December has started and the winter weather has finally arrived! It’s snowing in the mountains and raining in the desert. Last weekend I had to use a timeshare deal I bought over a year ago north of Phoenix. It was a very relaxing weekend of doing nothing at all and I felt completely out of touch with reality when I went back to work today (Monday). This past week Mooch had surgery on his eyelid where a growth had formed…
Above is the new bridge around the Hoover Dam. It has been quite a construction project so far and I can’t wait for it to be completed! October and November have been fun months. I helped a few friends move from one place to another, hiked, biked, ran around the city with my hasher friends (www.phoenixhhh.org), went to Los Angeles to see friends, went to Las Vegas for a really fun Red Dress Run for the Hash House Harriers group…
September still means summer in Phoenix so our Luau run (hash) was definitely a hot run. It was a fun day full of friends, running, singing, beer pong (and winning the championship with my pong-partner), playing chicken in the pool, eating what non-meat items were available and consuming more than one beer. The hang-over run on Sunday morning did not entice as many hashers as Saturday’s, but it was a fun little run. At the beginning of the month Karen…
August went by very quickly with visits from family, travel to visit friends and camping at the end of the month with friends and new friends. At the beginning of the month I flew to the San Francisco area to visit Elena and Tom who just got a new place so I thought I’d help them break in the new place. Fortunately for me they were already unpacked, organized and ready for company. While there Elena and I explored the…
Hashing on the Fourth of July was lots of fun, but when the temperature gets above 105 it will have an impact on one’s ability to truly enjoy the run. It turns into survival by mile three. 🙂 That’s where the beer stops come into play and we all sit, drink water, drink beer and attempt to spell “Hash” with our bodies. After the run we all met at one of the Hasher’s homes for a pool party and BBQ….
June is almost over and what the heck have I been doing? I don’t even remember now…hmmm. The picture above is of my nephew Carson and Justin along with my father (Bob) who are assisting with the production of a traditional family wedding drink. YUM! I went on a few hikes so far this month and have been neglecting mountain biking a bit, but I resolved that issue last Sunday morning. I’ve had a few massages this month which has…
Well, May started out well with a camping trip to Hilltop Campground near Lynx Lake south of Prescott, AZ. We went up Thursday after work to find an almost empty campground so we had our pick and chose a perfect spot. It is over 5,000 feet in elevation so even at this time of year it is cool/cold at night and I’m glad my sleeping bag is rated for cold temps. I went up with my running group for the…
Not much change since last month so far. Work is going well, life is going as well as it can right now. I am very thankful for my family and friends. The running group (HHH) I joined is a fantastic group of people who make my weeks so much better with their humor and willingness to just be open to whatever comes their way. If it weren’t for them I have no clue where I would be now and getting…
This has been a beautiful winter in AZ with plenty of outdoor activities to keep me busy and out of trouble. I’ve been hiking and biking a few times per week either around the city or east of Phoenix in the mountains. There are so many hiking and biking clubs available through meetup.com that if a person wanted to do something almost every day they could. In February my parents visited for over three weeks and that was wonderful having…
2009 will hopefully be a better year and bring joy and happiness again. I am on my own now after my wife decided she wanted to be with other men. The blog will be left as is since I thought we had a pretty good marriage and we had many good times together. Those years helped to make me into the person I am today. From this point forward it will just be me, my family and…