Building the cradle

I have been quite busy the last few weeks, but I decided I needed to make working on my motorcycle car a priority, so I went down to the Black Hole and bought this rolling steel frame to make a cradle to hold my car while I am building it. I had some 2"x1" rectangular tube that I would use to make the rolling cradle. This is me and my finished cradle.




At this point I had cut all the tube and started fitting it. The tube is attached to the rolling frame using 1/2-13 bolts. My hole hawg worked great for drilling those holes.




Getting the first longitudinal member welded in place.



I am now getting ready to weld the second longitudinal member in place.



Here is the finished product. Right now it is holding the swing arm from an ATV I bought at the flea market in San Diego for $15.00 I have the shock for it somewhere, but I'll have to look a little. I decided I would used this swing arm to try and speed up the initial assembly. I am glad to have this because everything should more or less be at working height at this point. I think it turned out pretty nice. Later I may add some more members to better triangulate it, but for now I am going to leave it as is until I see it is necessary. Hopefully next weekend I will be able to go get some more steel and start the chassis.

The Pizza Collaboration

One of the main reasons to have a farm is to eat it. All my herbs were starting to totally take over my table so I decided it was time to strike back. I asked my friend Tinh who likes to bake if she would be interested in taking part in a pizza collaboration. She agreed to be in charge of dough making. Here is the result.



Here is my farm pre-pizza. It is starting to get quite large.



These guys are about to become pesto sauce and tomato sauce.


Herbs


These herbs will soon be pesto sauce. Who needs pine nuts when you have sunflower seeds?



Tinh cutting up the chicken.




Here we took some tomatoes and boiled their skin off. Then we put it in the blender with basil, oregano, marjoram, thyme, and Asian basil and made this tomatoe sauce. Here we are boiling the extra water off.


Tinh's first pizza crust - pretty good.


Attempt #1 - Pesto chicken pizza


Attempt #2 - Pepperoni and prosciutto pizza.



At this point we were starting to get better at making dough in pizza crusts.



This would later be two pizzas.



Attempt 3 or 4 (I can't remember) - This is an extra meaty pizza.



This is a gigantic calzone - its kind of experimental. This is what happened to attempt # 2 because I slid it off the pan wrong.



Here is everyone eating pizza!



Artisan - Round pizzas are for people with no imagination. (I think this is the third attempt) This meal put quite a dent in the farm, but that's ok. I just have more room to grow now. Makes me appreciate the herbs. I might make some pesto bread out of the remaining dough and pesto sauce.

Debut Cover From No Fs n Bs

My Friend Billy and I just banged out No Fs n Bs debut cover on youtube. We have been meaning to do this for awhile, but we finally got around to it.

Here we are jamming from Pacific Beach, California...

One of my favorite statues

This is one of my favorite statues. I took this picture at the School in Denver where my Godmother taught for ~30 years. This was taken at the time of her funeral.