Foam + Dirtbikes = Fun to be had

Found this little gem of a video from about a year ago, first two jumps are mark, second two jumps are me. Please excuse my first attempt, as it is quite lame. We were about an hour from getting on a plane home from OK, when I made the last second decision to just do it hahaha. Second time I figured I probably wont get this chance again, so I went wide open, well as wide open as my scared ass would let me haha.

Two Years and Counting

Sept. 7, 2008

Today is our second anniversary. Time sure does fly when you are rocking it like a hurricane. No crazy plans for tonight, instead we are going to gorge ourselves on good food tomorrow night. I highly recommend marrying your best friend, worked pretty well for us.

Making the way for Solar Panels

Similar to what our panels will look like

Today we signed papers for 45 minutes for a line of credit and checking accounts galore. Another step made towards the panels with R.J. Groner. We are now playing the waiting game to see if Uncle Sam (the PA version) will give us $1.75 per or $1.25 per kilowatt hour credit. Hopefully he is an awesome uncle and not a creepy stingy one!

I'm on a boat!

This weekend Mark and I spent some quality time in Maryland on the bay in our Jason. Our Jason is our time machine boat from the 80's, it fits in nicely with out time machine RV and time machine conquest also from the 80's. During the three hour trip down to Middle River, MD we were praying we wouldn't get a flat on the trailer since we couldn't find the right size spare in time which was probably a direct result of procrastination.

Some places we anchored

It was the first time we had our little vessel the S.S. Newb out on open water, which was kind of terrifying, the poor thing was hammering the choppy water but it made it through. On saturday nigh we gorged on fabulous local seafood like cave people, literally bashing the meet out of our food.

Love the feeling of burning lips from Old Bay, there really isn't much that I won't put Old Bay on, if I could only have one seasoning in my pantry for the rest of my life it would be Old Bay. On the way back in after dinner it was dark, so we went to break out our sweet  boat lights and found out that our back light didn't work, so I ended up holding up a maglite flashlight for about a half hour like the statue of liberty until we got back the marina. All in all it was a good weekend full of boating, margaritas, orange crushes and holding on for dear life!

Need a card?

Jess and I went to CVS today to pick up a card for some friends. What ensued was a 10 minute laughing fest in the isle. Here are some of our favorites, and the pics are blurry because I was laughing when I was taking the pictures.

Hen Racing

Yes this post is about Chickens racing. I was watching ESPN during lunch today because I wanted to see the preseason football highlights and they showed a clip of this gem, so of course I immediately googled it.

The video starts out with a dude dressed up like some kind of wicked pilgrim with an eye mask stating that his hen is the fastest chicken in the world.... ummm yea

I am surprised the Blue Valley Farm Show has not organized a hen racing event yet, is there any money in being a hen race promoter?

Racer X + i-nigma

Just downloaded my new digital edition of Racer X, it's got these i-nigma bar codes scattered throughout the magazine. So basically what you do is download a free app on your iPhone, Droid, etc. and then you open the app, scan the barcode and additional interactive media pops up on your phone which could be a YouTube video, quiz, etc. Its basically amazing, I just scanned my computer screen with my phone, then my phone played me a video, ridiculous.

I sense an upcoming trip to B&N armed with my iPhone, scanning every single publication jumping on board with this, that will be a good way to kill time this winter. Apparently some advertisers are jumping on board too, so more bang for the buck for them, print ad + media ad all in one.

Started the morning off with some coffee and wrapping up some orders including one for a pretty cool clothing company called Runway Pilot, I know it does not sound incredibly intense yet but what's cool about these guys is that they are making their clothing out of Bamboo!

End up with this

So basicaly start with this

Speaking of Bamboo, the floors in our kitchen, nook, and dining room are Bamboo as well and Dora loves them.

Made dinner tonight using one of RR's awesome recipes, modified to my own liking and time constraints of course.

Chicken sausage, pepper and onion MINUS the fake bake

Super good and fresh tasting especially since I used basil and tomatoes from the garden and organic veggies and pasta. Paired it with super cheap local wine which tasted great! Mazza Wines - Niagra

Now, for your and my after dinner pleasure a video of an antique chicken popping out eggs, just go with it.....

Garden Munchies

Went over to the family garden and picked some basil and tomatoes for the dinner Jess is making tonight, some sausage from Wegmans with an organic pasta. I found a tomato with a small rotted spot on it, so I cut it up and threw it into the coop for the ducks and chickens, after dinner snack for them I guess!
Note that the zoom feature on the iPhone 3GS is not the greatest as can be seen by mr blurry duck. I'm going to have to get that Hipstamatic app, so these pictures I will be posting aren't too lame.

Nice to meet you

Mark and I relaxing after he put in some gnarly SX motos at Evansville

I feel obligated as I am writing this first post to introduce ourselves properly. (Its been two years since we last blogged and things have changed). Mark is an entrepreneur slash country renegade running two businesses while I am a full-time cubicle jockey by day and a action sports loving photographer slash pseudo housewife extraordinaire by night. We are in our mid-twenties, married two years ago as of next month and have been best friends for the last 11 years or so. We maintain a house in the not so bustling, quiet country area of Bangor, Pennsylvania and spend most of our time on do-it-yourself projects meanwhile chasing after two over active shelties and several kinds of fowl. Play time usually involves the starting the motors on our dirtbikes, boat or tractor and once in a while my sewing machine haha.

Our most current projects are getting my photography business off the ground, growing a sticker business and installing solar panels to add to the green factor. We'll keep you updated!