Home Sweet Home

       So in case you have not gotten the memo I took a mini trip to California to sight see and to help out a friend.  It was almost a week long, which is about five daze to long to be apart from my family.  I call it a trip -originally it was supposed to be a mini vacation, but I need a vacation after this vacation for sure.  Lots of pictures and thoughts about the trip and the Exploring coming very soon in MY newest blog page----Please check out the page, and share the links  at    http://exarizonagobensonbobcats.blogspot.com/

     I will say here that I saw more than enough rain on my trip for awhile.  It dumped on us almost the entire drive across the state.  Places like LA have not seen that much rain in a very long time.  And my train home was delayed by two hours from all of the rain.  The road just past the train station was completely flooded out in fact, on the night I left town.  Luckily it was after the train station, because I really did not feel like swimming with luggage.  This allowed for an annoying drive --but cooled the temperatures off very nicely.  On the train ride, the rain continued to follow me, and than Benson, Arizona---my new home town  saw rain through the night.  Very nice for the cool off, but when you live in the desert this soon creates mounds of mud.  

    Also in case you missed it  it is now March!  Somehow.  I realize last month was a very short month, but it sure does seem like this year is flying by.  At least in our house it is.  So this will be my first blog post for the new month.  Reader warning-- March is also the month we got married in, so for warned there will be many pictures of my wife and I  with some sappy stuff thrown in.  Being back also throws me quickly back into the real world.  Today rent is due and we are now officially three days late on changing over our truck licence plates.  Actually six months and three days late, but they expired at the end of last month.  Luckily all of the snow birds in town make it easy to keep plates from other states on your vehicle.  

Waiting at the train station for my trip to start. 

Our oldest is just visible to the right--he tries to escape all pictures. 

We had all just gotten Frosties so the kiddos are extra hyper.

My buddy Professor Getty 

At the moment he lives in Palm Springs, but is getting ready to move back to the 

Washington area.  Were there is definitely more water to Explore.

Today's coffee moment --actually pictures I took while Exploring Oroville California.

This shop was sadly closed--but I really liked there sign!

This place was in the old town of Oroville.

With the restored buildings. And was very kool!

Plus I have this whole side idea  of taking famous peoples mug shots/and people you know

sticking them on coffee mugs   and calling them mug shot mugs.

Guess I should have patented that before I shared.  

That said, I had to visit this coffee joint.  

This brings us to today's picture of the day!   

Much of our road trip was among trees.  From citrus to nuts.

During the six hour drive we came to a rest stop surrounded by nut trees. 

After sitting way to long we decided it was a very good idea to hop the fence and run to the end of the trees.  

It turned out to be a very long run--especially for two old folk.  I have other shots of this

that will soon appear in my blogs  but this one is my favorite.

The petals almost look like snow on the ground. 

At this point we were about half way through the amazingly long row of trees. 

At the end we found an open field with a deep drainage ditch flowing through it. 

As we slowly returned to the vehicle, the leg stretching was tiring, but felt great--we

heard a helicopter flying very low over the fields.
I can explain a lot of things/talk my way out of-- but after jumping a fence, and being in the middle of the field, I didn't even have a good reason for that if we got caught.  

Luckily they did not see us or decided we were just crazy overly white boys and not illegals and moved on!

Now on to some jokes!!

An actual truthful news story. 

They must have gotten pulled off the air. 

This also resembles my life story.

  I wonder what kind of grade this kid got?

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So many trails   So little time.

       Welcome back to the few very brave of you that has read my blogs in the past, AND came back for more.   More excitement, rambling, jokes, and coffee love of course.   Or maybe you don't sleep well at night, and this very blog page puts you right to sleep.  Better than any sleeping pill, row of bottles of beer, watching golf on TV, or any mutant mixture of all of the above in any given night.   More likely though, you were up late searching for porn and ended up--by sure luck--for me--ended up on this very sight.   But whatever gets me more readers--please keep on doing it-and if you fall across anything that amuses you---PLEASE share the links.      Here are my other sights --in case you have the kiddos for the weeksend, and are wasting time till they go to bed, and you can go back to your porn sights. 

 

It also makes me repeat things!

    My newest blog series is all about Exploring beautiful Arizona -full of pictures and Exploring.  It is a start up series, so really needs every ones support.  NEW post goes to this page tomorrow!!   Tell your friends. 

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           **My second blog series has some of my best personal pictures and lots of                     Exploring!**                                      Please take a look around.

http://exploreb-ham.blogspot.com/


             **Tell me what  you really think about all of my thoughts!**
             This page gets updated first.     
Exploring with Wyoming Jack/Bobble Head

      Obviously between things, I have to much free time.   Spend some of your free time sharing the above links---and than you can go back to "watching" your kids for the weeksend.   OK  enough shameless plugs on my part.   Thanks for playing! 

  

     Above is usually my face when my lips dive into that first cup of coffee.  And the mass amounts of caffeine start to scare away the sand man.  But on this morning the coffee was equally as happy to see me!

    ... Even the coffee was not helping this morning.   All the years I spent "working" at Wally World made me dislike people, but this week people in general are not high on my "like" list.   And it seems that the jerks/stupid travel in packs.   For many years ---the same years I worked at the all evil above mentioned retail giant, I was surrounded by these packs as they were the main shoppers.   So when I witness them in the wild, it is just that much more annoying.  Especially when I am trapped inside were it is much harder to run away.   Coming very soon, additions to my DURP list!   Including some new runners up for the top DURP spots.   In case you have not read my past random rambling --being a DURP is not a good thing, although they often seem to be relatives, and always fill my blog pages.   DURP at least in my book, stands for  Dim-witted Urban Redneck Parole.   See you learned something today---go celebrate by eating a cookie.

 

 

 

I really like to take pictures.    In case you have not gotten that memo yet.

Plus it is super calming. 

Old buildings, especially barns- trees- and sunsets top my fascination at the moment.

In that same list is clouds.  

I did not take the next picture, but if you are ever shooting clouds or wake up to this,

Just go back to bed and or start running....

 

 

 

 

Back to my personal pictures and MY picture of the day.

 

 

This is on the WWU campus in Bellingham, Washington.

I have several blog posts filled with Exploring this large campus. 

Surrounded by trees and filled with art.

This yellow brick road of sorts  makes me want to start another adventure.  

Perfect for inspiring weekend Exploring and

with my thoughts of a road trip in the very new future. 

 

 

 

 

 

This one makes me laugh every time.

 

 

 

Kudos and Dam you -- Dairy Queen sign maker!

 

 

 

 

                OK in conclusion this fine night---- Today and in the last few blogs I have been annoyed with an ever growing list of people.   Many of them seem to be relatives.   And I have been really struggling at not falling to equally hurtful retaliation.   In an effort to never do the above to any ones vehicle, I shall post the idea on here.   That way I would never do this prank.  This one is now out.   This will not happen, to you--by me.  I can not take blame if one of your friends finds this amazingly smart and does it to you.   Or you decide to try this   and get caught by authorities who never find things as funny as the normal, non handcuff and gun holding citizen.   As I before stated, THIS  will never happen to any of my relatives if only because I posted it here.  :)

  

    Have you ever noticed, every time you think your doing the right thing, your not in other peoples eyes?   Maybe you think your doing the smart thing.  Or the best thing at the moment.   Or you change your plans, move cross country yet again, out of pure love and it is still the wrong day your moving.  Wrong year, wrong day of the week in others eyes.   In most cases this would not bug me in the least.  I kind of enjoy ticking people off.   But when it is someone I can't live without, it stings and pulls on my heart strings.   I have had a rare almost un-sick feeling day today.  But since I have been told that my ideas are off base, I have felt like crap.  My body suddenly dosn't like me again.  I have plumeted in a deeply negative mind frame, locked up in my room, and I swear my chest hurts a little.  I am sure thats all in my imagination though.   Just like me being sick.   The docters can not find anything wrong, so I must not really be sick right?   Maybe in the last year, with my leaving and such, I have wronged the above person so much that I am feeling only sympathy pains?   Anyways, for what it's worth to the future Mrs Adams I am sorry for ruining a great day.  The day of the year it seems.  But once I am there for good we can make every day an awsome day.  For the rest of our lives.  I love you, forever and a day!   And although your bed shrunk, this is what I miss most:

   Just staring at this picture has calmed me a ton.  It is an old picture, but us at our best.  Until maybe an outsider tries to paunder whom took the picture.  I am staying here for no one, beyond maybe my parents.   Dumb as it is, the time-line on the calander tweaked me out a little bit.  A cross country move, even for a party of one, is a huge process.   And the best day ever will be when I am holding you again, and can say I do.


       
                  **"It is always good to know your bosses real name----Just sayin''**

     So everyone at work calls our boss by a certain name.   This is not her real name, and even after years of working with her, I guess I never have learned her real name, until today.   I answered the work phone, and the cheary sound secertariy asked for a worker I had never heard of before.  When I asked what the worker did, she said she was a manager at my company.  I said I had never heard of the worker, and asked if it was maybe this other name.  **This is hard to write without using actual names, I am finding out**  The secertary said that name sounded nothing like what the person she had talked to said.   At any rate, we only have one female manager, so I found her and gave boss the phone.   Later our boss came out of the office laughing, and stated that ******** really was her real name.    Just another case of me not getting the memo.  

                                                 **"Coffee helps you poop!"**

   In my last blog I explained the above quote, sentence, and or fact.  I also had the line up on my Facebook page a few days ago.  My great boss was very alarmed that I would post such a thing.  Because I would never find a girl friend, saying things like this.  Although this might lead me more to becoming a hermit than having 22 virgins it is actually one of my calmer posts.   I beleive people I know already know to ignore me for the most part.  Or at least not be to bothered by the things that come out of my mouth.   I have been recently told that I have diareaha of the mouth ,   this proably explains things best.   And like with many things in life, as long as I am entertained  thats all that really matters!  I have gotten way better about not saying every thought that crosses my mind though.  Unless I am drunk. 

          As I am sitting here watching the snow slowly fall outside, I am side tracked greatly.  Snow really is a beautiful sight.  Wheather it be in the middle of the night, or in the day backlight by the sun.  But with snow comes things that are far less fun.  Like ice and cold.  OK  I kind of enjoy ice.  After I learned how to drive on the ice, by wreaking my first car, I am now a good driver in the winter.  Or at least I used to be.  I have been in warmer climates for so long, I am not positive about this.  
    Just up the road a travel bus, flipped on the highway on some black ice.  You never hear about tour busses getting in wrecks it seems.  In fact it has been 27 years since this company has had an accident.  There is never a good time for a tradagy.  But the timing is extra alarming for me.  I was thinking about taking another Grayhound trip very soon.  Good thing I am now going for the faster, maybe not safer idea of flying now.   For all the airport security, I have never heard of a car plumiting 2700 feet to the Earth.  But on the same note, no stewerdess will bring me bags of nuts or bevereages while I am driving either. 



    I have talked about the joys of Netflix before.  Right now we do not have cable were I live just Netflix.  And I enjoy it a lot.  I enjoy it more, when no one else is home and I can veg out on the couch and watch what I want.   One of my roomies, is really into chick flicks.  Although she is a chick so it's understandable, I can't say that I enjoy most of her movie choices.    Anyways, while clicking the movie selection, I have lately wandered about the movie sub catagories.  It seems strange that the same movie can be under comedy selections and drama.   And some of the catagories just seem way off.   The only example I can think of right now, is the movie 8 mile being under, Mother/son movies.    He hates his mother in the movie and in real life.   But I guess she still is his mother like the catagory heading says.