Saturday, October 1, 2011
Priesthood Power!
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Finshed restoration
"Vermont Castings Resolute wood/coal stove. Cleaned, sandblasted and professionally repainted wood stove. Beautiful. I took pictures of the stove with the coal kit installed (which you can buy alone from Vermont Castings or Ebay for 500.00 itself) and also with the coal kit out which shows how you can burn wood in it instead if you choose. Glass and gaskets will be installed Friday.
Would look incredible in any room of any house. $765.00 cash.
Text or message
Jay @435 660 3082"
Someone owes me five bucks.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
R.I.P. Ray Charles the cat
Friday, September 16, 2011
Here comes winter....
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Off to Nauvoo they go...
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Acid
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
I wish I was born in 1920
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Superwoman
Sunday, April 24, 2011
What a Dad.
So I am a little behind on doing some of the traditional things that kids like to do on holidays. Here I am showing the boys how to paint an egg on Easter. That only took sixteen years. Later we will be getting chocolate bunnies and little fun things in a basket. Of course what this does very nicely is get everyones minds off the real meaning of Easter which is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But it was fun anyway.
What summer?
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Cancer
So I decided to finally watch “Food Matters”. If you didn’t already know this, it is a documentary about how we eat, what we eat, and how doctors treat our conditions.
I have read the books “Back to Eden” and “World Without Cancer” more then once each so there was very little that I didn’t know in the documentary but I wanted my family to watch it also.
I will not get into the absolute fraud that cancer research is. Anyone with open eyes can research that online or anywhere else and find out the real reasons that there supposedly are no “cures for cancer” at this time. Needless to say, whenever I see a“let’s cure cancer” marathon or telethon or a new press release that says they are getting “closer to curing cancer”, I want to vomit all over myself.
The show went into detail about how so much of the foods that we eat are deficient in so many ways. I strongly suggest you watch it with your family.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Just let me sleep.
See this innocent little noise machine? I hate it. We all make sacrifices when we get married. And my lovely wife Emily, likes “white noise” when she sleeps. I like it quiet at night so when I am sleeping and I hear a burglar trying to break in to steal my eggs or something, I can get up and shoot him. But with this thing, I hear nothing.
The other night we had the power go out and her lovely little machine went dead quiet and I had failed to get back up batteries. Ahhh ….silence. The wonderful nothingness of it all. But guess what? It seems that after all these years of nocturnal brainwashing that Emily has imposed upon me with her little sound machine, I now can’t sleep. David is coughing. The roof has a tiny leak behind the wood burning stove and I hear it drip. Elijah is snoring. Zach still talks in his sleep. Yikes. What a mess. Then the power comes on……and then off. Then on again, then off. Apparently the default “white noise” setting when the sound machine from you-know-where comes back on is “birds”. So when I was able to finally fall asleep I was startled awake again by birds screeching and chirping loudly. How on earth is that supposed to be a sound that lulls you to sleep? I kept waking up thinking I was sleeping in the aviary at the San Diego Zoo.
Emily doesn’t like the ocean setting because it occasionally has a whale sound. She doesn’t like whales or the odd noises they make. It freaks her out.
So now I am stuck. I’ll have to buy some batteries, I presume. Or go sleep in the tree house or something.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Summer tips.
Hello everyone. I am concerned that all humanity other then myself is not getting themselves excited for the summer months coming up like I am.
So, the nice guy that I am, have decided to give you a few tips, free of charge.
Tip one: Buy a convertible. Here is a good example of what kind to buy, but any convertible will do. Do not discuss this with your wife before purchasing your vehicle. She will be mad, but will get over it. Buy her a new mop or something. Maybe a pair of those rubber gloves they use when they clean the toilet.
Tip two: Put a nice stereo in it. It gets noisy when the wind is blowing through your hair down the road so I suggest a powerful stereo. Here are the two old school Rockford Fosgate 1000 watt monsters I have in the back of mine. If your rear view mirror doesn’t shake when you turn up gangster rap music, it’s not powerful enough. A nice glitzy stereo that plays videos and shows stuff on a little color lcd screen is cool too. Mine will even show pics of my hottie wife on it when I get around to figuring it out.
Tip three: Drive it around with the top down even if it’s still forty degrees outside. This will get you in the right “mindset” for when it really is warm outside. Do not drive it in front of your house if you have failed to inform your wife that you obediently responded to tip one. There is a chance she might see you enjoying life excessively more then she is as she is vacuuming the living room, testing out the new mop you bought her with her new rubber gloves on and forlornly looking out the window. Living in a large city like Los Angeles helps you hide better then if you live in a town with only one traffic light in the entire county like, say, Nephi, Utah.
Tip four: Buy some cool “Dirty Harry” dark prescription sunglasses that you can stare at people with and they can’t tell if you really are staring at them like some sort of perv or not. It helps keep the sun out of your eyes. And since you’ll be driving your new convertible around town picking up cleaning supplies for your wife back at the house, and the sun will be beating down on your face, you’ll need them.
Tip five: Don’t post anything you do on Facebook or any dumb blogsite where you might get caught. Chances are that the “she” might take a break from cleaning the bathroom or weeding the vegetable garden and get on the computer and see it.
And then undoubtedly try to blame it all on me.
You're welcome.
Jay
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Rebuilt head.
Now THAT is what a completely rebuilt head looks like after the amazing work that Scott does at Charlies Machine in Provo, Utah. I highly recommend him. Look at all the new valves, guides and machine work he did. Just wonderful. Now it will go in Emily's diesel rabbit and if I put it back on right, she will be back on the road this week. We will see.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Ugly
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Ohhhhhhh ya.
BIG DAY!!!!
Can't wait to see what's next.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Eat oranges
So we have had the good old Dodge Caravan for a long time. A clean 1996 Caravan we bought for $1000.00 and it lasted a few years and 240,000 miles. We sold it so we could get some money for it before it died and would result in a trip to the salvage yard and $100.00.
As I sat in bed the other night, a thought came into my mind that shocked me. We have a number of cars. VW Rabbits. Convertable Rabbits. Diesel Rabbits. Pretty much a Rabbit farm in front of the house right now. But nothing big and roomy. My parents have me drive them to the doctors offices and hospital visits often. Almost every week. My parents are tall. Six feet or so. THEY WILL NOT FIT IN A RABBIT!! Panic ensued.
You know how your parents sacrifice for you when you are young, and then when you are an adult you make sacrifices for them? Well I had to put my loved Land Cruiser up for sale so I could get something to drive my parents around in. A sad day.You can see it covered in snow here in this dreadful winter we are having.
But guess what? I had an offer to trade my FJ40 land Cruiser for an FJ60 Land Cruiser! I can fit my parents in that rig easy. AND STILL HAVE A LAND CRUISER!! Boy is it ugly. And it's an ugly gold color like my wifes' ugly Rabbit is too. Serves me right.But so what. The 4WD all works perfectly and is way more quiet down the highway than my FJ40 ever was. Way more room for snowboards and stuff in the back too.
I'm doing very poorly on my car dealing commitment.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
So in my quest to be free from the addiction of always feeling the need to purchase cars for whatever reason, a new challenge has been thrown into the mix. My family.
Let it be known that since I committed to refrain from “ever buying a car for myself to restore”, I have kept my promise and still have only my 1977 Land Cruiser and 1979 Mercedes as my personal projects. I have had good offers on both and am very proud of myself in the fact that I have turned all of them down.
But guess what? My oldest boy, Zach has informed me that “in less then a month I will have my license” and intends to drive whenever or wherever without any reason or logic and that he insisted that I “help him find a car”. His money of course, not mine. And since I am helping HIM buy a car and not buying it FOR MYSELF, I have not broken any aforementioned commitments.
So off I went hunting down a car that would be fun, cheap and easy to maintain. And here it is…..
Just kidding. But that is what it will look like when it’s done being restored. In actuality, the end result was this three hundred dollar find in Monroe, Utah. A silver 1988 VW Cabriolet. This will be fun project for him. Here it really is.
It needs a new top and some other odds and ends but it should work out fine.
And then my dear wife, Emily, finally wore down the Ford Festiva she has been driving every day to work. She had put over 200,000 miles on it. The transmission blew up and so it has been retired.
What to do, I wondered, (for a few seconds at least). Since Emily is my sugar momma, the river of which all money flows, finding a car for her to get to work, was now my new top priority. No lazing around the house for Emily like her husband gets to do.
Off I went to look for a car that she could purchase with HER money for HER to own.
The only conditions is that it had to get better then the 42 miles per gallon that the Festiva was able to get and that it was safe and not too ugly. Not a very easy task. Having it be ugly is important because Emily does not like us boys using her car as we trash it up with candy wrappers, spilled drinks and the like. So it was going to be difficult to find such a vehicle. But I was up to the challenge.
Here is Emily’s new ride. A 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit diesel. Look at all those 48 horsepower busting to get Emily down the road to work. This one here is getting about 55 miles per gallon. I do things to diesels and I may be able to get it to about 58 miles per gallon. Recently rebuilt engine that hasn’t even been broken in yet. This should be good for about 300,000 miles before a rebuild.
Not too ugly though. Unless you compare it to Zachs cabby or my “parts car”. Then it definitely ranks right up there on the ugly meter.
It just so happens that I was able to work a parts car into the deal also. I have decided to keep that for myself. It has a really bad transmission. I also think it has a hung valve so it needs real work. Since this is my car, it enters into a “grey area” when it comes to my commitment. Here it is. A black 1989 VW Cabriolet.
The house is starting to look like “Jays German auto” since this now gives us five German cars on our property. Three VW’s and two Mercedes.