I knew that I liked her ....

I heard this Democrat Congresswoman interviewed on the radio the other day concerning the new session of Congress along with a Congressman from Illinois. I really liked her attitude, her grace, her words. Now I come to find out that she is one of us ...
I have this on my desktop at home and at work to remind me to pray to God our Father for her healing.

Patty and Miss Kim

The story is that one day some renters across the alley were moving out and I saw this head sticking out from all the stuff that they were throwing out. This is Patty who previously was used for hairdresser's school but now protects my cave. Scares the heck out of people walking past the window.



Much later, I was in somebody's basement looking at a 1976 R75/6 basket case that he had for sale and while working the deal I saw this head sticking out of box of parts. I laughed and told him the story of Patty. He said that if I bought the bike I could have Miss Kim too. Deal! Miss Kim is meaner, too mean to sit in the window. She resides in the remnants of an R100RT fairing.



Don't laugh, it works! No hairdressers or red-headed women have ever broken into my cave!

Huckleberry's new skin

ta da

I'm cheating here ... I posted the photo on 1/1/2011 (that's twenty eleven, not two thousand ) but I'm blogging on the evening of the 3rd. As soon as I got the new paint set on Huckleberry I went into a slump, depression, holiday blues(?) Can't explain it. I think it is because everything has been goal oriented and suddenly, pfffft! I was done, enough, through. Christmas preparations, getting started on Gilera, the long day trip to harvest the RS fairing, spending the next two days making everything fit ... suddenly I was tired. I was only able to squeeze in a little 15-20 minute test ride and then everything was put away. 

I have bills to pay.

I have customers waiting on shipping quotes for Bruff motorcycle parts.

I have more Bruff parts to advertise.

I have housework to do.

I have ...

I got through yesterday by riding Toad over to a section of White River Trail and hiking down the trail for awhile. Today I'm back to work and I was able to get Huckleberry out for an errand to the store.

I just want to ride ... there are borderlands of the stateline that I haven't seen yet.