Well, today at about 10:30, something with the yarder's upper engine broke. Some housing and something to do with the transmission... Anyway, we had to use the delimber to take the upper engine off after they unhooked everything. I then passed it around so Pat could pick it up with the loader and put it in the pickup. He took that to town while Tom, Brandon and I stayed up there so Tom could work on some other issues and so Dennis could keep clipping trees. Basically I stood around and did nothing until 4:30. Fun fun. But I got paid for it.
Anyway, no work for me tomorrow. Unless I have to do some errand running for Pat. Like picking up a transmission from one of his old machines. We'll see.
-Miranda
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So this is a bit late, but I kept forgetting to get the pictures from my camera onto the computer.
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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