Butt Rubbing, Boot Camp & Eating

Now that’s a title.  But (pun intended) first Denny & I finished up making the batteries wiring pretty and safe.  Then we unhooked the Beast’s 50 AMP hook up to see how the 6 house batteries would work.  They held a full charge all day long with the inverter and stuff on.  I really like my 6 house batteries.  Thanks Ed and Denny.

Then it was time to rub butt.  Denny & Susie did this together as all couples should do.

First they rub the mustard in and then a seasoning.  I haven’t used Pappy’s in a long time due to unavailability on the east coast.  Pappy’s is from Fresno, CA where I spent my younger years.  After rubbing in the Pappy’s we stuck in the frig until tomorrow.

Later in the day I went over to the Escapee’s Boot Camp and see how George was doing with his seminar.  He was doing real good and just needs some fine tuning.

You’ve heard of Parrot Heads.  This is a box head.  Someone told Kellie to put a lid on it so she did.  she makes a great lemon pie.  Maybe I will get one before we leave….hint……hint….Joe got one…

Then it was time for Mac the Fire Guy with his “hot” presentation on fire safety.

When I was younger and drank a lot of beer I could do this.

Now..sorta like this…..

 

These ladies are ready to dish it out with experience. At least that is what their husbands said..  

 

Go girl..the hell with the diet……!

My two legged buddy…….

This is called eating in sequence.

She’s making that  Weeeeeeeeeeeeee oink sound.  It sounded like a pig that watched to much of the Three Stooges.

After eating it was time to retire………..

See ya………………

In Memory Of Patches and Brandi

Patches, our cat, her health has gone down hill very quick over the past week.  After several vet visits, x-rays and blood tests with no results it was time for her suffering to end. This was a damn hard decision and hurt a lot for Carol & I.

Brandi, Patches’ buddy,  health has been going down hill because of her age of 15 years old.  Since they were ever lasting buddies, it was only appropriate  for them to continue their travels together and without us.

MEMORIES…………thru tears……..

Patches had her favorite warm spots during the winter.  

She was our favorite dish.

She was a loving cat and would even make love to the cement bird bath.

Here she is sharing the heat with her young buddy Rainbow. 

She could and would sleep anywhere and in the middle of what ever you are doing. 

Yes, she’s inside the bag.

She didn’t like the cold tile floor so we fixed her a little blankie..

Tell me these guys weren’t buddies.

They switched beds often.  

Brandi liked when I would smoke some beef ribs.

Here’s my Mom with her dog Brandi with a jealous visitor.

The gang’s all here… 

She’s helping me pack.

How do you like me now!  

“So do you like me now?”   

What can I say….she’s my little buddy…..

Man oh man……good night little buddies. Thank you for the memories.      

Not good bye…but se ya  guys……….Where’s the friggin Kleenex.

Start Time 0730

At 0730 I was eating breakfast here with some fine gentlemen.

All grandpa’s should be this cool!

These pork loins marinated overnight and went into the Bradley Smoker when I returned.

Then it was time to work on installing the two extra 6 volt batteries and moving the chassis batteries.

These two batteries along with wiring are…

going to be moved to here…… after a shelf is made and installed.

I got my tools out..

I removed the chassis batteries and installed the 2 new 6 volt batteries on the left where the chassis batteries were. The wiring will come later.

The batteries fit real nice, all 6 six volts.  Not wired yet. That area to the far left is where the chassis batteries (two 12 volts) will go.

 

I had to call in the Seabee, Ed Kruty..

 

Then we got both batteries in the compartment with not too much room to play.  They are on a steel platform that Ed built and then installed.  He then said the wiring was up to me…I can do that!

That is with the help from Denny and a trip to get some cables made.

 

We wired up the house batteries then the chassis batteries.  Tomorrow I will make the wiring neat and safe.  No sparks or shocks and everything works.

Now it’s time to look at the smoker….wow…

While others went to the local restaurant we had diner with a few close old friends and all enjoyed the pork…it was juicy.

We watched some TV and the day was over.  Damn I missed by power nap time.

See ya….

Mayor Of Talkeetna, Alaska

When we were in Talkeetna, AK back in 2009 I was taking pictures as usual.  I took a picture and posted it to our blog.  Now, an associate editor of the Alaska Magazine has requested my permission to use a photo I took of the mayor of Talkeetna from back then.  You know that associate is reading my blog because she had my current email address.  The mayor is a cat.  Yes, that is right a cat called Stubb’s.  That’s cool…..

Back to reality….today was a little of this and that. I got 12 lbs of pork loin ready to smoke.

 

Smoker is ready for an early start tomorrow morning.

Then I started working on little things that are overdue for fixing.

The screen door handle was real loose.  I fixed it but installed one hnadle upside down.  It’s good for now. The cloth cover was on it so the clamp wouldn’t hit the paint.

Next was replacing Carol’s light with a LED.  She can’t find the LED light.  It don’t get back together until the LED is found.

Next was the outside LED that stopped working.  A couple of hits and turning the LED and it started working again.

Later in the day there was a social in front of Mark’s rig.  It was great….had some new faces there but the camera must have broke when I tried to take their pic.  Stay tuned….

see ya……