More Elk hunt 2009

We took a beautiful hike one morning up in the backcountry toward apostle ridge.

Yes it is as small as it looks, good thing we had to carry it 2 miles to the truck.

What a life, after a hard day of hunting.

We got into the snow Wed and it sure was beautiful. We were trying to go to St Elmo but didn't make it.

Chris's trusty vehicle got us most of the way to Parmigan lake. Never had any car trouble.

Elk Hunt 2009

We hiked a little each day and the scenery was awesome. This is Harvard lakes area.

Carson was the first to draw blood. He got his Monday morning early, he was so proud.

Thanks so much to my friends Dot and Pat Bernhart in Buena Vista Co for the use of their home. We were sure spoiled.

New Jetski

Want a ride? I hope I get my $400 worth

We had fun but the water is still too cold.

I was able to lift the old play house I built over the fence with the tractor bucket.

I made a small vegtable garden in the yard and plan to plant some corn behind the fence.

It was hard to spread the gravel and make the border with power polls.

The boys really like the b-ball goal I cut down for them.

My new gate to the playground I built for the kids to use.

As you see, we didn't die. I guess I am still young at heart. Jeff screamed more than me.

The ride at Pigen Forge was as scary as it looks.

It was a beautiful day, like a state fair. We had funnel cake and icecream.

Ripleys believe it or not Gatlinburg TN. We took the family there for spring break.

My new lawn mower (Annie not the Machine)

History

Born in Kanab Utah to Virgil and Gladys Riggs, Graduated from Kanab High, Served a mission in Australia from 1971-1973, Married Cathy Joyner in Washington DC LDS Temple in 1974, Had Kenny on Dec 8 1976, Kelli on Nov 29 1976, Kevin on Jun 1 1978, Carson on Aug 7 1979, and Christopher on Dec 5 1982.
I enlisted in US AF on 17 May 1974 as an instrumentation Mechanic, got my AA in Electronics from the CCAF, BS in Psychology from Park College in 1986. Commissioned a 2nd Lt on Dec 17 1986 . In 1994 I finally got a Masters Degree, after more than 10 yr work, from Golden Gate University in Human Resource Management. I retired from the AF Jun 1 2000 as Major. Married the love of my life on May 19 2000 Jacqueline Carol McCartee, She had Jeffrey (6yr) and Juliana (Annie 3yr). We were married in Buena Vista Colorado and moved shortly after to San Diego Ca were I worked as a contractor for CBIG/Crown Castle USA on an AT&T contract to build wireless cell sited in the San Diego area. After one short year Crown Castle lost the contract with AT&T and we moved back to Pueblo CO in Aug 2001 and lived with Jackie’s family till we bought 242 Dittmer. I worked as a handy man and then got on with a developer Todd Pasquin full time. We worked real hard remodeling the Dittmer house and sold it for $100K more than we paid. We moved to Clarksville TN Jul 2004, 922 Lucy Ln. We love it here. In Jun 2008 we bought 1220 Madison St and started moving "Clarksville Montessori Children's House" from 136 Commerce. The school is a "work in progress"

Playing Hookie

Barney Fife would be proud of us. This is Leapers Fork TN (30 Mi SE of Nashville)

Me and the Cats

Mittens and Eliza Jane (EJ) who looks the happiest?

More Tractor

The disc is under the bucket, I had to pack it in to get it all on the 16' trailer.

Converted to 12 V and oil spin on filter, new front tires.

You can see the Bush hog, scraper blade and cultivator.

Old Tractor

My new "old 1952 8N ford" tractor. It is just like my dads but painted red and yellow.

This is Sunday Mar 8, I forgot to set my clock forward. We missed Church and went for a ride to Leapers Fork. The photo was taken outside the place we ate lunch "The Twisted Fork". They also had a "General Lee" but my battery on the camera died.