Dec. 7th Sat.

I forgot to post my blog this morning. My friend Larry reminded me this afternoon.

November, I made a few surf videos. I mostly am preparing for my trip to Hawaii on December 23. I purchased the newest little drone from DJI which is the company that I like their drones. It will make my flight and transport much easier with the fact I'm losing about 50 pounds of equipment.

I found out a few days ago that my friend Brad, whom I surfed with 4 quite a few years and have been friends with for over 20 years, is taking a family vacation to Hawaii the same time I will be there. They will arrive on Christmas day. So that will be a lot of fun. I'll make sure to take some pictures and include them in the next blog post.

Thanksgiving day was spent bundled up on the sofa, I had come down with a cold and I'm just getting over right now, it was a bad one.

Daniel called a few days ago and gave me an update on his adventures. He's driving those big semi-trucks and delivering products throughout the Western states. Mostly he just drops the trailer and then picks up another trailer and hauls it to another city, possibly another state. He told me that he will be close to his cousin Jeanette's house on December 24 and they will plan on spending that day together. Jeanette is one of the nicest people you could ever know. And her husband is named Dan. He's a great guy too.

I sure miss Harriet. You know I think about her every day and the good times we had together. We were married for 44 years and most of those were really good years. As any married couple will confess there are always problems. Now that I think about it I don't think it was ever Harriet's fault. Harriet is the best thing that has happened in my life, excluding salvation through Jesus Christ.

I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! May the Lord bless you and keep you and may his face shine upon you all the days of your life!

Frank and Harriet

Sat. Nov. 2, 2019

I got in trouble for not having posted this first thing in the morning!

The big news is that my brother Sam, got married. His wife's name is Melanie. She is very nice. I am glad they have found each other. Sam sent me a link to view the pics of the ceremony. Unfortunately I can't download a pic to share. This is one of those deals where you order prints.

Daniel was in town for one day on the 30th. We went out with our good friends Larry and Judy. I do have pics of that.

We had a really nice time. Daniel is driving the large Truck across country for Thrifty truck company. He said that it might be possible to have a load coming into San Diego and we could meet for a mean and fellowship.

A couple of months ago Daniel had mentioned that I never let him drive my Tesla Model 3. So after breakfast I had him drive. He made a few power runs as you accelerate from Mission Gorge Rd. onto 125 South, you can do a mini hyper jump if you know what I mean.

It is about 7 weeks till I leave for my Hawaii trip. I leave on the 23rd of Dec and stay for 4 weeks. I am staying at my friend Ricardo's on the North Shore of Oahu. Hoping to catch a few good North Swells like I did last winter. Very exciting when the waves are pumping and there are really good surfers out there cranking it. Makes for fun videos.

Speaking of videos, I purchased a new drone to do just that. My friend Larry sent me a link earlier this week about the new DJI Mavic Mini drone. For the size, which when folded up is about the size of a large cellphone. It shoots up to 2.7K which is good, but only at 30 fps. It does have a 30 min. flight time per battery, which is really good. This would be fantastic taking it to Hawaii, instead of the 50 lbs of equipment.

That is all I know for now. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Maranatha,
Frank

                                                          I Love you Honalu!

Sat. Oct. 5, 2019

It was Harriet's birthday a few days ago. Harriet would have been 70 years old. What can I say, I still miss my Girl!

I finally finished with the water leak that started at my Dad's house a week before I left to house sit in Hawaii. My friend Larry went to my Father's house every other day a drain the water that was pooling in the area of the leak. It took six weeks for that to dry up.

This water leak was a big deal and a very big project. I hauled 1800 lbs of gravel to cover the area after I filled the holes back in. You have to do what you have to do. This was not my favorite project, but it had to be done.

Tesla finally came out with the update I talked about in May. It is called Enhanced Summon. So if I am in a parking lot, I can have my car drive to where I am, then I get in the car and drive off. The max distance at this time is half the length of a football field, 150 ft. I have tried it a few times and it works pretty good. Top speed is 5 mph in this mode.

They included a bunch of stuff in this last software update. Now you can get Netflix, YouTube and Hulu on the screen in the car as you can see from the picture below that's my YouTube website.

Since I purchased my Tesla model 3 in January I received at least a dozen software updates. With each software update my car improves its ability for self driving and all the little extra features. At this point Tesla's have the ability to self navigate from the time you get on an on-ramp to a freeway, changing lanes as needed, changing freeways while in the navigation mode and then finally coming to your offramp and exiting and returning the controls back over to you. Now, the next really big software update that's coming and it's supposed to be here by the end of the year is for Tesla's to recognize signal lights and stop signs for city street driving. Slowly but surely Tesla is putting together a car that will be able to drive you to where you need to be in a couple years without any assistance or input from your part.

I watched the interview of Tesla's CEO Elon Musk a month ago. He made a good point, when self driving cars become 200% safer than a human being driving the same car, then no human intervention will be needed. Actually when you think about it, if a full self driving vehicle is 200% safer than a human being driving, then any human intervention in the driving of the car would be detrimental to the drivers safety. Because he would have twice the chance of getting an accident if he was in control instead of the computer.

That is all I know. I am getting ready to pick up the grand-kids for a Sat. outing. 

I love you Harriet,
Frank

Sept. 7 Sat.

Aloha! I am here on the North Shore of Oahu. I am house sitting from my friend Ricardo. I am sitting under the gazebo in his back yard. Tomorrow I fly back home having spent 3 weeks here.

Here is a view of the front of the house.

The landscaping is the best I have seen. I am going to include some pics of the flowers, and plants.

 

 

This is not only a beautiful house, but the grounds are incredible!

I took a pic of a sunset at Shark's Cove. 

                                          The Heaven's declare the glory of God!

On Sept. 4th it was Harriet's and mine anniversary, it would have been 48 years. Harriet has been gone for 4 years now and there is not a day that goes by that I do not miss her. In this beautiful place I am staying and I keep thinking I wish Harriet was here to enjoy it with me. She was the best part of my life and I still miss my girl.

I am surprised at the weather during the summer. I would have thought that we would have had less rain and wind. I only made 3 surf videos while here, the conditions were not conducive to flying my drone.

That is it for this month, I wish you all the best and a really big Aloha from the North Shore!

Maranatha,

Frank

Sat. Aug 3rd

Today is the service for my good friend Bill Neu. What a grat guy! I am really going to miss him.

This month my friends Bob and Larry had their birthdays. I am including some pics that Larry's wife Judy took. Check out that hamburger!

In just 3 days it will mark 4 years since Harriet died. A day doesn't go by without me missing her.

                      Happy Times!

I will be preparing for my trip to Hawaii in a few weeks. So, my next blog will be from Hawaii and I'm sure that I'll have more pictures that you've never seen before.

I guess that's it for this month, God bless you and remember Maranatha!

Frank

July 6, 2019

June was a good month, only a couple of really hot days. Mostly June gloom with overcast.

I got a nice surprise a couple of weeks ago. My niece Jeanette Haas sent me an email that her husband and her son are coming back across the border from doing a construction project in Mexico. She asked if I had time to connect with them.

Here's a picture of Jeanette's husband Daniel and their oldest son Seth, hamming it up for a picture at In-N-Out.

Daniel is a Tesla fan, so I forced him to drive my car. We had a really nice time. Daniel and Jeanette live in Pasco, Washington. It's about a 2 1/2 hour drive from where Daniel is living in Idaho. So, my son Daniel has visited them twice and had a great time! I wish I live closer, I would love to visit with them.
















Yesterday I spent the morning at Windansea in La Jolla. The waves were the best it's been in at least a month. This morning I'm going to be with the kids and take them to see this new Spiderman movie that's out.

It's been a year since my car accident. I'm still getting treatment for neck and shoulder. I don't know if it's ever going to go away. I try to be optimistic, it's hard when you have this "pain in the neck", if you get my drift.

I still miss my beautiful wife. I'm stuck. In one sense I want to say some things about Harriet, but it's all the things that I've already said. Harriet was the best part of my life and now there's this big emptiness that can't be filled. Sounds depressing doesn't it? That's why don't think about it very often. Enough said.

I hope that you have a great July!

Frank
Sept. 1971 on our Honeymoon

June 1, 2019 Sat.

We had an unusual amount of rain days in the month of May. Of course we need all the rainwater we can get. On rainy days I cannot go out and fly and do my surf videos so I only did two surf videos in the past month which is really the fewest I've done.

Daniel made his move to Post Falls, Idaho. So far things are going very well. He's really enjoying the outdoorsy/woods experience. Clearly we can have an outdoor experience in Southern California but not like the forests of Idaho. He found a great outdoor archery range where you move from one target to the next using your bow an marrow. He has upgraded from the 25 pound to the 35 pound bow which is the minimum strength of a bow when hunting. I will see if I can get a couple of the pictures and insert them. Here is a picture of Daniel and he shot the antlers off the deer on the practice target range.

Daniel sent me a couple of pictures he was driving around the lake and it was a rainy day about a week and a half ago, this is what it looks like.

Beautiful country and Daniel says that everyone is very open and friendly. When he arrived he signed up with a temp organization to find work. He got a weeks worth of temporary work and then he filled out the application to work at the sawmill. He's been accepted and will start training next week. He will work for approximately a month through the temp agency and then he can transition into working directly for the sawmill.

Money goes a lot further there, than it does here in Southern California. I would say that if you make $15 an hour here, there in Idaho it's the equivalent of making $20 an hour. Because of the lower rents and lower gas costs.

I got a really neat picture from my son Joe and his wife Hilda. Here it is.

All the kids are mine except the little guy in the front row on the left side he is a cousin. That's my son Joe in the back with the sunglasses. What a great sense of humor! I'm so thankful that my son and my daughter Hilda (I hate to say daughter-in-law) are comfortable with their ethnicity. I love my kids and my grandkids they are great! Of course who's grandkids are not great, right? Thank you Joe and Hilda, I love you guys!


Here comes summer! Do you remember that song? 1959 Google it. I guess I am looking forward to the summer because I really enjoy the warmer weather and not having to use the heat. Yes there are days that we have to turn the air conditioner on, but I guess I like that option better. Looking forward to hitting the beach.

I hope you all have a great summer!

Maranatha,
Frank
PS. I love You! Harriet and Joe