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• Photo day....
  • Another wonder
    • How interesting Greg!
      • Baggage....&....
        • Thank you for your service
          • Back to you!
            • We should condemn our government if we disagree with their policies...
      • I've stopped meat and fish
        • Everything in moderation...
          • Do yourself a service
            • food.....and food for thought...
              • Will check it out
          • Yeah. I can't watch the vid. I had Maine scallops the other night,...
            • What the heck, though, is a plant based meal?
              • At least you live in a part of the world where you can get decent salmon
                • Friends don't let their friends each farm raised salmon.
                  • The best aquaculture success looks like mussels.
                    • I had my first mussels in Cherbourg, Franc . . yum!
                      • We're a little slow to pick up food over here.
                    • Tenants Harbor
                  • Yeah, I am a little rusty on my salmon nomenclature...
                    • I've lived in the PNW for about that long
          • Remember Moderation is fine as long as you don't take it too far.
        • My problems started when my parents died.
          • When my parents died, the wall between me and my own mortality was now gone.
            • 3-31-45
              • 3-31-41 - and not slowed a whole lot. But I sure understand
                • OOPs- 1-31-41!!!
                  • Uh huh. First thing to go......can't remember the second thing to go....
                    • uh- what?
            • It does suck being the patriarch of the family
              • OMG..I just realized I am the family's partriarch too!!!
        • Larry, can't argue with what you do. My observation and reading suggest...
          • hehehhe, quite so, quite so....
            • Dude!! ya got a sale here.
            • Fantastic Ron! How about a sailing book now?
              • I don't know enough about sailing to write book - I haven't even updated our blog in over a year
            • Fantastic Ron. I bought one too.
            • Well damn- just realized that your other book
              • Yes, that one's out of print now - though one did show up ...
      • Refit....
        • ...yep, I'm pulling mine with an old Dodge Cummins I rebuilt - I hate Dodges, but I love Cummins.
          • That's what we got.
            • I put an 80 gallon aux. tank on the back, giving me about 105 gallons total diesel ...
              • Clamber over the side or....tall ladder? I hope it's clamber, make you da man!
                • We have a tall step ladder chained to the trailer...
              • GREAT Idea
              • that's quite a trailer-sailor
                • Yeah, trailer sailing on Ron and Gregs level looks like a hobby for truckers to me.
                  • Not sure I can say
                • Lol, yes, it's pushing the envelope some...
    • These are great Greg. This one, amazing.
      • Another
      • Dawn over Angor Wat
    • Amazing place, eh?
      • We did lust after that Teak!!!
  • A bird with a lizard sitting on his shoulder
  • Pam and her mom surveying our new home...
    • The dogs look confused Dave
      • Actually, they're exhausted. What you don't see is Olivia, the German Shorthair Pointer.
        • New adventure
          • LOL! Yeah, you're right.
            • Nice shearline on that roof Dave.
            • Looks lke it hs good ventilation
            • That dozer might come in handy soon
              • Naw. The engine is seized.
        • You finally put that dog in some proper bird cover Dave.
          • I guess maybe I have a short attention span.
            • Maybe you finally found "cruising" Dave. It was under your nose all the time.
              • variety is the spice of life...
              • Just like Drift Away, ten acres of land fell in our lap.
                • Are you going to use low voltage DC?
                  • I'm planning on a combination of 12v and 110v.
                    • you've got the wrong lattitude
                      • Ooops. That's what happens when I post while watching the Giants/Ravens.
                      • Thought it was gonna be way more exciting than previously thought.
                        • LOL! Where's the "like" button?
                    • Any thoughts on a composting toilet so you can forego some septic costs?
                    • You might want to put in a couple of rain barrels
                    • My bro in law has 28,000 gallons rainwater in tanks at the end of winter.
                    • Dave. 1/4 mile for hydro connection will cost 1/8th the amount alternative sourced supply and usage.
                      • How did you conclude that?
                        • Merry Christmas. Hydro = electric company. 10 poles for 1/4 mile @ $1.2K ea. as opposed to 20 x solar/wind /river gen
                • Do you have an electrical grid to connect with?
                  • I do if I wanted to spend the money to connect to it.
                    • Buy a backhoe and use it to put in underground wiring
                      • Got a backhoe. And a dump truck.
                        • Do you need an engineered septice design there Dave?
                          • The population of Bleecker is a tad over 500 people.
                            • Your regs look typical, you should get started asap on permits.
                            • ...oh, well, then I would forget the septic and just run it out on the ground.
                      • Most places require power in a concrete encased duct bank if it's underground.
                    • You know that you can "sell" your power back to the 'grid' and use it as a "back-up".
                      • Selling back to the grid means we are with out power
                        • It's simple...
                          • We would still have to spend several thousands of dollars to even be connected to them
                            • Do you have cell service there?
                              • No cell service, no DSL, no cable. No nothing.
                                • Haven't looked into satellite for a long time
                                  • Nope, not anymore.
                                • Dish
                            • Pamela, when I ran power to the ranch it was about a quarter of a mile as well...
                        • I've seen tanks as big as 4000 gallons..BIL has seven of them.
                    • Refrigeration
        • 'tis the nature of pointers and spaniels
    • Sounds fun! Here's something to consider for heating....
  • Sex and Ft Lauderdale motoryacht culture.
    • I'd love to see the stability numbers on the EP!
      • Yeah looks a little top heavy
        • When they come in, some of those ships tower over the high rise hotels along the inlet.
    • That's a beautiful spot...
      • I think it is the Ft Lauderdale Hilton now?
        • Yeah, I lived there in the 70's...
  • When I was in the Delta in '68 Fish farming had a certain ecological elegance...
    • The huts with the small shacks.....