Moving my stuff out.

I had friends help me move my stuff from the toasted house up to the enclosed garage the past two weekends. We made use of my new T-1 PJ Trailer that has a tilt bed. We'd load furniture and appilances on it and I would take to the garage where it would be unloaded. A lot of ruined stuff was going into the construction dumpster. We still have the big heavy things to move and a bunch of smaller items. I'll be taking the boat and its trailer to the dump as the tear down folks wanted $500 to take it to the dump. I'll use the new trailer and save over $435! I was also using the Kubota to take bags of trash to the dumpster and bags of stuff to the garage in the front end loader. The stained glass window to the bathroom was removed by Chuck. That may be 'hanging art' in the new house....or not. Hopefully someone will purchase the cabinets before the D-Day crew arrives October 3rd. (Destruction-Day) They will be removing the carport debris and tearing house apart and putting into dump trucks. Chuck set up my travel trailer's TV so that my Hulu and other online channels can play on the TV instead of my iPad. He couldn't get the iMac to do the same with KODI. The only thing is that the air conditioner in the living area is so LOUD and makes it hard to hear the TV! Sometimes when it cool enough for me I flip off the curcuit breaker for the AC and just have the ceiling fan running.

Here is an up date after attending Geowoodstock 14er. The next day, July 4th I received a call from a fire captain with Walker County back home that Chuck's Durango caught fire while parked under my carport. Chuck was watering my garden areas. The truck burned the carport and the end of my house. His truck was totally destroyed along with my Alumna trailer and my boat and trailer. The house is now a total loss due to the fire going thur the top and smoke damage. I'm now in the process of getting and replacement mobile home. The insurance company has me living in a fifth wheel camper. I had to get the well house wired to the garage so I could get water and power to the camper. After leaving the Denver area visiting the CO Balls, I traveled up to Redbird, WY to replace the geocache container that had bit the dust as they say. Then it on to Buffalo, WY for Longmire Days. That was a load of fun despite Katie Sackoff and Peter Weller were not being there. I left there to travel to Noxon, MT to visit with Grant and Deela for a few days. I stopped and visited the Little Big Horn National Park. Wow, that was a huge area where all that fighting was going on. It was really relaxing at the Winkler's and I didn't want to leave. Deela can cook some fine delicious food! On the way back I stopped in Idaho and did a dive at the hot spring South of Arco, ID. I Had found this neat place five years ago seeking a geocache that wasn't there. I visited the Craters of the Moon area, as I now get in free. I checked a geocache I logged five years ago only to find only two more logs since I was last there. I was mostly driving, napping and eating getting my self back to GA to deal with the mess at home from there on.

Finnaly after three weeks I got water flowing again. The well was drilled down to 460 feet deep and got a new control unit for the Aqua Clear system was installed. On July 4th a friend was at The Property watering my gardens while I was out of town. He had parked under the carport because of the high temps in GA. His Durango caught fire and the carport is a total mess. Boat melted and Alumnia trailer is toast. The fire also got to part of the house as well. I enjoyed Geowoodstock in the Denver, CO previous to the home disaster.

No water...day 3.

It's day three and no water on the property. It looks to be something with the well and not the Kinetico purification system? Got the guy who put in the well calling back later today. I have drinking water in my Berkey and water still comes out of the reverse osmosis unit....but for how long I don't know? This blog system is lame in that if I divide the subjects up in paragraphs, it just prints it out as one big thing. Have been working on adding a Children's Band Radio communication system with some SENA products to my Spyder. Waiting for one back ordered item to be sent. The system will be Bluetooth in my helmet. Even mounting that is turning out to be a challenge to my Shoei RF-1200 helmet. The clamp won't work so it will be the sick on holder. The GWRRA folks use CB to talk to each other on their rides. The BRP CB is lame at best and too expensive at $850! So, I purchased a Midland 75-822 Portable unit at $79 that will mount on the handle bars via a RAM mount. I'll mount the PTT switch somewhere for left hand activation. The Midland seems to be very popular for motorcycle usage.

Update 4-2016

Wow, it's been a year since I've logged on here. Going to make it a point to enter more on my blog in the future! Latest on The Property is that the dead Ford tractor that came with the property has been 'adopted' to a guy in TN. It got trailered out last Monday. Happy trails tractor! I purchased a new white RTS Spyder last June and have up over 5K miles on it so far. I still have the blue RT that I've had for over four years now. I drive it mostly local as it may still have some issues? The new one will be used for traveling afar and some local too. I started reworking the outside garden a couple of weeks ago. Putting the fence back up, rearranging the cinder blocks to form two long bedding areas. I've added more of the dirt mix to the garden. I will get the gate built and installed soon and finish the fencing. I've had an inside garden of salad type plants in a sectioned off area of the porch for several months. I wish it would stay warm so I can plant stuff outside without fear it's going to get cold again. Some of the trees up here are starting to bloom. They have long since bloomed in the lower elevations weeks ago. The Lookout Mountain Drug Task Force guys paid a visit in February looking for the previous owner. His son Seth had just been arrested again. They think the Smiths may still be living in the area instead of FL, as I was told that were moving to? I found out that they had siezed 1.1 million in assets from the Smiths when they were raided several years ago. I met Mac Shipman that lives up the hill next to me. He had driven down on his Gator and we had a nice conversation. I had also talked to John Boyles who owns the property across the road that has been clear cutted. He now has some cows over there. I got to talk to a few of them when getting my mail. Cows are funny when you talk to them. They just stare at you. The last couple of days I have been on a sewing binge. Making pouches for some items for traveling this year on the Spyder. Have to get things lighter for the Spyder & Ooogly Trailer....not using heavy storage boxes as I do in the truck. I rebuilt the Ooogly Trailer. The decking is thinner plywood that I painted with marine paint. Added a larger battery and controller so I can have power when camping to run the XM radio or a iPod. I'll be able to hook up a 15 watt solar panel to keep things running during the day. I don't want to power things off the Spyder's battery. I attached the PVC pipes better than before. They are for carrying tarp poles and rebar safely. I added some better attach points for the cooler. I had a close encounter of the Jack knife kind a month ago when backing up the trailer, thus the rebuild. Still s l o w l y moving stuff up from Marietta. Brought up all my tool boxes over a month ago. I need to bring up some couches for better sitting up here. The turntable and all my albums, books and other items. That's it for now.......