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You'll like the Escape Stan. My mom's had one since o4 I think. No problems at all, and is going to get another Escape when it's time.

My DIL has an 05 Stan and has had no problems.

I know some of you have followed Cole's story closely and I thought I would post an update. He has been done with chemo for a little over a month and his last scan was great. Apart from his bald little head, you couldnt tell him from other kids. Here is a pic ( a fantastic pic that my wife took if you ask me! a great action shot) of Cole and his cousin Jake riding the tube a few weeks ago. Oh, and Jake's mohawk was a temp thing as he got exposed to lice at daycare, so they shaved his head and gave him a mohawk for the weekend. Dont these kids look like they are having ....uh....fun? Cole is obviously the one on the right.

Is that a face of terror or joy?

That is a great update and it warms my heart.

That is great! Looks like Cole is getting to just be a kid. So glad to see it.

Thanks for the update that's great news!!

Great picture too!

We need deer camp pics man....pics.

I wore my chickenbuck hat all weekend it helps with the withdrawls. some pics would help!



great to see Cole out being a kid, nothing like watching kids play, I got to watch my niece and nephew play with my little man all day yesterday, it was adorable.

Thanks for the pic of Cole BM. Great to see the little guy being able to just be a kid again.

Heading up to camp Thursday to help my buddy with his bear hunt. I've already been asked to trim the Tag Alders back from the road into camp. It's a never ending task.

we did some wood pile moving.





Then some sand point action. Here's a 2' sand point with a 6' chunk on pipe on it.



Here's my crude scrap metal driver.



Here we go.





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another 6'

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and that's how far we got before we hit a rock. probably 11 ft.

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We could draw a little bit of water on Saturday and Sunday but it was really hard pulling the water, You could pump up a good strong vacuum with the hand pump then you could tape the handle down & let it draw suction for like 15 minutes and it whould pull up enough water for one pump stroke.

It's getting better and I'll get to those details in a minute. first some more photos ov various activities.

Me & RWS's supper Sat night, it was great! (elk)



Pancakes Sunday morning. We set a new record for most blueberries in a pancake.



Some of the logging equipment in the area.

They completely destroyed out road by the way and they took logs out full length, no slasher so there was no firewood left over. Destroyed the road and didn't leave a stick of firewood for us, just great.





lil man wrangled a beauty of a frog.



The new wood pile location.



Today we went back out with a small air tank (slave tank) that I filled at home with about 125PSI. I drilled a hole in the pounding cap and used a rubber tipped blow gun off the slave tank and we blew pressure down the pipe to the sand point. Then we drew water up the pipe with the pump and blew it back down one more time.

We were out of air after 2 blasts but it was enough so we could now draw some better water. It's still very hard pumping but it will fill the pitcher pump in about 40 seconds with the handle held down pulling vacuum.

big improvement over the 15 minutes it took previous to blowing it out twice.

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We'll bring a gas engine air compressor out this week and blow it out many more times until we have a cavity washed out down by the sand point and then we'll have it made.

Speaking of gun show's... Look at those pipes.

Maybe you could talk to one of the loggers and have them fix your road up a little for ya... Or you could take a few of those wheels off the equipment.

hmmm...my reply with quote didn't work.

I said "Holy! That took A LOT of wood to drive that sand point!"

My arms hurt so bad, that damn home made pounder deal must weigh around 40 pounds. Clank, clank, clank, clank...

Jeeze my hands hurt too.

But once we blow it out a few more times we'll have a nice little well for all of our cleaning water.

If I get it to draw really nice I'll move the pump inside the cabin in the kitchen.

Looks good, lots of work. What the heck happened to your pictures? Maybe something is goofed up on my end. Can't see any of your pics. I could before.

I can still see them, but I know what you mean, its happened to me before.

lots of work indeed! I'm curious as to what it all looks like, do you think it will help or hurt the deer hunting this fall?

I exceeded my photobucket bandwidth again. so I go in and buy a month worth of "pro" which is like 2 dollars or something.



You must have been talking about this guy?

He's the one with the power, the ground shakes when he drives that slammer home