Me grayling fishing. I was the only one to catch any, 2 nice big ones. Released them
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Back to Civilization
It's overrated, just so you know.
Strong winds did not let the float plane pick us up yesterday so we stuck it out another night, it was just the worst - NOT!
Flew out early this morning, I'm tired. Got a caribou, meat for the winter. It's fall up there, frosty ground this morning. Stars galore...
I started making a bike from beer cans, cutting the cans into flat sheets and then rolling them into tubes. It is my 1st effort at beer can art, the guys have made all kinds of stuff - guitars, cowboy hats, snowmachines or snowmobiles to you lower 48'ers, etc. I didn't finish, will do that on a future trip. Captain Balance is an artist, yes really, check out the walls in the photos. He started beer can art to get the creative juices of the art handicapped going. It's amazing what guy can make after drinking a bunch of beer :)
Strong winds did not let the float plane pick us up yesterday so we stuck it out another night, it was just the worst - NOT!
Flew out early this morning, I'm tired. Got a caribou, meat for the winter. It's fall up there, frosty ground this morning. Stars galore...
I started making a bike from beer cans, cutting the cans into flat sheets and then rolling them into tubes. It is my 1st effort at beer can art, the guys have made all kinds of stuff - guitars, cowboy hats, snowmachines or snowmobiles to you lower 48'ers, etc. I didn't finish, will do that on a future trip. Captain Balance is an artist, yes really, check out the walls in the photos. He started beer can art to get the creative juices of the art handicapped going. It's amazing what guy can make after drinking a bunch of beer :)
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Into the Wilderness
I'm leaving tomorrow, driving 3.5 hrs up to Tulsona Lake, hopping on a Beaver (bush plane, this one is on floats), flying to Crosswind Lake to our cabin. 5 days of intense wilderness. Look out over the lake at night and it is pitch black, see stars like never before as there is no light pollution. Only sounds are from squirrels, gray jays, porcupine, hopefully caribou (caribou leg tendons make a snaping sound when they walk) and moose, eagles nest close by, always have young ones ready to leave the nest. Hopefully no bears will be interested in us. Tons of blueberries.
Beautiful fall colors, winter comes fast up there. We don't rough it, we have a dugout "refridgerator/freezer". It it like a root cellar I suppose. Keeps all our food cold. We have a generator for electricity when needed, we do have a tv up there so the guys can watch the Super Bowl at their annual Crosswind SuperBowl trip.
We have a shower, A shower stall which has a wash tub on top with a spigot coming down from the tub, works great. The newest cabin will have a bath house and sauna when it is finished.
Hopefully it will be good weather and good hunting. Sure would like to have a freezer full of moose or caribou. Last year the migration was different due to unusually cold then hot weather, the migration started, then the weather got hot so the caribou went back down, then it started up again once the weather cooled down and it was later than normal. I would like to stay up there for about a month sometime. Too bad I have to work...
My bike shop is coming along nicely, the new dementions are 15 X 21. The foundation is all done, the rafters are cut and ready to be assembled, framing shouldn't take too long. pricing windows and metal, it will be metal siding and roof. Also still looking for a little heater, which will either be propane or heating oil. Probable heating oil, cheaper than propane. I can't wait!!! The rain has slowed it's construction down a bit. Finally stopped raining but it's supposed to start up again tomorrow. Lots of flood damage towards Sutton and up the Parks Hwy, I heard.
Until next time
Beautiful fall colors, winter comes fast up there. We don't rough it, we have a dugout "refridgerator/freezer". It it like a root cellar I suppose. Keeps all our food cold. We have a generator for electricity when needed, we do have a tv up there so the guys can watch the Super Bowl at their annual Crosswind SuperBowl trip.
We have a shower, A shower stall which has a wash tub on top with a spigot coming down from the tub, works great. The newest cabin will have a bath house and sauna when it is finished.
Hopefully it will be good weather and good hunting. Sure would like to have a freezer full of moose or caribou. Last year the migration was different due to unusually cold then hot weather, the migration started, then the weather got hot so the caribou went back down, then it started up again once the weather cooled down and it was later than normal. I would like to stay up there for about a month sometime. Too bad I have to work...
My bike shop is coming along nicely, the new dementions are 15 X 21. The foundation is all done, the rafters are cut and ready to be assembled, framing shouldn't take too long. pricing windows and metal, it will be metal siding and roof. Also still looking for a little heater, which will either be propane or heating oil. Probable heating oil, cheaper than propane. I can't wait!!! The rain has slowed it's construction down a bit. Finally stopped raining but it's supposed to start up again tomorrow. Lots of flood damage towards Sutton and up the Parks Hwy, I heard.
Until next time
Monday, August 28, 2006
Commute Aborted
Got to the Park-n-Ride, unloaded the bike, got going on my way. Felt funny after about a 1/3 mile, flat back tire. GRRR. Turned around, pumped it up, went flat again, loaded the bike, took it home, got back in the truck and drove to work. I think I over-inflated it last night and popped the seal on the valve. My pump's gauge is NOT accurate at all and so I check it with the tire gauge. It was up to 110 lbs, the maximum, I lowered it to 100. I guess those few seconds at 110 were too much. That's just a guess, I could have punctured it in that 1/3 mile. I will inspect it tonight when I change out the tube.
Bummer, it's actually stopped raining (supposed to start again Wednesday). It's sunny and fairly warm. Would have been a great day to ride. I'm running out of time as winter gets closer and closer.
Bummer, it's actually stopped raining (supposed to start again Wednesday). It's sunny and fairly warm. Would have been a great day to ride. I'm running out of time as winter gets closer and closer.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Strange Day
My morning commute started off uneventful. It was really nice to be able to ride the bike path the whole way now they have swept it off after I set some emails. No more having to jump in the road :)
I was running a little late due to a late start and was amost to my office when I saw a truck across the bike path and half way into the rode next to it. I thought it must have died and the driver tried to pull off the road, only it was facing INTO the street, rather than AWAY from the street...Hmm, I thought.
I got closer, had to get off my bike to get around the truck because it's blocking the bike path and I didn't want to drop down the curb on my road bike. Then I see that the truck is actually caught up in a fencing topped with barbed wire that protects a mini-storage complex. A bit further down, the security gate to the mini-storage units has been run over. This kid RAN through the big, metal gate with his truck into the mini-storage complex, couldn't get back out over the now twisted, broken gate so he decided to drive through the fence and ended up with barbed wire and fencing catching under his truck and he couldn't get his truck free. I decided to call the police, he saw me on my cell phone and took off on foot, leaving his truck caught on the fence and half in the middle of the street. A police car passed my about 30 seconds later. There is no way this was a "I swerved to miss a squirrel" situation. I think he was trying to break into the storage units.
I ride on to work, frustrating crappy work from co-workers that I have to fix, typical day.
Then we go to a friends for dinner. On the way home, I see what I think I a tiny little puppy in the MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. I warn my husband about it so he doesn't run over it, we pull off the road to go get it and the guy behind us stops his car and lays on the horn. Here is this FREAKED out animal, tiny tiny thing, in the middle of a 4 lane road, with some jerk honking at it. The guy probably would have run it over if we had been right there. Anyway, it starts squealing. Yes, squealing. It's not a puppy, it's a tiny PIG!!! In the middle of the road!! There is no place for a pig to wander away from in that part of town. We are baffled as to where it came from. We shoo'd it off the road and was able to pick it up. It was really squealing like crazy. It was SOO tiny! We thought it wasn't injured and so we jump back in my truck discussing what to do with a baby pig found in the middle of the road. We decide just to take it home, we have a farm after all, but no pigs, just cows. We are figuring we will have to feed it some of the calf formula but a calf nipple is too big, ect,ect. We are at a stoplight when a guy pulls up next to us and asks us if we are the people who found a pig in the road. He said he saw it fall out of a horse trailer and he had pulled the guy with the horse trailer over and told him, up the road a bit we saw it pulled over. So we give the guy back this tiny little piglet who fell out of a horsetrailer on the way to the Palmer State Fair (the state fair started tonight). Poor little pig, it was really happy to be back with it's mom. I can just imagine waking up every hour or so to bottle feed a baby pig. Yeah, good thing it's back with mom!
I was running a little late due to a late start and was amost to my office when I saw a truck across the bike path and half way into the rode next to it. I thought it must have died and the driver tried to pull off the road, only it was facing INTO the street, rather than AWAY from the street...Hmm, I thought.
I got closer, had to get off my bike to get around the truck because it's blocking the bike path and I didn't want to drop down the curb on my road bike. Then I see that the truck is actually caught up in a fencing topped with barbed wire that protects a mini-storage complex. A bit further down, the security gate to the mini-storage units has been run over. This kid RAN through the big, metal gate with his truck into the mini-storage complex, couldn't get back out over the now twisted, broken gate so he decided to drive through the fence and ended up with barbed wire and fencing catching under his truck and he couldn't get his truck free. I decided to call the police, he saw me on my cell phone and took off on foot, leaving his truck caught on the fence and half in the middle of the street. A police car passed my about 30 seconds later. There is no way this was a "I swerved to miss a squirrel" situation. I think he was trying to break into the storage units.
I ride on to work, frustrating crappy work from co-workers that I have to fix, typical day.
Then we go to a friends for dinner. On the way home, I see what I think I a tiny little puppy in the MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. I warn my husband about it so he doesn't run over it, we pull off the road to go get it and the guy behind us stops his car and lays on the horn. Here is this FREAKED out animal, tiny tiny thing, in the middle of a 4 lane road, with some jerk honking at it. The guy probably would have run it over if we had been right there. Anyway, it starts squealing. Yes, squealing. It's not a puppy, it's a tiny PIG!!! In the middle of the road!! There is no place for a pig to wander away from in that part of town. We are baffled as to where it came from. We shoo'd it off the road and was able to pick it up. It was really squealing like crazy. It was SOO tiny! We thought it wasn't injured and so we jump back in my truck discussing what to do with a baby pig found in the middle of the road. We decide just to take it home, we have a farm after all, but no pigs, just cows. We are figuring we will have to feed it some of the calf formula but a calf nipple is too big, ect,ect. We are at a stoplight when a guy pulls up next to us and asks us if we are the people who found a pig in the road. He said he saw it fall out of a horse trailer and he had pulled the guy with the horse trailer over and told him, up the road a bit we saw it pulled over. So we give the guy back this tiny little piglet who fell out of a horsetrailer on the way to the Palmer State Fair (the state fair started tonight). Poor little pig, it was really happy to be back with it's mom. I can just imagine waking up every hour or so to bottle feed a baby pig. Yeah, good thing it's back with mom!
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Bike and Beer photo: In Heat Wheat. I really like this beer. I realize I can't or don't want to drink all the beers that have been suggested to me, so whoever is interested, email me YOUR BIKE AND BEER PHOTO AND I WILL POST IT. You will still get your 1/2 second of bike/beer fame. Just reply to a post and I will send you an email addr to send your photos to.
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