Sunday, December 14, 2008

Colder then a Witches ti??y in a brass Bra

Well it is officially the coldest day of the year it was -18.5 when I got up this morning and not supposed to get above -10 oh don't you wish you were here! So what am I going to do today? reasonable responses would be:

1. sitting on the couch drinking hot chocolate and baileys
2. any thing indoors
3. not getting out of bed

but I am not doing any of these reasonable things, I am going to go get a Christmas tree with my father in law then going down to the rink to do some maintenance. I think I must be sick! I will blog later today with an update if I survive!

Ok I am home. Rink done and X-mass tree found now only -10. I am going to go find that couch and hot chocolate!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Happy Birthday Mom!

Here are a few videos for your birthday.





Happy BIRTHDAY MOM we Love you!

Monday, October 20, 2008

More snow pics

So I need to post a few skiing pics of cooper in 4 feet of snow and I have finally purchased a new pair of skis first time in 5 years I can't believe I haven't bought a new pair for that long.

Cooper struggleing in the 4 feet of snow

Having more fun
Lauren pulling Penguin in the sled

The new sticks


Saturday, October 11, 2008

Snow Day

Believe it or not we have now received about 2ft of snow! over the past 24 hours. I have had face shots while riding two different vehicles, one was the snowmobile and the other one was the truck, while trying to get into our parking area. by the way the snowmobile is RIP'N! I can't wait to take it out for a ride maybe tomorrow if I am not skiing. Here are afew pics of the day.

Lauren shoveling
Snow piling up.
and more!

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Jackson Trip

Well I guess I am keeping to my one blog a month theme here not that that is the intent but that seems to be my frequency. So over the last month we have been all over the place, but the best so far was Sony and I went down to Jackson Hole last weekend for a weekend of biking and camping just the two of us it was kind of weird we were trying to figure out the last time we had camped alone without a child or a dog. It must have been years ago! so here are a few pics of our trip, due to the fact that our small camera was in the shop getting repaired we only had the big monster camera so we didn't take it biking unfortunately because we went on some beautiful rides. I would have to say that the highlight of our trip besides being able to have some alone time with my amazing wife was the camp sight we had. here is a panoramic from were our tent was.
Here is a pic of the happy couple.

The only problem with the trip was that I was in search of a hamburger the entire time with no luck. We even tried to hit the last resort Grizzly Pad in Cooke City but when we opened the door there was a guy sitting in his lazy boy where the kitchen used to be and Sony said "we were looking for the restaurant" and the guy said "I guess they remodeled" WHAT? I was really funny. Needless to say I didn't get my burger, I am still in search of it.

So just in case I don't blog for another month Oct 4th is L's 2nd birthday and it is going to be quite the party. I will write and let you know how it went until then have a good one.

Had to have the quintessential Jackson Hole picture.


rainbow from the spray of Yellowstone falls

A parting shot of Sony enjoying the view from camp.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Fire and Smoke

Just an update as of right now Red lodge doesn't look like it is going to burn up but it is a good possibility that our ski area will be excellent glade skiing for the next 100 years. The fire spread into coal creek drainage last nigh but luckily only a small amount so hopefully it will stay out. so I figured I would put some pics up for all to see.

The Atom Bomb that is Red Lodge.


Fire seen from the golf course

Fire with Sunset

Thursday, July 10, 2008

The Mountain bike dictionary

The Mountain bike dictionary this is really funny but they are missing a few major words let me fill in the blanks.
Beaver Reliever - A bike seat made specifically for women
Chode Channel - A bike seat made specifically for Men.
Jet Propultion - the act of propelling ones self with a gust of wind from his or her back end. (farting)

Most Beautiful bikes EVER!

This is a bike painting company that has painted frames of all sizes and shapes. They have done unbelievably beautiful work. check them out. click here . When I find that perfect ride which I think I have and I find an unbelievable amount of money just hanging around needing a good place to go I may have to give it to these guys.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Wilfed? and more!

So I know I am a bad person with lots to write about and I have been doing a poor job of writing stuff down.

So in the department of Getting Wilfed, I got back the week before last from a trip to Elk City Idaho just in time for our anniversary June 25th the only thing is that we were supposed to be back 5 days earlier, though not really getting Wilfed it was pretty close, we had lots of work to finish up and the head guy for mining in the BLM was going to be in Elk City so it would be a good idea for us to hang around and chat, so we did. I would have rather been home with the fam but that is the way it works some times.

Some claims staking pics
This tree must have had two branches that when it fell went on either side of that far off tree and this tree split for about 30 ft down the trunk.

An old truck that I came across from what I understand it was once owned by a guy named Pork-chop. Any questions, I think not! This is what we were doing only a little bit more high tech this is a claim can that was nailed into this tree about 70 years ago you can see that the tree has grown around the can and the paper work is still in the can. I tried to pull the paper out but it was stuck due to the tree growing into the can.

Some of the crazy turns of events while we were there went like this. A bear ate the seat of the 4 wheeler, due to the fact that Wilf told us we hadn't hidden it good enough the night before we found a really good place that day that nobody but the bear would find. We got stuck in a snow drift for a little over an hour where I dug us out while wearing my Chacos. Jane and I broke out the rear side window of the Jimmy trying to drive around a downed tree, we made it earlier that day I guess it moved while we were out. Wilf got rear ended in Missoula buy a drunk driver that was missing some pieces to his grill and then grill on the car he was driving, due to the trailer hitch there was no damage to the huge white truck we were driving (the white wale) and the drunk guy leaned out his window and said " I'm cool if you are?" and Wilf said "I'm cool" so we went our separate ways. I think that was all the excitement. Here is a pic from Wilfs house in Elk City.

Oh ya sorry about the bad photos I was using my phone due to the fact that I forgot my camera. This is a pic of a sign on the way to Wilfs house in Elk City.

That brings me to the next Wilfed story I just got back from a dirt bike ride out in the desert by Belfry it was a nice day sunny a small breeze and then the Wilfing began the first climb I made it maybe 20ft up and then it was a shit show and I ended up all over the place. I took so long getting up Wilf came back to see if I was still alive. We staid on the trail for a little bid and headed down the Elk Basin single track which is tons of fun until they saw some trial over there that they thought would be fun and across the prairie we went not easy! down riven's and back up I think we crossed more trails than we rode. Here is a pic of Wilf and Jarby they went down this riven that I wasn't even going to try.

So went around. I had an excellent dismount after this aways I was headed up a pretty steep trail and I hit a rock with the front end and went over the back as the bike followed me, I was laying on my back and looking at the bike coming back down on me and gave it a really nice Karate kick and the bike landed in the sage brush to the side of me gas poring every were. when we finally got back on the trail we ripped it up and it was a blast.

Fourth of July. Lauren loved waving to people and horses.
And Camping anyone who can name that campsite gets 10 points.



Lauren's first campfire she kept saying hot and blowing on the fire which was great help getting it started but we got a little worried later on when the fire got big and she kept trying to blow it out.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Good stuff

Ok just in case you care, but most won't these t-shirts are really funny in a really geeky way.

http://gisnuts.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT&Store_Code=GN

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Summer?

So wow I guess winter is done for a few days and it is full on summer now. Today in RL it was around 70 which is way hot for this time of year. Yesterday Mike and Kris and Sony and I went for a ride in the desert in one of our favorite locations Elk basin the temp was pretty warm but not bad seeing how we went late in the afternoon. The riding was so good and the weather so nice that I decided to have another go at it today but we got a late start and ended up in weatherman's draw at about noon WOW HOT! I would say in the 90's the riding was good I even got to ride a slick rock half pipe not to bad.

So seeing how it has been forever since I have posted on my blog I figured I would give you faithfull people (keith) a treat of a video for your viewing pleaser. It is of Lauren of course.


Oh ya and there is a new addition to our family!

Yep it is a 1995 Toyota Taco 6 cylender extended cab with a topper!

Monday, April 14, 2008

Long Time No Write

Sorry to all for the lack of posting I have actually been working my ass off these past few weeks since my last post. Also lots of things have changed. First and foremost is my job I am now working for one of the people who I first meet here in Red Lodge Wilf Struck I am working as a consultant so I have had to set up my own consulting company will all the proper forms and taxes that that includes. lots of fun with that. As far as the job is concerned I am really enjoying it I have been overwhelmed with the amount of work to do so that has been great. I can now also say that I have gotten paid to go snowmobiling! I had to leave town last week kind of last minute and head to ID to help Wilf with some public meetings over a mine that one of the companies that we work for is proposing to put in in Elk City ID. so after 11.5 hours of driving we arrived in the bustling metropolis of Elk City all of 200 max people. More about that later but I will finish catching you up as to our goings on first.

We played in another Hockey tournament last weekend in billings and it was much better then we had originally planed for. The reffing that had been horrible last year was only somewhat bad this year and last years problem of people jumping from team to team was also dealt with so that was cool. But unfortunately Team RL is still with out an official win (unless we are on home ice!) we lost Friday night 4-6 and then sat morning we played a dam good game in the morning and ended with a 9-9 score not bad, we must have spent all our energy because we got spanked on sat night in front of 20 or so hard core RL fans 11-3. Sunday morning we played for the 7-8th place in the tournament and ended up loosing 4-7 we really could have won but ended with 2 empty net goals. oh well it was a good time.

There is also a farewell to a good friend, Christy my parents dog and my dog growing up had to be put to sleep this morning so my feelings go out to my parents and my sister she will be dearly missed. it is amazing how much you miss a dog that will roll in anything and the stinkier the better there was one time that I remember backpacking with her in the Flattops Wilderness and she must have rolled in some rotting carcus OH MAN that smell brought tears to my eyes I had to get in a mtn lake that must have been 34 deg and washed her off but the smell didn't go away and we had to sleep in a tent with her that night man you thought dog farts were bad that was the worst. She was the most loving dog I have ever known so excited to see everyone especially Stu, man she would get so excited she pee on the carpet before he even got to the door.
Christy we will miss you.

On the Dog health note we happy to let you know that Cooper is doing great and has not had any more seizures so that is awesome. I think he is really enjoying the medication seeing how we have to give it to him with food he now gets hot dogs twice a day.

Well that is all the news for now I will be bloging more as we go and will elaborate on some of the stuff above and will add pictures later.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

FOR MY DOG!

This post is for Cooper who is more than just our best friend and mans best friend but Laurens big brother.
Cooper you have been there for Sony and I through good times like our biking trip around the west and all the hikes and Skiing trips since then. You have made life better during the hard times always happy to see us with unconditional love. Your are the best judge of charicter that I know (who would have guessed Mark and Doug were such bad people?). I PROMISE to take you for more walks and play with you as offten as I can. You deserve every minute of it!

For those of you that don't know Cooper suffered 5 major seizures yesterday. The first he was when I came home from lunch and had gone inside to check on Sony we heard something in the yard and saw him laying on the ground we ran out and when sony touched him he jumped up and freaked out bearing he teeth and foaming at the mouth, he was barking really furoshusly it was really scary he didn't know who we were. once I got him to calm down he realized who I was and was his loving self but really scared. we went back inside and about 10 min later he went down again. It was really hard to watch! we rushed him to the vet were he had 2 more. It took them 4 doses of Viciden to calm him down, and then more drugs to finally get him to sleep. we took him home 3 hours later he was still hardly able to walk because of the drugs but seems to be shaping up, and hasn't had another seizure since yesterday. The vet tested him for anti-freeze and that came back negative so we are waiting for the blood tests to come back which should be later today. To be honest it I hope it is something that can be fixed with a few drugs because cooper is only 6 and has lots of healthy years left with us. Unfortunately it could also be a brain tumer which is some thing that drugs can help with and he may live for quite some time but who knows. We are just waiting and keeping our hopes up for now. so any one with some prayers left sent them Coopers way he needs as much as we can give him!

WE LOVE YOU COOPER!

Monday, February 18, 2008

Bozeman Hockey tournament

So it has been a long time since I have entered anything in my blog and for that I apologize. I have been busy doing lots of stuff but not a hole lot worth writing about you know the day to day grind. But last weekend we took a team from Red Lodge to Bozeman for a hockey tournament it

was a great time. I had the best chearing section (check out the jersey).

The refs were really good which was a pleasant surprise due to the completely honorable job the refs in billings did during the tournament there last year. So Red Lodge tied one game and lost 3 doesn't sound so good but we only lost by 2 goals to the defending champs and tied the team that is mainly made up of guys from Summit Bike which felt pretty dam good!
Then we played the Wood Peckers from Missoula they had a few ringers and one guy must have scored at least 5 of there 7 goals. (tournament rules allow one person to only score 3 goals) when I asked the ref how many goals the guy had scored the ref said "I will ask" assuming he would ask the score keeper I said " sounds good" he proceeded to ask the player how many he had scored! the player obviously answered "only 2" ummmm? anyone else see a problem with this? so what ever. So after losing that game we were in a 3 way tie for who would play for 7th-8th and who would play the 10th place team for 9th-10th. so in true hockey fashion we held a drinking contest at center ice. we lost so we played for 9-10. early Sunday morning. after staying in the locker room until 3am drinking the team pretty much defeated ourselves 7-1 Sunday morning. We lost to a team that had only scored 1 goal the entire tournament until we played them. Amazing.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Weekend to Cooke

So this last weekend Sony and Lauren headed to MN and I went to Cooke City to hang with the rest of the minisotans that weren't in MN. The skiing was good even though we stuck to low angle tree skiing and only got 4-5 runs in it was good snow. The other fun part of the trip was the sweet new sled that Jason picked up for me in bozeman and brought over. It is a 1987 Yamaha exciter 570 sounds pretty sweet doesn't it! well it would be if it ran a little better. If you stop on it it doesn't want to go again so it is full throttle all the time and when it gets up to speed it will go but it doesn't have that drag racer start that is for sure.
The 80's were the best decade for motorized vehicles! 83 xr 500 and 87 exciter! and if I only still had that 89 Trooper we would be styling! I may have to get a bright orange jacket.
Ya its liquid cooled. and bored out to 600. lots of power once it gets going. and like the bike it burns a little oilSo as you can tell I didn't take a single picture the entire time we were in Cooke. The weather was extra shitty on Friday and sat with winds blowing at 30-40 mph and snowing hard and then Sunday was clear and beautiful but I didn't take the camera I don't know why I am kind of kicking my self because it was awesome.

Monday, January 21, 2008

FINALLY POW

So we here in RL finally got snow and lots of it they (the mtn) is claiming 50" in the past 7 days but I am not sure that is the truth it may be a streach but still the skiing on friday and sat was AMAZING and her is my happy powder face.Friday was pretty cold so there wasn't a lot of people up there but Saturday was a little warmer and the masses were out in full force. still not packed and the skiing and friends were great. Sunday was -5 all day so we decided staying inside was the best idea and it worked out pretty good I would say. I was trying not to leave the house all day but ended up having to go out to have dinner at Mike and Kris's house. That was some good food thanks guys. just as the cabin fever was setting in you guys saved the day. I cant wait to get Lauren out on skis so we can all have this much fun as a family! I guess that means I need to get some four legged skis... ponder ponder?

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Hockey pains

Not much that needs to be said about this. but I love hockey even though it hurts some times.
I am self medicating with beer so no worries!

Monday, January 7, 2008

Boody

So as per keith's request here are the new booties. PBR for scale. oh ya and these boots are standard issue lawn dart paraphernalia.

Delinquency

I have been delinquent on my blog for the past few weeks dew to the craziness of the holidays and other such stuff. So you can imagine we have not been board. We had a fun new year, Emily and two of her friends came down from Bozeman and took Sony out to the bars so I got to hang out at home and drink beer with Kim to bring in the new Year! as usual Emily left a bottle of Appltini at our house so I am sure that will be here till the next new year.


We went to Cody WY yesterday for some XC skiing and swimming at there incredibly cool pool. We skied at the Pahaska tepee trails which are really nice and Lauren did unbelievably well in her trailer even talking and laughing at times so we took her to the pool afterward.
She loved watching all the other kids splash around. the pool is really shallow at one end so she could walk around in the water which was really cool.

Oh ya we were in billings last weekend as well and picked up a one piece pajamas for kim it was really funny. Totally worth the $8!

Our two babies.