The almost the last snow of the year.

The snow just seem to not run out.

But here is picurer of one of the last storm of the hear.

When I started this I thought the snow was over, but I was so wrong.

We had lots of little storm.

I was in Willams pulling buses out of 8 inches of snow.

I had two buses stuck pretty good, I got one out in about 15 minutes with a shovel, after driving for 45 minutes. Ha Ha.

The other one had drop off the road in to a ditch by the time I had gotten there.

I didn't have my camera with me but it was fun.

Just Sunday(March 18), on the way from church, we had about every weather you could guess,

Snow, hale, sleat, white out, blowing sides way and flat sides, but we did not see any snow, snowing up yet, Ha Ha.

A Anniversary to Mark the Month Febraruay

Rochelle and Dan were married 33 years ago on Feburay 9.

It seem just like yesterday, that this took place.

We went out to a movie and dinner and had a good time.

Boy what a long time, my parent last only 25 years.

It seem to get easier, some ways and harder in other ways.

But you gotta laughing every day, its to hardar to cry.

These are the only pictures I have, I lost all the goods one when the computer crashed last year. I'll let you guess who is who. Ha Ha.

The Running is Slowing Down

Last week I was running at the RR track and was doing some short speed runs.

And I injured my left foot, or danage the arch area of my left foot.

So this, happened to my right foot about 8 years or so ago, and took more then a year for it to heal, but it never really completely healed.

Now I went out tonight and jogged about a 1.5 miles, with some changes to the arches of the running shoes and it seem to have helped.

We will see how the week goes.

Rogue River Run is February 19 :(

New Plates

Had to get license plates for the Blue Geo

It a "SHARE THE ROAD" plate.

The funds go to "Cycle Oregon" and "Bicycle Transportation Alliance"

Its only $10 more for the set, and the best of all its

a one time cost, it is not every time you renew the tags.

So, I haven't come up with the words for this acronym.

F E J A - For Every Jumping Ahead.

That not very good.

Any ideals.

The Blue Geo

Been looking for another Geo Metro, to replace Red one.Would like a four door, but none around right now, so I pick this one around the corner on Pine Grove, for a song and a dance, the motor and trans seem realy good, some small leaking to fix.But the carpet is really bad, and the inside is pretty dirty, and it needs a pair of front tires.I have already found a replacement driver seat and pull the old rug out.Should have this all done by April, just in time, I hear that gas prices are going up, this spring and into summer, this would be a good time to sell the Red Geo rag top.For the miles on it, it runs pretty good, 165,000 miles.

Move Night

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Rochelle and Dan went out tonight (4:30) and caught this move.

A good move and lots of action and a good ending.

A little long over 2 hours.

A good one to see if your looking a good one.

Off and Running Again

And up date from 2011 and my running.
I did four 5K races and one Duathlon.
I started training after Thanksgaving 2010, I think I could just jog about 1/3 of a mile with out stopping.
And the first race was in April and I ran it 30:42.
And I seem to get slower after that.
And the Duathlon, it was 13 mile mountain biking and then you get off and run 5 miles, this about did me in, but I finshed, 2:36:20. Not sure this will happen again.
So the plan is to do four 5k and get my time down to 29 minutes.

The Great Amazing Cache

The Great Amazing Cache July 2011.
They had this great caching event in Central Point, Oregon.
Had lots of placex and trophies
And had a 15 stage Multi-Cache.
You had to find all find 15 legs whitch had one number in each find, to make up a coordinate, at the end you had to put together all the number and find the last spot or box.
There was about 50 people that show up.
I joined up I-seek 1 and I-seek 2 as a team, and did pretty good.
We went after the avage time it took to find and finish and complete.
We need to match 1 hour and 13 minutes, our team came at 1 hour and 24 minutes, so we came in 2nd place.
There was a young couple who showed up with no GPS, so the guys that was running the thing set they Cell phone up so that there could go and play.
They had a great time for the first timers do this Event.

Save the Retiles, Day

I kept coming across little animals that needed saving from cars.

This one was laying across the road up in the mountains and I just missed him or her with the car, went right under it, right between the tires.

I stopped and got out to get this guy out of the road and He would not move, then I bumped him with my foot, then He was moving pretty slow.








Then a day later I went out jogging and at the mail box was a blue belly lizard on the road.
Again He would not get off the road.
Then I bumped him with my shoe and off He went.


So when I get round the corner, and up Redthorn road, there is this box turtle in the road, walking really slow. He is about 6 inch across his back.

Will he was moving any ways, even if it was slow.

And you know when I bump Him with my shoe He just stopped right there.

I pick up the turtle and and was carrying Him across the ditch, when I slipped and fell down and drop the poor thing, but lucky for the turtle He has a hard shell, and all was alright.
That is the day of the great Reptile migration

Dominic In The Bouncey House

On June 25 the City of Central Point, had this Battle of the Bones, near were Molly lives, about two blocks away.
Its a big food thing, seem like a lot of money for the small amount of food you get, and it tasted pretty good.
But the three bounce houses were cool and Dominic love these.

And they were FREE.


There was a bigger one, but I didn't get a picture of it because I was inside with Dominic.
There were these air block you had to clime over and a hill and at the end, a big slide.

We raced though it. LOL

The Granite-Man Duathlon 2011 Ride # 18

On June 11 they have a triathlon and duathlon at Applegate lake.
The race starting in the swimming area and ends there.
So I did the Duathlon 13.5 miles of mountain biking, mostly single track trails.
Then after that's done, you park the bike and jog 5 miles back to the park were I started with the bike.
John Bermea also was there, but He did the Triathlon, and that is a .75 swim, then He bikes and runs the same distance that you do in the duathlon.
So there are about 21 people doing the Duathlon solo part so we line up and start one at a time, because the trail is so skinny.
We leave about ever 30 seconds or so, you have to walk your bike across the mates, this is to make sure your time is pick by the 4 pads, you can see them behind me in the picture, above.
As I started the ride down this black top path, past camping area, and into a boat ramp parking area, and then you pick up a little dirt trail next to the boat ramp.
I get down the trail about 1/4 mile and I come around a corn this bike is down over the bank and the rider is crawling up hill on all fours to get to his bike and drag it up the hill with him, I yelled out to see if He was ok. and He was, I'm hoping that I'm not the next one to fall the trail.
In about 100 yards, you come out on the main road for about 3/4 mile and lots of passing going one at this point, I got past by 4 other riders and I past 2 myself.
Thin the single track trail comes up, very nice trail, and you drop down into a creek crossing with some rock to get around, about 100 feet past this there is a bike fixing a front flat tire.
For the next 10 miles I pass 3 more and and get pasted 2 times, shoulder hit one tree, and the bike only went over the bank a little ways one time.
Right near the end is a big hill climb about 1/3 mile long, the the super rider caught me on the hill.
I did this part in about 1:22 and then I start jogging really slow.
I was really tired, only 5 miles to go.
I ran about 4 miles and walk maybe a 1 mile. I got pasted lots of times, and I pasted 2 person and I caught 2 just before the finish line.
I did the hole thing in 2 hours and 36 minutes.
I came in 18th out of 19 solos.
I came in 1st in my age group, I was the oldest doing it solo and only one in my age group.
And John caught me about 2 minutes from the finish line, He was really happy about that.

One More 5K Done

Saturday I ran in the Bridge the Gap run.
A 5K and 10K, I just did the 5k.
It all started at 8:30AM with a all start at once with no real clock to show the ones at the back of the pack losing 10 to 30 sec. of time.
This started at the Rail Road Park,in Medford, off table rock road.

My Game Face. My place on the board.
I cane in 50 out of 145.
Number 5 in my age group, of 50 to 60 year old male and females.
And cut 40 sec. of my best time for 30 minutes, should have been better, but till me 10 sec. get to the start line.

Table Rock Hike

The RS need and couple of Priesthood holder to go on the hike with them 2 Saturday ago.
So I went alone.
I learn why the upper table rock is call UPPER, it is because it is up river from the lower table rock.
(up the Rogue River)
Marcia Winteer works for the BLM as a botanist and seems to know all about the flower grown on and around table rock.
So have some video of the flow names.

Easter Time

Easter at the Ford house.
We had a fire in the fire pit and had hot dogs and salads of different types.
Paul and Robyn and kids.
Sari and Andrew and kids.
Mike and Brook and kids.
Mike and Heather and kid.
Lots of eggs to find.
The weather was very good to uses.
A small sprinkle of rain.
Had a great time visiting and caching up on what everyone is up to.
The old swing was rediscovered out back, I did not get out there for the pictures.
All had a good time.

Jeep, Falls Apart ?

How to take a jeep apart in about 5 minutes
LOL

Jeep

Just for interest.

The Big Run, Pear Blossom

My place over all was 420th out 1740 person.

For all males runners , I came at 222nd out of 544 males.

In my age group 50 to 54 years old
I came in 20th place out of 42 person.

I came in 3rd place out of 8, of all 54 year old males in the race.

And the Big on.
I came in 1st for the only person from Rogue River, to run in my age group.
















With a time of 30 minutes, 43 seconds, at a 9 minutes and 53 second per mile pace.

There was 8 other persons with the last name of Ford running in the pear blossom, and I came in 3nd in that group.
Now the sad truth, there was 25 person over 70 years old, and 3 of these had better time thin me. ( 3 persons over 80 years old)
Next year the plan is to run a 29 minute, and the good part, I be the youngest runner in the age group, at age 55 years old Ha Ha.

Pear Blossom Result

Maui Under Water

Sam and myself did three dive over there.
One at Five Caves, and two at the Dumpe.
None were very deep, and had lots of bottom time.

Maui Fun

Sorry, this is so way late in coming out with the video, of Maui.
All the boys are having a great time.
Build stuff in the sand, not sure which ones are having more fun, the little boys or the big boys. LOL



The weather was great, in the 70s most of the time we're there.
It was sad to come home to cold Oregon.

When The Winds Come

Had a little wind the other night.
Started out with thunder rolling for about 10 minutes
then the rain started then the wind begin to blow.
By 5:00PM the power wires were pulled down by a fir tree near Minthorne road.
Both wires broken in two.
Lots of other trees came down, around the valley. Some house got trees down on them, as will.
When I called PPL, to get the lines fixed, said that there was 33, 000 homes with out power, by 6:00PM.
The power was out Sunday night and did not get fixed till 1:00AM Tuesday.

This poor guy's pick up is just not the same.

Book Report " Hidden Creek"

Title: Hidden Creek
Aurthur: Katharine Newlin Burt
Published: 1920
Sheila, a 17 year young lady living in New York, a short time when Her artiest father dies.
A man that was buying her fathers painting, come to pick it up and finds Sheila, on the floor next to here father's body.
Older Mr. Hudson offers to take Her to his home in Milling, WY, to live with his two daughters and help his wife with house work.
After been in Milling, for 3 week Sheila find out that Mr. Hudson real intentions, was to have her be a barmaid, in his bar in Milling.
That lasted about a month, before Sheila, had, had enough, and run off into the wilds of WY, to live with a female rancher by the name of Miss. Blake.
Shelia, must find what she really wants out of life, and meet the man that she will marries.
At time a little wordy, but the story hold your interest.
I gave a 3 out of 5 starts.