Sunday, January 20, 2008

The past couple of days have been awesome solar days. The batteries are very happy. The temp dropped to -33.9 Canadian over night.








Remember the adage about building a garage at least twice the size that you think you need?



I gave Razor a hand fixing the WHOA part of the grader. Here he is all set to plow the Sand Dam road.



As you might have seen by C's comment on the last post, I tried to turn the Yammie into a Canadian Navy submarine, and much like the Navy's subs, it didn't float. I was looking for Kita's tracks around a swamp and fell through thin ice. The back end of the sled sank about three feet. I managed to use a come-a-long and winch it onto some little bushes. Razor came along after the hard work was done. He said that he thought he could drive it out, so I told him to go for it. He drove that thing like a SeaDoo across forty to fifty feet of open water and thin ice 'till he got it on solid ice. Thanks Razor, that was definitely a "Crown Royal" moment.

2 comments:

Melinda and Timothy Brown said...

Not much difference between -33.9
Canadian and -33.9 European. As we all know, -40f and -40c, same place on the thermometer.
I always manage to trick a trainee by asking which is colder

Anonymous said...

Just want everyone "out there" to know how much We in the deep woods of Little Tomiko, appreciate the efforts of Don and Frank. Especially when you know that your last trip into Camp in your 4 wheel drive means, that if it snows and gets windy, that getting back out may not be an option. There is nothing nicer than the sound and sight of a huge CHAMPION GRADER coming round the corner. The road out was like a super hwy. Thanks Don and Frank