tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308876492024-03-14T00:32:37.173-04:00Travels with RaindropJan and Lew and Buffy have landed in the Beautiful Berkshires. The AT is a 5minute walk from our front door. Mt Greylock is just outside our South facing picture window. When the mood hits we take off with our 15ft self-contained travel trailer, Raindrop the teardrop.Lew and Jan Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00582659155240769648noreply@blogger.comBlogger415125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30887649.post-21166187033661807432021-11-08T11:34:00.003-05:002021-11-08T14:49:32.860-05:00OUR FIFTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Part Three<p><b>CLICK ON A PIC TO ENLARGE IT.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The table was set:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cmNLdH0zQTg/YYlAqj9CjiI/AAAAAAAAOa4/_4QtWC-SxZUzemylYmRiD9onTomhT2mPgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2470.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cmNLdH0zQTg/YYlAqj9CjiI/AAAAAAAAOa4/_4QtWC-SxZUzemylYmRiD9onTomhT2mPgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2470.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> Jan had ordered a vegan gluten-free cake and Trista picked it up.<p></p><p><br /></p><p>The steaks went on the grill:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M72iGT45PMM/YYlJXu_ekCI/AAAAAAAAObA/JXHK79Q7mw4bT1VD9Co2ORP2FR2lQ7DBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2475.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M72iGT45PMM/YYlJXu_ekCI/AAAAAAAAObA/JXHK79Q7mw4bT1VD9Co2ORP2FR2lQ7DBgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2475.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Salmon and baking potatoes went in the oven. Shannon brought a perfect salad. Carole and Mike brought lots of BREADWORKS BREAD. Adam brought his roasted vegetables. Amy brought lots of wine and champagne.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lookit' that plate piled high with filet mignon, salmon, salad and Breadworks bread:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C6885402kuY/YYlKqxuguTI/AAAAAAAAObI/VJpHuTdYvdc8uJxNKKXD2uDhUa0w4r68wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2478.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C6885402kuY/YYlKqxuguTI/AAAAAAAAObI/VJpHuTdYvdc8uJxNKKXD2uDhUa0w4r68wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2478.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_EJ46GWk9xo/YYlL37e-3FI/AAAAAAAAObQ/HLxJGt4bf54mFtxNslDbl5R20LUDU1lwwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2479.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_EJ46GWk9xo/YYlL37e-3FI/AAAAAAAAObQ/HLxJGt4bf54mFtxNslDbl5R20LUDU1lwwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2479.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The TV in the background is playing a slide show of pics from our 50 years together. Jan is wearing the dress she made for Trista and Adam's wedding.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ltFtGOfuiXc/YYlM9v2UBLI/AAAAAAAAObc/LJKoLOlraccC3MfNX-NtSkX7Hov9ns8zACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2480.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ltFtGOfuiXc/YYlM9v2UBLI/AAAAAAAAObc/LJKoLOlraccC3MfNX-NtSkX7Hov9ns8zACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2480.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1UB8R5FfqfM/YYlNBxnT9VI/AAAAAAAAObg/jM5X0P0A-i8WoNux1jrfK8dgbL8HfIK_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2481.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1UB8R5FfqfM/YYlNBxnT9VI/AAAAAAAAObg/jM5X0P0A-i8WoNux1jrfK8dgbL8HfIK_ACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2481.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ecTvWPhnMhs/YYlNFHQrEvI/AAAAAAAAObk/JMx-9kXZmSUzCrW___mYU3GlX-tca3lqQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2482.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ecTvWPhnMhs/YYlNFHQrEvI/AAAAAAAAObk/JMx-9kXZmSUzCrW___mYU3GlX-tca3lqQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2482.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We managed to carve the cake without bleeding:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-44T56cY10s0/YYlNzMI7ZzI/AAAAAAAAObw/nnq9g4BABxMRJbBnmkFlB4YeStXpbcMwACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2484.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-44T56cY10s0/YYlNzMI7ZzI/AAAAAAAAObw/nnq9g4BABxMRJbBnmkFlB4YeStXpbcMwACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2484.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">And get in a bit of smooching:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5lRSaS6uzY4/YYlOCuQVfyI/AAAAAAAAOb0/DrWqSo8XpQ4Z81AG5CdT0bk4gnGNW0lUgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2486.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5lRSaS6uzY4/YYlOCuQVfyI/AAAAAAAAOb0/DrWqSo8XpQ4Z81AG5CdT0bk4gnGNW0lUgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2486.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Photobomber! 😃</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Our Pittsburgh friends snuck this in on us:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R9WReV_JqOc/YYlOjHrwkUI/AAAAAAAAOcA/XWlW7xAhJqcoGDHcI-YsYuKMoDdCnfS-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2488.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R9WReV_JqOc/YYlOjHrwkUI/AAAAAAAAOcA/XWlW7xAhJqcoGDHcI-YsYuKMoDdCnfS-gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2488.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">What a wonderful thoughtful idea!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Every time we enter our house we will be reminded</div><div style="text-align: center;">of our journey together</div><div style="text-align: center;">{and of our friends in far-off Pittsburgh}</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L5HxedEWIiI/YYlQmdnYm_I/AAAAAAAAOcQ/z0OBqX9Lf-0XHuoYP_4abPCc8ohgYwt3wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2499.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L5HxedEWIiI/YYlQmdnYm_I/AAAAAAAAOcQ/z0OBqX9Lf-0XHuoYP_4abPCc8ohgYwt3wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2499.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Hamming it up:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jjT39Ds2HCE/YYlQOrUnrTI/AAAAAAAAOcI/klTYnLducqcIccDLolmHdTVbCSgucjIKQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2495.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jjT39Ds2HCE/YYlQOrUnrTI/AAAAAAAAOcI/klTYnLducqcIccDLolmHdTVbCSgucjIKQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2495.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p>It was a joyous and fun occasion! Back home now and Buffy loves her nice warm doormat:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-52nTXlCB7cY/YYlRXJzoc3I/AAAAAAAAOcY/yd97qM02EzcvD2Ud15si9Lc76fdrLk-VwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2531.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-52nTXlCB7cY/YYlRXJzoc3I/AAAAAAAAOcY/yd97qM02EzcvD2Ud15si9Lc76fdrLk-VwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2531.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Lew and Jan Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00582659155240769648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30887649.post-66480760351898174642021-11-08T10:16:00.002-05:002021-11-08T11:38:12.300-05:00OUR FIFTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Part Two<p><b>CLICK ON A PIC TO ENLARGE IT.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Thursday afternoon Buffy got to swim with the local ducks:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SSu5dDwh6aM/YYkUmlJQ-8I/AAAAAAAAOY8/f5MQ4TZzj847MaKIFf3-ILQhiqU8haBIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2446.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SSu5dDwh6aM/YYkUmlJQ-8I/AAAAAAAAOY8/f5MQ4TZzj847MaKIFf3-ILQhiqU8haBIQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2446.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p>Thursday evening was wonderful! We were all together for the first time since Dec 26, 2019.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2bp_VJXdHz4/YYkU6u8TvEI/AAAAAAAAOZE/sKGXRJILNKkG-IrBY6lrvqSoKplU-NCkQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2449.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2bp_VJXdHz4/YYkU6u8TvEI/AAAAAAAAOZE/sKGXRJILNKkG-IrBY6lrvqSoKplU-NCkQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2449.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cLMomPTpd-Y/YYkVC8uH71I/AAAAAAAAOZI/5dSIZK_NHygcc0ckNPSod44uzec7gHXMACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2447%2B%25281%2529.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cLMomPTpd-Y/YYkVC8uH71I/AAAAAAAAOZI/5dSIZK_NHygcc0ckNPSod44uzec7gHXMACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2447%2B%25281%2529.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j3gWWJoa-QQ/YYkVdFqlGXI/AAAAAAAAOZU/3YHm5piww0UzdiTFdzOCUWibhcJnnc6_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2451.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j3gWWJoa-QQ/YYkVdFqlGXI/AAAAAAAAOZU/3YHm5piww0UzdiTFdzOCUWibhcJnnc6_ACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2451.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>By evening the weather turned decidedly rainy but Friday morning the radar revealed a couple hour break in late morning so we took off to find the church where we were married fifty years before to the day.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NYjxL_HYE5Y/YYkW0QD3iZI/AAAAAAAAOZc/Sn2ki3emkvoWF5rDY3KSFCj16B5unQDvgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2455.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NYjxL_HYE5Y/YYkW0QD3iZI/AAAAAAAAOZc/Sn2ki3emkvoWF5rDY3KSFCj16B5unQDvgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2455.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div>It was a Weslyan Methodist church back then. Now it is someone's house.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7c_wPkhtUng/YYkW5H4hiNI/AAAAAAAAOZg/1KrITJMDVJssIR2gkPA-BBrTT_Xo53giQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2458.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7c_wPkhtUng/YYkW5H4hiNI/AAAAAAAAOZg/1KrITJMDVJssIR2gkPA-BBrTT_Xo53giQCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_2458.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eXx1JwpxAJc/YYkX5Q-H4XI/AAAAAAAAOZo/ePf-QM4_4iIKTxSO8b7zTpaD7l9DOvE7gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2512.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eXx1JwpxAJc/YYkX5Q-H4XI/AAAAAAAAOZo/ePf-QM4_4iIKTxSO8b7zTpaD7l9DOvE7gCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_2512.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>The rain set back in so we scarpered. By afternoon Shannon, Carole and Mike had arrived and it was time for crafty activities. You see, we had been busy at home embroidering and sewing up 12 place mats;</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uaBC4oeQRek/YYkcTkH4E7I/AAAAAAAAOZw/2lRHaMRXnAw1-IEa_aiq992iK8MRlb2JgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2360.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uaBC4oeQRek/YYkcTkH4E7I/AAAAAAAAOZw/2lRHaMRXnAw1-IEa_aiq992iK8MRlb2JgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2360.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rT8tFnHX40M/YYkckNKlZ-I/AAAAAAAAOZ4/mGUP2ol34hk73JO2m5XVUd6yCm6a_DkfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2377.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rT8tFnHX40M/YYkckNKlZ-I/AAAAAAAAOZ4/mGUP2ol34hk73JO2m5XVUd6yCm6a_DkfwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2377.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fn53F-AupaI/YYkcq-QLMBI/AAAAAAAAOZ8/51zDJeBKd90p2xHcAr7kQQWR_p1hv98LwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2376.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fn53F-AupaI/YYkcq-QLMBI/AAAAAAAAOZ8/51zDJeBKd90p2xHcAr7kQQWR_p1hv98LwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2376.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zpMtf-WKDpg/YYkcyfgllEI/AAAAAAAAOaA/SnbfKA7_oWwna-qoXDMFERZj4Tt6DmY4gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0008.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zpMtf-WKDpg/YYkcyfgllEI/AAAAAAAAOaA/SnbfKA7_oWwna-qoXDMFERZj4Tt6DmY4gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0008.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>The idea was that each Guest would sign every placemat and would take one home with them as a remembrance of the occasion.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ash7N9lmSlM/YYkdr8YemAI/AAAAAAAAOaQ/txo9ExqlWAYnszR9qJk21GvNHb9uSBmcgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2474.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ash7N9lmSlM/YYkdr8YemAI/AAAAAAAAOaQ/txo9ExqlWAYnszR9qJk21GvNHb9uSBmcgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2474.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>As well, we brought with us champagne flutes and etching supplies. Jan's sister Jerry crafted stencils with the message "Jan and Lew 50 years 2021" so each of our guests etched that and personal embellishments on a flute, also as a remembrance of the occasion.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PapB9PV3XFc/YYkfhdLCetI/AAAAAAAAOaY/cvCrmnu6GHI4TVqe8_3yB1WKcwiA6hEzwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2472.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PapB9PV3XFc/YYkfhdLCetI/AAAAAAAAOaY/cvCrmnu6GHI4TVqe8_3yB1WKcwiA6hEzwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2472.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ANuUwLPRMpc/YYkf6jLLWhI/AAAAAAAAOag/xy160ImYAC4o0EsjChDhxHG9yVGHFFRqQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0036.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ANuUwLPRMpc/YYkf6jLLWhI/AAAAAAAAOag/xy160ImYAC4o0EsjChDhxHG9yVGHFFRqQCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_0036.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oKmRJ8XR0Uc/YYk8Gr0jjvI/AAAAAAAAOao/t9F_w5QuWp8Ygav83YbOKY_zd_w_H5i8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0026.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oKmRJ8XR0Uc/YYk8Gr0jjvI/AAAAAAAAOao/t9F_w5QuWp8Ygav83YbOKY_zd_w_H5i8QCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_0026.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p>A small item that had made it's way through time from that day 50 years ago was brought out for this occasion:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X8Cu8FwO_B8/YYk--lZ1rFI/AAAAAAAAOaw/TrXF-3-zUjsWEIyBq1ULlFjHOPPx79kfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0009.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X8Cu8FwO_B8/YYk--lZ1rFI/AAAAAAAAOaw/TrXF-3-zUjsWEIyBq1ULlFjHOPPx79kfwCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_0009.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p></div>Lew and Jan Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00582659155240769648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30887649.post-62907115388173044182021-11-07T13:51:00.000-05:002021-11-07T13:51:58.101-05:00OUR FIFTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Part One<p> In order to split up the driving we planned our 50th celebration in Penn's Woods and a suitable house was available at Treasure Lake, Dubois so there we were. Wanting to spend a day first in the Dear Old Woods we trundled off on Monday morning. The electric power situation there was uncertain so we spent the first night part way in order to have lots of time upon arrival to address any problems. There is a COE campground near Tioga, Pa at a convenient distance so we stopped there.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>CLICK ON A PIC TO ENLARGE IT.</b></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f6iGO5CRQr8/YYgS_mKMgBI/AAAAAAAAOXE/ZtRI4dD2hB8Ay92OAqgZ2IFm8Hu2XFPGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2410.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f6iGO5CRQr8/YYgS_mKMgBI/AAAAAAAAOXE/ZtRI4dD2hB8Ay92OAqgZ2IFm8Hu2XFPGgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2410.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">There was lots of time for a walk!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HKQ8JouczRo/YYgTP4KHkSI/AAAAAAAAOXM/ZcIdrz5SQnAmBN-8f4xlTBHKWbUzd0tKQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2409.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HKQ8JouczRo/YYgTP4KHkSI/AAAAAAAAOXM/ZcIdrz5SQnAmBN-8f4xlTBHKWbUzd0tKQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2409.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DksH2Nr2zys/YYgTioO7SgI/AAAAAAAAOXU/ri-Y71lJH4YRJCQgoXREto-oQr0Nrnf3gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2411.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DksH2Nr2zys/YYgTioO7SgI/AAAAAAAAOXU/ri-Y71lJH4YRJCQgoXREto-oQr0Nrnf3gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2411.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>After setting up in the Woods on Tuesday we needed a curbside order at Walmart for items we had forgotten to bring ........ across the parking lot was Wendy's ........ and Buffy had not partaken since March 2020.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kjHW_KyGf7I/YYgVPceGbTI/AAAAAAAAOXc/HZ70Y2QfjgY-Y-zFhRQoL8Oh4c22siA8ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0018.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kjHW_KyGf7I/YYgVPceGbTI/AAAAAAAAOXc/HZ70Y2QfjgY-Y-zFhRQoL8Oh4c22siA8ACLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_0018.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Oh boy!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BWUHo4W3mGA/YYgVewW8L8I/AAAAAAAAOXg/c2_VYtl6bJUyY2vegiBbkiUT3wf1lJaywCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0020.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BWUHo4W3mGA/YYgVewW8L8I/AAAAAAAAOXg/c2_VYtl6bJUyY2vegiBbkiUT3wf1lJaywCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0020.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Yum!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Wednesday morning Adam met us in the Woods and we were off to the lawyer's office in Kittanning.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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By dragging our own bathroom, bedroom and kitchen along behind us we need not even enter a building while on the road. On May 20 we left Home and spent our first night RoVing in more than two years:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZfQ4r9hQTlk/YYa5yYbD62I/AAAAAAAAOT0/A0thd7CIPXIeNrxxsnsSf10rt99pnteAwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1967.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZfQ4r9hQTlk/YYa5yYbD62I/AAAAAAAAOT0/A0thd7CIPXIeNrxxsnsSf10rt99pnteAwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1967.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The next afternoon we set up camp in Shannon's driveway in the South Hills. Kinky Friedman calls visitors "house pests" in his books and it was/is wonderful to visit everyone without being in anyone's hair.</p><p>We had Dinner on Carole&Mike's deck and discussed backyard bunnies.</p><p><br /></p><p>We learned first-hand that the playground at Boyce Park is a wonderful venue for Violet:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1lZbJ8bz3wc/YYbaH4mLWFI/AAAAAAAAOT8/AV3o8PSAHFMSIXnm8Kynav9ODTfjhRAQACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1969%2B%25281%2529.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1lZbJ8bz3wc/YYbaH4mLWFI/AAAAAAAAOT8/AV3o8PSAHFMSIXnm8Kynav9ODTfjhRAQACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1969%2B%25281%2529.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">{Gramma and Dad looking on}</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We helped Andrei and Violet plant a garden:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LxmvIHtcUlA/YYbbyxLPTbI/AAAAAAAAOUg/7qOFH47qqvMSXk4xDmrNuFuY3KcAdv6VQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1983.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LxmvIHtcUlA/YYbbyxLPTbI/AAAAAAAAOUg/7qOFH47qqvMSXk4xDmrNuFuY3KcAdv6VQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1983.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><p>Then it was off to the Dear Old Woods:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3dC9sQcSmZY/YYbdI7Sn6qI/AAAAAAAAOUs/xg37CHdGuF8y2o0XfkNYKvBNUZi_iscMQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1989.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3dC9sQcSmZY/YYbdI7Sn6qI/AAAAAAAAOUs/xg37CHdGuF8y2o0XfkNYKvBNUZi_iscMQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1989.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Where we were greeted by David and Marci's Greyhounds:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KVsIl5-2dxM/YYbenwrvOHI/AAAAAAAAOVM/ruhKyPFObGw01EkpQC_3m-x9Ek23PG80QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1990.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KVsIl5-2dxM/YYbenwrvOHI/AAAAAAAAOVM/ruhKyPFObGw01EkpQC_3m-x9Ek23PG80QCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1990.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>And entertained ourselves with a bit of tilting at windmills:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZmDlycQAGzs/YYbeCEJZQOI/AAAAAAAAOVE/Ihm2MUh7bIUk3DwkaZkhKBwvUeAg4W3nwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1991.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZmDlycQAGzs/YYbeCEJZQOI/AAAAAAAAOVE/Ihm2MUh7bIUk3DwkaZkhKBwvUeAg4W3nwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1991.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><p>Then we zoomed back to the Beautiful Berkshires to plant our garden:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eWsCC6UZLvo/YYbgF3_7OCI/AAAAAAAAOVc/5jcGh2YAyAYkpYWf7NKD6eqiL1nLCviXACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2059.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eWsCC6UZLvo/YYbgF3_7OCI/AAAAAAAAOVc/5jcGh2YAyAYkpYWf7NKD6eqiL1nLCviXACLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_2059.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p>On July Fourth we had our first [non-Zoom] in-person church service since the beginning of the pandemic:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gVu51r69P8c/YYbgttjnBfI/AAAAAAAAOVk/ImuNO4PSsskcIt17YZobl1i3kQ_nocyuACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2100.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gVu51r69P8c/YYbgttjnBfI/AAAAAAAAOVk/ImuNO4PSsskcIt17YZobl1i3kQ_nocyuACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2100.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Dave and Steve setting up Zoom</p><p style="text-align: center;">for folks uncomfortable/unable to attend.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">While Jan was off at Cape Cod Lew and Buffy faced this one day:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-doQiNqwRyMQ/YYbt3DJ28hI/AAAAAAAAOW8/k0_w353V9JMOkrGwV0u-3I23rGhVNRM8ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2147%2B%25281%2529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-doQiNqwRyMQ/YYbt3DJ28hI/AAAAAAAAOW8/k0_w353V9JMOkrGwV0u-3I23rGhVNRM8ACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2147%2B%25281%2529.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">Smoke from the massive wildfires in the West and Canada made it difficult to breathe and the Taconic Mts were barely visible.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">On August 5 we drove to Hickory Run SP and set up. Trista and Violet met us there and ....... we had S'Mores! Lew and Buffy hung out by the campfire until it burnt out:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wVS5SPXz53I/YYbiMEfrV7I/AAAAAAAAOVs/cxhV6VY5nII4f1Fqav3UxyH_y9gcgOnQACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2201.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wVS5SPXz53I/YYbiMEfrV7I/AAAAAAAAOVs/cxhV6VY5nII4f1Fqav3UxyH_y9gcgOnQACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2201.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XbVtXeB0xTc/YYbiTmGkUkI/AAAAAAAAOVw/PKvaRn5w3d0M5ExC2CpkZc4cSsphpGXUgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2203.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XbVtXeB0xTc/YYbiTmGkUkI/AAAAAAAAOVw/PKvaRn5w3d0M5ExC2CpkZc4cSsphpGXUgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2203.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Violet returned home with us:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5JfFMT5AoUs/YYbknQmuQTI/AAAAAAAAOV8/-wU8umkByOYlz88_SPbtOCtM7kXJPORXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1749.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5JfFMT5AoUs/YYbknQmuQTI/AAAAAAAAOV8/-wU8umkByOYlz88_SPbtOCtM7kXJPORXQCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_1749.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">With Degas's Little dancer.</div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8B24sMU7EUo/YYbkx6eGpII/AAAAAAAAOWA/gf9sWYXhWuIjodNRkx0Jf1CfxaVfGZb0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2215.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8B24sMU7EUo/YYbkx6eGpII/AAAAAAAAOWA/gf9sWYXhWuIjodNRkx0Jf1CfxaVfGZb0QCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2215.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">On top of Mt Greylock.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rKYunOJV9kk/YYblbnhcuLI/AAAAAAAAOWM/6LIHYene9DYZiWQDzXJ3WekehFTkz4QlwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2216.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rKYunOJV9kk/YYblbnhcuLI/AAAAAAAAOWM/6LIHYene9DYZiWQDzXJ3WekehFTkz4QlwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2216.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">In Gramma's lair with her Great Aunt Jenny's miniatures.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F4kZwrusf_w/YYblyF5GnGI/AAAAAAAAOWU/oQgwbg1F5-gEYKuik3my1ddAbYH9w0qoQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2223.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F4kZwrusf_w/YYblyF5GnGI/AAAAAAAAOWU/oQgwbg1F5-gEYKuik3my1ddAbYH9w0qoQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2223.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Examining fungus-amungus.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">On the 11th we drove Violet home to Pittsburgh. While there we had a picnic supper on Shannon's lovely patio. On the 13th we returned home with Andrei:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YLHx29cZPq8/YYbmjwC2gII/AAAAAAAAOWc/EU8xQKkhbhw24suhbIttGjn5vidEaBq6gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1759.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YLHx29cZPq8/YYbmjwC2gII/AAAAAAAAOWc/EU8xQKkhbhw24suhbIttGjn5vidEaBq6gCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_1759.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">With Degas's Little Dancer.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3MlJBMh-7Is/YYbmyA_SnQI/AAAAAAAAOWg/ClLvvava7HMGSFtC5JX8-frLDhL6wImRwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/65082416181__20EAF841-4C74-4E4F-BCE6-C0218A7620E4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3MlJBMh-7Is/YYbmyA_SnQI/AAAAAAAAOWg/ClLvvava7HMGSFtC5JX8-frLDhL6wImRwCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/65082416181__20EAF841-4C74-4E4F-BCE6-C0218A7620E4.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">At MASS MOCA. Andrei returned there </div><div style="text-align: center;">the next day and spent most of the day.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R2xbgOaLC_U/YYbnUxy-plI/AAAAAAAAOWs/V7Dn0V3K6jM-0Um3GM-CCeI5HgkAzJGVwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2247.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R2xbgOaLC_U/YYbnUxy-plI/AAAAAAAAOWs/V7Dn0V3K6jM-0Um3GM-CCeI5HgkAzJGVwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2247.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">While shucking corn Nate is</div><div style="text-align: center;">pointing out the porch-Robin's nest.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">On the 21st Jan and Andrei drove and met Trista at Seneca Falls:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jRQ08N4P0uk/YYboFVHQcpI/AAAAAAAAOW0/hOWjvA5O8fccBm1zjLS6H-_yRTWsNjg0ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1762.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jRQ08N4P0uk/YYboFVHQcpI/AAAAAAAAOW0/hOWjvA5O8fccBm1zjLS6H-_yRTWsNjg0ACLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_1762.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p></div>Lew and Jan Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00582659155240769648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30887649.post-53921925373036361642021-09-12T09:23:00.004-04:002023-07-31T13:37:41.860-04:00Raindrop Miscellaneous MODS&Fixes<p> Lyn Brown, one of the Faceborg Group Bushwhackers, reminded me that I'm not done describing work we have done on Raindrop, the Bushwhacker Plus 15FK. Hence this catch-all Post so here goes with no particular order.</p><p>Oh! Lew performed the first MOD fifteen minutes after we pulled in the driveway. That absurd backboard thingy across the back end of the bed had to be gone soonest:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XRblRAeAKyc/YWLbHYezgKI/AAAAAAAAOOY/8YDQS3aAdK4t_75Zph7RaY8-npd6kBrkQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1705.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XRblRAeAKyc/YWLbHYezgKI/AAAAAAAAOOY/8YDQS3aAdK4t_75Zph7RaY8-npd6kBrkQCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_1705.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p>Much better:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6e_vaZ3_n1Y/YWLbRAM-QrI/AAAAAAAAOOc/qN_3UBe4UPICQpPPcrJeEJPyOyR0-GVHgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1707.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6e_vaZ3_n1Y/YWLbRAM-QrI/AAAAAAAAOOc/qN_3UBe4UPICQpPPcrJeEJPyOyR0-GVHgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1707.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>When using shore power why not use a quiet smooth electric heater? Indeed, so we installed a permanently mounted and hard-wired Broan 1500W 120VAC heater. Amazon haz 'em:</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Broan-Heater-Grille-Adjustable-Thermostat/dp/B0002YTLBI/ref=sr_1_2?crid=IYX8IWDQM2W3&keywords=broan+wall+heater&qid=1636217204&sprefix=Broan+%2Caps%2C206&sr=8-2" target="_blank">Broan model 174 wall heater</a><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Aity01eU0JM/YYayrZQNrkI/AAAAAAAAOTU/p-gb9TMo_fAIrH-kqVYjcsyUKTXzbgJggCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2316.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Aity01eU0JM/YYayrZQNrkI/AAAAAAAAOTU/p-gb9TMo_fAIrH-kqVYjcsyUKTXzbgJggCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2316.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iwXPXJsd0co/YYay8znvZPI/AAAAAAAAOTc/hU361tleUlgqoMbjDLWSK91ZgZMldrLxACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2372.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iwXPXJsd0co/YYay8znvZPI/AAAAAAAAOTc/hU361tleUlgqoMbjDLWSK91ZgZMldrLxACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2372.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 24px;">One additional detail. The installation manual calls for 6" clearance from the floor and our install provides just 3". As such the floor in front of the heater gets warm because the louvers on the grill are aimed downward. I bent each louver straight so air flow is now horizontal.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 24px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 24px;">And one further detail. </span><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 24px; text-align: center;">Lew ran a piece of Romex from the new heater to a junction with the A/C circuit (it being a safe bet no one will run the two together). The yellow Romex is from the AC breaker panel to the A/C outlet. The white Romex is routed under the bathroom and around the corner to the heater.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3LSa72PQ6KE/YYaz3qE_-NI/AAAAAAAAOTk/20IP9SjMmJoGz8LCTXWTc_E8JwHDv09LwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1862.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3LSa72PQ6KE/YYaz3qE_-NI/AAAAAAAAOTk/20IP9SjMmJoGz8LCTXWTc_E8JwHDv09LwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1862.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 24px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 24px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 24px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 24px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><p>These TTs come equipped with stabilizer jacks on the rear corners only and experience has taught us you need all the stabilization you can get so Lew went shopping for a pair of OEM style B.A.L. stabilizer jacks. Early in the Summer pandemic shortages meant paying a fortune to an eBay merchant but Bezos now has them back in stock (albeit still for a princely sum):</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/BAL-23026-Tent-Trailer-Stabilizer/dp/B000V9ATEW/ref=sr_1_22?crid=39AKHCI25IOX5&dchild=1&keywords=bal+leveler+for+pop+up+camper&qid=1633864705&sprefix=BAL+%2Caps%2C199&sr=8-22">https://www.amazon.com/BAL-23026-Tent-Trailer-Stabilizer/dp/B000V9ATEW/ref=sr_1_22?crid=39AKHCI25IOX5&dchild=1&keywords=bal+leveler+for+pop+up+camper&qid=1633864705&sprefix=BAL+%2Caps%2C199&sr=8-22</a><br /></p><p>Here they are installed. A nice sharp drill bit is an asset because the frame is some high-tensile-strength alloy:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_ayjDoUGoQk/YWLMwkMZKcI/AAAAAAAAONk/Ot19mX1Bftoej7xxI6DfD3dQQtPXtTENwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1961.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_ayjDoUGoQk/YWLMwkMZKcI/AAAAAAAAONk/Ot19mX1Bftoej7xxI6DfD3dQQtPXtTENwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1961.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e4Izm6wXM5k/YWLQvcw8cKI/AAAAAAAAONs/PQ7RrhIFhpkp0HcL_bZw2YtGLcYOFz7HQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1960.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e4Izm6wXM5k/YWLQvcw8cKI/AAAAAAAAONs/PQ7RrhIFhpkp0HcL_bZw2YtGLcYOFz7HQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1960.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>These trailers come with a single step and because they are built with high ground-clearance the first step is a big one ...... too big for us Olds. Bezos to the rescue, a two-step direct bolt-on replacement that took few minutes to swap out. </p><p>Holy price-gouging, Batman! Again, available for a princely sum:</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Stromberg-Carlson-SMFP-2100-Manual-Flexco-24/dp/B00T36HGYK/ref=sr_1_11?crid=14ZCQ7Y183FX&keywords=Stromberg-Carlson+sfmp2100&qid=1690824183&sprefix=stromberg-carlson+sfmp2100%2Caps%2C479&sr=8-11">https://www.amazon.com/Stromberg-Carlson-SMFP-2100-Manual-Flexco-24/dp/B00T36HGYK/ref=sr_1_11?crid=14ZCQ7Y183FX&keywords=Stromberg-Carlson+sfmp2100&qid=1690824183&sprefix=stromberg-carlson+sfmp2100%2Caps%2C479&sr=8-11</a><br /></p><p>And here it is:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ndJM7S0gbPU/YWLSsAKFYPI/AAAAAAAAON0/GI1fdoytBhgf3rpJsZmJKhk_lxqRgRuVQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2006.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ndJM7S0gbPU/YWLSsAKFYPI/AAAAAAAAON0/GI1fdoytBhgf3rpJsZmJKhk_lxqRgRuVQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2006.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e_1dTEV93Zs/YWLS1-zFCBI/AAAAAAAAON4/V1QZoeipvvcBQqUOrY67zebI3H8i4fZ-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2008.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e_1dTEV93Zs/YWLS1-zFCBI/AAAAAAAAON4/V1QZoeipvvcBQqUOrY67zebI3H8i4fZ-ACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2008.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Although cute the OEM window blinds are NOT light-tight so they and the absurdly heavy valences had to go. Jan whipped up a pair of quilted simple roll-up window covers (with a layer of ironing-board insulation in the center):</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4FL4QRHoL1U/YWLT2IFFd6I/AAAAAAAAOOA/vOJnwaAqBvE9Y7oqjwjHiYS31PZLgeh6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2349.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4FL4QRHoL1U/YWLT2IFFd6I/AAAAAAAAOOA/vOJnwaAqBvE9Y7oqjwjHiYS31PZLgeh6QCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2349.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9ZaXhWUVPiE/YWLUCh9lRPI/AAAAAAAAOOE/sJRMaRJToU0BM2CryQ8WlcUrUBsuXkPywCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2348.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9ZaXhWUVPiE/YWLUCh9lRPI/AAAAAAAAOOE/sJRMaRJToU0BM2CryQ8WlcUrUBsuXkPywCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2348.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>And along these same lines the door window received a [removable] quilt-art light-blocker as well:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cgCn_hGU42A/YWLUbM7gK9I/AAAAAAAAOOQ/dWSSGHWz7WsU-otGnfQ5SuDoEDddKTmhwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1966.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cgCn_hGU42A/YWLUbM7gK9I/AAAAAAAAOOQ/dWSSGHWz7WsU-otGnfQ5SuDoEDddKTmhwCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_1966.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>We purchased a 50AH LiFePO4 "Lithium" battery and installed it under the bed. This 12# battery produces the same number of AH output as a so-called 100AH SLA battery because LA batteries must not be discharged more than 50% to avoid battery damage.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig5S1liYgXgeQF0V-2MGN8m0DAJxY0wEwq8ABZO_pPE5s3vDpeaku1zNW78EfoZN2sG0tFrCr1MFMK5nNX7xG2SOXwdOKUnzhvjMt067O75On0m6yI2RVXIlEgeJGegYFnxg6pZdLVA80DeecRPeNvii9340eqm5ek5VphMjBJKkadT_tNuA/s4032/IMG_2837%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig5S1liYgXgeQF0V-2MGN8m0DAJxY0wEwq8ABZO_pPE5s3vDpeaku1zNW78EfoZN2sG0tFrCr1MFMK5nNX7xG2SOXwdOKUnzhvjMt067O75On0m6yI2RVXIlEgeJGegYFnxg6pZdLVA80DeecRPeNvii9340eqm5ek5VphMjBJKkadT_tNuA/w640-h480/IMG_2837%20(1).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We've since added a second [identical] battery in parallel so now have an effective 80AH capacity:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8uCGlDf0TZ7Ohhf9P4BsakuidZFvFJW5dwn9DWErPet69u0T1xcXoP5U0CppL4nhp1uUtmGqR1uW-LatxsC3iL98VNI5tIVoO4sWgdzvQRabQkJW_Y7I8dBozRPZ6jOl3YxiIoCuG84PspB4X3KkOzg2qd9m9sF7PXs8z_7aV6UZ8YTXKKOPj/s4032/IMG_3762.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8uCGlDf0TZ7Ohhf9P4BsakuidZFvFJW5dwn9DWErPet69u0T1xcXoP5U0CppL4nhp1uUtmGqR1uW-LatxsC3iL98VNI5tIVoO4sWgdzvQRabQkJW_Y7I8dBozRPZ6jOl3YxiIoCuG84PspB4X3KkOzg2qd9m9sF7PXs8z_7aV6UZ8YTXKKOPj/w640-h480/IMG_3762.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p>A battery circuit-breaker/disconnect-switch is part of the installation:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TvPLDBpFMIA/YWLc-m3vqLI/AAAAAAAAOOw/Ws3Ugz2lwkEj-sfJp2UZdJ-OmsLxTPooQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1940.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TvPLDBpFMIA/YWLc-m3vqLI/AAAAAAAAOOw/Ws3Ugz2lwkEj-sfJp2UZdJ-OmsLxTPooQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1940.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Removing the OEM battery from the tongue created space for secure storage of the Stinky Slinky (RV sewage drain hose) and a pile of "Lego-block" leveling blocks:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OupjHeAHxG8/YWLiE-_ewDI/AAAAAAAAOPw/0IvWlVS16uwuUXMfpJWr513xcJDD2jbdgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2324.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OupjHeAHxG8/YWLiE-_ewDI/AAAAAAAAOPw/0IvWlVS16uwuUXMfpJWr513xcJDD2jbdgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2324.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WWHk2YP9z2k/YWLiX9KIqTI/AAAAAAAAOP4/VveciJ4WRuM2z53RhG-QzjhMNrCUqiRgQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2320.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WWHk2YP9z2k/YWLiX9KIqTI/AAAAAAAAOP4/VveciJ4WRuM2z53RhG-QzjhMNrCUqiRgQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2320.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>A 5" vinyl fencepost cover (painted black) was used for sewer hose storage:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VXEh1rIAkTs/YWLim_vgKwI/AAAAAAAAOP8/Ak9UVR5FROMYO9ssGwxhvgB1YmUlCI-OgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2326.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VXEh1rIAkTs/YWLim_vgKwI/AAAAAAAAOP8/Ak9UVR5FROMYO9ssGwxhvgB1YmUlCI-OgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2326.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Early on Lew discovered this kink in the freshwater tank vent pipe which would make filling the tank difficult if not impossible:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aKK926KXFJw/YWLdsTnRZXI/AAAAAAAAOO4/ZuPnzZ-OP_kEPMwKAHH9Bk2YiZf0iMF9QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1839.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aKK926KXFJw/YWLdsTnRZXI/AAAAAAAAOO4/ZuPnzZ-OP_kEPMwKAHH9Bk2YiZf0iMF9QCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1839.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>A fix was done while doing the bathroom MOD. Two 90 degree brass elbows were employed, one visible from underneath:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MMzNErpjwm0/YWLeLIbiU4I/AAAAAAAAOPA/dzkbUz9_vjshW_nCGtVwzfEuH2JP_UIQACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2177.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MMzNErpjwm0/YWLeLIbiU4I/AAAAAAAAOPA/dzkbUz9_vjshW_nCGtVwzfEuH2JP_UIQACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2177.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>And one visible inside under the toilet (the white hose a bit below center in the pic). Oh, and visible as well in this pic is the cover over the OEM blackwater tank outlet:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7PZq0NfDEz4/YWLewDOLBRI/AAAAAAAAOPI/Iz05D01OGCsDTgvUun3f6EmdSqv3JAsGwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2171.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7PZq0NfDEz4/YWLewDOLBRI/AAAAAAAAOPI/Iz05D01OGCsDTgvUun3f6EmdSqv3JAsGwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2171.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>The removal of the black tank meant removing all the exterior underneath plumbing seen in this pic:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-661VCljJCVU/YWLfutR4AlI/AAAAAAAAOPQ/_vq6fzV2dbs9cYXnsIc-vH3I0JFFnaZFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1792.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-661VCljJCVU/YWLfutR4AlI/AAAAAAAAOPQ/_vq6fzV2dbs9cYXnsIc-vH3I0JFFnaZFQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1792.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Theis remaining 1.5" drain line from the gray-water tank:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MP49ySDVWVQ/YWLgJ-d0hwI/AAAAAAAAOPY/2feSwsb10Y8uaeiezs2MhsssdZ6V3HC6wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1790.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MP49ySDVWVQ/YWLgJ-d0hwI/AAAAAAAAOPY/2feSwsb10Y8uaeiezs2MhsssdZ6V3HC6wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1790.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Was fitted with a valve and a 3" RV hose fitting:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lq2SFnF0QK8/YWLgfh7DeDI/AAAAAAAAOPg/x83EhHLi1w00MwQrabMexj_uu7BhplNPACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2178.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lq2SFnF0QK8/YWLgfh7DeDI/AAAAAAAAOPg/x83EhHLi1w00MwQrabMexj_uu7BhplNPACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2178.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SKSDTJ3sT_c/YWLgwigJBDI/AAAAAAAAOPo/BmWd4WMKPXgH8Kc0hzmfvcdzLPiZ-kQiQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2350.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SKSDTJ3sT_c/YWLgwigJBDI/AAAAAAAAOPo/BmWd4WMKPXgH8Kc0hzmfvcdzLPiZ-kQiQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2350.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><br /><p><br /></p><p>As-built the sink-trap uses up much of the storage space under teh sink so Lew fixed that with a waterless trap, again courtesy Bezos Inc:</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/HEPVO-BV1BUB112-1-1-2-Trap/dp/B00NLMPLDU/ref=sr_1_2?crid=31GS1PHC051YL&dchild=1&keywords=waterless+sink+trap&qid=1633871240&sprefix=waterless+sink%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-2">https://www.amazon.com/HEPVO-BV1BUB112-1-1-2-Trap/dp/B00NLMPLDU/ref=sr_1_2?crid=31GS1PHC051YL&dchild=1&keywords=waterless+sink+trap&qid=1633871240&sprefix=waterless+sink%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-2</a><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Before pic (also showing the Camco water filter we installed):</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4zLDFuTSgCc/YWLl48IDI0I/AAAAAAAAOQY/XgA0kMpn-YUiW5nRvWfDFbJOkPapNke7gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1944.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4zLDFuTSgCc/YWLl48IDI0I/AAAAAAAAOQY/XgA0kMpn-YUiW5nRvWfDFbJOkPapNke7gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1944.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>After pic showing much improved storage space:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ERvDKPiiPRo/YWLmWHP0vFI/AAAAAAAAOQg/gfGzjD5Rx_k-BMPmeYC3aWGq1PgHqpHWgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2288.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ERvDKPiiPRo/YWLmWHP0vFI/AAAAAAAAOQg/gfGzjD5Rx_k-BMPmeYC3aWGq1PgHqpHWgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2288.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Speakina' storage, Lew changed the cupboard hinges so the door opens upward against the ceiling instead of sideways as a head-banger (voice of experience speaking) Also a shelf added for organizing purposes:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HtCC3ie516Q/YWLnCgrY8rI/AAAAAAAAOQo/-5OaXITk1pckjlgPos_kiirZvkOKZPizACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1883.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HtCC3ie516Q/YWLnCgrY8rI/AAAAAAAAOQo/-5OaXITk1pckjlgPos_kiirZvkOKZPizACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1883.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> Speakina' shelves we added (and stained to match) the shelf to the right of the cupboard. It is attached with blocks screwed into the cupboard and into the rear OEM shelf:<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hyxUZfhODaY/YWLn4kLVGLI/AAAAAAAAOQw/cJppI509lCkZy37-ulQrsnByZ8Q7InBtwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1934.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hyxUZfhODaY/YWLn4kLVGLI/AAAAAAAAOQw/cJppI509lCkZy37-ulQrsnByZ8Q7InBtwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1934.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dxR-O9IW3ps/YWLoBHwA3hI/AAAAAAAAOQ0/ur2Z9ZN0-g4WDKSGAIqmhPSFYPt80iE5ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1933.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dxR-O9IW3ps/YWLoBHwA3hI/AAAAAAAAOQ0/ur2Z9ZN0-g4WDKSGAIqmhPSFYPt80iE5ACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1933.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Speakina' organizing, these Sterilite containers fit through the outside access door:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TLqS-yOa41s/YWLoci0RyUI/AAAAAAAAORA/no9ng1qxE5oh82goM7PzdAk8Lq74gZ0sgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2080.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TLqS-yOa41s/YWLoci0RyUI/AAAAAAAAORA/no9ng1qxE5oh82goM7PzdAk8Lq74gZ0sgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2080.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p> </p><p>Another storage solution. The passenger-side bench lid is removable to gain access to storage space underneath. Lew screwed the lid down for strength (because cantilevering the bed extension) and created a hinged lid for better access to the storage. This pic shows the hinged lid and the cantilevered extensions to the original bench, both width ways and lengthways:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I63nwYEkYpQ/YWMhaIWQH0I/AAAAAAAAORI/T0Ax133MnTMiEvD_9OJ0zw-hB3uPJkdvQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2358.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I63nwYEkYpQ/YWMhaIWQH0I/AAAAAAAAORI/T0Ax133MnTMiEvD_9OJ0zw-hB3uPJkdvQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2358.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, that's it for now but it is a work in progress, this matter of getting the most for the least. </p><p><br /></p>Lew and Jan Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00582659155240769648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30887649.post-39160606017700853252021-09-10T19:34:00.003-04:002022-12-30T13:42:05.371-05:00Raindrop Shakedown or Learning by Doing<p> Or Life in Eighty Square Feet. This new "Tiny Home" is <b>really</b> tiny and every little thing must be just right in order for two [old] people and a dog to live in it. Yes, accommodations peculiar to aging are especially part of the picture. Plus RoVing in the age of Covid has added it's own strictures&needs. Being who we are we pretty much dove in, bought this thing and then went to work making it fit us like a shoe.</p><p> </p><p><b>STAGE ONE MODS, THE BATHROOM:</b></p><p>Our first trip to Pittsburgh illuminated some problems. For us Covid means NO public bathrooms so Raindrop's bathroom got a workout .... and bugs were revealed. Five days&nights saw the 8.5gal toilet tank full to the brim SO a definite limitation to boon docking/driveway-mooching. Being a "wet bath" (with the toilet tank under the toilet above the floor) meant the toilet seat was too far above the floor for petite-sized Jan to sit comfortably. Additionally, as delivered the toilet wobbled about like a canoe on waves. Also, the [waterproof] plastic bathroom walls were poorly attached and caulked. Once back home Lew went to work.</p><p>The first task was exposing the cause of the "wobble" problem. </p><p><br /></p><p>Toilet and floor removed:<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F7iqH_I1jKU/YWHv7tT5iHI/AAAAAAAAOJw/oFVnLbOoUsQPwLyFr44BF7QuiSwghKU1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2134.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F7iqH_I1jKU/YWHv7tT5iHI/AAAAAAAAOJw/oFVnLbOoUsQPwLyFr44BF7QuiSwghKU1wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2134.jpeg" width="640" /></a></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>The toilet flange was simply screwed to those two pieces of loose plywood resting on top the black tank thus revealing the reason for it wobbling about. The black plastic tank is thin flexible polyethylene plastic, NOT suitable for load-bearing:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwdoaE1ns8bnMYSYctJtTj64gp-raMzQewNGucLEH9AJ1shB86RJwmL0IX8hBmcIrYdtdFFHDmNlpE' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div>With zero clearance between the black tank and the [outside] wall there was no way to support and stabilize a plywood deck (for the toilet to rest on and be attached to) between the plastic shower floor and the black tank SOOO the decision was made to gut the bathroom and fix it all.</div><div><br /></div><div>Down to the floor:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UTIXqEHmPUQ/YWHxmAbowBI/AAAAAAAAOJ4/I207nfancok9kK-vOUJOFRDzuM_89JAfACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2145.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UTIXqEHmPUQ/YWHxmAbowBI/AAAAAAAAOJ4/I207nfancok9kK-vOUJOFRDzuM_89JAfACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2145.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>False-wall removed:<br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sw33gVzsf6k/YWHxyJD6JMI/AAAAAAAAOJ8/-Y4QRIN-BO8nAyUTuv0IxmqvxZwx8brbwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2153.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sw33gVzsf6k/YWHxyJD6JMI/AAAAAAAAOJ8/-Y4QRIN-BO8nAyUTuv0IxmqvxZwx8brbwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_2153.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Lew had figured out that a solution to the several issues would be a home-made macerating toilet emptying into the under-floor 19 gal gray water tank, (the same setup in principle as used almost universally by boat people). Because boat toilets pump flush-water from overboard a land-locked version using on-board pressurized water for flushing was designed and constructed.</p><p><br /></p><p>A standard RV toilet was used with an off-the-shelf Jabsco Macerator Pump (we've used one of these for years to pump wastewater through a garden hose) mounted beneath and communicating with the toilet outlet:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cNdR4Tcjp9M/YWH05LcHKhI/AAAAAAAAOKI/zSOgQKRFinEgEJh9TsLKTEuoyF2V42RqwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2128.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cNdR4Tcjp9M/YWH05LcHKhI/AAAAAAAAOKI/zSOgQKRFinEgEJh9TsLKTEuoyF2V42RqwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2128.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eeZrA-FiVt0/YWH0_nVlfuI/AAAAAAAAOKM/fOsknEu8f-4nPfmZWo7cDfrkkpFhPcewACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2130.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eeZrA-FiVt0/YWH0_nVlfuI/AAAAAAAAOKM/fOsknEu8f-4nPfmZWo7cDfrkkpFhPcewACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2130.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4-Ru0NVcSbY/YWH1H0t-GAI/AAAAAAAAOKQ/B8C14eK0FFwSLoVw8FwCSoicJum3WHSPgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2133.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4-Ru0NVcSbY/YWH1H0t-GAI/AAAAAAAAOKQ/B8C14eK0FFwSLoVw8FwCSoicJum3WHSPgCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_2133.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Suitable blocking was attached to the floor and the toilet/floor/pump assembly was mounted to it. The black pipe lower left communicates with the under-floor graywater tank:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KlQY2uxysYg/YWH2kK1iHiI/AAAAAAAAOKg/Q_JdaJlPSvEBWmIniYS47BItP---Z2kKACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2172.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KlQY2uxysYg/YWH2kK1iHiI/AAAAAAAAOKg/Q_JdaJlPSvEBWmIniYS47BItP---Z2kKACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2172.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Not yet coupled in this pic, the 1" clear vinyl hose connects the macerator pump to the fitting seen lower left in the pic, thus connecting the toilet to the 19gal tank under the floor:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_DovNi9Hbcg/YWH2uNwNZWI/AAAAAAAAOKk/oB6Y6UfjEZMXK7QIlT4E5KpKGIHXHSIAgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2173.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_DovNi9Hbcg/YWH2uNwNZWI/AAAAAAAAOKk/oB6Y6UfjEZMXK7QIlT4E5KpKGIHXHSIAgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2173.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div> </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-idRD6qRFYpQ/YWH4Xm_u1jI/AAAAAAAAOKw/xdPJ849rGX8005m8Uc012sq24jnI3_CJwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2174.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-idRD6qRFYpQ/YWH4Xm_u1jI/AAAAAAAAOKw/xdPJ849rGX8005m8Uc012sq24jnI3_CJwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2174.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>An old bifold closet door was trimmed down and repurposed as a bathroom door:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6U81AjdMPEM/YWH5UYDzGQI/AAAAAAAAOK4/Q16S3yTOls43ht3fhLnYJ_UsNwTCKCjoACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2192.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6U81AjdMPEM/YWH5UYDzGQI/AAAAAAAAOK4/Q16S3yTOls43ht3fhLnYJ_UsNwTCKCjoACLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_2192.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-da1pApQXldg/YWH5di1YKuI/AAAAAAAAOK8/0jwxIedabpEDtseX7YKId4pb_B8FcHNEgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2191.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-da1pApQXldg/YWH5di1YKuI/AAAAAAAAOK8/0jwxIedabpEDtseX7YKId4pb_B8FcHNEgCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_2191.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>It all works beautifully as planned. Before use the toilet bowl is partially filled with water by stepping the pedal partly down. After doing one's business the foot pedal is stepped clear down, which action opens the ball valve flushing the bowl contents into the toilet base whereupon the macerator pump draws and macerates the contents and pumps the effluent into the wastewater tank beneath the floor. This switch activates the pump when the pedal is depressed the last inch:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dSb3zR2oxG0/YWH7BxuiL9I/AAAAAAAAOLI/0_bUZoPiJ-IYql2-qlsNQbSTFd6mV6y1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2204.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dSb3zR2oxG0/YWH7BxuiL9I/AAAAAAAAOLI/0_bUZoPiJ-IYql2-qlsNQbSTFd6mV6y1gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2204.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p> The toilet is now solidly mounted with the seat at a suitable height and nineteen gallons of wastewater storage is available. The plastic walls have been removed and discarded. There is now a storage shelf and a clothes hamper behind the toilet:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ST4gfxsvkwA/YWH9PBCjJ6I/AAAAAAAAOLQ/SMmiCt_FvqUfzRLyvPmmtvAXlL5PDBVYwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2189.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ST4gfxsvkwA/YWH9PBCjJ6I/AAAAAAAAOLQ/SMmiCt_FvqUfzRLyvPmmtvAXlL5PDBVYwCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_2189.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p>As any RoVer knows a commodious clothes hamper is a delightful thing (I can barely reach the bottom):</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8gGefOs9FVY/YWH9wImFC8I/AAAAAAAAOLY/18LsypfWIxACrnZoI5886LRTe8g3unA6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2190.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8gGefOs9FVY/YWH9wImFC8I/AAAAAAAAOLY/18LsypfWIxACrnZoI5886LRTe8g3unA6QCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_2190.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>STAGE TWO MODS, The Bedroom:</b></p><p>Our Pittsburgh friends visited for several days and we used Raindrop as our bedroom. A serious problem evidenced itself. The bed/lounge space measured 78" wide and only 70" long so we had planned to sleep crossways BUT with Lew in front (old-guy nighttime bathroom access) that trapped Jan who at this stage needs the same access. Hmm. Study revealed that removal of the OEM fridge would permit an extension of the bed space enabling the creation of two 32"X78" beds with an [all-important, (remember old-er people with arthritis)] access isle-way between. Oh, in addition there would be a proper bed between our two pillows for Buffy. 😍 So Lew went to work.</p><p><br /></p><p>Out with the fridge and it's cabinet:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Eyp8_36JsTI/YWIChiNPkMI/AAAAAAAAOLg/L-vEHv0Zg-onwMknae8IK9L4bwaWsjOtwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2242.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Eyp8_36JsTI/YWIChiNPkMI/AAAAAAAAOLg/L-vEHv0Zg-onwMknae8IK9L4bwaWsjOtwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2242.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Then covering the fridge exterior vents (secondary benefit of the MOD, no more campfire smoke sneaking inside our living space):</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KN6CU2daBd0/YWIC82t_z7I/AAAAAAAAOLo/iwM6DlFBByUDMdY-Zu_VSYO85KkYb-xhQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2252.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KN6CU2daBd0/YWIC82t_z7I/AAAAAAAAOLo/iwM6DlFBByUDMdY-Zu_VSYO85KkYb-xhQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2252.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Framing was built cantilevering the beds thus providing foot space in these tight quarters (stiff sore feet don't twist about like when one was 18):</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZVAlQuxfCGA/YWIDpZyMBBI/AAAAAAAAOLw/eMStolTDQkEDYlNVcrdHIpt4Vn_Z76lqwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2254.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZVAlQuxfCGA/YWIDpZyMBBI/AAAAAAAAOLw/eMStolTDQkEDYlNVcrdHIpt4Vn_Z76lqwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2254.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ukW7a4bq34E/YWIDyOSWYYI/AAAAAAAAOL0/ExJCMt_NRLMLN64T4xPyQD2hESk8On1UwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2261.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ukW7a4bq34E/YWIDyOSWYYI/AAAAAAAAOL0/ExJCMt_NRLMLN64T4xPyQD2hESk8On1UwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2261.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>We were able to reuse the OEM cushions, a definite plus:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yQm8JMd7V1w/YWIED8KfFjI/AAAAAAAAOMA/Iq6AsOKFK1ATp8q3C6YbC3sB5I-z8nekgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2256.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yQm8JMd7V1w/YWIED8KfFjI/AAAAAAAAOMA/Iq6AsOKFK1ATp8q3C6YbC3sB5I-z8nekgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2256.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Ready for a good night's rest with equal access for all three of us:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ruv8ZXIz7Yg/YWIS7trocuI/AAAAAAAAOMI/NV6Wv7ewcfYZWXnk3vqzHZB3epv6ogY9ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2352.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ruv8ZXIz7Yg/YWIS7trocuI/AAAAAAAAOMI/NV6Wv7ewcfYZWXnk3vqzHZB3epv6ogY9ACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2352.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Lew was able to develop the remaining space where the fridge had been into much-needed [organized] storage; the drawer plus four 10"X11" wicker baskets:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iFszVYGwuTM/YWITUi7K39I/AAAAAAAAOMQ/c40CI7hhJ0shd28j2iNCxY0SvTTLqCChQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2331.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iFszVYGwuTM/YWITUi7K39I/AAAAAAAAOMQ/c40CI7hhJ0shd28j2iNCxY0SvTTLqCChQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2331.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>And reusing the OEM mounting hardware there is even space for a small table large enough for two plates and two glasses:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nUR1OGU0huU/YWIT_GIx0hI/AAAAAAAAOMY/bCN7MVVcG7INOLl-PUhIownYPoWrKv9CQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2304.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nUR1OGU0huU/YWIT_GIx0hI/AAAAAAAAOMY/bCN7MVVcG7INOLl-PUhIownYPoWrKv9CQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2304.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>STAGE THREE MODS, THE KITCHEN:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The OEM microwave oven was removed along with the OEM gas cooktop. The countertop was then raised 4" (to a standard 36" height). Into this space was fitted a 12VDC fridge w/freezer compartment. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKqPnKB-FB2IvvI5SAxxEiJn_QvyjfyWjLyxV6FmTFW5two2VpskmOGSjgL9dezL8PA-47Tq-HzXtka4XfNznRuyJH5aa8-SQUOSKq-9LTDxOH7DmJHKwviIb_gUlCjah-DNGLf0ffDU_dabYkSicMx76SuRlx_Ata-jw_1a9W87jKh3czYw/s1500/61P618n2h2L._AC_SL1500_.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="1500" height="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKqPnKB-FB2IvvI5SAxxEiJn_QvyjfyWjLyxV6FmTFW5two2VpskmOGSjgL9dezL8PA-47Tq-HzXtka4XfNznRuyJH5aa8-SQUOSKq-9LTDxOH7DmJHKwviIb_gUlCjah-DNGLf0ffDU_dabYkSicMx76SuRlx_Ata-jw_1a9W87jKh3czYw/w640-h580/61P618n2h2L._AC_SL1500_.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Amazon haz 'em.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivE_EzpLOdda64f4khr7NwQg6q5EZ_rIuDGCPk8lrtxVU9XGn6KOf6e_0SjgQ-tAli82ODhLZuqj5GOEoO0FCBL3s11kxEy1xRuTmorEQbVMdQumwR8JHZACuWEP4uwjKzhgavyPGbgMHar-hJ-NTpYVY_j1-hQSoFAk8ERaIcbievEtApgw/s4032/IMG_3196.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivE_EzpLOdda64f4khr7NwQg6q5EZ_rIuDGCPk8lrtxVU9XGn6KOf6e_0SjgQ-tAli82ODhLZuqj5GOEoO0FCBL3s11kxEy1xRuTmorEQbVMdQumwR8JHZACuWEP4uwjKzhgavyPGbgMHar-hJ-NTpYVY_j1-hQSoFAk8ERaIcbievEtApgw/w480-h640/IMG_3196.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sausage being made (partially installed)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Finished. The door opens either way without modification. It has a tiny separate freezer compartment.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRO0pLtYoVqq_ta3SzRHnE6Fm1FMoQCV3jSPJqQomfHVgdAHN_QAKpJo8mtmXt0oXZiCMoVWRlmIZp3u5bbqnuNBOatAeFZfMGO6NJkItTzjaSDVilpjkGTgEzCC7_on_nP0Xuh1OxrcXTF_xFWzpBgDydxu7jVEmH2a74NtZpvdnP1fJA-Q/s4032/IMG_3215.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRO0pLtYoVqq_ta3SzRHnE6Fm1FMoQCV3jSPJqQomfHVgdAHN_QAKpJo8mtmXt0oXZiCMoVWRlmIZp3u5bbqnuNBOatAeFZfMGO6NJkItTzjaSDVilpjkGTgEzCC7_on_nP0Xuh1OxrcXTF_xFWzpBgDydxu7jVEmH2a74NtZpvdnP1fJA-Q/w640-h480/IMG_3215.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Without the OEM gas cooktop we use an electric induction cooker, a single-burner gas camping stove, or both.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoFAIbwO3QthbJeZBrW7pwT1lt3aq3TnrDBBwCz-FEx_AFQHORY7TRzACkBVE2N-GDgOticdN4oGisvPTdxQNU6jU1RTp-KbO8VYTk6_51h1h6IHVTiG_t1zCaSvVNGnzUFTygYMJE5y_KqFx6gzZ6aSKAyAMTPau7faWyaC35FCI5R9X8Dg/s4032/IMG_3216.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoFAIbwO3QthbJeZBrW7pwT1lt3aq3TnrDBBwCz-FEx_AFQHORY7TRzACkBVE2N-GDgOticdN4oGisvPTdxQNU6jU1RTp-KbO8VYTk6_51h1h6IHVTiG_t1zCaSvVNGnzUFTygYMJE5y_KqFx6gzZ6aSKAyAMTPau7faWyaC35FCI5R9X8Dg/w640-h480/IMG_3216.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These induction cookers are the bees knees </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">for camping [with shore power] because</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> all the heat goes into the pan with almost no waste heat.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhJzP5r_XI5EgJ0DNSL2K6jC7iBkMdCVJi65vhzt9Zja-oMs6TuvBKRgQZ60xyxApoyo97ypLBRvANRZVJETL6vUo3MOILaxP370UmUESGMNA8fLUbglNyDAZ61pMGxpLeTcl2KatWtp4MbKrDwcG88pk5_guHy3pfC-3BDPZtqdHvlDq1Hg/s4032/IMG_2341.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhJzP5r_XI5EgJ0DNSL2K6jC7iBkMdCVJi65vhzt9Zja-oMs6TuvBKRgQZ60xyxApoyo97ypLBRvANRZVJETL6vUo3MOILaxP370UmUESGMNA8fLUbglNyDAZ61pMGxpLeTcl2KatWtp4MbKrDwcG88pk5_guHy3pfC-3BDPZtqdHvlDq1Hg/w640-h480/IMG_2341.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Inexpensive and lightweight, these little stoves</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> have click-ignitors and run on </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">either butane or propane.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p>Oh, and while we were at it Lew removed that obnoxious head-cracker "cupboard" above the countertop, seen at top right in this pic:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ChdJzDo0y0g/YYa2LejKZFI/AAAAAAAAOTs/k8O6TUTDCRslwIbgthPlz4umnhXgcVzPwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2182.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ChdJzDo0y0g/YYa2LejKZFI/AAAAAAAAOTs/k8O6TUTDCRslwIbgthPlz4umnhXgcVzPwCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_2182.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><br /><p><br /></p></div>Lew and Jan Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00582659155240769648noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30887649.post-34428795340660517642021-04-12T14:27:00.000-04:002021-11-06T16:59:56.683-04:00A New Chapter Begins: Travels with Raindrop<p> We had not had a working RV for almost two years and were feeling the loss, sooooo ..... Jan started watching RV dealer websites for a suitable small travel trailer. We even looked at one in November but it was sold and the dealer had no idea when he would have another on hand. In this time of Pandemic people see RVs as a safe way to travel (carrying your kitchen, bedroom and bathroom right with you) and everything sells quickly.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ISm9buQd1uo/YMOWgIuizXI/AAAAAAAAOEk/GRwN3GimqYMeFtawYMBYvDshuD4YZ0HVACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1477.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ISm9buQd1uo/YMOWgIuizXI/AAAAAAAAOEk/GRwN3GimqYMeFtawYMBYvDshuD4YZ0HVACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1477.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>Then on the last day of March the dealer in Rutland listed on his website a 15-footer as being available. So the next morning we took off and lo-and-behold they did indeed have one for sale, a Braxton Creek Bushwhacker Plus 15FK for $12500. We wrote a check on the spot. Backstory: He received eight units from BC and all were pre-sold. The customer's financing fell through so he listed it on his website. We grabbed.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kFLE501RQzs/YMOX5-4FCRI/AAAAAAAAOEs/CWpK92avQ9I3gIBEYrRxYQWfHmY70ZLygCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1794.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kFLE501RQzs/YMOX5-4FCRI/AAAAAAAAOEs/CWpK92avQ9I3gIBEYrRxYQWfHmY70ZLygCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1794.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"It's ours!!"</div><div style="text-align: center;">(And NOT an April fools joke)</div><div style="text-align: center;">Built in Shipshewana, In.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Back at home we considered our position and decided we really needed to update from our 2013 Ford Escape with 125K mi on it so we bought a 2019 Escape with tow package. It was imported from Nova Scotia with 9600mi on the odometer. This car has most of the toys and we love and use most of them from heated seats to backup camera to in-dash GPS to electric seats and mirrors with memory.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">So on April 9 we drove to Rutland and hitched up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MYfo8p89jf8/YMOiSsPKblI/AAAAAAAAOE0/ZPhQZgHH-aYOGam-B9OqC0fWKBIjuCqLgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1817.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MYfo8p89jf8/YMOiSsPKblI/AAAAAAAAOE0/ZPhQZgHH-aYOGam-B9OqC0fWKBIjuCqLgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1817.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And took off for home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-07sN41W9ySw/YMOidt_hBLI/AAAAAAAAOE4/Fw6utpoRH8ofBI403_Nyd3ONt7lVonLUwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1819.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-07sN41W9ySw/YMOidt_hBLI/AAAAAAAAOE4/Fw6utpoRH8ofBI403_Nyd3ONt7lVonLUwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1819.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">What a pretty sight this new rig makes.</div><div style="text-align: center;">AND it tows beautifully!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lew worried about</div><div style="text-align: center;">growing older and towing</div><div style="text-align: center;">and wanted the easiest possible tow</div><div style="text-align: center;">that the three of us could "live" in.</div><div style="text-align: center;">There is a 17 ft version of this TT that is 500# heavier</div><div style="text-align: center;">...... but the dealer had just this 15 footer so the decision was simple.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p>Lew and Jan Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00582659155240769648noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30887649.post-12058860417100293892021-04-01T11:02:00.014-04:002021-12-19T17:43:32.990-05:00RECENT TWEAKS to the PLYWOOD EMPIRE ROUTE<p>The elimination of one siding simplified East End trackwork without detracting from operation. I had to cut down the mountain a bit and move Oil Creek a bit (again) in order to lengthen one of the remaining two sidings (to provide adequate space for switching) but I'm pleased with the result, both esthetically and operationally.</p><p><br /></p><p>This siding was eliminated:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhX0atDN826jykpg4W1J80e9fCrYVYCl5XfVXRsJIpSQUuwdhwD-_OgLh4HIYj3GO4MYoEs0_kUqMmXe9JyYfklZMpJ-8QRHem2KwUhzc_M5WLRKQ70VMA2Q6pGXvvruk25GA37HX0THChi3bKrg7P5cXvFHI4mJvvZHmz8wenDTd5C9PaEjA=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhX0atDN826jykpg4W1J80e9fCrYVYCl5XfVXRsJIpSQUuwdhwD-_OgLh4HIYj3GO4MYoEs0_kUqMmXe9JyYfklZMpJ-8QRHem2KwUhzc_M5WLRKQ70VMA2Q6pGXvvruk25GA37HX0THChi3bKrg7P5cXvFHI4mJvvZHmz8wenDTd5C9PaEjA=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x2N0jITTsJ8/YYaXUKp6ZyI/AAAAAAAAOSc/khTaBXZv2tEj4bG3jZD6wqbeyJH-QIUqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2534.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x2N0jITTsJ8/YYaXUKp6ZyI/AAAAAAAAOSc/khTaBXZv2tEj4bG3jZD6wqbeyJH-QIUqgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2534.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Overall view now. </div><div style="text-align: center;">The control panel on the facia operates the</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Scrapyard Lionel Electromagnetic</div><div style="text-align: center;">traveling Gantry Crane.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g_Rv5IqRY7M/YYaXg3lhLZI/AAAAAAAAOSg/dzUb5lV16UM7T1PEo1QljSsk1zIZnUlsQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2535.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g_Rv5IqRY7M/YYaXg3lhLZI/AAAAAAAAOSg/dzUb5lV16UM7T1PEo1QljSsk1zIZnUlsQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2535.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There are four customer spots, three in this pic.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Rear left to right the Buckwheat granary,</div><div style="text-align: center;">and a tank rack for the Sunoco fuel oil dealer.</div><div style="text-align: center;">In foreground is the Scrapyard siding</div><div style="text-align: center;">which has switching space for six cars. In this pic</div><div style="text-align: center;">the orange covered hopper is being stored off-spot </div><div style="text-align: center;">and the Mill Gon is being loaded with scrap steel.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yKb-mP6udtU/YYaX3FANOlI/AAAAAAAAOSs/HuVnkJYk5rQ3Rwp8HFwo1FoU65bHqmifwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2536.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yKb-mP6udtU/YYaX3FANOlI/AAAAAAAAOSs/HuVnkJYk5rQ3Rwp8HFwo1FoU65bHqmifwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2536.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The fourth customer car spot is at the end of</div><div style="text-align: center;">the scrapyard siding. I need to add a building flat</div><div style="text-align: center;"> loading dock there for a boxcar.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ilZSrUOyfJ4/YYaZteXYg2I/AAAAAAAAOS0/Tw50a2kM7VAh7ybSOge0_EjnP--EnsbYACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2538.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ilZSrUOyfJ4/YYaZteXYg2I/AAAAAAAAOS0/Tw50a2kM7VAh7ybSOge0_EjnP--EnsbYACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2538.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The bridge over Oil Creek.</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DFwSgPM3Ngg/YYaaJG5MYMI/AAAAAAAAOS8/ANZ1riRIQ2o8Pfm66RkVUlQXx5koa28-wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2539.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DFwSgPM3Ngg/YYaaJG5MYMI/AAAAAAAAOS8/ANZ1riRIQ2o8Pfm66RkVUlQXx5koa28-wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2539.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I like the forced perspective in the foreground photo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rDWBd0_Pysk/YYabjTvUO2I/AAAAAAAAOTE/f8GK6zwCPgAF8ebEteodMPG2gdkogIqLgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2542.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rDWBd0_Pysk/YYabjTvUO2I/AAAAAAAAOTE/f8GK6zwCPgAF8ebEteodMPG2gdkogIqLgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2542.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Looking South from the mountainside above the tunnel.</div><div style="text-align: center;">That tower is a leftover from</div><div style="text-align: center;">a busy past when this railroad</div><div style="text-align: center;">was a Mainline.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The West End siding has three customer car spots at the Paint Factory, a [resin] tank rack, a [boxcar] loading dock and a spot for a covered hopper of titanium dioxide pigment. Space is available for storage of two more cars.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioo2fZ_ZsFtRMHsn_6AyGYX_hdiPWAiIA3sPnn_kJWihaU9vevpxhy-XnxtsEQSx_2tFi78pCZRC22yeWRweUM7Apx6AxvPgQ801fFQp2V9nfhcyfOX6dUMctmFDCYf-dkKgYSp6gcELx8Bb9eMBZc5eH6Uc0kPevY0oAXWNoL0GEC2dg53Q=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioo2fZ_ZsFtRMHsn_6AyGYX_hdiPWAiIA3sPnn_kJWihaU9vevpxhy-XnxtsEQSx_2tFi78pCZRC22yeWRweUM7Apx6AxvPgQ801fFQp2V9nfhcyfOX6dUMctmFDCYf-dkKgYSp6gcELx8Bb9eMBZc5eH6Uc0kPevY0oAXWNoL0GEC2dg53Q=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrs_a7JWv1-bM8LoMzeEkHOzdR66Zc9oFKaWnVD9SqHA3bpiKBvCDGVoTOHQYG9GMpiYRTy6YMBCaBJKds1X7ju32CXn6ehyXJW_bBXJ7CMSxOvQEIlF9_V4uEm6rShNh9JkKdQKNQNAzdOWsbZjo41jB84vVy6T_GL1D1JBknw5Evb5_b4Q=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrs_a7JWv1-bM8LoMzeEkHOzdR66Zc9oFKaWnVD9SqHA3bpiKBvCDGVoTOHQYG9GMpiYRTy6YMBCaBJKds1X7ju32CXn6ehyXJW_bBXJ7CMSxOvQEIlF9_V4uEm6rShNh9JkKdQKNQNAzdOWsbZjo41jB84vVy6T_GL1D1JBknw5Evb5_b4Q=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTaK-aopAFD5ZcC7OACmoK247Gw0m2KEDoq2d6GsM7pg6Y0vNzrhuKv4w8Qx9Nr2Grpw8rpB9JaCY2Ai4YOn86lMhcrxKQikXfJzuYBZErZxmLTqHBPezDhaKRSuxUfFZWvTGVHlR7zm2FdCM1nciSMD2lT79Tr0iyK2Y9r7YkyYTJXIrCJQ=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTaK-aopAFD5ZcC7OACmoK247Gw0m2KEDoq2d6GsM7pg6Y0vNzrhuKv4w8Qx9Nr2Grpw8rpB9JaCY2Ai4YOn86lMhcrxKQikXfJzuYBZErZxmLTqHBPezDhaKRSuxUfFZWvTGVHlR7zm2FdCM1nciSMD2lT79Tr0iyK2Y9r7YkyYTJXIrCJQ=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Interesting and satisfying Operation on the Plywood Empire Route is now implemented with just three track switches. A fourth switch (hidden beneath the mountain) is only necessary to create a closed-loop for continuous running. </div><p><br /></p>Lew and Jan Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00582659155240769648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30887649.post-76012429132692232302020-11-06T08:18:00.004-05:002021-11-11T07:57:19.602-05:00Speaking of Balance<p> Front and center just hasn't been right. Too spartan, empty even. "Town" doesn't seem to fit. So I went to work and rearranged some bits. I replaced the Depot with two houses, a street and a Grade Crossing and wa la, it came together into a scene:</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-52IGeCoz_SQ/X6VKtl_jMYI/AAAAAAAAN-w/xLOfDs_LrDQBbjew4ZvC3Y0cYFHYTs6ewCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1463.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-52IGeCoz_SQ/X6VKtl_jMYI/AAAAAAAAN-w/xLOfDs_LrDQBbjew4ZvC3Y0cYFHYTs6ewCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1463.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S-lJ3xTGvf4/X6VK7qpiLfI/AAAAAAAAN-0/Ud7T3ADUwXU4v0mhdniu6JLj2UIOEB6bgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1464.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S-lJ3xTGvf4/X6VK7qpiLfI/AAAAAAAAN-0/Ud7T3ADUwXU4v0mhdniu6JLj2UIOEB6bgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1464.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Drama!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-swIoB1deOso/X6VLrL3YchI/AAAAAAAAN_A/5pio14Fd5uAuj0AOsqTqd0_nr7aO6ISqQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1459.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-swIoB1deOso/X6VLrL3YchI/AAAAAAAAN_A/5pio14Fd5uAuj0AOsqTqd0_nr7aO6ISqQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1459.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Balance:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V7mH_Vi58eQ/X6VMjknWPCI/AAAAAAAAN_Q/vuxi7iPBH1ICxUxdbTZOmHNEkH4jsnaFQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1466.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Northwest corner now has a [developing] vignette, an oil well with operating pump jack:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f2VoK7Z3JrM/X7P5xJMMvZI/AAAAAAAAN_o/2VlDoN7Ur1krjazGAv6Qg95mrulyeMObwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1468.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f2VoK7Z3JrM/X7P5xJMMvZI/AAAAAAAAN_o/2VlDoN7Ur1krjazGAv6Qg95mrulyeMObwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1468.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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To reduce busy-ness I set about simplifying the PER track-plan to eliminate all non-essential trackage. This project dovetails with another aesthetic concern, the need to maintain a "shelf" model railroad wherein the operator is always close to the train, "trackside" if you will. This lends believability to the model as being a miniature real train.<br />
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I went to work and this was the first result:</div>
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From right to left, tank car spot for PVA (polyvinyl acetate), box car spot for loading paint (behind the main structure), tank car spot for acrylic resin, covered hopper spot for titanium dioxide (white pigment) and storage for two cars off-spot.<br />
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By now just six track switches enable full operations on the Plywood Empire Route. While I've not seen a prototype short line railroad that uses shove-moves on it's "mainline" such an operation is certainly possible and for a model railroad it permits and encourages a lean streamlined track-plan wherein the essence is promoted and distracting clutter is minimized. Or so it seems to me. I leave the Reader to make their own judgement.</div>
<br />Lew and Jan Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00582659155240769648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30887649.post-86921639990929977762020-07-18T15:50:00.003-04:002021-11-11T07:56:43.711-05:00Another Track-Plan TweakThis was the most recent West End configuration. I determined that I wanted less benchwork encroachment into the room in the Southwest corner. To that end I reduced the length of the runaround/passing siding/engine escape, allowing the curve to move Southwest by about seven inches, in turn permitting the removal of that much benchwork.<br />
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Lew and Jan Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00582659155240769648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30887649.post-76574170484262956232020-04-11T13:09:00.003-04:002021-11-10T18:27:26.048-05:00Track-Plan Tweak<br />
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In the morning I hitched up and drove home. Once there we got out a ladder and this is what we found:</div>
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Holes in the vinyl roofing.</div>
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So we examined the interior and spotted water damage in the right front and right rear corners. We removed sections of panelling and found damage and soaked insulation. Cleaned up everything and ran the dehumidifier for a week but the place still smelled of mold. Jan finally thought to call Allstate and they sent an adjustor who condemned Bee as a total loss. </div>
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On January 23 a truck towed her away and that was that:</div>
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Lew and Jan Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00582659155240769648noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30887649.post-84968024054906750062019-12-13T07:50:00.000-05:002020-04-11T12:33:09.857-04:00Jan's Pecan RollsIIRC our first Christmas together I gave Jan....a cookbook. We still have it although, like us, it is showing its age a bit.<br />
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<br />Lew and Jan Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00582659155240769648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30887649.post-66355739352346678142019-08-11T10:19:00.000-04:002019-08-11T10:30:42.236-04:00BZZZZ! Harvest Time! Amy&Chris&Nate keep bees. It was time to harvest honey and I was invited to the festivities.<br />
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The first thing is to get dressed and fire up the smoker. Bees are distracted by smoke and (it is thought) imagine the hive is in danger from fire so they move deeper into the hive when they sense smoke. This leaves the Keepers free to plunder some honey.</div>
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This model is fully electronic (engine sounds as well as bell and whistle) and has precision can motors with electronic governors (speed control). What this means is that even at very slow speeds motion is as smooth as silk, right down to a slow [scale] walk. Thus switching moves (pulling and setting out cars on sidings) is much more realistic than with the old Lionel postwar engines which are basically very rugged toys. There is a problem though. Lionel type couplers, although patterned after real knuckle couplers, require a lot of force to couple. So one basically has to ram two cars together for them to couple, not a very realistic operation. What I needed for slow speed coupling was brakes to hold one car in place while another car is backed against it. So I assembled several of these devices:</div>
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The basic bit is a Circuitron Tortoise slow-motion switch machine usually seen on HO pikes. It actuates a brass tube which is fitted inside a larger piece of tubing. Installed in the roadbed adjacent to an electromagnetic uncoupler it looks like this:</div>
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Here it is seen in position to stop a car from moving while a car comes from the left and pushes the coupler slowly closed until it locks. No more crashing cars together! Switching is now much more like the real thing on the Plywood Empire Route.</div>
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<br />Lew and Jan Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00582659155240769648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30887649.post-6330701329038573242018-11-13T09:00:00.005-05:002021-11-26T19:52:39.333-05:00TOYS With our move to the Berkshires the second floor of our Cape Cod is entirely devoted to toys: Jan's sewing room and my train room. I have been a Railfan all my life and have always been interested in model railroads and now we finally have a space where I can pursue my interest.<br />
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I am what is known in the biz as a "high railer", using O gauge Lionel-style track and scale or near-scale rolling stock in a semi-realistic scenic setting. Rather than a layout with concentric loops of track with several trains madly screaming about my track plan and operating scheme mimics an actual railroad, with the purpose being to transport goods.<br />
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O scale is ¼" to the foot or 1/48 scale so it takes up a lot of space. Most modelers use HO scale which is 1/87 proportion but that stuff is too small for my Senior eyes so O scale it is. What this means is that in a 13'X14' room the track plan is necessarily quite simple: a loop around the perimeter of the room with sidings for several industries. An interchange track (a connection with the outside railroad world) is through a tunnel into a corner of Jan's sewing room. The operating scheme is the delivery of loads and empties to the on-layout industries with the pickup of loads and empties from those industries being delivered back to Interchange where they are picked up by virtual trains to be delivered into the virtual outside world. This is the essence of any model railroad operating scheme.<br />
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It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words so here are some pics :~)<br />
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First is Benchwork. I used a tried&true</div>
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method: ¼" plywood decking resting on</div>
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1X2 joists which rest in turn on</div>
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beams made of screwed&glued</div>
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1X3 with 1X2 flanges. Strong, lightweight</div>
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and easy to modify. </div>
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These unrealistically sharp toy-train</div>
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That was the first day of operations.</div>
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Another tried&true technique:</div>
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hot glued cardboard strips</div>
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covered in turn with a modeling product</div>
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As it all looks today:</div>
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The pic third from extreme left is of the Grand Canyon train.<br />
I once rode in the locomotive from GC to<br />
Williams Junction and return. The pic second from left is<br />
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There was a.22 rifle above the Fireman-side<br />
front-facing door. I learned what it was for when<br />
a bull walked onto the track and the engineer had to bring<br />
us nearly to a stop (open range so cattle everywhere). Blowing the whistle did no good. The fireman took down the gun, opened the<br />
door in front of him and shot that bull several times.<br />
The bull then ambled off the track, unhurt because<br />
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Grain elevator, Tipple and</div>
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[virtual] tank car unloading</div>
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facility. For years a tank car</div>
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a team track siding in Somerset, Pa</div>
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where it's cargo would be offloaded</div>
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into tank trucks. I need an O</div>
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Oil refinery and paint factory.</div>
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The refinery produces loads of</div>
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petroleum products. Loads of</div>
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solvents, resins and pigments</div>
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come in to the paint factory and</div>
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Track is Lionel Fastrack.</div>
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Scale size ties and tie spacing</div>
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Ground cover is fleece</div>
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from Joanne :~)</div>
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The left pic is near Bennington Curve</div>
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Now about those photos wallpapering the walls. Scenery on this pike is simple and largely symbolic/schematic and the photos are an important scenic element. They were taken over my childhood by my Dad and processed in his darkroom. Many of them I developed as I often helped in the darkroom.<br />
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Left center Mom and I in the Dining Car </div>
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Christmas morning 1964. <br />
Immediate right 4y old me at a train wreck!<br />
Right of that Horseshoe Curve.<br />
Bottom left a B&O Maple Sugar excursion<br />
bound probably for Meyersdale, Pa, c. 1958<br />
Top left two pics same excursion train<br />
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Bottom left is passing through</div>
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Island Park, Id a few miles from</div>
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earlier.</div>
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which until mothballing was the highest</div>
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The PRR passenger train is stopped in Driftwood, Pa c.1955.<br />
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Lew and Jan Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00582659155240769648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30887649.post-58349927159165294692018-11-12T07:22:00.188-05:002021-11-13T10:27:20.690-05:002018 OUTINGS<p> <b>(1)</b> April 5 found us in the Woods discovering the Hemlock tree Mum&Dad had planted beside the house now laying across where the house had been:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MdXgdp1336k/YY5dM_O9_HI/AAAAAAAAOg4/Nj7ILLk5Jf4msCzviiPfCKQ3DHdpdYviACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1613.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MdXgdp1336k/YY5dM_O9_HI/AAAAAAAAOg4/Nj7ILLk5Jf4msCzviiPfCKQ3DHdpdYviACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1613.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Then we were off to Pittsburgh. Shannon had her Jimmy Nardello Peppers started:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--Psa1uSjeLk/YY5dhVJr7GI/AAAAAAAAOhA/fwps_WVtr6YVeKaDcAbV_BSPZxibCdDyACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1617.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--Psa1uSjeLk/YY5dhVJr7GI/AAAAAAAAOhA/fwps_WVtr6YVeKaDcAbV_BSPZxibCdDyACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1617.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>A walk at South Park with V:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-51_jHJifHYs/YY5drBKTVZI/AAAAAAAAOhE/o-A0G1hLchAxCO-8QTifuaTl9HEGDZ4bQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1618.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-51_jHJifHYs/YY5drBKTVZI/AAAAAAAAOhE/o-A0G1hLchAxCO-8QTifuaTl9HEGDZ4bQCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_1618.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p>Eat N' Park!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4JRSykWZ3fg/YY5d1r2LwRI/AAAAAAAAOhM/OfdOOr5E_ooD1u0hRScBXdQ_7LjTYV8gQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1622.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4JRSykWZ3fg/YY5d1r2LwRI/AAAAAAAAOhM/OfdOOr5E_ooD1u0hRScBXdQ_7LjTYV8gQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1622.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Back to the Woods just in time to clear a plugged drain culvert:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KoME6HNTibo/YY5eEdqmiMI/AAAAAAAAOhU/GdPeJbFvbUUyrq_1v8xHPfXBsPMkylcYwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1629.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KoME6HNTibo/YY5eEdqmiMI/AAAAAAAAOhU/GdPeJbFvbUUyrq_1v8xHPfXBsPMkylcYwCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_1629.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div>And pick a Tick off of Lew:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PJ_VrFr9-Ok/YY5eQz2jNyI/AAAAAAAAOhc/bsUtvWXUuYgx6ElWrBvtiJPKXGUOyWUoQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1646.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PJ_VrFr9-Ok/YY5eQz2jNyI/AAAAAAAAOhc/bsUtvWXUuYgx6ElWrBvtiJPKXGUOyWUoQCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_1646.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>(2)</b> May 11 we were back in the Woods looking at some old stuff. This was the road into the Woods Mum&Dad built some 80 yr ago:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3G7ycUSW4yA/YY5gPIDhAuI/AAAAAAAAOho/XS47qBxZmIYiIytxp6MAkDb8wHwuUVcAACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1710.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3G7ycUSW4yA/YY5gPIDhAuI/AAAAAAAAOho/XS47qBxZmIYiIytxp6MAkDb8wHwuUVcAACLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_1710.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Remnant of the loading dock Fred&Dad built in 1957 to facilitate transporting cut stone from the Woods to Lower Burrell:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9_tsBLJVdlU/YY5gD6TCFlI/AAAAAAAAOhk/m1mjWy-aUlUhJEhft4a_TjwsB2NpG7ckACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1708.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9_tsBLJVdlU/YY5gD6TCFlI/AAAAAAAAOhk/m1mjWy-aUlUhJEhft4a_TjwsB2NpG7ckACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1708.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Stone from the foundation of my Great-Grandparents' house. The exact spot had been strip-mined but Dad had asked the stripper to push the foundation stones off into the woods:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QDSg8Wua9m8/YY5hViMFVdI/AAAAAAAAOh0/tfMfkYbX-xYyDpz2ckADrP6m9xdSWYP1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1714.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QDSg8Wua9m8/YY5hViMFVdI/AAAAAAAAOh0/tfMfkYbX-xYyDpz2ckADrP6m9xdSWYP1wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1714.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Daffodils my Great-Grandma planted more than a hundred years ago:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g1a1uMGHP5k/YY5hqjNehpI/AAAAAAAAOh8/b2Dty7Pul_cN4qNmrGYClkt0Mevzcj3TQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1726.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g1a1uMGHP5k/YY5hqjNehpI/AAAAAAAAOh8/b2Dty7Pul_cN4qNmrGYClkt0Mevzcj3TQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1726.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Buffy's swimming-hole:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Ko-YEoXcyo/YY5h9mRhZvI/AAAAAAAAOiE/H9OCdioUvcoEyAA24Td9ZjdgLnesV_5hACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1728.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Ko-YEoXcyo/YY5h9mRhZvI/AAAAAAAAOiE/H9OCdioUvcoEyAA24Td9ZjdgLnesV_5hACLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_1728.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EhCCE9MSDik/YY5iHy2NVoI/AAAAAAAAOiI/sq51EzHoz-8FkO_cVXXt2Vze5WaodOzxgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1735.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EhCCE9MSDik/YY5iHy2NVoI/AAAAAAAAOiI/sq51EzHoz-8FkO_cVXXt2Vze5WaodOzxgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1735.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MjwCf7UfpAo/YY5iOFO8z0I/AAAAAAAAOiQ/b9xf0BGrKZkc2kr5lQEZ2zoxjkSkYBFSwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1738.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MjwCf7UfpAo/YY5iOFO8z0I/AAAAAAAAOiQ/b9xf0BGrKZkc2kr5lQEZ2zoxjkSkYBFSwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1738.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>(3)</b> Geyser-Gazer friends were flocking to Yellowstone because STEAMBOAT so off we went. That is the subject of another Post.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>(4) </b>After picking up Buffy at Lebo we zoomed to the Woods for a July 4 picnic:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fhcz6d88tT4/YY7Zc-UDDSI/AAAAAAAAOlw/nlGdUOrBBU0oIBcoNh5SrYp88NsqxML7QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2024.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fhcz6d88tT4/YY7Zc-UDDSI/AAAAAAAAOlw/nlGdUOrBBU0oIBcoNh5SrYp88NsqxML7QCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2024.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D2uagl2fg78/YY7ZfAa_7jI/AAAAAAAAOl0/BgC2z0ZMHaost0LtWeuJq8iid90T03iJgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2027.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D2uagl2fg78/YY7ZfAa_7jI/AAAAAAAAOl0/BgC2z0ZMHaost0LtWeuJq8iid90T03iJgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2027.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Complete with a campfire&S'Mores:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2XLsl4atLI8/YY7bHrvtkEI/AAAAAAAAOmc/Y7HKOj89O28Oy6qj9pa_UK3nXFMS79h3gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2085.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2XLsl4atLI8/YY7bHrvtkEI/AAAAAAAAOmc/Y7HKOj89O28Oy6qj9pa_UK3nXFMS79h3gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2085.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>(6)</b> Back Home we resumed our routine ........ until the morning of Aug 9 when Lew began having that Deadly feeling in his hands. At Pownal Clinic they hooked him up and yes, he was having a heart attack so the Hurry-up-Wagon took him to Samaritan Hsp where Dr Papaleo installed a shiny new plain metal stent:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DwIWBCxo6A0/YY7YJc5AgPI/AAAAAAAAOlo/otNtZwMvp8c7ZND1hDnTUQ3ple4R2v5HQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0613.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DwIWBCxo6A0/YY7YJc5AgPI/AAAAAAAAOlo/otNtZwMvp8c7ZND1hDnTUQ3ple4R2v5HQCLcBGAsYHQ/w300-h400/IMG_0613.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>(7)</b> I needed to take it easy for awhile so Lebo came to the Beautiful Berkshires:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ouLhtXfmt1E/YY_T_DCJISI/AAAAAAAAOmw/rZliu-VEOkAqZsRsviGtz5C4E7eGcJ5rACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2119%2B%25281%2529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iJx--qBLWv0/YY_VyxYIzHI/AAAAAAAAOnc/1zYvw1jyAnUz--Tzmsh3StcDUBNlXVgOQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2242.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>(9)</b> Nov 16 found Jan on a beach in Florida ....... She jumped on a plane and visited Jim for a few days:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6z58NE3-ZMk/YY_WsjZ-xvI/AAAAAAAAOnw/VMEnbfWJQa8l-RjWvR6LkzxHQKfhAAXSQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0675.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6z58NE3-ZMk/YY_WsjZ-xvI/AAAAAAAAOnw/VMEnbfWJQa8l-RjWvR6LkzxHQKfhAAXSQCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_0675.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qv08Q9SJk60/YY_WvPzyI8I/AAAAAAAAOn0/Y2BeASeTb1MtdgBmKl64VWStGRi4v-6MwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0678.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qv08Q9SJk60/YY_WvPzyI8I/AAAAAAAAOn0/Y2BeASeTb1MtdgBmKl64VWStGRi4v-6MwCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_0678.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p></div>Lew and Jan Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00582659155240769648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30887649.post-55149305219886933792018-07-04T15:59:00.000-04:002021-11-12T16:00:37.614-05:002018 YELLOWSTONE<p> Steamboat became active so off we went. We camped at Myre Big Island SP in Minnesota thus adding to our bucket list:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x1qHL0w8YR8/YY7Oz_1H7RI/AAAAAAAAOjg/3viPdrZWQK0rJCX1ecqX-srT6mBKLkTugCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1828.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x1qHL0w8YR8/YY7Oz_1H7RI/AAAAAAAAOjg/3viPdrZWQK0rJCX1ecqX-srT6mBKLkTugCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1828.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>Had to have a burger at Wall Drug:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2bzUHAxpDZg/YY7PGZZVm0I/AAAAAAAAOjo/5BAoeq59SEYuulBNJGESNyVH7v2yf4LJwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0469.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2bzUHAxpDZg/YY7PGZZVm0I/AAAAAAAAOjo/5BAoeq59SEYuulBNJGESNyVH7v2yf4LJwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0469.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>We got to Mammoth and set up in Cynthia and Mike's backyard. They live in the big house now:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-woqgGMv0Nks/YY7MfON9bKI/AAAAAAAAOik/1xGDLIJdfFI_EM57-EhFpgq7jeX-gIhUwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1835.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-woqgGMv0Nks/YY7MfON9bKI/AAAAAAAAOik/1xGDLIJdfFI_EM57-EhFpgq7jeX-gIhUwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1835.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Well, Steamboat didn't erupt and Lew couldn't handle the 7700ft elevation at Norris:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tWMbvtBmsSg/YY7M1dS1QGI/AAAAAAAAOis/MaPvPsNXZkYDdEkxMUnuDXvZCq5BsrKbgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1843.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tWMbvtBmsSg/YY7M1dS1QGI/AAAAAAAAOis/MaPvPsNXZkYDdEkxMUnuDXvZCq5BsrKbgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1843.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9i0f7MGNrw0/YY7M3hHt0lI/AAAAAAAAOiw/8C69AISlYgwwI8oDmNqAw8k7MYvSUgySQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1872.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9i0f7MGNrw0/YY7M3hHt0lI/AAAAAAAAOiw/8C69AISlYgwwI8oDmNqAw8k7MYvSUgySQCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_1872.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p>David Schwarz visited us in Mammoth.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8J3Ov3lh4qk/YY7NqgCyGCI/AAAAAAAAOi8/pe46SlNdlVYYBAm00RzMROpAazDpnEVUwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/IMG_0489.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8J3Ov3lh4qk/YY7NqgCyGCI/AAAAAAAAOi8/pe46SlNdlVYYBAm00RzMROpAazDpnEVUwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0489.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>And then off to Old Faithful we went. Lots of geysers erupted there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Beehive:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0-Hh-pEXlvc/YY7N-8gdKlI/AAAAAAAAOjE/K_6BHV6IMCw6SSU2urN2KOXoRktNTacQwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1893.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0-Hh-pEXlvc/YY7N-8gdKlI/AAAAAAAAOjE/K_6BHV6IMCw6SSU2urN2KOXoRktNTacQwCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_1893.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nIQx4w4_ix0/YY7OBTF2ZwI/AAAAAAAAOjI/EJjd7_WbhZUEYmfVupqNuIfRUOMi8pIUwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1904.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nIQx4w4_ix0/YY7OBTF2ZwI/AAAAAAAAOjI/EJjd7_WbhZUEYmfVupqNuIfRUOMi8pIUwCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_1904.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Great Fountain:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MFJIhe-uUOA/YY7OWZzS5tI/AAAAAAAAOjU/AZbzLjqowsQ0OUUeclq1AsAlKa3-A4xPQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1196.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MFJIhe-uUOA/YY7OWZzS5tI/AAAAAAAAOjU/AZbzLjqowsQ0OUUeclq1AsAlKa3-A4xPQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1196.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rTFZ0sYFFrI/YY7OY8S5NSI/AAAAAAAAOjY/6jp2q5Ujbdko1NOepJZuDNLVJl1vigdqQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1198.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rTFZ0sYFFrI/YY7OY8S5NSI/AAAAAAAAOjY/6jp2q5Ujbdko1NOepJZuDNLVJl1vigdqQCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_1198.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Riverside:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-33kHHSoYKTw/YY7PXrAmxlI/AAAAAAAAOjw/W2-xsuKGsGo3QB4KXQSUX5JzPSj5RkEkACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1908.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-33kHHSoYKTw/YY7PXrAmxlI/AAAAAAAAOjw/W2-xsuKGsGo3QB4KXQSUX5JzPSj5RkEkACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1908.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Grotto:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ksfuUj1eahk/YY7Pl9sTDTI/AAAAAAAAOj0/1zC5oYK4BRswmF9N_-gQHzN7vtVBz9GmgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1924.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ksfuUj1eahk/YY7Pl9sTDTI/AAAAAAAAOj0/1zC5oYK4BRswmF9N_-gQHzN7vtVBz9GmgCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_1924.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Fantail did NOT erupt:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lHRYmosRs6Q/YY7P2xmA3MI/AAAAAAAAOkA/oTLRxpDzF0wf9hSpWYDVtPyj80rfU0xEwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1947.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lHRYmosRs6Q/YY7P2xmA3MI/AAAAAAAAOkA/oTLRxpDzF0wf9hSpWYDVtPyj80rfU0xEwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1947.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fd_nwbdLeDY/YY7P5WPsZRI/AAAAAAAAOkE/3J4OSVtzdV0eIbX8PX2rKS94hUUg8-aiACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1944.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fd_nwbdLeDY/YY7P5WPsZRI/AAAAAAAAOkE/3J4OSVtzdV0eIbX8PX2rKS94hUUg8-aiACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1944.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>But Grand did:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-taVEfiNmnTc/YY7QH3siPbI/AAAAAAAAOkM/EBnUwt-GsRAyXCo6QoPz0AFMxtHE4xQdACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1966.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-taVEfiNmnTc/YY7QH3siPbI/AAAAAAAAOkM/EBnUwt-GsRAyXCo6QoPz0AFMxtHE4xQdACLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_1966.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p>Even Aurum erupted!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M_lhr8MjCEU/YY7QzKLZpbI/AAAAAAAAOkY/X89iogmw9-4Dbma_xMIHHcgjhrn5zFGNgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0516.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M_lhr8MjCEU/YY7QzKLZpbI/AAAAAAAAOkY/X89iogmw9-4Dbma_xMIHHcgjhrn5zFGNgCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_0516.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p>It was wonderful listening to Tara Cross play at the Inn:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6hfc5-08GHQ/YY7RQuoViVI/AAAAAAAAOkg/2PUOg_9jK5Iv4iQps6pzvl24S8eio3zEQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1929.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6hfc5-08GHQ/YY7RQuoViVI/AAAAAAAAOkg/2PUOg_9jK5Iv4iQps6pzvl24S8eio3zEQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1929.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Yes, the best was being with Dear friends:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xadn9NOfImM/YY7SWq9HbUI/AAAAAAAAOko/y4iIkanUk94VXqHBsIeGcGXQCoEuKmsrACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xadn9NOfImM/YY7SWq9HbUI/AAAAAAAAOko/y4iIkanUk94VXqHBsIeGcGXQCoEuKmsrACLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_0529.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3Ij5HcDR3Jw/YY7SZuTJ3RI/AAAAAAAAOks/jpmPe4aYxYgaPGC1SgcSff2EDBOxJlhEwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1974.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3Ij5HcDR3Jw/YY7SZuTJ3RI/AAAAAAAAOks/jpmPe4aYxYgaPGC1SgcSff2EDBOxJlhEwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1974.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>We headed for Home, stopping to bike the Mickelson at the Mystic, SD trailhead:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Yd0Hn0GtOQc/YY7T_IqNA8I/AAAAAAAAOk4/TwOVdgRsVKEQp9o9d1Ml7hViyXsDO16oQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1994.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Yd0Hn0GtOQc/YY7T_IqNA8I/AAAAAAAAOk4/TwOVdgRsVKEQp9o9d1Ml7hViyXsDO16oQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1994.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C8yUQ2ZehzM/YY7UB1S3xwI/AAAAAAAAOk8/ASj-9plu0MoCuw5BpQlnKTIQXc-PTYMeQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2006.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C8yUQ2ZehzM/YY7UB1S3xwI/AAAAAAAAOk8/ASj-9plu0MoCuw5BpQlnKTIQXc-PTYMeQCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_2006.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ypAg5pNumhg/YY7UHA7GexI/AAAAAAAAOlA/8vh7M2RQ7NAqmuYuWqAMAITTuplTsHkpwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2010.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ypAg5pNumhg/YY7UHA7GexI/AAAAAAAAOlA/8vh7M2RQ7NAqmuYuWqAMAITTuplTsHkpwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2010.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>We made our last stop at Jerry&Tim's place in Bloomington. The house had a for sale sign in front of it:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lHZ8_mkLRIM/YY7VUgm3uUI/AAAAAAAAOlQ/KqKQeCUBNyEOdGF31TLmoNoxRimPdbPKQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2011.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1296" data-original-width="2048" height="406" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lHZ8_mkLRIM/YY7VUgm3uUI/AAAAAAAAOlQ/KqKQeCUBNyEOdGF31TLmoNoxRimPdbPKQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h406/IMG_2011.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GQz5UEYB8tA/YY7VXFpqjQI/AAAAAAAAOlU/OShaEUZa1xYUGeRv1S8TlQ7wITBz6jbYQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2016.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GQz5UEYB8tA/YY7VXFpqjQI/AAAAAAAAOlU/OShaEUZa1xYUGeRv1S8TlQ7wITBz6jbYQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_2016.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Then we headed for Lebo where our Dear Buffy was waiting for us:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-beIiqg4yr8c/YY7Vnbe-XNI/AAAAAAAAOlg/xFpxDUobDY0K2k1Br51jfgCn5zh6gMODACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2018.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-beIiqg4yr8c/YY7Vnbe-XNI/AAAAAAAAOlg/xFpxDUobDY0K2k1Br51jfgCn5zh6gMODACLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_2018.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><p><br /></p></div>Lew and Jan Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00582659155240769648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30887649.post-26681198906836914952017-11-11T18:22:00.005-05:002021-11-22T13:33:58.515-05:002017 OUTINGS<p> <b>(1) </b>On May 9 we arrived in the Woods in plenty of time to celebrate C's birthday.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tYH-0r_ooas/YY2MAfWP5SI/AAAAAAAAOdo/jRjXTa32yaYB3RMgY_NCUPD5gPAGcltSgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0762.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tYH-0r_ooas/YY2MAfWP5SI/AAAAAAAAOdo/jRjXTa32yaYB3RMgY_NCUPD5gPAGcltSgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0762.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nyLapfSJa_8/YY2MFgIGBSI/AAAAAAAAOds/R9GBgb3yn-0HslZjqWbIDc7RuP0ubthTACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0766.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nyLapfSJa_8/YY2MFgIGBSI/AAAAAAAAOds/R9GBgb3yn-0HslZjqWbIDc7RuP0ubthTACLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_0766.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YaOD4Vvu3KU/YY2MMwXqoyI/AAAAAAAAOdw/M5qN8zLohp4gMIVeDuyYnjyJJ-KO5JCmACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0784.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YaOD4Vvu3KU/YY2MMwXqoyI/AAAAAAAAOdw/M5qN8zLohp4gMIVeDuyYnjyJJ-KO5JCmACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0784.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>(2) </b>On May 21 we drove down to Noank to have a hand in putting the dock in.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Eb10UP0WwjY/YY2NSBnagSI/AAAAAAAAOd8/lr9u1MQxijwKSEMCIWEmUeyBUvnxC_qigCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0814.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Eb10UP0WwjY/YY2NSBnagSI/AAAAAAAAOd8/lr9u1MQxijwKSEMCIWEmUeyBUvnxC_qigCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_0814.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-90p5nGqcrkg/YY2NU-HrKTI/AAAAAAAAOeA/nYzOr79DydMMyFHopTxcFLcGKop9GvWlwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1178.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-90p5nGqcrkg/YY2NU-HrKTI/AAAAAAAAOeA/nYzOr79DydMMyFHopTxcFLcGKop9GvWlwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1178.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dNjzD4P1fEY/YY2NXuPcv3I/AAAAAAAAOeE/pwkVAAn3kdUL9BotLRVxJ6ooajWMoi5fwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1182.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dNjzD4P1fEY/YY2NXuPcv3I/AAAAAAAAOeE/pwkVAAn3kdUL9BotLRVxJ6ooajWMoi5fwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1182.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /><br /><br /><b>(3) </b>June 11 we were back in the Woods.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fpH9W04ulCc/YY2OyVQuH0I/AAAAAAAAOeY/DpcPh9o_9GcHh71dUPDz8vWsY0cw1wv-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0893.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fpH9W04ulCc/YY2OyVQuH0I/AAAAAAAAOeY/DpcPh9o_9GcHh71dUPDz8vWsY0cw1wv-QCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0893.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BDdk1fF7kZg/YY2PzeW_OFI/AAAAAAAAOek/GnSCmcpLXNA372mmoBkFVvwA436sO7Y9ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0897.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BDdk1fF7kZg/YY2PzeW_OFI/AAAAAAAAOek/GnSCmcpLXNA372mmoBkFVvwA436sO7Y9ACLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_0897.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p>Eat N' Park!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EtFi3MUpBu8/YY2QpsE-X7I/AAAAAAAAOes/Y9mE0Z8A8p4hXWU8psMJnsGg0HP-ub5VQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0916.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EtFi3MUpBu8/YY2QpsE-X7I/AAAAAAAAOes/Y9mE0Z8A8p4hXWU8psMJnsGg0HP-ub5VQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0916.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>The Carnegie:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ewlpzAc6wsU/YY2Q1I2Ga1I/AAAAAAAAOew/vTcYTHKKRJg65bCcv4873e88XWHQ3Q6PQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0925.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ewlpzAc6wsU/YY2Q1I2Ga1I/AAAAAAAAOew/vTcYTHKKRJg65bCcv4873e88XWHQ3Q6PQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0925.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Walk to the Cave:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VX8N6iwXYzo/YY2RKHxQ4VI/AAAAAAAAOe4/Or72HqCbIDwHSSh-FaUfnuXIBkX13Yh-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0947.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VX8N6iwXYzo/YY2RKHxQ4VI/AAAAAAAAOe4/Or72HqCbIDwHSSh-FaUfnuXIBkX13Yh-QCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0947.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><p><b>(4) </b>Another trip to Penn's Woods July 4:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pmllIh6vsYs/YY2SEYSbW2I/AAAAAAAAOfA/hBF4uYLhGy8Ms6LGMiriJqkkiZVIyVfFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0986.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pmllIh6vsYs/YY2SEYSbW2I/AAAAAAAAOfA/hBF4uYLhGy8Ms6LGMiriJqkkiZVIyVfFQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0986.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>And Lebo:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RiZP_j--PHQ/YY2SPumJVMI/AAAAAAAAOfE/dtj1rAla9H4FDWHitCYyM35SRwirXnx2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1001.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RiZP_j--PHQ/YY2SPumJVMI/AAAAAAAAOfE/dtj1rAla9H4FDWHitCYyM35SRwirXnx2QCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_1001.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p>Chasing the Ball in the Woods is hot work:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VFUz_Gco-o0/YY2SYjCyrqI/AAAAAAAAOfM/QOSBmCvTWK8DDtx24HHbTACaYQPf1IwRQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1016.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VFUz_Gco-o0/YY2SYjCyrqI/AAAAAAAAOfM/QOSBmCvTWK8DDtx24HHbTACaYQPf1IwRQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1016.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>(5) </b>Another trip to the Woods. 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Having never been we stopped at Oak Creek Canyon ........ a different looking place in Winter than most of the pics one sees of the place.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NPcSgIPizc0/YY07ZGee-qI/AAAAAAAAOcg/-gjT2CVO8yAZEaPZIIvfNNHEpFqncsWdgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0581.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NPcSgIPizc0/YY07ZGee-qI/AAAAAAAAOcg/-gjT2CVO8yAZEaPZIIvfNNHEpFqncsWdgCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_0581.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>While there Jan had a tooth go South so ....... we headed South for Mexico, land of inexpensive dentistry. Back to the Lows park in Deming we went. A very friendly Roadrunner was living in the campground:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gIA067F3xAQ/YY08KU1-4OI/AAAAAAAAOco/3j6drhNvZnkRBxJlnZjXubDR_ywXd6D0wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_1162.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gIA067F3xAQ/YY08KU1-4OI/AAAAAAAAOco/3j6drhNvZnkRBxJlnZjXubDR_ywXd6D0wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_1162.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>We had to hang around while Jan waited for a new crown to be made:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RAIu9X0YCC0/YY08jmzXwsI/AAAAAAAAOcw/snqfo6WWR6skF3YZnd38UUWQtF-3c1trgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0604.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RAIu9X0YCC0/YY08jmzXwsI/AAAAAAAAOcw/snqfo6WWR6skF3YZnd38UUWQtF-3c1trgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0604.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Buffy and I went out to Rockhound SP for walks:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZQLPxCVM6bY/YY080lQb3pI/AAAAAAAAOc4/v6UdDNyfK4E8W8_RcU0ze5nTp5l5PUuZACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0601.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZQLPxCVM6bY/YY080lQb3pI/AAAAAAAAOc4/v6UdDNyfK4E8W8_RcU0ze5nTp5l5PUuZACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0601.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>While at the Dentist in Palomas Jan learned of The Pink Store where she went for lunch several times. She convinced Lew he needed to travel to a foreign country so off we went for lunch where we were serenaded:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IFsNp9NBeNU/YY09kQrR2VI/AAAAAAAAOdA/5BEEQbSJCx8zv4QlOLLcRs0GZF19yg5BgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0614.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IFsNp9NBeNU/YY09kQrR2VI/AAAAAAAAOdA/5BEEQbSJCx8zv4QlOLLcRs0GZF19yg5BgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0614.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Notice the size of the Margaritas!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Dental work finally completed, on Feb 25 we headed for Home, stopping for a moment at White Sands:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZPpCOGy9vtA/YY0-a3eX1VI/AAAAAAAAOdI/nj6iSeLxq6s9yt5iZta1Lr9hbPa75OWXACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0626.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZPpCOGy9vtA/YY0-a3eX1VI/AAAAAAAAOdI/nj6iSeLxq6s9yt5iZta1Lr9hbPa75OWXACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0626.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p>Camping at a state park in each state is on our bucket list so the next night we camped at a State Park in Kansas:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iWSaG7Dwdlw/YY0-pneAObI/AAAAAAAAOdM/UrJwu8TyrkUEIh1UHnQwxDf9sjdgwVSjwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0630.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iWSaG7Dwdlw/YY0-pneAObI/AAAAAAAAOdM/UrJwu8TyrkUEIh1UHnQwxDf9sjdgwVSjwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0630.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Shannon's driveway was such a welcome sight (March 1)!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GyLptvR4AjI/YY1Sz27F5wI/AAAAAAAAOdY/Br21s_8BV7IpvUXY9LAivfAfj7FmrRAlgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0646.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GyLptvR4AjI/YY1Sz27F5wI/AAAAAAAAOdY/Br21s_8BV7IpvUXY9LAivfAfj7FmrRAlgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0646.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Finally Home:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-blPr7A6SmlM/YY1TEILlghI/AAAAAAAAOdg/vsWselvrsF4EqgZECnORSYveR-enhxxegCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0661.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-blPr7A6SmlM/YY1TEILlghI/AAAAAAAAOdg/vsWselvrsF4EqgZECnORSYveR-enhxxegCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0661.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Lew and Jan Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00582659155240769648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30887649.post-66495717851132578952017-02-10T17:47:00.001-05:002021-11-11T10:39:14.355-05:00Cally Phonya<br />
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Lew and Jan Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00582659155240769648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30887649.post-33612692867020298172017-02-04T23:14:00.002-05:002021-11-11T10:29:00.122-05:00PhoenixVisiting Relatives also means visiting relative's pets! Johnny and Buffy got along great.<br />
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Jesse James Johns with his son Indiana.</div>
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Forgive Jesse’s appearance as his fever was 102.</div>
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On our way west from Phoenix we met</div>
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LOW (Loners On Wheels) Park</div>
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This is a Park lovingly kept.<br />
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The ruins of Fort Bowie, Az</div>
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Thunder and lightning over those mountains.<br />
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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument</div>
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Picacho Peak SP, Az<br />
I10 and<br />
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As in 2012 we made sure to be on the first</div>
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800ft below the desert floor...</div>
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A magical place hidden away</div>
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from the daylight World above.</div>
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Coming off the Sacramento Mts West of Cloudcroft,<br />
White sands out there in the valley.</div>
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Dog Canyon, Oliver Lee SP </div>
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That is the Campground</div>
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away down there.</div>
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