tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11020056157466226122024-02-06T23:50:18.489-06:00Murmur Creek ObservatoryStanley Tullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110136008202678965noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1102005615746622612.post-66225157293827072802016-01-31T16:18:00.000-06:002016-01-31T16:18:48.015-06:00Back on Track's<div style="text-align: center;">
Well it's been a strange few weeks</div>
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and thanks are in order.<br />
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After many years of hard use and little to no maintenance </div>
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I had to do some repair work on our track set-up.</div>
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A call to David at<br />
<b> "American Track Truck"</b><br />
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Not only is the service and shipping well above average<br />
but his pricing made the repair very reasonable.</div>
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I had everything I needed in just a few days!</div>
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Thank you for being such a great company to deal with!</div>
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Thank you<br />
<b>"Tire and Auto Lodge"</b><br />
The four turns of the front torsion bar was perfect,<br />
that raised the 1999 Rodeo a strong 1inch<br />
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Big thanks to<br />
<b> Dean Berneking,</b></div>
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The use of the heated shop with a swinging boom chain hoist,</div>
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and his help, made the job an easy one.</div>
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Installation is much nicer in a warm shop</div>
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Dean's and delivered it within 3 miles of our house.</div>
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With the shoulder surgery late in the fall I didn't get a chance to stage my winter equipment properly.</div>
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This became painfully obvious when I needed to get my drag out to groom the road. </div>
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Not only was the drag behind a pile of snow, it was behind a loaded two place snowmobile trailer that was behind the snow pile.</div>
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Here is a photo of what piss poor planning (PPP) looks like:</div>
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The thing sticking out behind the trailer is the tongue for the drag.</div>
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By this time the snow pile is rock hard, </div>
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I came up with a elegant solution,</div>
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ram the crap out of it with the back of my pick-up until it was soft enough to shovel.</div>
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Ramming it got me to this point.</div>
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After shoveling to find the tongue I hooked on to it with a strap and </div>
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pulled the tongue right out from underneath the trailer. </div>
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Thank god Pat was there to give me that look of</div>
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So now I have a heavy box of snowmobiles that I can no longer move</div>
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and the snowmobiles only unload out of the back. </div>
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That was enough damage for one day, so we decided to try again the next day.</div>
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Over night I came up with a plan,</div>
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not a great one, but the only one I could think of.</div>
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We started by cleaning off the top of the trailer so we could open the top,</div>
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I then ran two straps,</div>
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one under and the other through the trailer connecting them together in the back</div>
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then closed the trailer. </div>
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This finely worked and the trailer was free, </div>
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I now had a opening to retrieve my drag,</div>
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Running straps to the drag</div>
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we were able to pull it onto the driveway.</div>
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after the pull</div>
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That's two day of my life I'll never get back.</div>
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Here is a short video of the drag in action.</div>
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My cat Itchy had a visitor last week, </div>
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normally it's the white menace (snowshoe rabbit)</div>
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but this week it's a brown menace (pine marten?)</div>
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Got home the night of the 25th to find around 5" of new snow.</div>
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No big deal, the next day we went to work,<br />
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On my way out of the garage door I hooked the plow blade on the door frame and snapped one of the pins that holds the plow on.</div>
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Meanwhile Pat is running the snowblower working on the path to the observatory,<br />
she was able to find one of our hanging solar Chinese lantern that had fallen do to snow load.</div>
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It wrapped in the auger and broke the shear pin,<br />
so we are less then a hour into snow removal and all our equipment is broken down.</div>
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Regrouping in the house, I started to unpack our new play toy,<br />
Pat give me a GoPro camera with a package of mounting brackets, </div>
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we started with filming a red squirrel eating sunflower seeds.<br />
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Once at warmed up enough we decided to run out to the storage building for the parts we need to fix all our broken stuff. </div>
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Putting the windshield mount on the camera we climbed into the jeep and filmed the drive out,<br />
it's about 10 minutes long and gives a good look at our everyday drive to get to our vehicles.<br />
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Returning home with parts and the chainsaw we stopped and removed the low hanging tree that we could hardly get under,<br />
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The snowblower needs more attention then I want to give it that day<br />
so it's up to the plow to do most of the work,<br />
after a few hours of plowing including getting stuck several times things were looking pretty good.</div>
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Before calling it a day we pulled down the<br />
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after reinstalling it we were done for the day.</div>
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Back indoors I decided to look at the video we shot throughout the day!</div>
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That would be the exact time I realized I no longer know where the camera is.</div>
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The search began,<br />
it included looking in the jeep, garage, house<br />
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Now in the dark we continued with flashlight trips up and down the driveway<br />
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The new day brought a new search,<br />
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Answers were mixed at best, the guy from GoPro said<br />
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I have always shopped pawn shops,<br />
so I'm in my mid 30's I had a pocket full of money and a day off in some small town USA.</div>
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I decide to make a trip to the closest pawn shop to look around, the great part about pawn shops is you never know what you need till you find it.</div>
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That day a metal detector caught my eye, hell what mid 30's guy could pass that up, after a little negotiations it was mine.</div>
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This is one of those buys that when you get home your wife gives you the look,<br />
well I got that look but explained we could have some fun with this new found item.</div>
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Her response was you'll never use it,<br />
to prove her wrong I packed it twice for winter vacations, once to Florida and then Costa Rica and never used it.</div>
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Three winters ago I was asked to find a underground gas tank<br />
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The cover came off during snowplowing and was somewhere in a large snow pile,<br />
I found it in short order and charged them lunch, I was well on my way to locating items for fun and profit.</div>
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Back on the shelf it went waiting for the next big opportunity,<br />
2 day's ago it was pulled of the shelf and prepared it for service and the search was on!</div>
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I put about two hours into the search the first day to no avail,<br />
I search enough to be sure I wasn't going to drive over it with the jeep but still worried I might find it with the snowblower.</div>
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Well Wednesday Pat and I went looking again,<br />
this time searching the snow piles humped up by the 4 wheeler plow, we started knocking the tops off the piles so the metal detector could check deeper into the banks and we found it within a hour.</div>
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Between the searching we also fixed all our broken stuff so we're ready again for snow.</div>
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Christmas was good with the exception of mom's dog having health trouble that could not be fix so she had to put Henry down on Christmas Eve, very sad.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">We took care of Henry a few years back for a shot time, he wasn't much of a woodsy dog, more a city slickers.</span></div>
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We had him down on the dock and he fell in the water, I know some dogs don't swim but I figured all dog at least float. </div>
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Not Henry he sank like a brick,<br />
I look over to see what happened and he was standing on the bottom of the lake looking puzzled.</div>
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Pat jump right into the water and save his ass,<br />
she was not going to let that dog drown on her watch, I would have helped but I was paralyzed in laughter.</div>
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today is our wedding anniversary, 28 years of married bliss.</div>
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I've had people calling and emailing her all day to tell her how lucky she is to be married to me! </div>
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I've been telling here this for 28 years and at times I think she forget just how lucky she is,<br />
so feel free to call, text or email her and remind her,<br />
thanks for your help on this issue.</div>
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Our test video of the red squirrel</div>
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Stanley Tullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110136008202678965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1102005615746622612.post-24679297823659070742015-12-20T18:42:00.001-06:002015-12-20T18:42:40.275-06:00Winter hit's with a mixed mess<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center;">
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Turned out to be a bad decision. If I had waited till morning for turning the truck around it would have gone better, instead I ended up badly stuck.</div>
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No big deal, just run the three miles on the 4 wheeler to the storage building and get Val and Kathy's jeep on tracks, or so I thought.</div>
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About a mile into my trip I find a large cedar tree hanging across the road about 5 feet above the road surface. This tree had fell in the 10 minutes it took me to get stuck.</div>
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At this point the word "screwed" comes to mind.</div>
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I had only been out of my arm sling 2 days after shoulder surgery and pretty sure over head chainsaw work is out of the question.</div>
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With one phone call to my new neighbor Richard Bohnen my trouble was over! He was kind enough to snowmobile down to my fallen tree and he cut and cleared the road in no time.<br />
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Here she is, a 3 year old Sphinx, yup hairless, what a sweet cat, <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">it's the first cat I've seen that came with outfits. I </span>was really hoping it would work but Itchy would have none of it.</div>
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Just packing up for Christmas in the cities, it's always hard for me to leave here for any amount of time, Pat not so much, she's looking forward to the trip and Christmas.</div>
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Stanley Tullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110136008202678965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1102005615746622612.post-27455766387170764512015-12-13T17:05:00.003-06:002015-12-13T17:05:41.363-06:00Been to Long<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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I haven’t written since May 2014, as a matter of fact I have
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<li>unsuccessful run for county commissioner </li>
<li>appointed to the water adversary committee</li>
<li>appointed to the Cook County Planning and Zoning Board of
Commissioners</li>
<li>appointed to Cook County Board of Adjustments</li>
<li>seat on the Cook County/Grand Marais Airport Committee</li>
<li>elected to the Arrowhead Electric Cooperative board of
directors</li>
<li>Seat on the county aquatic invasive species task force</li>
<li>Volunteer lake & river monitor</li>
<li>Seat on the Comprehensive Land Use committee</li>
<li>Board of Directors Birch Grove Foundation</li>
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<li>· Winter of 13/14 was tough and very long</li>
<li>· Winter 14/15 not too bad</li>
<li>· Winter 15/16 not much so far</li>
<li>· Rebuilt a boat big enough for the Great Lakes</li>
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<li>· Have high speed fiber internet to the cabin and observatory</li>
<li>· Grand kids visit</li>
<li>· Blew out my other shoulder, surgery required</li>
<li>· Summer of 2015 was great weather</li>
<li>· Lots of friends visited and fished over the two summers</li>
<li>· A few large fish over the two summers</li>
<li>· Had a yard beaver one summer</li>
<li>· Lots of wolf sightings</li>
<li>· Bird feeding both winters was unbelievable added a new feeder</li>
<li>· Tried to place a new cat in the house (not good)</li>
<li>· Road repair</li>
<li>· House in the cities flooded from a broken dishwasher</li>
<li>· Pretty good garden summer 2015</li>
<li>· Flower gardens doing very well</li>
<li>· Lost our clothing optional sign (it was holding back property sales)</li>
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Stanley Tullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110136008202678965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1102005615746622612.post-92115293578290881052014-04-30T19:56:00.000-05:002014-04-30T19:56:39.100-05:00Long, Hard, Cold, Snowy Winter and My Cat Died<div style="text-align: center;">
King Leonardo<br />
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All long time readers or anyone who has visited the observatory or our house know the King and his brother Itchy.</div>
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Unfortunately Lenny died Sunday April 27 from health issues that just piled up and was too much for him.<br />
He was well loved and will be sorely missed maybe most by his brother, they have never been apart.<br />
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Now the weather<br />
It's getting harder to convince my wife Pat that the move to Grand Marais was a good idea<br />
We have been on tracks since late November and I don't see getting off them till end of May.<br />
Six months of not being able to drive her car to the house is getting very old!<br />
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This was almost a daily site, our snow total is over 180 inches this year and snow is still in the forecast. We have had 18 inches in the last 12 days.<br />
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weekly snow removal from the dome<br />
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and cabin<br />
Jim started to worry about his deck so we went down to clear it off<br />
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Took half a day just to get the path to his house<br />
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We opened the deck door and started shoveling<br />
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4 to 5 feet of snow on the deck<br />
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January 10th, 2014. The moron season started with this guy buried in our road. He was driving a truck with tires that most people up here wouldn't drive on Highway 61 in the winter. Best of all he was towing a 2 place snowmobile trailer with a sled on it!<br />
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He got stuck sometime Thursday afternoon, I came upon the truck Friday morning, no sign of people no note, nothing!<br />
I was stuck with no way to drive around it, I was just standing there wondering what to do when someone roars up on a snowmobile.<br />
Turns out he was from the local snowmobile club that grooms our trails around here. He had received a call from this skilled driver wanting his truck and trailer pulled out.<br />
The club member explained to me what had happened. Once stuck they offloaded their sled and went for help, first was a call for a tow truck. The tow rig showed up and told them there was not a chance of getting it out.<br />
By then it was getting late so the tow truck driver took them to Cascade Lodge so they could get a room for the night.<br />
From there they made the call to the snowmobile club asking for assistance, which is why this guy came out to try to find the truck Friday morning. <br />
Now it's 10:00 am Friday and with the truck located, the call went out for the groomer an ETA of 3:00 that afternoon there was nothing for me to do but go back to the house.<br />
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At 3:00 I went back to watch the show. First to get pulled out was the trailer, no big deal, then came the truck.<br />
Chained to the groomer with the owner in the driver seat they had to drag the truck out backward for a 1/2 mile, shedding body trim parts the whole way out<br />
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Glad it wasn't my truck!<br />
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Big thanks to the Lutsen Trailbreakers Snowmobile Club,<br />
not only for getting rid of that truck but for repairing my road, they did a great job!<br />
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I know this little mess up cost that wayward traveler around a $1000.00<br />
After this our neighbors Lonnie and Loren were kind enough to paint up a sign to hopefully keep others from making the same mistake.<br />
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Must have been too polite because three more drivers went right on by over the next two weeks so we tried a second sign .<br />
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Apparently this was clear enough to end the madness.<br />
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<b>As far as the fishing opener goes</b><br />
<b>forget it!</b><br />
Not only will the lake still be ice covered but the road won't even be clear.<br />
A home owner at the other end of the lake drilled a hole few days ago and found we have still over 20 inches of ice.<br />
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Last summer Jim gave us a nice remote weather station<br />
so when WTIP (local radio station) asked for weather reports from around the county I started emailing in a report every morning.<br />
I usually turned in the report around 6:00 am , at first it was fun but it soon got depressing.<br />
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For a total of 10 reporting days in December<br />
we had only 2 days above 0,<br />
coldest was -24<br />
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January<br />
We had a total of 9 days above 0<br />
coldest -29<br />
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February<br />
We had a total of 8 days above 0<br />
coldest -33<br />
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March<br />
We had a total of 20 days above 0<br />
coldest -25<br />
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I have to believe the mud season is going to be long one, snow melting has been gradual but getting rain now and for the next few days. <br />
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We might try to get the green house up next week, this time last year it was already full of nice green plants by now.<br />
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I can tell you living up here would kill a normal person!<br />
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Stanley Tullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110136008202678965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1102005615746622612.post-81646136236348771852014-01-06T14:11:00.000-06:002014-01-06T14:11:52.913-06:00Snow, Cold, Repeat and Our Propane is 1/2 Gone <div style="text-align: center;">
Happy New Years</div>
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Sorry for the lack of writing but it was a strange summer and having only one somewhat useful arm didn't help matters</div>
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Late spring turned into a pretty nice growing season for both flowers and vegetables and we were overall happy with all the gardens.<br />
We also run an outside light on a wall of the cabin that attracts moths, we have done this for a few years now but this was an exceptional year with great variety. We did notice a large decrease in dragonflies which led to a huge increase in mosquitoes.<br />
The black fly season had it's moments, lots of people up here will tell you more black flies means more and better blueberries {I think they're full of shit}I believe all that does is help us bit up, welt covered folks feel better while scratching till bloody.<br />
Big summer for ducks on Deeryard,<br />
maybe the best since the 70's when the wild rice was thick in the small end of the lake and our osprey nest produced two healthy offspring.<br />
With the ducks came the eagles, more then I have ever seen in the valley. Turns out the eagles like chasing, killing and eating the ducks! They would perch high in the great White Pines screeching and swooping down on the ducks driving them away from shore to where they were easier targets in open water.<br />
Now just when I thought I'd seen enough duck killing for one season this happened.: We had Jim, Michele their daughter, son-in law and two grand kids out fishing and along comes a mallard with her 7 ducklings swimming happily about eating emerging may flies.<br />
As the hatch moved away from the shore maybe into 12 feet of water, the mallard followed the hatch and led her young into the deeper water. They were now about 30 feet from our pontoon giving all of us a great view,.with the whole boat watching and the kids counting the ducklings,1,2,3,4,5,6,7, suddenly things got ugly fast.<br />
The water exploded from underneath and up popped a loon with one of the ducklings in its mouth. The mother mallard put up one heck of a fight but swam away with only 6 ducklings following her lead.. So there we sat,. wondering what we had just witnessed and trying not to freak out the kids. A quick Google search confirmed everything so now when we hear a loon calling on the lake we think<br />
<b>"duck killer"</b><br />
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Work continues on the observatory, we still have no Internet service although the fiber is run to the building it's still not lit-up.<br />
We also burned out our declination drive motor and controller board in the telescope, which meant we couldn't control the up and down movement of the scope. After some research I found the <a href="http://www.jatobservatory.org/">JAT Observatory</a> which covered the removal and replacement of the parts, which made me brave enough to take the scope apart.<br />
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Taking it apart went good, I then called Meade for the parts and found them again very difficult to work with,. All they kept saying is " Pack it back up and send it back to them in California," and "The scope is not serviceable be the owner and not to take it apart". Little did they know, but that pony already ran and the bad parts were sitting on my desk.<br />
After getting no where with Meade I called the dealer that sold it to us in the first place<br />
<a href="http://www.whcamera.com/">Woodland Hills Telescopes</a><br />
One call to them and by the end of the day Meade called me back, found and shipped the part but made it very clear the parts are sold as-is with no responsibility on Meade's part.<br />
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<b>Thank you Woodland Hills your a great company to work with.</b><br />
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All in all the repair went well and the scope jumped back to life with out trouble, we also added a piggy back camera mount and tried some Milky-Way photos<br />
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The phrase million or billion is used a lot but rarely seen<br />
click on these photos and see just a very small portion of our galaxy.<br />
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Summer quickly changed into fall which included a big wedding up on Cascade Bluff for are friends<br />
Val and Kathy<br />
This event brought the highest quality of cars to ever drive down Pike Lake Road and the largest group to come to the realization they were not in Kansas any more.<br />
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you can read more at<br />
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Fall colors on our lake were pretty good<br />
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photos by Jim Malters<br />
gives a good view of the large Maple forest in our valley<br />
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panoramic view<br />
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The preparation for winter got started right after the leaves dropped. This began with moving things around out of the way of the snow plow, wrapping and storing boats, building a new bird feeder and mounting the heated water dish, pulling shovels and roof rakes out of storage, wrapping the bottom of our cabin with concrete blankets so the wind can't blow under it, installing the tracks on the trucks and more just to be ready.<br />
Well here is how the time frame looked<br />
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Last boat wrapped Nov 21<br />
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New bird house installed Nov 26 {trace of snow}<br />
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Dec 3 1st snow fall of 10 inches<br />
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Here is our December snow plow bill dates for cleaning out the storage building where we park the cars.<br />
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This is more plowing then all of last year with no let-up in sight.<br />
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the track fleet<br />
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Lots of people put there wipers up for snow storms, I thought it was to keep the wipers from freezing down<br />
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Now I know they are snow depth gauges, you can look up the driveway and if you can't see the wipers the snow is deep<br />
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day after day we wake up to this<br />
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This photo was taken Jan 1st, just short of 24" of snow on the level and since then we had a blizzard with another 12" of new snow on top of that.<br />
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Jan 4th I pulled the small drag out to the mail box corner, the snow banks are as high as the car<br />
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one more good snow and the mail box will be covered<br />
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at the storage building, under that snow is 2-16 foot boats, a 20 foot pontoon boat and a station wagon<br />
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I was down that driveway Dec 31 and now you cant even tell I was there<br />
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going to be some big snow loads on some old cabins<br />
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snow blower at the end of my dock after last storm Jan 4th<br />
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lake view Jan 4th<br />
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That's it for now, I will try to do more with the blog, this was a perfect day for writing we woke to<br />
temp -31<br />
dew point -40<br />
wind chill -62<br />
and the scary part is our propane is 1/2 gone and we will be lucky to get more by<br />
May because we have already packed down 3 feet of snow on the road<br />
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Well part way through February</div>
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I came to the realization that my shoulder was not going to heal without help so we packed up and headed for the cities to see my orthopedic surgeon.</div>
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This visit started out with the customary pulling, twisting, wiggling, poking and lifting of the affected limb followed by a 45 minute MRI.</div>
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I was asked if I wanted to be sedated for this </div>
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MRI procedure and I declined, god I can be a moron!</div>
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When you are my size that tube looks a little small, which happens to be a great understatement.</div>
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It felt like I was a fat pencil shoved into a giant pencil sharpener till I plugged up the hole making it impossible to sharpen my head however the machine kept trying for 45 minutes.</div>
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The next day I returned to the Doc's for the bad news,</div>
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badly torn rotator cuff needing not scope but open surgery, the date was set for March 7 and we headed back home to get things done before my long heal up time ahead.</div>
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This looked like a good time for the surgery, the temp was rising, snow was melting fast, road was in good shape although still covered in ice.</div>
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We also moved the tracked vehicles back to the storage building, I even thought about pulling the tracks</div>
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so the trucks would be ready for spring.</div>
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Then we built our new larger green house</div>
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Looking out the front door from our living room into green house</div>
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Inside the green house with glass windows in the lower corner so the cats can watch the birds and squirrels </div>
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The snow had melted off the deck so installation went great.</div>
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Things were looking great as we headed back down to the cities for surgery. It would be at least a week before I could travel again, so we were hoping for the best. Needless to say as soon as we left it started snowing.</div>
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I was lucky that Ian was still plowing for the carpenters working for Patrick. He offered to plow our driveway, clean snow off the greenhouse and feed the birds and one of the carpenter's, Cory , plowed the path down to the cabin with the 4 wheeler. Without their help we would have really been screwed.</div>
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We returned to heavy snow</div>
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Snow 3 feet up the green house (inside look)</div>
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That's what we came home too after being gone 12 days but little did we know it would just be the start of a very snowy spring.</div>
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It would snow a few inches every other day for a week or so and then we had a warning of big snow coming, so we moved our car and truck out to storage building and rumbled back to the house with the tracked truck .</div>
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The snow and wind was very heavy for the next two days, leaving us completely snowed in.We received a total of 18 new inches and saw drifts of 3 feet in many spots. There was no way Ian could plow that much wet heavy snow.</div>
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Before the snow slid off the roof and made kitchen window useless</div>
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Snow 5 feet up the green house wall</div>
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If wasn't for the tracks we would not be going anywhere!</div>
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We now have the greenhouse up and running and the first if our flats planted. You are looking at 3 kinds of tomatoes, 2 different cukes, red peppers, Marigolds, zucchini, radishes and lettuce with more to come. </div>
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Entering my 3rd week of physical therapy with a sadist named Peter. Seeing improvement, but there is still a long way to go!</div>
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Right now you can't tell the difference between the road, the driveway, the path to the lake<br />
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<span class="ssens"><strong>:</strong> a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or valley or spreading outward on a land surface</span></div>
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Two weeks ago we had about 16" of snow on the ground and very nice weather,</div>
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During this rain the driving surfaces packed down and turned into solid ice with water on top, this made for one of the scariest rides I have had in years.</div>
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On my first trip out, I only made it the 3 miles to the mailbox when I turned back for home. This trip, normally 10 minutes, took an hour and ended with the truck parked in the middle of the road at the top of the driveway and I had the feeling I had cheated death.<br />
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On day two of the rain, Pat and I decided to make an early run into town for some sand to grit down our driveway and also grocery shopping. We also used this trip to move Pat's vehicle to the storage building so we would have only the truck to deal with in the driveway.<br />
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All the weather reports that day had called for rapidly dropping temps and rain changing to snow in the afternoon. Well, the temps fell and the rain quit without changing to snow.</div>
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which turned all the driving suffices turn into skating rinks .<br />
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I pulled into the driveway (big mistake) sliding sideways down the hill . I had no choice but to hit the gas driving us into the woods and hoping for the best. We ended up at a 90 degree angle wedged between the tress and rock garden at the top of the path leading to the cabin and lake.</div>
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It took all the sand we had just picked up to even be able to get out of the truck, sand our way to the cabin door and sand enough driveway to get the truck freed and looking up the hill.<br />
If it didn't have sand on it you couldn't walk on it.</div>
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If you would like to read another account of this 2 day event have a look at <a href="http://cascadebluff.blogspot.com/">Val and Kathy's blog</a>,</div>
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their driveway is a tight sphincter steep hill ride in the summer. As a matter of fact, there is a local adventurer</div>
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Lonnie Dupre who has been trying to be the first solo climber to climb Mt Denali in January, if he wants to impress me he should try summiting that driveway.</div>
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On Day 3 I was lucky enough to get my truck back up the hill and onto the road to make another trip for sand. Slowly making our way out, we happened to see that one of the sheet rocker's working on Patrick Sullivan's new house has a plow truck with a large sander in the back,. After talking with him we came up with a plan for splitting the cost and the next morning he sanded down the driveways and road.<br />
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That night the heavy snow started. With the low temps the snow was very fluffy and without any moisture it wouldn't stick to the ice. The snow continued throughout the next day ending with around 6" followed by lots of cold and wind.</div>
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Ian, another of Patrick's carpenters plowed out the road on day 4 and ever since then we have been driving on roads that look like this.</div>
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Happy New Years to all and yes we're still alive,</div>
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although I'm typing this blog with the use of just one arm.</div>
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The lack of a left arm is the result of a high speed cross country ski crash that ended </div>
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with a half day visit to our local emergency room.</div>
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The trial description called the run "a gentle incline stretch followed by a long glide back to the parking lot".</div>
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Let me interpret this language for you.:</div>
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"a very long steep uphill sucky part, followed by a rocket fast scary death run back to your car!"</div>
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After whezzing my way to the summit, I took a little time to gather my thoughts, my air, my courage and let my ears pop. Pointing down hill, I stepped into the track of death , lifted my poles and was gone in a flash.</div>
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After breaking the 150 mile per hour mark I began to make what I hoped to be life saving adjustments, :</div>
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I pulled down my goggles, tucked my poles under my arms, got my hands out in front and dropped into my high speed aerodynamic tuck.</div>
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However, these adjustments had just the opposite affect I had hope for, not only did they not seem to be life saving it sadly just allowed the speed to quickly pass into the high 200 mph mark. </div>
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At 300 miles per hour things started going horribly wrong, hat and goggles peeled off my head, eyes now blurry, the buffeting ski tips chattering in the icy tracks, it was just horrifying, but then, for just a split second, everything was fine.</div>
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silent, everything went quit and peaceful, almost floating like an out of body experience which was interrupted by impact, not some little impact, more like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs type of impact.</div>
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I was in the middle of a body part survey as Pat made her way into the strewn field that was my gear spread down the hill for hundreds of yards. Now at first she found the sight of her 31 year companion, 4 days after their 25th year wedding anniversary, to be somewhat funny, which was quickly replaced with the realization that I was hurt, I'd be really hard to get out of the woods and she had left her gun in the truck so just shooting me on the trail and leaving for the wolves wasn't an option.</div>
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She helped with ski removal, then gathered all my stuff off the hill and we set off walking to the truck followed by a trip to the hospital. The emergency room story itself is a great one, but for now I'll keep it private since I may need their help again.</div>
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So here I sit with a badly injured left shoulder but I have learned a few things, skiing up hill sucks, skiing down hill sucks, crashing sucks, a bad shoulder sucks and going to the hospital sucks.</div>
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Summer recap</div>
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Fishing and boating</div>
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The last post in May we had just launched both boats and this year turned out to be great for both fishing and sight seeing year. We are happy to report that fishing at Deeryard Lake has become a Stuart Smith grand kid approved destination spot and this year we entertained the whole clan.</div>
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Crew number one,</div>
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Stuart & Anita, Shannon & Barry with Emily 15: William 12: and Matthew 9:</div>
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Stuart & Anita, Stacey, Jeff with Crawford 13: Forrester 11: and Robert 8:</div>
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Both trips were blessed with good weather, good fishing, great fun and no one got hurt, which is better then they ever do on the alpine slide at the Lutsen ski hill</div>
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We also had Tom Christensen with his grandson Soren, his neighbor </div>
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unfortunately fishing was just slow but the night was fun.</div>
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Then came Conner.</div>
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I received a call from my friend Gregg wondering if I would take his wife's cousins son from Philadelphia out fishing. They showed up, Gregg, his brother, his wife's cousin and Conner.</div>
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We got lucky on this trip, turns out Conner was the only skilled angler in the boat and</div>
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he put the rest of his group to shame.</div>
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I think the only reason he hangs around with that bunch is Gregg has a nice truck and buys the minnows, juice boxes and chips</div>
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Well the day after the fishing trip, Conner had his driver take him into town were he had a t-shirt</div>
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made for me that I now use as my seat cover in the observatory:</div>
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"NUFF SAID"</div>
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We also had many sight seeing trips including Tom Christensen, his dad from Arizona, two daughters, stepson and some grandkids. Other trips included my mom and sister Kathy and more.</div>
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Later in the year we pulled the seats out so the pontoon could be used as a barge for installing </div>
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over a mile of fiber optic cable in the lake.</div>
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Along with the water drop the fiber is now down the road and run to the houses and observatory</div>
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Part of the summer projects included removing and replacing 9 windows, 2 doors and 2 storm doors in the cabin.</div>
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The observatory had a small open house for the neighbors so supporters could go in both buildings and see it first hand.</div>
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Flower and vegetable gardens went very well and I have to say we learned a lot</div>
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The fall steel head fishing was good, here is just a few photos from the last day in Wisconsin</div>
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Doug's net man swishy Chuck</div>
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Great fall colors on Deeryard</div>
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Bird feeder back up for winter now with Christmas lights</div>
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Thanksgiving with Jim and Michele</div>
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and a large bacon wrapped turkey that was very moist.</div>
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1st ice</div>
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1st snow</div>
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Was notified by Full Tilt Power I could start playing as LayDownSally again but only for play money right now</div>
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Sold Pats 20th wedding anniversary present,</div>
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I'll bet most of you don't even know that a snow plow is the 20th year gift</div>
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Our cat Itchy has found a new friend at the feeder. After losing our resident buck last year, named appropriately Bucky, I have named this new one Tulip, this name is for the 50 tulips Pat planted this fall that he will eat this spring.</div>
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Spent a fun Christmas week in the cities with the entire family, then back up north for our 25th anniversary</div>
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SKIING UP HILL SUCKS, SKIING DOWN HILL HURTS</div>
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Sorry for the lack of writing I'll try to do more</div>
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I've been putting in some time working in the warm room work along with some software practice<br />
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We have finished trimming out the last windows and upper wall and are concentrating on just getting everything moved in.<br />
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The shelf system worked out well.</div>
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so maybe it's not all work!</div>
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He loves to poke his head out to see if the coast is clear.<br />
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We did get both boats ready, launched and water tested.</div>
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The pontoon launched without incident and started right up.</div>
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Bird feeder loaded up for it's truck ride out to the storage building till next winter.</div>
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We received countless hours of enjoyment from the feeder and it's design will continue<br />
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Then came the flower gardens.</div>
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Last years dirt work included two more large terraced rock gardens along and a few pockets along the driveway edges suitable for planting, suitable that is with the exception of dirt with color and rocks removed.</div>
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Pat worked hard prepping the sites and defining the edges with rocks.</div>
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So we are now proud owners of a steaming pile of compost in the back of our truck.<br />
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After we unloaded this pile it was very clear we are at least one truck short of of what we needed so we planned another trip.<br />
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Pat's new tulips have just bloomed. </div>
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Even the window boxes are done.</div>
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Sorry for the lack of observatory news but life up here is fluid and dealt with day by day.<br />
Getting things done before the bug' get bad is very important, as a matter of fact there is a half an hour in the spring and anther in the fall where you can be outside naked without being cold or bite by bugs and last Sunday from 11:00 to 11:30 am was it!</div>
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Sorry if you missed it, there's always next year.</div>
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One last thing,</div>
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I know I said I would not get political in this blog but I have to brag.</div>
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Cook County sends 6 delegates to the District 8 precinct convention and they only have 1/2 votes, so we get a total of 3 votes.</div>
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At this convention there was a total of 176 votes, so when one of our delegates wanted to be elected as a delegate to the DFL convention in Charlotte NC I was concerned that our 3 votes couldn't carry it off.</div>
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Well the combined efforts from our table campaigning and a great speech from our delegate we are sending Denny Fitzpatrick to the national convention.<br />
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Denny and Al Franken</div>
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Congratulations Denny!</div>
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Well I haven't done anything with the observatory in weeks but I do have a boatload of excuses<br />
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We pretty much got through the mud season in good shape. The snow has been gone for a few weeks and we've had some rain with warm weather, that along with the road work last fall,<br />
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Moved the track vehicles out to the storage building. I'll pull tracks off next week</div>
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Snow completely gone at Observatory</div>
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We started up the green house to get a jump on the early spring,<br />
Pat has lot's of plans for her new rock gardens that Dean built last fall.<br />
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Got back home today and found the lake is open!<br />
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If there are any readers from the University of Duluth Astronomy Department or even a local geek,<br />
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Sorry for the slow post's and progress with the observatory.</div>
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I had some company up for a few days, the kind of company you have visit when your significant other is away on travel. This type of company also needs preparation time before and recovery time after, you know a guys weekend.</div>
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Speaking of cat here is my latest photo of our local bobcat.</div>
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Then came the snow.</div>
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We were able to keep our road open to February 27th, but that's all over now! We have 10" of new snow on top of the 4" from last week and more on the way, so our road is officially closed and we're now back to running the tracks.</div>
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This is the view from our deck over looking the dock which 5 days ago was completely free of snow. </div>
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Yesterday afternoon I had a bobcat encounter that lasted around 5 minutes.</div>
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I scared the cat off the road driving back home, it jump the ditch and slowly walked into the woods about 75 feet in from the edge of the road.</div>
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After looking back at me, it then turned and walked a line parallel with the road heading toward our cabin. I just kept pace with its slow walk for maybe 300 feet and during this time the cat would give me the occasional glance to be sure I wasn't a threat.</div>
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Talk about blending in, this animals coloring is perfect! With all the down Maple trees on the forest floor and the light snow cover, I would lose sight for a time, only to find it again by detecting movement,. This was my 2nd best animal sighting ever, surpassed only by the Lynx we saw last winter.</div>
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After this encounter I pulled two of the game cameras from around the cabin and placed them out on the road just east of the private land. This area of the road has a lot of wolf and cat tracks with pee spots everywhere.</div>
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This morning as I left for town around 6:15, both cameras flashed so I knew they were still working. I kept driving even though the road was covered in wolf shit and I knew there had to be new photos. I decided instead to pull them after the meetings.</div>
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I got to town about 6:45 and had my usual breakfast at S.O.B.but found myself still too early for the meeting so I took a drive up the Gunflint Trail. I parked in the Pincushion parking lot overlooking Grand Marais and saw this wolf walk by!<br />
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Pincushion is a cross country ski area that is also lit for night skiing,</div>
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A suggestion if you are skiing around there, don't fall behind your group and no matter how bad your leg cramps gets try not to look wounded!</div>
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Just kidding, we rarely find skier carcasses in the woods, </div>
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although this might explain all the clothing, boots, ski's and poles we uncover.</div>
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Returning to the cabin around 2:00 I stopped and pulled the cards from the game cameras and headed to the Observatory's warm room to look over the photos<br />
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Well say hello to our local Bobcat<br />
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Earlier that morning around 2:00 am the wolf pack moved by as well.<br />
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Not sure how many wolves were in the pack, but according to the time stamp they were around 5 minutes. I have the camera set to shoot 3 photos per event with a delay of 1 minute between events so I had a total of 15 photos.</div>
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The man has 3 of them, a sack of batteries and a solar battery pack along with two A.C. chargers.</div>
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He'd place them all over in the summer and I would check them when he was gone but I never saw the big attraction.</div>
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Hell, he even had a camera on his dock to find out what was crapping all over it and I have to say I didn't care as long as it was crapping on his dock and not mine.</div>
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Well that attitude changed last fall when we started getting some great deer, moose and wolf photos from a salt lick camera. However when it got cold I pulled them because battery life is so short in the winter.</div>
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Now I'm running a battery charging rotation, bought more memory cards so I can just change them out and am enjoying the heck out of this. As a matter of fact it might be tough for Jim to get them back</div>
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I knew from the start I was wading into deep water,</div>
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turns out I was wrong.</div>
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I now realize I've been floating on the surface of a bottomless lake and 2 weeks ago my boat sank.</div>
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It started with a dyslexics person's worst enemy, a 400+ page software manual.</div>
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What I've learned </div>
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during this project is when you're a novice at anything</div>
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and you choose to start with advanced gear instead of beginner equipment, the learning curve goes from steep to vertical, or in my case it feels like it's overhanging.</div>
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We decided to go with Maxim DL Pro software to run our complete set-up including the telescope, dome rotation, auto focusers, camera, guider camera and image processing.</div>
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Maxims manual is written with the assumption the reader is knowledgeable about astronomy and observatory/telescope set ups, so I spend a lot of time referring to the glossary to figure out many of terms used in the manual.</div>
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My friend Paul is helping me comprehend all this information. Paul and I are completely opposite in our learning preferences, he likes to research and understand the outcome of clicking a tab, while I click the tab and try to figure out what just happened.</div>
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Between the two of us we have had some success! </div>
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The warm room computer now communicates with the telescope, both cameras and the auto focusers, this was the result of a lot of reading, downloading 64 bit drivers, unloading then re-loading some software and what felt like some good luck.</div>
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Paul will also be invaluable for setting up our observatory/warm room start-up & shut-down routine and the image calibration check lists that will have to be compiled, posted then followed every evening .</div>
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So it might be a while before you see our 1st photo. If we get really stuck I'll be reaching out to an astronomy student in Duluth or making a run to the Thunder Bay Observatory.</div>
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No bobcat photo though, we have over a 1000 photos from the 3 game cameras running 24 hours a day, deers, squirrels, birds, bunnies, vols and mice but no bobcat. Pat had a sighting within the last 2 weeks but I think we scared it out from under the cabin. Will keep setting cameras, who knows what we'll see!. </div>
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We are down to one very nervous looking squirrel feeding under our bird feeder</div>
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We have seen the cat twice, it's den'd up under our deck.Right now there is enough snow that two sides of the deck is bunked up blocking the wind nicely, and the small open end is looking out over the ground under the feeder.</div>
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I'm sure the cat has been picking off the squirrels, mice, bunnies and birds that ground feed on the spilled seed. </div>
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We decided to put two of Jim's game cameras out and see if we can't get a few good photos.</div>
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First night I set up the cameras, unfortunately one without its SD memory card installed and the other with a SD card installed but locked so needless to say no photos.</div>
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After learning how to unlock the card, I charged the batteries, installed the cards and set them back up for the daylight hours yesterday to make sure I know what I 'm doing.</div>
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I pulled them late that afternoon to check photos and recharge batteries and what I ended up with is 187 photos of birds and that one nervous squirrel. No bobcat, but at least I'm getting photos now so back out the cameras went for the night shift.</div>
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We awoke around 5:30 am this morning to what appeared to be a super model photo shoot going on in the side yard. Every 60 seconds the camera would take two photos with its flash lighting up our entire cabin with that harsh bright light. As we slowly made our way over to the window we were startled by the large deer head that popped up and stared at us for just a few seconds then dipped back down for more seed, setting off another round of photos.<br />
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In this shot you can see the opening under the deck that the bobcat uses to hunt. The red under the deck is a concrete blanket we wrap around the base of our cabin to help insulate so all in all it's a very nice warm place to stage a hunt.</div>
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mostly punch list stuff that I have put off for a while. I also have a friend, Paul ,coming over Wednesday to help me with software comprehension and test running equipment.</div>
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We have been getting light snow with lots of wind the past few days making it hard to open the dome. Pat and I have been going out in the truck at night trying to find clear skies for northern lights with no luck. The first trip we drove Highway 61 half way to the Canadian border, another night up the Gunflint Trail but we just couldn't get out of the clouds. We have had two well below 0 clear sky nights but have seen nothing in the way of northern lights.</div>
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Well last month I promised to stop being political on our observatory blog and to start a Cook County Minnesota blog, </div>
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and it's now up and running and called</div>
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This is going to be an open blog that will organically develop with the help and input of others both in and outside of the county.</div>
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If you want to become a co- writer, have any suggestions, or have any questions please email me with the link in my profile form on either blog.</div>
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Please try your best to stay positive, this blog is looking for constructive out-of-the-box thinking that might help unite not incite.</div>
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Bookshelves almost done and the telescope wiring is now complete. We are now heading out onto the lake to look for Northern Lights, should be a great night. </div>
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I didn't take the first photo by my Jan 14 deadline but I'm all wired up and very close.</div>
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apparently my reading comprehension skills suck because I'm way short in the outlet department.</div>
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Here is the power panel in the observatory with both 110 and 12 volt,</div>
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the bundle of cables on the right side are communication cables, it's weird but when I work on the panel</div>
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I always feel like someones watching.</div>
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This is the wiring at the base of the telescope, USB cables are all powered because of their length,</div>
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The observatory also has multiple cameras installed so we can monitor everything from inside the warm room. This is the computer that runs those cameras.</div>
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Design work on the bookshelf has gone very well and I'm finally happy.</div>
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The 1st shelf just above the monitors is oversize, deep and strong, </div>
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this shelf helps supports the 4 corner shelves, 2 per side.</div>
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The right hand corner shelves are temporarily spaced and held up by plastic file boxes </div>
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They will get pulled down, painted and installed this week.</div>
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I should say back on tracks.</div>
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Last week we had a weather prediction of heavy snow followed by cold temps</div>
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Rodeo on a 30 degree day instead of below 0 day in deep snow.</div>
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Track installation didn't prevent the below 0 weather but did keep the snow fall to around 2".</div>
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Even though we still don't need them, at least they're on and being ready just might keep the snow away!</div>
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Plus you have to admit this is cool.</div>
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but no such luck. Over Christmas I had placed a large order for the cables needed to hook everything together and they hadn't arrived, so in the interim we loaded a pile of software and drivers along with registering everything.</div>
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the observatory and warm room. I then started wiring everything together, guide camera to the CCD camera, CCD camera to the desk top, auto focuser to the desk top, 2 web cams to a lap top, all the power cables for the cameras, powered USB cables, dome rotation motor and telescope power.</div>
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Just a few of the wires and cables, I'm going to need the big container of zip ties.</div>
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We have had enough snow to light our clean up fires</div>
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During our dirt work this summer Dean stacked up 4 large burn piles of brush, stumps and dead trees</div>
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So over the last few days we have burned 3 of them. I can't help but think I caused great hardship for all the critters that had made the piles their winter home.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy New Years All</span></div>
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<br /></div>Stanley Tullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110136008202678965noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1102005615746622612.post-44542887332947538352011-12-23T11:08:00.001-06:002011-12-23T12:07:24.616-06:00Healing, Support, and Happy Winter Solstice<div style="text-align: center;">
I have to say when Cook County wants to come together they do so beautifully,</div>
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The support for everyone affected by this event not only from our county, but the entire state, was heart warming to see.</div>
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One positive out come from this tragedy could be that this huge surge of support and caring for others might continue and grow.</div>
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People are healing and that's the best news!</div>
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Trying hard to stay somewhat politely correct in the "Holiday Season"</div>
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I want to wish you all a happy</div>
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<b>Winter Solstice</b></div>
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In the world of astronomy one should be sad with the increasing daylight hours but as a person that lives in a remote setting in the woods I say</div>
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YA-HOO</div>
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<b>I also want to thank all you readers</b>, </div>
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we are approaching the end of the second year of our 1 year building project so</div>
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"<b>we're right on schedule</b></div>
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<b>and all we're lacking is finishing up".</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(my old boss just hated this statement)</i></span></div>
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This blog started in mid-January 2010 and we are working hard to be up and running and shooting photos by our two year anniversary.</div>
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We will do a entry on that anniversary with a complete list of visits</div>
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but here is a little sample:</div>
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As of today the site has had</div>
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over 8,000 visitors</div>
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over 14,000 pages viewed</div>
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with visitors from over 80 Country/Territory's</div>
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and well over 300 hours of content read.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">So again thanks!</span></b></div>
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Coming soon will be the <b>.com</b> site for the observatory</div>
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and my new blog on Cook County politics.</div>
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For all my neighbors in the small end of the lake,</div>
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yes the beavers are hitting you all hard, the new lodge is now built on Lonny's dock</div>
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and I have seen very little down my way,</div>
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They must be very happy down there but with the water as low as it is I don't know why.</div>
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I'll try to get you some photos.</div>Stanley Tullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110136008202678965noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1102005615746622612.post-17857548895979320402011-12-16T12:05:00.000-06:002011-12-17T21:17:42.524-06:00Courthouse Shooting and a Need for Change<div style="text-align: center;">
I have to start by sending positive thoughts to Tim Scannell and his family,</div>
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I really appreciate Tim both as our county attorney and a genuine human being.</div>
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My heart also goes out to all the people this entire episode has affected, both mentally and physically, and I hope everyone can move forward.</div>
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I hate to get political on this site but I have to explain the break in observatory progress.</div>
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It started years ago with my laundry.</div>
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My laundromat is right across the street from our county courthouse, and as I waited for my cycles to run a combination of boredom and curiosity drove me to attending court and getting educated on just what goes on in our community.</div>
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After a year or so of court I got somewhat depressed and frustrated with it repetitive nature and all the dealing with alcohol.</div>
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I then decided to changed my focus to the county commissioners meetings. </div>
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Keep in mind that I had no local government experience what so ever, </div>
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<b>and I do mean none.</b></div>
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Now after over more then a year of sitting in the audience for 3 Tuesdays every month, I have grown somewhat frustrated with the system, </div>
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actually more frustrated with our fractured community and their thinking that 5 commissioners doing what ever their special interest constituencies what them to do, will fix anything.</div>
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Ghandi stated</div>
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<b>"When the people lead, the leaders will follow"</b></div>
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I believe this to be true.</div>
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I wanted to live in Grand Marais since I was a child. I guess what I really wanted was</div>
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<b> to live in Mayberry.</b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;">and the sad part is that I think it could be </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"> but it's going to take 5000 people to come together enough to make some positive changes.</span></div>
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Rolling around in the back of my mind all this time </div>
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(lots of room for rolling back there)</div>
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I have been planing some kind of interactive, organic blog that might help and</div>
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this was the perfect week to put pen to paper for the rough draft and outline.</div>
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The week was perfect because Cook County was having a large jury trial that was expected to last the week.</div>
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I know this doesn't seem like much but up here jury trials are somewhat uncommon and I haven't seen one before.</div>
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Monday morning I showed up at the courthouse with pen and note pad knowing there would be slow times to think and compile my overview and outline.</div>
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The blog I'm thniking about would give every person a voice, a site were they could post and read positive suggestion's and solutions,</div>
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maybe inspire some out of the box thinking,</div>
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any avenue to bring a community together.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;">After three and a half days in the courtroom, my note pad is pretty full of ideas,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"> and final arguments in the trial are complete and the case is in the hands of the jurors. Around 1:00 in the afternoon I left the courthouse to run some errands.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;">I had left my number with someone to call me when they had reached a verdict, receiving no call I headed back to our house around 5:00 pm. By 5:15 my phone started to ring with calls that there had been a shooting in our courthouse and that people I know and care about are shot and or traumatized</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Where the f--ks my Mayberry?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;">I will try to get the new blog running soon so we won't have any political views on this blog but if 5000 people can't get it right were screwed as a society.</span></div>
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<br /></div>Stanley Tullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110136008202678965noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1102005615746622612.post-65407136578494879432011-12-09T20:55:00.007-06:002011-12-09T22:01:59.090-06:00The Wait is Over, Now It's Learning Time<div style="text-align: center;">Our wait ended today.</div><div style="text-align: center;">After a waiting period that felt longer then a performance of Madam Butterfly that I attended</div><div style="text-align: center;">some years back,</div><div style="text-align: center;"> our copy of Maxim DL Pro was in the mail box!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm very happy we had to order the boxed software instead of the downlodable version because a 402 page manual was included, it's around $60.00 dollars more but not having to print it was worth every dime, besides its nicely printed.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNAtLR19C4XgGKSVI-XvMZZhIHk5tRHQTPDRbdRJ65yjCXZzvDzWsj3jzZAv7R-0X4vQcv42emBUYmV5nKu8j3vitvMx-5x1bQP0nOu2d59aT-KsLMGqHGE6C03K8XsnBENAvLUJpwlw8S/s1600/P1010057.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 186px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNAtLR19C4XgGKSVI-XvMZZhIHk5tRHQTPDRbdRJ65yjCXZzvDzWsj3jzZAv7R-0X4vQcv42emBUYmV5nKu8j3vitvMx-5x1bQP0nOu2d59aT-KsLMGqHGE6C03K8XsnBENAvLUJpwlw8S/s320/P1010057.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684333481587159538" /></a>Out comes the yellow highlighter, reading glasses and coffee with Baileys.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> I need to read just enough right now to make sure all our drivers are 64 bit and compatible, </div><div style="text-align: center;">understand what hooks up and determine the last of our cable needs.</div><div style="text-align: center;">We are coming up on two year anniversary of the project and this blog and I would love to be showing you some photos of at least the solar system by then.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Stanley Tullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110136008202678965noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1102005615746622612.post-43691105580964182702011-11-29T17:23:00.008-06:002011-11-29T19:58:37.620-06:00Feels Like the Best Christmas Toy with missing Batteries<div style="text-align: center;">That just how it feels right now.</div><div style="text-align: center;">12 days ago the computer was all set up and I started loading camera drivers and software only to find we were missing a huge program needed to run just about everything.</div><div style="text-align: center;">We had thought this software was included with our camera purchase but it wasn't and the fact our camera was bought over a year ago didn't help.</div><div style="text-align: center;">After calling our supplier they agreed to have the company drop ship the software to the observatory, well after a week of waiting we called them again only to find they had ordered a down loadable version which doesn't help us up here in slow Internet world.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Now I'm promised delivery this week!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Other news,</div><div style="text-align: center;"> the weather has been very nice with only light snow.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have another damn raccoon in the bird feeder and the live trap is set right now.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I installed the tracks on the neighbors jeep</div><div style="text-align: center;">and I also get to put a new radiator and fuel pump in my pickup. (lucky me)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Stanley Tullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110136008202678965noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1102005615746622612.post-74253413257490696512011-11-17T18:04:00.016-06:002011-11-17T21:09:02.575-06:00Computer Up & Running and Camera Back Installed<div style="text-align: center;">Our new computer was delivered the first part of the month.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I unpacked it and played with some preliminary setups trying to maximise desk top space. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Happy with the lay out I drilled large holes in the counter top for the cables, theses holes were then finished off with desk grommets.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV-UyeBljCM0HyWlMe3yCiMfwz8K-0Zj0kd5cyzXm8p9nQrtdoZ_jnB8veYyt3ajCYg1SF3xtWe_ty0bb1FEawK8tcBPdDriByInxxcTpT9FC5JODLLmwYxNkCakttFmUmQu_1v1rzLQyQ/s1600/blog11.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV-UyeBljCM0HyWlMe3yCiMfwz8K-0Zj0kd5cyzXm8p9nQrtdoZ_jnB8veYyt3ajCYg1SF3xtWe_ty0bb1FEawK8tcBPdDriByInxxcTpT9FC5JODLLmwYxNkCakttFmUmQu_1v1rzLQyQ/s320/blog11.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676125901923402786" /></a>The main computer with it's dual monitors will run the camera, guide camera, auto focuser, telescope and Photo Shop.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The others will be split up between running the dome, weather data, observatory lighting, Internet and warm room music.</div><div a="" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNmSjv2ArDhcymPsdyfgbZvlsqsisouKpDy8h2fyYdxUet8jMeHOXzSlGlkvjBZQjEHcRxG7Epn6OO-rHTIa_i7eAh1fgwiyjGHNFWuED7xe7VVhvDu0wbIlz8b8-bGWYbgRLRgsoVMx94/s1600/blog12.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 162px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNmSjv2ArDhcymPsdyfgbZvlsqsisouKpDy8h2fyYdxUet8jMeHOXzSlGlkvjBZQjEHcRxG7Epn6OO-rHTIa_i7eAh1fgwiyjGHNFWuED7xe7VVhvDu0wbIlz8b8-bGWYbgRLRgsoVMx94/s320/blog12.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676132895623601314" /><div style="text-align: center;">I am very happy with the quality of the monitors,</div><div style="text-align: center;">hell </div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm extremely impressed with the whole package, it's rocket fast.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Thank you again Barry!</div><div style="text-align: center;">We received a great bang for the buck and</div><div style="text-align: center;">couldn't have done it without you. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Work in the observatory included:</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">more wiring both 12 and110 volt</div><div style="text-align: center;">degree indexing the inside of the dome</div><div style="text-align: center;">installing the dome rotation set-up</div><div style="text-align: center;"> lighting controls</div><div style="text-align: center;">and camera back installation.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHdTV1oPRUFHJ-rIWjCqh6AsuR9BswOMhsPKoY-oBtd1cnYjpgVU9CynU_6dbQlFqYZEfxbdpPJatbTld1dGMxeSFaJMbdPe2ICrfRPurIcEIHDkT-67cnoAdPtXKzliOfblqubHMV4rZf/s1600/blog10.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHdTV1oPRUFHJ-rIWjCqh6AsuR9BswOMhsPKoY-oBtd1cnYjpgVU9CynU_6dbQlFqYZEfxbdpPJatbTld1dGMxeSFaJMbdPe2ICrfRPurIcEIHDkT-67cnoAdPtXKzliOfblqubHMV4rZf/s320/blog10.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676146306527830674" /></a>Camera back installed<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW40kBzPvp_32Z3-UGiUHY-CAI8v2r7Xed3XSkSjpJbvJgUVz3k2qXzm28GgfCKuuQc4V9DvVzPFcyZFL4JgFJePiPw1_ehXDrK7Ej7851RZfVn7hK7xkS5Nbktvbd18ffVjPDEgbpQXPZ/s1600/photo+%252852%2529.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW40kBzPvp_32Z3-UGiUHY-CAI8v2r7Xed3XSkSjpJbvJgUVz3k2qXzm28GgfCKuuQc4V9DvVzPFcyZFL4JgFJePiPw1_ehXDrK7Ej7851RZfVn7hK7xkS5Nbktvbd18ffVjPDEgbpQXPZ/s320/photo+%252852%2529.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676145822078850642" /></a>Side view</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>click any photo to enlarge</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQbjhqM4JgPeMqMSl-jzJH6gaUpE6z11PdmJGxJD97_q_inez7ktr44-ay4odJEppAMPC4F7RIaJd9fqa69x9n5kVunblq4lHSEDBuhaICehDyCxb6w_2Xaonebfqs2QFtCIZ-3FN-IYr-/s1600/blog13.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQbjhqM4JgPeMqMSl-jzJH6gaUpE6z11PdmJGxJD97_q_inez7ktr44-ay4odJEppAMPC4F7RIaJd9fqa69x9n5kVunblq4lHSEDBuhaICehDyCxb6w_2Xaonebfqs2QFtCIZ-3FN-IYr-/s320/blog13.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676147088744552562" /></a>Camera comes very close to the inside of the forks when the telescope is looking north.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeRlexvZ7MOiVS3v-PU_qAmImTp9OK0_Y59dXQTuuIs3xjgmsps1pc7UDr31BIr35fTBjxtY9k8pv7BYwRDrrOY4hM8Nlyexh6jqJkxzGT3aZ-RkpWUwEbRHvFTSnGWtdaeFHIZOMjjUeq/s1600/photo+%252853%2529.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeRlexvZ7MOiVS3v-PU_qAmImTp9OK0_Y59dXQTuuIs3xjgmsps1pc7UDr31BIr35fTBjxtY9k8pv7BYwRDrrOY4hM8Nlyexh6jqJkxzGT3aZ-RkpWUwEbRHvFTSnGWtdaeFHIZOMjjUeq/s320/photo+%252853%2529.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676153160172529938" /></a>Starting to get some snow</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjItkvW0BjlhbTFdRMZJbU4OapXgcv0yYI6PbQO9168Cv6QpHaCEiKB4i8ArQXfscklo3g-kuTsXd0zCohIynGvjEmAXb9rvddBZndqKMxkiSJNrKG02qPeE9nKB1czZ7m3EXOAuVYWNRMa/s1600/blog19.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjItkvW0BjlhbTFdRMZJbU4OapXgcv0yYI6PbQO9168Cv6QpHaCEiKB4i8ArQXfscklo3g-kuTsXd0zCohIynGvjEmAXb9rvddBZndqKMxkiSJNrKG02qPeE9nKB1czZ7m3EXOAuVYWNRMa/s320/blog19.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676153980004539218" /></a>Today just a little open water left and with temp right now of 12 degree's it will be iced over solid by morning.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I promised a road update for my neighbors,</div><div style="text-align: center;">all the holes have been filled, big rocks pulled, some ditch work, the real bad mud holes dug out and filled along with the brush pushed back to open up the edge's.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7WK6Rso-pCK3AmYJX439_4r28ovo0HocKQkmfOuc72jB-9aU6umd5BegnNQihmPCAW64KeRnKkGs1wpbTZMpNOeUfFOJVTQmvSSwspLRfIc38GNHPdVGOhh7nL1SKp1WkNYWnZjmwEBS1/s1600/blog14.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7WK6Rso-pCK3AmYJX439_4r28ovo0HocKQkmfOuc72jB-9aU6umd5BegnNQihmPCAW64KeRnKkGs1wpbTZMpNOeUfFOJVTQmvSSwspLRfIc38GNHPdVGOhh7nL1SKp1WkNYWnZjmwEBS1/s320/blog14.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676159602073729778" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIxNedf18p_jAjKhMkJQMLDT7BQHOvDHM4SH69lUcypKmD4bKY_Bmz5ulOW1PnhRzQzmAMk54G01JFY0SuQMi5633DnMMSQH_Buy7UQtzMleQwZA1VsI4qZWNSdq6wBfN9zA_q5S3Z4GVp/s1600/blog15.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIxNedf18p_jAjKhMkJQMLDT7BQHOvDHM4SH69lUcypKmD4bKY_Bmz5ulOW1PnhRzQzmAMk54G01JFY0SuQMi5633DnMMSQH_Buy7UQtzMleQwZA1VsI4qZWNSdq6wBfN9zA_q5S3Z4GVp/s320/blog15.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676160091310278018" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuQxLaqLIFNDOF4IAsyyQGL6uh7FAvJcq17sJ3z3P8a8ukLRpuajPpz0dqBHdNWRf3w6v4Yq_eEe6ndnft3TaUeGnVPoCkD7ypeJ-F_92FDg_YIrnsR_bU7v2CxvsGheJb2_trPv8Dv7Mp/s1600/blog16.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuQxLaqLIFNDOF4IAsyyQGL6uh7FAvJcq17sJ3z3P8a8ukLRpuajPpz0dqBHdNWRf3w6v4Yq_eEe6ndnft3TaUeGnVPoCkD7ypeJ-F_92FDg_YIrnsR_bU7v2CxvsGheJb2_trPv8Dv7Mp/s320/blog16.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676160442096477842" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYnm6hsfM0t282E_IZTFw4v2uZL0LiFAthVP0ncEuf16tSwrEZbouTkVlFvJkuarH4TzA5fkWwKhD1ApnGKYjPxdCSu92FRsBuVXbLRHQyhrd5uukL4iv1HcxGz4U88h89yGRuc1jB8KHh/s1600/blog17.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYnm6hsfM0t282E_IZTFw4v2uZL0LiFAthVP0ncEuf16tSwrEZbouTkVlFvJkuarH4TzA5fkWwKhD1ApnGKYjPxdCSu92FRsBuVXbLRHQyhrd5uukL4iv1HcxGz4U88h89yGRuc1jB8KHh/s320/blog17.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676160876806846882" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZKZQ_VL-_00wiQmAyYxzlImhWDOH-x6DDEhIu8Jd2bpLGcyEVAvz_GH6e_qvW6XaRUu5qsybPAauxLwmO3vmgt7G_vNSrG0Ut1OYsbLHdu-VZ6JAHkGBuuubfoe4VbLLn9oAxuVcuEPv/s1600/blog21.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZKZQ_VL-_00wiQmAyYxzlImhWDOH-x6DDEhIu8Jd2bpLGcyEVAvz_GH6e_qvW6XaRUu5qsybPAauxLwmO3vmgt7G_vNSrG0Ut1OYsbLHdu-VZ6JAHkGBuuubfoe4VbLLn9oAxuVcuEPv/s320/blog21.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676161535401091010" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEE0LHTn8c7I0kCQs9cc-ZSGTip7PPfvOPE1HfWjddx7LsaB9Kx27p1LdetpEyrj3QfC8deGaOJpoSOe40uMya_vgwSOHfJeTCS-bUl7zUVXK2qDjx2a9-jfEE7wqWeN_Yy4kFomxVfELJ/s1600/blog22.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEE0LHTn8c7I0kCQs9cc-ZSGTip7PPfvOPE1HfWjddx7LsaB9Kx27p1LdetpEyrj3QfC8deGaOJpoSOe40uMya_vgwSOHfJeTCS-bUl7zUVXK2qDjx2a9-jfEE7wqWeN_Yy4kFomxVfELJ/s320/blog22.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676161939794719794" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">all photos are from the east end of the road to where the gate was,</div><div style="text-align: center;">if you want more info or photos email me.</div></div>Stanley Tullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110136008202678965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1102005615746622612.post-38191994424918177082011-11-07T06:29:00.018-06:002011-11-07T09:02:48.399-06:00Telescope Camera Back and .COM Site Address<div style="text-align: center;">We have picked up</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>MurmurCreekObservatory.com</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"> domain name and will be setting it up over the next few months.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Both the blog and .com site will run concurrently with the .com site containing much more technical information, easier to navigate and search and be strictly astronomy based. </div><div style="text-align: center;">The blog will continue to be more of a life journal about living in the woods and running the observatory.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Other news,</div><div style="text-align: center;">our computer will be here in the next few days and I should be able to determine just how far over my head I really am, so to be ready I started with putting the camera back together and here is a quick overview.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_fdV_Sdnnl68BcPhdOcOjlUyIgsBchgHlpW2nASBTkqQ2vnXjbGyLVjf1Xwyxdkq9TPZiwyuVDlTB1pD_ZSlletzvTypRYm1b6Mlhvpej4s9LsKsqeQSSxt0VMurN13Eh7ZUnX4xQMIeq/s1600/P1010414.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_fdV_Sdnnl68BcPhdOcOjlUyIgsBchgHlpW2nASBTkqQ2vnXjbGyLVjf1Xwyxdkq9TPZiwyuVDlTB1pD_ZSlletzvTypRYm1b6Mlhvpej4s9LsKsqeQSSxt0VMurN13Eh7ZUnX4xQMIeq/s320/P1010414.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672241551922512162" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Back view of the <b>QSI 583</b> camera with internal filter ring.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8un2_ti4gqSsmJ6jvqECbtnZwtSc6RTweMsCOlNK4652E77FllpJYgRBuYiAqcad6JeACuc-cPPYreU2GNiME8Zrr92Dy3CCaRtdgd8zM0VqnRbF8KiJeDdAUSJ9nhXJRUWiRX1Xu-LA3/s1600/P1010415.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8un2_ti4gqSsmJ6jvqECbtnZwtSc6RTweMsCOlNK4652E77FllpJYgRBuYiAqcad6JeACuc-cPPYreU2GNiME8Zrr92Dy3CCaRtdgd8zM0VqnRbF8KiJeDdAUSJ9nhXJRUWiRX1Xu-LA3/s320/P1010415.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672242440986106546" /></a>Front view.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaugB2VAU9obgb1bZQYe5kY4bK1K1Df4IbQWe_582BKklw9NIW-UcB9-mVPtgZa526YdshRRVDdWVppn5b-GI-NyVpYO2qVtGP_qtwj0q2t5M8Hk2WOsk5hSCdVI_DSThfeJbg-JnCfbUF/s1600/P1010416.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaugB2VAU9obgb1bZQYe5kY4bK1K1Df4IbQWe_582BKklw9NIW-UcB9-mVPtgZa526YdshRRVDdWVppn5b-GI-NyVpYO2qVtGP_qtwj0q2t5M8Hk2WOsk5hSCdVI_DSThfeJbg-JnCfbUF/s320/P1010416.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672242963741775122" /></a>Opening the camera to expose the filter wheel.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAxwUn_0sUgHuiUn3bMtjTFnzsEtXgSCTUFz3ZQ9FIDi4LNV056vDGwS6z8KjMlVL4NCiiBEliQol8FXE9zXq-3TmllFCiWq5DPfGZas5CPY0izbjUpKHwUZN6lcK-XOzo7tDOeK6MKaGQ/s1600/P1010417.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAxwUn_0sUgHuiUn3bMtjTFnzsEtXgSCTUFz3ZQ9FIDi4LNV056vDGwS6z8KjMlVL4NCiiBEliQol8FXE9zXq-3TmllFCiWq5DPfGZas5CPY0izbjUpKHwUZN6lcK-XOzo7tDOeK6MKaGQ/s320/P1010417.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672243744526270610" /></a>Empty filter wheel.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggvTd2StSq-kVoUqyWjmoYkHDcxzlBqgiO2_r6RwwSDWvVuafOtzc1pN-u_Lzxa-GopaR4v99THqYNrEbTj0yjLTaivbwN7bkui5AD3rw8LDqPCvt4kc1xyRAKtFhAVIE3NSI3P3BC_4bq/s1600/P1010418.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggvTd2StSq-kVoUqyWjmoYkHDcxzlBqgiO2_r6RwwSDWvVuafOtzc1pN-u_Lzxa-GopaR4v99THqYNrEbTj0yjLTaivbwN7bkui5AD3rw8LDqPCvt4kc1xyRAKtFhAVIE3NSI3P3BC_4bq/s320/P1010418.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672244318434151890" /></a>Filter wheel had to be removed for the filter installation, you can see the shutter at the top.</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is like buying a new Nikon camera, bringing it home and taking it apart to see how it works.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrnlKLwU8reGIbI0Q7H2LfBJJ-DFBCxzMKt7Oob7AMA7ZefjIxA6QPLOvT3q0Nx1RK9shGWPKcigW4l9v6sXB3CiMBU8-OaKiBcSLyQVHgAxlmupZAjFWYJCsvgtPhAFWlrftfDJJd1_92/s1600/P1010411.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrnlKLwU8reGIbI0Q7H2LfBJJ-DFBCxzMKt7Oob7AMA7ZefjIxA6QPLOvT3q0Nx1RK9shGWPKcigW4l9v6sXB3CiMBU8-OaKiBcSLyQVHgAxlmupZAjFWYJCsvgtPhAFWlrftfDJJd1_92/s320/P1010411.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672246138083598738" /></a>This is the 4 filter set from <b>Astrodon</b> and is the </div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Tru-Balance</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>LRGB E-Series</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>CCD Filters</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Generation 2</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Red, Green, Blue and Lumicon.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7v9BxaT0ODY5sZbrQL69BbpDUlk8LL9SgArhG-mIFE0FhUhwQwTK8jSvUZ_24onsJx-FSJAn68nSRwYeuj1Fr3Xxy3ZRj-0HElQMkWwSZgdFqT7bUM85b5N5T-I27VHmOf9a-joExm3KO/s1600/P1010420.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7v9BxaT0ODY5sZbrQL69BbpDUlk8LL9SgArhG-mIFE0FhUhwQwTK8jSvUZ_24onsJx-FSJAn68nSRwYeuj1Fr3Xxy3ZRj-0HElQMkWwSZgdFqT7bUM85b5N5T-I27VHmOf9a-joExm3KO/s320/P1010420.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672248798852650674" /></a>Filters installed in the wheel.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgofHe1Vdh3MS2yL3QK9lelJGwXsEJpbJCXpqpTY65c66tejR-MKUNKM8dJkq7tFbd90sgQ7kj-Nmr49Gvd-CNqSYWp99ykSptamo3ZcXgaPD3Gn2lktUEPR0LRmP_KjJzT0pQafpyMLTrb/s1600/P1010421.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgofHe1Vdh3MS2yL3QK9lelJGwXsEJpbJCXpqpTY65c66tejR-MKUNKM8dJkq7tFbd90sgQ7kj-Nmr49Gvd-CNqSYWp99ykSptamo3ZcXgaPD3Gn2lktUEPR0LRmP_KjJzT0pQafpyMLTrb/s320/P1010421.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672250071053232914" /></a>Re-installed the wheel, then the camera housing and I had no extra parts or screws!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Next was the installation of the AutoFocuser.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5rnZ_VhuUnZVmfi6no2HtxIQ9oV614mA05CsP5IbO39-WdS4PcaWkJATrLq-R8jKu-AP9tNDMl3hJTqRsLFoUNmle17XisYCLtN6LBLjCmklAjh9BAcoPnVKpvnMHvcsyFAoUFarrGlp_/s1600/P1010429.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5rnZ_VhuUnZVmfi6no2HtxIQ9oV614mA05CsP5IbO39-WdS4PcaWkJATrLq-R8jKu-AP9tNDMl3hJTqRsLFoUNmle17XisYCLtN6LBLjCmklAjh9BAcoPnVKpvnMHvcsyFAoUFarrGlp_/s320/P1010429.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672252271942981986" /></a>Jim's choice of focuser is the </div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Starizona</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Micro-Touch</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>"Shorty"</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have to say that it's a very high quality piece of equipment and fit perfectly.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Last but not least is the installation of the guide camera,</div><div style="text-align: center;"> again Jim stepped up with one of the best.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_QVZTUaxU1zGl9z9g5XWiKOmnH-KOzhBOfUotoaxyE-cVvyN_IoAgdaHm1rHH_BbBoo6tffElGTKtN5KJQaonhQ_9lznjMKA7yHOzqEsfKKZ-iBiwzclPmAUyuYtJ1zG9KUeVsVXbbI9J/s1600/P1010430.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_QVZTUaxU1zGl9z9g5XWiKOmnH-KOzhBOfUotoaxyE-cVvyN_IoAgdaHm1rHH_BbBoo6tffElGTKtN5KJQaonhQ_9lznjMKA7yHOzqEsfKKZ-iBiwzclPmAUyuYtJ1zG9KUeVsVXbbI9J/s320/P1010430.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672255454416349026" /></a>This is the,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>StarLight Xpress</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Lodestar Autoguider</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIjSTfWuqi_GJ_Clae55uIE6YVBGL5r-ayS1HFHLyBelD46KPfpEQoVtCvJj9FnviT3JV3w2eLRRrDNThj61y4NCQF9r_Qro-fJnjhnX6Qpu2ytOGgtDYleroC6Ih808ganypX1rR_6ieO/s1600/P1010431.JPG" style="font-weight: bold; " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIjSTfWuqi_GJ_Clae55uIE6YVBGL5r-ayS1HFHLyBelD46KPfpEQoVtCvJj9FnviT3JV3w2eLRRrDNThj61y4NCQF9r_Qro-fJnjhnX6Qpu2ytOGgtDYleroC6Ih808ganypX1rR_6ieO/s320/P1010431.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672258207406110162" /></a>The business end with it's visible CCD chip</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhz16hWRmh4-SkjrFQo4T1qUGPwO8KE68fSqdHEY16z6nAXBgMv7JFNe-zAPL0mjVfFddo8tvUN8Hu35EHNUlFTm7zgsRsOVro0Jxq3twxbPM4WtC3mk21fWiEDdqZra-Y-O9nhccUEhKo/s1600/P1010433.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhz16hWRmh4-SkjrFQo4T1qUGPwO8KE68fSqdHEY16z6nAXBgMv7JFNe-zAPL0mjVfFddo8tvUN8Hu35EHNUlFTm7zgsRsOVro0Jxq3twxbPM4WtC3mk21fWiEDdqZra-Y-O9nhccUEhKo/s320/P1010433.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672259346860149634" /></a>The complete package ready to attach to the telescope.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The guide camera mounted without any kind of adapter or trouble.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I am also finishing up the wiring in both the warm room and observatory along with installing the last 2 windows in the warm room.</div>Stanley Tullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110136008202678965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1102005615746622612.post-6813522745811408882011-10-31T19:12:00.006-05:002011-10-31T21:26:01.302-05:00Raccoon Relocation Program & Pumpkin Artist<div style="text-align: center;">After Fridays nights blog we found a slight flaw in our new bird feeder.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I awoke to the sound of my poor cat Itchy frantically pounding on the inside of the living room window and evidently giving something a piece of his mind.</div><div style="text-align: center;">You see, we leave the porch light on so the cats can watch for any visiting animals and there's been many.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I walked over to Itchy's window and peered into the night, but couldn't see anything so I went back to bed. Not 10 minutes later he started back up with the ruckus and back to the window I went where, to my surprise, there was a jumbo raccoon in our new bird feeder,</div><div style="text-align: center;"> so now Saturdays to do list suddenly included running to the hardware and renting a large live trap.</div><div style="text-align: center;">When picking up the trap I did receive some great information on what I should use to bait trap as well as a rash of crap about not just pulling out my 22 and shooting him.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbj5-YKLiE2DTjbcbvGb31H01kn2GUVSfBZkiBIc3uBnZeCtHytSOG9YhckC86SoxERD7c7mIHlbZzBHWjq6Ndfhcre-TPZMNGH2v4PPZc7gwyNRyJfFWqeOH7ytYkKh9OM4RRg2m9849D/s1600/P1010401.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 175px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbj5-YKLiE2DTjbcbvGb31H01kn2GUVSfBZkiBIc3uBnZeCtHytSOG9YhckC86SoxERD7c7mIHlbZzBHWjq6Ndfhcre-TPZMNGH2v4PPZc7gwyNRyJfFWqeOH7ytYkKh9OM4RRg2m9849D/s320/P1010401.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669823909273539634" /></a>Paper bowl with 1 broken egg, chocolate chips, peanut butter, black sunflower seeds, 1 unbroken egg and we had him in the trap by 10:30 Saturday night.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkSh0A7JtQfQfZsbolQbijjYDbKh7CxgjnzQO1RQ5M_38IpFK-P6G8N9CBkTA0IJYnyefUB-Q2z1vrC4RiReZXg-2CdlexSaEbsm6poqnjq1977DAwbmc1NABB47t8Ymlr2E4ioF_Zr1om/s1600/P1010402.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkSh0A7JtQfQfZsbolQbijjYDbKh7CxgjnzQO1RQ5M_38IpFK-P6G8N9CBkTA0IJYnyefUB-Q2z1vrC4RiReZXg-2CdlexSaEbsm6poqnjq1977DAwbmc1NABB47t8Ymlr2E4ioF_Zr1om/s320/P1010402.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669828195380223346" /></a>All loaded up for his road trip. He's lucky a karma conscious gun owning Buddhist spent the 8 bucks for the trap rental and gave him a nice home still in the Murmur Creek river valley.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Today Pat had all day meetings in town and before leaving she asked if I would carve the pumpkin.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQQo30mHr7ncn6lMlZsYoZFJ9nNEFZU3g_Co2ymHuyknGsyTPtPMbdw-9ufsGxx-fzGwUyMGTGVWxNGcFr4oZto2KQFKVSzVkwBGDVkTg8dxRG7C9S1zFpoFnYmQqVJCofGXgYdfPEDawI/s1600/P1010406.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 284px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQQo30mHr7ncn6lMlZsYoZFJ9nNEFZU3g_Co2ymHuyknGsyTPtPMbdw-9ufsGxx-fzGwUyMGTGVWxNGcFr4oZto2KQFKVSzVkwBGDVkTg8dxRG7C9S1zFpoFnYmQqVJCofGXgYdfPEDawI/s320/P1010406.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669833613422480386" /></a>and here's what she got.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> There's a lot to be said for adult supervision.</div>Stanley Tullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110136008202678965noreply@blogger.com0