Larry G's Visit to 3R

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Hey guys,
It's been a long couple weeks to catch up on things. Not having Internet at the rural property really makes it tough getting all the pictures and stories together, instead of posting on a regular basis.

You may have heard that Larry visited us in 3R in anticipation of the arrival of Loretta's new 284 Jinma 4x4? Well, it got hung up in customs and was delayed until after he left. So instead, we ended up goofing around the property and hanging out at South Camp. Larry also checked out the home and did a few projects to my Kama for me.

Larry and I (and our wives now) have become really good friends over the last few years. We've helped each other on numerous projects and made trips to each other's homes.

After picking him up at the airport, we made a bee line out to 3R ... about a 4 hour drive with the trailer in tow. We had several items like bath tubs and other stuff to deliver to our builder for the log home.
Of course that was when it was pretty cold up there. Larry didn't mind since we got him a new air mattress and lots of sleeping blankets.

I'll share a few photos taken during his visit.
This is my friend Larry. He looks right at home in his Western attire, right?
His sleeping quarters at South camp.
Loretta messing in the kitchen and then by the fire pit.

 

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Like I said, we spent much of our relaxing at our camp and showing off for the camera. I think we even found time to into town to have a sit down supper. And during the days when we were not working around the tractor or homesite, we hiked all over the property.

 

[3RRL]

The 3 of us spent a lot of time up at the homesite going over the plans for the log home. Larry was kind enough to stick his nose into every aspect of the build. Really, he was quite helpful having experience building his home from scratch bu himself.

We checked out some of the equipment at the construction site and sat around watching them build and work.



We relaxed and took the time to take photos of each other. Here Larry took one of me on the rock bluff while I took one of him inside the log home. He even conned the contractor to drive his Deere skid steer up there. And then Loretta and Larry taking it easy.

 

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Larry was all over the place, taking photos of the HVAC systems, looking into the water tank, checking to see if the plumbing and electrical was done right. He even made sure the septic tank would be acceptable.
lol ... That last picture shows how nuts he truly is, to get down like just to take a stupid picture.
Man, we had a good time joking around like that all week long too.

 

[3RRL]

In between goofing around, Larry found time to make some improvement to my solar charger for the Kama. He wired up two solar panels to give an adequate charge. He check what one put out and said it was barely enough so checking the two together was a little better. Also not shown here in this thread (but their own) are the installation of a "Filter Minder" and he also added four 100watt off road lights to my Kama ... something I'd been wanting to do for a long time.

We also found time to do more exploring and every evening and morning we went down to the river to hunt wild pigs. But we weren't successful with that.
However, Loretta and Larry did get a chance to practice the skeet shooting skills.



Here is a series of photos of Larry shooting and breaking clays. You might see the orange clay pigeon and then busting it in the last 2 photos.
Looked like he had a pretty good time after all?

 

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Then the evening before we had to leave, for the first time in 3R for several years, it snowed in 3R. Camp was covered in snow and it was COLD! Our next morning at the camp table was surrounded by snow.



The shipment of tractor and implements arrived the following week so Larry missed all the good stuff. Nevertheless, we both have some great memories, pictures and stories to think about.
Rob-

 

[Jimbrown]

The wife and I actually think we had more fun camping and building the house from our motor home than we do living inthe house. We swore we would never build another one but somtimes we think of it, Anyone got $500,000 or so to donate to a new house.

 

[EddieWalker]

Rob,

Looks like so much fun that we're just gonna have to come see it for ourselves!!!!

Eddie

 

[GuglioLS]

......Looked like he had a pretty good time after all?
Welcome back my Big Brother Rob!
And how! Between the two of us we took over 500 pictures.
It's taken me two weeks to sort em all out, resize and upload.
I have a bunch to post but real quick here is my favorite -
Rob and I sitting at camp, drinking coffee, having a smoke, talking about tractors, and reminiscing about all the good times we had that day....

All in all it was another great trip hanging out, hunting, working and playing in the hills of 3R. I will never forget what a wonderful time it was. As Rob mentioned the tractors were held up in customs so I missed out on all that, but we made up for it keeping occupied with other activities.
Rob and Loretta, Thank you again for your hospitality. I think I gained at least 10 pounds with all your great camp cooking. We may not have bagged any pigs, but I sure pigged out!
Stay tuned.....more to come...

Larry