tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54900367651205679472024-03-12T20:13:59.272-07:00Off Grid, Self-Sufficient, Montana Homestead LifeWe live on a (almost!) self-sufficient, off-grid homestead in the mountains of northwestern Montana. Our lifestyle is a blend of old and new technologies. Our goal is to be as self-sufficient as possible on our 20 acre homestead.Steven Gregersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04916875414656104179noreply@blogger.comBlogger326125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490036765120567947.post-81958273983052982492018-11-09T14:19:00.001-08:002018-11-09T14:19:16.994-08:00November 9, 2018 Bear Tracks<br />
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<br />Steven Gregersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04916875414656104179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490036765120567947.post-51067746182901144812018-11-03T08:11:00.001-07:002018-11-03T08:17:16.973-07:00August 2018- Forest fires and road trips.And we end another summer defined by forest fires and their attendant dangers and restrictions. Most of these areas are in dire need of serious thinning and logging. The lack of maintenance leaves them overfilled with fuel that makes the fires burn hotter and longer, spewing tons of ash into the air and sterilizing the soil. To complicate things, access is severely restricted due to closed roads, many of which are now overgrown and almost inaccessible.<br />
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08/04/2018</div>
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This shows the location and size of the Ten Mile Fire soon after it began.</div>
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Note the blue square with the circle around it.</div>
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08/18/2018</div>
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This map is larger showing fires on the west side of the Lake Koocanusa as well as the fire in the photo above. Note the location of the blue square and compare the extent of the fire zone around the original fire and now several smaller fires. We live near the blue square.</div>
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This is the inset to the map above showing more detail of the Sterling Complex and Ten Mile fires. The blue square is circled.</div>
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We had some business to do in Libby and while there took some time for Scott to play at their water park. It was a nice break for him during the hot day.</div>
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I don't remember what was so interesting for the dogs but they sure are in agreement that it's worth watching!</div>
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The smoke along Lake Koocanusa.</div>
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I was asked to check out a hot zone spotted by satellite the night before. It's located in the blue square on the map above. The dog and I hiked in to look for evidence of fire. (None found.)</div>
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Lots of bears in the area this year. I should have put something down for a size reference. I was armed with my 357 Magnum just in case. A lot of wildlife has been displaced by the fires.</div>
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A small lake in the blue square (State land) near the hot spot.</div>
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Oregon (wild) grapes.</div>
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This is what I was hiking through. There was no trail over the boggy ground. I tend to avoid this area because you can hear water running underground in many sections of it.</div>
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On the way back out Rose tangled with a skunk with predictable results. She rolled in the grass and dust trying to get the smell off. She also rode in the back of the truck on the way home!</div>
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We headed south to Nevada to do some hunting. I drew an out-of-state license for the archery mule deer season. (Didn't get one but it was still a good hunt.) I believe this is at Twin Falls, ID.</div>
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Scott relaxing on one of our stops.</div>
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One of our favorite rest stops. There's a creek flowing through behind the camper. If it's late enough we spend the night there (we did this time).</div>
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We went through multiple construction zones and in one of them someone threw a rock up that broke the side window on the pickup.</div>
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It's kind of a shock when the window basically shatters at 50 MPH. It took a week to get the parts and a 300 plus mile trip to pick it up. I put it on myself so it cost us less than $60.00 plus gas to fix it. Gotta appreciate EBAY and the USPS.</div>
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One of our camp sites in Nevada. </div>
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Poor Scott! His school work follows him wherever we roam!</div>
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One of the peaks I was on while hunting. </div>
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Looking down!</div>
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More scenery.</div>
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Another stopping point!</div>
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I hiked back in here. The four-wheeler is down the canyon a ways. The top of the mountain to the left is where a fire went through. The orange color is fire retardant dropped from a plane.</div>
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Looking the other direction up the canyon. There are springs everywhere (that's why some of the trees and brush are bright green).</div>
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More scenery.</div>
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That's an old mine in the center. I was on the ridge in the distance where the first photo of the four-wheeler was taken.</div>
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It was a long ride to the top on the four-wheelers. Buttercup loves taking trips on them. It was getting late and we had about 15 or so miles to go down a winding road to get back to camp. It was definitely dark when we got there!</div>
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<br />Steven Gregersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04916875414656104179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490036765120567947.post-89470108699354633692018-08-02T05:42:00.001-07:002018-08-02T05:42:42.393-07:00July 2018 Nevada TripSusan and Scott made a quick trip down to Nevada where the motor home is stored to get some things for the 5th wheel. We will probably be using the 5th wheel for a deer hunting trip in Nevada this fall so we wanted to get it set up prior to leaving with it. Once it's in Nevada it will be staying there. It's too big to be practical in Montana and since it's primary purpose is to be our winter "home" it makes sense to just store it there during the summer.<br />
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So, Susan and Scott took a quick trip south to get things out of storage and to scout out the hunting area a bit prior to the season.<br />
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One of the stops was at the Dave Deacon campground in central Nevada. We like it for the moderate climate in summer. It's much milder there than the 100 (+) degree days in Overton. It also has one of our favorite swimming springs.</div>
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The fish were "kissing" Scott!</div>
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It's a favorite for Scott due to the crystal clear water flowing through and it's deep enough for snorkeling!</div>
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This is another spring near the hunting area. This is just one part of it (there are several springs here). The water is warmer at this location.</div>
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And the antelope seem to like using it too!</div>
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This is near the hunting area. Susan tried going to a spot we wanted to see farther south of here but ran into some problems. We put new tires on the Sante Fe before she left but she hit a nail or something and the left front one went flat. While she was getting to the jack a cowboy stopped by and put a plug in the tire. We only had a small 12 volt pump in the car so it took awhile to re-inflate the tire. In the meantime she discovered that the right front tire was low. She used the pump to inflate it then decided to scrap the exploration of new territory and head back north.</div>
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She found a nice little camping area near a flowing creek (a real find in arid Nevada!) and spent the night there. The cell signal was weak but she could still send texts. We'd been in contact by texts during the day regarding the tire(s). Being fifty miles from help is not a good feeling when you are dealing with two flats but only one spare.</div>
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The plug the cowboy put in was holding but by morning the other front tire was flat. The little air pump stopped working after awhile (probably overheated) so Susan put the spare on. I carry tire plugs in the vehicle but you need a tire pump to re-inflate the tire.</div>
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Anyway, with the spare installed she took off for the nearest outpost of civilization. There she found someone to repair the flat although he wouldn't swap it with the spare. (He also charged her $40.00 to put a plug in the hole!) So she changed the tire herself, putting the spare back in the rack under the car and putting the front tire back in it's original position. Then she headed for home.</div>
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This is a little camp ground near some petroglyphs where they spent a night on the way south.</div>
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Another place we've stayed before. This one was under water one spring.</div>
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Another night near the petroglyphs.</div>
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Scott arrived with a trailer load of things that now need a home in our 5th wheel.</div>
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<br />Steven Gregersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04916875414656104179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490036765120567947.post-83435592279712093982018-07-29T15:02:00.000-07:002018-07-29T15:02:32.182-07:00July 29, 2018 Solar Power Installed on the 5th WheelWe purchased a used 5th wheel to put into use as our winter home when we go south in the fall. We prefer to "boon-dock" when we travel which means we camp out in the "wild" without electric, water and sewer hookups rather than use campgrounds that charge a nightly fee.<br />
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As a result we tend to modify our rigs to be pretty much self-sufficient. They have water storage, propane for cooking, the furnace and for powering the refrigerator and water heater. The generator is powered off the propane bottles and wired directly into the wiring system. It has both 12 volt DC and 120 volt AC systems installed.<br />
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One of the most important changes we make is to install solar panels for charging the batteries (and we increased the number of batteries from one to three), which power the 12 volt DC system and also power an inverter to supply 120 volt AC current when we are not running the generator.<br />
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In this instance we installed two 160 watt solar panels on the roof of the RV.<br />
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One of the first things I do is take a photo of the specification plate on the back of the solar panel(s). In this case both panels are identical units rated at 160 watts each (320 total). This should supply far more power than we need even on cloudy days.</div>
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I purchased eight "Z" brackets to mount the panels to the roof. Four for each panel. You can use more if you desire but four has been adequate in the past and we've weathered some pretty strong winds.</div>
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The mounting holes from the factory are larger than needed and placed too far inboard for my tastes. So, I move the edge of the bracket to the edge of the panel and mark where the new holes need to be drilled. </div>
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NOTE: Do not make the holes so close to the inside edge that you cannot install the bolt that holds the bracket to the panel.</div>
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THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT: put some kind of stop spacer on the drill bit to keep it from going so deep that it contacts the solar panel surface. When the drill bites through the aluminum frame it will bind and try to drive itself through and into the solar panel below. Obviously you don't want that to happen! I used a 1/4 inch drive deep socket as a drill stop. They make special tools just for this purpose (I even have one!) but in my experience this works just as well and it's faster.</div>
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First bracket installed! Seven more to go!</div>
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Once I have the brackets bolted to the panels I need to install them on top of the 5th wheel. (Actually, you should have done some measuring first just to be sure that you have room.) You want to have the panels clear of any tall objects like the AC unit and/or antennas. Any amount of shade will decrease the charge rate on a solar panel. Be sure that the panels can get the maximum amount of sunlight every day.</div>
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You can use strip caulk purchased at any hardware or auto parts store for the first layer of leak protection. I had a vent installation kit with a roll of caulk left from a previous project and elected to use it.</div>
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Now drill hole down through the bracket and install a screw or lag bolt. When you torque it down it will squeeze out some of the caulk. Trim the excess caulk away before the next step.</div>
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I used a caulking gun and sealer to thoroughly cover the bracket and bolt. Be sure it seals tightly to both the roof and bracket.</div>
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One of the biggest challenges can be finding a way to get the solar panel wiring down to the charge controller and batteries. In this instance I'm utilizing the holding tank vent. This pipe goes down through the storage compartment which is also where the batteries are.</div>
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I ran the cables through the pipe then reinstalled the vent cap. I'm using a MPPT charge controller so the panels are hooked up in series. </div>
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If I was using a PWM controller I would have to hook the panel wiring up in a parallel circuit using another cable for splicing the two panels together. The splices are available at any solar power supplier. </div>
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For really big systems you may have to use both parallel and series wiring to get an acceptable combination of voltage and amperage.</div>
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The panels and wiring installed on the roof.</div>
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This is the vent line from the holding tank. It's 1 1/2 inch PVC pipe. I just cut a section out, ran the wires through and measured them, then ran them through the "T" and glued the "T" back into the vent pipe. There should not be anything except the odors from the tank in the line. I drilled a couple of holes barely larger than the electric cable through the plug. Ran the wires through the plug then glued it in place.</div>
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Next I used sealer to completely seal off the vent and wires.</div>
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Next I ran the wires from the batteries to the charge controller. You want to hook the battery wires up first because many charge controllers sense the battery voltage then automatically select the 12 volt or 24 volt options from their programming. It you hook the panels to the controller first it can get "confused" about whether your system's battery bank is 12 volt or 24 volt. The input voltage from our solar panels is about 35 volts. The charge controller reduces that down to around 13.5 volts (depending what charge "mode" the controller is using at the moment) to keep from overcharging the batteries. A charge controller's only reason for existing is to properly charge and protect your batteries from over charging or being discharged too deeply (although other systems bear more responsibility for that).</div>
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Three batteries should be adequate for our needs. They are hooked together in a parallel circuit.</div>
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You can see the charge controller installed to the inside wall near the opposite side in this photo. You need to leave plenty of clearance for air circulation around it.</div>
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You can see the back of the inverter on the left side. The large black "box" is our inverter which changes the 12 volt DC current to 120 volt AC current. This one is rated at 1,750 watts.</div>
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<br />Steven Gregersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04916875414656104179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490036765120567947.post-81453036104495519942018-07-21T11:55:00.000-07:002018-07-21T13:42:38.278-07:00June 2018 - Rappelling, Exploring, New Granddaughter, Sedated Grizzly Bear ...It's been a busy spring here. Fortunately it began and stayed wetter than last summer so the fire danger has at least been delayed a bit.<br />
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This little guy lives in the neighborhood. He's been spotted several times. Don't know if mom's around or not. He is big enough to fend for himself if need be.</div>
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We ordered a small battery operated chain saw for trimming up the trees. It wouldn't be much use for cutting a winter's supply of firewood but it works great for cutting the low-hanging limbs off the trees around the cabin.</div>
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We've been thinking about doing some rappelling. These are some climbing cliffs on the highway on the west side of Lake Koocanusa. This is a "close up" of the person hanging on the cliffs above.</div>
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This is taken from the same spot without telephoto. Yep, that's the cliff way up at the top of the photo. </div>
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This is one of the rock walls near the highway. There's a climber on it too! This area is so popular that the highway department or Forest Service or some other organization set up a porta-pot for climbers to use. A local climbing club installed anchors in the cliffs and at the tops of the most popular climbing cliffs which makes it much easier and ultimately saves the cliffs since people won't be pounding in their own all over the walls.</div>
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This was taken at the top of the cliffs in the photos above. We used the trail to get up there though. That's Lake Koocanusa below. It was a windy day and the waves on the lake were impressive. Normally it's placid and a deep blue in color.</div>
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Scott has been wanting to try some rappelling off of cliffs. (He learned doing it down the side of our camper van.) so we found a location with a little more modest walls to try out first.</div>
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And ... over the top he goes!</div>
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And he obviously hates it! Haha! He climbed back up the wall (barefoot!) three more times before calling it an evening. I only had to assist him once on the first climb. (I was on top manning the safety rope.)</div>
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What can I say ... it's northwestern Montana!</div>
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The batteries in my GPS went dead and really corroded the battery compartment on my unit. I found out that they clean up well with just soapy water and a toothbrush. I love my GPS. It gives me a lot more freedom to roam. A compass is good and a map is good but our timber is tall and thick. You can seldom see anything except trees ... no landmarks. Even climbing to the top seldom helps because the trees are tall and thick there as well. So I use the GPS to get a compass heading back to home or camp then use the compass to point the way.</div>
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There are lots of turkeys this year. This guy was still trying to impress the hens tagging along.</div>
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I parked the car in it's usual spot then I noticed a couple of days later that the tire was flat.</div>
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When I got it off I noticed that the inside of the outer tread had been kind of ground off. I have no idea how that happened. It isn't alignment nor is it rubbing anywhere on the wheel well. The good thing is that the new tires seem to be doing well on it.</div>
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Scott over playing with his brothers. Sand is always a good "toy" when kids are involved!</div>
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Out on our 4-wheelers doing some exploring. We visited some areas where I used to get a lot of my firewood then we tried out a few more roads. A lot of the roads are gated most of the year but some are opened up at certain times in the spring and summer.</div>
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We spotted this rig for sale along the highway. Our motor home is showing it's age so we've been kind of looking around a bit for a replacement. We never looked at 5th wheels for various reasons, one of which was that we didn't have a truck to pull it with. This guy was selling the truck and trailer together. We bought it. I swore I'd never own a 5th wheel camper or a rig with slide-outs or a diesel pickup. Now I have all three. It is a nice rig though and all set up and ready to hit the road. Getting it home up our "road" was an adventure I hope to never do again! We're getting it all set up for winter. (More about that in the July blog.) We'll take it down south with us and leave it there in storage next summer. It's got us antsy to hit the road!</div>
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That's our son in the white T-shirt. This is a grizzly that the FWP trapped and tranquilized at the golf course where he works. It's getting radio collared and moved to a new location. Saw a video on You Tube where they tried releasing a different grizzly from a culvert trap. The bear was a bit angry and went directly for the game warden on top of the trap. He had to shoot it with his sidearm to stop the attack. It all happened rather quickly! Usually they run away ... usually!</div>
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Scott holding his new baby sister at the hospital. She has three older brothers to watch out for her.</div>
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<br />Steven Gregersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04916875414656104179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490036765120567947.post-5037125807605201282018-06-02T10:54:00.003-07:002018-06-02T11:07:46.919-07:00May 2018 - Spring time and game camera photos.Look like it's been awhile since my last post! A lot of our winter time is spent far from internet service so we end up hot-spotting our cell phones when we need internet access. Posting the blog takes a lot of data due to the photos posted. We have "unlimited" data but when we reach a certain point the phones get very slow so we try to avoid using them for posting the blog or other high data uses such as movies/you tubes/and games (our grandson!). We can sometimes use WiFi at libraries and fast food outlets but then time is limited. So, the blog gets neglected<br />
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This was taken at the wildlife management area at Overton, NV. We often see turkeys, rabbits, quail, coyotes, burros, and waterfowl there but this is the first time we've had peacocks strutting through our camp site. We often use the WMA as a sort of staging area when we first arrive to get our motor home out of storage and again when we're ready to put it back in storage before heading home again in the spring. It's close to town so if we need anything we can get it.</div>
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This is probably in Montana along I-90 between Butte and Missoula.</div>
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Our turn off I-90 and heading north on the last (190 mile) stretch.</div>
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When we got home we found out that we had a broken elbow in the water supply line to the sink. That's the first time that has happened. I drain the pipes and tanks each winter before we head south.</div>
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One of my projects was to get a mower running (we have two gas powered mowers, three reel mowers, and a recently acquired electric mower for close to the cabin, we power the electric mower using our solar power system).</div>
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This particular mower quit suddenly a couple of years ago when I hit a stump while mowing. I was almost finished and it was the end of the season so I just parked it and finished up with the string trimmer.</div>
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I suspected it had sheared the flywheel key and I was correct. The slot in the upper crankshaft and the key slot in the flywheel should align but they don't. This throws the timing way off and the mower won't run.</div>
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Back in the old days the factory cut screw threads to use a gear puller to get the flywheel off. They decided to cut corners on that so if you have to pull the flywheel you have to cut threads for the bolts needed to pull the flywheel off.</div>
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This is the sheared key on the mower. The can tab is for size comparison.</div>
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This is the way it should look. I had a couple of crankshaft keys on hand but I had to file one down a bit to make it fit. I installed it and put it all back together, checked the oil and filled it with gas and it fired right up. I got the rougher part of the lawn mowed and it worked fine through two tanks of gas. I used the old reel mower to cut the level sections of grass and on the road to the shack (storage) on the back corner of the place. I tried out the electric mower in the yard near the cabin. I prefer the reel mower because it doesn't stir up the pollen, dust and weed seeds. I often have to spend some time on my nebulizer after mowing (asthma and allergy problems).</div>
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We've put a few miles on the four wheelers since we got home. This is just outside (south) of Fortine taken from some state land.</div>
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Susan, Scott and Buttercup (our Pomeranian) admiring the scenery.</div>
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Same place as above but looking southeast instead of southwest.</div>
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This is about a mile or so (as the crow flies) south of our cabin on timber company land.</div>
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Buttercup enjoys travelling whether by car, bicycle (she rides in the front basket) or four-wheelers.</div>
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Doing some rototilling on our long neglected garden. We are going to plant a few things this year but mostly I'm going to keep tilling it up to get rid of the weeds and grass.</div>
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We need a new fence but don't want to mess with it this year so we had a couple of old trampoline frames laying around and decided to use them for a temporary garden fence. In typical Scott fashion anything that will hold him is obviously made for climbing and playing on.</div>
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Scott and I are putting the fence wire around it.</div>
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Susan began transplanting while we were working.</div>
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She's putting the greenhouse to use this summer too.</div>
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And she planted strawberries in one of the raised beds.</div>
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Gardening is iffy here. The cold is always a problem and in the past we have had frost every month of the year but the major worry is a relatively new one. We've had ground squirrels move in and take up residence on the property in the last few years. Despite my efforts to trap and shoot them (and the dog's constant harassment) we have a very healthy population of the little rodents. The fence will keep the deer out and the garden will be finished before the bears become a problem in the fall but the ground squirrels can pretty much wipe out a garden in a couple of days. We'll see what happens!</div>
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Susan had to get her driver's license renewed which called for a trip to Libby (the county seat 80 miles each way ... but only 40 miles by air ... if you have a helicopter!). This is along the Kootenai River a few miles outside of Libby.</div>
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While we were there on a second trip for another issue, Scott took some time to play in the water park in town. They have all kinds of fountains to play in. </div>
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Now he's at the lower pool at the hot springs. It's about a 120 mile drive each way. The Symes Motel has four pools. One upper pool is hot (about 15 minutes in it and you have to get out!). The other upper pool has a privacy fence (clothing optional) and is also hot. Below the first pool is one that's about like hot bath water. Below that one is a full sized pool where we spend most of our time. It's heated also but not as hot as the others. When we were here this time the two upper pools were closed for repairs so they had heated the lower pool up quite a bit but it was still fun.</div>
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In case you haven't noticed there are two things Scott likes more than any others: those are climbing things and playing in the water!</div>
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We got him a new game for his "half-birthday." When he was younger we told him he could celebrate half birthdays. He didn't have much concept of time so about once a week he'd spout out that, "It's my birthday!" so we'd have a birthday party ... again!</div>
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Scott wanted a hummingbird feeder so he and Susan got one and put it up at the edge of the porch. We have at least three different hummingbirds feeding there now.</div>
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He still likes riding in the wheel barrow.</div>
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He's raking up leaves with Susan.</div>
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I ordered a new bow for him but despite what the advertisers claimed its still a little too big for him. He did, however, love the release that came with it so he's using it on his old bow to thunk arrows into my new 3-D deer target. </div>
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Sunset on lower Stillwater Lake on the way home from Kalispell one evening. That photo was taken at 9:22 PM. It is still light out until almost 10 PM around here. </div>
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A bobcat at the same place the photo below was taken.</div>
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This was taken below the cabin on our property. We have does and fawns coming in the yard quite often in the summer.</div>
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This bobcat photo was taken about five feet from our porch door. The photo below this one was from the same camera but it's light out so you can get an idea of the location.</div>
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This was taken at the corner of my shop (about 100 feet from the porch). It's a grizzly that broke into our chicken feed the night before. The chickens and I cleaned up the mess as well as possible the next day but I knew he'd be back so I set up a game camera. We had a bit of a stand-off the night before. I heard the dog barking so I went out to investigate with my single barrel shotgun loaded with bird shot. I'd had problems with skunks trying to get to the chickens a couple of times so I figured there was a skunk to dispatch. When I rounded the corner (in my PJ's and flip-flops) I came face to face with the bear. He moved over to the road that runs on down to the shack and just sat there watching me from about ten feet away. I watched him and he watched me. I had the shotgun cocked and pointed at him with my finger on the trigger. He finally got up and waddled down the road toward the shack.</div>
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If you want an interesting grizzly and chicken story type in a search for "beeman, fortine, montana, grizzly." He's a neighbor in town and the confrontation occurred about the time we were moving here.</div>
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This mom and her two cubs were photographed by a game camera about 200 yards from the cabin on a neighbor's land.</div>
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<br />Steven Gregersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04916875414656104179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490036765120567947.post-42544992575547434192017-11-27T12:18:00.000-08:002017-12-01T11:49:29.522-08:00July, August, September 2017I'm still playing catch up on my blog so this is the condensed version.<br />
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had it out on the water much. We picked up two dogs last summer and hadn't had them out on the water either. Rose rode in the canoe with me. I had to lift her in because she had no intention of going willingly! Once got going she calmed down and enjoyed the ride.</div>
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Scott was on his kayak tethered to Susan's. </div>
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He has our second dog (Butter cup, a pomeranian), with him. She had no qualms regarding the water or kayak.</div>
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We decided to modify the van a bit by taking out the bathroom and building beds. The front bed over the driver and passenger seat will be used for storage. </div>
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The beds are almost finished. Scott's is above mine. I built storage space under mine.</div>
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A couple of the boys decided to shoot some clay targets.</div>
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We went through a couple hundred rounds before we were finished.</div>
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And the circus came to town (well, to Kalispell anyway!). Scott has been to them before but was younger and didn't remember a lot. He was less timid about rides this time and began with a ride on the horses.</div>
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Next it was the elephant.</div>
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He enjoyed the acts more this time but it's so hard for live performers to hold the attention of kids. They're so used to the internet with video games and movies with their special effects. He did manage to coerce us into adding to his arsenal of ray guns, swords, tomahawks and various other "weapons" the venders were hawking.</div>
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We decided to take a little sight-seeing vacation in Montana. There's so much to see and do in this state. This is along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River along the south edge of Glacier National Park.</div>
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This was taken in Great Falls, Montana. We stopped to check out the Lewis And Clark Museum there. </div>
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From there we dipped south to see some new countryside. </div>
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Our campsite the second night has a creek behind the van and another on the left side. We crossed the bridge and did some exploring then set up for the night.</div>
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Our primary destination was Hardin, Montana for the parade and re-enactment of Custer's Last Stand.</div>
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Here we got to meet Colonel Custer himself. Looks pretty spry for being dead all these years.</div>
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This photo (and the next two) were taken at the re-enactment site where the Indian version of the battle has Custer being killed in the nearby river (Little Big Horn) instead of the hill top as is usually understood. </div>
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Scott got possession of my camera and proceeded to take photos of himself (multiple times!) the bleachers, a lot of butts and backs and some of the clouds.</div>
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Overall the show was a bit disappointing. Not enough actors and too much drama as they tried to retrace the history of the first interactions of the white Europeans in the East until the battle of the Little Bighorn. It made for a long program.</div>
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The young men riding were superb horsemen and put on a good show for their part. Overall though, while we're glad we saw it, we don't plan on going again.</div>
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This was at a museum on Hardin. We stopped there again after the show. It was getting late and some of the displays were shutting down but this couple took time to take this photo with Scott. The indoor part of the museum is okay but most of the attractions are outside and include some living history type exhibits.</div>
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We decided to take the northeast entrance to Yellowstone National Park. It involves going over a pass that isn't open during part of the year. The photo doesn't do justice to how far below that valley actually is.</div>
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We hope to go back here again in the future. There's a stream along the bottom with hundreds of campsites available. The fishing should be great and we'll take our 4-wheelers for additional exploring in the mountains.</div>
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Higher and higher we went.</div>
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Keep in mind that this is June as we near the top.</div>
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We went down the other side and ate at a small restaurant in Silvergate. This place is accessible only by snowmobile and helicopter a large part of the year. We asked the waitress/owner and she recommended that we backtrack a few miles to camp which we did.</div>
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That's our van/camper in that little clearing below. We had a little creek running near us and I saw a coyote come in close to check us out about the time the sun went down.</div>
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This was taken inside the park. They really need more pull-outs along the road. There were buffalo everywhere and just as many tourist with motor homes parked half-way out in the road.</div>
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We made a few stops and saw some new stuff. Most of it went well except for some A-holes driving and parking. I left a "nice" little note on the window of a vehicle whose driver seemed to think he needed four spaces to park his suburban.</div>
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This is the ghost town of Garnet, MT. It in the process of being restored as funds are available. The town's history is well documented. The green roofed building is original but has been restored and modernized and holds a gift shop. The other buildings are in various states of repair or decay. It's important to note that there are many buildings missing. Knowing what Montana winters are like these were some tough people. Cabins are small and most had dirt floors. The two story building was a classy hotel at one time. Not so much now. The rooms are small by today's standards and insulation was non-existent!</div>
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Scott taking in the campfire at the Overton Wildlife Management Area.</div>
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This is an old picnic area near Overtone. It was quite a ride up to it. At this point we are near the boundaries of Valley of Fire.</div>
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Getting ready to hit the road. The hamburgers are for consumption that evening. The pork chops will be frozen and taken with us on the road. They make great meals on the road. We don't have to heat them up. We just set them on the dashboard for a couple of hours to warm up and eat them that way.</div>
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I got a call from my mother that a tree was going to fall on our camper we have stored in her yard. No one could take care of it for a couple of weeks and she wanted it down before it fell down. I took a plane out of Vegas then spent a week at my mother's. Day one I took down the tree. After that there was another project.</div>
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My sister's grandson started a fire behind their garage. By the time the fire department got it out it had burned a bunch of siding off the back of the garage. My mother (who is in her 80's) and I cleared off the burned siding and underlayment then began putting new siding on.</div>
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A couple of days later we were finished except for the painting which they would finish up.</div>
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We began heading toward home again. Here we are at the Dave Deacon Campground at the Kirsch WMA in central Nevada. It's one of our favorite places because of the free camping (with water hydrants available and outhouses) and it also has a hot spring there for swimming.</div>
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We had our four-wheelers with us and did some exploring in the area. The dust we kicked up was kind of bad and the sun was pretty direct so this is how I dressed for our daily rides. I also wore gloves to protect my hands from sunburn.</div>
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On our rides we were going several miles each way to the mountains to ride the trails and roads so we moved our camp out there. There was no water but we packed enough to get us by awhile and just rode to the campground when we needed more.</div>
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It was a really great time. Our campsite was sheltered in the trees from the wind and private. We were the only people there camping and we saw only a couple more on our travels over the miles and miles of old dirt roads that laced the area.</div>
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There were springs all through the surrounding desert, valleys and mountains. They were all fenced off to keep livestock out and the water piped down to stock tanks so that critters in the area could have fresh, clean water to drink.</div>
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Winter killed? Disease? Predators? The cause of death is impossible to ascertain but even in death nothing goes to waste in the wild.</div>
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This guy was a daily resident at the campground. Every morning we'd watch it come flying back with a fish then sit on this power pole to enjoy his meal.</div>
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Back home in Montana. We took the U-Haul camper to a local lake for a few days of fishing, kayaking, hiking and camping. Buttercup, our Pomeranian that we acquired through animal control, is anxiously waiting in the basket to hit the road on a bike ride.</div>
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Scott and Susan float past an old beaver lodge.</div>
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We did some exploring and some fishing and just enjoyed our time on the lake.</div>
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<br />Steven Gregersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04916875414656104179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490036765120567947.post-47901188071149570282017-06-16T17:44:00.003-07:002017-06-16T17:50:25.820-07:00March 1-15, 2017 Desert fun!Due to the large number of photos (I already edited out over one-hundred to get it down to this number!) there won't be a lot of commentary. The order is off on some because they were taken with four different cameras and it was too much trouble to properly sort them (Okay, I just don't have time, I'm too lazy, blah, blah, blah!). Anyway I hope you enjoy them.<br />
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Working on the motor home here. Both of these switches have been broken for awhile (the plastic lever is gone) so I decided to replace them.</div>
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The fuel pump on the motor home. I replaced this one. It's kind of a booster pump used when the fuel tanks are far away from the engine. Sometimes the main pump needs some help.</div>
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This is one of the places we camped off the beaten path. It has a 4x4 trail going several miles down to the lake.</div>
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This is along the road next to our camp. You can see both Stewarts Point and Echo Bay from here. (Of course you need binoculars!)</div>
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Same place as the photo above only looking the opposite direction.</div>
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These wild horses were waiting just outside the camp the first morning after our arrival.</div>
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A little later in the morning one posed for us on a nearby knoll.</div>
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Our camp was late getting the morning sun due to ...</div>
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... this guy being in the way!</div>
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This little canyon goes over to the shoreline of Lake Mead.</div>
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Break time!</div>
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This was taken on the other side of the lake near Gold Butte. Most of the photos following were taken in this area.</div>
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Now we're back to the earlier campsite. These two photos were taken from our camp site using the highest setting on my camera's telephoto. I think there are a couple of desert bighorns in there.</div>
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Same location a half-hour later. Possibly same two sheep.</div>
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This is a rock "window" above the first camp site.</div>
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That's our camp viewed through the "window."</div>
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Echo Bay viewed from the camp.</div>
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Stewarts Point viewed from camp.</div>
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The final photos are from explorations around the camp near Gold Butte.</div>
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<br />Steven Gregersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04916875414656104179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490036765120567947.post-20177503891437305202017-06-04T13:38:00.003-07:002017-06-04T13:45:11.485-07:00February 15-28, 2017 Life in the desert.Another post .... I'm way behind (right, I'm doing a post on late Feb. on June 4!) so there won't be a lot of commentary on the photos ... sorry!<br />
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This is a public rifle range a few miles outside of Overton, NV. Nothing fancy, just a place to shoot. We took the four-wheelers and my "modern" inline muzzle loading rifle out for some fun and testing.</div>
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The target is out there about 100 yards.</div>
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I'm shooting some different loads (trying different bullet/sabot combinations and two kinds of propellant) to check for point of impact of the different combinations and accuracy. I used to look through binoculars or a spotting scope but now I take a photo after every shot and keep a notebook for what combinations were used for that shot. It works much better for me. It helps to have a good telephoto lens (I do). This one is about 50X. That's three, three-shot "groups." </div>
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Meanwhile Scott was busy gathering up stuff for his own projects.</div>
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This is a "robot" he put together out of range trash. Kind of makes you think people should be more diligent about picking up after themselves.</div>
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We put quite a few miles on 4-wheelers. I believe this (and the next two photos) was a run on up the canyon we were in while shooting.</div>
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This is on Morman Mesa outside of Overton.</div>
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Our favorite hot spring.</div>
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We just got this bike trailer. I had assembled it and I'm now putting the hitch on my bike.</div>
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Scott is playing in the box!</div>
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Vehicles, vehicles, vehicles! I spent most of my life working on cars professionally and I hate working on our own. But sometimes it can't be avoided. This is the transmission tag on our camper van. The vacuum modulator was leaking and having the transmission tag information makes it much easier to get the right part for it.</div>
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Yuch! The big motor home died upon reaching our camping area. I thought it was the fuel pump so we had a friend tow it on over to our camp site. Turned out it wasn't the fuel pump but a faulty gas gauge that was causing problems. (It was out of gas!)</div>
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We took the camper van up to a new area to scout out a new camping spot. We needed to see if the road was good enough to get back there with our trailer hauling the 4-wheelers. (It was!)</div>
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This is another of our favorite spots. It's called "Redstone" and while it was named after the sandstone rock formations there are a lot of other types of rocks there too.</div>
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Scott loves climbing around on the rocks and we're early enough in the season that the snakes are still hibernating.</div>
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It's a beautiful and fun place to play in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.</div>
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Lake mead shoreline. The water is up a few feet from last year.</div>
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More four-wheeling with a friend.</div>
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Everyone has had a lot of problems with mice this year. We had one that actually chewed through the lid on the peanut butter jar. We used the peanut butter for bait and caught him the next night.</div>
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Scott in church during the worship service.</div>
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This is something we don't get to see in Montana in February! Kind of hard to plant a garden when the snow's four-feet deep.</div>
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Gotta love things you find on the internet! An ad on how to block ads!</div>
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One of the things we like most in this area are the spectacular sunsets and sunrises!</div>
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The view east from our porch.</div>
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The view looking south toward the garden area.</div>
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The snow level is above the trampoline (which we shovel off since Scott likes to play on it even in winter).</div>
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Raking snow off the roof of our wood shed. I'm wearing snowshoes.</div>
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Our little gray car parked at the end of the driveway. The drive has been shoveled several times already.</div>
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The cabin.</div>
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Our road after the last storm before we left. We'd been snowed in about four days when this photo was taken. The snow is about 12 to 18 inches deep in the center and it's a warm, wet snow. Pretty much 4X4 with tire chains only at this point.</div>
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We shoveled out the car to get it out of the way when we get plowed out.</div>
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He's driving a skid-steer (Bobcat) with a blade on the front. He has to take a sweeping motion (like using a scythe) and lift the blade to push the snow up and away over the edges. The problem with this much snow is that there's nowhere a regular plow can push it to get it off the roadway. The road keeps getting narrower and narrower until they can't push it out of the road anymore.</div>
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Our daughter and son left their cars down the hill west of us. The car is the mound in the photo. Her Land Cruiser is buried up to the hood.</div>
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Our newly cleared road.</div>
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We almost beat the the guy who plowed the road out! We had been packed up and ready to go for days prior to this.</div>
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The highway had been cleared pretty well. Snow packed in places but overall good driving.</div>
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Walmart parking lot in Kalispell.</div>
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The old Court House in Kalispell.</div>
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One reason we were so late was because we stayed for the birth of our grandson. This was actually before the photos above. </div>
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Scott holding his newest baby brother.</div>
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The motel has good rates and a pool and hot tub which makes it our favorite in Kalispell.</div>
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Scott had the pool to himself (okay, he shared it with Susan and me).</div>
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The hot tub was a little cooler that normal so Scott played in it awhile.</div>
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Susan and the grandkids.</div>
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Scott's little brother playing with the face mask and snorkel. He hasn't quite gotten the hang of the snorkel yet.</div>
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Scott holding his newest baby brother.</div>
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Scott watching his tablet (probably a you-tube video) prior to going to bed.</div>
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Sleep time ... finally!</div>
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Breakfast in the lobby. normally I go then Susan goes then Scott wakes up and we take him. We're heading south today so we got Scott up with us.</div>
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Sunrise over Flathead Lake.</div>
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The Idaho border.</div>
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We were part way through Idaho when it got dark and we noticed the trailer light weren't working. We pulled off at an exit and I tried fixing them. We ended up staying at a motel in the next town for the night.</div>
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Day two ... entering Utah!</div>
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Getting close to our destination. Notice the lack of snow!</div>
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Palm trees! That's what we've been looking for!</div>
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A stop at Walmart in Mesquite for a bicycle for Scott.</div>
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And we pull into Overton in the late evening.</div>
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We normally use the camping area at the Overton Wildlife Refuge as a staging area when we arrive and when we leave. It's free (8 day limit) and close to town so if we need parts or supplies it's easy to get them.</div>
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Next stop was the storage lot where we keep our motor home. We pick it up and drive the half-mile or so to our camp site at the Refuge. There we can clean it up and get it ready for use. We have to put things in plastic storage bins to get it ready to store in the spring then we have to take everything out and put it in it's proper place when getting ready to use it in the winter. I takes a couple of hours. We usually store the kayaks inside it during the winter.</div>
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All set up and taking a break in the shade.</div>
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Scott taking his bike for a spin.</div>
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Lego day at the library. One of Scott's favorite events.</div>
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The finished products are put on display in a glass fronted cabinet until the next week when they are replaced with the newest creations.</div>
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Playing at the park.</div>
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Bed time in the motor home. Scott calls it his "sand camper." Our place up north is the "snow house."</div>
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Biscuits and gravy!</div>
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The local hardware store had rabbits for sale. At $29.99 we didn't buy any!</div>
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Sunsets are always beautiful around Lake Mead!</div>
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This was taken on February first. One of the neighbors slid off into the ditch. It's the third time in 24 hours one particular driver has made people take to the ditch or get hit by her car. Ironically, the people who helped get the third victim out were the other two drivers who were run off the road the day before.</div>
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This is ten days later. Note how much the road has narrowed simply because there's no place to put all of the snow. With each new batch of snow the road got a little narrower until it was down to only one (narrow!!!) lane wide.</div>
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Ben and Scott with their dad.</div>
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I took a couple of video clips of Ben dancing along with the music played by the toy in front of him. It came in handy a few days later at the hospital while I kept him entertained while we waited for his mom to have his little brother. He watched the videos of himself over and over and over again.</div>
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Susan sometimes takes photos of comics she finds. This one was on her phone so I stole it for my blog.</div>
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Scott was entertaining us with a story he made up.</div>
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Washing dishes in the dark. We live completely on solar power so all of our lights are LED or low-watt fluorescent. We use only the lights we need to see with and seldom try to light the entire room.</div>
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Scott in his bed with one of his "guardians" standing watch.</div>
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We are at the hospital with Scott and Ben's new-born brother (Feb. 4th).</div>
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Less than an hour old!</div>
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We went to IHOP for breakfast with Scott, Ben and his dad.</div>
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Ben coloring.</div>
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We spent the night at a local motel where we could play in the hot tub or pool.</div>
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The rates are cheap for a motel with a pool. The breakfast doesn't offer a lot of variety but it comes with the room.</div>
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This and the four pictures after it are in our daughter and SIL's house when when they got home with the new baby.</div>
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Then it was time to head for home trying to beat the next storm that was rolling through. It had already snowed another four to six inches while we were gone for one day. More was on the way.</div>
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Almost to Fortine.</div>
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I got out my new tire cables (purchased at a yard sale) only to find out that they were too big for the tires. I got them for another vehicle but we no longer had it so I thought they'd fit our new car. I should have tried them in warm weather! Now we were stuck about a mile from our cabin.</div>
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A neighbor from past us on our road tried towing us up the hill but the tow strap broke half-way up the first hill.</div>
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So we rode to the cabin with them. I planned on using my truck to pull us up the rest of the way (I had more chains and tow straps at home) but it wouldn't start. I tried the charger then another battery before figuring out that the starter had gone kaput! I called the neighbor up again and he came with his PU. He too had chains on it and he pulled the car the rest of the way home. There it would sit for several days while we got hammered with more snow.</div>
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Susan had a spot shovelled out fopr the Hyundai when we got it back home. She shoveled out about a foot of snow. This was taken at 5:09 PM.</div>
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9:02 PM the same night. The snow begins in earnest!</div>
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Good morning! I'm beginning to have a love/hate relationship with my snow shovel! We got about two-feet of new snow (depending upon where you measured).</div>
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Both of these vehicles were shoveled out to ground level two days before.</div>
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The gate in the background is about six-feet tall. There's about two feet of it still showing. I waded out into it to rake some snow from a shed roof and it was up to my waist.</div>
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These are our picnic tables. Note the new layer of snow on the table tops. Some have two levels of snow. That's how deep the accumulated snow from all winter is. Remember, some has already settled. This last snow is a wet snow that's heavy and sticky. It's terrible for skiing or snowshoeing. It sticks to skis and snowshoes in large, icy, globs.</div>
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The new snow depth on the trailer carrying our 4-wheelers.</div>
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And, shovel off the roof of the van ...</div>
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and shovel off the roof of the U-Haul camper ...</div>
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And more shoveling ... Note that this area was down to ground level before our latest snow.</div>
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Our poor car is buried at the end of the driveway.</div>
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A good morning's work for Susan and I (and Scott)! I ended up shoveling the snow off the roofs of our outbuildings three times in January and February. Normally once is enough for the season. Each time there was over two feet of snow depth on the roof. Some schools were cancelled due to excessive snow loads on the roofs of the school buildings. Even when the schools were not open many of the students were still snowed in at home. Those with heavy machinery that could open up the roads were getting $100.00 per hour to run dozers and skidders to plow roads open and all were several days behind. The biggest problem was finding places to push the snow. Pickups with plows can only push it so far then it backs up and the roads keep getting narrower and narrower until it's only as wide as the plow itself. Many of the roads have high banks on both sides to make matters worse. Maybe it's time to invest in a good snow blower!</div>
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We were snowed in for five days before we could get someone out to remove the snow. We weren't necessarily stranded because I could have used a snowmobile or walked out. (It was plowed about a mile away.) But there was no need to get out. We had plenty of food and firewood so we just kind of chilled (bad word?) until we were plowed out. Believe me, once the plow went past we were gone!!!! But more about that next time.</div>
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You could probably say that I've had about enough quality time spent with my snow shovel for one year! This winter has been a bit unusual with it's long, unbroken cold spell and loads of snow. I've had to clear the roofs of outbuildings twice already when normally once is sufficient. The drive has needed shoveling numerous times as well. All told though, it's been a great winter in that we didn't have the constant freeze/thaw cycles that turn the snow to slush then to ice then we get more snow on top and the cycle continues. </div>
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We were in a quandary regarding which vehicle we're taking back down south with us in the next week or so. The van needed work and the U haul needed work. So, I got the U Haul running by replacing the battery and rebuilding the carburetor. I thought the carb. rebuild would cure it's extreme, cold-blooded problems but it didn't. When the temperature plummets It's a real chore to keep it running until it will idle on it's own. So I finished repairs on the van and it looks like it's the rig we'll be using. The good thing was I could wait to work on them until the weather warmed up a bit. The bad thing was that it was still barely in the double digits on the positive side of the thermometer! Working on vehicles when the tools are freezing cold is not much fun but if it has to be done, it has to be done. So...</div>
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Out came the carburetor on the U Haul. It's the standard Ford 2 barrel of which I've conservatively done probably 500 or more rebuilds on. I like these carburetors (my second favorite is the quadrajet) because they're simple and normally good carburetors. My third favorite was the Ford Variable Venturi carburetors. They are very simple carburetors but most mechanics wouldn't work on them. The key is having a good inches-of-water vacuum gauge and a handy little tool manufactured by Lisle for setting the jets on them. When set up right they would really make a motor run great. When set up wrong they were terrible. A lot of them came from the factory set up wrong.</div>
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They don't have a lot of pieces in them either. This one went well. I put in a kit (which included a new needle and seat, accelerator pump, power valve and gaskets) and a float and cleaned it all up before reinstalling it on the truck. I like working on carburetors. It's interesting that the best teacher I ever had on carburetors was an engineer from Holley Carburetors. He was brought in by a local parts store and the invitation to come was given to all of the repair shops in the area. It was easy to see why he was on the road teaching. He began the class drinking beer and it ended seven hours later (well after midnight) with him still drinking beer. He ended up drunk as a skunk yet could still teach with clarity. I will say that he knew his stuff and I came away with a greater understanding of how a carburetor works than I ever dreamed possible. I thought I knew about carburetors before the class. I didn't even know what I didn't know until that night.</div>
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Susan playing the piano under Scott's supervision! </div>
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The road going by our cabin. There is only one full time resident beyond us so we have very little traffic to contend with. This was taken from our driveway looking east. Our property ends at the top of the road in the distance.</div>
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Susan and I were shoveling out the driveway after another six inch snowfall.</div>
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This was taken from the upstairs bedroom window at 9:53 PM. That's our garden area covered in snow.</div>
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The same place at 10:31 AM.</div>
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Scott asleep with his teddy bears standing guard.</div>
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Susan made banana splits using snow ice cream. (We have no shortage of snow!)</div>
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Yes, it was a good as it looks.</div>
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I bought a set of tire chains for the van at a thrift store in southern Nevada. I paid $10.00 for them and they'd never been installed on a vehicle before. I've bought several sets of tire chains and a snow (roof) rake at yard sales and thrift stores in Nevada for pennies on the dollar of their new price. Lots of retirees move there for the warmer climate taking their winter gear with them. Then they find out that they don't really do winter that far south and sell the stuff at yard sales ... cheap!</div>
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We started up our 4-wheelers to load them on the trailer for their trip down south. Mine has a new battery and started right up (pretty impressive since they'd been sitting there over a month in below zero temperatures. Susan's rig needed some help. The battery was dead. So I wheeled over our small, 2250 watt generator and the fast charger and jump started her ATV. The can of starting fluid on the battery charger was used on the generator to start it. The temperature was about -10 that day. In our experience if a generator doesn't have an electric starter it won't start when it's that cold. If I have starting fluid on hand that will usually get it going. If I don't, I'll wheel it inside the cabin and warm it up by the stove. Our generators with electric starters are larger and it takes a bit more effort to wheel them through the snow.</div>
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Susan's ATV loaded up nicely. The tires must be a softer rubber because I've never had her's spin out on a steel ramp.</div>
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Mine, however, is a different story!</div>
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It made it over the side then all four tires began to spin. The back tires began working the ramps to the side so instead of dumping it I shut it off and went to plan B.</div>
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Get out the come-along and a couple of tow chains and winch it on board!</div>
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Now all I have to do is strap them down.</div>
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We strapped down the ATV's, slid Scott's kayak underneath them and strapped my kayak on top of them then covered it all up with a tarp until we leave. (Susan's kayak is at the motor home down south in storage.)</div>
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We dug out one of these trays from our barn and Scott got all excited about another "Lego tray." They're commercial baking pans we found in the dumpster years ago. We use them for projects like when he gets out his play dough or Legos. We don't have to put everything away. Instead we just put the tray up somewhere until he wants to use it again. In this instance he got some Legos for Christmas and was putting them together.</div>
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Susan has been making cinnamon sticks when she makes pizza. Scott, in particular, loves them. </div>
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Our favorite pizza is ham and pineapple. She;s been experimenting with different crusts and this one is a winner.</div>
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Our van is in the "staging" area and just waiting to take us south. In the meantime it had warmed up above freezing so I cleared the snow from the roof to let it dry off. The flat panel to my left is a 65 watt solar panel that we use to power the lights in the camper portion of the van. It's a small panel and the oldest one we have. I traded some car repair work for it many years ago. The people I got it from put it on their camper prior to Y2K so it's at least 17 years-old and still works as good as the day it was made. Those 65 watt panels when new sold for over $300.00. The last two panels I ordered in December were 165 watts each and I paid a little over $300.00 for both. Prices have come down a bunch over the years!</div>
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Susan sliced deeply into her thumb the other day. We often joke about grabbing a camera before the bandaids but this time it was bandages first. It took quite awhile to stop the bleeding! This was taken a couple of days afterward.</div>
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The temperature finally warmed up enough to make snow balls.</div>
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I'm using Scott's "snowball maker." I don't know what it is supposed to do but Scott saw it at a thrift store and in a delightfully happy voice said, "look, a snowball maker." So we bought it for him. It works great and you can make snowballs really fast with it. Naturally he wanted it back as soon as he saw I had it!</div>
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We had about three feet of snow prior to the warm-up. We got a little light rain and warmer temperatures and the snow packed wonderfully. Scott and grandma made themselves a snowman. Scott's finding out that the snow can get pretty heavy when the moisture content is high.</div>
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Their finished snowman. I told Susan she should have used a carrot for the nose then I could set a game camera up to watch the deer eat it's nose! We didn't set the camera up but the snowman was surrounded with deer tracks the next morning. </div>
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More snow shoveling! The second time for this building too! The snow was not nearly as deep this time but it was wet and heavy.</div>
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Scott putting on a dance show in his spider costume. The bear on the wall behind him was shot by me about a mile north of our cabin. He squares 6.75 feet (7 feet across the tip of the claws to the tips of the claws across the front legs/feet and 6.5 feet from tip of the nose to the end of the tail). By Montana measurements he's a big bear. The taxidermist had to use a small grizzly form for it's head.</div>
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We heard an avalanche hitting the roof and went outside to find that the snow had slid off the upstairs roof. It broke one of the rafter pieces on the front entryway roof. We were happy that no one was standing under it when it let go.</div>
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So I got up on the porch and shoveled more snow!</div>
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That chunk of ice near the step is about six inches thick.</div>
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Scott came up to help shovel. He's threatening to throw a snow ball at grandma who took this picture from the safety of the upstairs bedroom!</div>
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Scott put a snowball on the top of the flashlight. It diffused the light to illuminate the entire snowball which looked kind'a cool.</div>
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Potato soup and cornbread ... one of my favorite meals.</div>
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Shoveling snow ... again! This time it's the shack roof ... again! The snow is wet and heavy.</div>
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Steven Gregersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04916875414656104179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490036765120567947.post-53210886092093070392017-01-21T21:39:00.000-08:002017-01-21T21:39:15.777-08:00January 1-10, 2017 Winter fun...Winter can be a lot of fun but this year there was a definite chill in the air. We were almost into the third week of January when we finally edged up above freezing for the first time in about five weeks. We've had cold snaps before but this is the longest one I remember. But, we still found fun things to do.<br />
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This photo was taken about 13 years ago while we still lived outside of Columbia Falls, MT. In those days we'd go camping several times in the winter and we did a lot of snowshoeing and cross country skiing as well (all out in the woods and not on groomed trails!). We didn't use a tent. We just put a tarp on the snow then threw out our sleeping bags and covered them with a tarp and slid into the bags. There were times we greeted the morning with six inches of new snow on top of us! For Susan and Tristan the snow was as soft as a feather bed. For me it was a different story. I'd usually wake up early in the morning feeling like my bed was filled with boulders. I put out a lot of heat when I sleep which would melt the snow under the tarp into my form. Then it would freeze and I was sleeping on a bed of ice. The cold wasn't the problem. The problem was that there was no give to the lumps and as the night wore on my bed became even lumpier! We still had many good nights of camping back then and did it with a minimal amount of equipment. One of our favorite camp outs was to have Susan and Tristan meet me at work below the Big Mountain ski area then we'd ski the back roads home after a night of wilderness camping. It was about ten miles of skiing on untracked (gated) logging roads.</div>
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Scott liberated an ice cycle which them became a sword for slaying imaginary snow-drift dragons. </div>
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Scott and Susan making donuts...</div>
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...with a slight twist! They were purple!</div>
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But still some mighty good eating after cooking hem in the deep fryer.</div>
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The ice cycles finally stretched clear down to the ground on the west side.</div>
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Slumber party!</div>
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This was not an uncommon sight through most of December and on into January!</div>
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Susan made waffles using her cast iron waffle iron.</div>
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They came out pretty darn good!</div>
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Susan got a deep fryer you use on the stove top for Christmas and she's been giving it a workout!</div>
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This time it's home made barbecue burritos.</div>
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That's the deep fryer that needs no electricity.</div>
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And those are some good eating.</div>
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Scott working on school work. He groans about doing it but really enjoys it once he gets going.</div>
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Scott always watched excitedly as the ball rolled toward it's objective.</div>
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From there we met Tristan at Jerry's in Fortine for dinner.</div>
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Where the road drops off in front of us is the northeast corner of our property. There's about four inches of new snow since it was plowed last.</div>
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The view in my mirror as we travel south on Highway 93 on our way to Kalispell.</div>
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This is one of about a twenty piles of snow in the Walmart parking lot.</div>
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Scott seems happy with his donuts. We ate some the day they were made and we kept the others outside (they were frozen) and had a few at a time until we ate them all.</div>
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One of our evening snow storms.</div>
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Scott trying out his sled on one of our snow piles (from shoveling snow off the driveway).</div>
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And, he made the turn at the bottom. I had stomped out a trail for him with my snowshoes.</div>
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We took a little trek on his new snowshoes. Mine are new too. My Sherpas broke and my wooden frame traditional shoes had a bad place on the frame so I bought a pair of modern snow shoes for me too.</div>
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Scott breaking his own trail. If you've never been on snowshoes on deep soft snow you still sink in quite a ways if you're the one breaking trail. Each person behind you has it easier than the one in front of them. If you don't rotate and take turns breaking trail you can really get worn out fast. In this case Scott is just getting a feel for his new showshoes.</div>
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Susan cleaning snow off the roof of the U-Haul camper. It's been a never-ending job this year as we clear the snow from five outbuildings (not counting the cabin!) and keep the driveway clear.</div>
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Scott "meditating." we have no idea where he got the idea for this!</div>
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Our garden is covered in a thick blanket of snow.</div>
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<br />Steven Gregersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04916875414656104179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490036765120567947.post-37574773454921425962017-01-04T11:37:00.002-08:002017-01-04T11:56:01.949-08:00December 16-31, 2016 Winter life on the homestead.Can you say, "snow, snow and more snow?" I'm not really complaining about it though. The temperature has been cold enough that the snow is still useful for snowshoeing and sledding. What we hate is when we get a bunch of snow then a few days later it warms up and turns to slush and/or ice. Then it's a real mess to deal with. The snow this year has been almost perfect.<br />
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That's my breakfast smiling up at me.</div>
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I bought wood from a neighbor who had a log truck load brought in. It was much better than slogging through the snow to get it. There's about a half-cord there. I've already unloaded part of it.</div>
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My two main chainsaws. The Stihl is larger (24 in. bar vs. 20 in. bar on the Poulan) but due to the angle of the camera it looks smaller. It's also about 16 years old now and isn't always reliable. This will probably be it's last year. I'm thinking seriously of getting a new one next spring.</div>
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Scott decided to give us a hand on shoveling snow.</div>
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But then he heard the trampoline calling ...</div>
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And decided to give it a whirl!</div>
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Our annual pilgrimage for a Christmas tree. I thought the sled was pulling kind of hard. I didn't think about Scott applying the brakes back there!</div>
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Snow has only one purpose when you're Scott's age ... It's for playing in!</div>
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Especially if you can do it while grandpa is cutting the tree.</div>
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Our icicles are in the formative stages in this photo.</div>
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Susan made us a pot pie for dinner.</div>
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We like the reflection in the window on this photo.</div>
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A deer came to look in the window while trying out our shoveled path to the outhouse.</div>
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More pie (strawberry!).</div>
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We have a bit of a cornice to knock down. I used the snow rake to pull it off before it got any larger.</div>
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I went through my arrows to see which needed repairs. The fletching is bad on these.</div>
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I have three sets of fletching jigs. The lower fletching is helical, the upper is offset. Both will make the arrow rotate in flight for added stability.</div>
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I'm using a roof (snow) rake to pull the snow off the outbuilding roofs. I bought this one at a yard sale in southern Nevada. I paid about 1/4 the price for a new one. I buy tire chains in yard sales down south too. The snowbirds move south for retirement and after a couple of years decide they no longer need tire chains, snow rakes, etc. and you can pick them up cheap at yard sales. I've bought several sets that were brand new. They make good gifts and barter material in Montana!</div>
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Time to shovel the snow off of the shack roof. It's about 20 to 24 inches deep.</div>
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When the snow lets up you can see the nearby mountain range from the roof.</div>
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The paved road going to our place. We have three miles of mostly uphill road left to get home once we turn off this one.</div>
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One of the icicles hanging from the rain gutter.</div>
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It's time to make Christmas cookies. Emily and Stephen are rolling out the dough and cutting out cookies.</div>
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Meanwhile, I'm clowning around.</div>
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Decorating time. We use pans of colored frosting and toothpicks to decorate. Theirs tend to be somewhat artistic. The cookies I do have only one requirement ... the frosting must be equal to or greater than the thickness of the cookie.</div>
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Meanwhile, Scott and his little brother, Ben, are guarding the presents under the Christmas tree.</div>
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One of the cookies Emily is working on.</div>
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Finished cookies ...</div>
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and more finished cookies. Since we are on a diet we send most of these with Stephen to share at work. (We filled about four trays.)</div>
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More snow!</div>
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Scott placed himself in charge of putting bows on the packages. It was fun to listen to him as he evaluated each bow and it's appropriateness to the person the package was going to.</div>
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Potato soup and cornbread ... one of my favorites.</div>
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We kept some of the cookie dough to make more cookies later. Here Scott is rolling it flat. In the cookie sheet next to him you can see that we've already cut some out.</div>
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The view south of our cabin.</div>
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Christmas day at our cabin.</div>
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We had Christmas dinner at our youngest son's house. He lives next to a golf course. The Stonehenge monument is an exact (size and orientation) replica of the original in England. They also have a museum filled with mostly WW 2 aircraft. Some are very rare! </div>
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The food line begins here!</div>
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Uncle Tristan entertaining his nephews.</div>
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One of our gifts was a game of Twister. Scott in particular, loves it!</div>
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Our icicles get longer every day!</div>
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Pizza is one of our favorite foods!</div>
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And another load of firewood. My old Dodge, one-ton, holds about 1 1/3 cords when fully loaded.</div>
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I cut this batch in 8 foot lengths to load the truck faster then I'm cutting it up at home.</div>
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The van is going to need more work than I'm willing to do right now so I began the process of getting the U-Haul camper going so that we can take it south soon. It hasn't been running since August (?) of 2015. The battery had been taken out for use in another vehicle so I put the battery out of the van in the U-Haul. I primed it with starting fluid and it fired right up. Then soon died! I restarted it several times with the same effect. I had Susan come out and start it while I ran gasoline into a jar to check the flow rate. The flow was good but when I hooked everything back up the truck wouldn't start at all. I finally figured out that the distributor cap had drawn moisture so I dried it out with a shot of WD-40. It then fired right up but died every time I tried to rev the motor. Turns out that the accelerator pump actuator rod is seized up in the housing. I've also been suspicious that the power valve in the carburetor is leaking internally so I just ordered a carburetor rebuild kit and a new float. The parts are in so I just have to go get them. I've been stalling a couple of days due to the cold. I don't really like travelling when the temperature is below zero.</div>
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I put the battery charger on it to recharge the battery. Batteries can freeze when they are drawn too low in cold temperatures. Since we've had several days of lows in the minus 20 range I thought it prudent to top it off with a good fast charge. The generator needed a little shot of starting fluid to persuade it to run! </div>
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I got the tag number off the carburetor but it was still kind of a pain to get the parts. Seems like when a vehicle is as old as this one the parts get harder to come by (it's a 1977 with a commercial 330 ci. engine). I've rebuilt literally hundreds of these carburetors over the years and could do this one with my eyes closed! I'm kind of looking forward to working on this one.</div>
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The last sunset of 2016!</div>
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<br />Steven Gregersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04916875414656104179noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490036765120567947.post-19032563713973609792016-12-30T10:21:00.000-08:002016-12-30T10:55:43.829-08:00December 1-15, 2016 Fishing, going home and cold weather... We began the month in Nevada and then made our way to Montana. The question is, "where will we be at the end of December?"<br />
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I bought a Nevada non-resident fishing and small game hunting license this year and added another ten dollars to use a second fishing rod. On this day the wind was howling out of the north so it seemed like I could cast almost to Echo Bay!</div>
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Unfortunately it didn't do much good that day because after several hours I had caught nothing! It was a beautiful day though as long as you were out of the wind.</div>
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Looks like Sunday! Scott's dressed up for church.</div>
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Scott down for his morning snuggle time. Normally it's Susan that he goes to but this morning it must have been my turn. We all cherish these times because we know that all-to-soon he will grow up and not want to do things like this.</div>
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One of the problems of late November and December down south is that it gets kind of cold in the desert. Not like sub-zero Montana but 30 degrees can feel pretty cold in a poorly insulated motor home! We can fire up our little wood stove (and we do!) but the heat never travels far due to poor insulation and the long, narrow design of the motor home. Scott's bed is in the very back of the Motor home so in the evenings and mornings (before sunrise) when it's cold he tends to bundle up. Once the sun comes up in the morning we open the curtains and let the sun warm things up. In the evenings, though, that's not an option!</div>
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We took a quick two day trip to Quartzsite. We were a little early so many of the vendors weren't there yet. There were still quite a few though and we found lots of things to buy. I stocked up on small parts for my home inventory along with some tools. We also bought a few Christmas gifts.</div>
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We picked up some inventory for a friend while we were there. They have the credentials to get a really good wholesale price on these.</div>
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The wholesaler knew them and brought out a great selection for us to take back to them.</div>
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Some of our Christmas decorations in the motor home. We also stocked up on case lot goods from the local grocery store. When you run out of regular storage room you just stuff it anywhere that's out of the way!</div>
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I caught a few fish but this was the best afternoon I had so far. Not much happened until the last half-hour before sunset then I finally just reeled in one rod and fished with the other. I lost several fish because they hit both rods at the same time. Towards the end they were hitting the bait as it hit the water. I used worms and anchovies. Didn't seem to matter which since the fish hit them both equally fast. I tossed the little ones back in.</div>
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One of the great things about Stewart's Point is riding our bicycles. We try to ride to the highway and back every day. It's three miles each way. Mostly uphill going out but a really nice coast coming back down.</div>
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The sunsets there are almost always great.</div>
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We parked the motor home in storage on the 13th and left for home. It's a lot cheaper to store it there than to drive it back and forth at roughly $750.00 each way! It's getting some age on it so we'll probably replace it in a couple of more years. So far our plans are to buy a school bus and convert it. The factory manufactured rigs are great for camp grounds with water, sewer and electricity but we like to boondock camp where none of these are available. We want a rig that's tougher, better insulated, and can be self-sufficient for weeks at a time. Our U-Haul conversion is great but too small with Scott now. </div>
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Ah, yes ... home again ... well, within 400 miles anyway!</div>
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People ask how Scott does travelling. He does pretty good but then he has a tablet, leap frog, small computer, and his DVD player with a bunch of movies to chose from (and Red Box rentals practically everywhere). If those fail there's always something to do like make faces at grandpa.</div>
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Flathead Lake viewed from Polson. Now we're getting somewhere but it's still about 100 miles to home. The lake looks cold (and is!).</div>
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Our first stop was to see our youngest son. He's been gathering up our mail for us. We caught him in the act of working!</div>
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Temperatures had been dipping way below zero for a couple of weeks with highs barely in the teens or below most days. We neglected to drain everything before leaving so we had a lot of frozen water jugs when we got home. The son pictured above put some RV antifreeze in the drains and drained the overhead tank but the barrels and water jugs were frozen solid both inside and outside the cabin. The kettle we keep on the stove was frozen solid! </div>
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Scott adapted by covering up in sleeping bags, blankets and whatever else he could find and played his tablet while the cabin warmed up. When everything inside is cold like this we must heat walls, furniture and everything else back up before it's comfortable inside again. Scott and Susan slept in the living room so that she could keep the stove going all night long. We burned through about two weeks worth of wood in the first three days getting the cabin warmed up.</div>
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We had plenty of wonderful cold snow outside though. It was absolutely beautiful outside (but still pretty cold!).</div>
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The first thing was to sweep the snow off the solar panels.</div>
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Our son had shoveled paths to the wood shed and outhouse and my shop but we had to clear the fresh snow out of them when we got home. We knew we'd have plenty to do so we spent the night before in a motel in Kalispell so we could get an early start and get home while we still had plenty of daylight left. They also had a heated pool and hot tub there which made the decision to stay even easier! It was around 5 below zero (f) when we got home. That was our daytime high!</div>
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It was 26 degrees inside the cabin. By sundown we had brought that up to about 35 degrees!</div>
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I ordered a new splitting maul before we left Nevada. So far it's a good one although I wish they had designed the head a little differently. This one has a concave cutting edge. It has some advantages but if I was designing it I'd put a couple of "diamond shaped" wedges on either side of the head. The concave edge will bite deep and cut through knots in the wood but they can bind up if you don't make it all the way through on the first whack. Put some wedges on the sides and it will spread the wood better making it easier to get the maul free for another swing. Overall though it's still good maul.</div>
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Scott's great-grandparents left a birthday package for him while we were gone. It's a figure-eight race track with high, banked turns. He played with it quite awhile once the cabin warmed up.</div>
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The frost build-up on the windows. It only does this when the outside temperature is well below zero.</div>
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Scott found the selfie stick and shot up about three rolls of "film." One of the technological marvels I really like are digital cameras (in this case a phone). It was expensive to use roll film and when writing magazine articles I took the photos, mailed in the film then waited to see if I needed to retake more photos if the first batch didn't come out right. Digital cameras made it all so much easier, cheaper and faster!</div>
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He got grandma in the picture too!</div>
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Our Amazon order came in a huge box. I often wonder if the packaging department is just angry at their bosses. I've seen this happen lots of times and you'd suspect that this makes postage rates a lot higher ... or maybe not! </div>
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The cabin finally warmed up nice after about three days and everything was back to normal. Shoveling snow is kind of a daily routine because this time of year it just kind of snows lightly 24 hours a day/night. At least it's good exercise to keep the paths cleared ... and the roofs as you'll see in the next installment!</div>
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<br />Steven Gregersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04916875414656104179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490036765120567947.post-66991068220059411392016-12-16T09:39:00.001-08:002016-12-16T10:34:33.873-08:00November 2016 Hunting, Thanksgiving, car repairs and good times.November was a busy month so boredom was not a problem.<br />
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We still use the wood stove to cook meals since we have it going most of the time during the winter months anyway.</div>
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Susan freeing some sticking keys on the piano. She also tunes them up on occasions.</div>
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Wash day outside. In warm weather (60 and above) she just takes the washer out to the tank where we store the rain water and does the wash there. It's also close to the clothesline which saves time and work.</div>
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I've had this ax handle around for a couple of years now and finally got around to hanging it. This is a "boy's ax" with a 24 inch handle. I'm on the short side and just like the shorter handle better when using an ax. About the only time I need one is when trimming limbs off of trees I've cut down for firewood. I paint the heads bright orange to make it harder to overlook them in the woods. One can of orange paint saves replacing a lot of tools.</div>
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Susan is shelling dried peas from our garden. This is a good job on a rainy day when you must work indoors.</div>
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Sunrise on November 9, 2016.</div>
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Scott helping Grandma make cookies.</div>
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The water pump began leaking on our way back from Nevada so I'm putting in a new one. I hit a snag when I went to change the thermostat (the gasket was leaking). The leak had corroded the thermostat housing bolts and they broke off when I tried to remove them. That'll mean drilling out the broken bolts from the aluminum intake manifold. I'm not looking forward to that.</div>
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I also got some time in cutting firewood and Susan spent some time canning venison before we headed south. One afternoon cutting up some trees on the east end of the property I had a spike buck and a doe come over and begin eating the lichen off the tree I'd cut down (while I was cutting it up on the other end of the trunk). I walked over tot he pickup and got my rifle from the window and shot the buck. The doe looked up at the shot then resumed eating. The buck ran about 50 feet and piled up dead. We had a lot of deer this year with quite a few "B" tags given out.</div>
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Right after that the neighbor stopped by to tell us there was a sow grizzly with cubs in the neighborhood. Susan stood guard with the 12 gauge while I field dressed and loaded up the deer. </div>
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Scott wanted to go hunting with me so I unloaded his BB gun and he joined me in the deer stand. A doe and her fawn came in to browse while we were there and he kept aiming and "shooting" at her. I didn't tell him the gun was empty so when the deer didn't fall over dead he finally said he needed a new gun because his was broken. He likes to go out with me but quickly gets bored and/or cold. I go a little early then just take him the 50 yards back the cabin then I finish the day in the deer stand by myself.</div>
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We had to go to Eureka so on the way we drove a short way up into the mountains to a deer camp one of our daughters was in. Their family (in-laws) make it an annual event setting up tents and campers for a week long hunt. They normally do pretty well up there.</div>
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I've been searching for bucks and one morning I get up to find a new rub about fifteen feet from the back door.</div>
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This rub was out in the woods on a neighbor's property.</div>
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We decided to drive our little car down south for a couple of weeks but it needed new tires. We opted to put new studded snow tires on it for this trip because it would be winter up here when we came back. Scott is playing in the tire display in the tire store. I worked here many years ago as a mechanic. I think the wheels were made with wooden spokes back then.</div>
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Scott and I playing the Jurassic park machine at Walmart. Susan took a video of it and posted it on Facebook. Scott is all excited and bouncing around and yelling as he plays. I'm sitting stationary with a focused look while we shoot the attacking dinos with machine guns that never run out of ammo and never get too hot. We both survived with nary a scratch on either of us. It was fun!</div>
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Next Scott went to the machine where he is Batman driving whatever vehicle that skill level has.</div>
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As when shooting dinosaurs he always gets into the game with his whole being!</div>
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We ordered him a new snow suit. We bought the boots locally from the logging/saw shop.</div>
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A grouse made the mistake of landing within sight of the cabin while we were having our morning cocoa. I grabbed the pellet rifle and we had him for supper that evening.</div>
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Susan isn't surprised anymore when I suddenly jump up from my recliner, throw on an orange vest, grab the rifle from the rack above the back door and head outside in my pj's and house slippers. However the buck got away this time. I think some tree thinning is in order for next summer!</div>
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Thanksgiving dinner! Emily (our youngest daughter) is due to gives us another grandchild (#11) in February.</div>
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Scott and his uncle Tristan.</div>
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Tristan, Scott, and his little brother looking down from the balcony.</div>
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Scott and his uncle Tim.</div>
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After dinner it's time to check my eyelids for light leaks.</div>
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On the road south again! We'd planned to spend more time in MT but changed our mind and decided a short jaunt south was in order so we packed up the Hyundai and drove down to NV for a couple of weeks.</div>
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Scott's 6th birthday was celebrated in the motor home at Lake Mead.</div>
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Lego time at the Overton library.</div>
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I bought an out-of-state fishing and small game license this year in NV. So far the fish are worth about $60.00 a pound!</div>
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A second striped bass from the lake. A few days after this we were on the road back to MT for Christmas. (I also caught a few more fish before we left.)</div>
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We had plans to meet a daughter and her family in central Nevada. Of course I needed to do some modifications to the van before we left and while I was doing that I noticed that we needed rear brakes. The wheel cylinder on the driver's side was leaking. So, we made a fast trip (100 mile round trip) to Columbia Falls to get brake parts.</div>
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The first side went well but when I took the other side off there was a broken spring ... so ... Another trip to Columbia Falls to get a spring kit. Once that was on we hit the road ... only three days behind schedule. Sigh!</div>
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On the fourth we were loaded up and ready to hit the road. The van, two bikes, two ATV's and one automatic washer that was going to New Mexico with our daughter, son-in-law and their family.</div>
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We had cloudy skies until we hit Nevada. Then it began clearing up for us.</div>
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Scott was clowning around in the outhouse at a rest area.</div>
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Our first stop and the appointed rendezvous point at the Kirch WMA campground. The weather was a bit cold though so we contacted our daughter and they decided to wait another week and just meet us at Lake Mead instead.</div>
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The reason we stopped there was to do some four-wheeling and to play in the hot spring there. The water was a little bit cool but the wind was sharp and biting. As long as you stayed in the water you were fine.</div>
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From there we went through Alamo then on to Overton. We spent a few days at the WMA camp ground there as we usually do. It gives us some time to get things straightened out in the camper after it's been in storage. Someone left some old pallets there so we used them for camp fires in the evenings.</div>
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The firs problem we had was a flat tire on the right, inside dual on the motor home. I drove it in to Overton and had it repaired there. It was $35.00 which was fine with me. The washers sealing the valve stem were leaking air and had to be replaced. </div>
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We didn't have a swimming pool for Scott there but we did have a rubber raft. We figured if it would keep water out it would also keep water in. So it became his swimming pool.</div>
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From there we moved out to Stewarts Point. This was at Roger's Spring. One of our favorite places to go.</div>
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This was one of those rare days when it was absolutely calm on the lake. It was like one giant mirror.</div>
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We parked the trailer, van and motor home to block the wind and provide some privacy for our "compound."</div>
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The first visitors were two kit foxes. They hung around all the time we were there. Here one of them is licking grease off the side of the milk jug which was in the fire pit awaiting cremation.</div>
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Our daughter and her family arrived within a day or two. We purchased an ice cream ball in Ely, NV. You put ice and salt in one compartment and the ice cream mix in the other then just roll it around for 20 minutes or so. The grand kids liked rolling the ball!</div>
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I took the batteries out of the battery compartment to service them and modify the compartment. They tested in the green but on the weak side. They'll probably get replaced next year. There was a 12 volt battery in another compartment that tested bad so we are down one battery now.</div>
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We bought a new generator for this season. It should last many years because we don't use it very often.</div>
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We just put new roof vents on a couple of years ago but the tinted ones are broken. It looks like the sunlight just thinned them out until they got brittle and cracked.</div>
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We replaced three of them with new white ones.</div>
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It's an easy job to just put a new cover on.</div>
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I bought this guy's old ATV and he bought this new one. The first thing we did was to try out the winch after he high-centered it on a big rock.</div>
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We use our RAV 15 solar panels to keep phones and tablets charged up.</div>
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Scott enjoying the last drop of breakfast (cereal ... chocolate of course!).</div>
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As long as the wind wasn't bowing too hard we had a camp fire going. Sometimes we roasted hot dogs.</div>
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And sometimes it was Scott's favorite ... marshmallows!</div>
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This is what happens when the wind comes up after you have the fire going good.</div>
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This is what happens next (me dumping water on the fire).</div>
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We had a couple of rain showers move through along with some pretty spectacular rainbows.</div>
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This is on a trail outside of Overton (in the distance by the trees).</div>
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Here we are on a trail with the grand kids.</div>
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I had just got the van a little stuck in the loose sand and gravel. I stopped before it was completely buried and our friend pulled me up on solid ground with his RZR.</div>
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We saw two pairs of wild horses on our ride. This is the first pair.</div>
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Then we went up and out of the canyon to see ...</div>
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The second pair of horses.</div>
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It was a lot of fun and we saw some new country.</div>
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Scott got bored at one stop and decided to watch one of his movies while sitting in the shade of Susan's ATV.</div>
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This is kind of an interesting rock formation.</div>
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Lip licking anticipation!</div>
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An old hillside dug-out.</div>
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More desert. This is new country to us. We'd taken the car out to the mines before but we went a little farther this time with the four-wheelers.</div>
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Now we're on the way back to the van.</div>
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It's on good solid ground now!</div>
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Loading up! I dropped my camera while loading ATV's but didn't realize it until a couple of hours later. We came back out here and searched with flashlights until we found it.</div>
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Sunset at the Overton WMA.</div>
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Sunset at Lake Mead</div>
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Moon rise at Lake Mead.</div>
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Sunrise</div>
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Taken 24 hours and thirteen minutes later than the previous photo.</div>
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We had some cloud cover that morning!</div>
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Almost time to go home. Here I'm trying to help our neighbor with his generator. Turned out it had bad gas and a weak fuel pump.</div>
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We were on the way back home for the election within a couple of days of this. There were some ballot initiatives in Montana we wanted to vote on. Mainly an anti-trapping initiative (that went down in flames with 75% against it!). At this writing we are still home. </div>
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On the way home I began getting occasional whiffs of anti-freeze beginning at St. George, Utah. Next I noticed little puddles of anti-freeze when we stopped. The water pump had begun to leak but it stayed a small leak until we got home. I added about a gallon of anti-freeze from St. George to Fortine (a little over 800 miles), so we made it okay. Changing the water pump will be one of my chores while we are home.</div>
<br />Steven Gregersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04916875414656104179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490036765120567947.post-29459952587661197672016-10-02T19:45:00.000-07:002016-10-02T19:53:29.357-07:00September 16-30 More Life on the Funny FarmThe days keep rolling on and so do we. Here's a sample of our life in the last half of September.<br />
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Can you say, "barbecue?" We cook our kabobs by separating the different ingredients because I haven't mastered how to get them cooked at the same rate. They still taste pretty good.</div>
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Been having problems with my 4 wheeler having a dead battery. I finally traced it down to a wire that had burned through against the exhaust pipe so it wasn't charging the battery and had a draw on it at all times. I spliced in some new wire and re-routed the harness. Works good now.</div>
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I was getting low on ammo for my .338 Win. Mag. so I reloaded about 150 rounds. That should last me about 20 years or so.</div>
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We've been doing a lot of things to the van lately. I replaced the flexible lines for both front brakes. One had been twisted badly by some moron when he replaced the front brake pads.</div>
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They were reasonably priced and fit perfectly.</div>
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We've had problems with the rear sagging on the van. There's a lot of weight back there so I ordered a set of air bag overloads for it.</div>
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The kit is pretty simple and the directions said it took about 2 1/2 hours to install them.</div>
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They went on pretty easily. Then I had to fix some leaks and now they seem to be doing great. The lift capacity on them is incredible and now the van rides level (or higher if I want) no matter how much weight is on it.</div>
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Susan bought a new clothes washer. It's small but simple. You wash the clothes on the left side and rinse them on the right side. It takes longer than an automatic but it's great for life in the mountains.</div>
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She sets it up wherever she wants. On this beautiful fall day she washed clothes out by the rainwater collection tank. It is small enough to run on our inverter so we don't need the generator to use it.</div>
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The Aspens are turning their golden yellow and look fantastic. This is the road we live on.</div>
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We've been doing some improvements on our ATV's. They are both now street legal. That involved putting a lighted license plate bracket on them, two mirrors, and a horn. We stopped to take a ride awhile back and explored some old logging roads in our neighborhood. Scott loves his "throne." We put some handles on the back to give him something to hold onto when riding.</div>
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Scott playing with the heavy bag before his Karate class. The assistant instructor stands nearby.</div>
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Lots of fun to beat up a big bag!</div>
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He was given his first "promotion" a couple of days ago.</div>
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Helping our SIL and daughter put a new front door in their rental unit. They had to custom order the door and the fit was nearly perfect. The old door had been ruined by some previous tenants. This one is a solid wood, pre-hung door.</div>
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I've been wanting to get this cut up for firewood since it fell last spring and finally got the chance.</div>
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I went out with three saws but could only keep one running. Turned out that the fuel was bad. I dumped the old stuff out and put in new gas and they work great now.</div>
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I winched it out of the draw with the electric winch on the truck. It's a 12,000 pound winch and it worked pretty hard to drag it up. Once I got it near the road I pulled it the rest of the way with the truck.</div>
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It was about 60 feet long and will make for some nice, warm winter days.</div>
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I also took some small stuff down near my generator/work shed. The yellow jackets were thick and whenever you walked under it they would drop down on your head. It didn't take much of that to decide that the trees had to go. They were also getting tall enough to interfere with the solar power.</div>
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My ATV and trailer out in the woods on our place. I had 4 smallish trees to cut for firewood.</div>
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Scott on top of the pickup supervising his dad and I while we put the boat in the water.</div>
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Scott playing with one of the fish I caught. He was laughing hard one time and said, "Papa look, it's ticklish." When he rubbed under it's chin it would wiggle it's tail. </div>
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This is a mess of perch from one of our recent trips to the lake about a mile from our cabin. Scott caught the biggest one and I caught the second largest. </div>
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Scott's dad with a pike he caught.</div>
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I found it in my bed. It's about 1/4 inch wide. It's now sealed in scotch tape.</div>
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It bit me around 5:30 am. one morning. According to Wikipedia I'm the only person in the world ever bitten by one. Even though I doubt that claim, getting bitten by one and actually receiving the venom is extremely rare. It felt like a bee sting. The swelling and rash lasted about 18 hours.</div>
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Got some new tires for the van so we sent the old ones we took off of the van by UPS to a daughter who needed them for their truck. They were still pretty decent tires but the side walls are not stiff enough for our van. It had a tendency to wander on the highway.</div>
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I ordered some Yokohamas for the van. They are real truck tires and can take the weight with ease. They vastly improved the handling of the van on the highway.</div>
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Ah! A trip to the dentist. Scott was good but the real test is coming when we get the cavities fixed.</div>
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I was fooling around with my phone at the park. This is a small (about 1/4 inch) rock on a picnic table. Not a bad close-up for a cell phone!</div>
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My redneck car ramps. Regular car ramps don't work well on dirt and grass so I make my own using cement blocks and 2X8's.</div>
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I kept noticing a large number of those stinging insects at the back of my shop. This is why! It took almost a full can of wasp and hornet spray before I could knock it down and burn it.</div>
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This is what some of the waste oil is used for. I strain it out then use it for bar oil in the chain saw.</div>
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We use these to convert 12 volts DC to 110 volt AC when in the car. This one was made with a fan that runs continually. The noise gets annoying after awhile, especially when the fan is worn out and the bearings make noise. We used to throw them away when that happened then I decided to just clip the fan wire and use them until the inverter burned out. (I circled the ground wire in the photo. I just cut a section out and tuck the ends in where they won't ground on anything inside.) </div>
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We've never had an inverter burn out after I disabled the fan so this one should last us a long time. (And now it's quiet!)</div>
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All put back together and ready for use.</div>
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Susan and Scott - Nevada</div>
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At a friend's campsite in Utah. The chipmunks were pretty tame and Scott was trying to get one to take food out of his hand. They never did but he surprised me with how much patience he had for being five-years-old.</div>
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Scott and some of his cousins in New Mexico</div>
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Sunrise on the Kansas/Oklahoma border.</div>
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That's some tall corn!</div>
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The elevators were full and this was not an uncommon sight in Kansas.</div>
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Crossing over into Wyoming from /South Dakota. In a few more hours we'd be in Billings, MT and I'd be in the hospital for a week.</div>
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Our anniversary is in September. A couple of years ago we took a kayak trip down the Kootenai River above Libby, MT. We did the same trip again this year. This is looking downstream.</div>
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The fall colors are just beginning to make an appearance.</div>
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More of the river</div>
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One of the places we pulled off into a small pool along the river.</div>
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And got out to stretch our legs a bit.</div>
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Looking upstream.</div>
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Back on the water again. In many stretches the water just roils due to the large rocks under the water. In most places it's probably 15 to 20 feet deep. Stream flow is controlled by the release of the water from the Lake Koocanusa dam.</div>
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More river ... we are getting closer to our destination.</div>
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Scott riding in Susan's kayak.</div>
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We were kind of wishing we'd brought the two-seater on this trip.</div>
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It was mid afternoon and the sun was well on it's westward trek across the sky.</div>
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The train heading toward Libby.</div>
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The train heading away from Libby? No, they just added engines to the rear to help push it over the pass.</div>
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Scott decided to face the other direction. When we are on bike or kayak rides he's always singing or going through some dialogue with imaginary friends. It's really interesting to have him along.</div>
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We are within a couple of miles of our destination. The haze is lingering smoke from forest fires to the west and north of us.</div>
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Here are some later additions from Susan's camera.</div>
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Around the bend is our take-out point.</div>
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The boat landing is just beyond the bridge. The water here is fast and a little rough but it's deep enough you don't have to worry about getting hung up on a rock and flipped over.</div>
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At the boat landing on the downstream side of the bridge.</div>
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We pulled out at the boat launch area at Libby. They were having a wedding at the shelter houses so we found a spot at the end of the parking lot where people come for water. Susan is having a snack before she takes her bicycle (left there before we launched the kayaks) the ten miles back up the road to get our car. Scott and I stayed with the kayaks.</div>
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After we changed clothes we went out to eat at a local restaurant. The food was great but it was about 7:00 by the time we got there. They closed at 8:00. The town is not noted for it's night life and when we left after eating it looked nearly deserted! The only things left open were a couple of casino/bars.</div>
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The jungle gym we bought for Scott gets lots of use. He loves to climb and swing by his arms or legs so it was a great addition to the yard.</div>
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Grandma spends time on it too. Here they took a cuddle break.</div>
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We have a doe with two fawns that have become frequent visitors. Visitor might be the wrong term since they live here too. They do seem to appreciate the water in our rainwater recovery tanks. The nearest (other) water source is a spring about 1/4 mile away.</div>
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I cut some more firewood. This is the stick I use to measure before cutting. I mark off the log in 16 inch sections then cut it up. I use sidewalk chalk to make the marks. Tire crayons work well too as does the real log crayons used by sawmills to mark the different grades of logs. </div>
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Scott and one of his friends came out to see me (I'm about 50 yards from the cabin).</div>
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I handed him the camera and told him to take some photos (which he did). He's pretty good at composing pictures that don't need to be cropped.</div>
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He wanted a picture of his friend.</div>
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The ATV and trailer is a lot easier to haul firewood with than the wheel barrow. I still use the wheel barrow up close to the cabin but hauling it this far gets to be a lot of work. Even when lightly loaded like this, the trailer will carry four wheel barrow loads.</div>
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My wood cutting didn't disturb the doe and her two young-uns.</div>
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Scott and Susan doing a "puppet" show. Scott had me in on the act when I came in from cutting firewood.</div>
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We had some business to do in Kalispell so on the way home we decided to drive up to Glacier National Park so that I could get my park pass. When you turn 62 you can get a lifetime pass for $10.00. That's a lot better than the annual pass we normally get for $80.00. It's good for any national park or national recreation area in the US. This is along Hwy. 2 between Columbia Heights and Hungry Horse. The Flathead River is on the left.</div>
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Hungry Horse, MT. They now have a stop light!</div>
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Lake McDonald in the park.</div>
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Same mountains from a different angle.</div>
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Another angle that's popular because of the beach area. The tourists like it because there're good places to use a tripod.</div>
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This is the side where the forest fire burned through about 15 years ago. The "bare" looking slopes are actually covered with burned trees. There is a lot of new growth coming up but it is small trees and you can't really see them from this far away.</div>
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Dickey Lake (near home).</div>
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We went to Kalispell first with the little car then our daughter called to say that some tires we ordered had arrived so we went home and traded the Accent for the Subaru station wagon. The tires were for the van and are big tires (235/85 X 16) and heavy! We barely fit them into the Subaru. With two trips to Kalispell and a side trip to Glacier Park we ended up driving over 300 miles that day.</div>
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Kalispell, MT as seen from the west end of the valley. Way off in the distance you can see the peaks of the Bob Marshal Wilderness area.</div>
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Kalispell has grown a lot since I first moved here in 1979 (or 1978?). This used to be a two lane road with no buildings except a few old farm houses and a huge gravel pit. Now the Community College is out there along with a shopping complex.</div>
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It's cooling off now so the packrats are looking for winter homes. This one took up residence in one of our storage areas. He shouldn't have done that. I finish them off with a .22 cal. shot shell. That kills the rat quickly but doesn't damage the trap.</div>
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I had a black bear come visit while I was on my deer stand. He stayed just out of range (I was bow hunting). This was the day before the gun season for black bears. If it had been just 24 hours later we'd be eating bear roasts!</div>
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The same bear after cropping the photo.</div>
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We like going to the hot springs (at Hot Springs, MT) as often as we can. This time Scott's mom, dad and little brother came with us. The "hamster wheel" is ours. It was fun to play on although it isn't big enough to actually get inside and walk/run. Scott is talking to a little girl and her mother.</div>
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This is one of the things Scott and I do for indoor fun. We need to get some more blocks though. When we build something Scott likes he sets it aside. After awhile all of the best blocks are used up.</div>
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I had to take the instrument panel out of the van so that I could lube the speedometer cable. If you've never seen the back of your instrument panel, this is what it looks like. Keep in mind though that this is on a 1988 Ford van. The newer ones are a lot more impressive!</div>
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The speedometer cable is inside the small (round), white gizmo. (It's the end of the speedometer cable housing.) Most mechanics do not miss the cables (everything is digital now). They were a constant source of noise and customer complaints (especially in cold weather).</div>
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More Lego blocks. Scott has the instructions out deciding what he's going to make from this package. He decided on the cargo ship.</div>
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When we drive near water in the fall we like seeing the fog lifting off the surface. Later in the fall the water temperature will drop enough it won't make fog anymore.</div>
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I set up an old compound bow I had in the shack. This one had a frayed string so I got the jig and materials out to make a new string.</div>
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The old string.</div>
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The bow with the new string (the old one is on the table in front of the bow). I made the string about 1/2 inch longer to give it a little more draw length. I'll use this one with a release. It's short which is what I need on my deer stand to clear the roof. It's set at 60 lbs. peak draw weight with a 26 inch draw length. If I thought I'd see an elk I'd crank the poundage up more but an elk would be very unlikely where I have my deer stand and I don't take long shots with it (30 yards absolute maximum). It's decent bow for being so old. It will group arrows in a three-inch group at 20 yards. I haven't shot it through the chronograph yet and probably won't. Accuracy and tuning is much more important than speed. The arrows fly straight and true which is all I want from it.</div>
<br />Steven Gregersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04916875414656104179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490036765120567947.post-49053580028540285082016-09-19T09:34:00.000-07:002016-09-19T09:55:32.795-07:00August 2016 - Silverwood We took Scott to Silverwood in late August. It's an amusement park in Idaho. He's been there before but was too young to remember or have as much fun. He made up for that this time!<br />
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We've been to Silverwood several times over the years and always liked stopping to camp at Round Lake Campground in Idaho. We stayed two nights again this year but it may be the last time. The cost for a tent site was $25.10 per night. It's a nice place to stay but they raised the prices considerably since the last time we went there. There are showers available and toilet facilities but the price is still too high for what you're getting. The first site they assigned was so unlevel that it took all of our blocks to get the van close enough that the refrigerator worked. The picnic table was too unlevel to cook on with our camp stove. And that was with four inches of wood under one side. We asked for a different site the last day we were there and it was much better.</div>
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Scott getting his morning cuddle time in.</div>
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They have a bicycle/hiking trail on one end of the lake. This bridge crosses a small stream.</div>
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Pancakes for breakfast.</div>
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One of the neighbors who kept dropping pine cones on our campsite.</div>
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Scott trying to spot a pine cone on the way down and catch it.</div>
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Me and Scott disassembling a pine cone to find the seeds inside.</div>
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The first ride we took at Silverwood was the train. At one stop we got robbed by two dastardly looking characters.</div>
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This is the second accomplice.</div>
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He's looking ... hands up!</div>
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The Red Baron wanna-be.</div>
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Boats and water guns! A little boy's idea of fun.</div>
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A ride with a view with grandma.</div>
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Swingers! This was Scott's first ride on this and he needed some reassurance from grandma. After the first time though he wanted to ride it over and over and over again.</div>
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The children's roller coaster was a hit also.</div>
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And the train. This little girl and Scott became friends on his second time riding the Ferris wheel and they raced together to get on the next several rides.</div>
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This ride went up then "fell" down. It was Scott's favorite of all. We lost count of the number if times he rode it (always in the same seat).</div>
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And another swing ride with grandma and his new friend.</div>
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Again on the frog ride. His friend had to go after the last ride so he went on this one with strangers. As soon as he got off he raced around to get in line again. We were there on a week day after school started so there were almost no lines on the majority of rides. After school let out in the afternoon a lot more people arrived with their kids and the lines got longer.</div>
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Driving Grandma and Grandpa around in his car.</div>
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Ice cream was expensive but they really piled it on. The "one scoop" price actually was three large scoops of ice cream of whatever flavors you wanted. I had orange sherbet on top and chocolate on the bottom (I declined the third scoop). It turned out to be a terrible combination. I should have stuck with just one flavor. Scott and Susan enjoyed theirs but we all had a hard time finishing that much ice cream in one setting. Had the temperature been a little higher it would have been easier.</div>
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Scott was taken to the toy store and told to get whatever he wanted. He's not one who wants everything and even with the "blank check" we offered he still chose only what meant something to him. He spent less than $50.00. This train set was one item he wanted. It took a lot of room to set up though so he had to wait until we stopped at a rest area for dinner on the way home to set it up.</div>
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He also set up his new toys in the center. He's putting "Batman" on the tracks to see if he can really stop the train (he couldn't!). In the meantime he was waging battles against the bad guys with his helicopter, jets and tank.</div>
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Entering Montana (the haze is smoke from forest fires to the west).</div>
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Same highway, just farther south.</div>
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Almost to Libby, MT now.</div>
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This is a little lake that runs into Lake Koocanusa. The sides are almost straight up/down and it is deep. Lots of fish in it though. The little dot next to the short tree on the rock is me.</div>
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At this point we were within 50 miles of home (about 15 as the crow flies). We made a quick stop in Eureka then headed on to the cabin.</div>
<br />Steven Gregersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04916875414656104179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490036765120567947.post-86096859779650793692016-09-17T08:54:00.001-07:002016-09-17T10:33:49.248-07:00August 2016, Fort Harrison, Russel GroundI had a VA appointment at Fort Harrison and since it's over 500 miles round trip we spent a couple of nights at the Russel Gates Memorial camp ground on MT Hwy 200. It's along the Blackfoot River and was an absolutely gorgeous place to stay. Rates varied a bunch from $12.00 for non residents down to $3.50 for residents with a valid MT fishing license and over 62. Here are a few pictures:<br />
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The Blackfoot River</div>
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We chose this site due to it's location near the pit toilet and it was nice and level.</div>
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Our picnic table and fire ring.</div>
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Always check out the river first. This is one of the better fly fishing rivers in Montana. There were a fair number of people floating it and launching at the camp ground. I tried some fishing and had one small one hit and one pretty nice fish hit. I saw the small one but he got off the hook. The big one I never saw but he nearly pulled the rod from my hands. </div>
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Water is at a hand pump in a central location.</div>
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Our ever present portable solar panels to keep phones, tablets, etc. charged. This one is a RAV 15. We have three of them. They are reasonably priced and put out plenty of power.</div>
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We took a ride up to Clearwater Junction to visit the convenience store there on the second afternoon. It was a nice ride. The map says it's 3.9 miles each way although it didn't seem that far.</div>
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Scott was having fun skewering a box to put it on the fire.</div>
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We got a good fire going right off.</div>
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And of course the purpose of a fire is to toast marshmallows. Scott grew tired of doing just two at a time so he loaded the fork up when it was his turn.</div>
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There's a string of lakes on the Swan Highway. Most have private in-holdings along the lakes but they still have lots of public access.</div>
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Another lake on the way home.</div>
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And Swan Lake, the last one before we got to Bigfork.</div>
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My appointment was to have an "anomaly" on the back of my neck checked. They took a sample and informed me later that it was nothing to worry about.</div>
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