Good evening. Weather bug said we'd get a break this afternoon. We did. Enough to get the lawn mowed and fill pot holes. Chicken is on the BBQ and it's raining again. Supposed to be soaker through Monday morning. Looks like the willamette will blow out so no fishing for a while. Queue up the movies I suppose.

 

Good evening Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Rain broke just about the time we pulled into the parking lot at the Heritage Center. Stayed pretty nice throughout most of the shindig at the Heritage Center.

Mother making sure everyone knew how to plow with horses and mules.



This is one of the horses I was having a conversation with. We were discussing what she felt about the weather conditions and having to pull the plow in the muddy wet field....



AND....THE FINAL WORD ON THE MATTER!

 

Did you find where the water was gushing into the bildge?

 

Good evening Oregon and Visiting Ford Fans'.

 

Good morning Oregon, good pics Jim...lol

 

Good morning Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Internet is down this morning. On a borrowed Wi-Fi connection. Every time we have a heavy rain or wind, it seems like this cable company has a blow out.

Off to the farm. Going to be a long day today.

 

Good morning John, Jim and those to follow.
Getting ready for the part time job.

 

Good morning. Mason had a good game yesterday morning and got to have a friend over most of the day to play. I’m the evening we had dinner with my parents at the Old Spaghetti Factory to celebrate my dad’s 73rd birthday, then ice cream cake at their house after.

 

Good morning Jim, John, Chris and the rest of the Oregon truckers!

Jim, Cool photos! Good to see your mom front and center making sure they were doing it right!

 

Does it have what he said on the back...lol

 

Morning all. Not often I'm on the computer on the weekends but the rain has left me inside. i'm sure wife will find me something to do.

On my way home on Friday I came upon a mule train on Old Sheridan Rd. Figured he was headed to the museum. i put my hazards on and just followed. I also crowded the centerline as I was worried some of the cars behind me looked like they might try to pass and there wasn't much room. Saw a few blokes turn around. Man people are way too in a hurry. When there was a good wide shoulder the mule train pulled off to give us room and I ever so slowly went by. 6 mules, a wagon and 2nd wagon. cool.

yes and no. I could not duplicate the problem. Dropped the boat in the river last weekend and no leaks. Ran the boat for an hour and all was good. Only thing I can think of it was a bad bung plug. I have several and tossed the one that was used on the previous trip.

 

Good evening Oregon and Visiting Ford Fans'.
Got the Old Ford back together. New timing set, harmonic balancer, water pump and fresh gaskets.

 

Good evening Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Lots of rain and Salt Creek at the Farm is up really high. Hasn't flooded out into the South Field yet, but it is getting darned close.

Took mother to her great granddaughters 11th birthday party today. This would be #1 son's daughter that had the liver transplant 10 1/2 years ago. She was not happy with the HAT, but her dad insisted. She thought that it would be a much better birthday if she didn't have to wear the hat and if she and grandpa were out on the boat fishing.




I have 9 or 10 plugs on the boat as well. On our very first (and only) brand new boat, it apparently was equipped with a defective flange and plug. We had contacted the dealer several times (Water World in Medford) but they refused to do anything with it. It seemed to me that the plug had some play in it when it was screwed in and they seemed to think I was crazy.

July 1989 we had the boat in the water at Diamond Lake and beached just below C13 camp site. Big storm hit and the waves were slamming pretty hard into the transom of the boat. Later we saw the stern had settled to the bottom. Bilge was full of water and black sand. The water was just deep enough that it came out of the bilge and flooded forward to about a foot or so up the rear deck. Plug was gone. I picked one up at the Marina, but we couldn't get it to thread in. Went back over and got a universal "Thermos" plug and got that to plug the hole. Had to bale it out with cans and buckets because the sand was plugging up the impeller on the bilge pump. I'd clean it out and it would run for just a couple of minutes and plug up again. That boat had an outboard so we lucky and after about 2 hour work had it back to fishing.
Then I bypassed the dealer and went straight to Bayliner explaining the problems. They sent a rep to our house in Winchester to inspect it. Turned out the flange was defective and they suspect that the plug was bad or had been damaged by the defective flange. That's why the new plug I had couldn't be threaded in. They got us new everything, fixed it up and gave us $1000 worth of goodies.

 

Morning all, high water signs out on the hwy today on the way in. About 3 inches coming over the hwy and one sot with about 3 inches of rock from a washed out driveway.

 

Good morning Oregon and everyone everywhere else. 46 and the rain continues.

Heading to Salem in a few minutes.