Good morning Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Boat is out of the water & the last of the load out is about to begin. 50 mile drive to the house is sure going to beat the 250 mile drive.

Congrats Grandpa Andy & family! Let the spoiling begin!

 

Good evening Ford Drivers'.

 

Good evening Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Made it back to Bravo HQ late this afternoon. Stopped in Chemult at the Chalet for French Dip and also got Diesel at Pilot for 30¢ a gallon off.

Pulling out of the Pilot I noticed I didin't have any clearance lights on the the boat trailer. Pulled over and checked. Pig tail behind the 7 pin was totally devastated. I looked like it had gone through a meat grinder. Warden looked at it and said there was no way I was going to fix it on the side of the road. Oh ye of little faith. I carry a respectable 12 volt electrical repair kit in both the camper and the boat. Took a half hour but we were back on the road better than new.

Small heard of elk and calves down by the river tonight. Trail cams are reporting in. They have wee little calves with them so I don't want to light them up with the 3000 Lumen light and spook them. Wouldn't want anything to happen to the little ones.

 

Morning all, and happy Friday eve.

 

Good Thursday morning Andy and....
Getting closer to the weekend!

 

what caused the carnage?

congratulations Andy! Kinda scary when its out of normal situation.

Turdsday so go slay your dragon of the day…

 

Belated good morning Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Started out at 39 this morning, clear, sunny and heating up. Up to 73 now.
Took a hike around Bravo compound this morning and marked the Lat-Lon of all the survey stakes, markers and wooden sticks with directions to the stakes. Down the SSW property line the USFS many years ago stuck all sorts of priavte / public land boundary markers along with witness trees and witness markers. I've physically inspected each one and have a GPS map with pictures of them so they won't be so hard to find if needed on down the road. I'm not a surveyor so when I read descriptions like "starting at a point XXXX, 2500 chains south to point XXXX thence 125 chains to a flat rock buried at 3 feet with this mark on it.......", my calculator and my head begin to smoke.

I suspect that when we pulled into the truck area of the parking lot for the Chalet Restaurant & Lounge the pigtail may have gotten under the ball mount. Traversing the craters of the moon in the parking lot we heard the hitch drag a couple of times before I got smart and took the bags up to 100 PSI. I'm always pretty careful about making sure the pigtail is clear of the ground and not long enough to get underneath the hitch or ball assembly. I built that pigtail quite a few years ago for the extended hitch we use with the camper(s). I've never torn it up like that, but obviously it didn't commit suicide without help so I must not have had it shortened up the way I thought I did. Oh well, at least it was still daylight and the spot on the side of the road I pulled over as safe as they come. I had been planning on rebuilding the pigtail for a couple of years, now it's done. It's also about 16" shorter than it used to be.

 

Good afternoon Ford Drivers.
I'm going to have change parking spot at work so Ican at least watch the osprey nest on my lunch break because the lumber isn't very interesting.

 

You could try sitting at the end of a unit of 2X6 or 2X8's counting the tree rings and seeing how many boards came out of one 5" tree. Then if that got old, you could check out the wane and visualize how many trees you could put back together.

 

Good evening Ford Drivers'.
Jim I look at the lumber enough putting orders together and delivering, I have no interest in it on my half hour lunch break.

 

I'm sure glad I'm the guy that took the orders and then bossed around the guys that did the pulling, loading and delivery. Putting pole barn pull lists together was bad enough. Hearing the yard guys groan when I gave them the orders to put together (especially large barns on rainy, wet, cold days) was near threatening. Pulling the items for a 60X120 pole barn and assembling the kits together was a nightmare. I had to do it a few times when our yard people and truck drivers would call in sick or drop (deliberately?) a 6X6 on their foot. It would take two of us on two fork lifts at each end of a truss to get some of the 36, 40 and 60 foot trusses loaded. No thank you, done. Give me my nice Patrol Car back, thankyou! Oh wait, never mind, I'm retired!

 

Saturday #5 for Jim… or is it 6? When do you start your count when it doesn’t matter anymore? LOL

yes im jealous! Go team!

 

Good Friday morning Brett and those to follow.

 

Good morning Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Temp has come up nearly 15° since earlier this morning. Sitting at 68 now under clear and sunny skies.

Brett - Not sure which Saturday it is. But Saturday #6 is the Saturday before Sunday and the Day after Sunday is Saturday #1. Saturday #1 seems to be the day that a lot of working folks really dread, moan and complain about, Saturday #3 seems to be the one everyone talks about a camels hump on and Saturday #5 is the one that everyone seems to think should be a National Holiday.

Had a visitor this morning around 0730 while I was down at the pump house at the pond. Came over and got a drink out of the pond. Not sure why he didn't use the river, but he provided a view.

 

Good afternoon Ford Drivers.
Parked on Neah-Kah-Nie Mt looking over The Pacific Ocean for Mt lunch break today.