Author: harrylange

The other day I had ask Jean what these were for, she said they had something to do with fishing.
It took a couple of days but I finally figured it out.

They are to hold my rod and keys when I go fishing. My rod is held so it can not get stepped on and/or broken and I cannot lock my keys in the pickup by mistake. Laying the pickup keys down and then closing the pickup door before picking them up again can lead to a very long day.

At least the river is starting to point in the right direction, DOWN.

We have had a lot of sun between the thunderstorms and that does help to keep the batteries charged. This 120 watt solar panel will charge the batteries or if we are not drawing much of load from the batteries. We have four 6 volt AGM batteries wired in pairs to give us quite a bit of 12 volt storage. This trip we have had the Starlink on all day and it draws about 4.5 continuous amps. Every other day or so we need to run a generator to top off the batteries.

Our sunset.

Monday June 10, 2024 was moving day.  We moved 6 miles down the river back to Ruby Creek site 15 for the next 2 weeks. 

This was an all day event.  At 9:00 a.m., I drove down to Ruby Creek to get a campsite, got one of the two sites we like the most.  There was actually only one other site in use (site 17, where we were two weeks ago) so I left a chair at site 15 and headed back to Palisades to get Jean, Marley and the coach.  The next stop was Ennis to dump, get water and groceries.  Back to Ruby Creek and we were all set by 4:25 p.m. 

Nice sunny day and we are looking forward to nice weather for the next week. 

The river is a little clearer down here as long as I stay above Ruby Creek.

This shows where the creek enters the river.

We have lots of company here. The last people left dog food in the fire pit. I’m pretty sure it will all be gone my tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the flower pictures I took the other day.  I think this is a Rocky Mountain Iris (Iris missouriensis).  

In the WordPress editor all these pictures are right next to each other, it will be interesting to see if there is space between them when the post goes live. I have a lot to learn and/or relearn.

And here are a couple of more eagle pictures.

I found this picture while looking through the picture folders on this laptop.  I cry every time I look at it.

Sunday turned out to be a nice sunny day. (Edit – the evening turned into thunder storms passing through the valley, I took Starlink dish down because I didn’t want to take a chance of hail damaging it. “We” never got any hail but it sure rained HARD. )

Figured out how to upload pictures to the WordPress media gallery for future use.  Now I can edit pictures on a Windows machine, upload to the WordPress gallery and hopefully add them to a post from a Chromebook..

Saturday afternoon I got my Cannon 60D out to take some flower pictures. Here are a couple a pictures I found on the camera, from 2020 I think.

I forgot to insert a Pagagraph between the first two pictures, Oh, well I eventually get it.

After a few flower pictures an eagle parked itself in a tree on the other side of the river.  I dug out my 500mm lens and took a bunch of pictures, here are a couple. Oh, yes – here is a picture of the eagle. I was going to upload several pictures but it looks I didn’t, I’ll add some more tomorrow and also some flower pictures. All the original pictures are on my Windows machine and it’s asleep.

Harry

This morning’s view with my coffee. It is pleasantly warm today and looking forward to a great day.

Water flow is still on the rise.

Another beautiful morning on the Madison River.  The river is still high and dirty which is caused by the sunny warm weather we are enjoying. 

I don’t remember if (I start a lot of sentences this way) I mentioned I saw a moose on the other side of the river a couple of days ago. That is a bad sentence, really bad sentence with four “I’s” in it.

Another great day, we are into summer weather in Montana.  With the warm weather the river gets more water and dirt. Fish hunker down and wait for the river to slow down and clear.

Spent multiple hours today watching WordPress videos on how to use the program. I learned a lot, now I need to put it all into practice.   (Saturday 6/8/24) I just figured out how to connect WordPress to Google Drive, upload Iphone photos to Google Drive into a specific folder and than put the photo or screen shot into a post. I just did this with the above water flow report, now can I do this tomorrow.

Working on this post. Created this as a draft to insert pictures from my phone before the text, however I could not see this post when I went to my phone.
I am going to try publishing this and then going to my phone. We’ll see what happens.

Publishing the pictures to this post from my Iphone looks like it will allow me to put text into the post.

I added this smart shunt a couple of months ago. It gives me a lot more information and I can monitor the batteries from my phone or Ipad.

We do have a 120w portable solar panel which supplies us with some of our power.

This is the view from the front of the coach. I spent quite a bit of time today sitting here and editing photos. It was a beautiful warm sunny day.

This is a Rocky Mountain Iris,

Don’t know what this, just a pretty blue flower.

More Iris’s

Got to work on the Iphone focus.

This is one of the official river flow gauges, Cameron is just down river from us.

My view from the shade next to the coach.

I did learn when I’m putting the pictures in I need to insert a Paragraph Block in between each picture. Oh well, I’ll figure it out in time.

Remember many of my older posts are at harrylange.wordpress.com we did a lot of traveling before I got harrylange.com. Chromebook and I are starting to get along better.

This is the weather for the next few days, looks like summer is almost here.

Rock River Flow Gauge
I’m going to try and use today’s post as the place I will update my “Rock River Flow Gauge”.  Hopefully I will be able to keep adding to the pictures on this page.  Oh yes, I first have to remember to take a picture of the rock each day.

Sunday June 2, 2024 img 6284

Monday June 3, 2024 img 6283

Tuesday June 4, 2024

Wednesday June 5, 2024

This is the official Madison River Flow gauge.

This is not the best picture but it is a picture.  I didn’t want to loose my phone in the river and I don’t want to keep this fish out of the water for very long. I’m just not very good at taking Iphone pictures with one hand. Got this fish on Tuesday.

(Discussed this fish yesterday and today but I was really really pleased to get it to the net)

Just a nice cloud picture.

Forgot to edit the extra stuff off this picture and I’m not going to go back and do it again. I have learned that I should put the pictures into the post from my phone and than go to the Chromebook and put in the text.

Palisades BLM Campground, Montana – Tuesday June 4, 2024

Had a good day fishing today, this is the only fish I even hooked today however it was a nice fish and happy to be let free.  

This is not the best picture but it is a picture.  I didn’t want to loose my phone in the river and I don’t want to keep this fish out of the water for very long. I am just not very good taking Iphone pictures with one hand.

I am currently writing the text in Google Docs, opening the website in Chromebook, creating the post, pasteing in the text and space for the pictures, publishing the post, open the post on Iphone and then uploading the pictures and updating the post.