Bodie holdin the tail of the biggest trout I have ever caught , washin bike's, and sand dunes

Bo

Cedar Mountain

Bodie , Jett, and myself were fishin a little creek that run's down Stout Canyon while Sloan was back at the truck with Boozer. When we came back she was holding a little kitten that she heard crying in the wood's. He matched the dog perfectly and the boy's obviously liked him but since we don't even know where were going to live we thought it best not to add another mouth to the family. The next day we took him to Best Friends and went through and hour long process of filling out papers explaining why we were giving him up and what his freakin name was and his eating and grooming habits. So thanks to that the next cat Sloan finds in the wood's can give it his best shot becoming friend's with the local wild life.

Summer fun.......and the livin's ezzzy

We have been having a lot of fun lately, maybe not all that easy but it has been fun. Thing's are starting to get a little crazy since we have to have this house packed up by the end of the month. I can not believe how much crap we have accumulated since we got married. Before I married Sloan and got my Boy's I could pack everything I owned in my Bronco. Now I need the biggest damn U-hual they make. In short , possession's suck. They are a noose around my neck which for the most part I could do with out. In other new's there is some talk of me going to work for South Central Communications. The job is for the Cedar City , Summit, and Parowan area, so we could live in any one of those town's. I'am not a big fan of Cedar so if it happen's probably one of the other two. It is just talk for now though so I'am not to worried about the pressure that would come with a regular forty hour work week. Well that's all I got for the moment. The pic's above show a little of the fun we have been having. Later

The Desert

As much as I love being in the mountain's I never feel as at home as I do in the desert. After being in Tahoe for only a couple week's I was ready to move in permanetly. That is until I made the drive back to Southern Utah. As soon as I topped the little rise just past the Arizona State Line and got my first view of the red rock surrounding St. George I new I was home. I cant say exactly what it is but there is definitely a feeling I get from the harsh desert landscape that I feel nowhere else. There is a deep quite I can hear in the desert that I could not appreciate more after escaping from civilization's harsh noise. It bring's my body a deep peace that I think some of you may feel from religion. I may leave from time to time but I will always return and always call the desert my home.

Not the first time and wont be the last

We are packin up our stuff again. Sloan and myself made the decision about 11 oclock this morning that we will move out of this little house and put most of our crapola in storage. Decision was made at 11, a lot of our possession's had price tag's on them by 2 , and yard sale signs were strategically placed through out Kanab by 6. Sloan has turned out to be one hell of a wife. I say pack, she smile's and get's to it. Well it wasnt that easy but way better than I could ever hope for. Everybody that has been around me know's that if at all possible I like to have a new job, new house, new town , at least every six to eight month's. We have been in this little house for well over a year and a half. So as you can see this little adventure is long over due. I asked Johnny Bo if it would be okay if we sold all of our stuff and lived in a tent on the mountain. He gave me a dead serious look and said " ummm..... I think we should probably keep the dvd player because we will want to watch some show's". Couldn't say much to that so the dvd player stay's. I will be starting a three month job in Ashland Montana in a few week's. Luckily Sloan and the kid's have agreed to come up there with me and live in a tent , motel , or if were lucky an old camp trailer. I'am lucky to have such an awesome wife because that last job in Tahoe was way to damn long to go with out seeing her and the kid's and this job would be a lot longer. Ashland is only a couple hour's away from east Yellowstone so Iam guessin we can make it a pretty good time. I cant think of anything more rewarding for Sloan than to sit in an old camp trailer for 8 or 9 hour's a day with two insanely well behaved young boy's while the daddy is at work. Plus when it is all over we will have our storage unit to return home too.

It's good to be home

Back from South Lake Tahoe

Well I rolled into Kanab Monday night more excited than I have been in a long damn time. Excited because I hadn't seen my wife and boy's for a little over a month. Something I hope will never happen again. I was able to bring them up for a couple week's during my first month and we had a great time. Played down at the lake and got to see some of the most beautiful places in the world. We even made a trip to Sacremento for no particular reason one weekend and ended up at the Zoo where the boy's had a hell of a time. Tasha made the trip over for a week and hung out with Sloan and the boy's while I worked. It had been almost a year since we had seen Tash so it was a well needed vist. Bolth of the boy's had a lot of fun with her, espeacially Bodie who latched on to her and didn't let go untill he flew out. Tash stayed a couple day's after my little family flew home wich helped take a little of the sting away. We took a really cool hike up to one of the area's many waterfall's one day and had fun hanging out with the vagrants and hippies at the Tahoe flea market the next. She flew home the next day and I settled into a rythme of work , fast food , cell phone, and casino's. I had hoped to do a lot of hiking after work and on the weekends but jacked up my foot pretty good and limped my ass around the remainder of the time. Wich consequently cost me a little cash because that left me with only food, gambling, and a couple concerts to kill the next month. I got to see Australian Pink Floyd in Reno my last weekend there and was blowin away. If you ever get the chance to see them do not miss it. As most of you have probably heard a lot of South Lake Tahoe and the surrounding area is now gone do to the Angora fire. Still have not heard if the job site I was working on is still there or not but the absolutely beautiful one lane road through the forrest I drove a couple times a day is now nothing but ash, along with the couple hundred cabins that hid through out. Although it sucked being away from my family that long I'am happy for the time I got to spend there. It was one pretty place. The fire did send me home a week early. Iam still waiting to hear if my boss is going to fly me back up to finish the job. Doestn't sound good though, just talked to them and they might be evacuated out of house where we had lived for the last two months. The pic of the smoke I took from downtown Myers just as the fire was getting started.