Henro?

Steve_Miller · Jul 19, 2005

Anyone heard from Henro lately? I can't believe there would be no comunication from Alaska or did he not make it there yet? Just concerned a little.

Steve /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Golfgar4 · Jul 19, 2005

Henro's last posting was on 6/2 and he offered this:

( I doubt I'll be posting much as the email to family and making the bed in the evening takes too much time....as do the morning walks in the woods, the stops along the road and all the other reasons we are finding to go slower rather than faster... )

Guess we'll just have to wait until he gets tired of making the bed or walking! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

EddieWalker · Jul 19, 2005

I missed something here.

What's he doing in Alaska?

Bird · Jul 19, 2005

( What's he doing in Alaska? )

Vacationing and sight seeing.

Devildog · Jul 19, 2005

We spent 4 years there. You sure can do a lot of walking and sight seeing /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Henro · Jul 20, 2005

Hi guys!

All is well, but for reasons beyond our control /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif the trip came to a sudden end in Idaho, and we had to return home. This was too bad as we were having a great time, enjoying the natural beauty that State and National Parks off, and all such things.

One thing I did come to realize since departing on the trip was how much time one can spend in the morning here at TBN! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif Could not help but think back to John Miller III, when he transitioned from a regular here to whatever his status may be currently. Since arriving home I’ve made a conscious effort NOT to check in at TBN, so I can get more things done that I need to (read: get started earlier in the morning).

One of my planned projects that I need to get done is re-roofing the house. Arriving home sooner has let me get started sooner on that project. Unfortunately, this project involves more than just shingles and requires a remake of one wall, removal and resize/rebuild of 13 home-made windows, things like that. Very time consuming when you are working alone. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

One pleasant surprise of our abbreviated trip was how easy we could find wireless access points to connect to the Internet. Sometimes in hotel parking lots, occasionally at highway rest stops (free access, not referring to the paid access points) and more than a few times along the road in small towns, where someone had an open wireless access point that we could jump on and send/check email from. It was a rare day that we could not find Internet access, using the wireless network cards in our laptops. One night we stayed in a Wal-Mart parking lot when we did not find a state/national park (Found that option preferable to commercial campgrounds) and we had wireless access all night in our van, provided by a hotel next door, which was a couple hundred feet away.

Anyway, just wanted to say hello and let you know that we are home safely. I probably will not be checking in here too often between now and when the snow flies.

Now if I could only figure a way to get a tractor up on the roof to give me some help! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Bird · Jul 20, 2005

Glad to see you back. Good luck with the roofing project.

DocHeb · Jul 20, 2005

( One thing I did come to realize since departing on the trip was how much time one can spend in the morning here at TBN! )

An hour a day is 365 hours a year, or two full weeks!. More time than I have in vacation a year. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

PineRidge · Jul 20, 2005

Doc you get a vacation each year? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Glad you're home safe Henro. Good luck with that project.

Steve_Miller · Jul 20, 2005

Hope I didn't jinx you by asking about you. As for the roof, good luck and play it safe. I'm only forty five and I decided from this point on I was never doing a roof again by myself. I did my own at my cottage from start to finish and **** near kill myself from exhaustion. Took me three days from start to finish including lugging all the shingles from the ground up. I'm not used to that type of work so it got the best of me. I just had my roof done at home with the lifetime metal shingles.

Steve