Hello Bob .
Haven’t heard from you in a while . Hope you are safe .
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Wife and I visiting youngest daughter and her boyfriend in Gothenburg. Lazy Saturday with salty dips. 27C (80F) water temp. 
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Just been busy Wayne, took my Grandson fishing for the first time. They live in Little Rock Arkansas. The fire danger is over for now. They brought in two airplanes that can come down and pick up water out of the river fly back up and dump the water on the fires. They flew hundreds of trips in the past few days.
The fire is now getting mopped up. No lost lives and no homes. They are up on the mountain with a crane repairing the power poles that were damage to the big communications station on Burch mountain.
I hope and pray our fire Season will soon be over for us. That was a close call for to many people here. Our fire fighting people Awsome, they stopped the north end on Wenatchee from burning up.
Bob
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Gotta love aviation.
The wait was getting scary. Glad your safe!
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Yes, sorry I should up dated yesterday. I travel to Moses Lake for the fishing trip. My yougest Grandson Henry did catch a nice catfish, and he was the only one that caught a fish that day. He was very happy boy.
I have been waiting 10 years for this day and it gave me so much joy to have my two Grandsons out fishing with me.
Devin my oldest Grandson has been out with me before. The last time he was out fished me big time. He caught walleye, perch, bass, catfish, sculpin, blue gill, and some black crappie. I have never seen anyone catch that many different spices of fish all at one time in one area on a point at Potholes Lake fishing before. I caught a big rainbow trout.
Thank you and everyone else for your thoughts and prayers it work a miracle for us here in Wenatchee, Washington State.
Bob
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Next time out on Potholes with the grandkids toss in a couple crawfish traps, my boys love checking crawdad traps! And from what I’m told potholes is the #2 best place in the state for big ones and large numbers. Snake river is #1 and is chick full of them
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??? We don’t get that temperature here!!! The sea is still cold all summer. No need to go to the south for you then?
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The water is still rising here. I had a discussion with my father, he said in a few days the ferry will stop. No that will never happen in summer , I said. Today it stopped, to strong current and a lot of garbage in the water, the captain said. Water has risen 3 m/ 10 feet in a couple of days now. Not likely to happen in the summer, normal for wintertime. Grazy, in the south they got this amount of water in one day!!! Only material damage in Holland, maybe more luck then wisdom (dutch saying in English too?) if you look at Germany. Complete villages are gone there, water has real powers.
Floodplains are filling right now, on the other side of the water summer dike of flooding. Ferry stopped working. At least we have a 6 metrs 18 feed reserve but man it is a mess in the south.
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On the lighter side of things.
There is something you don’t see everyday. I switched suppliers of twine this year and the change over went through without missing a knot so the baler tied two different colors of twine in the same knot.
I just thought it looked funny when I cut the bale to feed it out tonight.
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Went on a very very uphill mountain hike today with my shooting friends, whooped my butt! We left trailhead at daylight and crested out the top of hi rock in 1hr 5 minutes. BEAUTIFUL views! I would like to do it again at dark and get the sunrise pictures
Looking at hi rock from the trailhead
Looking out from the lookout landing at coral lake and Mt Rainier
From lookout back down sawtooth ridge 1.3 miles up elevation gain of 1365 feet topping out at 5685 feet above sea level
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Hi Marcus, up at Banks Lake at the south end at Coulee City all you need is a 5 gal. Bucket and walk in the swimming area and you can pick them up with your bare hand.
Traps work good too.
Bob
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Iv had great luck with trout on banks but it has been many years since I visited those waters. If time permits I’ll load up the camper for a weekend and get the kids out there for some fun
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Marcus,
Great hike. Beautiful scenery. Thank for sharing.
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Shallow bay. Probably a lot colder further out.
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Wood species MATTERS!!
Whether building/framing. Furniture making. Wood stove heating. Gasifing.
My five full cords of dump trailer delivered for next winter now our six weeks drying down.
I’ll wheel barrow in top layer sun/wind exposed, directly. The ground contact wood will be stacked up off on the pallet platform for September finished drying. Tarp-on; tarp-off morning and evenings.
The easy six week dry Douglas Fir has a red heart wood core. A white live wood sap outer. Thick ground fire resistant bark.
My neighbor supplier ran out of DF cull logs. The last trailer delivered is Red Alder. He apologized.
This local hardwood will not completely season/dry in our six weeks of drought.
Has 4X the ash of DF. Energy releases much slower than quick DF. Yet will not hold overnight fire like the best true hardwoods.
All live white wood. With a thinner not-fire resistant bark. Has a very thick red sappy cambium layer.
The only plusses are it is easy to hand split. And the only local tree woods we have that you can actually burn fresh sap wood cut. Very low net heat then. But better than nothing.
Theses gasify much differently. It is the differences of the speed of energy release. >1% ash versus <4% ash. Fir flaming energy dense pitch, versus Alder weak sizzle sap.
Steve unruh
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That alder is a very interesting species, like you said splits like butter! Can grow 15+ feet annually and very eradic. From straight grain number one export to the most twisted up ugly useless multi head stumps iv ever seen, usually when they decide to grow around and or encompass something in there path to the sunlight (chain link fence, stumps,other trees,cars and trucks, iv seen a bicycle 20’ up once) Can be very dangerouse to fall as they can barber chair at any moment, very hard to control as the sapwood has almost no holding power to steer the tree down to the ground. Know for the main stem to die off and rot inside out forming a shell and new growth growing off of that in a very unstable system. Those ones tend to explode when they hit the dirt. Iv had one that exploded before I got the back cut in, face cut only and the shell was destabilized enough to just crumple forward. We usually burn df and maple mix with alder thrown in as a filler for wood heat. I like to use it as smoker wood as well for salmon and trout
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Old trick is to fasten a chain around the trunk. Some use heavy duty trucking straps.
The sky is all white from the Canadian forest fires. No blue to see. Still too darn hot, even with the smoke cover.
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I use chain and binder for the bigger ones, small ones back cut first with a light wedge tap and small face cut. Tickle it over from the front into the lean you want and tap the wedge to send it over. It usually the back cut that lets the barber chair go so do it first and keep a sharp eye and it can be done safely
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Don’t want to get my hopes up but my dad talked to one of his old buds and the guy still has his old 76 Jaguar sedan with a 350sbc and Turbo350 transmission in it. It’ll need a lot of work if we can get it. New floorboards for sure and needs a new backglass. I don’t care about interior that much if she’ll fly. Dad was the one that put the new engine and transmission into it.
Hoping he’ll be interested in some kind of trade or low price for it since its sat for the better part of a decade.
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