Yours Truly Fire Surfing and other things

Our Friend sent pictures via the Facebook that she took last weekend.
I got mugged by another friend's wife while fire surfing! I did not spill a drop of my Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, either!
There is one at the end of Sunday when the weather was much nicer. All I did was watch my grand daughter ride a small four wheeler most of the afternoon.

Suzann mugging me

Good Grief! I look almost intelligent!

Ex-USS Iowa arrives off San Pedro

She was towed from Richmond CA by a 7,000 hp tug boat named "Warrior"
Appropriate, I would say.
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-uss-iowa-california,0,5890531.story

The above is of Iowa at Suisun Bay inactive ship facility. It is going to a better home, if ya ask me!

Neptunus Lex is back up!

Lex's youngest daughter, Kat has it going again.
Same address as always.
Bless that young lady.
http://www.neptunuslex.com/
I get to keep reading Rhythms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Memorial Day

From Buck at Exile In Portales. Nuff said.

 http://exileinportales.blogspot.com/2012/05/memorial-day.html

This Memorial Day

America's Sergeant Major had this one up today. I really do not think that I could do any better.
I will add these names as they are the ones in the family who are gone now who served.
Dad, Grandpa Turner, Uncle George, Uncle Philip, Great Uncle Dan and Great Uncle Bud.
The rest I leave to the Sergeant Major.
http://castrapraetoria1.blogspot.com/2012/05/this-memorial-day.html

Desert Weekend

We spent part of yesterday and today at The Dove Springs OHV Area about twenty five miles from the house, north.
The Grand Daughter is here for a fair chunk of the summer. She had a blast today. Yesterday degenerated due to the WIND and COLD! We were at about 3,100 feet elevation.

Bailee

Karl and Summer Morgan

Billy Beach.

Bailee sliding down the hill

Flying Ambulance orbiting due to an accident near where we were

Billy is Fire Surfing!

Suzanne Rainone mugged me while I was Fire Surfing!

Joshua Tree on a hill top

The sign says it all

Life in The High Desert

Bailee on a sand drift

Leaving foot prints

Bailee

Bailee and new friends

Christina Rainone in the middle

Bailee on a four wheeler

Karl working on a Coors Light.

Bailee riding like a pro!

Desert Moon, directly overhead

Desert Sunset

TCOTS Six Days of Cheesecake-Wednesday

Bob Belvedere has done it again. This is a sample of what he has going. Go on over and check it out and the entire six days as well.
http://thecampofthesaints.org/2012/05/16/the-tcots-six-days-of-cheesecake-wednesday-2/

Rule Five for a Saturday

From Guns and Bikinis!!!!!!!
Malibu Babe!!!!!!!!!!!
http://gunsandbikinis.blogspot.com/2012/05/fridays-rule-5-offering-malibu-babe.html

Good one here from Kanani at Kitchen Dispatch

This is at the Kitchen Dispatch. The proprietor of this most excellent blog is Kanani Fong. I might add that she is a Lexican of the highest order.
So hit the link and have a read. The Old Retired Petty Officer would appreciate it and I am sure that Kanani would as well.
BTW, Kitchen Dispatch is on the blog roll here.
http://kitchendispatch.blogspot.com/2012/05/high-ground-help-on-rivers-journey.html

Nevada Ghosts: Rare Photos From an A-Bomb Test

I was at Yahoo to check my email and this was on the headline ticker thing they have.
It is interesting to say the least.

"........In the spring of 1955, as the Cold War intensified and the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union escalated at a shocking pace, America — as it had many times before — detonated an atomic weapon in the Nevada desert. The test was not especially noteworthy. The weapon’s “yield” was not dramatically larger or smaller than that of previous A-bombs; the brighter-than-the-sun flash of light, the mushroom cloud and the staggering power unleashed by the weapon were all byproducts familiar to anyone who had either witnessed or paid attention to coverage of earlier tests......."

There are 21 photos at the link. 

They speak volumes and I cannot add any comment worth any salt at all.

Read more: http://life.time.com/history/atomic-testing-photos-life-magazine/#ixzz1vwtXQfhn