We found a house out in the country!! And when I say country, I mean country! It is a 2 bedroom, one bath with acreage (if we want to use it). It is adjacent to Turtle River State Park (for those of you who wish to Google it and see how country it really is!). There is trout fishing in the Turtle River and PLENTY of deer/elk hunting opportunities on the property! The house is a little farm house that will be perfect for us! We were the first people who showed up and took it on the spot.
After seeing other houses going for over $1,000 per month to rent in the city, we decided to focus our efforts to looking in the country. Ask and ye shall receive. While we were getting ready to leave it started raining (no rain in the forecast) and there was a double rainbow! One end looked like it was on the property and the other end looked like it was around the campground. I have many pictures that I will upload when I get to Joyce's work. The internet connection is waaaay to slow here at the campground to upload pics.
We have a new family member! The best I can tell, it is a baby Purple Martin bird. I was walking over to the office to get a much needed Mountain Dew and he was laying on his back in the middle of a pull through campsite. It looked like he was missing a leg, but it popped out after a while. He has all his feathers, but is real small. I went back to the Wiener Bagel II and got a small cardboard box and put him in it. I gave him some water and he was extremely thirsty and then when he was done drinking, he fell asleep in my hand. He actually seems to enjoy being petted. I tried to feed him and he will not eat, so I am going to have to force feed him to get some nutrients in him so he makes it. He is not using his feet/legs at all and seems like he might have been kicked out of the nest. I kept an eye on him for a while before picking him up to make sure there weren't any parents around. After looking on the internet, the best I can see, he is a Purple Martin. He is used to me lets me pick him up with no problems. He falls asleep in my hand now every time I pick him up.
In other news, I got the Jeep up and running. I have to tune the carb as it is running rich and was blowing a ton of blue smoke out of the passengers side exhaust. It does start up and does not choke itself out when I hit the gas. The only other thing I need to do before I get it on the road is bleed the front brakes and it should be ready to go! I do think the Jeep will be a great vehicle up until winter! Maybe even after winter with a plow on it. We stopped off at a store that was kind of like a Tractor Supply mixed with a department store. It had everything you could possibly want/need and more! I found some of the screw in style snaps for the top of the jeep. I had the bimini top on it while we were towing it behind the motorhome and it came out of the track that was on the top and tore, so I want to put a few snaps along the front of the soft top so it doesn't pull off like the bimini top did. Can't wait to get it dialed in! Looking forward to driving it. It will struggle to keep up with the 75 mph speed limit safely, but we are more about getting there safely than fast.
We are tenatively planning on a trip back to Baltimore around the first of September to get our things out of storage and the Ramcharger out of storage so we can make the 1500 mile trip back out of here again! It should be more worry free, as it will be a rental truck we will be driving and we will have the Ramcharger being trailered on the back if trouble should arise.
Things are going great and we are extremely happy! We had a Cessna Skymaster spraying for Mosquitoes last night. Extreme low altitude flying at it's greatest. Met a lot of people here at the campground. The people here are nice and very friendly like the guy that was telling us about the skeeter spray last night. We talked for about 20 minutes about things to do here in Grand Forks. With both of us having grown up in Michigan, we are still amazed at how nice the people tend to be in the upper mid-west.
Thats all for now. Almost 3 am and need to get the Jeep done or as close to it as I can tomorrow.
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