yard work

Well, just sitting here quietly all day, seriously trying to find direction.
Wanting and needing to start a new business, have a house full of inherited
stuff, actually looking for a swap meet or thinking about opening a booth
in the Flea Market for a couple months.

Kinda not my bag, so I may keep trying to do mail order, but my paypal
socket has been down, have to call my web host tomorrow and see what's what.

At least if I rented a space, I would have a change of scenery, a good thing for financial inspiration. I have boxes and boxes of crap. Almost sad. Good working electronics or tools,
so you hate to just toss them, but then again, they're just sitting there wasting space.

Finished off round one, test mud on my patio today. It rained all night and part of
the day today, so there were issues, but basically I was trying to see how easy it would
be to apply a custom texture coating mostly just using basic materials.

At this point, for as little as it cost it's mostly time consuming, my main walkway needs it bad.

At least if I skim the old concrete, It can add some life and curb appeal. Really getting
tired of looking at crack and chip. I'll keep on it, while I can.

Bike is still filthy, bugs are insane around my house right now, making it a bit harder
to get too much stuff done. Got to the hedges and smaller trees yesterday, black oak
is now in compliance, cherry tree gone, white oak in fall, back trees in fall too, even after slathering myself with deet, I'm getting chewed up constantly.

Welcome to my blog.

My back tire on the bike has about another good 2,ooo miles left and
that's it. Time for a new one, hoping to go Michelin Commander II.

Summer is in full swing, need a better phone to keep up with all the
cool features being built in to the web daily. So I just thought I'd post
a list of rides:

past

Aug 11th, firefighter's charity ride, OH ( day run )
success, 14 hours, more for others, 44 riders RAISED MONEY for the wounded warrior project

I'll post a couple pics

 

 

upcoming

Aug 18th, Ironton Bike Rally, OH ( meet RV with pirate flag, camp )

Smoky Mountains, NC/TN/GA border ( very near the dragon a.k.a. burn some rubber )
Aug 24-25th, 2012
the Dragon Pitt Inn and BBQ
4407 Calderwood Hwy. Maryville TN 37801
Phone: 865-253-3566

this might be the right place, the owner says he has several guitars to lend...

waterfall photo op ride 25th, riding early day, hanging out 2-3p on, lodge owner music friendly has instruments to lend, great site, it's where the corvette guys have their rally, may include a wheels in time visit, dragon

Sep 1, Chillicothe, OH ( meet RV with pirate flag, camp )

cool ideas:
5 black spikes with 10-32 threads 1-3/16" long Ron at Innovative

image and info borrowed from faceracer

audio and other

 

sturgis 2012 pics from jeff

just got a new inspiration from my friends up north, canada, avoid the moose and moose patrol and you are okay. my visa/passport is still valid and as far as I know, beautiful scenery

looks like there is in reality, 'too much to see'

 sort of the same as with alaska, to which I haven't been yet