Hello Wayne.
Good morning Pat, Andy and those to follow.
Pat it will cost the company.

 

Morning Andy, Chris. How far of a drive was it, Chris?

 

Good morning Oregon..

 

Good morning everyone.

 

Good afternoon Ford Fans', in getting lunch.

About 160 mile round trip.

 

Good afternoon Oregon and everyone everywhere else.
Had an early start this morning and had to be at the YCSA range at 0700. Was running a couple of minutes behind and wanted to get there before all the coffee and donuts were gone.

We unloaded 300 60# bags of concrete and anchored them into a steep river bank. We are trying to mitigate erosion being caused by current that was changed by a landslide just upstream on the opposite bank.


Well, it wasn't really a 'vacation'. It started out as a long, laid-back weekend, and Get together in Condon. Since we went to Condon up the Gorge, we thought we would come back a different way and spend a day or a day and a half in the Fossil Beds.
Well, one thing led to another and instead of 1 to maybe 1 1/2 days in the Fossil Beds, it stretched out to 3 1/2. Staying at the State Park, (SP Access Pass so its free), was a last second "why not?" decision. Original plans were to actually spend a night and a day in Redmond at one of my cousins places. I had told her we would be there when we were at a family reunion on the homestead here in the valley, a couple of weeks earlier.
When we had spent so much time that day in the John Day Fossil Beds, we decided we should probably spend that night at the Ochoco Divide Camp Ground, like we had the night before. When we got to the Campground we decided we had a head of steam up and we should keep going. By the time we got into Prineville, we decided that that the "head of steam" had turned into a led weight and Redmond was probably a mile too far.
So, we hung a left and ended up at the Reservoir. We called Susan and told her and her husband we would see them the following afternoon after we had hit the Erickson Air Museum in Madras. Then my wife failed me when her I Phone couldn't get enough signal to get on the internet and I couldn't contact you or Allen.

This was one of about 5 unscheduled schedule changes on this trip. It's been fun traveling this summer and seeing something we hadn't thought about and saying, "Why not! No appointments and nothing saying we have to be home on a set day!" (We actually spent an extra unplanned week at Diamond Lake and in Roseburg last week.)

So after the Reservoir and Madras Air Museum, we ended up at Susan's in Redmond, then on to La Pine (change 4) and then the High Desert Museum (change 5) - along with a night in the "wild" out some USFS road next to a cattle guard and a sign saying "open range". Didn't see any cattle or vehicles. Didn't even hear any of that stuff. Then there was the rodeo in Sisters............
Then it was a marathon run for home. Almost got sidetracked at Big Lake and then Detroit Lake, but didn't have the boat or fishing poles with us so we continued on to home.

 

Good evening everyone...

 

Good evening Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Didn't turn out to be too bad a day after my physical work out today....


Interesting occurance....our YCSA range building was broken into the other night - morning actually since it was after midnight. They had to walk in because the electronic pass coded gate wouldn't let them drive in. As 2 men, 1 woman and toddler (yep, the idiots brought their very young kid with them!) walked in, they triggered numerous IR motion and heat activated security cameras. They peeled the heavy wire grates back off of a small window, stuffed the toddler through the window and had him open the door.
They left the DVD player and Flat Screen TV, PA sound system and a bunch of other stuff. They never even tried to monkey with the 3 vault doors. All they did was take an old rifle with a blown up barrel we have hanging on the wall as a reminder of what not to do....
I guess maybe they saw the lights on a panel and thinking they activated an alarm system skedaddled. The folks were recognized from numerous security photos taken from numerous angles and were in jail by noon. I'll bet they got straight A's in school too......

 

Good evening Ford Fans'.

 

Good morning Oregon, just pouring down here this morning.

 

Morning all. Need some rain this way, things are getting too dry.

 

Morning Andy. Same here, but, good Lord, didn't need it all at once!!LOL

 

Good morning Pat, Andy and those to follow.
I have a full truck to drive around and unload today.

 

Good morning. Staining the cedar shake on the sides of the house wasn't fun yesterday. It took about 3 hours to do one coat on one side and required a 22ft extension ladder. Plus it was hot, on the south side, and smelly from sewer work being done on my street.

 

Any suggestions on a place to camp near John Day? I was thinking Clyde Holliday because I can stay for free, but I don't know if they have spaces big enough, and it's first come, first serve. I have spaces reserved every other night of our trip.

50 ft total vehicle length. No problem just pulling off the highway and camping off a side road, just not sure where to look.