For those of you that don’t know,,,I’m a Texan,,well I was at least born there, but only lived in Texas for about 2 years, so I’m not sure if I can proudly ware the Title Texan,,,or can I? We made many trips from our home in Southern California back when I was little and that was long before the days of smart phones, and portable DVD players ( I feel so sorry for kids these days), but we had all of America to look at on them long trips, well,,,actually just a desert in a Pontiac Grand Prix with no A/C. Those trips were fun (once we got there) and I mostly remember playing in the dirt streets in front of my Grandma’s Read the rest of this entry »
This last summer we came into it with a rather heavy feeling being that I had just lost my Mom to Cancer. There was much to get done and lined up for the summer to happen and at times we just wanted to crawl under a rock. The summer did come, it had to happen, and we had the simple desicion as to just get on board, make the best of it and have fun, and actually that’s what happened. We were blessed a great staff year and they would seem to be the blessed crew that at times pulled me through the summer and often made me laugh and to look at life in a simpler way. Cesar has been working with us for two years now and he also a very accomplished bike rider and has a WALL full of trophy’s to prove it. Cesar needs to always be in shape and so one afternoon the guy approached me and invited me to Read the rest of this entry »
Man,,,we must be like,,,18?
This Saturday will be our 28th wedding anniversary! Yea, 28 years and things are going great! As I was thinking about how many days were left and what we we going to do I caught a short glimpse of “The Hope Chest”. Some of you have been here to our place and might have not even noticed it sitting in the downstairs bathroom, and some on the other hand have asked about it. As I like to think, there’s always a story behind something, and I can tell you this… There is a Story behind,,,”The Hope Chest”. Read the rest of this entry »
Our Poor Work Horse is Very Sick
In 1993 we purchased out Dream truck, and the truck was going to pull our boat and haul the camper, but things changed. With in a short time we we were here in Baja and our beautiful truck was soon hauling utility trailers, dirt, rocks, blocks, cement bags…and the list goes on. Just the other day I was racing over to the hardware store and I noticed a drop in oil pressure,,,,not good, then the clatter clatter of the valves due to no oil. We limped her home and did a small bit of trouble shotting, but soon after a bit of work, fresh oil, and a new filter we hit the road again only to get the same results—a drop in pressure. Read the rest of this entry »
Starting the wet set course for the retaining wall.
Aqua–whataaaa??? Yes, that is about what I thought of when I heard the word, Aquaponics, but actually,first I heard the word Hydroponics and the last time I had seen it done it did not go over too good and you had to be well versed in chemical balancing. I got my first bit of education in Aquaponics when a small group from Costa Mesa Calvary Chapel showed up to talk to us about building a system that would help supply food to the ladies and their children. I showed up thinking that some where along the line we’d be butting in to say “uhh,,,sorry, but we’re not interested”, but it did not take long for out wheels to start turning as we Read the rest of this entry »
It has been a very busy December and it’s hard to believe that tomorrow we’ll be leaving for the States to spend Christmas with our family. After I arrived home from a trip to Colorado in which I was helping my buddy Greg with some framing it was back to work in trying to get everything ready for the group that was coming for Christmas and the groups that will be arriving right after Christmas. We have one group from Bear Valley CA that has been coming down every year for the past 8-9 years helping and serving the women at Casa Esperanza, which is a home for battered and abused women and their children. At first they just came down to spread the Christmas cheer with presents for the children and to provide a special meal for them. Now however they roll up their selves and dig into what ever kind of work I can find for them. This year they spread a different kind of cheer and they even invited some friends from Desert View Baptist of Arizona to participate in some dirty, messy, and back breaking work, but it will prove to be a big blessing to the women at Casa Esperanza. This year the guys and girls from Bear Valley and Desert View spread the cheer in the way of 9 cubic meters of Concrete!! Read the rest of this entry »
My how time flies by and there is so much about the past memories that make it seem as if it was just yesterday. I still the morning that Debbie woke me up and and said “It’s Time!” and before we knew it we were flying out the door and on the way to the hospital. Unlike Nicki Cassie came into this world like a tornado and barely gave us time to catch up to her. Funny though how she actually started out to be very shy, but in many ways we could see that she was always up for excitement and at times the first to step forward and take on the Challenge. I’ll never forget the time all the neighborhood kids built a bike ramp to jump their bike on and it was such a Narly ramp that we took a spray can and wrote “Eat This” on it. So when it came time to some one to jump the ramp no one was ready to dare the danger that awaited them,,,,except for Cassie. I remember seeing her at on a drive way with her helmet on and sitting on her little pink bike complete with tassels and all. With not much time to react she was off and running cranking those peddles and headed for the ramp. She hit the ramp and Read the rest of this entry »
