Spring Vacation

As you can see from the photo, the build and move of the new outhouse was a success!  Took 4 days start to finish to complete and there are still a few odds and ends to finish up to say all is done!  Stain, a trim board here and there, some caulking, finish trimming around the window, putting up a shelf or two and then it'll all be done.  This one should be standing in 30 years, not sure I will last anything close to that long.  Well it looks nice anyway...insulated, has a window for light and ventilation, new ceiling fan & light combo as well as a solid door.  Now if we could just put up a 32'x32' cabin built this solid and a 32'x40' pole shed we'd be in the high cotton.  Weather was very spotty during the week a couple days of cool, damp weather and a couple days of 80 and sunny weather.  All in all a nice week of vacation, went to damn fast, but then they always seem to go that way.  It would be much better if you only had to work 4 weeks and have 48 off for the same money?

Rough getting back in the swing on Monday but now only 3 more days until the Memorial Day weekend, so a long weekend to look forward to anyway!  Mowed my dandelion field yesterday and trimmed up around everything, although a bit on the windy side it was sunny and warm.   Grass is growing like crazy now, with a couple of days of possible rain in the forecast it'll be ready for mowing by weeks end once again.

Reading through the news from the past week I see that our bald-headed fat fuck of worthless piece-o-shit governor has put his pudgy paw prints on a smoking ban for the state to go into effect July of 2010.  Add that to the rest of his fat bone head decisions, hopefully he gets the swine flu and shits and pukes himself strait to hell!  "Zeke Hiel"  Still waiting for my billion dollar stimulus check like the car companies and banks so I can then file bankruptcy?

Well that's about all for now, be sure to check out the Little Tarparosa or my Picasa Web Albums for pictures from the Spring Vacation...

Later,

No Trees, No TV

T-4 until Spring Clean-up vacation...wha-hoo! It's a cloudy 6:00am on Tuesday morning, suppose to rain on and off well for the next 7 days according according to the weather AH's, which is pretty much there way of saying who the hell knows? Could use a little rain to lower the fire danger once again...maybe if the damn wind didn't blow 50mph all the fricken time shit wouldn't dry out so damn fast. Got the lawn mowed at home yesterday, as it was a nice warm and sunny afternoon. That's done for a week, well it will be closer to two with vacation next week and all.

This past weekend up north was decent, sunny, moderately warm although a bit on the windy side both days. Saturday from the NW and Sunday for the SE. The FD was moderate on Friday and got the bulk of the trash burned as well as the had the first campfire of the season. By Saturday afternoon with the wind the FD was back up to high. We got the 3 birch trees in the middle of the yard cut down and stacked. Was going to attempt to cut down the leaning Oak tree by the deck but just didn't want to chance it and hit the cabin, as it is a big enough Oak to do some real damage! Have to see about getting a professional in to at least drop the tree and then we can finish up. The other task this weekend was replacing all of the cable and splitters from the antenna down to all of the TVs in the shack. That task was completed as well all the old cable removed, new cable run, splitters replaced and even new short jumpers to all of the TVs were redone. However it had no effect on the new digital signal. Nothing from the Twin Cities, just to far away for the signal to reach. I understand 60 miles is about the MAX! Well it's about 90 as the crow flies. 60 miles to Duluth so we are on the outside edge there as well. Got 1 channel out of Duluth...Ch. 10 and then 3 PBS channels out of Menominee, WI. Those 4 channels are spotty at best. So it would appear if we want TV a dish will be needed to do so.

I've been redoing the plans for the new Shitter scaling down from 6'x6' to a 4'x5' to save some on costs. Current one is 4'x4' so this will be slightly bigger, insulated with a much sturdier floor. Not like we're going to be hanging out in there for extended periods of time anyway! Got some running to do yet this week in preparation for the coming week.

I talked to Big Al this morning, just a few minutes ago...he can't wait until next week now himself. He was pretty certain that he and Larry would be up on Wednesday for sure. Actually hoping now got get out of town around 9am rather then noon?

Well that's about it for this round...won't be any more postings until after the 17th of May before any new posts to either here or the Little Tarparosa, which hopefully then will have some new photo's and comments to add as well!

If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy!

Later