Tuesday, October 27, 2009

DAY 2

This is my kitchen. I have a fridge, 2 burner stove,coffee pot
In the living room I have 2 couches that are great beds too. There is a desk with a tv and internet hookups. As you already have seen there is a beautiful view of the bay with lots of boats in the dock.
Hey, I'm really here.

Monday, October 26, 2009

FIRST DAY

Here are a lot of spoiler boxes ready to ship to Boeing. We have 5 more to paint.
This was the last part that we need to ship for today. Is it good. Yes! We made the shipment for today. The next batch of parts were good too. Not bad for the first day.
These posters say that there is a Halloween party on Friday. It is a costume party at work here in Mexico. I will be here on friday for most of the day. What fun.
This is a real tarantula That walked in to the factory when the doors were left open on the loading dock. It was as big as my hand. Just in time for Halloween.
This was the restaurant that we ate in for dinner. Notice the pirate flag.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

BACK TO MEXICO

Here I am, Back in Mexico. It's a rough job as you can see. We ate dinner in a small bar near our hotel. Chile relleno dinner,2 fish tacos, beans, diet coke, 1 beer $14 not bad. We looked like a Corona commercial. Stay tuned for better pictures and more interesting stories.

Friday, October 23, 2009

LAST DAY

This was our last day in Laughlin.
We had a great view from our room. We were on the 6th floor. Laughlin is real pretty at night.
Here comes the water taxi. Click on the arrow below to watch a video.


Wednesday, October 21, 2009

TOO MUCH FUN

We're back on the trail to Starbucks to do our daily postings.
The river walk goes all the way along the Colorado river. There is always something new to see.
I asked this bird to stay while I took his picture. He was kind enough to say yes. I had to put film in the camera, take a light reading, put a flash bulb in, take the picture. It took the mall forever to develop the film.
Here is Jerri with her pumpkin shirt. Starbucks is our daily routine because they have free WIFI.
This time we have a cool view out of our room window.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

BACK TO LAUGHLIN

We're back in Laughlin again. This time we took a little water tour. It was great. We got on the boat and requested the farthest point that it went. We really got our money's worth.
Here comes out taxi now.
I decided to let Jerri ride with me. I'm so considerate.
This ride was almost like the jungle cruse at Disneyland. Too bad they did not have the "back side of water".
We passed all of the casinos along the river and saw a lot of boats too.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

BACK TO CARS

Stephen has started to fix our 1997 Tracer. It started out with a problem with smog but soon we found that it has a bad head. Oh boy we're good at that.

A few bolts here and there and he will have it off.
This will be a great car when he gets it done.
I gave Stephen a little hand with the timing pulley. There is the new soda machine. We will be thirsty a lot with this project.

Monday, October 5, 2009

MY LATEST TOY

I found this soda machine on Craigs list. I only paid $50 for it.
It is marked 55 cents but you can program it to what ever amount you want.
It would not cool at first because the fan that cools the pump was bad. I replaced the fan with one from big lots for $7. Now it cools the soda to 37 degrees.
It will hold 7 different flavors. We already drank a lot as you can see. Not bad for $57

GREENHOUSE PROGRESS

It doesn't look like much but there has been some progress.
This is one of the two vents that help keep the greenhouse cool in the summer. It has an automatic opener that does not use any power. I bought two of them for $7.00 each. They are as high as $50.00 on the internet.
This is a view of the front where 11 panels will let light in and keep the cold out in the winter.
This morning I found this little helper in my garden.

LA COUNTY FAIR

Last week Jerri and I went to the LA county fair. we spent the day looking at all of the gadgets for sale. We even sat watching this guy cooking in $1,000 pots and pans. The food tasted the same as in our $5 set.
We are taking a break before we go looking for the garden show.
This was a cool place to rest.
I wish I had this train when the kids were little. Ok I still wish I had this train.
The last stop was the real train museum. There were about 8 engines and a lot of cars. I always try to remember to stop there.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

LAST DAY

As you can see the water level is back up. Every day we go for a walk along the river. There is always something new to see.
This is inside the Buffet. It is decorated to look like the galley inside a ship. Our entire hotel looks like a riverboat.
Jerri cools off before sitting in the sun again.
This was some of the view we had during our daily walk to Starbucks so we could check our E-mail and blog.
There was always some sort of watercraft going by.



Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Day four

I could not sleep so I went for a walk at 4:30AM. I stayed out until sunrise.
At that time of morning the dam is closed and the river water is very low.


Later the dam opened the gates and the water was high enough for the boats to get out again.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

DAY THREE

Another Frappuccino and were back for another day.
Here the water taxi goes by with another load of people going up river.
We went for a walk to the mall across the street from our hotel. That was a mistake. I can't resist
kitchen gadgets. We bought this Richard Simmons steamer. You know I couldn't wait until I got home to play with it. We went to Safeway and bought some things to steam.
Here it is. I am cooking our dinner in the hotel bathroom. It took only 20 minutes to cook the entire dinner. I cooked Asparigus, Salmon and rice pilaf.
It all came out perfect. It was the most tender salmon I have ever cooked. I have to go now. I have to plan tomorrows dinner.