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[Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

Welcome back. And the next adventure begins!

Rob VA

On 7/14/10, Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Don Bowen           KI6DIU
> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
>
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