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  • From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
  • To: brierpatch AT yahoogroups.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org, Homestead_Friends AT yahoogroups.com, DropOut AT yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: [Homestead] I'm baaaack!
  • Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:34:00 -0500

After a four week absence I finally have high speed Internet again. It has been an eventful four weeks, I moved from Southern California to a home in the Missouri Ozarks. The move was a lot more expensive than I had budgeted but it is done. All of my junk, all of her junk required my overloaded pickup pulling the biggest trailer U-Haul had, me driving the biggest truck they had with two cats and pulling my way overloaded 16 foot tandem trailer, my wife driving a 17' truck with two dogs and the grandson and towing her overloaded car.

The truck was a gutless wonder, there were a few hills that I was not at all sure it would get up so the trip took a day longer than I scheduled. The tandem trailer shredded two tires, the last late on a Saturday afternoon and I could not find anyone to mount the extra tire I had and my tire tools were buried deep in the trailer. I spent the last day and a half in a constant worry about blowing another tire but we made it all the way.

We got here and unloaded the trucks then started unpacking. The previous owner had left a lot of stuff around, I have hauled off two big pickup loads of trash and have burned a huge pile of junk wood. There is still a pile of metal, two piles of stuff to donate, and a huge pile of xmas junk. I have had to clean out places to put stuff before I could unload my stuff, the tandem trailer was unloaded today, just over three weeks after we arrived.

I have cleared out the garage so I can put up a temporary shop and am in the process of putting the table saw, drill press, and joiner back together. I have to build a couple of cabinets and some book shelves.

Meanwhile my pickup had an engine fire, I caught it in time but I need to rebuild the wiring loom and fuel lines. My tractor also broke, I think the torque limiting clutch has failed. I spent money I do not have and bought another tractor so I could unload the trailer. I am getting a friend to help me get my dead tractor and and the travel trailer home.

It has been a month of get up in the morning and start working, continue until I can no longer move, take a nap, go agaon until collapse time, sleep and do it all over again

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Don Bowen KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html





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