Family visit, wedding and snow!

Wow!! Much has happened in the last week. My oldest daughter Edie has gotten married again, this time to a very nice gentleman from Ireland.

Mr. and Mrs. O'Reilly got married on February 23 in Reno. They are heading back to Ireland today and will be living there. Now, considering that I have Irish heritage, I found this turn of events to be very ironic, if you will.
Little Krishna didn't make the journey and stayed in Ireland with Paddy's Mom. By the way, Paddy is short for Padraig, obviously an Irish name. We had a nice family visit and dinner at the Eldorado after the ceremony.









Tracey came over and stayed with me in my little house. She brought all the kids and while they were here it snowed, much to the joy of all except me. Having my daughter and grand kids travelling in winter has a down side but Tracey stayed flexible and she did her travelling on the best days she could have. They left yesterday and this morning I woke up to this sight. I was totally happy that she and the kids were home safe after seeing this. Originally she was going to do her travelling today. Ya gotta love the timing of this memorable event!

Desolate and sad

Went up to have a little bike ride with my friend Chris yesterday up on the Janesville Grade. We parked his truck at the rain gauge and rode our bikes to the Antelope Lake boat ramp and back.

Round trip was 24 miles and there were a few hills to climb but it was a great ride. Unfortunately the view at the lake was less than beautiful due to the effects of last summer's fire. There is an active logging operation going on up there so they are in the process of removing most of the burned timber. I didn't see any hazard trees so hopefully the closure will expire soon and we can use the boat ramp this year. As much as I love this lake it was very sad to see this area. It used to be so covered in trees that you couldn't see the lake from the first 2 pictures vantage points. The last picture I took from down near the boat ramp looking back toward the entrance road. Again, it used to be heavily forested.

Different Perspective

You know, it's always said that perspective is everything and the older I get the more I truely believe that. Whether it's the perspective of time, as in looking to the past, or just changing the body's position in relation to the landscape, you can't argue that point. Oh, I guess you could if you are hard headed like me. You can argue about anything but the perspective of time will bring you back to reality in most cases.. unless, of course, you were correct to begin with.

Anyway, walking the rimrock between Cady Spring and the bridges below it, you can get some pretty cool views so I had to take some pictures, of course. The difference in perspective makes it all the more beautiful up there and it was such a nice sunny day that ya just had to love it. I know I did.

Winter sucks!

Ok, maybe winter doesn't exactly suck but it sure cuts down my outdoor time. I haven't been out for a walk or bike ride in a while now. It rained a couple of days and that was a nice change from the dry month of January. When I was keeping precipitation records out where I used to work at Laufman, I graphed the 30 year average and the 45 year average. Clearly January was the wettest month, historically. Every few years we get one of these kinds of winters though, so you can't say it's global warming that's causing it.

I have no pictures to post today. Well, I guess I could post a picture of one of the computer components I'll be buying soon. My old computer has been a work horse but it's old in computer years so with the new Vista operating system already released it's time for me to build a new one. The trick is to find the sweet spot relative to price and state of the art. I already have made some decisions on components so I guess I should start ordering the stuff and get on with it.. especially before the weather starts getting nice and I start getting out on a regular basis. OK, winter does suck but ya still gotta love it!

Perfect Weather

Yesterday and today have been pretty nice. My thermometer says 62° and since it's February 6th, ya gotta love it! Both days I rode my bike up the Bizz Johnson trail to Devil's Corral trailhead. The trail is almost dry in most spots but that is supposed to change soon with some weather coming. Here are some pictures of the ice sculptures along the Susan River... nice, huh?

Super Bowl Sunday!!

Wow!! Super Bowl Sunday. Wait, wasn't there something about football going on today? I did what I usually do on this Sunday, went fishing. Due to the really nice weather pattern we have had recently, I decided to drive down to Lake Shasta and ride my bike on the Clickapudi trail and do a little shore fishing. The drive was totally cool, didn't have any traffic at all both ways. Now how often does that happen? The only down side to this trip was that the poison oak, my nemesis, didn't have any leaves yet which made it hard to identify.


To make it even better, I ended up catching 4 nice spotted bass in the short time I fished. Ya gotta love Super Bowl Sunday!!

Last post on my trip

I had a couple more pictures to post so here they are. The rocky one is of Lippencott road in one of the rough areas. Slow going, needless to say.

If you look closely in this picture you'll see my truck. As you can see, there weren't that many people camping there this week, which is the way I like it. Funny thing is, I was sitting in the Wizard pool with some other people while I was there this time and we started comparing notes and all of us liked to drive in and not see a lot of people. I know some people like to come out and be sociable and don't mind the crowds. Can't say I'm one of them though.