Mellow Yellow Monday - Got Wood?
Just one lone tree in a field of yellow flowers. The sky is a strange color as this was taken last summer when there were forest fires going on all over the northern part of the state (California)
I am F------ cold!!!
I am in sunny southern Ca. not far from Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm where today it IS indeed sunny, and I am cold. I have been cold since I arrived here a couple days ago. I have sat around with either a sweater or a coat on the whole time. If I were at home I would be sitting in a sleeveless shirt (tank top) and wandering around the house in a pair of socks. The only time I would put a coat or sweater on would be when I ventured outside to retrieve the wood to feed the woodstove thus applying the heat to the home that I am able to wear tank tops and socks in the winter. I guess when you live in southern Ca. for the most part one is always hot, so when the temperature is 60 to 63 degrees outside it is a welcome relief from there normalcy of much warmer. The overhead fans are blowing in the home I am at and it is blowing around this welcoming cool air of 60 degrees. To me it feels like they are blowing in an airconditioner. At home when the thermostat says 60 degrees inside the house, someone is being fucking lazy, meaning they are not feeding the wood eater. Every single time I come down here to visit I notice the same thing. Their 60 degrees is soooo different than the 60 degrees of the mountains that I am used too. And I don't get it!
Got Wood?
As I was taking my dogs for a walk this evening, I saw this truck parked right up the street. I ALWAYS have my camera with me and I just had to snap these pics. It is that time of year already. It's getting pretty cold up here at night now, and it is getting darker here quite a bit sooner. Indeed this man has the right idea, along with the right question!
Soooo , Do you??????
J.L.M. Trucking company
A Christmas Story
I have been wanting to share this for a long time but just have not gotten around to it yet. Looks like today is the day. In December of 2005 I started messing around with my hubby's band saw. A gift from my father and I to him for his birthday (and our wedding anniversary) (We got married on his birthday cuz he said then he would never forget the date) This is the second marriage for both of us. I was widowed 10 years ago and I suspect he at one point must have forgotten a wedding anniversary and that is why we had to get married on his birthday! LOL!!!, Anyway I decided I was going to try to make my (at the time my only grandchild) a little truck out of wood for Christmas. I had envisioned half a truck length wise with the wheels sticking out for him to hang his little coat on in his bedroom. Well then I found these rubber stamps with little animals on them ,and learned I could cut them out with this band saw. Then I realised I should paint them. So off to the store for some paints. Now of course these animals cannot sit in the back of this truck without being caged in. (I am not for cages but I would not want them falling or jumping out of the truck and hurting them selves)
Sooooo I must make a cage. Then I decide that it needs his name wood burned along the side of the truck. Well I do this but now I want it carved. THAT was a stupid thing to want. It took me forever it seems. You will notice that his name is not Jim,or Don,or Al, nooooooooooooooooooo my grandson's name is J-E-R-E-M-I-A-H!!! 8 Veeeerrryyy looooong letters!
Then I find this picture I had of him when he was learning to walk with a walker that happened to be a car walker and he is looking the right way and holding onto the steering wheel. Out comes the scissors. Well now he needs a door handle to his truck. I also happen to find another picture of him grabbing a door handle.Of course he needs steps to the cab of the truck,
and so it goes.................
My hubby was a truck driver and he told me you have to have a P.U.C. or a I.C.C. number on the side of your truck so I just wrote Lic # and used the date which if anyone has been reading this long-ass post, is waaaay past Christmas, my goal for this project.The date is my grandson's birthday. and the est. since date is the year he was born.
So what happened to the half a truck length wise with wheels that stick out so that they can be used for a coat rack?
This is what happened!
Yes, Jeremiah Lee received this on his birthday Jan 8th of 2005.
His parents won't let him use it as a coat rack. It hangs in his bedroom!
