and now, for something completely different…

On Sat­ur­day Jan­u­ary 19th, I helped a buddy get his (unique) motor­cy­cle down to Down­town HD in Ren­ton for a Vin­tage Bike show. Focus was on dirt bikes, and motor­crossers, but all sorts of inter­est­ing things came out of the wood­work. Here are a few of the pic­tures I took. Grab a tasty bev­er­age for a nice stroll down memory’s pit lane here.

ready to head for the show

 

brag sticker on a Penton-Wassel tri­als bike

 

Ducati swingarm detail

 

Ducati Scram­bler

 

Bul­taco Pur­sang, in the frozen fog

 

an Aermacchi-harley 350 Road Racer

 

exhaust detail on a Tri­umph 500cc Moto-crosser

 

a Hodaka Super Rat — my first bike

 

CJ-Framed Honda 4-stroker

 

a Pen­ton 125 Six-Days

 

a 1955 Maico tai­fun 400. just wow.

 

Hodaka Super Wombat

 

with wom­bat

any­one who would like larger ver­sions of these, or any­thing else that was there that I might have on film (so to speak), please just let me know. rub­ber side down!

<em>blackdog</em>

 

Back from the wilderness…

Hi Gang! It’s been two years since I posted here, and nearly that long since i had rid­den an event until the 13th of Jan­u­ary, 2013. No excuses, just a hec­tic life, spiced up with a man­gled left knee in August of 2012, that has kept me off the loop and out of the sections.

Rode the first PST event of the year, the Plas­tered Pur­ple Pen­guin, at Marysville. Two sto­ries dom­i­nated the day: my ten­der left knee, which it turned out, acquit­ted itself quite well, and the bit­terly cold weather, and accom­pa­ny­ing frozen tun­dra. In many sec­tions, the line was pol­ished smooth due to the action of tri­als tires on frozen dirt. Very chal­leng­ing. But my knee and I sur­vived, I didn’t take home last place, and I had fun, so there will be more events in my future, and more post­ings here.

black­dog

2nd Away Game

after obe­di­ence class. no he’s not very good at it. an before a bor­ing car rode to lyn­nwood to retrieve a for­got­ten credit card we did a quick 2 searches on a load­ing dock behind the Barnes and noble in Wood­inville. we had an audi­ence for the sec­ond search. G was unimpressed.

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1st Away Game

before we can switch from puppy nose work (cook­ies and boxes) Gizmo needs to do 6 searches away from home or the train­ing facility.

this is loca­tion one. the park next to the train depot and the police sta­tion in Duvall. we did two searches one along the path and one along the rock wall. shown here.

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Cream Biscuits

Com­fort food — just add a roast chicken and some green veg­gies. Some of what ever jam you put up this sum­mer is good too. Or is it’s still sum­mer, make extra and use them for shortcake.

Morroccan Chili

It’s not really chili. It’s actu­ally soup, but it’s served at Box­ing Day when there’s Red Chili and Green Chili so this is  Orange Chili. It’s also Vegan. And, oddly, accord­ing to a Moroc­can bar­tender I once described it to, pretty dan­ged authen­tic. Go figure.

Easy to mul­ti­ply for crowds. Remem­ber = Do not feed Adrian cilantro.

Spiced Pecans

More hol­i­day requests. I’m remak­ing some bits of the web­site over here and just to make sure that I don’t end on anyone’s naughty list, I’m mak­ing sure that all of the most requested recipes stay avail­able. This one is for the crack-addictive pecans that show up at hol­i­day par­ties when any­one is silly enough to say “oh just bring some­thing to nib­ble on.” You’ve been warned. I think these are based on some­thing that came from Cook­ing Light.

 

Hint: Make Lots.

Red Chili in a Slow Cooker

A tra­di­tion at the Box­ing Day Party. We’ve given this recipe to skiers, foot­ball fans, par­ents of tod­dlers who refuse to eat “funny stuff” and moth­ers of teenage boys who don’t eat so much as inhale. What­ever. It dis­ap­pears by the boat load. Serve with corn bread is you’re feel­ing ambi­tious. Tor­tillas if you aren’t. Beer is good too.