America

Spanish Monument in the high mountains near home.

Fricking snow, a little early but very beautiful

Another day in paradise!

Well, it looks like winter has come early this year. We had about a foot of snow and half of that stuck! I want to cry as I’m not ready for winter this year. Our boat cover hasn’t arrived yet so I’m a little concerned and will have to get the boat bedded down for the long winter’s nap.

We sure didn’t get out as much as we wanted to this year as business interrupts fun, but this is the last year I will be working like a dog. There are a few reasons for this. # 1 THE BASTARDS TAKE EVERYTHING I EARN! # 2 our investments have tanked, so I see no use in continuing this nonsense of thinking I will be able to make a living in the good ol USA.

I’m thinking I am going to sneak over the border to Mexico, and see if we can’t start making trouble for them. (Just kidding) Now that America is no longer the land of opportunity we will see what happens to our immigration policies. I’m pretty sure they will just take care of themselves.

I don’t get very disappointed in our government as they do exactly what I think they will. That is whatever it takes to keep their jobs. Well, I have something to say about that also. The longer we citizens vote, the longer this nonsense will continue. I hear people say we need to vote people out. That makes no sense to me whatsoever. Why would we throw votes out to be negative? Why even play that stupid game until this system changes. We Americans need to change this unfair system. If we don’t who will ?

We hear the news & media tell us about lobbyist that control Washington. I have another revelation about that! I believe that more money is given to the news & media for election campaigns than anyone else. All that campaign money goes somewhere! (80% to the media). In this day of internet and mobile communications, couldn’t someone that is decent compete with these guys? Probably not.

I watch our investments drop 50% in a week and wonder why the heck my retirement 401k isn’t insured. It should be but then someone couldn’t steal it. I’ve been saying since 401k’s started that as soon as there is enough money in these accounts it will vanish just like the savings and loan problems happened 20 years ago.

The one simple truth is. If we give, invest, or are taxed out of our income for anything and everything we become slaves. At this point I refuse to be a slave to any of this nonsense. Tomorrow will come, the sunshine will always come up, and there will be air to breath. A person with a little common sense will always make it through these tough times. Maybe not with all that we have today, but we will make it just fine.

It is time to take a look at our personal value system and become the best person that we can be. Help others, love family and friends and be grateful that we have a chance to be together. America is more than politicians, FEO’s and corporate goons. It’s full of people like me and unlike me that love being American. I could go live anywhere in the world. I could become someone else, but I was blessed with the opportunities to live in America, the America that is good, generous, faith based, and family structured. I am blessed to have been raised by good parents who even with all their faults tried their best to raise me to be independent. To that legacy I will always try to do my best even with all my flaws. I am grateful for a wonderful loving wife, a warm home, and loving children who have grown into very good people. I am also grateful for all the horrible things that have happened to me and that I have gone through as they have molded my values and strengths. This time on earth is one of experiences and we need this to become the best we can be. It’s not how hard or how many times we get knocked down, it’s the strength in getting up over, and over, and over until we are refined into the person we are.

I will also say that because I know this time is short and no pain lasts beyond its endurance we will all be fine. If we are not, then that is because we didn’t know our strength and the infinite capacity of Love. It will overcome everything difficult in this world. It is not of this world!
Take a deep breath, look at something beautiful in your life and be grateful that you can always feel love if you are receptive to it.

Be a little kinder than you feel you need to be! Everything will all be alright!

Wonderful experiences and great friends.

H3 Treasure Tri-Corder Serial # 0000001

How does this life go? I have no idea about tomorrow, but I do know that I have an amazing impact on how today goes. Yesterday is a memory, a wonderful memory, today is real, and tomorrow is a promise. We never know when our time will be up, so make full use of every moment you are given.
This week has been extraordinary! My wife came to work for our company full time. We now can have a life besides commuting and trying to match up our schedules. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to get a lot done, be together and experience our growth together. That has been my prayer for about a year. She is such a smart lady with perfect instincts, and a brilliant mind. Add that with a very nice wrapper and I actually have the perfect wife. I need to get busy and do some improvements so I can stay up with her.
It has been a busy and productive week. We got everything done, plus some stuff I had been trying to do for a while. Kathy came to my rescue when we met, and now for our business. I am so grateful to our Lord for taking such good care of me, I know I am loved.

Oh just in case you want to know, we now get up about 7 am (actually I’m up by 5 but let Kathy sleep), we get cleaned up and head to the gym and swim for an hour. After that we come home have a little breakfast and get out thoughts and prepare our day. We break for lunch about 2 and work until dinner about 7 or 8. Then our day is done unless we have an emergency.

Yesterday Kathy and I, Paul and Debbi, Doc & Bonnie, Johngo & family went up in the mountains to scout out a story where there was a cache of Spanish artifacts.. (Mostly gold, silver… maybe a canon).
We took out all our H3 treasure Tri-corders and gave it a go, we did this all with 4 machines to locate some gold, which led us to a cache and some Spanish Symbols that Doc needs to interpret. We leave that stuff up to Doc and John as they have studied this stuff all their lives. We didn’t uncover anything but did find the cache opening and will go back there later next week.
We (wife and I, along with the (Yackadoo wackadoo poodle posse) are heading out to New Mexico with Paul and Debbi to go out on some information he found. It is very interesting and we will pack up the trucks and head out on Thursday. Get some interviews, maps, pictures from these old guys and add to our book on New Mexico. This process is amazing to me and we learn so much. Most of the stories are embellished greatly from person to person, but if you can cut through all of that and hear the stores from many sources you can figure the source of each story. Sometimes it takes years and many trips. This is one of those trips to gain information on the next winter dig site.

After our trip 200 miles away in the canyon, we came home got cleaned up and went to the Weber State Football Game! Woo hoo, they did very well and won. They played a university I went to as a freshman and played for, so it was both good and bad. Hey how about UNLV putting a woopin on Arizona :o.. that's where I played for my last 3 years.. go rebels.

how busy can it get?

Well just how busy can it get? Insanely busy I believe. I arose at my usual time 3:30 commonly known as the” butt-crack” of dawn. So I head to my little prototyping lab to start the instrument guts and make sure they can be built. I make about 4 different types of needles grinding rod and fitting bearings, drilling center holes thru other rods and see if all the pieces can mate up. Well after a couple of tries I come to the conclusion it can be done. Funny thing, everything can be done, if you try!

Let’s see what’s happened. Life goes by too danged fast, but it is good. My daughter is going to have another baby... Woo hoo this time a boy. My son’s wife is expecting so it will be a baby year! Not bad for a grandpa and grandma… we are very excited for our children; they have turned out to be such good people.

My business keep expanding and taking more of my time and resources, I guess that’s exactly what a guy wants when he goes into business, however this is ridiculous. Just as one project hits the market I’ve started another concept to market idea. My next project is a little different in scope. I have a patent pending product but took it to my friends at the Davis Applied Technology College and said, I want to run this product; however I want to start of a college of entrepreneur ing… who knows what to call it. Anyway to make a very long meeting longer, the college agreed and will start the grant process as they already have funds attached, and will do the curriculum end. The student will take a commercial idea and run it through the entire process of intellectual process building, branding, business startup, market analysis, actually building the part, putting together a team and making it happen. We can’t find another school that is doing this from stage one. It will be a challenge but one worth doing.

Today is a HUGE day for me. I will have all the pieces of the commercial element detector in my hands today and will start serial # 001 build up. The shells and housings are being fed-ex shipped to me and I will have them this morning. I’m as excited as a school girl at the junior prom. It’s been 8 hard years of research and development and about 3 million bucks into this project to get to this state. Now we will see what happens. So in a couple of weeks you will all get to see the H3 Treasure Tri-Corder, as documented on National Geographic TV documentary to air in October.
So completely focused I have completed this stage of my work on this project and will now let everyone have a shot at finding their treasures and things exciting things as I have.
I start spudding (drilling the rough hole) my first oil well that I found and discovered. put the deal together and will have the rewards of the oil. Times they are a changing. Who would have thought?
Well, the family is well, I’m well; “Biz” is visiting us this week so we are having fun, in a slightly uncomfortable way as she is my wife’s daughter and doesn’t know me very well. I’m trying to bring her from phoenix to Ogden and get her in college but she is resisting. Who would turn down college and a place to live? Goofy kids that’s who… Of course she is fearing living here as we have a Christ centered home, no we are not insane about it, we just are grateful for His life and what he did for us and we treat everyone the very best we know how. It’s such a learning process, but at my advanced age I should get my chit together.

Best to everyone and I hope your dreams equal your reality.

And don't forget one of my bestest friends, Lamar in a silly mood up fishing on East Canyon resivour.

Cracks you up doesn't he...

Easter Egg Hunt 2008

The family east egg hunt went off without a hitch Saturday. The widdle kids were amazing and fun to be around. Our lives are so busy that it is wonderful to take a day and just be with my wife, and family. Sometimes I wonder if working this hard is worth the trade offs. I have to think it is, or I would stop working.

It is always a treat to see the little one’s faces as they see new things. Kathy put all the decorations out and prepared all the food as usual. She is an amazing lady and a joy to have in my life. She is always happiest when she is around the little ones.

Of course we recieved 2 inches of snow friday night and saturday morning so the hunt was inside the home. That's probably good as the snow has just melted off the back yard and the winters worth of doggie droppings have not been cleaned up. YUCK.....

This is how you look when eating a sour easter egg. It's very surprising to say the least.. and a dang dirty trick.

Well, all went well, and peter found a new girlfriend....

The Good help make the bad better and the good great.

President Gordon B. Hinckley, who led The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through twelve years of global expansion, has died at the age of 97.

President Hinckley was an amazing man. He was a worker of simple but eloquent works. He loved everyone no matter who they were. He traveled the world more than any modern man. He met with queens & kings, presidents and dictators. He was interested in making everyone’s life better. He always held his values; he was a man of no compromise when it came to virtue and seeing for the good in every man and woman.

He told the world, “bring us your bad men and we will make them better, bring us your good men and we will make them great.” I am probably the first part of that statement. I am working towards better. He always encouraged everyone. He spoke the words of our Savior Jesus Christ and worked tireless toward having everyone understand the power of the atonement of our Savior.

We will miss this great man, but in my heart I am better because of he, who gave his life to Christ, and helped every person on this planet every chance he had. I will always have wonderful thoughts of this good man.

Thank You President Hinckley we will meet again!

Bobbi turns 30!

Just when I got very busy with life, my daughter and my youngest child turned 30! Oh my goodness. That makes me about 39 if my math is correct.

Since it’s rare to get the family together we went back to the Lodge @ red river. It’s such an awesome place. We all met at different times on Friday as we came in from all over Utah and Arizona. Needless to say we got very spoiled on this trip.
Bobbi and Shelby

This is a picture of my daughter and her daughter. They are making a hat and it's a thing that mothers and daughters like to do. We took my dogs, all 3 of them and they had much fun also, except Zach freaked out when the model train was started. It is over head and I guess he was sure he was going to be killed. We didn't run the train again.

Zachary (white male), Sasha (silver female) Enjoy the fire after dinner!

I'm a dog lover, I enjoy their personalities completely and I've had a lot of dogs over the years. I'm a fan of large dogs, and have have had labrador retrievers in the past, but these poodles are so smart and so much fun. They are clean, and don't shed... woo hoo...

Did you know if a cat gets in the window of a Lodge with 100 windows, poodles notice?

Oh they notice... and cats freak!

So the cat went to the cat box, and the dogs settled back down.

We went on to our duties of eating and talking. We had a wonderful time, and best of all. My daughter is a wonderful mother and wife.

Finally a picture of my daughter, granddaugter and wife. Notice that my wife has not had any sleep, nor was ready for this picture ? :D... She is the most beautiful woman I have ever met.

Happy New Year to everyone everywhere...

What is a happy new year?

I sit this morning after moving a couple of feet of snow off my driveway and walkways, my neighbor’s home and come in to get warm. What does happy mean? It certainly has moments of greed, but those are very short lived. Happiness to me is service in some form or another. How long did it take me to help my neighbors? Just a few minutes in a very long day and I can feel like I added some kindness to this ol world.

I keep thinking of how sick I was a few years back and I could do nothing for myself. I learned what it was like to be dependent for the first time in my life, and worse than that, finding a place to put my ego. The hardest thing about being sick was watching others do what I should have been doing. Not that I could, as I couldn’t breathe or get around. This lasted about 7 years total and I’m still not 100%, but I try. I learned how much a visit from a friend meant. I learned that time is the most valuable gift we have. I now go as fast and hard as I can all day until I have no more energy, and I sleep very well. I can say when I do lay down; I feel that my day was full, and that I have no regrets about what I did with my limited time on this earth. All we have is the moment we are alive in, and all we can do is within that moment. So to me I will say Happy New Year to everyone, friends and those I don’t know, but wish the same for. Make your time count, never stop, and never let anyone tell you it’s impossible or you can’t do that. We all have miracles in our lives every time we stretch and grow. To do the same thing over and over is not using our abilities to the fullest and I’m pretty sure isn’t fulfilling, at least for me. I fall down a lot, but I always get back up and am fearless as to my place in this world. I love my life, what I do, and how I treat others. I guess you can say, it’s a nice place to be. No matter what this year brings I will be happy. I have been given much, and in return have much expected of me to give.