West Linn

Got to West Linn monday about 3:30pm and fix one bus defroster, only had about 6 or 7 buses out of service. Tuesday I got there about 7 am and started closing out RO and setting up inspections for the next day and see what need to do to get the OOS list witted down.
It rains a lot in West Linn, it east part of Portland, It rain 4 out of the 4 days I was there.
Drove to old town portland and went the Powls Book store and pick up to books. Linny
Seekits The End ( last book of the series of 13 books) I finsh book 12 about a year ago and have not been able to get the book from the Libbary, I did have it on hold for six monthes than I think the book was lost after that, I may gave this book the the Libbary after i finsh reading it. Another book I pick up on the cleans rack was The 5 peaple you will meet in Heaven, look interesting.
I did find 10 cache total the whole time I was up there. One cache was by the river and it was dark by the time I got there and so I could not see very will. I did not find the cache but the beaver in the water about 4 of them would slapp there tail every time I came near the water, scary me each time. I later read that the cache was under water because of the high rain fall and flooding in the area.
The shop is realy to small for what there trying to do, 2 bay with over a 100 buses and only 3 mechanic, need one more mech and one more bay, two would be better.
By friday I had toe OOS list down to 3 buss and one was in the dealer being repaired, and other need to go to deal for repairs.
Left friday about 3:30 and head to Springfield to fix Sam/Emly car, need to install new rotors on the front of the van there have. But I stop in Canby for pick up 4 caches and then onto Springfield, got there about 7:30 and had the rotor changed by 8:30 and left about 9:00 or so after eating. I got so sleepy I stopped at rest stop and slept about 30 minute and made it more about 1:15 am and was in bed after a bath about 1:30.
I get togo back for thursday and friday in West Linn.

Gone Out Of Town

Leaving for West Linn tomorrer to run a shop for a sick shop manager.
This is in the Oregone city area, east of Portland.
I was up there little over a year ago to hold the shop together and change some things when the last manager was fire.
It was pretty wet last time and I'm sure it will be the same this time, we getting lots of rain in are area, so it will should be a lot wetter.
It fun to get into another shop and see the thing that they do diffent and how there read the company precceder manalys diffent then I see them, I can always pick up new ideals and thing that I could use in our own shop in southern oregon.
This all so gave me a chang to do some geocaching in another area after works done.
I have load 50 cache in the area, we see what I can do with these.
I need about 50 more caches to hit 900 finds, I'm at 847 now.
I painted the car saturday, it look not real good, I think going to sandy and re-paint one more time, this will gave me a chance to, to do the hood, I pick up for $25, it had a cress on one side, it was better then then the old hood.
We see what happens.

Interesting news, Saddam Hussein was sentenced to hang, after year in court hearings, its about time.

Dive, With Pumkins

Saturday night, dove out to Early hole and doing a pumkin carvering contest.
Started dive at 6:30, witch was dark at the time of night.
We had this pumkin and knife and a swam out to area and drop down, to about 30 feet.
There was about 20 or so diver in the water, with pumkins and knife in hand.
We had planned on making the pumkin look like hedge hoge, so I cut lots of little sticks to stick in to the pumkin. We put these into the bag that Rochelle had for under water stuff.
Will when Rochelle opened the bag and all(about 100) these stick floated out and we started grabbing these as there floated away, we ended up with about 5 stick so a change in plannes as to what this was going to look like......to be contenued.
We end up using the sticks at teeth or something like that, and used rocks for ears and a nose.
It look pretty good, some had used a paten had a lot of detail work, was cool looking but the ideal was to do it free hand.
The two paten ones came in 3rd place and we came in 2nd place because we used more nature type stufff, meaning rocks and sticks, the 1st place had crown and was done realy will.
All in all it was a lot of fun.

Still No Time Yet!

Getting closer to catching up, still a ways to go.
Need to finsh body work in green car.
Need to finsh the white car, then move all my stuff like 2 way, am/fm, and other items.
Rochelle hit a deer with her white car, seem ok, the grill is cracked, will get that replaced soon.
Would like to finsh the body work this week, but we will see what the time keeper gaves me.
Getting one or two geocaches a week, some close by ones, the ones outside of town I will get this when I finsh the cars stuff.
Get to go diving saturday and carve a pumkin under water, should be fun.

No Time For Anything

Been some time, sense I've writen any thing here.
I'll get back to it when the clocks jump forward, real soon.

Bean's Big B-Day

Today is Ben's birthday, everone came over tonight at the house and had Germany hamburgers and cream cheese cup cakes, way good stuff.
Ben is 27 years old, Ben think he is real old.
He got dive stuff, case for his reg. and dive float, and Ben money from Molly and little cars from Robyn.
Had and good time all in all.
Ben is are old kid of 5 kids.
We are going diving at Brookings the week end and sould be a great time.
Should do about 4 to 5 dives and some fish spearing.
Sould be a great time in all.

Another Day In School Busing

Just anothre day, they brake and I fix.
Boss says we don't have enough bus so we're getting some ones hand me down.
I will pick it up in Medford tomorror, its and 1995 AmTram Genesis, 66 pac.
It only going to have 100k on the odometer, it could be good. Most of the time its ends up being a lot of work to set up.
Got the rear shock assbley for my subaru and install it after work, and the tire and wheel roll straight, and no shaking at 60 mph.
The new brigde in Rogue River, is to be move into place in the next 5 days.
It only weights in at 55000 tons, and this is not the heavest item that they moved.
It will be moved 25 feet at one inch an hour.

Long Time, Up Date

Been a lone time sesse I'm writen on this brogg, so this is an up date. It had be so long that I forget my password, had to make up a new one to get in.
We been diving a lot, At squal lake, a 20 foot to the fog line, with lots of fish to see.
This labor day week end we did about 5 dives at the cost, at a place called Mill beach and Lone Ranch. these are near Brooking. We got lots of fish, (spear fishing) Rochelle, Dan, Sam, Emley, Randy, John and Ben.
Was in an accident yestday, and go hit in the right rear wheel, and lock the tire up, and spin around in a 180* and was facing the car that hit me. Had to have the green subar towed home and seem that the shock on that wheel had about 30* bend, I think I can just replace the shock and I will do the body work later this winter.
I'm still trying to get to the old Navy Momment out side of Brooking, go to make try in then next 2 weeks.

The Summer Is A Hot Spot

A lot has happened, so I will cover it quickly.
Got are scuba diving cert. Me (Dan), Rochelle, Daniel, Robyn and Paul.
So now we get to go diving, dived in thIllions river 2 week ago, get fun.
And now we starting to buy up dive gear.
Elmly gradationed for college, Sam and Elmyl are taking dive classes now.
Jeff is seal to Hile in portland temple.
And now we have only 30 days left of the summer.

Schools Out, Gone Swimming

School is over and the real work begans, lots of radiators and real main seal to replace.

Yesterday we did our first indoor dive.
Shown and test on, 2nd stage losing, cleaning 2nd stage, finding 2nd stage and breathing with a run away 2nd stage, Clean masks under water, how the BCD work and praction with this by doing the fin tilt, breathing with out mask, and tank reval and installation with 2nd stage in mouth, and using alternut on buddy and swinning with alternut for lengh of pool.
And last removing tank/BCD and getting out of pool at edge in bad weather.
Had a get time, and learnd lot of stuff, Rochelle, Daniel, Robyn, Paul and Randy are all doing this.

10 More Day Till Its All Over

Ten more days till schools out. We got the white bus fix. Turn out to be a fuel filter that we could not find, its was on the fram rail. Test drove the bus to the top of Mount Ashland, ran very good.
Start the Chess series of caches, There is a total of 20 cache in the series, the first 17 have coords to the last three, whitch is chech # 1 and Check #2 and Check mate.
I found the first 8 caches in one evening caching last wednesday.
Its Sam's Birday firday, but He's in Engen going to school. He will be down later and we'll do a birday party for him.

A B-Day For the Rock

Rochelle birthday today, I have been getting her stuff long for about month.
First I saw this is little trail to use behind the riding lawn mowr at B-Mark.
So I Medford story I found the last one, and it was all put together, I just had to fitting into the back of my car. It realy fit with the hatch closed.
Than last week, one of the guys at work said he had a table saw he was going to put it in his yard sell.
So I check it out, and its a crafsmens with iron table and its ten inch.
Stop by and check it out and its a little old but its about four feet wide and on wheels.
Looks realy in good shape, so I got it for $80.00.
Getting it into the car was fun, I stuck in the back and tie it to the seat belt on the back seat.
Got home ok.
Rochelle, Dan, Daniel, Ben, Molly, Robyn and Paul all went to dinner at AppleBee's had a good time.

Work,Work, Work, Thats What Saturdays Are For

I was going to finsh the bushs stack on the new drive way saturday but car thing cam up.
TheVolvo got pull over for to loud of exhaust system in Rogue River and and Daniel run out of gas on the way home friday night and had to walk about 2 or so miles to a friends and got a ride.
And Paul came over to get the half shaft changed because the boot was tore and the CV joint is going out. This took about hour and half to do, not to bad.
The Volvo I had to drope the hole forward exhaust system and weld the some hole and weld the front and back together, under the car. I hate to weld blind, it realy looks bad.
Got it all installed, and its not as loud.
One the guys was sell a 10" table saw at work, Rochelles beem wanting a good saw.
Its a little old, but it works good, Got it for $80, this seem like good deal.
So she has a much better table saw now.
Happy Birthday Rochelle.

Counting The Days Till School it out.

Only about 4 weeks till school is out.
Looks like this summers job is re-doing the bus yard parking.
As will as replace a tank in the wash rack system, I need to build leg to hold the tank above the other one.
I need about the 2 week of time to rebuild the hold system.

A Great Tripe, To Maui, Comes To An End

Left on May 1 and got back on May 9.
Had a real good time. Our condo was about 100 yards from the water and the tempation stay between 73 and 83 degree.
We drove about 750 mile on and island 50 miles long by 10 mile wide.
I found about 20 caches in some realy cool places.

Yaaaaaaaa! for the 700th Cache Finds

I made it to 700 cache finds today, now only 6 more month for get to 800.
This was done at "Deedy's Favorite Homesite" GCN1B4.
We leave real soon for Maui, I can't believe we are real going.
Hope get about 50 caches in Maui, we see what happys.
I will not have computer to log or check any of the cache.
I will have all the cache down load into palm and the two GPS I will have with me.

The Count Down is On

The the count down is for two items.
I'm at 696 geocaches that I've found to date, I hope to found 4 more before we go to Maui.
And the count down for the Maui trip is down to 5 days now.
A lot todo before the trip to Maui.

The Game is Over

I log the last cache for Hermits Quest Gold on wednesday the 12 but the puzzle at the end stup me for about 2 days.
Last night I was trying something just to get them off my list of possiblity and I hit the nail on the head.
I completed finds and was at like 310 or something and by the time I log in the anwser I was at 359.
Not to bad. Did not get a coin but the game was fun.
And yes I was the 1st at something in the game, the 1st cacher from Oregon to finsh the game.

Hermit Quest marches number 12

I have done pretty good and finding caches that fit the requirments so far.
Tomorror morring I run out of cache to log on the quest.
I only need 4 more caches to complete this thing. That will give me 16, I'm going to try and get 5 more tomorror and that will give me and easy 17 just incase one of the other don't work out for some reason.
I just might come in about the 250s area of the finshers, this is only if I can sovle the puzzle at the end.

Maui trip is coming up fast, about 18 days or so.

Hermit Quest Has Started

On the 25 of March the Hermit Quest started. Its a GPSr game that you are requied to find 16 of a list of 18 caches in your area, as to the requirment.
I started 2 day later then ever one else.
As of to day or by 10:45 tonight I will have completed 7 requierments and sould place me about 350 postation.
It will get hard later to find thing that fit.
Hermit's Quest