Rojo's Ramblings

What a surprise.

2011-10-08T20:49:00.000-07:00

This morning we decided we would do some grocery shopping, that was going to be the big event of the day. Now comes the given, red just dont go any place that a tee shirt and cargo shorts are not welcome. I dont own a suit, tie, dress shirt, or dress shoes. dont need em cause if that is what you have to have for an event I wont be there.Except for about 2 days a year here in the "OC" a tee shirt

BACK TO THE PATIO

2011-10-07T20:47:00.000-07:00

This story is a hard one to tell without dragging out a lot of skeletons and I am not going to do that. You are just going to have to fill in between the lines. First last and always this is Jeanie's house. Jeanie has a heart bigger than I can every describe. While we were traveling in Jeanie's Bottle she let some relatives who have a very different life style than we do live here. When we

OPEN

2011-10-06T16:42:00.000-07:00

If you check my last blog you will understand the title of the blog today.. A facebook friend ask about starting a blog so I sent her the link to mine. I decided while I was here I might as well write a line or two It has been so long I dont even remember how to post a pic. LOL. Well anyway...Our plans when I last posted , as always, were written in the sand. We are still at home and have so

IF I AM HERE I AM OPEN ,IF I AM NOT HERE I AM CLOSED

2010-04-11T12:58:00.000-07:00

That was the sign I posted on my shop when I was about done with fitting stocks. I am posting that here because I may or may not be just about done here. This posting everyday like I said I would do when I started the blog on 1-1-10 is just to much like work. I dont like the stress of having to Get something together every day. I dont like feeling obligated to scramble to post and it is just not

Strange pictures and Glenomaer and Mortoner.

2010-04-11T02:28:00.000-07:00

We didn't need an alarm this morning, the Jake brake on the logging trucks coming around the curve out of the tunnel took care of that. Awhhhh but it is a pretty sound, I love the sound of a Jake brake. Didn't even have to get out of bed to hit the generator start switch. Dang it, I did have to get up to get the Juan Valdez 100% Colombian going. We took some pictures of Rimrock Lake

Crossed the snake twice and still going.

2010-04-10T02:01:00.000-07:00

It was really cool last night, had to get out the snugly velux blanket. We got a pretty decent start for us, in fact we had coffee on the go. Only took us about an hour or so to cross the Snake river for the first time that day. We were out of Lewiston,ID and In Clarkston,WA before we knew it You talk about a change in scenery from mountains, with Forest to Desert, just almost that quick. There

Heading to the Loggers Jamboree.

2010-04-09T02:32:00.000-07:00

This shoot was an interesting shoot , we got to meet a lot of nice folks and a good many that we had never met before. At the bigger shoots you pretty much see the same people over and over again all over the united states, but at the small clubs most of the shooters dont travel very far. They fed us good and invited us back so over all it was good shoot. We enjoyed a really nice couple hours

What to do, what to do?

2010-04-08T02:19:00.000-07:00

After waiting over night for the geyser to go in to service :-). We started on up the road to Lava Hot Springs, just a hop skip and a jump into the hot soaking pools. It was a neat little resort type town with old time flavor. We enjoyed the sights but neither of us wanted to soak in the hot pools.Downtown Historic Hotels in Downtown It was time to do what we least like to do, get on the

The first J,C. Penny store and on to Idaho

2010-04-07T03:03:00.000-07:00

Just like that ornery little doll " Chuckie" We'er back...... To the Trip after a day looking at the flowers. ALL ABOARD!!! We are now departing Manila, UT for Kemmerer, WY. and Soda Springs ID, via way of Mc Kinnon, Burnt Fork and Lone Tree on State road 414. We will be passing through Mountain View , Urie and Ft. Bridger where we will get on Infernal -State 80 west for about 18-20 miles to

REAL TIME

2010-04-06T02:44:00.000-07:00

Jeanie and the wild flowers and blooms in our neighborhood. The last one was taken last year. The Jacaranda's beautiful purple blooms have not arrived yet this year. I plan to have a great day, I hope you will Join me.and Thanks for coming by to check on us.Rojo

2010-04-05T02:21:00.000-07:00

The Earthquake today rattle our cage a little. It started out mild and kept getting more severe until it got to what I would guess to be around a 4 then it started to decrease again. It lasted about a minute. Most of the shakers around here last from 5-20 seconds. No damage here 200 miles north of the epicenter. NOW FOR TODAY"S POST 7-28-04 aahhhh, Chatting with Juan Valdez and eating

Beautiful rock formations and fine melons

2010-04-04T02:18:00.000-07:00

As we pulled out of Bluff. UT about 8:30-9 the sky began to clear and it looked like it was going to be a beautiful day for strolling along. I was somewhere between the retired mode and the working tourist mode, I just didn't know it yet. Back in the total working days I set my sights on being where I was going if it was less than 800 miles that day. I had my sights set on Green River ,UT,about

Shiprock, 4 corners and points North

2010-04-03T01:27:00.000-07:00

LET ME SPLAIN FIRST. Then today's story. Yesterday I mentioned that we were going to stay at Gobernador,NM for the night but we didn't because we didn't have cell service. Back in those days we stilled stayed in RV parks occasionally or we were at shoots plugged in to electricity. Gas was cheap and the Onan generator was a workhorse. We could run it 12-14 hours for $7-8 worth of gas. When we

Across the continental divide , for the 4th time, Westbound

2010-04-02T02:06:00.000-07:00

As we turned off the Infernal-State15 southbound on to U.S.64 Westbound, I was thinking about the next shoot in Rexburg, Idaho At the same time I was Chanting with Jeanie and Juan Valdez, that is to much multi - tasking for me without more coffee. Jeanie said" Where are we going to stop tonight?" I said "well I was just thinking about driving straight through to Rexburg so we won't have to

Eastbound across the Continental Divide

2010-04-01T02:49:00.000-07:00

It was so quite, peaceful, cool and beautiful with the lights of Cortez in the distance. We listen to the coyotes talking to each other for a while and then the chase was on. We dont know if the intended prey became a victim or the Coyotes got out run or out witted but it was neat to listen to while it lasted. After Juan Valdez woke us up, we got dressed, fill our cups and thermos and checked

HELLO CORTEZ, COLORADO

2010-03-31T02:50:00.000-07:00

After a good nights sleep, it was time to get serious. I cant see color with less than 2 cups of coffee. While Jeanie's bottle was warming up and building air pressure I checked all the tires and we were off to find a parts store for some new spark plugs for the generator. We had gone a few blocks when we spotted a Napa parts store with a huge parking lot. With in ten minutes The plugs were

DANG, DID WE REALLY DO THAT??? :-))))

2010-03-30T02:30:00.000-07:00

As we leave the beautiful Garden of the Gods and start out on our trek to Cortez, Colo, in the South West corner of the state.We are on U.S. 24 west bound giggling our silly heads off. Did We really do that??? OMG... I'll bet someone post us on the Internet tonight. What a picture that will be. Some bearded ole geezer with a cute gal setting beside him in a truck named Jeanie's bottle, coming

MOVING ON UP TO COOLER COUNTRY

2010-03-29T02:42:00.000-07:00

We went Back to the old Home place and parked Jeanie's bottle on the Cleache driveway. Until about '58 or '59 the roads had all been dirt.When the rain came it could get to be a real mess.The county put Cleache on the roads to make them all weather road and we did the same for our drive way. I enjoyed watching the sunset behind the wind brake one more time. It had been about 42 years since I

The old home Place and Elementary school.

2010-03-28T03:06:00.000-07:00

SODA FOUNWe had a great time In Stinnett. I showed Jeanie where the social hot spot for the teenagers of my day was. It was a Drive Inn with sometime carhops. It was owned then By My friend J,B, Snodgrass. J.B. let me use His Garage to repaint my Harley that I had bought from the Chief of police, Doug Boone. Wonder what ever happen to J.B and Doug.? We went by the corner where the old Drug store

AMARILLO, FUN WITH FAMILY AND MOVING ON UP

2010-03-27T03:26:00.000-07:00

Over all things were going pretty well. Jeanie was still having one or two seizures every month but it had been that way for years. She was in her words having " The time of her life". The shoots were going about like normal. I was doing less work because of my shorten hours. Some of the shooters were grumbling about that, they had been as the saying goes " spoiled rotten". Before Jeanie, I

OKC AND AMARILLO

2010-03-26T20:22:00.000-07:00

The rest of the story for Friday 3-26 TORNADO, WHEAT, After a couple of meals at Bush's Chicken,a local Texas Chain chicken restaurant, and a bit of snooping around town looking for something interesting to do. We checked on the trailer, it was almost ready,I was hopeful that the cam lock latches would come in while we were were there. That didn't happen so I told them we would just pick

LATE TODAY.

2010-03-26T08:59:00.000-07:00

ON THE ROAD WITH THE NEW TRAILER

2010-03-25T02:24:00.000-07:00

Here is the story I promised you a few days ago Katie. We woke up early and had a great Breakfast. Jeanie set on the bed with her folding hospital tray in front of her, playing Pop -it on Pogo to go and instructed me in the fine art of Garvey making. We had sausage,Biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Junior and the guys were finishing the last of loading up. We got hooked up to the new trailer

PACKING THE NEW TRAILER AND JEANIE'S BIRTHDAY PARTY

2010-03-23T03:06:00.000-07:00

THIS IS ACTUALLY THE POST FOR WEDNESDAY MARCH 24. Another shoot completed without to much hassle about my new hours of operation, a good nights sleep. Now it was time to get started with moving the tools and equipment to the new trailer. I got Junior to round up a couple of his friends and we all got started. I was mostly pointing and instructing, With Jeanie's approval of course. We took

MAKING NEW PLANS.

2010-03-23T02:45:00.000-07:00

For our new readers this is occurring in April 2004 just after Jeanie and my separate roads came together to be one on March 21 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ It is time for some serious decision making. The one thing that I do know is I want to be out of central Texas ASAP. If I had any clue to what the deal with the trailer was it