Monthly Archives: August 2013

Saturday night – hail, hail, the gangs all here

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Greetings from needles colorado.. Such a beautiful place.. Just winding up our first full day here.. Woke tobeautiful sunshine..see it here streaming through the dish soap

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Diane , jack and i were up 4 hours before the rest of the crew.. We took advantage of that to take a hike at nearby cascade falls trail….. On the way we had to stop as these guys passed over the highway

The trail was beautiful.. There was some cool old mining stuff around.. Not sure what it was .. Any ideas ?

 

One glitch in the otherwise perfect hike.. I ran ahead to take a nap at the car, the changed my mind decided to go ahead and run home… Leaving diane and jac to search for me for me for almost an hour.. I am such an idiot

 

Once we were all home the rain started… It seemse to be happeing every afternoon… We spent it hanging out in the hot tub.. Not bad !

 

The coolest thong happend then.. It hailed. Not just a little? Until everything was covered !

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Later we went and explored hardware stores in durango….. Then back here for cooking dinner.. You can really tell that were at. About 9000 feet when you open food.. Check out this nutella

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Really nice day.. Im glad im here !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Friday night – durango

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Diane, Gabe. raya and I left home this morning at about 5:30.> Raya’s om Wendy dropped us off at the airport… and we took off for Albuquerque,, Very easy flight with wifi.. so I managed to work a good portion of the day. which was somehow restful .  We got to Albuquerque around noon.. Jac and Max were already there waiting for us. well.. Jac was waiting.. max was asleep.. he’s gotten 3 ours sleep in the last 3 days due to a burning man project.. Where does he get that from ?! 🙂

We all piled into the rental van and headed north. Diane drove because I culdn’t stay awke.

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We stopped at a great mexican place for tamales, fish tacos and sopapillas .

 

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The place had this great kitsch art. IMG_2188

 

The scenery in the 3 hours between Albuquerque and durango was amazing !IMG_2189 IMG_2190 IMG_2193 IMG_2195 IMG_2201 IMG_2203

 

We stopped in town and baught half of the groceries in town.. .. we met up with Rusty and suzanne there.. it is SO good to see them !IMG_2205

 

we are at about 9000 feet. so we get to use the funny high altitude recipes we’ve always  seen on cake boxes.. IMG_2206

 

we got to the house were renting about 8… here’s the view… just amazing.. more on the house tomorrow

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we just finished a big dinner.. and we’re al about to fall asleep .. IMG_2244 IMG_2248

 

cant keep my eyes open.. time for sleep ! more tomorrow

nite all. nite sam

-me

 

thursday night – Drained

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Ahhh.. the virtual end of a long week. I say virtual because I’m on vacation starting today.. I celebrated by meting up wiht my friend Kevin at On The Rise . There I had  a new drink creation I invented.. half kambucha, half hard cider.. I call it an ‘outsider’… strong and medicinal. yum !

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My last official act of my working week was to solve a vexing drain problem.. Gabe was taking a shower the other day when the top of oe of the shampoo bottles slipped down the drain.. there used to be a grill to stop stuff.. but it’s long gone… So.. we had this inch wide plastic top stuck deep in the drain.. which plugged it almost completely. . To make matters worse, the drain trap is completely inaccessible .. Somehow it was installed over a sheetrock ceiling.. and the only way to reach it would be to cut through the ceiling.. ..

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I  couldint see or feel the cap.. but I could reach it with a snake.. unfortunately.. there wasn’t anything to grab.. the smooth end must have been towards me.. .. Next thing I tried was inside out ductape on a cable.. no dice.. i wasn’t enve sure I was reaching it..   Then I had an idea.. i could drill through it.. I created a flexible drill with a bendable gooseneck drive.. and a small drill bit.

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Unfortunately the hex drive drill bit I had was too long to make the bend in the drain,  so out came the cutiff wheel (i love cutoff wheels) ,, I shortened the bit and hex drive holder.. and reinstalled it on the gooseneck

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I was able to get the gooseneck in there .. pushed it back into the trap and drilled.. a few minutes later. i was able to drill it and pull it nearly out of the drain.. from there a snuc a wire through the whole I’d drilled and eventually pulled it free. soon . I was holding the offending cap n my hand.. Yeahhhhhh !IMG_2175

 

a nice cap to my week to be sure..

 

ok.. its only 9 pm but I’m having trouble staying awake.. so I’ll end here..

more tomorrow from the road..

 

nite all. nite sam

-me