Come Back Town USA

If you click the title you can read my response to Peter's question about what the climate is like here in Crescent City after the tsunami. This afternoon 200 people showed up to pick up debris from the beaches caused by the tsunami last week.

Vote for Crescent City! It needs your help to rebuild the harbor

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You can vote 10 times each day at the same time. Crescent City is number 5 as of Saturday night.

rain

It has been raining all day today. The forcast is rain for the next 11 days. This reminds me of Oregon or Crescent City rain. Dosnt' bother me one bit.

I talked to a gal at the Starbucks and she said her parents are getting snow in Placerville, and its sticking.

About this time last year was the last little spit of rain we got till October.

Dick.

Damage to CC Harbor via the Medford Mail Tribune

Youtube has quite a few good videos that show the tsunami while it's happening. Search: Crescent City tsunami
Copy and paste the link below:

http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/misc?url=/_flash/gallery/gallery.html&Site=MM&Date=20110311&Category=MEDIA01&ArtNo=311009999&Ref=PH

My svelte new body

Sandi and a friend of ours went together and bought a new treadmill. It has an incline adjustment, a calorie counter, a speed adjustment, very colorful lights, and basically a lot of things that are probably very important. When you turn the machine on it’s even more impressive. It even has a beer holder


I used it tonight for the first time. I put on my walking shorts (since I didn’t plan to run, otherwise I would have put on my running shorts) and went out to get fit. I looked at the machine and marveled at everything it could do. Since Sandi set it up in front of the TV in the little house (we had to take out the bed) there weren’t too many excuses left for not using it. It even has a jack where you can listen to music on an MP3 player or iPod.

I stared at it for about five minutes deciding what I wanted to do and closed my eyes imaging my toned body when I was done working out. I punched every button on the front and nothing worked. Just to be on the safe side I turned the TV off and on to no avail.

Finally, after about six minutes I had to go in the house and ask Sandi where the on switch was at. I turned it on for about 20 minutes. I figured that should be enough of a workout the first time out. I wouldn’t want to lose too much weight too quickly.

I have to say for the first time it was a very successful workout. I watched the video, worked up a sweat, my endorphins were elevated, and my heart rate was working at the performance level.

I think I’m going to like this workout thing.

A person doesn't want to rush into these things too quickly.

Tomorrow I may plug it in.

HAPPY 40 ANNIVERSARY

HAPPY 40TH ANNIVERSARY LILI AND JESS,
CAN'T BELIEVE ITS BEEN THAT LONG, WOW.
LOVE YOU TWO.
Love Rick, Bonnie, Marmalade, Wilson, Suzy Q and of course Jimmy and Triscuit

Lili and Lisi

Just wished to let all you brothers and sisters,........ Lisi and I have joined the University of Washington, Twin Registry, Harbrview Medical Center. Also we just did the DNA, with them. We will let you know when we hear from them. SO OUR DNA HAS BEEN DONE. I look forward to having ours done, that the family has had theirs, and compare the both.
Love to all
Lili

About 10" Diamenter- Tailpipe from Ancient UFO?

Got any ideas what this is? Found it while hiking in the woods some years back.

when it rains....

Like gets interesting.

a couple of weeks ago my Bronco was making all sorts of vibrations. The way it was acting i thought it was the transmission. Took it to have it checked out and I was told that maybe the tranny was going out on me. Took it in for a second opinion and the transmission shop came up with something else. Not the tranny. Maybe ujoints in the drive line. He just called and couldnt get it to mimic whats going on.

So Im borrowing Mitches little car, and the other night i started to smell something hot. The windshield would instantly fog, and the check coolant light came on. Got a quart of coolant at the gas station, 6 bucks, put it in and the light went out. But no heat. Parked in the drive way and woke up the next morning and puddles under the car. Put stop leak in it, so far so good.

yesterday the garage door spring broke. and i have a bad tooth.

OH FUN!!!!

Dick

Its to bad that......

we dont hear from the other siblings on the Family blogg. I would like to know how Bonnie and Rick are, what Suzi is up to, if Lueria has thrown Rich out with the dog yet, if Illa has gotten her deck finished yet, How Lisi is and how Lili and Jess are doing with the house.

Dick

decided to go fishing today

well, viewing anyway.

took chuck to the hatchery and did some walking around. There were steelhead from 18-32 inches. Sure gave me the itch to go fishing. But it dosnt look like its going to happen this year.

People can always waste time people watching.

Sometimes Karen and I will be sitting somewhere waiting for something, and 'people watch'. We see two people interact and then try to guess the scenario behind their being where they are now. This practice is usually more fun when the two are totally different. Like an old, well dressed man, accompanied by a buxom girl, with 4" spike heels, and a short red dress. But this is too obviously a man treating his granddaughter to coffee. The photo above is a little more complicated; we can't imagine what this beautiful girl and her brothers are doing with this Bracero! I mean, can it really be like my favorite movie, Beverly Hills Chihuahua.

You've heard of dumb criminals? How about this.

 GOP Rep. Christopher Lee, that’s the guy in the news Wednesday that sent a photo image of himself to a lady he met through Craigs list. When she found out he was married, she turned him in.

I don’t know about you, but human nature never ceases to amaze me. Sorry for the cliche, but it fits perfectly! This is why I’m intrigued by the study of humans; on one hand, they can be so stupid, on the other, they can be incredibly brilliant. Some times they can be both at the same time!   

Here’s a man who has everything, but he gambles it for some kind of fantasy going on between his ears.

But this is old news, we hear of pastors, politicians, powerful business men, who have everything you and I only dream about. But they sell their souls for a bit of pleasure.

Women aren’t exempt from all this either. How many teachers have we read about that sacrifice their entire careers, some, even their families. Only God knows what they get out of it.

Oh, and don’t think that brains are a safety net in all this; Einstein, John Kennedy, and a more recent President were all philanderers.

All this has got to be related to that scripture that describes ‘the mystery of iniquity’ (2Thess2.7) Then the Apostle Paul in another place talks about ‘the law of sin and death’ (Romans 7) that wants to find expression in him.

Lord, deliver us from ourselves!

watch how you step

went up wentworth springs road to hit icehouse. got as far as uncle toms cabin, but the snow got to deep. Decided to get out and take a walk. Jack didnt fair so well.

It was a beautiful day up there. Wish the Bronco was a little more capable. I was by myself so i didnt attempt to go any farther.

OK Girls!!!

What ever you do, don't put one of these on your forehead! Revelation 19.20

Hey, check this out. If so, let me know what you find.

Observations?

The Weather Predictor Finger

This local finger is more accurate than the local weather man. It’s wrong only 50% of the time. It works cheap and never complains.
A dry finger means that it’s not raining.
A wet or damp finger means that it’s wet outside, or someone got the finger wet.
A dirty finger means that it’s dirty outside.
If the finger is bent to the left it means that the wind is blowing from the right.
You can figure it out yourself if the finger is bent to the right.
If the finger is pointing excitedly it means that there is a fish on the pole and someone should do something about it.
If the finger is white it’s probably too late. Frostbite has occurred.

If the fishing pole in the background is swaying back and forth the weather doesn’t matter. Grab the pole and save the fish.

Hey Jim, I found your new weather station

Jess and Lili

We canceled the gathering for Disney and at Jess' neice place, as the day's and times were hard for everyone.

Also Lisi, needs to be closer to home, but we will go later on. Jess and I are going to go to the coast, and stay in the area, for this time.

We will also go down to my sister's, Suzy location, as this is easy for Lisi, She would like to go to Longbeach, as they have the location for her treatment if she needs it.

If all works out I will be staying around until our vacation, but am working to ship out for a short time after, if need be, on business. Jess may join me later on, we are playing it by ear.

We are looking for a home in Washington, as the prices are so great...