High Life.......

Lots to catch up on and all under "High Life".
Motor Home..actually visited our tranny since it was being serviced a few short miles from where we set. It turns out that the servicing center (Pacific Power Services) is located in Ridgefield Washington, just up I5 a few miles. So I made a personal appearance to check out the situation. The service manager (Brad) was really great in humoring my request to visit my transmission. It had just been reassembled and was waiting to be attached to the dyno for functional testing. This was all this past Tuesday, Brad was pretty sure that the timeline would be testing complete and shipped back to Woodpecker by Thursday. Since that time I have found that all came together as planned, testing was fully successful and the unit was in transit as of my call to them yesterday (Thursday) morning. In turn called Woodpecker and they were expecting the tranny this morn (Friday) with assembly back into the motor home by this afternoon. Excited to pick it up but did not want to push them to hard so at this time the plan is to leave here mid day Monday, make a pickup that afternoon and head back this way. Do not really want to do a turn around trip all in one day so planning to do an RV over nighter and then come back here on Tuesday.  Yeeeeeees!!!!

Sue and I used yesterday to do a little road trip. Mt St Helens is a few miles north of here so we took a back road through the hills to the Johnston Observatory. Quite a bit of driving (a couple of hundred miles each way) so did not get much hiking in, but a very enjoyable trip. The observatory was built in honor of a scientist (David Johnston) that lost his life the morning of the eruption (May 18, 1980...seems like yesterday). He was monitoring the volcano from where the observatory is located when it blew. Not sure what he was thinking, the location is 6 miles from the mountain but as you can see by the below pictures, seems obvious that you would be in harms way in the event of the eruption that was sure to come. I guess he loved volcanoes so much that he was willing to sacrifice himself for the opportunity that was presented to him.
Pretty incredible to think about what came at him that morning. The films that we viewed have footage capturing the blow out along with the flow of destruction that was carried 14 miles down the valley. Plus for those that might recall, the ash cloud actually circled the globe. I remember in Nebraska, the ash particles that we found on our cars wind shields.

6 miles away....but much too close to watch an eruption!!!

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Can't complete a BLOG entry with out a grandson picture. Gpa and Gma found some slick looking knight out fits that we knew they would love. Nice.....

 

Looks like they might be ready for Halloween....Knight!!!

 

 

Road Rash.....

 

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