Grub Shack Gone! / New Camera / First Pix

What you see above used to be the Grub Shack. I'M REAL SURE IT WAS THERE YESTERDAY, BUT ITS SURE GONE TODAY!

Thanks to my Lil Sis and Bro in law Raye Vern & Ring I'm back in the picture taking business. Matter of fact I'm probably in the Video business also. :)

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Weather

Since I haven't gotten anymore insulation up in the ceiling
that may be a good thing according to the weather forecast. Looks like a good chance of rain coming up so at least I'll be able to see if I got the roof leaks patched. (If it rains) I'd rather find that out before the insulation is in. I can hope can't I? Outside of that its totally cloudy and pretty cool which SUCKS in my opinion.

More old Pictures

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More Old Pictures

Haven't made much progress on the cabin lately. I got all four walls insulated (except for the 16 inch center corners and will have to cut down the insulation to fit those. The sealing kicked my butt though and will take help. Ring is on his way down here and hopefully we can get most of that taken care of, but after doing a recount I find I don't have enough insulation to finish anyway. His birthday was yesterday and mine is tomorrow so there's a birthday party planned at the legion for tonight for the both of us.

Ran across some other old pictures of junk I've built so decided to post some of them.

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S.O.T.P.

Slower Progress

Got the two other bags of insulation my last trip to Alpine. I still lack a good bit of wiring for the cabin and still need to add headers for the AC and third window. Can't finish the insulation until I get all of that done and I'm not having a lot of luck getting very far with the wiring. The wire built in to flex conduit is a real pain the butt to work with but its all I have. At least its protection against rodents chewing through the wire and starting a fire.

According to online weather its supposed to at least get down to 32 degrees tonight with a chance of rain, but you sure couldn't tell it today because it got pretty warm. I'm having to take a lot of stuff out of the cabin to make room to work in there and when it started clouding up I had to move everything back inside. Sure slows things down!


I checked on a seal for the Jeep and AutoZone showed two different ones and I don't have a clue which  one I need. On top of that they'd have to order them which would have meant another trip to Alpine the following day. I went ahead and got a valve cover gasket and black RTV (silicone sealant) to seal it with and hope that will help on the oil leakage if it doesn't cure it.

I hear Big, Little and Under feet will be here before long and it will sure be good to see them. Seems like its been for ever since they were here.

Yvada Yvida Yvida... That's all Folks...

CRAP!

A little less than half of the Americans know why I say that. I'll say it again. CRAP!

Missed Her Again!!!

Had to make another trip south because I forgot to get drinking water the last trip. Also needed to take care of some banking so I can pay the VA co pay for the medications I get. When I returned about 11:00 I noticed a couple of boxes sitting in the trailer. I checked them out and MsB (Ms Belinda) Terlingua Dreams had stopped by on her way home to Del Rio or maybe Houston. Looks like I missed her by about 30 minutes. :( Anyway she left a couple of care packages full of all sorts of stuff (including drinking water, sodas, pork rinds with hot sauce, Halloween goodies, several cans of tuna and a good deal more stuff.)

MsB, sorry I missed you again and thanks for all the goodies! Maybe next year? Who knows? I may venture down to the Chili Cook off next year?

S.O.T.P.
Our own local guy George Goss

Chili cook off / This and that

Made a trip south to Study Butte yesterday even though I figured there would be a lot of these down there.

Dave also needed to  go along to get supplies and that was the reason I was pressed in to taking a chance on going south. I was out of supplies and didn't want to go hungry. As we topped the hill and headed in to SB it almost looked like a ghost town as there was no traffic at all on 118. I also needed gas and decided to stop at BBMI for breakfast since I hadn't eaten there in a long time.

Sort of wish we hadn't eaten there then because they had the damn buffet which meant scrambled eggs made from powdered eggs which are always LOUSY! So was the really greasy bacon, sorry pancakes, sausage that isn't fit to feed to a dog much less a human. Matter of fact I'd doubt that most dogs would even eat it. Actually about the only thing that was good was the coke I had to go with it. Worst part was it was too damn high for the slop served. They should have been paying people to eat it instead of charging for it.

Anyway I got enough gas after that to get me to Alpine next week where the gas will probably be about 25 cents a gallon cheaper. After that it was on to the Cottonwood store for supplies and then back north to home. I got just enough supplies to last me until I go to Alpine where groceries are a good bit cheaper. On the way back by the BBMI we saw the only DPS cruiser we saw the whole time we were there, but I'd imagine that changed by yesterday evening and last night. They were probably wall to wall.

My niece Madaleine Alexander caught the below picture at the airport the other day and I thought it was so cool I'd share it here. Hope she doesn't mind. :)

This is a C5A cargo plane (I think the biggest US plane we have. From what I hear just the fuel in one of these weighs more than a fully loaded 747. I also hear they will carry 9 greyhound buses at once. Watching them fly is something else. They are so large that they look like they are flying so slow that they could fall out of the sky at any time. We have the B1s, B52s and C130s that make low level runs down here all the time, but I sure wish these flew down here to.

Here's the S.O.T.P. for this post.