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Recipe:
-Decide on the project details, spend time on e-Bay ordering any special badges you will need.
-Take one old but functioning refrigerator. Preferrably an old "roundie"
-Cover and tape the parts of the unit you do not wish to paint
-Remove all badges, flashings and bright-parts you do not want to keep
-Fill in all unwanted holes with gap filler, allow to dry
-Sand back the surface to be painted with 3 grades of sandpaper - Course to fine
-Using a sponge roller, coat with primer - once. Allow to dry overnight
-Sand the primer back with wet/dry sandpaper until flawless
-Clean with a cloth, moistened with Methylated Spirit
-Inspect and re-do any imperfect surface areas
-Using another sponge roller, paint the unit with the desired enamel colour. Allow to dry overnight
-Inspect and re-do any imperfect surface. Allow to dry
-Install decals and handpainted details. Allow to dry overnight
-Using another sponge roller, cover with gloss enamel. Allow to dry overnight
-Inspect, sand (wet/dry) and repaint any imperfect surfaces.
-When satisfied with the painted finish, intsall the bright-work (badges etc)
Result:
My one-of-a-kind Ferrari Refrigerator. A gift for my friend - He's a Ferrari addict.
My Life - As Artiste
Recipe:
-Take one old but functioning refrigerator. Preferrably an old "roundie"
-Sand back the
WHAT I DID ON MY NEW YEARS EVE ;-)
The sun came out yesterday for a change. Skies were clear ... air frigid. A pleasant ending to 2007.
My goal was to have found 200 geocaches by the end of the year. I didn't make that goal. After five finds yesterday I ended 2007 with 170 finds. Money & depression took the hold that it can in the last few months and dominated my thoughts. As much as I wanted to go caching .... I didn't have the energy to make it happen.
Feeling a bit better in the last week or so the decision was made to make it out one last time in 2007. With Sunday's weather holding us back I almost felt as though it would not happen. But it did ..... finally.
So after a morning argument with Dave about what else .... money, we do some creative banking and manage to get gas in the car, a little extra for some munchies and off we go (any extra money these days have been going towards tires for the truck). I have a route planned, its a small outing as I have to be home by early afternoon for the rest of my day. Explained later.
The first cache was called Louie-U-ee. Its a spot on I-5 where you can get off the freeway in the middle of nowhere and get back on the other direction. And before you look at the pictures .... I'm half embarrassed to put these up. The weight gain is very obvious .... didn't realize how obvious till I compared pictures from last year to this year .... ouch!
Hidden in the fence post cap it was a micro cache with a log only. Quick find, sign and go.
Next stop was called Maytenth Big Springs. We have stopped at this place many times as it was in route to some property my father had bought and we sold after moving here. It was never developed due to lack of water. We sold it for the same price it was bought for in 1964. And we were lucky to get that.
I just love it when he faces me into the freaking sun. LOL cllecr had sent me a new coin to send on its way for her and I chose this spot to get it going. From here it can go either north or south, east or west with ease. Can't tell from the picture but Mt. Shasta is in view. The cache is hidden (very well I might add, damn) in a little park area next to the mini-mart.
A nice bridge out in the country .... thinking of putting a cache here. This was actually in route from the first cache to second cache. The snow covered mountain in the background is called the goose nest. It is said you don't plant your garden till the snow is off the goose nest .... a rule Dave and I generally ignore. Go figure.
From here we went into the actual "development" that we had owned the property in. We (Dave) goes here a lot to collect lava rock. And there is plenty of it. Growing up as a kid I new we owned property with Mt. Shasta as the view, but all I could really tell people about it is that it was lava rock and tumble weeds. The tumble weeds were actually Juniper trees and bushes.
The Mt. Shasta Vista (name of what would have been a subdivision had there been water) cache was hidden in an old Juniper snag .... just down the road from our old piece of ground. It was a good hide.
From here we headed out to Hwy 97 and headed to Cindy's Cache. This cache was hidden by the same gentleman that had hidden the previous cache. It was in memory of his late wife who died just recently. She had been introduced to geocaching in May of this year and fell in love with the sport instantly. She had received about five trackable items for her birthday and made up a cache with her birthday goodies to hide in celebration. She died suddenly without warning.
Signing the log at Cindy's cache. It was kind of a strange spot. An area wide enough for truckers to turn around or just pull off the Hwy for a rest .... there were plenty of piss bottles littering the area. We both thought was a strange place to put such a meaningful cache. Another reason to carry antibiotic hand gel. EWWW .....
The last cache of the day and my 170th find was called Emigrant Trail.
You gotta love the double glasses action going on here. Can't see without either pair .... sun or regular .... so you do what you gotta do. Double up. LOL It took me forever to find this cache .... and for the most part it was in plain sight. Sometimes I think we just look a bit to hard.
And of course .... as most of you know .... I can't head east without .....
a picture of Shasta in all her glory. Taken from the Louie Rd. cache.
I found out yesterday that Mt. Shasta now erupts about every 600 years .... it's been approximately 200 years since she last erupted. That is very good news.
We then took the long way home .... a relaxing scenic drive. I then had to get ready for part two of my day. I'll bet the anticipation is just killing you ....
Bingo. Yep .... the girl said .... Bingo. My darling lovely adorable mother let me know on Sunday that I was expected at Bingo on New Years Eve to help. After I got over the anger and went to the shop and screamed very loudly I just resolved myself to go. But the woman has to stop this shit.
I got our donation of finger food ready to go ..... chips and salsa .... downed two beers very very quickly .... smoked a large bowl .... grabbed a piece of Big Red (old and stale) and mom and off we went. To the senior center for Bingo. "We are always done before midnight." Believing that this was my irritation.
For the next seven hours I played banker at Bingo. Till well after Midnight. I would love to just bitch and bitch and bitch ..... but I came home $70.00 richer. Bingo was very very good to me last night.
After falling asleep sometime after 3:00 this morning .... I was awakened by Petey with sweet eye kisses letting me know he was hungry at about 6:30. I've been up since. A nap will be in order sometime today.
It is also moms birthday today. Not sure what we are going to do for her. Haven't even thought about it honestly. So .... guess I better.
Hope everyone has a wonderful New Years ....
Peace. J.
My goal was to have found 200 geocaches by the end of the year. I didn't make that goal. After five finds yesterday I ended 2007 with 170 finds. Money & depression took the hold that it can in the last few months and dominated my thoughts. As much as I wanted to go caching .... I didn't have the energy to make it happen.
Feeling a bit better in the last week or so the decision was made to make it out one last time in 2007. With Sunday's weather holding us back I almost felt as though it would not happen. But it did ..... finally.
So after a morning argument with Dave about what else .... money, we do some creative banking and manage to get gas in the car, a little extra for some munchies and off we go (any extra money these days have been going towards tires for the truck). I have a route planned, its a small outing as I have to be home by early afternoon for the rest of my day. Explained later.
The first cache was called Louie-U-ee. Its a spot on I-5 where you can get off the freeway in the middle of nowhere and get back on the other direction. And before you look at the pictures .... I'm half embarrassed to put these up. The weight gain is very obvious .... didn't realize how obvious till I compared pictures from last year to this year .... ouch!
Hidden in the fence post cap it was a micro cache with a log only. Quick find, sign and go.
Next stop was called Maytenth Big Springs. We have stopped at this place many times as it was in route to some property my father had bought and we sold after moving here. It was never developed due to lack of water. We sold it for the same price it was bought for in 1964. And we were lucky to get that.
I just love it when he faces me into the freaking sun. LOL cllecr had sent me a new coin to send on its way for her and I chose this spot to get it going. From here it can go either north or south, east or west with ease. Can't tell from the picture but Mt. Shasta is in view. The cache is hidden (very well I might add, damn) in a little park area next to the mini-mart.
A nice bridge out in the country .... thinking of putting a cache here. This was actually in route from the first cache to second cache. The snow covered mountain in the background is called the goose nest. It is said you don't plant your garden till the snow is off the goose nest .... a rule Dave and I generally ignore. Go figure.
From here we went into the actual "development" that we had owned the property in. We (Dave) goes here a lot to collect lava rock. And there is plenty of it. Growing up as a kid I new we owned property with Mt. Shasta as the view, but all I could really tell people about it is that it was lava rock and tumble weeds. The tumble weeds were actually Juniper trees and bushes.
The Mt. Shasta Vista (name of what would have been a subdivision had there been water) cache was hidden in an old Juniper snag .... just down the road from our old piece of ground. It was a good hide.
From here we headed out to Hwy 97 and headed to Cindy's Cache. This cache was hidden by the same gentleman that had hidden the previous cache. It was in memory of his late wife who died just recently. She had been introduced to geocaching in May of this year and fell in love with the sport instantly. She had received about five trackable items for her birthday and made up a cache with her birthday goodies to hide in celebration. She died suddenly without warning.
Signing the log at Cindy's cache. It was kind of a strange spot. An area wide enough for truckers to turn around or just pull off the Hwy for a rest .... there were plenty of piss bottles littering the area. We both thought was a strange place to put such a meaningful cache. Another reason to carry antibiotic hand gel. EWWW .....
The last cache of the day and my 170th find was called Emigrant Trail.
You gotta love the double glasses action going on here. Can't see without either pair .... sun or regular .... so you do what you gotta do. Double up. LOL It took me forever to find this cache .... and for the most part it was in plain sight. Sometimes I think we just look a bit to hard.
And of course .... as most of you know .... I can't head east without .....
a picture of Shasta in all her glory. Taken from the Louie Rd. cache.
I found out yesterday that Mt. Shasta now erupts about every 600 years .... it's been approximately 200 years since she last erupted. That is very good news.
We then took the long way home .... a relaxing scenic drive. I then had to get ready for part two of my day. I'll bet the anticipation is just killing you ....
Bingo. Yep .... the girl said .... Bingo. My darling lovely adorable mother let me know on Sunday that I was expected at Bingo on New Years Eve to help. After I got over the anger and went to the shop and screamed very loudly I just resolved myself to go. But the woman has to stop this shit.
I got our donation of finger food ready to go ..... chips and salsa .... downed two beers very very quickly .... smoked a large bowl .... grabbed a piece of Big Red (old and stale) and mom and off we went. To the senior center for Bingo. "We are always done before midnight." Believing that this was my irritation.
For the next seven hours I played banker at Bingo. Till well after Midnight. I would love to just bitch and bitch and bitch ..... but I came home $70.00 richer. Bingo was very very good to me last night.
After falling asleep sometime after 3:00 this morning .... I was awakened by Petey with sweet eye kisses letting me know he was hungry at about 6:30. I've been up since. A nap will be in order sometime today.
It is also moms birthday today. Not sure what we are going to do for her. Haven't even thought about it honestly. So .... guess I better.
Hope everyone has a wonderful New Years ....
Peace. J.
Blessed crochet fibers
Along with my book fetish, I have started to crochet. I have recalled seventeen year old memory so that I can do this. I have already made a purse, cell phone case, and hat...within 3 days. I am a beast when I get started. I want to learn some neat looking stitches next. I have the basic ones down. I really am enjoying this. What a stress relief! I went shopping today and got 5 more skeins to go with what I already have from my mother's generosity. The joy of fiber work is trembling through my achy fingers!
Lucky For You .....
I've quit counting the days. They have pretty much run all together at this time anyway.
Thursday was a good day. A day of relaxing .... found three caches and hid one. We started out a bit later than I would have like in the morning but that is overall my doing. Just couldn't seem to get moving. Worn out from a long week. The first thing on the agenda for the morning was the cache hide. We knew where we wanted to hide it and had made several attempts .... but there were always people (muggles in geospeak) around so we tried again Thursday and got lucky. Well, except the the Highway Patrol showed up to see what the suspicious circumstances were going on at the bridge. Someone had reported us apparently. We explained what we were doing and he had a good laugh and told us to "Have a nice day". Thank you Mr. Officer ......
The bridge where we hid the cache. I named it Buck Bridge Cache for this reason:
This beauty watched us non stop and never budged .... I told him he best not be pointing out the cache for people ..... karma may bite him in the butt come hunting season .... !
The first cache find was at Iron Gate Lake. It was a beautiful day ....
The find on a ridge about above the lake. "Iron Gate Cache".
Micro hidden here at the sign. Horseshoe Ranch Wildlife Area .... didn't know it existed.
The "Savage Falls" cache. What a beautiful spot this was .... and on a hot day .... quite refreshing !
Savage Falls.
Savage Falls ..... again.
Taken from the top of the falls ...
Rock formation above the falls.
A very cool looking flower amongst all the trees and folage in the area of the falls. I can't even tell you how totally cool this place really was ..... and to have it to ourselves was even nicer.
The coin has now gone through Oregon .... up to Washington ..... and now back down to Fullerton, CA. traveling over 900+ miles. It was picked up today and will soon continue on its journey .... it really is fun watching it bounce from cache to cache.
Work .... still love it .... still a lot of drama .... a never ending battle for respect .... but I've gotten tougher in the past two days ..... if they didn't like me / hated me before ..... it's about to take a turn for the worse. But out of the bad will come some good .... it has too.
Hoping all of you father's out there have an awesome day tomorrow ..... and a great weekend to all.
Peace. J.
Thursday was a good day. A day of relaxing .... found three caches and hid one. We started out a bit later than I would have like in the morning but that is overall my doing. Just couldn't seem to get moving. Worn out from a long week. The first thing on the agenda for the morning was the cache hide. We knew where we wanted to hide it and had made several attempts .... but there were always people (muggles in geospeak) around so we tried again Thursday and got lucky. Well, except the the Highway Patrol showed up to see what the suspicious circumstances were going on at the bridge. Someone had reported us apparently. We explained what we were doing and he had a good laugh and told us to "Have a nice day". Thank you Mr. Officer ......
The bridge where we hid the cache. I named it Buck Bridge Cache for this reason:
This beauty watched us non stop and never budged .... I told him he best not be pointing out the cache for people ..... karma may bite him in the butt come hunting season .... !
The first cache find was at Iron Gate Lake. It was a beautiful day ....
The find on a ridge about above the lake. "Iron Gate Cache".
Micro hidden here at the sign. Horseshoe Ranch Wildlife Area .... didn't know it existed.
The "Savage Falls" cache. What a beautiful spot this was .... and on a hot day .... quite refreshing !
Savage Falls.
Savage Falls ..... again.
Taken from the top of the falls ...
Rock formation above the falls.
A very cool looking flower amongst all the trees and folage in the area of the falls. I can't even tell you how totally cool this place really was ..... and to have it to ourselves was even nicer.
The coin has now gone through Oregon .... up to Washington ..... and now back down to Fullerton, CA. traveling over 900+ miles. It was picked up today and will soon continue on its journey .... it really is fun watching it bounce from cache to cache.
Work .... still love it .... still a lot of drama .... a never ending battle for respect .... but I've gotten tougher in the past two days ..... if they didn't like me / hated me before ..... it's about to take a turn for the worse. But out of the bad will come some good .... it has too.
Hoping all of you father's out there have an awesome day tomorrow ..... and a great weekend to all.
Peace. J.
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