Some Cool Pics!

The weather here has been interesting.

Things have been going good except for the Mercedes on the road after it has been raining. We went into Grand Forks last Saturday and a transmission cooler line sprung a leak. We stopped at a small used car lot to look at some old cars and when we were walking back to the Mercedes, Joyce noticed transmission fluid pouring out. We got it to the auto parts store and I was lucky enough to have the correct size wrenches and allen wrench to do the job! I happened to have the tool kit for the diesel generator (which is still in Baltimore in storage) in the car. I was thinking of throwing the tool kit in with my tools and for some reason I left it in the car. I am very happy that I left it in there though. There is a hard line that goes from the transmission to the cooler in the front of the car and it is kept from vibrating by a strap to the oil pan. (which is held on by allen bolts) A small chunk of rubber fuel line, a couple of hose clamps and about 4 quarts of tranny fluid later and we were on our way!

We are currently looking for a truck of some sort for the winter. We did stop and look at a 1976 Ford F-150 XLT Extended Cab pickup. It was in extremely good condition. The interior looked like it did when it rolled off of the assembly line and it had factory cruise and air conditioning. No rust and no dents. They were asking $1000 for it. When we got home and I emailed the guy, he said someone was coming from Minnesota the next day to pick it up. See pick of green truck. We will find something cool and different though.

The dogs are still extremely happy! It has been raining the past few days, so everytime the wiener dog goes out, her whole undercarrige gets soaked because she likes to walk through mud puddles and then she is so close to the ground that she picks up little balls of dirt in her hair. Duke loves sitting outside in the sun and laying on his back (a trick he learned from the wiener dog!). Speaking of things learned from dogs...The wiener dog has been the barky one for the most part. We have a neighbor that has a big Malamute. The wiener dog doesn't like it when Mia (the Malamute) is on the porch, so when we let her out, she tears out of the house barking like she is going to attack something! We also have a neighbor that has peacocks that come into the yard a lot and the wiener dog doesn't even notice them, just the other dog.

We went to Devils Lake last Sunday. It was a lot of fun. I forgot to bring my fishing stuff. I have been waiting for a long time to go fishing there and forgot to bring it! Oh well, it was only a little over an hour to get there, so its not like we wont go back. We went to the Spirit Lake Casino while there. We went through the campground there and it was really nice. They offer seasonal campsites there and we are thinking about taking the Wiener Bagel II there next summer for the season. A seasonal campsite was $1400 or around there, so it would be a built in vacation spot and there is a marina at the casino so we could put a boat in the water every weekend and go fishing. The marina also has slips for rent for $675 a year so if we found a cabin cruiser style boat, we could keep it there and have a place to go to and we could stay the weekend on it relaxing and fishing.

Well, thats about it for now. Using Joyces camera now that mine is completely dead. The lens is not working on mine at all on it, but it still powers up. I am just happy that it lasted as long as it did after getting washed and dried!