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[desert_sailing]

I really should narrate my own novel - River Girl. It needs an audiobook.

I think you should! Post them on your channel. You could set up a chair outside on a gorgeous day and read to the world.  Maybe read some fireside?

I was drawn to the calm and soothing nature of your voice. So I would love to see and would visit often.. "Bedtime Stories With the Book Lady"

Oh.... you could read the Little House Books in and around an old barn... with chickens clucking around, cows mooing and dinner bells ringing.

 

[travelaround]

Post them on your channel.

Interesting idea - I might do that.

I'm planning to do some reading of old magazine articles... soon. These are from the 1800's..

 

[Qxxx]

... with chickens clucking around, cows mooing and dinner bells ringing.

TA, you might get some ideas from this old radio video, starting at 2:40 on.

 

[travelaround]

TA, you might get some ideas from this old radio video, starting at 2:40 on.

Pretty impressive! Thanks for the link. Not expecting to have that many sound effects. They were very creative...

 

[desert_sailing]

TA, you might get some ideas from this old radio video, starting at 2:40 on.

A one lady show!!

As I mentioned I choose my listening selections because of the narrators voice. I was listening to the Bible being read by  someone with a very relaxing voice. I forgot to save who it was and couldn't find it.. I found another reader who was doing a dramatized version of the readings. I selected to listen to Revelations... oh goodness..
In the middle of the night I was woken with the reader shrieking and making the "devils" voice... it was my first and last listening to a dramatized version of anything. Now if I listen to the bible being being read I stick to Psalms or Proverbs.

 

[travelaround]

There's a lot of violence in the Bible that I don't care to listen to while I'm trying to go to sleep. Even the gospels feature the horrible murders of John the Baptist and Jesus, and others. I should make recordings of just Bible verses I want to listen to at night... like if I wake up in the middle of the night. I have a small Christian YouTube channel I could post those on. Great idea. Thanks for the inspiration.

 

[maki2]

Another overly warm day. Working this evening on the wood surround that secures the popup top. Wanting to know ehy I was working on the trailer????? Said he was harrassing me to motivate me annd even making threats against his father.. His father had another talk with him. Turns out this nearly 50 year old man is responding like a teenager telling his father that not immediately obeying his son means his fater loves me more than he loves his son. A greeneyed child in a man's body. Supposedly he and his and his girlfriend are going to be sent southe of Seattle to stay with a family friend for a few days. But I doubt the will go there.

Best news today, I sold the rest of my Micro CNC equipment. That will help me get a cell signal antenna booster system. Plus of course gas and funds for some camping fees.

I will spend Friday through the weekend camping around the neighborhood while I work on organizing stuff for the company that is coming with a to pickup the tools and such that i dont want to take along. Because of Covid they won't allow in person donations at their store. Works out better for me!

 

[travelaround]

Sounds like you're really cleaning up over there, Maki... getting ready to roll. What is your anticipated departure date? Is there some reason why you have a schedule?

Such a warm day today. I spent most of the day indoors, reading.

 

[maki2]

Yes there is a reason, my workshop friend needs to be able to move out of this space and the end of the month is coming up. So if I am gone on Friday then they can get to work moving everything to the downstairs space which is a separate rental agreement space than the upstairs. Of course it has also hurt his father's income as right now companies can't afford to do new product development so he can't keep the upstairs space and maybe not even the downstairs space. The Covid 19 situation is a financial disaster all around.

I need to get up early tomorrow, lots to do. Run to the hardware store for some screws to mount the hold down brackets for my popup top.

 

[travelaround]

@Maki - Oh... yes, Covid19 has been a financial disaster. I understand now why you have a timeline on leaving. I hope you get your rig ready soon!

Another day has dawned and I haven't decided yet what I want to do with it. I have gardening on my mind but that has to be for morning only as the afternoons are getting too hot for outdoor activities. I need to go into town today. Errands.

 

[Firebuild]

Unfortunately, the audio isnt very good on this video...

Being named Mary, I've always been partial to this one!

 

[Qxxx]

It's much more than a financial disaster, it's a financial, health, educational, and personal freedom disaster. There ain't much left after that. The US is now the World Pariah. No one wants us. See the map (pink areas). Even Canada has closed its borders. If I were a Canadian RVer, I'd not come south.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/us-international-travel-covid-19/index.html

So, cooled off greatly here, about 85F today for the next few days. Elevation is magic.

 

[tx2sturgis]

Glad to see it. Less Americans flying abroad and then bringing home some new potent germ (or spreading it around) is always a GOOD thing in my estimation. 

And this is not a new thought for me:

Just say NO to air travel.

I have not flown on ANY commercial airline flight since 1994. This has been my choice.

And I do not plan to EVER ride on one of those things again.

 

[Qxxx]

Old news, now laid to rest with the dinosaurs. Pre the Mess of 2020, 80M visitors came to the US every year, or about 200,000 every day from every place on earth. The tourism industry added more than $1-Trillion a year to the american GDP. But you can probably write that off for the next 5 years or so.
https://www.condorferries.co.uk/us-tourism-travel-statistics

In the 90s, I made 6 trips to Europe and about half the time, I would be sick with some respiratory illness or flu for the first week I was over there. Breathing the same (95%) recirculated air as 300-400 other people for 7-10 hours. Anymore, I've not been on an airplane since 1998.

 

[travelaround]

My son talked me into flying to Texas from North Idaho in January 2017, to see my mother. Hopefully the last air travel ever, for me. There was so much turbulence between Denver and Houston the pilot sounded worried when he told the stewardesses to sit down.

 

[Qxxx]

Ha, considering I was living in the CO Front Range during the 1990s, I remember many air trips where there were monster thunderstorm clouds ranging up to 35,000' or so that we flew through or around. See the pretty pictures. That's Colorado for you. Plus of course, if you fly east from Denver, you'll fly through a lot of storm fronts that form tornadoes too. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thunderstorm_formation.jpg

[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]And landing at Stapleton, heading into the winds coming down off the Mountains, was usually a fun [/font][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]ride with a bounce or two off the tarmac. [/font]Of course, that's better than landing in cross-winds. These are just great, lol. Don't miss #3.

 

[travelaround]

Wind in Denver - now that you mention it - on the first half of my flying experience, January 9, 2017... we were delayed over and hour in a snow storm in Spokane - not because of the snow storm, but because of wind in Denver, where were were headed. I'm glad we waited!

 

[Qxxx]

By 2017 I had left, but the Front Range gets somewheres on the order of 10' of snow a year, and you are talking January. They get real real winter there.

Not to mention the area east of I-25 was known as Tornado Alley (the humid winds coming up from the gulf would mix with the winds coming down from the mountains), and Denver DIA Airport is way out there. I seem to recall them needing to de-ice planes a lot. Not to mention yesterday.


I can't tell you how many ice storms I drove in over the course of 20 years there. And how much snow I shoveled. The day after a snow storm, the sun comes out and starts to mels the snow, and then it turns to ice when the sun goes down. Always fun. Probably like northern Idaho, lol.

 

[Malamute]

Actually, I think Co is worse, its more intermediate temps, so more ice. Im fairly northerly (undisclosed location....), the weather to the south is often much worse. The snow we get often evaporates directly from packed snow on roads to dry pavement when the sun shines on it.

I drove by Denver once in a storm, I got south of there and the roads turned to ice. i kept slowing down until i felt safe driving, but suddenly cars were off the road all around me, one, the wheels were still turning. I eased over, backed up, went to go check on the guy (it was a VW van on its side in the median). I almost fell on my tail when i got out. My truck had decent traction, I could hardly walk on the pavement though. It was a Ford F250 4x, extra cab long bed, with utility shell on the back, it weighed a bunch, and the long wheelbase was very stable on snow and ice. I loved that truck for winter driving. It was the worst conditions I ever drove in, but manged to get out of it near the NM border.

 

[Qxxx]

Yeah it was typical for the roads to be clear, then the snow start in the late afternoon, then the temp rapidly drop below freezing, and the roads turn to icy glaze. I remember one day, there were 400 accidents at afternoon rush hour right after the sun disappeared.

I remember one time coming down the steep hill on I-80 above Georgetown and there were cars piled up every which way. You'd touch your brakes going 2 MPH and the car would go sideways. I got through just before the real mess began. Then down below Idaho Springs, cars were backing down (the very steep) Floyd Hill it was so icy. We went down Rte 6, which is 2 lanes, and a horse trailer had slid sideways across the road and blocked it. Took 7 hours to make the usual 1 hour journey that day. I love Colorado.