Crazy Four Wheel Drive

OK. For those of you who are not into 4WD, I understand. I myself, find it sometimes a bit much, particularly some of the craziness that can accompany it with some individuals. However, they have a good time and as long as they don't hurt anyone (including themselves), what they choose to do their vehicle is their business. Believe me, they are having a good time.

There are some rigged out rigs shown on the video that are doing body damaging things. This is the purpose of those vehicles. They are built to sustain body and undercarriage damage, for the most part. Pretty much their sole purpose in life is to drive over ridiculously big boulders, fall over and sometimes roll over.

Merle and I both have Jeep Wranglers and yes, I have and still occasionally drive 4WD trails, mostly in Moab, Utah. I have also driven through and over some difficult obtstacles there. At other times, I've driven around them as they tended to scare the behooties out of me (yes, behooties is a real word - at least in my vocabulary).

Hope you enjoy the video. I really like the U2 soundtrack.

Somebody's Prayin'

Nana, Keir, Joyas Volardores & Lance

I've posted this video on Keir's Place too. He is a smiley little grandson sort of guy. We sat under the pergola on the deck earlier today and I fed him his bottle and read him a book although I'm not at all sure he understands much of it at this particular time. However, he looks at the pictures. We both kind of laid back for awhile and looked up into the blue sea of sky afloat with cotton clouds and I'm looking forward to doing the cloud shape thing with him someday.

Listen to the swell soundtrack.

A hummingbird drama at the feeder provided us with some entertainment. I love to watch them hover and dart. They are amazing little birds. New world Spanish explorers called them Joyas Volardores. It means "flying jewels" - what a perfect name. I obtained that tidbit of information from this website, Hummingbirds Forever. It has some cool factoids about these little creatures.

After Papa came and picked Keir up, Merle and I watched a video about Lance Armstrong. There is stuff about professional cycling of which I had not the slightest clue. It's so.......scientific and.......amazing. Check it out here. It lasts almost an hour and parts are geared to high school students, but stick with it because you will learn some amazing things about Lance Armstrong, his team, his physical makeup, his bikes.

OK. I think I'm just about finished for now. The weather is suddenly fallish (cold and wet) and looks like it going to be that way for the weekend. Glad we didn't go camping. It'll be a good time for the movies and popcorn. Maybe we'll go see the X-File movie on Saturday.

Ciao for Niao

Frito Pie, Hummingbirds, Handy Dandy Husband

Camping with Mom. My Mom is in her mid seventies and has been hinting around about "seeing the stars at night in the mountains" ever since the start of the camping season. So, I made us reservations at a nice campground about half an hour's drive away (I live very close to the mountains) and we spent a couple of days doing the camping thing. We ate, read a lot, watched an old movie, ate, took a drive, sat around the campfire several times, hunted for wood, ate, watched the ever delightful hummingbirds at the feeder we had set up, read some more and slept in our respective sleeping quarters. Merle came up with us the first evening and helped us set things up. Now, let me make it clear. I can set things up, I've done it on my own before. However, the day had been a long one including working at my part time job in the morning. By the time we were ready to drive to the campground, I was pretty bushed. So, my handy dandy husband suggested that maybe he should come along, help us a bit and go back home (poor guy has to go to work to finance these outings, you know). The campground is that close. He also came up for dinner on Tuesday evening. We made Frito Pie for dinner. I had forgotten about it and Mom suggested we make it.
FRITO PIE
Canned chili with or without beans (2 cans for 3 people)
Old style Fritos
Shredded cheese (or sinful Velveeta)
Chopped onion
Heat the chili. Layer ingredients in a large bowls as follows: Fritos, cheese, hot chili, a little chopped onion and then repeat the layering until the ingredients are exhausted. We had two layers each. Shovel it in your pie hole with a spoon. This is very tasty even when you eat it without the campsite.

Nothing particularly exciting happened, but we had a good time. I carried my bear spray, had a knife in the camper and the axe. Just in case some nasty critters tried to mess with us............but, nothing like that happened. Just one agressive chipmunk or two was all.

Later.