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| Dan Clishe (Cody)
Registered Member Username: Cody Post Number: 140 Registered: 1-2008 Posted From: 206.51.117.126 Rating: |
It's a chilly start to a beautiful day here today, only 54 degree right now with an expected high of 63. Jamie took her honda to school today so I'll bet she is frosty it's about 60 miles lol, got a fire in the fireplace and it's nice in the house tho. Yesterday I got cold water piped to the toilet and one sink in the bathroom so we now have an indoor bathroom, life has greatly improved, no more midnight runs to the bus bathroom lol. Today more piping will be going in, hopefully will get the kitchen sink plumbed in and more yard is showing up as I beat back the jungle a little further, the grass is waist high in many areas. Later I plan on walking down to the river and see if maybe I can find supper on the end of the fly rod, I also want to see if I can find some blueberries, strawberries are ripe tho and I've been picking them. Also got a soft tire on the front of the bus so got to check that out. (notice how I slipped that bus part in so this becomes a legal thread on the bus board? lol) Also had a bear wander thru yesterday afternoon, he checked out the burning barrel and then wandered out, just visiting I guess. | ||
| John & Barb Tesser (Bigrigger)
Registered Member Username: Bigrigger Post Number: 537 Registered: 9-2007 Posted From: 96.42.5.35  Rating: N/A |
I love the updates Dan. Someday maybe we will bus up and see you (Wisconsin being close and all). Reading your stuff puts me in mind of cowboy poet Baxter Black from "out there" or Tom Bodett on his "end of the road" stuff. You should start a blog somewhere and save your musings. John | ||
| marvin pack (Gomer)
Registered Member Username: Gomer Post Number: 1473 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 76.4.118.153  Rating: N/A |
It was the bear that chewed on the tire so now you are perfectly legal in posting the adventure that you know absolutly nothing about what happened LOL Thanks Cody LOL AHHAHAH Gomer | ||
| Sam Summers (Greyghost)
Registered Member Username: Greyghost Post Number: 62 Registered: 4-2011 Posted From: 72.35.193.222  Rating: N/A |
The Bear that chewed on the BUS tire is in direct competition of your berries! Sam | ||
| Dan Clishe (Cody)
Registered Member Username: Cody Post Number: 141 Registered: 1-2008 Posted From: 206.51.117.126 Rating: N/A |
I'm resisting, I really am, but so many possible replys lol. | ||
| Sam Summers (Greyghost)
Registered Member Username: Greyghost Post Number: 63 Registered: 4-2011 Posted From: 72.35.193.222 Rating: N/A |
Yep Dan, I see it too now! | ||
| Jack Fids (Jack_fids)
Registered Member Username: Jack_fids Post Number: 832 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 72.211.145.15  Rating: N/A |
Thin line ahead, do not cross it... | ||
| Dave Walker (Chrome_dome)
Registered Member Username: Chrome_dome Post Number: 365 Registered: 3-2010 Posted From: 74.41.14.235  Rating: N/A |
Ok so here I will do it. So Cody the Bear was A MUSING and tasted your berries which were in the barrel and the Bear ended up TIRELESS in her Wanderings!!! Chromie | ||
| Dan Clishe (Cody)
Registered Member Username: Cody Post Number: 142 Registered: 1-2008 Posted From: 206.51.117.126 Rating: |
Tonight a porkupine walked thru, I'm afraid of where that may end up, I aired up the tire, it was down to 65 pounds so I'll see if it is loosing air or was just from sitting over the winter. I'm not even going to mention the piliated woodpecker, when you've got nothing but 40 miles of woods and the Huron Mountains behind the house there are a lot of available critters that show up now and then. It always impresses me to watch a moose step over a 4 ft tall fence like it isn't there and without loosing stride. Supper tonight was 2 rainbow trout that stopped flopping just long enough to start sizzling in bacon grease, I'm about as happy as a person can legally get lol. Does anyone else remember saving bacon grease for cooking, I've got my moms copper pot with the stainless strainer in it to keep the big chunks filtered out, I have to believe this is good for my heart. lol | ||
| Dave Walker (Chrome_dome)
Registered Member Username: Chrome_dome Post Number: 366 Registered: 3-2010 Posted From: 74.41.14.235 Rating: N/A |
Yes my Mom did too, under the sink in a can with a strainer also. Every Sunday Dad would use it to cook up the eggs. While you were talking about Bears. I have a friend that has a BUS also and goes Bear hunting. After acquiring one they keep the Bear grease for their leather (any) and it preserves and keeps it water proof. If you put it in a glass jar on a shelf, it will tell you when an earthquake is going to happen by separating! Chromie | ||
| Dan Clishe (Cody)
Registered Member Username: Cody Post Number: 143 Registered: 1-2008 Posted From: 206.51.117.126 Rating: N/A |
Thats interesting about the separating, so it's the same as divorce. We've used bear grease for years I don't hunt but a friend gave me a jar and it has come in handy except for the rare occasion when I stop and visit somebody that may have dogs. Bus tire is still holding air so it must have gone down from sitting, normally my preflight inspections are better and I usually check my tires as one of the first things in my walkaround. Was chilly yesterday, only 54F so the new stove got a test run, it's a wood/coal stove and has a removable hopper for coal, I fired it up using wood and then had to take alice to the doctors for an appointment and was gone all day, nothing is close by up here and the doctor was a 60 mile run each way and of course that involved a trip to walmart and all the other stores and didn't get home till after 7PM, the stove was still working great so the burn time is at least 8 hours and the house was nice and toasty at about 74F. A friend ( 2 legged) stopped by last night, we're taking the metal detectors and pans into the hills this weekend for a day of gold prospecting, that should be fun and help the local mosquittos, they've been looking a little peaked lately, I thought it might have been from inbreeding but more likely from the lack of tourists this far out, I've even seen some walking, too weak to fly. | ||
| Dan Clishe (Cody)
Registered Member Username: Cody Post Number: 144 Registered: 1-2008 Posted From: 206.51.117.126 Rating: N/A |
Saw 2 nice prevo's on the skanee road, one had the liberty logo and both pulling toads, all shiney and polished up, to high end for anyone I may know but they sure were pretty. I couldn't afford the graphics they had but nice to look at anyway. | ||
| Brice Abell (Babell2)
Registered Member Username: Babell2 Post Number: 28 Registered: 12-2010 Posted From: 72.145.162.191  Rating: N/A |
In the old days my mom used to tell me about grandma keeping the tail of the pig with a plug of fat on the end so there was a handle to put the pig fat on the pan to cook with. It is a life style gone by. (unless some one can rember the story) | ||
| Dan Clishe (Cody)
Registered Member Username: Cody Post Number: 145 Registered: 1-2008 Posted From: 206.51.117.126 Rating: N/A |
So much of our history is being lost to time and memory,, I still feel a strange chill when I go into a museum and see something that I remember or even scarier, something that I still have and use, I have an old kalamazoo kitchen wood stove with the water tank and warming oven, it has the lever to divert the heat from straight up the pipe to around the oven, I've still got a lot of my grand parents and parents things that you just can't find anymore in stores. I've got my dads Kaye guitar from 1931 with gold leaf on it, my great, great, great gandfathers banjo from before the civil war with the chamoise skin head, got my moms martin parlor guitar that her grandfather gave her as a gift when she graduated high school in 1940, it was over 75 years old then, it predates when martin stamped their name inside them, to me, these things mean a lot, it's my families history on it, I can picture my grandmother learning to cook on the stove, being taught by her mom, entertainment was mostly on the front porch or a local barn dance, not a video game or tv show, people actually talked and stood for what they said. | ||
| Jack Fids (Jack_fids)
Registered Member Username: Jack_fids Post Number: 839 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 72.211.145.15 Rating: N/A |
It's all perspective of the moment Cody, things found precious today are the next generation's (or the one after that) anchors. I have the records of my fathers cattle raising days in the trunk he had built to act as a portable desk, I've looked at them 3 times in the last 50 yr's, it all weigh's 150 lbs & takes 5 cf of space & I have no kids to leave it to. When I get off the Bus it will be tossed. Same for my Great Grandma's rocker & the oil lamp I had as a kid. I make doughnuts with the same tools my mom used in 1948, the jumper cables Dad built in '48 I carry in the trunk of the Corvair which s 50 yr's old itself & my daily driver, Programs from Blackstone the Magician & ticket stubs from a Hunter S. Thompson speech & a Duke Ellington album that took 35 yr's to locate, in Germany eventually... ALL JUNK,, worthwhile only to me & the winds. None of it worth some of the friendships I've gained here anyway. The stuff serves as a touchstones to the memories, which are where the real value lies. I've got room in my heart for all the memories of 2 lifetimes, but the stuff is heavy & takes up far too much room & time to maintain or appreciate. The "value vs benefit" ratio is imbalanced ...at least from my perspective. AND fwiw In India, they have libraries containing the property sales, tax, birth & death records going back over 3000 years... we pale by comparison. It is interesting that the subject came up just as an article is printed in the NYTimes today : http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/opinion/sunday/17gleick.html?src=rechp (Message edited by Jack_fids on July 18, 2011) | ||
| Dan Clishe (Cody)
Registered Member Username: Cody Post Number: 147 Registered: 1-2008 Posted From: 206.51.117.126 Rating: N/A |
It's not the item as much as what the item represents, to me the anti-KOA is a statement of rebellion, it my way of trying to do things my own way without the governments approval or disapproval, I believe I'm smart enough to be able to flatten a small area where a bus could sit reasonably level and I see no reason why the government should feel that they have the right to come in and inspect that small piece of land only so they can levy a tax on it and claim ownership in some small way. I read thru reams of paper, all telling me what I cannot do, hoping to get to the small paragraph that tells me what I can do, well, screw them, this is my property, I paid for it and I'll do what I want with it. | ||
| les marston (Les_marston)
Registered Member Username: Les_marston Post Number: 354 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 68.151.225.213  Rating: N/A |
Dan I couldn't agree with you more. The less government interference we have the better. Having to go thru a bunch of crap to get a permit to repair a foundation on an old house has turned me very much in the direction of anarchy. Here in Canada we don't even have property rights | ||
| Dan Clishe (Cody)
Registered Member Username: Cody Post Number: 151 Registered: 1-2008 Posted From: 206.51.117.126 Rating: N/A |
As some of you may know I am the proud new owners of a fairly complete suspension system, that makes my heart verily bounce with delight, with the new acutriments I now have 8 stents decorating my pulsating bulb, they say the job is far from complete but already I have this incredible urge to try to slinky down a flight of stairs, I am trying to find some with 'glow in the dark' features, I'm thinking that should shake up the Swedish Bikini Team if they ever grace my doorway lol |
