August, 2013 -- Work, Work, Work

We took a month off riding.  It’s not like we planned it that way, it just how it worked out. We got back to Idaho City, knowing we were going to go to Logan to pick up Wayne’s new DRZ. We also found a trailer we were interested in located just south of Salt Lake City. We have to upgrade the trailer to house the 4 bikes we currently have as well as the 2 we want to get in the future. And Wayne would like a full width trailer he can see in the mirrors of the motorhome. We have been looking for an 8X16’ but they are very hard to find.  The one in Utah is 8x20’.  As one of our friends said “What is 4 more feet once you get as long as your rig is?”  Hmmm.

We head to SLC and stop at our old neighborhood to see friends.  The old house looks good and the new owners are good neighbors to our friends, so what more can you ask for?  From there we go look at the trailer, which is not worth the money so we take a pass on that.  Instead we go up to Park City and spend the night with my cousin Cindi and her husband Hank. In the morning they go to work and we head up to Logan to pick up the new bike.

Yes, it's blue!!

We get back to Idaho City and the trailer hunt is still on.  Wayne spends the next week getting those things he wants to keep removed from the KTM 525 that we will sell, and either boxing them up or putting them onto the DRZ.  We put the KTM on line with Craig’s list and KSL.com.  The first call comes that very night and by Saturday it is sold!  

Looks a little bit different, but not bad

We had a very hard time in August.  One night all three cats went out but only 2 came back in the morning.  We have always said we’d like to be a 2 cat family but we thought that Abby our old, mean gray cat would be the one to go first. Instead our beautiful Bailey is gone.  He was the one that roamed the farthest, always walking the perimeter and checking things out.  He was probably taken by a critter, fulfilling the circle of life, but we like to think that he decided he wanted to be an only cat and moved on to a new family.

 

 

 

During this time we did find another trailer that looks like it will work.  It is 8x20’ with a round front and 3 windows.  It has the ramp door in the back that we need as well as a small one on the road side which is unusual.  It has an RV style man door on the curbside.  It came with a small work bench and a bookcase type shelve unit.  When we went to see it we realized it had the heavy duty frame and axels giving it more load capacity. It was what we were looking for and more, so we bought it.

 

It is white, so it shouldn’t be as hot inside as our gray trailer 

First thing is to remove all the stuff inside and wash the ceiling, walls, ramps and floor

Once I painted the walls and floors (with gritty floor paint) it was time to start planning out the inside.  We looked at premade cabinets, tool boxes and other ‘solutions’ and we didn’t like any of the options.  Wayne’s rollaway toolbox from when he worked at Metro Transit was living at his brother Rick’s house in Spokane so we had him measure it, found it would work; packed up all our stuff and bikes and headed to Spokane.  We arrived to find it 15 degrees cooler than Idaho City had been with the added bonus of no smoke.

The next step was to get the bench area built

 

After that was done, we took a few days off to go to our friends Jim and Cindy’s property on the ST Joe River near Saint Maries ID.  From there we went back to Rick’s to pick some things up and then headed back to Idaho City via my Mother-in-law’s place in Pomeroy WA.

The road to Pomeroy is a little freaky in the Beast

Once we got back to Idaho City we went back to work on the trailer, building shelves, adding hooks and hangers, generally making a place for everything.  We finished just in time for the Fall Ride!