This tree was also in Klawock yesterday. The mountain in the far distance in the lower left of the photo is in fact the back side of Sunnahae mountain, which we can see from our house.
I spent part of the day putting the torsion bar and wheels back on the boat trailer, having gotten new hubs installed by Chet in town. You can see the shiny new hub in the picture.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Category: My Photos
Caveat: Tree #651
This tree is in downtown Klawock, where I took a walk while Arthur was at the dentist.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #650
This tree was above the water running down the hillside.
[daily log: walking, 2km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #649
This tree (which tree? – some group of trees, perhaps?) saw an unprecedented traffic jam on Port Saint Nicholas Road. This was due to the landslides and a flagger being present to direct traffic through the sporadically-open single lane as many excavators and dumptrucks did their duties to clear debris.
[daily log: walking, 2km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #648
This tree saw the road become a river.
[daily log: walking, 5km]
Caveat: Tree #647
This tree is also across the river from the clinic in Klawock. “The Clinic in Klawock” sounds like the title of an Seussian epic poem.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; retailing, 4hr]
Caveat: Tree #646
This tree is in Klawock, across the river from the clinic.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #645
This tree has a freshly be-snowed Harris Peak in the background.
We had our first frosty nights, the last two nights. I figured the growing season is therefore done, and I started ripping out the moldy vegetation. I found some vegetables – small potatoes, micro onions, bite-sized carrots, anemic leeks. I am thinking of trying to make an “Alaskan garden stew” with them.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #644
This tree is in town. There is one of those ubiquitous shipping containers lurking nearby.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #643
This tree has been featured before, but now it includes eagle (lower right, perched on the “dock arch”).
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #642
This tree saw the season’s first snow atop Sunnahae Mountain.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #641
This tree is barely visible in the pre-dawn twilight.
[daily log: walking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #640
This tree announced dawn.
[daily log: walking, 1km]
Caveat: Tree #639
This tree is near a stream.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #638
This tree likes to hang with the in crowd.
[daily log: walking, 4km]
Caveat: Tree #637
This tree is seeking attention.
Arthur and I pulled out the lower two rails from the boat rail assembly with a nice low tide at around 5 this evening.
I found the original pulley that broke, camouflaged among the seaweed and rock – corroded and barnaclized, as I’d suspected.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #636
This tree found blue skies.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #635
This tree has got it going on.
[daily log: walking, 2km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #634
This tree reflects on the passing river.
[daily log: walking, 7.5km]
Caveat: Tree #633
This tree felt itself to be in contrast with the sky.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #632
This tree is about two miles from the house.
[daily log: walking, 8km]
Caveat: Tree #631
This tree is leaving.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #630
This tree is not exceeding the speed limit.
[daily log: walking, 7.5km]
Caveat: Tree #629
This tree shows its true colors.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #628
This tree is along the road less taken.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #627
This tree is in a forest.
[daily log: walking, 3km; jogging, 1km]
Caveat: Tree #626
This tree provides a backdrop to fall.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #625
This tree found the sun.
[daily log: walking, 7.5km]
Caveat: Tree #624
This tree witnesses the shapeless sky.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km]
Caveat: Tree #623
This tree dwells near the pond.
[daily log: walking, 6.5km]
Caveat: The Saga of the Boat Rail
As mentioned before, last Friday the boat rail pulley on the lower end failed.
On Tuesday morning, Arthur and I got up super early (4:30 AM) to catch the low tide and install a new eye bolt for a pulley to anchor the lower end of the boat trolley cable.
I didn’t take any picture, but this is what an eye bolt looks like.
After I went to work, Tuesday, Arthur tried to pull the boat out of the water on his own at the mid-day high tide.
The new eye bolt failed. So it looked like this.
It left us questioning our choices. Not to mention, it looked like a question mark, right?
Yesterday morning (Wednesday), we got up early again, and tried to re-engineer an anchor for our pulley. We drilled a second hole, and installed a U-bolt.
It looked like this.
Then I went to work, and though the boat was out of the water, Arthur decided to lower the boat back into the water because the boat was crooked on its cradle.
As Arthur attempted this, there was a catastrophic failure of our U-bolt. I found this piece of our rail, and the loose pulley, near the tide line when I got home.
And this was the base of the rail in the morning.
So now there was no chance of getting the boat back into the water to “re-float” it and straighten it out. You can see the crooked boat, here.
Instead, we decided to use a come-along and chains to pull the boat around on its cradle. I didn’t take a picture of this process, because I was working hard. But this is a come-along and a chain, which we used (somewhat blurry).
We got the boat straightened out and up into the barn using the come-along and the trolley winch (but only “uphill” would work, because of the broken pulley at the bottom, so each time we needed to “reverse” we had to set up the come-along).
We paused during the uphill trip because Arthur wanted to wash off the boat. I said it would be a multi-day job, but he plowed into the effort.
After about two hours, he said he agreed it would be a multi-day job, and decided on second-thought he’d just like to get the boat put away in the boat house. So we did that.
Yay.
Caveat: Poem #1523 “Fish spirits”
ㅁ Then, further along, the fish's cool spirit rose... and decoalesced.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Tree #622
Here are some trees and some road and some sun, from a few days ago. The daily tree is among them.
Arthur had more problems with the boat rail while I was at work. Big problems. Our second repair to the bottom-end pulley failed much more catastrophically than the first – the boat is okay, Arthur is okay, but we have some work ahead of us.
More later.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 8hr]