Friday, July 31, 2009

What's Goin' On?















Special thanks to Ronald M Sheets(General Contractor) and Larry Magorian/Ideal Concrete; both of California City California.


If the banks would stop being such tight assed paranoid Republican dipshits...every American could build a patio addition and help get us out of this depression. I had to pay cash. I wanted to borrow about a third of it for general purposes(taxes and such)...but the Bank was too paranoid to lend me just $6000...$165 a month for four years, when my disposable income is around $800 a month. No wonder America is in the toilet. Everyone is paranoid. I wonder why(maybe its all of that financial immorality). Oh and how big is it? I figured just over 1213 sq ft...the contractor figured 1230 sq ft. It's taking 15 gallons of acrylic wood stain. He said that that is what I should tell anyone who wants to know how big it is. Fuck em...next year I'm buyin' a KTM EXC 530 with electric start. I wont be worried about anything after that. I was raised on dirt bikes.











































What's Goin On? Marvin Gaye...


Monday, July 27, 2009

Still Life With Me






























































































































































The early 1970's... '70-'71 I think. My father and I got stopped by a police officer one morning on our way to the now legendary Honda Valley from my Grandmother's house in Hesperia CA(where we kept and) on our dirt bikes(we lived in Victorville).

After we were cited...my dad asked the officer if we could go home in a "roundabout sort of way". We then proceeded to go on our usual four hour ride passed Hesperia dump through Honda Valley ...crossing the CA aqueduct just prior to it being paved, all the way to Cajon Pass overlooking San Bernardino.

That ridge route from Hesperia to the Cajon Pass was a 5-10 mile series of hill climbs that I got thumbs up from European and Husqvarna pro's for mastering when I was only in the sixth grade. The next year I heard Yes and Roundabout...it has always reminded me of that day.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

I Kept My Promise










Baby Joshua Tree






























































I promised my plants that if they perked up and were pretty...I'd take their picture.