxter, loaded almost everything we own in a brand new 2010 Heartland Landmark fifth wheel trailer and left our house in Colorado for the open road. We wanted to head out to somewhere warmer for the winter (see what the snow-birds do), so we drove south to Texas. the first day the high was 88. little bit of a change from December in Colorado. The second day we were here it was 32 degrees with freezing rain all morning. I thought that Colorado had wacky weather, but almost 90 one day and freezing the next is really crazy.

Adjusting to life in a 40 foot trailer is going pretty well. I have had quite a bit of experience camping in RV's but it is all new for Sandy, Molly, and Baxter. We had to rearrange the location of the dinning table to make room for the kids cage, they really don't know what to do without it. by the way Molly and Baxter are six month old Corgi Puppies. We are not putting children in cages. The biggest adjustment for them is losing their yard. Now we have to walk them on leashes to the pet area at the campground. They are starting to get the idea that going outside on a leash means it is time to go potty and not just time to play a run around.

Sandy is working some odd hours, so I am attempting to adjust my sleeping times too. I have been staying up till about 4a.m. and sleeping until Sandy comes home and then going back to bed mid morning and sleeping until noon or so. I am hoping that I can find some kind of night shift work here. I applied as a night shift receiver/ stocker for Home Depot. I am enjoying not working right now as it has given me time to do a lot of cooking in the wonderful kitchen of our Landmark Augusta. In the last week I have made margarita pie, beef strognoff, orange biltz casserole, tequila lime chicken with green rice, rice pudding, and pan fried sweet onion chicken. The kitchen design was one of the biggest factors in choosing the Landmark because I love cooking almost as much as I like eating.