Friday, November 22, 2013

Why did Jesus ride a Donkey?

Why did Jesus ride a donkey? After all he was God. He could have had corporate jet, a bike, or a nice dirt bike motorcycle. Two days ago we got a flat tire. Donkeys don't get flat tires. Nothing is more frustrating than flat tires, and the desert seems to have a magic way of creating flat tires. A tire with a punctured sidewall cannot be fixed. The Kadizzles have averaged about one tire per year that has to be replaced at over two hundred dollars per tire. Drywall screws, shell casings, and rocks, are all common tire demons.

Yesterday the Kadizzles took the tire to get it fixed. Finding a place that will repair a flat in this modern age is another problem. Prior to our most recent flat tire, we had to drive from Pick City North Dakota to Billings Montana before we could get a flat repaired. Luckily after one false start we found a place in Pumpkin Center, AZ that could fix our tire.

The first place we stopped two people were waiting for the place to open. Both the woman and the man fit the typical small town desert MO. Both were fried by the sun, and both were deep in the hand gun culture. In fact that was part of why they were there. Al the 75 year old inventor was going to install his invention in the little desert woman's truck. The invention was very clever. It held you gun securely until you swiped your fingerprint across the back of the gun holder. Instantly your loaded gun was available to shoot the dastardly bastard that needed to be dead. Al has a video that shows him drawing the gun from it's holder near his back door in under three seconds. The great thing is the gun is safe from children, but loaded and ready to go. Kadizzle is not an advocate of hand guns. In fact hand guns should be registered, licensed and controlled, but until the NRA is defeated at least we can have some better safety devices.

If one went by appearance one would never have guessed how smart and what a good inventor the old guy was. Kadizzle enjoyed talking with him and the discussion lead to another invention he is working on. Al is working on a heat engine that will work similar to a steam engine, but will use freon. If his idea is practical it seems someone would have perfected it. For about an hour we discussed using his idea to capture the waste heat from power plants. After seeing Al's gun invention he just may be able to perfect his freon engine. If he does he will make more than Bill Gates.

Thursday, November 07, 2013

A New Adventure is about to begin.

Jasper Littlebottom and Lord Kadizzle have spent the last two weeks preparing the new Earth Module to head South.  We both miss the old Earth Module that was destroyed last year in our spectacular crash.  The new module has more room and many luxuries the old module lacked.  We have been trying to keep the module as light as possible and are eliminating many useless items we carried in the past.  Always we are faced with the "What if?" decisions.  What if we gut stuck, we will need a shovel, a chain, a winch, a rope. The plan now is not to get stuck.

If God is willing and the creeks don't rise the trip will begin on Saturday.  The Kadizzlenauts will probably make their way to Wheatland Wyoming to spend the night. From Wheatland it will be on to see our daughter in Denver.  After seeing the grandaughter Ticklepinch for a few days the wagon will go on to Chochitte reservoir.  A stop at Cottonwood may be in order to visit my Kadizzle's little sister, then on to Lake Roosevelt, North of Mesa.  So it will be changes in latitude changes in attitude.