Author: harrylange

Big House Projects – Wednesday August 2, 2017

Here are the big house motorhome projects I have completed:

Wash coach
Wax coach
Empty Dust Buster vacuum cleaner and clean out motor area
Clean BBQ base, grease build up.
Restring two window blinds
Change battery in LevelPro
Add 12 volt expansion plug to pickup, need more 12 volt plugin in the pickup when using cellphone and laptop in pickup
Design and install bracket for 12 volt power gauge in the pickup, use when towing pickup to ensure battery is staying charged.
Clean carpet, in motorhome and house (long day)
Design and install a bracket in front of the WeBoost roof antenna, so tree limbs don’t knock it off.
Look into adding 2 – 6 volt AGM batteries, will need to purchase 4 new AGM batteries, decided to wait.
Add third fan to catalytic heater.
Fix cabinet door support over the sink.
Captains chairs squeak when turned, fix.
Locate better place for the satellite TV antenna switch.
Fix fishing wading pole, does not lock when extended.
Vacuum all the dust out of the pickup engine compartment.
Install new larger water filtering system.
Fix furnace, installed new PC board and electrode, have sail switch to install before we leave, furnace starts on first or second cycle.
Design and install a bracket to support the broken plastic wheel cover on right rear dual tires.
Change oil.
Lube chassis.
Clean ceiling fan blades and inside of both A/C units.
Get new flexible water hose.

I-90 Rest Stop and Quartz Flats NFS Campground – Wednesday June 28, 2017

Time to move on:
Heading towards Tanya, Mike and Jack’s for a week.  Celebrating Tanya’s and Jack’s birthdays.  Jack’s first birthday and Tanya’s more than first birthday.
This is a I-90 rest spot and Forest Service Campground, at mile post 60.
We are in site A7, a nice large pull-through, great since I will not have to unhook the pickup.
On Friday September 15, 2000 I set on this picnic table at 10:30 at night and had my first beer with my daughter.

Palisades BLM – Thursday June 15, 2017

Today’s fishing report:

morning 

    6 inch brown 

    12 inch brown

Afternoon 

   6 inch brown

   8 inch brown

   15 inch rainbow

   16 inch brown

We are 27 miles South of Ennis Montana at Fishing Access Site Campground.
This is the view out the front window while in site number 1.

Internet comes and goes so the picture may not upload.  I will post picture later, this is a beautiful place.  Eleven sites with only one other person here, he is from Bellingham and has been coming here for eight years.

Palisades BLM – Wednesday June 14, 2017

Moved campgrounds today.

We left Bakers Hole Campground with our first stop in West Yellowstone for gas and propane.   The entrance to Yellowstone was really backed up.  In May you can just drive up to a pay station and into the park, today the 5 entrance pay stations were backed up a 1/2 mile all the way back into the West Yellowstone stop light.

Now at Palisades BLM

 

We are 27 miles south of Ennis, Montana
I didn’t see the three old campsite circles until we had been here for over a week.  I was looking on google earth to see what was around this area and I saw the three shadows of campsite circle.
When I got to Tanya, Mike and Jack’s I had enough WiFi to look on google earth on my laptop.  The full PC version of Google Earth allows you to review all the past pictures of a specific area.  These sites were installed and taken out before 1995.

Yellowstone Natl Park – Sunday June 11, 2017

Back inside the park and fished the Madison Campground area.  This time I fished the other side of the river.

I parked up by the bridge and used the bridge to get on the other side of the river.  I used my new waders while fishing where the Gibbons and Firehole Rivers meet, this creates the Madison River.  The river coming in from the right is the Gibbons River and the river coming in from the bottom is the Firehole River.
I spent quite a while fishing this area of the Firehole and caught 6 fish.  It was a good day with a 30 minute rain shower.