Friday- This is an at home weekend. I hop into my car on Friday afternoon and drive home for the weekend, and then I will go back to the desert on Sunday evening. I was doing this every weekend but lately it’s been every two weeks. I suspect that within the next month I will [...]

It’s funny how equipment you need costs so much money, yet equipment you don’t need has virtually no value. Case in point, my rotisserie machine. This thing is a behemoth. It can cook enough chickens at one time to feed a third world country. I love rotisserie chicken but one thing I have found out [...]

And now the stretch run has arrived. Most of my tile work is done. The tilers will come back after the painters are done to polish all of the tile and marble surfaces. The painters are about ¾ done. I will be happy to see them go. The mist from the paint spray gets everywhere. [...]

Spring is truly beautiful in the desert. There is still snow on the surrounding mountain peaks. The air is crisp and clean with cool mornings and warm afternoons. Storms that come through Southern California arrive in the desert as gusty winds and puffy clouds. There is seldom any precipitation unless the storm is very large. [...]

Another week slides by and we are a little closer to opening night. This was a moving week for remodeling. Old walls and equipment were moved out and new walls and equipment are moving in. Money was spent, boy was it spent but by weeks end I had a sense of accomplishment that I have [...]