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Just a former garbageman living in New Mexico selling crap to tourists and locals alike.

This looks like all sorts of fun!

AND OTHER STUFF

Drove to the Harley dealership today. Just hung out there meeting new bike owners and eating free hotdogs. Lunch. Spent some time with Rick and then Joel got there to cook the dogs. We eventually all were outside near the grill with a few other HOG members. Most of us took turns ripping on Joel, the director of our chapter, but he gave as good as he got.

Nina and I are looking forward to tomorrow’s Jemez ride. We head right to the caldera and it’s home to a very large elk herd. Should be a nice day. Arrive at 10:00 and kickstands up at 10:30. I’ll probably be posting pictures of the ride here tomorrow or Monday.

Took a 3 hour nap this afternoon and I’m still dragging.

It’s official, yesterday sucked!

  • Yep, yesterday sucked big stinky donkey dick.
  • Our septic job was shut down, reason unclear, BUT I was told it was because Rudy never pulled a permit. He says he did and I believe him.
  • Someone’s now playing the CYA game.
  • I involved Phil Griego since he still has quite a bit of pull in state government.
  • I’m not asking for anything illegal, just let us proceed with what was approved by Steve Pedro from the EPA.
  • We’ll see what this morning’s meeting results in.
  • If the job was allowed to proceed, it would have been done today, but it wasn’t.
  • Big stinky donkey dick ain’t pleasant.

Sunday, Sunday

  • Erin is usually here to welcome us home and commandeer Nina as her main playtoy. We’ll get her tomorrow. Nina gets another day off.
  • Nina and I took off around 8:30 and hit Harry’s Roadhouse for breakfast. This was the first time that I ate off the special menu and didn’t like what I ate. Nina liked hers.
  • Took the bike into town for breakfast and a ride afterwards. The ride is basically over the same areas that we did yesterday with the dealership. I’ve rode that area more than a few times, but it was all new for Nina.
  • At Moriarity, we headed south to Rte. 60 and crossed over old Rte. 66 in the process. It took a while to hit 60 because of slow drivers and no passing zones.
  • We took a break near the salt flats along 60 and took some pictures. See the pretty windmills? No, we were not in Holland.
  • We did a nice 258 mile trip and I did a respectable 460 miles for the weekend.
Taking a break
Taking a break
Taking a break
Taking a break
Taking a break
Taking a break
Old Rte. 66
Old Rte. 66
Old Rte. 66
Old Rte. 66
Old Rte. 66
Old Rte. 66
Salt Flats
Salt Flats
Nina by the Salt Flats
Nina by the Salt Flats
Salt Flats
Salt Flats

 

Just another saturday

  • Erin is at the other people’s place for the weekend. They’ll keep her for all of Easter and we’ll get her back on Monday morning.
  • Yesterday I finally broke the 10,000 mile mark on my bike, longer than I expected but I did it in about a year’s time.
  • I scheduled my 10,000 mile checkup for the 21st and I’m having Sirius put in the bike. I’m listening to it more than I expected in my Jeep, so why not on the bike.
  • Going on a dealership ride today. It’s open to all, no matter what they ride. These are usually pretty popular and it should be split into 3 or 4 groups. There’s a BBQ after the ride at the dealership, burgers and dogs and refreshments.
  • My neighbor, Lawrence, is joining me on this ride. He has a Harley and claims that he rarely rides it because there’s no one to ride with. I told him that I’m leaving here at 9 this morning and I can solve this problem of no one to ride with.
  • Our septic system is now operational. Operational, not finished. Rudy got it up and running for the holiday weekend and that will be a good test of the system, but not the field. See pictures below.

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The grey pipes are the electrical conduits for my gas operation and this was the biggest ulcer item for me. I would watch them digging and scratching with the backhoe around the conduit and would flinch every time the bucket would come within inches of them.IMG_1660
150 feet from the tanks to the field.IMG_1663
The last tank, the smallest, is a pumping station. We don’t have a large enough drop between the tanks and the field to do a gravity fed system, so we had to add the pumping station. It has a heavy duty liquid pump near the end. If you enlarge the picture (by clicking on it) you can see a pole with electrical things on it, they are the power for the pump and a set of alarms that will tell me if the pump fails or the liquid level is too high for some reason.IMG_1664And then there’s the leach field. 10 trenches, 100 feet long. Each trench is 3 feet wide and they’re spaced 4 feet apart. Looks expensive, doesn’t it? You better damned well believe it is!IMG_1665

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