It LIVES again! ...and again, ...and um,...AGAIN!

[Maxi]

Hi Gang!

I think I need to rename myself Max Phoenix as I keep burning out and rising up from the ashes again and again. Had a lil' battle with the health issues but once again feeling like a $100 bucks...I know, I know - that doesn't go far these days but I'll take what I can get!

Anywho - miss y'all - hope all is super swell. I had to start feeling better, its almost JEEP season! I have a whole new group of folks that want to go on an adventure sometime.

Also - I'm redoing my biz site for timberline group ( preview it at www.timberlinegroup.com/tgtemp and since I'm expanding back east look at www.timberlinegroup.com/citylinetemp basically the same site, just serving more corp. clients and such. Anywho - that brings me to redesigning the Timberline Group Outdoors site. That's where you guys come in. I want to make that site for you! So by all means let me know what you want to see on there. I'd love to have your input, your pictures, if you want to do a product review, a trail report, tell a story - anything goes as long as it's outdoors. I hope you folks get involved with that...it could be fun. Let me know what you think. Ed, Eric, Cindy, Schwany and all you Colorado folks - lets plan a weekend run here in the next few weeks. You have no idea how much I am chompin' at the bit to get out!!!!

Thats all for now - hope this post finds you well.

-maxi

PS - and if it wasn't for GRP's comedy, links and posts I might have gone completely bonkers! THANX GRANDPA! ( Ok more bonkers than I am at the moment! )

Talk 2 ya soon!

[Mountainman]

Glad to hear your doing swell Max! A weekend run would be fun, however I don't have weekends off from work. Would be fun to have a BBQ at Uncle Bob's place again.

Ed

[Maxi]

Thanx Ed!

Maybe we can free up a day when you are off, play a lil hooky in the hills! And I'm sure Uncle Bob would love another cook out! He asks about you guys often.

Hope all is groovy!


-max

[Cindy]

It's great to see you back Max! Although I havent been here much the last month I do try to see whats going on in here when I can. Been very busy with work and spring things. I think a get together should definitely be in the works! Our daughter was accepted for special assignment to the Academy. I have been counting days like a child counts down for Christmas or last day of school. Her last day on base in Florida is the 16th of May and should be in Colorado Springs 3-5 days after that. So guess what side of the mountains I will be visiting a lot more!...haha. Will be so nice having them closer to home. So we will have to plan some outings!

Hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful spring day!!

Cindy

[Maxi]

Well thats cool!

I have a few folks that want to do Gold Camp Road, and I want to try Mt Baldy again - Ed needs to beat Baldy! ;-)

I'll be lurking around. :-) Hope all is swell!


-max

[Mountainman]

Hey Cindy! If you and your daughter need help unloading when she gets here, just let Tracy and I know. Would be happy to help.

Ed

[Mountainman]

LOL, I have driven Mt. Baldy many times. Just have a problem with now drifts and stock road tires.

Ed

[grandpawrichard]

Max,
I'm so very glad to hear you are back to feeling chipper again! I'm also glad that my poor excuse for humor helped!

In honor of this occassion, here's one for you buddy:

Daddy's Rules Of Dating
Rule One:
If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure not picking anything up.

Rule Two:
You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter's body, I will remove them.

Rule Three:
I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don't take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose this compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, in order to ensure that your clothes do not, infact come off during the course of you date with my daughter, I will take my electric nail gun and fasten your trousers securely in place to your waist.

Rule Four:
I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without utilizing a "Barrier method" of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.

Rule Five:
It is usually understood that in order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is: "early"

Rule Six:
I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry.

Rule Seven:
As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process than can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don't you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?

Rule Eight:
The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden tool. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to introduce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka - zipped up to her throat. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual theme are to be avoided; movies which features chain saws are okay. Hockey games are okay. Old folks homes are better.

Rule Nine:
Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am the all-knowing, merciless god of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house.

Rule Ten:
Be afraid,. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound of your car in the driveway for a chopper coming in over a rice paddy near Hanoi. When my Agent Orange starts acting up, the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home. As soon as you pull into the driveways you should exit the car with both hands in plain sight. Speak the perimeter password, announce in a clear voice that you have brought my daughter home safely and early, then return to your car - there is no need for you to come inside. The camouflaged face at the window is mine.

Dick

[Jeep Man]

Max,

Welcome back, again! haha! ;D I am glad you hear you are better once again. I have been very busy on the weekends so far this year. I have been hiking and off-roading. I have a girl (yet another one) that loves to do both so I am pretty happy right now. We are doing yet another hike this weekend. Last weekend we did a short hike to the summit of Mt. Herman and I got some great pictures that I need to post. Then we pressed on into the mountains via Mt. Herman Rd. I took a lot of offshoots and could have gone farther than I did on some of them if I would have had some backup. I was by myself with Shelly (my new girl) so I didn't want to get too deep into it. She gave me that look of "you better not go any further" ;D so I stopped and went back. It was a lot of fun though. I wish you and Ed could have been along with me.

Anyway, I am so glad to hear you are back in action. I will give you some of my good scenery shots that I have taken and you can use them however you would like on your site if you find a place for them. Let me know if there is anything you need from me. I am not much of a website developer so I can't give you too much advice on what I would like to see on the new site. Maybe Ed or Cindy would be better help there.

Talk to you soon Max,

Eric