Inside of my truck camper (should have cleaned it more) with LineXed stove top cover

Edited February 13, 20169 yr by JAG1

Very fun. Just have to gauge the weather and wind. 

 

0% chance of rain tomorrow so I am rolling into work in a stocking cap. lol. I chuckle when I exhale and my glasses fog up. 

 

Clear nights are awesome topless with all of the stars. 

2 minutes ago, Ben said:

Very fun. Just have to gauge the weather and wind. 

 

0% chance of rain tomorrow so I am rolling into work in a stocking cap. lol. I chuckle when I exhale and my glasses fog up. 

 

Clear nights are awesome topless with all of the stars. 

 

I love going a step farther. My old favorite... Still own it but no longer running at the moment. 

My old Jeep used to say “take off your top” on the back. Great conversation piece for sure. 

37 degrees this morning on the ride in to work. I was a froze turd when I got there even with windows up and heat cranked. 

 

Walking into work in my stocking cap and jacket zipped up to my chin I met the night xray tech leaving. She was in cut off jean shorts and flip flops. lol

 

I said Hi and chuckled. She looked at me like I was nuts but saw the jeep in the parking lot. She said I was crazy. I told her the ride home will be worth it. 

Edited May 22, 20187 yr by Ben

Fires in all directions with no relief in site

 

the first one is called the 416 fire near Durango about 25 miles to my east, about 5000 acre so far with 10% containment.

 

The second one about 20 miles to my west, it’s about 1500 acre and 90% contained

 

the last one just flared up today about 7 miles to my north east, nothing but wilderness and dry timber 

United States Forest Circus...  I've got no love for them and they are not "fire fighters". They are "Fire Managers" in other words they are not in the business of putting the fire out but allowing the fire to burn and manage where it burns at. After working with US Forest Circus for over 12 years and fighting fires. I watch how these clowns play with back fires and poor management to create bad fire seasons. 

Are you also saying the more work they have fighting fires the more money they get?

Yes, CAL Fire is a joke...  The money they get annually is insane, the things they do with their equipment is ludicrous, and their process of fighting fires takes forever...seemingly intentionally.

 

CA spends massive amounts of money on CAL Fire paychecks.  I know people who are CAL Fire workers and if there's no fires in California they're freaking out from the loss of overtime income.  They literally base their annually salary on overtime wages.  And coincidentally.....there is ALWAYS a massive forest fire in the north state, if not many every year.  And they seemingly have all insight reasons of how they started too.  Lighting, cigarette, weed eaters, squirrels roasting nuts... etc.  Even if there's hardly ever lighting up here and no roads where the fires are.  Cant speak for the squirrels though...

 

Oh and...when their fire fighting task is over, they simply dig gigantic holes and bury all their shovels and chainsaws and other tools.  Otherwise they have to take it back with them and they wont get the state funds for new equipment.  Kinda depressing that this is how our tax dollars are spent.  This isnt even discussing the tax dollars spent to pay people for their equipment which sits idle on trailers every year during the fire seasons, just incase they need their added help over and above what CAL Fire is doing.  And the $1500 a month payment these people get come from a list which you have to know someone to get on too...

 

But hey...I dont want to turn this good thread of beautiful pictures into a political bash session.

Thank you. Information confirmed.

How does anyone find out about something so hush hush? That they actually bury the equipment/ tools so they don't have to carry them out??

 

That's like having to trust criminals to protect our forests and our homes.Why can't we turn them in?

What did you expect?  United States Forest Service and Cal Fire are government bureaucracies run with government workers spending OPM, other peoples money.   I've seen to much waste by government agencies, from school districts to the Feds.

 

                         On a lighter note:  some flowers that my son planted along some of the fence line.

            

 

Nice! Those are sunflowers, right ?

 

Edited June 10, 20186 yr by JAG1

3 hours ago, JAG1 said:

Nice! Those are sunflowers, right ?

My son planted 5 different varieties of sunflowers 

No permit required for a privacy fence either 

We've been having a lot of this lately, lots of flash floods.

2 hours ago, Dieselfuture said:

We've been having a lot of this lately, lots of flash floods.

Dealing with that out my way, no flash flooding though. Trying to get my parking stoned and paved and the rain want leave us alone. But at least it aint flooding. What part of Iowa are you in?

40 minutes ago, dripley said:

Dealing with that out my way, no flash flooding though. Trying to get my parking stoned and paved and the rain want leave us alone. But at least it aint flooding. What part of Iowa are you in?

Between Cedar Rapids and Quad Cities I go back and forth a lot, the picture was taken by Coralville Lake

Edited June 21, 20186 yr by Dieselfuture

1 hour ago, Dieselfuture said:

Between Cedar Rapids and Quad Cities I go back and forth a lot, the picture was taken by Coralville Lake

I built a CFA out kind of out your way several years back in West Des Moines. 

2 hours ago, dripley said:

I built a CFA out kind of out your way several years back in West Des Moines. 

How far was the drive for you 

41 minutes ago, Dieselfuture said:

How far was the drive for you 

Just over 1000 miles. Only made it twice, once out and once back. You got to fly home on those jobs. Did another in Sioux City after that one.