Memorial Day play

Canoeing at UW arboretum

Holy busyness Batman!!

Busyness is the name of the game. I have been putting in more than 55 hours a week for the last several weeks. I am the top producing Project Mgr at my company. I set a goal of selling $100,000 this month (which is more than double average) And to everyone's surprise it looks as if I will achieve it! I can't keep this up but I want to show everyone that I know my stuff and that I am good at what I do. But any how here are some pics of my favorite project to date.




I am really happy with how this one turned out. It was basically a little bit of terrible grass. I particularly love the many shades of green. I did not want to use colored bushes, I felt that they would detract from the form of the garden. I love the green Japanese Maple at the end of the lawn, it looks fabulously bright and happy. I think that the stone choice for the patio was a good one too. [even if I do say so myself] [The owners were just thrilled with it and considered it well worth the $16k they spent on it]
Oh, I guess I will share with you the newest excitement in my life, besides the fact that Henry has developed a LOVE of spinach lately. As most of you know that I used to be very interested in Off-Roading, but since my Rodeo was T-boned I have not yet ventured into it again. My Trooper has been a good car, but is getting tired, and needs about a Grand in repairs. I happened to stumble across another one and I purchased it. Here it is:
For anyone not interested in "Cartalk" go ahead and tune out now.
It is sitting on 32/11.50r16 Goodyear MTR's. It has Calmini torsion bars, Old Man Emu shocks and an Indy4x lift. It has a new fuel injected crate 2.6L motor with Pacesetter headers, high flow exhaust, and a K&N air filter. Terra Low crawling gears are installed in the tranny. The front bumper is an actual ARB Bull Bar with a Warn winch. Also included are Superwinch manual hubs. This is the Trooper of my dreams. I have a couple of things that I hope to do to it to make it into the ultimate family adventure rig. But I'll keep you updated on that as it progresses. Oh the best part of this truck is the screaming price of $1,800.
Happy is me. Well that is about it. Lyn is looking forward to visiting Utah in a couple of weeks and Henry and I are going to the 'Father and Sons' camp out on Friday.
Oh and one more cool thing; When my mom was over here on Saturday we saw a Mercedes Mclaren SLR.
It is valued at $497,750. It has a supercharged 617 horse power motor. Top speed 206 mph! in case it isn't apparent it is quite a large car, I think that the hood was well over 6 foot long. This is the most expensive car I have ever seen. I see Lamborghini's and Ferrari's often but they are only a mere $250k. !?!
Uh not much else. Talk at ya later.
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Good, Better, and Best.

Hello friends and family, We greet you from the glorious month of May. Where does the time go? Anywho not alot has happened that's cool, really just the "same ol' same ol' ". We did get our garden space tilled in yesterday. I t should be ready to plant in a week or so. We are trying a new method to reduce competition from weeds. What you do is let the first flush of weeds sprout and the gently scuff the soil to remove them, being careful to not disturb the soil too much. Then the following weed growth will be significantly reduced. Our plot is 15'x 45' . We will be doing all kinds of veggies, including an Artichoke this year. I am soo excited.
Well television has been weighing alot on my mind lately. Here is a Link to some data complied on TV viewing. PLEASE read it. Americans watch 6hours and 47min a day, cumulatively 250 BILLION hours of television a year. 54% of children would rather watch TV than play with their dad. :(
I think that TV is tool that Satan uses to misguide us from what we should be doing. I think maybe that is one reason why we have heard so much of talk of "Good, Better, Best" .(in the church) I know that there is nothing wrong with TV, but what better things could we be doing?
As a family we have decided to find out. Yesterday we donated our television to charity, and we will go 6 months without watching TV. Instead we will play games, read books, have conversations, exercise, go to bed early, basically really weird stuff! But what fun it could be. I would encourage you to find out also.
What would YOU do with 6hours and 47min a day more?"

Side note: Henry is now on day 14 of no accidents, Yippee!
On another side note: Unfortunately everybody in the house besides me is sick today. 3 barfing people in the same house is hard to deal with. I can't really think of anything else to write about so, till next time>> Adios mis amigos.