The last couple of days...

...have been really nice, except for quite a bit of wind.  Actually, the wind is nice too, it keeps things from getting stagnant.  Today though, after work, the leading edge of a front started to reach this area, and the wind really picked up.  It was nice temperature wise, around 80 degrees, and partly cloudy so the sun didn't beat down, but it was WINDY!  I think half of Utah blew by while I was out doing my work thing.  I knew I was in for a hard ride home on the bicycle, but I learned from my last post not to whine.  It was a challenge though.  About 5 miles in, with 10 miles to go, I checked the bike computer and I was going about 9 miles per hour.  I didn't want another hour more of riding so I kicked it up to about ten and a half, but not much faster.  Whenever a gust hit, I slowed down.  Still, I made it home in about an hour and 20 minutes, only 15 minutes or so over my regular time.  I was really tired when I got in.  My legs are jelly.  Tomorrow it's rainy, because of the front, so I will not ride in.  It will be a nice rest.  Yay!

We should have bought a house in Palisade

We should have bought a house in Palisade, I think.

"Why?" You question me with awakened curiousity.

"Because when I ride my bicycle to work from Fruita in the morning, the wind is coming out of the east, every morning. And when I ride home after work in the afternoon, the wind has swung around and is coming out of the west. I get a headwind both ways, and the sun in my face both ways, every day," I whine.

"Oh," you say. "There's an easy solution to your problem."

"What's that," I inquire.

" Don't whine."

"Oh. Yeah."

I rode the bicycle to work three days last week

My distance for the week was 105 miles.  Tuesday was the worst.  I had a headwind going in, then during the day the winds picked up to about 50 miles per hour, and I had to ride home in a gale.  I rode kinda slow going home.  Wednesday was bad weather, so I didn't ride.  I rode on Thursday and Friday, the first time this year back-to-back.  Going in Friday, I felt like I didn't have any energy, but I felt surprisingly strong on the ride home, and even upped the weekly average speed to 12 mph.  This week I am hoping to ride every day.  There's another cold front going through tonight but it's not supposed to bring any rain.  My ride averages a little over 15 miles one way.  

Our irrigation water is on, so I have to get the pump and sprinklers figured out.  It's about time to get the swamp cooler ready to go too.  The days are pretty long and getting warmer.  And, the garden needs work.  Grandma Haines always said that you shouldn't plant until May 10, because then you wouldn't get a freeze and lose everything, so I have a few days yet.  The joys of being a homeowner.

We have tomatoes in the Aero Garden now.  We never used the herbs, just watched them grow.  I know we will use the tomatoes.

Later, everybody.  We love you all.  KTF! 

We had the grandkids over for the weekend

We had the grandkids over for the weekend.  They liked our back yard, and were out there a lot.  In the picture above, Ethen, Mia, and Loralei are taking turns trying out Pat's skateboard. I dug out some bike helmets so they wouldn't crack their noggins.  
Kendall didn't get to go out as much as the other kids, because she liked to try to taste everything and had to be watched like a hawk.  This picture is one of the occasions she got to go out.  When she had to stay inside, she would stand at the screen door with a sad puppy dog look on her face until someone felt some pity and took her out for a while.
Loralei and Mia, two camera hams.

By the way, their parents came along too, but that was incidental.  Mostly we were glad to see the grandkids.  Here's another one of Loralei.  They seemed to like to throw dead leaves on their Grandpa when he was outside with them, for some reason.  Maybe I look like I need some decorations on me.

2 quotes from a great article

I found an really good article on American Thinker.com today, titled Vanities of the Warmists.  It was written by Jon Caruthers on April 7, 2008, and here are a couple of hilarious quotes:

"In the grand scheme of things are we supposed to believe that we humans are actually better than Mother Nature at 'managing' the global environment?  For some reason, the enviro-nazis of the age seem to believe that Mother Nature is some kind of octogenarian Alzheimer's patient and they're the designated colostomy bag."

And...

"The enviro-nazis are no better than the medicine man of lineage ancient during a lunar eclipse who could claim that the great night spirit was eating the moon goddess, and if only the tribal elders would hand over the virgins he'd perform his incantations and make him spit her out again."

It's worth your time to go to American Thinker and read the whole article.  It's a fun read.  Love ya, everybody!  CTR!

Here's a story somone sent me

This story is called:  A Good Attitude

The choices you make affect more than just you!  John is the kind of guy you love to hate.  He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say.  When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"

He was a natural motivator.  If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.  

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, "I don't get it!  You can't be a positive person all of the time.  How do you do it?"

He replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today.  You can choose to be in a good mood or, you can chose to be in a bad mood.  I choose to be in a good mood.  Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it.  I choose to learn from it.  Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life.  I choose the positive side of life.

"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.

"Yes, it is," he said.  Life is all about choices.  When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice.  You choose how you react to situations.  You choose how people affect your mood.  You choose to be in a good mood or a bad mood.  The bottom line:  It's your choice how you live your life."

I reflected on what he said.  Soon thereafter, I left the Tower industry to start my own business.  We lost touch, but I often  thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. 

Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.  After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.

I saw him about six months after the accident.  When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins.  Wanna see my scars?"

I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.

"The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-t0-be born daughter," he replied.  "Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices.  I could choose to live or, I could choose to die.  I chose to live."

"Weren't you scared?  Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.

He continued.  "The paramedics were great.  They kept telling me I was going to be fine.  But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared.  In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man.'  I knew I needed to take action."

"What did you do?" I asked.

"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said John.  "She asked if I was allergic to anything.  'Yes,' I replied.  The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply.  I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity!'"

"Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live.  Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."

He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude.  I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.  Attitude, after all, is everything.  

"Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.  Each day has enough trouble of its own." (Matthew 6:34) 

After all, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. 

Good story.  It kinda fits in with my philosophy of life.  The Matthew quote isn't King James Version, but the meaning is the same.  Everybody have a great day!  Love you guys! 

Does anyone know how to import text?

I've got something in Word that I want to import into a post but I don't see how to do it.  Does anyone know?  Let me know if you do.  It seems strange that I can upload video or pictures but not text.  What am I missing?