Of course the snow drought ended the day I started to head back to Washington. And of course, the snow started falling just as I had the chance to avoid it at the intersection of shortcut and long way around. Of course I took the shortcut over a 7000 foot pass into Idaho’s Bitterroot mountains. If it was good enough…
Category: Cle Elum
Eye In The Sky
I have had a Drone for a few years but quite frankly it is really a pain in the ass to use. It is a relatively rare day up here when the winds are calm enough to fly. When the winds and my motivation align, there is the challenge of having all of the batteries charged. There are batteries in…
Cool Cool Water
I started the process to get a well dug on my property back in May. It started with an application to the county along with a $2000 check for them to see if I am worthy of running water. Although I have visited them a couple of times and my obvious need for a hot shower hasn’t swayed them yet.…
Take Me to the River
This post has no pictures to prove it really happened due to my thinking ahead that any electronics were gong to mix with water. So you’ll have to take my word for it that this is all true, give or take…… It was the annual boy’s campout weekend at my friend’s property down the mountain from me. By boys,…
the greens of summers
Since I have been obviously remiss in getting updates posted on this blog, I thought that some photos that I have posted to my google account would suffice until I can get time to drop some updates. The link is https://photos.app.goo.gl/27Wbzppcw5eqJtfU8 There is always the Instagram account that can be accessed via a link somewhere on this page. It…
Here Comes The Sun
I am slowly moving into the 20th century here. Yes, I meant 20th Century. Like when electricity and indoor plumbing started taking off. I have the electricity finally taken care of (at least in a limited way). My main source of big power to charge batteries and run power tools is from my brand new Gas and LP powered generator…
You Don’t Mess Around with the Demolition Man
Been breaking and burning things as I hop into this project. If you didn’t know already, it turns out that I am pretty good a breaking things. The cleaning up part not so much. There are piles and piles of stuff everywhere now. The dry weather comes to the East side of the Cascade Mountains earlier when compared to Seattle.…