here comes the sun

Posted on December 30, 2006

Here comes the sun! While everyone else is doing the whole … "year in review" bit … I thought I would skip that and just look forward to 007. We spend way too much time looking back and not enough time looking forward … or for that matter … enjoying the moment. I’m looking forward to ‘07 for a lot of reasons. New adventures, new opportunities, more travel, and I hope to make more money. Hey, why not? Lori and I have struggled these last two years on building our company and we hope 07 will allow us to hire another employee to help us with the labor.

We both feel a lot healthier than we did two years ago. Emotionally we were pooped. We left an almost 10 year stint of pastoring a church … only to face a few horizon of our lives … taking care of ourselves. That may sound weird to some but, those of you in ministry know what I am talking about. We still love church and want to be used with purpose … but, it’s a little different now. Now we can do it without fear. That may be something else some of you can’t wrap your mind around … it’s ok … I don’t have time to explain because I’m moving forward.

So on this day before the last day of 2006 … I say, bring it on. I am ready.

HG –

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suck it up … be a man

Posted on December 29, 2006


Love this shot from my son, Casey, from our trip to San Diego. I don’t know if you can see it … but there is a surfer with a yellow board coming out of the water to the right of the pic. It was cold.

I thought today I would just ramble a little bit. Catch some stray thoughts and pontificate. I got an email from Casey yesterday with a link to a "new deal" called GodMen. Seems it’s causing a brew-haha amongst the religious. GodMen is a new organization doing conferences telling men it’s okay to be a man. I understand why they are doing this … but it just seems like another gimmick. I’ve read their stuff and I’ve read their critics. I like their premise … but, really the only way to teach men about their masculinity is to model it. Even if they go to a "GodMen" conference … they will still step back into churches that are unchanged. Pastor’s will still go unchallenged to accountability and still held to a standard that leads to personal separation. "Good Try", I say … but this type of manliness needs to be mentored and not just strike a match to explosive testosterone. It’s the reason I never really got caught up in the Promise Keepers deal either. It’s like going to summer camp … getting pumped up … coming home … and then digressing back to the level of your home church. The short of it is this … religion cripples ANY person … if you don’t know how to have a relationship … you won’t have one … with Jesus or anyone else.

This Sunday is New Year’s Eve … and your’s truly has been asked to preach at Genesis Metro. I’m kind of excited about this. It’s been one month shy of two years since I spoke at a church. Doesn’t seem that long. I hope to share a message from the heart that is concise and to the point … lives might be changed, I hope.

I’ve been doing a lot of end of the year projects … since I have a little time. Still trying to finish the backyard pool demolishing, putting up a garage door opener, selling pool equipment from the defunct pool, servicing machines, cars and motorcycles, building my closet website. That’s the short of it. Sorry I didn’t send you all Christmas cards or Christmas emails … I send you stuff everyday … so why sign a card, eh?

HG — love and be loved.

ramp it up

Posted on December 28, 2006


As the the new year approaches and nice weather should be right around the corner … I turn my focus again to motorcycle ramps. Thinking that I will be able to "truck" my bike while pulling my travel trailer … this is the goal. I would love to be able to pull down to the "hill country" set up camp and "day ride" and then have my own bed to sleep in at night. Is it too much to ask? Any way … even though I would love one of those electric loaders … they are rather pricy … so I’m thinking that this ramp may fit the bill. The next problem I see is pulling the travel trailer with the tail gate down. These folks have every possible idea here for ramps. Great site.

Man, am I sluggish on getting back to tshirt printing. We printed a little bit yesterday and I have a few to print today. I have been putting in a lot of time on getting the "closet business" web site up and running. Should be this week! Then I expect all of my readers to get their closets re-modeled and let me sell you the greatest thing since sliced bread … John Lois Home, all wood, closet system. How was that for a pitch?

HG –

give me a shiner - not the beer

Posted on December 27, 2006

Ta Da!!! Here is a product that any biker CAN NOT afford to be without. I have tried so many products to keep my bike clean and shiny … and now it’s reduced to this one can. This is Honda’s Pro Spray Cleaner and Polish. You can use it anywhere … face shield, wind shields, paint, chrome, plastic, leather … whatever. I came across this product while looking for a wind shield cleaner at my local bike shop. The parts guy came over and we started to talk … I had an arm load of products I was about to buy when he said … all you need is this. I took it home and wham-o … it cleaned the Valk windshield great and the rest of the bike as well. I would suggest getting a soft micro towel for the bike and a soft windshield towel as well. Our local Alco sells a windshield towel that a little tighter mesh than the micro towel … it helps in getting bugs off. Pictured is the 14 oz. can … they have a smaller 4 oz. travel size for an "on the road" clean up.

The product should run you about $5 - $6 on the web …. and about $7 - $8  at the Honda Dealer. I’m also going to try it on my autos … I’ll let you know about that.

HG —

san diego sky line

Posted on December 26, 2006


san diego sky line
Originally uploaded by harleyghost.

As you see to the left I have added a flickr to this blog and this is a blog attachment from flickr that I am checking out. This is a photo that I took from our balcony while in San Diego on Evergreen St.

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