So, what's Cliff been up to?

Of course Cliff goes to work every afternoon and puts in his eight hours. But in his time at home, he always has several projects going.

This is a project that failed. He'd bought a pair of tire chains at a garage sale thinking they'd fit on those garden tractor tires. They weren't quite long enough.

He made a top link for the brother-in-law's Mahindra tractor that we're babysitting.

There, see it now? OK, I know most of you don't know what a top link is, but our son will appreciate the craftsmanship.

He's been repairing faulty screens on the trailer house.


A neighbor gave him this ugly old AC welder that didn't work. It works now.

He carefully worded some ads for Craigslist so he can sell the welder and the chains.

And right now, he's chatting with the grandson.

Busy man, is Cliff. Not one to sit around the house watching soap operas (or playing on the computer).

Oh, did I mention he spent yesterday forenoon planting twenty-five Norway Spruce trees? In the rain?

My latest project

Thanks to digital cameras, I have taken literally hundreds of pictures during our motorcycle adventures.

Using Windows Movie Maker, I'm in the process of compiling the best ones and putting them in order on a DVD, for memories.

It will tell the story of how we got the fever for a Gold Wing from start to finish.

I'm pondering on what music to use as a background sound. I hesitate to choose the obvious "Motorcycle Song" by Arlo Guthrie, because it's seven minutes long and tends to grate on the nerves after awhile. Perhaps I'll use several shorter tunes, depending on how long the DVD turns out to be.

I even have a video I made once of one of our trips to Subway on "Two-for-Tuesday". I may incorporate that in with the still pictures, somewhere.

It's going to take awhile. Wish me luck.

Cliff's other new projects

I don't know about you, but I sometimes wonder how Cliff finds time to go to work, he has so many projects. Well actually, sometimes he doesn't. He played hooky yesterday.

This is a round pen he's building, for training horses. I'm not real confident that I'll know how to make Libby perform properly in it, but Adam and Jessica are elated about this addition! You'd have thought they'd won the lottery when they saw what Cliff was doing. Adam is going to contribute the sand that is needed, for proper footing for the horses.

This trailer belongs to a friend. Cliff is going to see if our car can comfortably pull it with two big motorcycles on board. If so, he'll do a little customizing, and when we go to Colorado this summer with Cliff's sister and her husband, we'll take our Honda and their Harley. Once we arrive at our destination, we'll park the car and ride the motorcycles.