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Good morning all. It’s raining again. We got two inches yesterday and half an inch already today. And more is forecast all week. Ugh.
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Good morning everyone,lot's of famil& friends yesterday for my grandson's graduation. My bottle of Irish Whiskey is almost gone. Good times. We had some rain but not very much. My 2 clowns. Have a great Sunday.
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It's Sunday or is it Funday?
Ok it's FUNDAY
That special weekend of my anniversary of 38 yrs of no drugs.
So I get to go and play.
Where is always a great debate. I will go over to a very hard hit bush site that a church once stood. The pickings are slimmer every year. The ticks are more numerous, so I will wear a bug suit.
The permission told me I can now detect the mill site on their property. Probably a adventure of overgrowth and ticks.
I'm certainly up for a challenge with the Deus ll. We never know unless we try-right.
There's always the hall site down the road. Cherry picked everything above a pull tab.
Tried the new turf spade out yesterday, sure beats using the Leche for the plug cutting.
So no rain forecasted today, ya right🤣
Hope things dry up in the garden today for I might get a bit of soil time before the next 4 day event.
So enjoy your long weekend holiday?
Ok it's FUNDAY
That special weekend of my anniversary of 38 yrs of no drugs.
So I get to go and play.
Where is always a great debate. I will go over to a very hard hit bush site that a church once stood. The pickings are slimmer every year. The ticks are more numerous, so I will wear a bug suit.
The permission told me I can now detect the mill site on their property. Probably a adventure of overgrowth and ticks.
I'm certainly up for a challenge with the Deus ll. We never know unless we try-right.
There's always the hall site down the road. Cherry picked everything above a pull tab.
Tried the new turf spade out yesterday, sure beats using the Leche for the plug cutting.
So no rain forecasted today, ya right🤣
Hope things dry up in the garden today for I might get a bit of soil time before the next 4 day event.
So enjoy your long weekend holiday?
Mornin all.
A hearty annual congrats on wresting yourself away from another demon.
Harvest time. Winter wheat and rye heads droop June-July? Corn can wait till well into winter to dry on the stalk before being sheled ground ect. No it doesn't have to if it dries enough prior. But there's hay to cut and lots to do in the fall.
Summer grinds mean shade for those waiting. If the mill was for grinding and not for hammering or sawing.
Still a millpond would entice eventually.
(Gosh I hope it's not a windmill.)
Gold!
I don't see any in the picture.
But the rumor was enough to make sane folks do crazy stuff.
Getting to the gold fields was undertaking enough.
Blistered hands and scratched shovels evolving to gnarled calloused hands that could sand wood and worn out shovels. Enormous volume of material dug and washed and moved. Even hills knocked down by water hydraulics on purpose.
Done carefully those selling beans and shovels ,pistols and knives may have done alright.
Chilkoot Pass.
[ 3,759 feet or 1,146 metres]
I don't see any in the picture.
But the rumor was enough to make sane folks do crazy stuff.
Getting to the gold fields was undertaking enough.
Blistered hands and scratched shovels evolving to gnarled calloused hands that could sand wood and worn out shovels. Enormous volume of material dug and washed and moved. Even hills knocked down by water hydraulics on purpose.
Done carefully those selling beans and shovels ,pistols and knives may have done alright.
Chilkoot Pass.
[ 3,759 feet or 1,146 metres]
[To be allowed to enter the Klondike and take part in the gold rush, Canadian officials required that stampeders take one ton of goods with them, to try to ensure they were prepared to survive on the frontier.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilkoot_Pass#cite_note-Yukon-6"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a> This was broken down into a year's supply of food, which was half of the weight, as well as another 1,000 pounds (450 kg) of equipment.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilkoot_Pass#cite_note-Yukon-6"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a> The supplies and food requirements were broken down into two lists.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilkoot_Pass#cite_note-Supplies-7"><span>[</span>7<span>]</span></a> The clothing items included: a waterproof blanket, 6 pairs of wool socks, 2 flannel over shirts, and a medicine chest. The list continues with the essential clothing needed. Some of the supplies required included: rolled oats, flour, salt, and bacon. The weight ranged from 20 to 400 pounds (10–180 kg) for one ingredient. This list was taken very seriously, as there was rarely a return journey after the Klondike was reached.
No traveller could take his supplies across the pass at once, so several trips had to be made in order to transport all needed goods to the destination. Quite often the supplies had to be carried by hand in 50-60 pound packs, as the passes proved to be too narrow for wagons or draft animals.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilkoot_Pass#cite_note-Trails-8"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a> The travel was slow and what would have taken a few hours in another environment required days to complete.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilkoot_Pass#cite_note-Yukon-6"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a> It is estimated that for every mile their supplies moved, the travelers had to walk 80 miles to get it there.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilkoot_Pass#cite_note-Trails-8"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a>
Only the wealthiest of stampeders could afford to hire labour to transport their supplies. Most stampeders had to carry their own.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilkoot_Pass#cite_note-Trails-8"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a> The professional packers of the time mainly consisted of Alaska Natives and First Nations people (Indians), who charged 1 cent per pound they carried. Working the market, the packers quickly moved to new customers if there was a hint of more money to be offered by someone else.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilkoot_Pass#cite_note-Book-9"><span>[</span>9<span>]</span></a> The packing fees charged by professional packers were subject to change as the weather changed. Ground conditions could make the packing much more difficult, and muddier ground conditions were harder to traverse as compared to frozen, snow-covered ground.]
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No traveller could take his supplies across the pass at once, so several trips had to be made in order to transport all needed goods to the destination. Quite often the supplies had to be carried by hand in 50-60 pound packs, as the passes proved to be too narrow for wagons or draft animals.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilkoot_Pass#cite_note-Trails-8"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a> The travel was slow and what would have taken a few hours in another environment required days to complete.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilkoot_Pass#cite_note-Yukon-6"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a> It is estimated that for every mile their supplies moved, the travelers had to walk 80 miles to get it there.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilkoot_Pass#cite_note-Trails-8"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a>
Only the wealthiest of stampeders could afford to hire labour to transport their supplies. Most stampeders had to carry their own.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilkoot_Pass#cite_note-Trails-8"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a> The professional packers of the time mainly consisted of Alaska Natives and First Nations people (Indians), who charged 1 cent per pound they carried. Working the market, the packers quickly moved to new customers if there was a hint of more money to be offered by someone else.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilkoot_Pass#cite_note-Book-9"><span>[</span>9<span>]</span></a> The packing fees charged by professional packers were subject to change as the weather changed. Ground conditions could make the packing much more difficult, and muddier ground conditions were harder to traverse as compared to frozen, snow-covered ground.]
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