Post #598489 by Bay Park Buzzy on Wed, Jul 20, 2011 12:51 PM

Sunset:

The last week has been a blur....

It was all going quite well and I had the two tall tikis all sanded and ready to be detailed:

It was real hot and dirty work, so I went to go swim in the lake before I started to do the final work on them.

When I got down to the lake shore, I found some dude measuring something:

He told me he was some fancy pants decorator from the city somewhere and he was going to do some building and that I needed to help him with it for a few days. I looked him up online and read about him and the stuff he makes. I went back out to him and said,"Hey, I just did some research on you online."
He paused from measuring stuff out and introduced himself to me. I pointed to his tape measurer and asked if he was using it a lot on this job. He said so far, yes. So then I asked Bamboo Ben when exactly it was that he sold out to the establishment and started using a f'n ruler!

Next thing I know, I'm digging holes, screwing screws, and lugging lumber to hell and back. Here's some big poles that we set:

Here's a video clip of some help we got from local legend Crazy Kelly Osbourne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2TdhzqjCuA
I'll have "pics soon" of the final outcome. There's still some minor work to do on them.

My dog could only bury her head in the sand in horror while it was all happening:

After Ben left, I had to make a bunch of these:

It's all soap... my house is a mess after making those, but the good news is that the mess is soap. So I guess have the cleanest mess possible?

In other around here news, I got a glimpse of the baby dove:

After looking at the lazy efforts put into nest making by the mama dove, I have decided that I no longer like dove.

My new favorite bird is the bird who made this nest:

way better than a pile of sticks on a net!

I thought that nest looked like a mini tiki hut, so I decorted it up a bit:


I heard a voice in my head that told me to climb up a 20 foot ladder and put the tiki there. Funny thing is, the voice had a German accent and sounded a lot like Sven.

I've started to run into a few of these now and again:

Can you eat toads? I'm sure it's a delicacy somewhere...Send recipies if you have them

Owl update:
Found them on the island the other evening:

This guy was on the opposite shore:

Here's another picture of my dog standing in the lake:

She does that all the time.

Finally, I went to a junkyard that specialized in planes and airport junk for research purposes:



Strange things about the plane junkyard are that nothing's for sale and it costs $2000 to take pictures there!

On 2011-07-13 13:49, tok-tok wrote:
Are you on vacation or did you relocate?

I got busted for something that I cannot discuss here, and as a result I was placed on house arrest for anywhere from a couple to few years. Since I couldn't leave my house or grounds as part of my sentence, I resettled somewhere where it was so large and cool that it didn;t matter that I couldn;t leave. In fact, I don't want to leave! Ha, take that justice system! I'm doing your time in paradise!

On 2011-07-20 11:51, GROG wrote:

Somebody shot his penis off.

It actually looks like it was chewed off...I wonder what critter around here did that?

At Mojave Oasis, even the bird's nests are Tikified!
Buzzy Out!