The Creature From The Black Lagoon Sculpture

My first attempt with WED clay. I want to make a mold then cast it in resin or some such like. This water based clay isn't meant to be the finished product. So I need to get the mold process going pretty soon. This is strictly for personal use. The fine people at Universal Studios own the rights to The Creature....and all the other A-List monsters!

The Creature From The Black Lagoon

This is one of my many projects that I'm working on and will not finish (due to mind issues). It's Universal Studios Creature From The Black Lagoon. At this point I'm still blocking in the basic shape. Once I'm happy with the overall mass I'll start adding the details. When I'm almost done with all the beautiful finishing touches, I'll very slowly slide it to the edge of the table and drop it down on to the floor. Then I'll go upstairs and pour myself a glass of whisky and find something else to do.

My 1998 Kawasaki Vulcan: Now What?

I'm not sure if this oil leak at the spark plug is a major or minor problem. I'll worry more about it after I fix my electrical problem.  Hidalgo has developed quite an appetite for batteries. The first battery died at 9:30 at night, and hour and a half from home. The new battery died in my driveway after a long ride. Seeing how there is a new stator (generator of electricity for the bike) I'm hoping it can only be the voltage regulator that's bad.  I wanted to replace it all along, but when I ordered one off of E-Bay it was the wrong one. So I sent it back and took a shot with the old one. Oh well, that's what happens when you get cheap. Anyway, a new one should be here in a couple of days.

Laconia Motorcycles

Laconia New Hampshire: Bike Week

Conquistador Your Stallion Stands....

Hidalgo awaits......

A Hearty Good Morning From Akira

My bantam rooster, crowing at me this morning.

Black Fly

crawling up the van window
a black fly
I think for a minute
then I let him live
a crack of the window presents freedom
he chooses to stay?
we ride together this amazing morn
I'm washed with happiness
he looks proud
momentary friendship or maybe eternal
climbing up to the edge of the open window
he finds his perch
watching me through the breeze
what a strange creature I must seem
then he is gone

Chickens!!

So....anyways.....earlier this spring my wife and kids got 10 chickens and 1 turkey chick. This should make my life easier. My little bantam rooster Akira is going to have his hands full with all these full sized chickens. Who knows how the turkey is going to fit into this mix. Throw in an English bulldog and a huge tortoise (and a smaller dog and another smaller tortoise).  Fun times ahead. Hopefully I'll at least get some eggs.

Vulcan Update

 My brother and I rode our motorbikes out to Peterborough today, about an hour away. Nice country back roads along a river and through farm country. The Vulcan, that I've named Hidalgo, performed much better than I expected. It was a fantastic and much needed break from reality. As far as the repairs are going, one of the last things on my list to do is to change the K&N air filter. I changed the plugs a couple of days ago. At some point I'll change the final gear oil. Also, I've decided that windshields are for girls so I took the bracket for that off and threw it in the woods behind my house. I ordered some black hard luggage bags for the sides off of E-Bay. They look a little scuffed up which suits me fine.

UFO Video

I filmed this off my back deck last night.

Night Ride

So....last night I walk into the house from my first real ride on The Vulcan. I'm covered with a very large variety of dead and not so dead insects. Surprisingly I'm not bothered in the least. A warm spring New Hampshire night on a back country road. Riding through a thick soup of little flying creatures of the night. There's something very spiritual riding through this forested countryside in total darkness. Killing insects with your body. I mean... with no exaggeration I was hit by thousands upon thousands of insects. At one point I put my arms out at my side and closed my eyes and tried to will more to join me, to become one with my soul really. It was wonderful. I could feel moths crawling on my face and into the side of my helmet. Trying to crawl into my mind. Things were colliding with my face and giving me their life. I saw a waddling porcupine on the side of the road and at one point a deer ran across the road in front of me. Riding at night when no one else is on the road is truly a magical experience.

Movie Night

This is our makeshift "drive-in" showing Abbott and Costello on a 60 year old 8mm projector. My wife's inside watching cooking shows on the 50" HD while we are out here on the perimeter.....of what's normal. Just outside the line looking in....feeling sorry for the non believers.