1st Maiden Voyage in 2 years, Not!

Well we decided to take the boat out for the first time since our wedding, 2 years ago! So Jamie, Grant, Travie, T.C., Jerry, and I loaded up. Instead of going to our reservoir 5 miles away we decided to go to Don Pedro about 1 hour away. The lake was so low, and next week they will let out 50 more feet of water. We get down and launch the boat and I can't get it to start. I finally get it to start after it fired up the first time at home, go figure. We're headin out. We see that our friends Jay, and Tracy are on their houseboat so we will cruise by and say "Hi" go for a spin and come back and have a beer. Sounds great, doesn't it? Well not so much, we don't even get out of the 5 mile hour zone, and thank god Jerry notices the boat is over heating. That only means 1 thing, the impeller. I can't believe that little part can blow up the engine. So off we go to Jay & Tracy's houseboat and have a beer or 2 or 3 ... and here are the results of our day at the lake, thanks to Jay and Tracy we had a great time! See for yourself:

Fathers Day in July

Took my dad to NHRA drags in Sonoma for a belated Fathers Day. It was a wild day. I get to their house to pick him up when I notice he's outside flaying his arms and he's fuming. The mosquito guy ran over his steal rock and drug it all the way down their driveway, making some really nasty marks. Then with marsh land on one side and a concrete median on the other we get trapped on Hwy 37 for over 30 min, due to a stalled vehicle. We get there about 11ish. We have a mission, we need autographs from John Force, Anton Brown, Ron Capps, and the Bernstein's. So we split up (not my idea). I wait for Force, 30 min later I get his autograph. So I go back to find Dad. He's still at Bernstein's. It's 12:30! Fast forward 3:30, I can't take it anymore I'm thirsty. I get another Margarita, and what do I find he's leaving his post. Three hours later I'm starving and thirsty, and I need a pottie break, and I miss the big moment! Ugh! He got his autograph from Brandon, and he signed his Budweiser Clydesdale memento. Now we can get rid of the Clydesdale's we been packing around for 4 hours. So off to the car to eat. Well my car won't open and I just changed the battery in the remote that's weird. Oh no, I left my lights on! Battery dead! So we get someone to jump us and go back down to watch the funny cars. We watch 2 heats, then some guy blows his engine, and 45 min later we're outta there. Fathers day was declared over! We had enough sun for 1 day.

My 1st Post

Well, my 1st blog post. Yeah! I thought it might be fun to have a blog that everyone near and far can see, What's up at the ranch! I'm not really good about email, I don't ever look at my space, but I'm going to try really hard to keep this up, but no Guarantee's. It's like an email that keeps on going, and going... I think you can post comments so let me know what you think.

Instead of cooking dinner I decided to go out to my garden, OMG this was today's bounty. It smells so good. There are Pear tomatoes, Big Boy tomatoes, Zucchini, Green Zebra tomatoes, Mint, Basil, and peppers. Bring on the canker sores. Luckily for the Internet just type in the word, bingo a zillion recipes come up. One of my favorites is americastestkitchen.com I know my inner nerd comes out and I actually Tivo a PBS cooking show. Well if we want to eat tonight I'd better get going and figure something out. Oh, a shout out to Mom & Dad "Hi" and yes I do have better things to do :)