11-14-2018, 07:31 PM | #926 |
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one last stop for puppy p break in the way home...new snow on the local mountains...
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11-14-2018, 11:53 PM | #927 |
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Snow's coming in Diesel. Mind you, I watch a couple of webcams in BC (Smithers/Invermere) and still nothing on the ground really. Soon though! Fires a thing of the past already (in your neck of the woods). Hard watching the dawg slow down.....
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11-16-2018, 09:44 PM | #928 |
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no Billhilly, everything is still on the mountains...()...and not in my driveway...()
and ya, just like that our fire season is done...feel for the Californians right now- pretty intense what's happening and it is very hard watching my truck riding, mountain climbing, go everywhere with, fishing buddy for 13 yrs, wind down... |
11-17-2018, 11:10 PM | #929 |
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what the hay, was a beautiful day...back to the river...old dawg never ceases to amaze me with his energy-he really loves life
this bird followed us down to the river. for about 2 miles this bird just kept up with us... was not expecting much from diesel, but he surprised me...off he goes.... ...and here he comes with his first of the day... ....and his second... |
11-17-2018, 11:24 PM | #930 |
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....another one...
and this guy...not the 10-20 he would catch when younger, but not bad for a 91 yr old fart... huh? got some big birds lurking around? 6 feet off the ground.. came upon this '67 goat on the way home...notice the brake lites are'nt on? it'a 4 spd and totally stock down to redlines- sweet, 4 spd rag gto...and the color, similar to my green, but much nicer. my crew is finally booked for the paint shop on dec 15, may have to look this green up |
11-18-2018, 02:21 AM | #931 |
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Dawg is looking good! Exciting you will get some paint on the crew. I need to do that too...
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11-18-2018, 01:11 PM | #932 |
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thanks MTCK!
hope i look as good at 91 myself... and you can't belive HOW EXCITED i am for some paint...been waiting about 12 yrs or so to get some nice-ness on it. got 12 yrs of asst. dents and whatnot to fix first, right now it don't look too bad "across the street on the other side of town with blinders on", want to change that to across the street in front of my house with sunglasses on.. my insurance on it runs out dec 20, so i'm taking it in on the 15, i haft to stop myself from taking it apart untill then, i'll be stripping it down for my guy, and i really want to start "dis-assemble" it right now! after blowing my paint job money earlier this yr for a quad for my son, i have managed to save up over half, and a small bank loan is taking care of the rest.. |
12-24-2018, 11:39 PM | #933 |
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beautiful day before Christmas....
as old dawg may not make it to another one, i decided to make it a merry one for him, just in case. stopped at the butcher on the way out and bought him some scooby snacks... then headed up the valley, pretty nice dec 24... went to a place we call "ghosts of the giants" bunch of bridges ya haft to cross....creek is a little high, running over the bridge |
12-24-2018, 11:48 PM | #934 |
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another bridge
this spawning steelhead swam over for a photo-op another "bridge", slicker then pig snot... i used the log in the background, kid jumped, dawg waded thru... looking for fish, none here, but the bears had a feast here...there's 8 or 9 strewn on the shore half-eaten |
12-24-2018, 11:55 PM | #935 |
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hiked down to the river...the mist adds a nice touch...
this is why we call it ghosts of the giants....was logged back in the nineteen '20's, must have been an awe inspiring sight. i guess back then "profits" outweighed "preservation for future generations" there is still a couple of giants at the top of the valley, luckily their in a park so their off-limits to the saw... |
12-25-2018, 12:04 AM | #936 |
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it's kinda cool walking among them, just picturing in my head what it must have looked like. i remember back in the '70's as a kid, a local logging company brought down a giant, then brought it down on 7 or 8 logging trucks, each truck hauling just one piece that were as tall as the trucks and cut a little long so they were hanging 10-25 feet off the back.
they then parked them end to end in the mall parking lot displaying them for a couple days |
12-25-2018, 12:10 AM | #937 |
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must have been a job cutting them down, be like a building falling. you can see notches in them from the loggers, and they dwarf the trees growing out of them....sad part is they will never, ever get that big in the valley again...man will chop them down long before they become giants...
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12-25-2018, 12:13 AM | #938 |
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diesel scoping Borden creek for fish...
there's one and off he goes...did'nt get it, faster than he was...lol merry christmas dawg! |
03-02-2019, 06:27 AM | #939 |
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might have read a thread i had elsewhere, but my bush buddy Dieseldawg passed away earlier this week. he died from kidney failure, but at 13, he was slowing down and his hips were wearing out, so i had been taking him out a lot lately, cause i knew deep down his time was limited.
these are just some randoms of his trips in the last 2 months. nothing radical, his hips were slowing him down he always loved going fishing at the river or harrassing the beavers... yep, he's a river dawg... |
03-02-2019, 06:32 AM | #940 |
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ya, he really liked the river
always searching for fish....live or dead....he dragged this dead "Jaws" out of the water |
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PNW rain forest...lol
hiked up to a giant. was around 200 ft tall, then lightning snapped off the top 80 feet or so. some tree people went up there and did a ring count- 800 yrs old....this tree was a sapling while Ghengis Khan was being a meanie... |
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Foley creek area....and as usual, fish hunting...
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03-02-2019, 07:06 AM | #943 |
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some more giants, these are only about 500 yrs old
down at the canal |
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looking for fish in the canal...
turned out this was Diesel's last trip out..... |
03-02-2019, 07:14 AM | #945 |
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looking back i'm glad the weather was nice for his last outing...
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this was about 5 or 6 days before his kidneys failed....you'd never guess there was anything wrong with him
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Sorry man. He was a heck of a traveling dawg and you guys had a heck of a run. Keep getting out there.
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So sorry to hear. What a great dog, thank you for sharing his adventures in that beautiful country of yours. Looks like he enjoyed life to the fullest, Godspeed Dieseldawg!
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03-03-2019, 09:59 AM | #949 |
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thanks Marcus and Burb
not quite the same around here without him....i so miss him going to have to get me some new dawgs soon, don't like not having a bush buddy to explore and fish with....... |
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I’m so sorry for your loss! I’ve really enjoyed your pictures over the years. Dawg was obviously a great companion! I always tell myself I’m not going to get another dog because it’s so damn hard when we lose them! But, we always do. It seems like even if we’re not looking, one always finds us. I’m starting to think I live in one of those neighborhoods where people just dump them knowing they will probably find a good home.
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