In need of some serious shade here in July, I purchased a “car canopy” from Abba Patio on Amazon for right about $370 to cover one of our “project” trucks. It came quickly per the 2-day Prime shipping setup, which was cool. It took me a bit to finally get a friend of mine to come over and help me get the thing all together. I had to bribe him with beer. Not too bad of a deal if you ask me.

Well, today was the day! I finally got the chance to take the Hammerhead out for its first proper trail ride. My buddy came by with his truck to pick me and my rig up so that we could hit a close trail. We picked one that we thought would be a good beginner ride. It was a park with fairly flat terrain and hard-packed, wide trails. We parked, unloaded and geared up to head out.

During an event at the Big Bear Ski Resort in collaboration between Triumph Foundation and US Adaptive Rec. Center I had the fortune of FINALLY getting some seat time in the DynAccess Ltd. Torque 2 mono-ski. I have been itching to get a hold of this ski for ages and after years of being in the wrong place at the wrong time I actually got my skinny behind in one.

Yesterday, I spent a few hours in my garage rearranging some of the stuff in there in an effort to gain some more room to, well, put more stuff. I hopped into my brand new Helium manual standing chair to see how well it would work for reaching things on the higher shelves and it worked beautifully.