orrum
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Ok Don! Gonna get cold here tonite, probably even frost!!!! LOL Luv the Carolias in the winter!
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My trip, the lil 6.2 that could!
- Thread starter orrum
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Husker6.5
135' diagonal 16:9HD, 25KW sound!
If you love that, you'd REALLY love it here in the winter! (At least we're not as bad as those poor schmucks living in North Dakota and northern Minnesota where it's -15* with -50* wind chills AND snowing on top of that!)
handcannon
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Hey Bill!! Here's what we've been putting up with for a while.
I need to interject something here. The program messed up my picture sequence. The last pic you see here is the first one in my explanation. They somehow were reversed, so if you look at the last pic first, and proceed to go to the next pic ABOVE that, then they will be in the correct order. Under manage attachments they were in the correct order.
Right now I'm sitting here listening to "rain" drops hitting the roof, or so I thought at first. We've been dealing with freezing temps, mid to low twenties at night, for about a week and a half, or maybe a bit more. The sun hasn't been seen in my area for maybe a week--freezing fog. The forecast last night was for warming today and a chance of freezing rain. The ice melting off the trees is a good sign that the rain, when it finally comes back, won't bring real ice with it. I HATE freezing rain.
Here's a few pics around my place, showing a "clear" day in the past few days. I hate gray!!
Pic 1: This looks to the west down the driveway we share with our newest neighbor. You can see the mailboxes at the end of the driveway. Across the road, and the field, you can almost see through the fog enough to see the hill that is about a mile away. The house you see up front makes it look like we live in a fancy neighborhood, but we don't. This house is the newest and nicest for at least half a mile, then it is another half mile to any newer houses. Everything else is mobile homes and old farm houses.
This was a light day for freezing fog. Sunday it looked almost like we'd had a light snowfall.
Pic 2: This is to the north of us, across neighbors fields. Just to the left of the tall fir trees, through the gap you can just barely see another hill. I-5 freeway runs just at the base of that hill.
Pic 3: I was standing in the same place as the last pic, just rotated 90* to look east. The fence in the foreground divides my moms place, right of the fence, from the new neighbors place, left side of the fence. The trees in the background are part of the tall trees in the previous pic. The horizion you see through the trees is the freeway.
Last summer the place where I'm standing could never have been reached without a helicopter drop, and some kind of armor, serious blackberry and poison oak patch, including the whole field to the left of the fence.
The horses belong to the new neighbor. We worked together to clear the brush and put up a fence. They provided most of the materials and equipment to accomplish this , so for now I'm letting her run the horses under the trees for shelter, and to help finish knocking down the brush.
Pic 4: Here's what the trees look like.
Pic 5: This looks south across pasture land to some other neighbors. Not very frosty in this pic. A few days ago this field was totally white, all day long, and the fog was thick enough you couldn't see the neighbors place.
Pic 6: Another view of the same pasture. This looks southwest and shows the previous neighbor and another.
Pic 7: I just can't help myself, here's part of the extended family, none of the cats though. To the left is Rhaine, affectionately known as "Bubblehead". In the center is Jasper, affectionately known as "Fathead". And behind Jasper is Libby, the old lady of the bunch, old in Boxer years (9).
The rosebed in the background is just off the left side in the first pic.
Don
I need to interject something here. The program messed up my picture sequence. The last pic you see here is the first one in my explanation. They somehow were reversed, so if you look at the last pic first, and proceed to go to the next pic ABOVE that, then they will be in the correct order. Under manage attachments they were in the correct order.
Right now I'm sitting here listening to "rain" drops hitting the roof, or so I thought at first. We've been dealing with freezing temps, mid to low twenties at night, for about a week and a half, or maybe a bit more. The sun hasn't been seen in my area for maybe a week--freezing fog. The forecast last night was for warming today and a chance of freezing rain. The ice melting off the trees is a good sign that the rain, when it finally comes back, won't bring real ice with it. I HATE freezing rain.
Here's a few pics around my place, showing a "clear" day in the past few days. I hate gray!!
Pic 1: This looks to the west down the driveway we share with our newest neighbor. You can see the mailboxes at the end of the driveway. Across the road, and the field, you can almost see through the fog enough to see the hill that is about a mile away. The house you see up front makes it look like we live in a fancy neighborhood, but we don't. This house is the newest and nicest for at least half a mile, then it is another half mile to any newer houses. Everything else is mobile homes and old farm houses.
This was a light day for freezing fog. Sunday it looked almost like we'd had a light snowfall.
Pic 2: This is to the north of us, across neighbors fields. Just to the left of the tall fir trees, through the gap you can just barely see another hill. I-5 freeway runs just at the base of that hill.
Pic 3: I was standing in the same place as the last pic, just rotated 90* to look east. The fence in the foreground divides my moms place, right of the fence, from the new neighbors place, left side of the fence. The trees in the background are part of the tall trees in the previous pic. The horizion you see through the trees is the freeway.
Last summer the place where I'm standing could never have been reached without a helicopter drop, and some kind of armor, serious blackberry and poison oak patch, including the whole field to the left of the fence.
The horses belong to the new neighbor. We worked together to clear the brush and put up a fence. They provided most of the materials and equipment to accomplish this , so for now I'm letting her run the horses under the trees for shelter, and to help finish knocking down the brush.
Pic 4: Here's what the trees look like.
Pic 5: This looks south across pasture land to some other neighbors. Not very frosty in this pic. A few days ago this field was totally white, all day long, and the fog was thick enough you couldn't see the neighbors place.
Pic 6: Another view of the same pasture. This looks southwest and shows the previous neighbor and another.
Pic 7: I just can't help myself, here's part of the extended family, none of the cats though. To the left is Rhaine, affectionately known as "Bubblehead". In the center is Jasper, affectionately known as "Fathead". And behind Jasper is Libby, the old lady of the bunch, old in Boxer years (9).
The rosebed in the background is just off the left side in the first pic.
Don
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Bottom pic is real pretty. Is that your house?
handcannon
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I wish!!! That is the back side of the front neighbors house, about 6-7 years old now. Mom's property (3 acres now) is a flag lot. The house we live in is what my dad built in the late 50s, just after they bought the original 6 acres and he tried to get started farming along with his graveyard shift job. Needs remodeled with a D9 cat, and yes it's that bad. Sorry to say, but dad started with used lumber, no foundation, and old building techniques.
About 8 years ago we decided to try to rent out our house and move out here to be with mom after dad passed away. Then along came my on the job accident/injury and we lost everything, so it's a good thing we were out here with mom. Until we moved back into the house I'd grown up in I'd forgot just how cold that house was in the winter time.
My wife's family history is very deeply tied up into this area. My parents originally bought this, as 6 acres, from her great-grandparents, who I grew up knowing as grandpa and grandma Jellison. Their old farmhouse was up in front of the house you were asking about. When that 4 acres came up for sale I was really wishing there was some way we could buy it, but not a chance. They originally owned almost everything shown in my pics, but slowly sold it off. Her grandfather (not great-grandfather) was killed in a blasting accident clearing land/trees somewhere on the back side of mom's property. Her grandmother owned the 10 acres abutting up to the south side of mom's property. And I can vaguely remember living in/renting that house for a short time before I was in school. Lots of memories here.
Don
About 8 years ago we decided to try to rent out our house and move out here to be with mom after dad passed away. Then along came my on the job accident/injury and we lost everything, so it's a good thing we were out here with mom. Until we moved back into the house I'd grown up in I'd forgot just how cold that house was in the winter time.
My wife's family history is very deeply tied up into this area. My parents originally bought this, as 6 acres, from her great-grandparents, who I grew up knowing as grandpa and grandma Jellison. Their old farmhouse was up in front of the house you were asking about. When that 4 acres came up for sale I was really wishing there was some way we could buy it, but not a chance. They originally owned almost everything shown in my pics, but slowly sold it off. Her grandfather (not great-grandfather) was killed in a blasting accident clearing land/trees somewhere on the back side of mom's property. Her grandmother owned the 10 acres abutting up to the south side of mom's property. And I can vaguely remember living in/renting that house for a short time before I was in school. Lots of memories here.
Don
NVW
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Looks like a pretty area Don.
Husker6.5
135' diagonal 16:9HD, 25KW sound!
It's a beautiful area. I was not too far away from you back in the summer of '75 for the FMCA (Family Motor Coach Association) annual convention up the road in Salem. I have fond memories as a fourteen year old of the week I spent there, as well as the whole four weeks of the vacation driving there from Nebraska on I-80 to San Fransisco and Northern California, staying in Salem, then retuning home via Seattle, Yakima, Boise, SLC.
orrum
New Member
Darn I hope this will post my tablet is going crazy turning itself off!!! Don I know ice n snow can be a problem but thats a fantastic looking place to live!!!! Thanks so much for posting that and the pics!! Yall keep puting stuff on here and it just whets my appetite to hit yhe road again!!! I....am....goin....to....heal!!!!! Then lookout Don I will make it tgere to visit n we gonna go see those gorgeous mountains you told me about! Plus my new rockhound hobby you mentioned is becoming addictive. Whoever would of thought a cowboy could start enjoying rocks!!!! Anyway Don thanks for the pics and stories, they invigorate my mind!
handcannon
Well-Known Member
Hi Bill. Did the cold weather happen that you were talking about? We're back to our usual now, rain. I think you'd like this area when you make it out here someday. Winter temps don't usually go below freezing, but it does rain a lot. That's why the area is so green. Summer temps are generally in the low 80's to high 90's, with maybe about a week in Aug that will go up to 100 to 105*, but evening temps always cool down.
If your tablet will support doing so, spend some time looking up places and pictures of places you'd like to someday see.
Keep posting your progress.
Don
If your tablet will support doing so, spend some time looking up places and pictures of places you'd like to someday see.
Keep posting your progress.
Don
Tablet :stupidcomputer:
orrum
New Member
Ok here is my foot today before the stitches were taken out. My lady friend saw the pic n said that was a OMG FOOT!!!! LOL This is three weeks after the surgery, there are stitches on the bottom of the toes too.
orrum
New Member
Uhh you might want to look at this after breakfast rather than before, sorry, nother case of not thinkin this all the way thru.
Now Im not so hungry.
orrum
New Member
Thats ok Leroy think of it as a weight loss diet aid!!!
orrum
New Member
Hey Don it got to 20 degrees twice!!! Die mosquito die!!!! Had a small ice storm but not on roads except concrete bridges. It was pretty on the pine trees Sat mornin. Sorry no pics, I know "no pics means it never happened"! LOL I want snow!
handcannon
Well-Known Member
I'll tell you what Bill, you can have the snow. I'll drive up to the snow, and then drive home to no snow, just RAIN.
In actuality, we seldom get snow here and I do sort of enjoy it, especially if it is a dryer snow, not the wet sloppy stuff we usually get. That brings to mind an event that I survived, and not because I was that skilled, just young and inexperienced.
About 35 years ago I was on I-5 freeway just north of home, and headed to Portland (75 miles away) for a Dr appointment. It was an unusual Feb morning, nice and clear blue sky and just a bit nippy (no rain!!!). I had a 67 Chev 3/4 ton 4X4 pickup, and was tooling along at about 65 MPH, or so, in the inside lane. Suddenly, I noticed tracks off into the median strip, then vehicles out in the median and also off the outside lane out in the mud. All of a sudden my thoughts were, OH NO!!. I quickly and lightly goosed the throttle and I was able to break the tires loose at that speed. Can you say "I need new shorts" real fast three time in a row without getting your tongue tangled around you teeth? Anyway, I carefully slowed down a lot, and I'd just crossed the Santiam River bridge at that speed.
Don
In actuality, we seldom get snow here and I do sort of enjoy it, especially if it is a dryer snow, not the wet sloppy stuff we usually get. That brings to mind an event that I survived, and not because I was that skilled, just young and inexperienced.
About 35 years ago I was on I-5 freeway just north of home, and headed to Portland (75 miles away) for a Dr appointment. It was an unusual Feb morning, nice and clear blue sky and just a bit nippy (no rain!!!). I had a 67 Chev 3/4 ton 4X4 pickup, and was tooling along at about 65 MPH, or so, in the inside lane. Suddenly, I noticed tracks off into the median strip, then vehicles out in the median and also off the outside lane out in the mud. All of a sudden my thoughts were, OH NO!!. I quickly and lightly goosed the throttle and I was able to break the tires loose at that speed. Can you say "I need new shorts" real fast three time in a row without getting your tongue tangled around you teeth? Anyway, I carefully slowed down a lot, and I'd just crossed the Santiam River bridge at that speed.
Don
Husker6.5
135' diagonal 16:9HD, 25KW sound!
I'd hate to see you two boys driving in REAL winter conditions, like we USED to get here in Nebraska before Climate Change started kicking in. It RAINED here yesterday and last night, was a really unseasonably warm 49* today (normal high would be 25*) and was so foggy this morning that visibility was less than 100' in much of the state. That would have been 8" of snow instead of the light rain and drizzle we wound up getting. We're STILL the hardest hit drought state, 17" below normal at the end of 2012 and behind starting this year. (Check out the National Drought Map)
handcannon
Well-Known Member
You're probably right since we don't get very much in the way of white stuff, and when we do it's usually very slushy, not packed.
Ice is a different story for here. We get more ice than snow. For an area that is usually wet from rain, as soon as the temps plunge we have ice. I have driven a fair amount in snow, driving over the mountain passes and hunting etc, but not on a daily winter time basis like you have.
Don
Ice is a different story for here. We get more ice than snow. For an area that is usually wet from rain, as soon as the temps plunge we have ice. I have driven a fair amount in snow, driving over the mountain passes and hunting etc, but not on a daily winter time basis like you have.
Don
Husker6.5
135' diagonal 16:9HD, 25KW sound!
Yeah, Don, Nebraska's winter has more closely resembled coastal Oregon's this winter than the middle of the Great Plains. I'm waiting for the moss to start hanging off the branches and Sasquatch sightings close behind!
handcannon
Well-Known Member
When you find Sasquatch let me know. I'll help you capture him. We can use the moss to pad our clothing during capture.
Then you, Bill, and I can put together a traveling circus, make a million and prove there really is a Sasquatch and get off this disability merry-go-round subsistence.
Dreams! A livable income without disability and Obama.
Don