The Annex pt. 3

"post-a-day! post-a-day! post-a-day!
what's the track look like?"

Oh yeah, post-a-day...
The track looks muddy. We had freezing fog at night early in the week leaving the recently scraped ground frosty in the morning. The afternoon sun turned it into unridable mud....Google is telling me "unridable" is not a word but I'm pretty sure it is. Ridable = capable of being ridden, please tell me if I'm wrong.

Either way here are some more pictures from the Work Party Weekend. Next WPW is March 14-15, possibly featuring a trip to Blackrock.




Our brush fire didn't work out so well, even with copious use of accelerants.







Timmy showing the love.

What is Milkshake doing here? Flexing? Cheering? Acting like a goalpost?

Drew and the first jump...which may actually get bulldozed as the master plan evolves....sorry.


Natty was not into the loud machinery, she spent much of the time in Mace's pickup.

Jaden hitting the ditchstyle.

This is when I wanted a fisheye lens. Perhaps you can stitch these three photos together in your mind to make a panoramic.

The Annex pt. 2

Mace dropping in.


Dabby catching some air off the funky hip he designed.

Sweet T hitting the dabby hip...

and casing it.

Wheelie Guy almost landed on Dabby.

Mace on the first jump.

This is my favorite picture from the weekend. A study in orange.

The Annex pt. 1

The Annex Work Party : Phase One was a resounding success. Many thanks to Jaden, Dabby, Wheelie Guy, Mace, Sweet T, Milkshake, Tiahdactyl, Ringer, Timmy and the Kid.

The first scoop.



Timmy looking for arrowheads.




Jaden and Dabby experienced some ill communication at first but eventually learned to work together.


Sweet T was ripping it up.

The Kid and the CR.


Big Silver II and Mace on a beautiful sunny day.

“I’m a country boy, and ya’ll got a lot of things that you can do outside,” said Outlaw. "Nature walks and all that stuff? That’s cool".

Trout has now replaced Channing Frye as the Blazer most likely to join us on a DeathMarch.

mud bog

This seems right up Team Wreck's alley :

All Comer's Meat V

memo to all squirrels

I'm happy to wrap my ongoing jihad against squirrels in the righteous cloak of native species protectionism but consuming their corpse is going too far.

So, on the off chance that any squirrels are reading this blog, I hope you enjoyed the reprieve since the scope mysteriously "came loose" during Jaden's use. Just pray to your nut gods that we settle on resighting rather than upgrading.


I'd also like to say to the squirrels : this war need not be endless. I'm willing to cede control of the orchard and the woods. Gather all the filberts and acorns you like. If you want to hit up a bird feeder now and then I'll look the other way, just stay out of my house. When you wake me up, nearly every morning at dawn, by climbing all over my roof and then skittering through the attic it makes me want to kill you.

Squirrel hit list :
The big one with no tail that sometimes looks like a rabbit but is not a rabbit.
The scrawny dark grey one that never, ever stops moving.
The huge silvery one with the bushy tail that twitches a lot.

a post-a-day!

hi-larious, but really, let's (you) keep this blog alive! a post-a-day! really!? what else you gotta do???!!! - The Kid

Good point. I'll try to step it up.

Here's the excavator I'm considering renting for the work party this weekend. $145 for 4 hrs, $240 for 24hrs.

"Get your hands offa my ass, Steve Nash"

"Everything is just a few hundred clicks away"

Morgen forwarded this to me.


Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

The Compound

The first ever Poker Night at Dabby's Compound is on for Saturday. This could be your only chance to experience the legendary "party barn", don't miss it.
I have one seat left in my vehicle and am leaving around noon. I hear Spence, Timmy, Disco and possibly Sharky are also driving so hook up a ride. You won't be sorry for long.

Mudbowl 09

The new year is almost upon us, which for TW means the mudbowl. It looks like an excellent crop of mud this year with all the melted snow and recent rain.
Meet at Col. Summers Park, Noon, Jan. 1st.

Guest Post : ConspiraSteve : The Enemies List

*Please note the opinions and theories expressed by ConpiraSteve are not necessarily shared by the author of this blog*

The very need for such verifiably votive verbiage in these times would require invariable verbosity, would you not agree Dear Readers? Would you not even in the vicissitude variant that is verily upon us object to a verifiable villain in our midst? Or villains? ... I think not or so...Or Dear Readers has after November November that day of remember dulled our vexation of the venal and virulent vermin violating violently the vox populi???! Has our veneer of vicious virility been vanquished with one virtual virtuous vote? Mmmm... Makes you think does it not, Dear Reader?... I for one will not be vanquished by the vox populi of the now (irony aside)!! I will not veer. Dear Readers, I will vindicate the values of the virtuous and hold true the values of the vanquished!! The only vengeance I have is this verdict: Vendetta.

The Enemies List: Coming soon.

Arctic Blast!

Well I'm back in the modern world after 48 hours with no power. I'd like to say it was an ordeal but actually I kind of enjoyed it. The wood stove kept me plenty warm, between my cupboards and the generosity of Bill and Karen I stayed well fed, I enjoy reading by candlelight and thanks to Jetboil and my antique coffee grinder I stayed properly caffeinated. The lack of hot water was an issue at first but I found that if I rode the rollers until I started dripping sweat and fantasizing about making naked snow angels a cold shower was just the thing. All in all, good practice for the coming apocalypse.

NBA update

In the wake of a terrific Trailblazers win against the Suns tonight here's a joke from Steve Nash...

Poker Night?

Dabby wants to know if there is any interest in a poker night at the Compound the first Saturday of 2009, Jan. 3. This could be your one and only chance to see the Compound and the infamous Party Barn...let me know what you think in the comments.

snowday

Mace asked me to take pictures of the snow so Natty and I just took a walk around, I might try a little trail ride later in the afternoon.

There were coyote tracks on every trail in the woods but concentrated in makeout clearing, it looks like they had a party there. They walked across the ladder and pretty much every log, including some that were angled somewhat steeply and several feet off the ground.


I'm tempted to try it, but no.


This cat really gets around, it's tracks were everywhere.

CSI : The Woods
The scene of a struggle? It's hard to tell from this photo but on this otherwise pristine section of trail there was a spot here where dirt and leaves were thrown up on top of the snow, there were coyote tracks coming from one direction, cat tracks from another and bird tracks coming in from the side. Also there were two spots on the snow where it looked like a wing had swept across. No feathers or blood though and no marks of anything dragged away. Inconclusive.

The wild cherries are starting to form buds already.

Oh yeah, I was going to pull those hyacinth out and compost them last week...guess I'll have to wait awhile now. I trust my little koi are fine, it's over 4 ft. deep at the center, I can't imagine it's frozen that far down.

Natty likes the snow but what she REALLY likes is getting back inside and laying by the fire.

Note the one white whisker. Jaden thinks something frightened her, I think she's starting to get old.


Some of the rhododendrons aren't looking so good.

I thought it would be funny to get some small LED lights powered by batteries and put them on one of the Xmas trees. Maybe next year.

I got a little worried about the feral calico cat that's been hanging out in my woodshed so I made a little shelter. I hope it's utilized, I've been trying to lure it in but it's not having any part of that "kitty, kitty" thing. Of course Natty is a hindrance, chasing things that will run away is pretty much her raison d'etre, if you'll pardon my French.

A redtailed hawk takes flight at sunset. I had hoped to get closer before it took off, I'm not very stealthy.


Mace, Beefa, Spence and I (plus 3 dogs) did a super-mini-deathmarch to a ridge above Mirror Lake and spent the night at Mace's parent's cabin in Welches. Thanks Mace's parents!

Late in the evening.

Mace attempting to prove his theory that he could do pull ups hanging onto Beefa's sleeping arm without waking Beefa. Affirmed.

TWGG

Here's a little experiment. I made a TeamWreck Google Group. I thought this might be a more versatile space to discuss details of the next deathmarch or whatever else you like. For now it's set on web only (no emails) and restricted membership (you have to apply but everyone is welcome, unless you're a jerk).

Death March Update

Bjorn writes in :

"So the death march is friday feb 20 through sunday feb 22nd. We had to get the cabin for friday and saturday in order to reserve it, saturday only wasn't an option. We will have to figure out if some are going friday night, and some saturday, or all saturday or what. Regardless I have some feats of strength in mind and the cabin is reserved."