I got the day off for my birthday so I got to sleep in. Also, the neighbors horses were down by the fence so I went to see them. I brought some carrots too. It was raining so I didn't stay out long.
-Miranda
The neighbors horses. The one tended to drop the carrots I gave him.
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It was 50 degrees up at the job today! I was getting the rest of the mud off the tracks now that it was warm enough (long story) and I easily should have been working in my t-shirt. Crazy. Our temps have been basically the same as Minnesota.. up until now I guess.
-Miranda
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We had loads of fun tonight. After dinner we played a game that Becky F. got us for christmas, Chaturanga. It's like chess except four people can play and there's a dice associated with it. It would be too long to try to explain the whole game.
Nancy won. Then we played three games of Pitch, of which Nancy and I won two of the games. Lot's o' fun.-Miranda
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Today Pat and Nancy took us for a drive around northwest Montana. We went up to Libby and through Troy. We also went by Turner Mountain (a ski hill) and went for a short hike to a swinging bridge and the Kootenai Falls off of highway 2. There is a map below that shows our general route (I believe). Pat told us a bunch of stories, which was fun. We got to see a bunch of new countryside, which was pretty. Unfortunately, the only pictures I got of the swinging bridge are blurred. The sun was setting and Joe kept bouncing.
Think the bridge at Jay Cooke State Park but skinnier and more bouncy. There was a limit of 5 persons. -Miranda
The map. To give an idea of distance, it's a bit over 100 miles to Troy from Kalispell along highway 2.
Libby Dam.
Momma Mary might recognize this.
The Kootenai Falls on the Kootenai River. Notice the frost on the upper mountain. There were some neat frost lines.
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So this morning I had hydralic oil leaking out of the machine's head. So I shut her down and found a hose that was leaking. Pat got some stuff from the shop truck and made a hose. I think he's getting a replacement tomorrow. Regardless it works, it's just longer than needed so there's extra hose snaking around in the head.
Then, not four hours later, I was extending the head out to put a log down in the deck and it wouldn't stop. Went all the way out to the stops. Pat was in the loader at the end of the deck so it was good the head was angled down enough, otherwise he might have had a log through his window. Anyway, then Tom (he was in the yarder) says on the radio, "shut it off. Your pumping oil everywhere." Great. So I blew a big hose on the top of the boom. While Pat worked on fixing that, I drove to the shop truck (it's down the road a ways parked in a wide spot) and got 15 gallons of hydralic oil. There is now oil everywhere. My tacks are super slippery.
So, I'm getting a bit frustrated and I'll be really happy when spring break-up comes.
-Miranda
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