My Life and Travels
90° today.
Here is our drive over to Kaner Flats.
I forget to take a picture before I started.
This is the first step removing the old 27 inch tube TV. It was really heavy and hard to handle. Zach was nice enough to come over today and help me get it out of the motorhome.
I had to spend a lot of time putting some wood over the back of the cabinet to cover the insulation. I had a couple of pieces of door skin and I was able to use it to give the hole a little more finished look.
I put this 28 inch HDTV into the motorhome. It gives me an inch on each side and about 6 inches at the bottom.
I purchased a motorhome grade TV mounting bracket which will allow the TV to swing out of the hole and give me a bunch of storage behind the mounting bracket and board. The mounting bracket is attached to a piece of oak. I used oak because I was concerned that over time and road miles a piece of pine or even plywood might start to twist.
I even added two pieces of laminated oak strips to back side of the mounting board.
Here is the swing mounting bracket.
Here is the swing mounting bracket.
The oak board is placed between two 1×2’s which were glued and screwed to the sides of the TV cabinet. I then put a pocket screw into the board and a support under the board so it can not slide down. Don’t think this is going to go anywhere.
Here is the TV swung out of the cabinet.
Almost finished, the box on the right is the old switching box which will eventually be removed. I also put in a small shelf over the Sat box so we can store something behind the TV.
Here is a final install picture I took this morning. At this point I don’t know how I’ll finish off the space below the TV.
My next project is to handle the dual pane windows and the moisture which has started to collect inside them. It is really expensive to have these windows taken apart and reassembled or buy new ones. A couple of weeks ago I purchase all the necessary materials from a guy in Oregon with the plan to do this myself. I really should get the two front windows done before we leave at the end of August. In the instructions he says to use a 32 to 1 caulking gun or better yet a powered caulking gun. The caulking is really thick and a powered caulking gun will provided smoother more even application of the caulking/sealant.
This is what I finally purchased. It is one massive machine and should not have any problem applying the caulk. It will produce 650 pounds of torque.
Finally more Mt. Rainier pictures.
19, 20, and 21
Monday Hank and I hiked up to Bullion Basin. It was a beautiful day, we had a good time and were TIRED when we got back. Left about 10:30 back at 3:00.
Here is topo InReach view of the hike.
This is the satellite view.
Picture of Bullion Basin, and yes the basin is named for gold bullion. This whole valley was a gold mining area in 1890’s.
Hank asking do we have to stop NOW, I still want to smell thinks. When he’s hiking up the trail he pants to stay cool and drags his tongue in the dirt and dust someday I’ll remember to take a picture of his dirt tongue (happy Hank).
Picture of Mt. Rainier from just before the trail reaches Bullion Basin.
I have more Mt. Rainier pictures, here is three more 13, 14 & 15.
Have a great day.
(editorial comment: I’m writing this offline with MS Word and the blogger template, so we’ll see what happens. I have 4 pictures to put into the blog which are on this laptop and will need to be uploaded to wordpress. We’ll see if they upload by putting them into this document, if they don’t I’ll upload them into the workpress media folder and insert them online.) (Posting through MS Word did not work, I uploaded pictures to wordpress and cut and paste the text.)
I thought this was a nice back drop for a flag picture.
I took a bunch of flag pictures and I liked these the best.
Here is Tanya, Mike and Tanya’s little friend.
I also liked this picture.
I’m going to try and post this now in case it doesn’t work and I have to rewrite it. (didn’t work through MS Word, oh well.)
I still have pictures from out Mt. Rainier stay.
Here is 10, 11, and 12.
Campsite and traveling flamingo pictures.
This will be our family ( less Brian) retirement party. Brian gets to work this weekend at Village Theatre. Tanya will be here tomorrow afternoon, Mike in the evening with Christine and Benedick coming Saturday morning. Weather is going to be mid 80’s.
Last night was family (less Brian) “Book of Mormon” night, truly a funny musical. This is the second time to see the musical and a week after Tanya returned from UUUganda, it was a fun evening.
We were back at 11:00 8.2 miles. We went up and back the same trail. I think the line shows some separation because in the lower section we were on a hill side in some large timber. As soon as we got a little higher and into some more open areas the tracks stay the same.
Here is the track for the week. The single line to the left is our track driving to Paradise on the 7th, I was to lazy to filter it out.
The next pictures are from our campsite in parking lot F going up valley and down valley.
It’s Friday evening and we are home for awhile get to see “Book of Mormon” on Wednesday. By the way my Fitbit has me at over 26000 steps today.
Here are several more Mt. Rainier pictures.
Pictures (7,8,9)
Another great day, does seem like we just got back from our normal two week vacation and we should be going back to work on Monday ???? Hope I don’t forget Monday.
Upper Hen Skin
Where would we be without camera’s in our phones.
This is Lower Hen Skin from the other side from the trip a couple of days ago.
I have some wild flower pictures but they are on my camera and will have to wait.
We have been here since last Saturday and water is starting to get low. I think we will head home tomorrow afternoon before we are completely out of water. Weather forecast is calling for rain on Saturday.
Hope this all posts I can not review the first half of what I wrote.
(4,5,6)
Here is today’s walk down to Sand Flats horse camp and Half Camp.
Mt. Rainier pictures:
You only get one picture today because Steve Jobs and I don’t think alike. I resized a bunch of pictures on my laptop, uploaded them to DropBox and was going to put them in this blog from my IPad. Problem is I named them in the sequence I want to post them, however once I get the picture/file to IPad I can not see the file name only the picture. Thus I can not put them in sequence because they are mixed in with a bunch of other pictures, oh we’ll.
