Our Life as of Today 7/25/2008
My husband is retired and he helps out at his son’s auto shop here in Nampa Idaho. He retired from Tehachapi School district over two years ago. Not wanting to be a mechanic again, he was hoping to find some little part time job that he would enjoy. He loves being around his son and all those guys that just love to hang out around Troy’s shop. I think that sometimes doing things for others, like Chuck does helps to keep him young. They all have fun down there, but they do work hard when the work is there. Troy has a Chevy Nova 1966 that he loves to race out at Firebird race track.

He has made some new changes to the car, so he did not do as well as he would have liked to. He has a lot of friends that race there also, but he has some many friends that love to come watch him.

I started a new web site called www.livinginidahotoday.com/ or net so that I could help do some advertising for his shop. His shop is called General Car & Exhaust. He is located at 1524 1st Street South Nampa, ID 83651, with phone number 208-467-9160. If you are in the area drop by and visit with the boys, and if you are looking for an honest mechanic you have found one or maybe two! If you are lucky Chuck will work on your car. Enough about that..

We have been on some adventures since we have been here. We have been over to Idaho City, city of Donnelly where we went on a hay ride. It was a Christmas present that our daughter-in-law set up. It was wonderful! They drove us back just a little ways into the most beautiful site of Elk’s. They were everywhere. There were old grandpa ones, and some young ones. I can’t tell you how many that was there, but a good guess would be about 75. We were all sitting on bells of hay and once we stopped then that was when the Elk would come up to the wagon and eat the hay right from underneath us. I was laughing hysterically. I had one Elk so close to me that every time he came up with his mouth full of hay he would rub his nose against my coat. It was hilarious. If you ever get a chance to go on that hay ride up there, be sure to take your kids. It’s something that everyone needs to do at least once.
We drove up to Twin Falls to see the Water Falls. The Snake River flows through this beautiful canyon. There is a golf course down in the canyon that is so lovely; I would love to play there. You can also take a hike around the ridge. Some really free sprits hand glide into the canyon. Now that is something I don’t think I would like to do, but it was cool to watch the younger ones. We love taking our dog Chico over to the river so he can jump in and play. My husband has tried to fish there with our grandkids. But with Chico jumping in and out of the water there is no catching of any kind of fish. It was my idea to take the dog; we got him from the animal shelter in Caldwell. We did not know how he would act around water, so now in the future no dogs on any fishing trips. Well I think I will leave this message for now, but I want to leave you with a thought. “People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care about them.” Bye for now.