April Comes to a close

Well at last it is raining...much needed to lower the fire danger all over the state. I was at the cabin this weekend the fire danger was HIGH on Friday with even the county land closed to use do to fire danger. Saturday up north was not a bad day, no rain even some sun shine by the end of the day with the temp topping out at about 62. Sunday it rained, hard at times and pretty much the entire day long. Heading home on Sunday afternoon the fire danger in both Webster and Spooner were at LOW! With some more rain in the forecast for Wednesday & Thursday hopefully the danger will remain LOW, allowing a campfire and the ability to burn some garbage...which is much needed given the fact that there are nearly two full cans of garbage to burn. It rained the entire trip home on Sunday, as a matter of fact it poured from Rice Lake to Chetek hard enough to make visibility on the road poor to say the least!

The new digital upgrade as the call it has become a large pain in the ass! We used to get all of the channels out of both the twin cities and Duluth now we get nothing!!! Talking to some people I guess the first step is to get new RG-6 cable and re-run all the cables from the Antenna to all of the TVs, the old amplifier "must" go as it only goes to 450MHz which may be blocking the new digital signals the run at a much higher frequency. Also changing out any old splitters with new ones that again pass a higher frequency. If that does not work then a new amplifier with a higher frequency level is pretty much the last thing to attempt if still nothing...get Satellite TV!

I mail ordered a couple of new tools this last week, 1- Dualsaw, looks pretty cool cuts anything from wood to metal, rough cut to finish cut without having to change blades. Also ordered the laser guide for the saw. 2- was Jac Pac, portable CO2 tank to use with air tools like nailers and staplers it will drive about 500 brad nails or staples on a single tank of CO2 that then can be refilled anywhere that the refill tanks for say paintball guns. This will make doing small jobs much easier, not having to drag out a compressor and a bunch of air hose to drive a few nails. Hopefully I should receive both of these orders by the end of this week?

Even with the semi-nice day on Saturday did not really get anything done, well did put up the new US flag! Hopefully this coming weekend will be okay weather wise so we can cut down 3 birch trees and get rid of the leaning oak tree by the cabin. Getting this done prior to getting and putting up a canopy for this years outings. Also need to change the oil on both lawn tractors and on my quad for the year. The list of things to do keeps getting longer and the list of things done shorter?

Got a few things to get done this week prior to heading north on Friday...one of which may very well be mowing the lawn at home this week? Will try to get the cables made for the Antenna to TV connections and get a couple new splitters to install as well. Need to get down the two rolls of fencing from the top of the garage and put with the door and lumber taken down last week to go in the trailer for up north. Oh well having projects to do makes the week go by faster!

Friday is the 1st of May...two weeks to go until the spring 'working' vacation this year. We've decided to skip the spring fling this year and get some much needed work done instead. Thus allowing for a relaxing Fall fling this October.

Well that's all for now folks...

April Showers

Well it has been some time since my last entry...I could say that I've been way to damn busy, but that would be pure BS! I've not been any more or less busy then usual. Just got a touch of the springtime sick of the whole PC internet, making photos, doing web sites doldurm. In any event I was sipping a cup of coffee and going through some photos I'd taken a month ago up north at the cabin. Had to throw in this one of Einstein...no he's not sleeping sitting up, but just don't like the camera flash in his eyes!

Spring has arrived at last, long last and not a moment to frigging soon I might add! So I pulled the 9mm from my mouth and cleaned off the spittle and set to doing springtime activities...Last weekend went to the cabin and open her up for the 2009 season. Everything wintered fairly well no busted pipes and the water hot and cold is once again flowing. Pretty much just as it was left some hundred years ago or at least since last November!

Got a new vehicle traded in the 2000 Jimmy on a 2005 Chevy Trailblazer. I like it got just a little more elbow room than the Jimmy so don't have that Sardine feeling quite as bad. It's got the On-star thing which I don't have. I did get a 3 month 'free' trail to the XM raido however. I hate to admit it but I am liking that, there's a ton of music, talk, comedy what the hell ever your in the mood for at the time to listen to it's out there and commercial free. After the free trial it runs about $13/month. of course your best deal is buying 3 years and then it works out to 9 months free.

Will just have to wait and see when the time comes. If I spent more time in the car driving back and forth to work I'd do it in a heart beat. But I have the tedious minute-and-half drive to work each day?? So the only "real" use would be driving back-n-forth up to the cabin.

Let's see what else is new...I'm not, not smoking any more! Well I'm not smoking like I was but a few cigs here and there and I'm a "cabin smoker" smoked a couple of packs over the weekend up north last weekend. Had to go back to the doc yesterday for an infection and got some 'cillin' ace bandages for the swelling in my legs, a couple of blood tests, chest x-ray, next week is a sonagram thing on my heart, and go to the sleep clinic. Well Zippity-fucking-do-dah! Ain't life just grand, just shove a hose up my ass and I'll be ready to party! I guess as long as I've got the insurance might as well get everything checked out. I have been walking every night after supper Kathy and I have been taking Einstien and Boomer with for a walk each night, paying a little closer attention to eating and what not. Blood Sugar levels are much better and more under control for the past few weeks in any case, and I'm not smoking 3 packs a cigs a day so it's all got to be good!

Well that's about the just of it since I last jotted down a note here a few weeks ago, today is suppose to be fairly nice again, chance of rain tomorrow and Monday but we are in great need of some rain. According to the weather we're 2.5 under normal and things are very dry right now. Burning bans for most counties until we get some rain and things start 'greening' up a bit. In any case I've got to get started on my list of Saturday spring projects to accomplish and they won't get done sitting here...

Here's the new chevy...