Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to everyone who reads my Blog. Hope you have a great one.

And don't let any crazed mutant 50ft snow men eat yah!

Taking a Snow Day! Out for a drive.

Went for a drive around the AV and further on the Thursday after the big snow storm. 70th West all the way out to 270 East on Ave G. Found the "Kill Bill" wedding chapel purely by accident.

It was a rather relaxing drive. Saw only a couple of other people out driving the whole time.

Was nice to have the four wheel drive when needed, but most of the roads were no issue even in two wheel drive.

Snow

Santa got lost in the snow storm yesterday.

Snowy Day

Started snowing early in the morning and by late afternoon was sticking pretty good. Photos shot out the front windows and of the back yard.

Rainy Days

Looking forward to some great food today and then leaving to go riding early the next morning.

It has been raining on and off for the past two days. Clouds are still in the sky for Thanksgiving, but it looks like it is trying to clear up.

Starting to look like riding on Friday is going to be Awesome weather!!! And there will be mud and no dust.... Rock On!!! Should be a blast!!

Baccus Gallery

Well my Baccus Gallery is back online for now. We'll see how long it stays up, but for now it looks like it is cleaned up and working again. Was having some issues with my hosting company. But I think that is now resolved (hopefully).

You can check it out at:
http://g2.baccus-designs.com

I will be trying to keep the photos current. But as always, as time permits. I might also start putting my experimental photos in my slide show application at http://spd.baccus-designs.com. But I still need to explore it a bit more.

Hoping to go motorcycle riding on Friday, but we'll see what the weather does. Looks like possible rain for the next couple of days.... Of course it will, since it was so nice last weekend and I stayed home so I could go motorcycle riding this weekend. Oh well, we'll see how it turns out.

Fire In The Sky

This was one of the cool sunsets we get out here in the desert. Unfortunately, I missed the best part of it and I was still in an area with power lines and other foreground junk. This one would have been really cool about ten minutes earlier silhouetting a Joshua Tree. But as is usually the case, not in the right place at the right time. One of these days.

Haven't had much time lately to get out and shoot pictures. Started working a 9/80 (9 hour days) schedule and with the time change it feels like it is 10 pm when I leave work, even though it is only 5:30. And been trying to learn cross site scripting, which is a form of hacking of web pages, so I can learn how to prevent it on code that I am righting. Since no one else on our team really seems to want to learn any of it. So I will learn it and then break there stuff.... :-) Some one has to, why not me. So it's always an adventure. Trouble shooting other people's code and fixing it for them and figuring out creative new ways of breaking it for them.

I have decided not to do the Death Valley trip for Thanksgiving as I had originally planned. Still can't afford the new tires for my truck. So I am going to forgo it for a bit. Maybe some time in Feb or March. We'll see....

Sunday Drive

I decided that it was time for the kids to get out of the house and get some energy out. We started out heading to Devils Punch Bowl. But I got so into the audio book I was listening to, I missed the turn to Devils Punch Bowl. So I decided to explore another area. Unfortunately I cant think of the name of the road we took now. We spotted the "crash airplane" house through the trees and had to stop and take a couple of photos.

There were still some good fall colors on the road that we took, just not many places to actually stop. We did however finally find a place that had a small stream. So the kids had fun climbing over the log and rocks trying not to fall in. Tanner and Jordyn both slipped a few times, thus wet shoes. But they all seemed to enjoy the outing and getting out of the house and cleaning there rooms for a little while.

Halloween Night

Took the kids to go trick-or-treating in our old neighborhood. They wanted to see the haunted house again at the end of the street.

It was pretty cloudy, but no rain that night so it was really nice out. Great weather for trick-or-treating.


Jorydyn went as "Bloody Scream". Blood would run down the face of the mask when she squeezed a bulb attached to the mask. She kept telling everyone at houses that she was a girl behind the mask. Shad went as his usual Motorcycle sword boy.


Tanner as always added great animation to his Skeleton costume. Always goofing around. The only problem we had one time, was that we saw another skeleton just like him, and about the same size, running from house to house. Thought it was Tanner and was ready to go chase him down, when the real Tanner came out from the house the rest of the kids were at, mask gone. He said he kept getting all wet when he wore the mask. (Well yeah, that is what happens when you sweat in a mask.... LOL)


Ashley went as the Mad Hatter. As you can see, no posing for shots here... lol. I didn't get any shots of Dalton by himself, guess he was using those white ninja skills to hide out.


Ashley and all the screams. Two other kids on the street where Kerry and Lori live were dressed in the scream costume as well.


The High Desert Cemetery was the theme of the haunted house this year. The kids seemed to really have a good time and as always got lots of candy. We'll see how much of it is still in a bag next year at this time.

A Day Carving Pumpkins

The only rule was that they had to pick a pumpkin they could carry. That way Tanner didn't pick one of the biggest ones he could find to make a fort out of it.


Let the goo slinging begin.


How do you like the slime?


Tanner chose a skull and cross bones pattern. And carved all but the final eye detail (it was a little trickier than he could do without popping the inner eye out).


Jordyn decided to make hers with three separate faces.


Shad, of course, had to make a HALO 3 Logo. Tanners finished Skull-n-Cross Bones. Carl with the sculpted pumpkin face. And the PI pumpkin for a party at work.


The three sides of Jordyns pumpkin, lit with a flash light.


The three sides of Jordyns pumpkin, lit with a candle from the neighbor.


Tanner's, Shad's, Carl's and my pumpkins lit with candles.



All five of the pumpkins lit with candles. Tanner, Shad and Jordyn with the pumpkins.


Here is a photo of the pumpkins that the Kids and Carl carved after 5 days. The Halo one was "melting". Jordyns held up pretty well. Tanners was starting to come apart. (These were taken early Saturday morning before it started to rain. The candles in the bigger ones burned all night.