Jeep trivia

Posted by Greybeard on Mar 19th, 2007 in Days of Old | 3 comments

The first Jeep was built 10 years before I was born.

I was 23 years old when I bought my first (new) Jeep. 

To me, a Jeep will aways be a Willy’s or CJ-3 thru CJ-5.

I owned my first Jeep,  and a few others,  for 29 years.

The ultimate Jeep for me,  was the 1974 CJ-5, sporting a small block V-8 breathing through Custom Equipt. Headers,  with Detroit Locker’s front and rear, pulling 33X15 Armstrong offroad tires on 10 inch rims.  (dating my self a bit, eh?)

A lot of good memories in those old Jeeps! 

~~GB 

ICE OUT!

Posted by Greybeard on Mar 18th, 2007 in News and weather, Political | Comments Off

It started moving around Noon,  and blasted it’s way down the river (2 miles) like a slow moving freight train.  Smashing and grinding anything in it’s way.  (mostly docks that should have been removed for winter).

1. Before the ice crusher came.

2. About 20 minutes later,  starting to break up.

3. The full grinding crush, 15 minute later,  speeding along at about 9 knots.  I have a short movie of it,  but I thought it was to big to post on the site,  email me if you’d like to see it,  it’s about 5 Mb. 

Right now,  at 10am Sunday morning on the 18th of March,  the Au Gres river is clear out to about 400 yards from the mouth of the river.  The 2007 St. Paddies day thaw is nearly complete!    Out at the mouth of the river,  the Bay is open water, except for the ice bergs. 

  This puppy,  we’ll call it Mount Au Gres for now,  is a mile or two out off of Point Au Gres.  Just a guess now,  but comparing it to the size of the tanker’s that go by out there,  I’d say it’s about 250 feet long and 70 feet high.  The smaller ones in the forground,  are about the size of small school buses.

Hope ya’ll had a Happy St. Patrick’s day,  ( the Guinness was much better than the Green Beer up at Dunleavy’s and their corned beef and cabbage was great with either  )

On to a short bit of heavier thought:

A wonderful quote from Ronald Reagan:

“we’ve been tempted to believe that society has bcome too complex to be managed by self-rule,  that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people.  Well, if  no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?”

Those who would give away our preciously won freedoms,  should be washed away,  like the melting ice in the above photos.

P.S.  Check out the website of The Gathering of Eagles .

~~GreyBeard

Au Gres River Ice

Posted by Greybeard on Mar 16th, 2007 in News and weather | Comments Off

 

33  degree’s this morning and the ice is still solid.

But,  believe it or not,  those two little specks are ROBINS!

 

Let me update that previous statement a bit,,

The third picture is from about a mile up the river, just below River’s Edge store.  They said it started breaking up about eleven this morning up there.   The ice in this picture is moving around 8 or 9 mph when it isn’t blocked,  but it’s currently all stopping a couple of hundred yards down from this site.  There’s still a lot of solid ice between here and the Bay.  The upriver side of the bridge is flooded a couple hundred yards out into the campground and threatening River’s Edge store.  

~~GB

Augres River mini-report

Posted by Greybeard on Mar 15th, 2007 in News and weather | Comments Off

About 90 pecent of the snow is gone,  but the river is still solid.  Well,  it looks solid,  I don’t think I’d want to walk on it.   

We’re on an “ice watch” now.  When is it going to break up?  If my timing’s right,  I’ll try to get some pictures posted of the ice flows and jams.

If you’ve got a few minutes to read it,  here’s a link to a great new post by Michael Yon in Iraq:  “Ernie is Dead” .

~~GB

Au Gres river mini-report

Posted by Greybeard on Mar 11th, 2007 in News and weather | Comments Off

15 inches of ice,  and warm weather 

I’m kind of looking forward to seeing the ice break up in the river this year.  The weather guy’s are predicting temps in the 50’s and we have a good 15 inches of ice on the river and quite a bit of snow on the ground.

There should be some interesting ice flows coming up in the next week or so.  

~~GB