Big Oak Tree Removal

We found that one side of the big oak tree at the apex of our front yard was rotten at its base.  It was overhanging both the retaining wall and where I park my RV so we couldn’t take a chance of it falling and decided to have it removed.  Read More

Salt Point state park

Road Trip to MacKerricher State Beach

In May I made a week long trip up the coast of northern California with my good friend Scott Oglesby.  We started at Bodega Bay and ended at MacKerricher State Beach just north of Fort Bragg.  Note these photos are in a gallery on picasaweb and if you click the Read More

WordPress Popularity

WordPress is now the most popular CMS out there.  22% of all websites are powered by WordPress.  Over 60 million websites. Amazing in just 10 years.

Sardine Lake

Lakes Basin Spring Hike

Kate, the dogs (Ben and Biggs) and I took a nice 1.75hr drive up to Sierra Buttes in Lakes Basin area. We wanted to check out the campsites for future RVing up that way. It was perfect timing as the snow had greatly receded. In fact, it was equivalent to Read More

Wildflowers along the Yuba River

Wildflower Hike Along the Yuba River

In April this year (2013) we did our annual hike along the Yuba River in Bridgeport (near Grass Valley, Ca). It was perfect timing with most all the flowers in full bloom. The river was quite low however, due to the unusually dry year we have had in the Sierra. Read More

Atticus’ First Taikwondo Tournament

My grandson Atticus had his first Taikwondo tournament last saturday. He was tied for second place and did an amazing job. Very tight and focused especially for an 8 year old. He just turned 8 this week. We all went out to Johns Famous Pizza in Roseville afterwards. A rather Read More

Online Image Editor

Try this online image editor from Aviary.com. To try it, click the edit photo button under the picture. After you are done, click the save it button, then you can download it in the modified format (right click save). The original on my server, will not be affected. When you Read More

New Highs (again) on the S&P. Will it ever end?

The S&P continued toward my target in the 1600 area, in fact I believe it hit the 1.618 Fibonacci move today and could retrace from here.  Several indicators of that possibility.  It is way beyond its upper Bollinger Band, it is possibly forming its third bearish divergence against the Ergodic Read More

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