Natti makes some of her Very Extra Great....

Chicken Parm. If you haven't ever had Natti's chicken parm, there is a little something missing from your life!

Huntington Beach

Justin, Janice, Natti and the kids:


Natti and Seamus


Natti and Seamus take a walk while Justin plays in the sand


Janice and Lua pretty pose


Papa and the kids keep watch from all angles

30 Busses in the back of a pickup truck....

It can be done. Just ask Marshall how he does it.

Seamus likes the mixer......

We make quite a lot of tiramisu at our house and one thing required for really good tiramisu is whipped cream. We don't use Ready Whip! We whip our cream (lol) with an industrial Kitchen Aid mixer. This mixer makes quite a bit of noise.

Now, Seamus usually heads out onto the deck when we are making mechanical noises in the kitchen. Banging and grinding noises tend to make him nervous. The exception to this rule is when he hears the mixer. He has come to associate the sound of the mixer with the taste of whipped cream. When the mixer starts, within seconds Seamus will be waiting for a sample.

Back in the saddle......

A guy on a TV commercial said "riding a motorcycle may be the most enjoyable thing you'll ever do." Well, maybe he has never had sex, but riding a motorcycle is VERY enjoyable!!

Leaks and 'lectrics

Belle Dame' hit the streets on Friday just to get parked on Saturday. Turns out that my Harbor Freight teflon tape doesn't stand up to gasoline too good. Then, to top that off, my weld job on the petcock bung had a pinhole. I gooped the petcock threads with "Seal All" and patched the pinhole with "JB Weld". The gas now remains in the tank.

Update: Correction to above, The last sentence should read "The gas stays in the tank longer than before." Went home from work yesterday and found more wrinkle finish. Unfortunately that indicates a leak. I guess I have one more tiny pinhole. I shall resort to the application of a little more JB Weld around the rest of the welds. I will then cross my fingers and hope for the best. The Bash is only 30 days from today. I would prefer to not show up on a flaming chopper.

I also made a wee mistake when I wired the bitch. I wired the regulator output to the wrong side of the on/off switch, so turning off the switch doesn't kill the engine. I just have to move one wire to the other side of the switch and I'm golden. What a dumb ass..... I am after all a life long sparktrician.