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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2013 11:07:52 GMT -5
I had to come back and tell you Jean, I love your avatar photo. Makes me smile every time I see it even after  ? 1000 ? 2000 views. Jim |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 6, 2013 11:14:09 GMT -5
Jim, good to hear you are sitting pretty with no snow. I don't think I could deal with the cold. It got down to 57 degrees over night. It was 70 degrees in the house, and my poor short haired dog (pitbull mix) was laying on her bed shivering. The wuss...
We are having a "Santa Ana" right now. High pressure is sitting over the four corners area, so we get strong, gusty winds out of the NE. Blowing over the deserts, then up and over the mountains, the air dries out until the humidity is in the single digits. A real pain on your sinuses. October and the Santa Ana winds are the real start of fire concerns around here.
With all the dead/dry vegetation as fuel, the heat (supposed to get up to 93 here today), the winds, and stupid people (that are careless - or pyromaniacs setting fires on purpose), the fire danger is high. Once a fire storm starts, it just destroys everything in it's path. It's been six years since the last big fire. It was in November, and we were in the desert for a week at Thanksgiving. Ended up staying a few extra days because the fire was burning along our route home. We considered driving south to I-8, but high winds had shut that down as well.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2013 14:25:12 GMT -5
93 is too much but our 24 night before last was way not enough. If the wind was blowing that hard and you were in the desert there had to be a yard full of top soil in every crack. No no no, crack in the camper. Sheesh
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Post by gemfeller on Oct 6, 2013 14:54:15 GMT -5
On the trip that we went, I used a telephoto on the buffalo/bison. Husband left car to get a pic of an elk that was bugling, got his ass chased, too! Could've been funny, but it wasn't really. Would have totally messed up the rest of the trip. I grew up in Idaho Falls, ID and at that time it had the best hospital south of West Yellowstone (and maybe still does.) During tourist season the local newspaper published near-daily hospital reports of people injured or killed by run-ins with Yellowstone wildlife. Feeding the bears caused the most problems. I call it the "Disney-ization" of animals by people who don't pay attention to the word "wild" in wildlife. As one park ranger put it to me memorably: "Bears don't understand where the treat ends and the arm begins. It's all food to them." I'm glad your hubby survived his elk encounter. I was once chased by a very angry bull moose in a dense forest just south of West Yellowstone. It was an accidental encounter and I was lucky to escape. You don't realize just how big they are until one is after you. Rick |
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 6, 2013 14:58:30 GMT -5
Great pics Jim...We just did our vacation in Yellowstone Park in July,our 3rd trip there....Next is Glacier Park...
Did get to see a wolf in Yellowstone too,that was cool,those things are HUGE!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 6, 2013 15:40:11 GMT -5
I had to come back and tell you Jean, I love your avatar photo. Makes me smile every time I see it even after ? 1000 ? 2000 views. Jim Jim, I wasn't ignoring your post, I just missed it. I think we were posting at the same time. I'm glad you like the pony avatar, I'll leave it up until Scott takes a new photo of me in my element (desert, dirt, diggin' rocks!) on the Cady field trip. I just feel compelled to have a newer one, that's all. Maybe I could do a split one? Before and after? Anyway... That photo was taken over 50 years ago, and it brings back some good memories. You say it makes you smile? You could say I had an infectious smile (still do!). I've been told that antibiotics would clear that up... If you listen to jamesp, that was the last time that I was truly innocent, lol. |
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Post by jamesp on Oct 6, 2013 15:45:19 GMT -5
I think you are an absolute angel to this day Jean. Beware, i have recently been referred to as a fake. I think they were joking.
Is it a sin to silver tongue?
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 6, 2013 15:46:54 GMT -5
James, I don't think so...
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Post by jamesp on Oct 6, 2013 15:50:27 GMT -5
I saw the first batch when you posted Jim. But the hot spring and the ram is great.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 6, 2013 15:54:08 GMT -5
Then i was silver tonguing about your innocence ha ha That was sneaky. I'm sorry. not really ha ha ! (must be the drugs)
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 6, 2013 16:01:46 GMT -5
Yes, sneaky. I'll let you live this time, but only if you enjoyed your little joke. (yes, I can recall the drug comment, lol.)
EDIT to add - That was a misunderstanding. You called me a worm. I had assumed it must have been the drugs, since you were feverish after the bug bite.
Heading off to parents for birthday dinner - YUM!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 7, 2013 21:12:09 GMT -5
93 is too much but our 24 night before last was way not enough. If the wind was blowing that hard and you were in the desert there had to be a yard full of top soil in every crack. No no no, crack in the camper. Sheesh Jim Jim, but it's a dry heat, LOL! I've been in the desert, wandering around in 100 plus degree heat, hunting for rocks. As long as you have a little breeze, you're good to go. But once the air totally stills, you feel the heat radiating back up at you from the ground. When that happens, time to go find some shade, and imbibe a cold one or two. Maybe play some poker to pass the time. As long as there is still some light, you can always go back out and look later after it's cooled down. The trailer we have now is a 2005 Weekend Warrior. It has its good points and its bad points. Dirt/sand can blow in around the rear door (it's a toy box), as that's not sealed real well. Also around the side door. But the thing I hate worst is when the wind is really strong. We went to Wiley's Well/Hauser Geode Bed area for the last week of 2012. It was extremely gusty. The wind was mostly out of the west, so it was like driving down the freeway, as far as the wind blowing over the trailer. But when it shifted 90 degrees, howling and gusting out of the south, I thought the trailer was going to go over. It actually picked up off the jacks/blocks on the windward side - very scary. This was in the middle of the night. Don't know how, but somehow managed to get some sleep. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2013 7:49:20 GMT -5
Isn't there some way to seal the door better and what is the door like that goes from the toy box to the living space. I have never needed that much space to carry all the toys. Uh...uh...oh.OHH..uh...never mind.
I think that at that time I would have crawled into the pickup and gone to sleep. Tipping over in one of these things does not sound fun even if it is stopped. Being semi round I would fall first then everything else would fall on me. and then I would have to stack things up so I could climb up and out. I have an escape window on the opposite side from the door but that is still eight feet up in the air when it is tipped over. Maybe if I head that way I should put a small ladder in the closet.
100 degree heat is damn hot even if the humididity is zero. I can put on a lot of cloths when it is cold but when it is hot I can only take off so much before everyone starts laughing and falling down. Ok, I am joking, they would only be falling down.
My 22.5 foot camper is parked right next to a six foot high fence with alternating boards staggered down 2 X 4 horizontals. That leaves between two and three feet sticking above the fence. I have been staying in the camper because my window air conditioner in the house broke down and I have a great heat and air conditioner unit in the roof of the camper. Too close to winter to buy a new window air conditioner. What I am getting to is that the wind was blowing so hard one night a while back that I thought this thing was going to blow over even with the fence blocking a lot of the wind. I do not have the jacks under it now and I was rocked (very hard) to sleep. We had gusts to, I think, 76 mph. I was surprised that there was not more damage around town.
So, when I head south for the winter where can I go and find warm days and not really cold nights. 76 degrees day and night would be perfect but I know that is only a dream. The closer I can get to that, the better. Of course I would want some excellent hounding within fifty miles too. Probably another dream. Oh yea, besides that I want only green areas with no dust. yea right. lol
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 8, 2013 9:10:57 GMT -5
You don't ask for much, do you, Jim? Green areas? Ha, ha. No dust? Ha, ha, ha, ha! Over the years, temps I have experienced in Quartzsite in January go from lows overnight in the upper 40s, low 50s (occasionally down to freezing), and highs during the day can be in the low 60s to mid 80s, low 90s. It is extremely variable. Some years, no wind, others, gusty winds that play havoc with the awnings/shades of the vendors - just ask Tony (catmandewe).
The entire inside of the trailer is living space, nothing separating toy hauling area from the front. The large back drop door is basically the entire back side of the trailer (with the exception of less than a foot at the very top). There is some weather stripping around the edges of it, but it's just not a tight fit. Same with the door you walk through. Like I said before, the trailer has good points and bad. It was made cheaply, and their quality control was lacking. Several years back, the company shut down, moved down the street and reopened under another name. Hope they are doing things better this time.
Well, Jim, I hope things work out for you to make it this year. In the past, we've gone out for ten days that include the week of the PowWow. Husband only gets one week of vacation a year. Now that he has gotten into prospecting, he may want to do something else with that time. But at the minimum, we'll make it for that weekend. Since I'm no longer buying raffle items for the rock club (don't miss that at all!), or a lot of rocks for me, we can spend more time hunting rocks or doing the fieldtrips. Looking forward to it! Jean
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2013 11:25:44 GMT -5
Ok, so it is like a construction trailer with living area in the front. Sounds really handy as long as there are no gasoline fumes from the toys and you blow up. lol
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2013 13:10:26 GMT -5
@wampidy - thank you for the pics. those are really great.
To the rest of you smarmy bee-atches - well, nuf said.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 8, 2013 13:15:52 GMT -5
Smarmy, huh? You better watch your step, dude! I will give you another birthday myself!!!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 8, 2013 14:38:49 GMT -5
Ok, so it is like a construction trailer with living area in the front. Sounds really handy as long as there are no gasoline fumes from the toys and you blow up. lol Jim Jim, I can see you still don't grok this. Not a construction trailer. And toys are only transported to desert, then removed. They don't stay inside, so no worries about fumes. Here's a few pics: Left side  Right side  The whole enchilada (it's not your eyes, the pic is fuzzy)  The toy that goes inside. Only need one, I drive the truck offroad, don't like to breathe dirt.  View from inside looking out open back drop door. Kitchen at opposite end. Beds/benches on each side, queen bed up top. Dogs on benches.  Hot (according to Jim)./ October can still be baking, and sometimes humid as well.  Hot dog. Normally would have the A/C on, but we had just got back from a jaunt. The A/C will cool it down pretty fast. One day when we were out there, we ran it all day long.  Quartzsite January 2013.  This was the fire that kept us out in the desert that I had mentioned. The year was 2007, but I was wrong about the month. It was in October, not at Thanksgiving.  I thought I had some other pics of the inside of the trailer, guess I'll just have to take some. So, is it clearer now? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2013 17:38:30 GMT -5
Ok darlin, I was not talking about living in a construction trailer. lol lol I was talking about having a back like a construction trailer and the front had NORMAL (if there is such a thing) living space. SHEESH I really assumed that you had a kitchen, beds, windows, air conditioning, frig and bathroom. I also assumed that you have a generator to run a bunch of it.
Drag the tools out of the trailer paw, we are going camping. hahahaha
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 8, 2013 17:47:54 GMT -5
Jim, I didn't know that construction trailers had backs like that, LOL! Yes, you assumed correctly - kitchen, beds, windows, air conditioning, frig and bathroom (w/shower), generator, plus - water heater and wall heater. It has like a 20 gallon tank for gas for the generator, plus it has a pumping station, so you use the dang thing as a rolling gas tank, and fill your toys (four strokes only, you still have to mix oil for the 2 strokes).
I would have gone out and taken some pics as it sits on my driveway, but it is a mess. The quad is already out of there and in a shed, but the trailer has not been cleaned since Quartzsite in January... my bad.
A guy is supposed to come out tomorrow afternoon, and replace the 8 year old awning on it. The sun kills them. Will make a cover for the rolled up awning to protect it while it is on driveway.
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