Thanksgiving

      Sherrie did a spectacular job feeding all us again this year. I have to say Karen came down with
Samantha and Dylan this year and that was great I love them. Karen and her children are truly great friends and I love them dearly.
     We ate and had a laugh or two no stories of getting drunk with the boys down in the basement after dinner this year but I'm getting to old for that shit. (LOL maybe next year)

Did I mention Dan is home?

Patrick stopped bye a pleasent visit from my brother's son

Fishing

This is worth mentioning just because I got Sherrie out on the beach to watch the sunrise. I don't care I had to use fishing as a bait to get her up so early it doesn't

matter to me SHE WAS THERE I don't care how it happened.

A susscessful weekend

      Went to my Moms this Saturday and the truck wouldn't start when I went to leave. Oh Well shit happens Sherrie pulled up and we bumped started the truck and home I went. A couple hours later I had the Starter changed and was good to go. Sunday me and Sherrie hung out did some work in the back yard and then took Mason apple picking to score some apples for my favorite Holiday that's coming up THANKSGIVING.

Riding, Dogs and Sunsets

     

Mason my weekend hang out Buddy

  

Had a pretty cool weekend. I love riding in the woods with the boys. Saturday was spent putting heated hand grips on the KLR taking the dogs for a walk with my buddy Mason. (I love that boy) and running out to the bay to watch the sunset. Picture Here

Josh is better in front of the camera then behind it.
 ( Note Rods cut off head in the next picture)

Sunday oh the wonderful Sunday was spent Riding with Matt, Rod, Josh and myself. He had such a good time. I think the high lite was me taking pictures of Josh's fall over just to go down the trail 100 feet then I fell over and got stuck in the nasty smelly sticky mud. The only thing that could of made my day any better was if my son Dan was there. Wow I really miss hanging out with that boy. Him going off to work in North Dakota is good for him but I sure do miss Dan on days like Sunday. Here are the photo's on flicker.

I decided to post this today 11/8/2013

This is dated 11-12-2011 OK I found away to write stuff down and I don't have to publish it right away if at all.. Man this whole injury thing is really screwing with me. I really don't want to get this hurt again. I feel like I should maybe slow my ass down and maybe take up wood working again. All I have ever done in the last 10 years has really been based on motorcycles. Yea I love riding but I think I want to turn a different page in my life and not base my sole existences on riding, racing, motorcycle trips, and fixing bikes. Hell I'm not sure what's going on I'm just thinking about tuning the rev limiter down a notch. I have scheduled this to post in a year from now so let's see what type of writings we get for the next year Will I post a picture of a cabinet in my welcome page. For what ever reason it feels good to get this off my chest. Rock on jay hang in there and walk soon
12/18/2011
   Got a bonus for x-mas spent over half on new furniture. To a normal person that might sound exactly what your suppose to do. Well it was a big step for me to spend extra money on other then motorcycle stuff.
1/31/2012
    Hell I still feel the same way yet again I'm still laid up from the accident.
3/26/2012
      I'm street riding now and I do a lot of dreaming up road trips Crap maybe I'm not ready to give up my love of motorcycling.
11/19/2012
    Still here rode the dirt bike for the first time the other day and yes the basement that would be my work space for wood working is still a shit whole.
04/01/2013
     Bought a brand new dual sport bike the  other day. Yea I'm hopless

2013 Meteor Duel

       Meteor Duel Sport this weekend, It was Matt and myself then Keith met us down in the camp ground.   (After me and Matt chowed on some great steaks that my wife sent with us.)


    We chilled out Friday night and me and Matt drank to much till way late, Some of Keith friends came over for the Saturday morning ride. Demian which I have met and rode with on one other duel sport a very cool, nice person and the owner of Ryders Alley in NYC. Also with him was a very nice fellow Mr Pascal that seemed to be more at my pace then the younger guys. Saturday Matts bike broke and at some time we pealed off home to go get my KLR and Matt rode that for the remainder of the weekend. I was thinking I might have one up on him being on such a heavy machine, Yea, that lasted about 15 minutes till he started kicking my ass on the big KLR porker.
      We all hung out Saturday night and I won a helmet and a chest protector. Sunday was more fun and the ride and the laughs were many, All in all a great trip with minimal problems and good company. I really had a fun time getting away from the house for almost 3 full days, I hope you can see all the pictures here.

Fish On

Me and Sherrie went fishing again. Jeff wish called me up Friday and asked us if we would like to go on a party boat with him tomorrow. We all had a blast, It was fun again to fish with my wife but it was cool to hang out with my friend Jeff Wish.

Fish it's all about the fish. 10/05/2013

Been hanging out with my wife Sherrie and I must say it's been fun.  We're all into catching fish lately. :) I'm having so much fun. I'll keep ya posted

We are having a little empty nest syndrome. Dan is off to North Dakota and Jessica isn't home much because she is one busy girl with college and work. So me and Sherrie took up fishing. We are really enjoying fishing and being friends.
  Like I said before, "I'll keep ya posted"

Super Fish

Went fishing with Tyron and some of the guys from Centry today. Look at the size of this Cod. Me and James went it was fun not a lot of action but Look at that Cod.

Dan is leaving

This is the last weekend Dan is going to be home. He's headed to North Dakota to find himself. Jessica is vacationing in Puerto Rico so me and his Mom took him to Monmouth race track to bet on the ponies. 

Motorcycle riding CRF250L and Kayaking

It's Sunday morning and I have already had a great Jay weekend. Went riding in the pine barrens Saturday morning.

Then I went Kayaking later on in the day. I really enjoy alone time I really do. 

Dan's Graduation Party

            This weekend was Dan's graduation Party. These parties are a lot of work and I can honestly say I'm glad it's over.
Everyone who was important to Dan showed up and some lovely family that we don't get to see enough was there also. It was a very successful party and it was the tail end of a five day heatwave in NJ so the heat was pretty bad but other then that all was good.

I been away from here

I don't know what happened but I been away from here for a awhile. I think it's because I went on my Man vacation on June 21st 2013 and there is so many pictures I can't organize them between the 3 guys taking picture I'm over whelmed with digital info. We went to the usawal Smokey mountain trip and it was OK. I think I need to do something else I think the Man trip has run it's coarse as they say.

When I look at the pictures it really was fun but, I think maybe I'm getting to old to find fun in running from the rain for a week. I'll post a link and some details about the trip later when I sorted through all the pictures. 

Found this in my drafts. Must of tried to post stuff on here using my broken phone on the man trip

we pretty much played in NC today and TN there's a road that they call the snake that is RT58 wow what a trip it was hauling ass down that road. My phone took a shit today and it was interesting using the maps and everyone else's idea of where to go today- Honestly. I swear laughing in the hotel room was one of my favorite times.

  

Man trip 2013

The man trip started o
ut great. We did about 500 miles and we ended up in Roenoke Va. We rode across the Poa turnpike till we banged a left on 81. We rode that till route 56 which is close till the first entrance on to the BRP. What a great road. We stopped and had llunch at this at this little country eatery. I donated a dollar to the Bild a real bathroom jar on the counter-i

vacation day one

Hanging with the family at Water Street (Dan graduated)

Never a dull moment

Jessica got into a little oops. Close call today.

Friday ride.

Rod and I went for an after work ride yesterday. It was cool we went to the boards in the pines. A walkway bilt on top of  swamp in the jersey pines. Then we split up and I rode home in the dark by myself through the woods. Wow do things look different  in the dark.

After work ride

Me and Dan took a after work ride today. We were looking for tree frogs because we heard weird noises and not knowing what they sounded like that was our guess. I decided to look up tree frog on the internet to see if what we heard was them. So I have a tree frog chirping on you tube and I walk up and hold the phone over Dan's head. OMG he jumped and ran like heck thinking I had one in my hand.

easter weekend 3 days off

Had 3 days off which were spent riding with Dan on the new Honda. Dying eggs with the girls. All in all a good long weekend.

New Bike

Bought me a 2013 Honda CRF250L So far I put about a 100 miles on the bike and I'm very happy with it. I have gone trail riding and took it to work. I also changed the front sprocket down one tooth to a 13 tooth. I gave up a little top end speed but it was worth it. The bike handles much better in the trails. $5300 out the door not to bad. I'm happy with it. 

    Me and Dan took it out to the trails on the way home from the store on day one. He dropped it and that makes me laugh. Dan reminded me that I fell over the very fist day I rode his CRF150R a few years back. ) Pay Backs a Bitch) 

Jersey Coast Ride

Dan and I had to make a trip up to see Bob from Cental Jersey Cycles today so I had him drop me at the beach that is a mile or so south of Long Branch. The plan was to peddle the bike to seaside and just cruise the coast. Not because I wanted to see the storm damage from Super Storm Sandy but because that's my beach and I love to drive down it. I have on a number of occasions taken the motorcycle on a similar route.  I made it the whole way and my legs and butt are a little sore but it was a fun trip. I can't believe how much enjoyment I get out of peddling my bike.  The Picture Are Here

DID SOMETHING COOL ( FINALLY)

I had a pretty nice weekend. Saturday Mike Connor and Brian Dekker two of my brothers best friends and working partners came over to my Mom's house to do some plumbing work. Afterwards we all went out for lunch and it was just nice that four people that were very close to Joe could hang out and laugh. It really was nice that all of us just laughed and told stories and were able to bring up past experiences with out getting choked up. I don't think I realized how important that meeting was to me and in my healing process till I just wrote about it. (OW hail the mighty BLOG)

          Sunday ( Super Bowl Sunday)  I met Rod at his house and we drove up to Newburgh NY to visit motorcyclepedia. It's a museum that I have looked at many times on the internet and despite the website being  kind of bland I still thought it would be something cool to see. It also helped that Kamikaze Pit Lengner was there with the Wall of Death

From Left to right
Rod, Pit Lengner and ME

So we had this really great time. The motorcycles in the museum were all very interesting to me and my Buddy Rod. We then went out to lunch at this cool place Torches on The Hudson. It was just a nice day to spend with a good friend. 

All The Pictures Can Be Found Here