How'd it go today?

[SeanKroll]

Damn.

Wishing you well!

 

[stikine]

Climbed Mt. Dewey late this afternoon. Nice view of town from up top but the lighting would have been better earlier in the day.
Following in the footsteps of John Muir I guess, haha.

 

[lxskllr]

I kind of like the lighting there; shadowy and blue toned. Not generally a fan of full sun.

 

[Tree09]

Wait wait wait, the guy who hates warmth also hates sunlight? No way, didn't see that one coming!

 

[lxskllr]

Sun makes everything worse. In my real job, it creates shadows and heat shimmer that makes it harder to see, and with tree stuff, it lights up the screened face shields, and makes it hard to see. Not to mention being blinded if you look the wrong way, and being hot. If you want to get something done, it's better without the sun.

 

[cory]

I read John Muir's book, "Our National Parks," definitely enjoyed it.

He was a hard core dude

 

[lxskllr]

I saw some of the Ken Burns documentary on him. It was pretty good. I should read his books.

 

[Patrick A]

Nice shiny couplings and spider. We can chip again!

 

[Fiddler]

Made it home from hospital today.

Had biopsy done on temporal artery this morning.
Results in a few days, but they suspect it'll be negative and that I'm actually having "cluster headaches".
Will pick up a bunch of new meds tomorrow, and will find out what to continue on after results come back.

 

[Nutball]

Any relation to the elbow problem?

 

[cory]

Nice shiny couplings and spider. We can chip again!

#machining

 

[Treeaddict]

How long was your hospital stay, Dave?

 

[Fiddler]

Fri night until 3pm today.

Got back to emergency about 10pm Fri. then around 1;30 am drove myself from the emergency to the hospital across town or would have had to wait 7 hrs for transport. checked in about 2 a.m. Sat actually

 

[Treeaddict]

Dave, so you were admitted and the whole 9 yards. We’re all glad to hear you’re home now. It sounds like it’s under control?

 

[Fiddler]

Currently being treated with a "headache cocktail" and will get some other meds tomorrow to treat for what I may have (depends on biopsy). If biopsy shows negative meds may change and the next guess is "cluster headaches".

Things are still up in the air, but I'm feeling better at the moment and back at home anyway.

Guess I'll just have to wait & see how it pans out.

 

[flushcut]

I had one of those days. Big double leader silver maple one lead is about 3’ and the other more than three foot but less than four and every bit of 100’ tall with large old rotten pruning wounds. So we were taking the smaller lead off because it was over a garage and funky. I knew I didn’t have the height with the lift and figured I’d take a long top but as I worked the tree there is a real bad hollow over 70% at about 55’ up. So taking a big top is out now it’s a crane gig. And the tree was going so smoothly. Oh well.

 

[lxskllr]

Bummer. Is that gonna eat into your bottom line?

 

[flushcut]

No I am passing it on to the customer but doing more work to use up some of the four hour minimum. I think the rest of the tree will take half an hour to get on the ground.

 

[SeanKroll]

Good luck, Dave!

 

[SeanKroll]

 

[lxskllr]

Whatcha making?

 

[SeanKroll]

First sawdust.

Messing around with a low-quality cedar log to test my set-up of the mill.

 

[Fiddler]

Made two trips to pharmacy for new pills. needed to get started on them and they only had one available this morning.
After second trip I spotted an old buddies/bandmate's truck at his place & stopped in to say "hi". Haven't seen him in maybe 4-5 years and we live less than a mile apart. Had a great time catching up & talking music for a couple hours then I scooted home.

Got taxes about mostly done, just waiting on one document.

Headache is still there in the background, so taking it pretty easy. Did manage to play a bit of fiddle & sing a few on the guitar though today.

Settling in for a quiet, early evening...

 

[SeanKroll]

Cut some tree house rafters and 1x5" skip sheeting for holding the plastic corrugated roofing.
progress.

 

[flushcut]

Sold some “Highly Valuable Walnut logs” didn’t get rich but made some easy money. Confirmed the crane for Friday. Sold two days of removals and drank some beer. Not a bad mid week day. And did some more welding in the shop.