West Clear Creek

I just had a really fun weekend with my scouts and our MIA crew. My scouts and I went camping over night up at upper Sycamore Creek by Mt. Ord. One of our boy forgot his sleeping bag so we gave him a extra towel we had. The boys we sleeping in the open on a tarp which was all fine until I pointed out a scorpion cruising around then they all started to freak out. I gave them permission to relocate the scorpion to a more appropriate place. I didn't realize they would throw it down a little cliff by where we were at. We met up with the rest of the mutual Saturday morning and one of the leaders cabins in Strawberry. We were suppose to go to Fossil Creek and go swimming. The bottom parking lot and entrance were suppose to be closed so we were going to hike in from the top, 3 miles each way. When we got there we figured out that the whole Fossil creek area was closed. Plan B. On to West Clear creek, I love it there. After our nice little hike in, almost vertical down, climbing over rock, boulders, and logs, we then got to go swimming in nice high mountain stream water. Can you say chilly. As soon as we reached the bottom one of my scouts was lucky enough to step on a wasp nest, needless to say they don't like that sort of thing. After he totally freaked out screaming like a little girl, I grabbed him and told him to start running away from the nest. A couple hundred yards later the wasps gave up chase. I pulled the stingers out of him and me,11 for Zach and 3 for me, treated the stings with cortisone cream, and let him chill for about a half hour. Then it was time to play. The group could believe that I was actually swimming not just jumping in and then right back out of the water. Then they really freaked when I put my swim goggles on and started to dive and look around on the bottom. After a few hours of fun we figured it was time to head back up the trail. I love the woods and my scouts.

West clear creek

House Demo

Blown 22re

Here's some old junk to browse through, house demo, Trips, and some fun pics. I am trying to get a slide show on here.

New Beginings

Lets start with an intro.... Queen Matilda and I have been married for 10 years now. It has been great. We started out broken, bruised and down in the dirt. Do you want me to explain, OK. When we got married Matilda owed some $$$ and I was all busted up and had some $. Through some hard work and perseverance we were able to both get associates degrees from college and are now $$$$$ ahead. We have no children yet but are both looking forward to the day that we make our own or acquire some in bulk quantities. Our current project is a house we bought last July. It was a run down and filthy. Parts are still run down, parts are torn up, and some parts are looking much better. We have completely redone the kitchen, removed carpet,tile, and linoleum. We installed tile, wood flooring, and one small piece of new carpet. We still have to put in two bathrooms( one of which is torn out/up), interior doors, and baseboards. We have done some relandscaping(reusing items we already had) and have torn out a lot of ugly plants and cut back a bunch(103) oleanders and trimmed back some trees. We also removed 7 trees from our yard. Matilda is working on getting her sewing projects done, so keep an eye out for those baby blankets. When I am not working on the house or yard I can usually be found doing scouting stuff or being fat and lazy. I am also working on turning a 1982 CB750 into a cafe racer style bike. We love to work together and have many more projects to do. Matilda loves here rose bushes in the front yard. Look for pictures and such to start showing up.