3 Temecula, with the
girls
5 Ride: Cajon Pass/Railroad Tracks
11 Make a couple of more knives, from an old
circular saw blade.
Mahogany handle (left, #2). Camellia handle (right, #3) The Camellia
failed to survive transplant to our new house.
13 Knife #4
Knife #4, also with Camellia handle, also cross section of Camellia wood used.
On right original knife made (#1) with Brass and plywood handle.
20 Train Days, San Bernardino County
Museum w/Bea, Dick, Ginna, Larry
21 Ride: Cajon Pass, Lost Lake (found)
26 Cajon Pass Field Trip: Faults, Fossils and Fun with
San Bernardino County Museum
Senior Curator Kathleen
Sprinder & Curator of Paleontology Eric Scott
Kathleen showing a Sedimentary Layer. Eric
pointing out a fossil Rhino tooth.
27 Road to California Quilt Show. Jane &
Celeste
February
1 Ride: Miller Canyon to AF&G, Red Fox
seen
3 Rockhounding: Verde Marble at
Stoddard Wells Verde Marble Quarry
On our way to Stoddard Wells had a American Bald Eagle fly-over near Lake Silverwood.
7 AdvClub, Marine Corps Night, LTCOL J. Shusko, (guest, LTCOL
Daryl D. )
8 Snow:
16 Ride: Cleghorn, 2N36
Train Visit: Jonie, Dominac, Jean
17 Ride: Cleghorn, 2N36, fall
Start to breakdown the Christmas
Train Village
Link to Christmas Train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hIRdrA_R20
( or search on youtube for
"BJ Christmas Train 2012" under
"doctrbobdiver" )
22 Ride: North of Lake Silverwood (Cold)
23 Movie Date/Oscar Party, Jane w/ Celeste, Jinna, Bea
March 2 Hike: Tahquitz Canyon w/Paul and Francis
9 March Air Force Museum, w/Celeste
15 Ride: Miller Canyon, to AF&G
16 Lake Manix Field Trip & Afton
Canyon:: San Bernardino County Museum, Curator's Cathleen Springer and Eric
Scott
22 Ride: Red Cloud Mine, (8:30 AM -4:30
PM) (285 mile)
23 Rockhound: Gem Hill w/Francis and
Paul3
29 Ride/Rockhound, Four Corners
Dendritic Agate, & Agatized Palm Wood (200 mile)
30 Rockhound w/Jane, Lavic
Siding for Jasper April
4 Dive: Cancelled (Arrived MDR, High
Winds CNX)
5 Rockhound: Newberry Nodules,
Newberry Cave
6 Rockhound: Four Corners Dendritic
Agate (Kramer Junction)
Agatized Palm Wood, Palm Fiber, & Petrified Bog (?) (I think, or it could be
just a rock.)
19 Ride: Local Loop (30 mile)
(Mt. Pike Rd, 2N49, Bailey Cyn., Bailey-Cleghorn Rd., 2n59, Sawpit Creek Rd. )
20 Rockhound: Rodman Mountains
Petroglyph w/Paul (not exactly rockhounding, just a photo day in Johnson Valley)
Chuckwalla Lizard
21 Lecture: Fire and Ice, by Eric
Scott, San Bernardino County Museum
27 Barstow Field Trip, San Bernardino
Museum
28 Carmen, 3D w/ Celeste & Bea
Visit Siena,
Keith, Elizabeth
29 Rockhound: Lonely Butte Petrified
Reed
May 5 Dive w/Jane, SOS Bad Vis
!!! 11 Tree Removal
Jane trip to
LA on Metro w/Celeste, Bea, Ginna
12 Ironman3
17 Star Trek
19 Ride: Devil's Hole (42mile)
25 Rockhound/Offroad Drive w/ Francis
& Paul , Baldwin Mine
June 1&2 Build front porch
7 Ride: Deep Creek (~40 mile)
Paige, Party w/Ruby's
Girls/
8 BBTR, Ride w/ James & Linda
15 Move Apple Trees
22 BBTR 19th Big Bear Run, Check Point #8 w/ Linda
Smith
Sue Ann
23 Heart Rock Hike w/Sue Ann
27 Jane to LAX
28 Flying to Africa
29 Arrive in Kenya
Ride to Soggy Dry
Lake Bed, Johnson Valley
Start Deck Steps
Enter Johnson Valley
Rocks on top of Dry Lake Bed
Suzuki on "Soggy Lake"
Not water, just a mirage in the distance.
30 Finish the Deck Steps
July
7 Dive: SOS w/Erick. Nice dive,
after spent some time with Jocko.
13 Ride: BBTR To Seven Oaks
14 Jane Arriving, LAX from AFRICA
August 2 Redlands Bowl, Sound Of
Music
3 Dive: Lost Lake (a "sag pond"
on the San Andreas Fault in the Cajon Pass)
11 Redlands Bowl, Beauty and the Beast, State
Street Ballet
Perseids Meteor Shower,
w/ Paul and Francis (at Keller Peak). A nice display of meteors.
13 Redlands Bowl, Jim Curry, Music of John Denver
22 Adventurer's Club: Kip Thorne, Black Holes
w/Jane
24 Sailing on Steve Bein's Swan 42 w/ Jane and
Jerry
25 Hike: to Lodgepole Pine, Big Bear, w/Francis
and Paul
30 Hyundai/Oil
31 Travertine Repair
September
1 Movie: Monster University, Huynadi
Battery replaced
2 Ride: Johnson Valley, Soggy Lake
(~140 miles)
6 Car: 2 Rear tires
7 Car: Rear Brake pads, Rear Tire Stud, Nut
Jane: Out with the Girls
8 Anodize, success
14 Ride, BBTR. Failed to navigate Tom's "Easy"
ride. (Returned to home base.)
22 San Bernardino Museum, Lecture on Grand Canyon Cave
Painting / Petroglyphs
24-28 To Yellowstone w/Ron and Thea
29 Crash Oct
4 Solar Decatholon w/Keigh & Siena
5 John & Gail Walker 50th Party
6 Lunch w/ Jan
11 Solar Decatholon w/Keith & Siena
14 Ride: AF&G
16 Jane: Foreign Film
19 Jane: CE
Bob: Ride,
Johnson Valley, Soggy Lake (~150 miles)
26 Adventurer's Club: Night Of High
Adventure
Nov 2 Begin Train Display (B&J
RR) 9 Ride: BBTR. James,
John (~145 miles)
B&J RR track work 17 Rockhound: Bessmer Mine w/Francis & Paul 23 UP Big Boy #4014 (on the move)
ABBA Mania at Fox Performing Arts
Center
28 Thanksgiving
30 Ride: Miller Canyon to AF&G (2N37, 2N34,
2N33)
Dec| 7 Ride: Miller Canyon
8 Redlands Christmas
Home Tour
14 Jane Holiday Lunch
15 Cookie Baking Party, Jane & the
Girls
19 AdvClub: Christmas Dinner
AdvClub Dinner, Wobbler engine and Lathe
Ball Turning tool made this year.
23 Ronald Regan Library w/Celeste, Spy
Exhibit
25 MERRY CHRISTMAS, Mary
26 Siena, Keith, Elizabeth, Jinna &
Son
28 Jane, out w/girls, Movie
Bob, Funeral:
In Memory of Nick Icorn, @Forest Lawn/Cypress
29 Bob, Ride: Miller Canyon to AF&G
Jane,
Celeste, Paige, Pat, to LA/Chinatown via Metrolink
30 Visit: Dave Bunch at Lake Arrowhead
31 New Years Eve, Dinner (Prime Rib)
w/Celeste then to Bea and Dicks for Toasting of the New YEAR.
Some pictures of our "Christmas Trains" etc...
The Christmas Train set is getting out of control....
Yoza & Katsu have their place in the train set. Siena mesmerized by the
train set and enjoying a snack at the Solar Decathalon.
Bob viewing the Sleeping Beauty, a one man wet-submarine on display at the Regan
Library, and pointing to the operator wearing an oxygen rebreather as was used
during WWII.
