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Missing the yurt!

Jafo

Jafo

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I haven't been able to spend much time at the yurt the last couple of weeks. This past weekend my wife and I agreed that there was a pretty long list of things around the house to get done that I have been neglecting due to yurt fever. For one thing, the grass was so tall, we were starting to lose the kids in it. :rolleyes: So I spent all weekend getting the yard manicured, the gardens tilled and planted, and numerous other projects, not to mention mothers day!

I really wanted to spend the weekend up at the yurt but whatcha gonna do? Anyway, we are hoping to get a bunch of furniture this week to put up there so I will have an excuse to spend a little time up there during the week and all weekend! :)
 
I have to work all weekend, including today, so again I am missing the yurt! I have to spend most of today working on yurtforum.com and getting some stuff organized. I really wish I was up there puttering around and getting my various projects done and breaking a sweat followed up by cooling down in the river with an ice cold one.. Sigh....

Just thought I would share.. Now, back to work! :rolleyes:
 
I'm loving the forum, Jafo. You're doing a great job! Hope you get your yurt time soon though!
 
Thank you so much! I am hoping to get up there this weekend if all goes well.
 
Plans have changed a little.. <sigh> There is so much going on with the kids/wife and a couple engagements I forgot about, that it looks like no overnight at the yurt anyway. I will be heading up there tomorrow to cut up some more of the wood, but then heading home. That's ok, I have scheduled at least a week off in August to spend there. The only thing I have to worry about is how I am going to manage this site while I am gone.

Maybe next weekend I can get away. :)
 
Heading up there for the weekend, in about an hour actually. Hope to get some updated pics! Have a good weekend everyone! :)
 
Going to head up this Saturday for an extended stay, probably a week. So looking forward to it! :)
 
Just wanted to check in using my droid w/ mobile hotspot up here in the great Adirondacks! The cellphone booster I am using is working great considering there was never any signal here before! The solar power is working wonderful! I have configured firefox to not load images which makes browsing in 3G much faster.

The last couple of days I have been splitting wood, tinkering with a ham radio antenna, clearing brush, hiking, hiking, and more hiking, and playing with the dogs (who are here for the first time).. They have never been away from home and are having a blast. My Jack Russel has killed about 5 mice living under the yurt so far. He is better than a cat. :)

My neighbor dropped off his skid steer for me, so I have been fixing up my road too!

So busy, so sore.

Hope to check in more before my vaca is over!

- Jeff
 
So here is the whacky antenna I built out of a sapling and a plastic culvert pipe. Believe it or not, I can hit repeaters in Syracuse NY with this, which is about 90 miles away, so I can hit many miles beyond that :). Not bad for line of sight communications. :)

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Here I am, my last night at the yurt for a little while. This will be the sixth day up here at camp. I am ready to go home, for sure, but I will miss the place. It is hard up here; everything is hard. The ground is 90% rock, almost every tree is a hard wood, no water except what I have to truck in by hand in 5 gallon buckets, the river is ice cold and that is the only place to bathe until I figure out how to get water to the camp next year. Even with all of that, I love it up here. I split enough firewood to heat the yurt for 2-3 years. I did so much work on the road, I actually broke one of the pins on the little tractor that connects the bucket loader to the forks.

My body is dog tired, but my mind is as relaxed as can be. My job requires me to sit behind a computer most of the time, so doing manual labor is like recreation for me these days.

I see a lot of activity going on here this week; looks like I have a bit to catch up on when I get home!

- Jeff
 
Here is a shot of the yurt that I took this morning:

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And the little guy on the lower left corner is my dog Wimpy.. :)
 
The two dogs (Wimpy and Kip) sleep in a crate just under the yurt because they really like sleeping outside and also because Wimpy still smells a little ripe from his last tangle with a skunk. Last night I snapped these pics of them lol.

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