Night out at South Shore Salloon

Joe singin' scare-eoke

Deborah doing what Deborah does

BettyAnn and Joe

Me and Peyton

Jose Quervo Baby!!!

It's all a little Fuzzy from this point....

tonight, 6:44 p.m.

Anyone want to join me on the porch for a coctail?

Enjoying an evening at home.

Wishing I had someone to join me.

I'm so lucky to have this place to live!!!

Wanted to share it.

Pend Oreille Co. BlueGrass Festival

I've never been a big fan of Bluegrass, but my Chiropractors' group,

Too Hot To Handle

Is fun to watch and listen to...

It was a perfect evening at the Fairgrounds.

The View From my front door

Taken sometime in July or August.

Exploring Lake Pend Orielle, Idaho

Over the Last couple of months I've been introduced to the southern tip of Lake Pend Oreille.

I've visited the NorthWest area, Sandpoint is one of my favorite spots.

But Sailing from Bayview, at the southern tip, i found out the the Lake is far larger than i ever understood

Newport, WA

Sandpoint, ID

Bayview, ID

Views from ButtonHook Bay


Bruce's Sailboat, moored at Buttonhook, as we hike around a bit.

Bruce and Kodi
Overlooking the Lake, Bayview out of the photo, to the right.

The Structure in the water is a Navy Building that houses Submarine Prototypes

See next Blog Post for explanation

Bayview from above



Sailing on a sunny day, my first glimpse at the enormity of Lake Pend Oreille

Kodi and I
Floating Houses in Bayview

Scotts Big Ass Salmon

My buddy Scott has spent the summer in the Wilds of Alaska counting salmon. This is the largest one they had swim the river.

What an amazing adventure!!!

History on Lake Pend Orille

The submarine model Dolly Varden is hauled down to the bottom of Lake Pend Oreille in preparation for a buoyancy-propelled return to the surface during which flow-noise measurements will be recorded.

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87/usw/issue_11/submarine_stealth.html

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Not long ago, Bayview, Idaho was the site of the Second Largest Naval Training Station in the U.S.A.

This is information taken from the Internet.

circa WWII
Farragut Naval Training Station on Lake Pend Oreille
Image from the Bonner County Idaho Historical Society.
Text (and image above) copied from the Sandpoint, Idaho Community Section
( A part of the Columbia Communities website of The Center for Columbia River History )
About 25 miles south of Sandpoint Idaho at the southern tip of Lake Pend Oreille lies Farragut State Park. Had you been on that spot in 1942, you would have witnessed the construction of the second largest naval training station in the United States.
Farragut Naval Training Station temporarily became one of the biggest cities in Idaho. Built as a direct result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the site was picked because it was thought to be safe from coastal bombings and because Lake Pend Oreille provided an inland ocean on which to train.
At the start of construction in April 1942, twenty-two thousand men worked on the project. Each of the five camps built was designed to be self-sufficient, housing and training five thousand troops at one time. They had their own mess hall, dispensaries, basketball courts, swimming pool, barracks, and rifle ranges. As one camp was being completed and occupied, construction on the next camp began.
By the time of decommissioning on June 15, 1946, almost three hundred thousand sailors had been trained and passed through the gates of Farragut to serve their country.
One of the less well known aspects of the station's life was that it housed about 850 German prisoners of war, transferred from Arizona in 1945. They lived in comparative comfort and worked industriously at Farragut, whether in the laundries or at the Officers' Club. The propaganda they had been exposed to in Germany indicated that Luftwaffe bombing had heavily damaged most American cities. This prompted one American officer to comment on how privileged he felt to be able to show the prisoners of war the fairness and strength of the United States.

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Why is the Navy in North Idaho of all places, 350 miles from the nearest ocean? Mostly, to take advantage of the conditions in Lake Pend Oreille. The largest lake in Idaho and the fifth deepest in the United States, Pend Oreille offers a virtually ideal venue for acoustic testing. First, it is deeper than 1,000 feet over an area exceeding 26 square miles, and its flat mud bottom minimizes sound reflection. A low level of particulates in the water results in minimal reverberation and scattering, and its ambient sound level is less than the ocean at Sea State Zero more than one fourth of the time. Moreover, the lake�s water temperature remains at 39.5 degrees Fahrenheit below 300 feet all year, maximizing the repeatability of test results over time. Finally, at eight miles long by three to six miles wide, the testing volume is more than adequate.

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The Sea Jet Advanced Electric Ship Demonstrator (AESD), funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), is a 133-foot vessel located at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, Acoustic Research Detachment in Bayview, Idaho. Sea Jet - built by Dakota Creek Industries in Anacortes, Wash. - operates on Lake Pend Oreille, where it is used for test and demonstration of various technologies. Among the first technologies tested was an underwater discharge waterjet from Rolls-Royce Naval Marine, Inc., called AWJ-21, a propulsion concept with the goals of providing increased propulsive effiency, reduced acoustic signature, and improved maneuverability over previous Destroyer Class combatants.

Janet and Joe Hurst's Anniversary Party Aug.30

Janet and Joe renewed their vows at their home on lovely acreage.

Everyone gathered, and "Too Hot To Handle" a Bluegrass Band played.

Debbie & Anne

Just havin a grend ol time

Myself and Adrienne sittin by the campfire, while a Jam session continues on around us.
Above, Stretch (Jason) in the back, Greg, Debbie, John, and Anne
Janet, Myself, Anne, and Adrienne
Above, a few guys i don't know, ;-)
along with Ben and TP having a Jam Session after
Too Hot To Handle finished their set.
Below, My Chiropractor, Bonnie Bliss plays the Bass.


Above, Janet and Stretch

Below, Janet and Joe as the party starts to fade.

Ben Jams next to Janet.

Random pics from the last couple of months

The moon over Central Washington in July

A Bathroom floor in a Drive In in Republic,

made entirely of pennies.

Morgan's Birthday....Aug. 23rd, (i think..:-) )

There are SOOO many things i could caption this next photo with......

Here's Renee riding around double fistin her beers in a wheelbarrel....

Morgans' Mom Renee

(Vicci to me, I'm John to her)
She HAD the Pink Rifle, the gift from her man was the pink hunting vest with the embroidered Dragonfly.... Go figure.

4th Of July on Shil Shoal Marina

The Olympic Mountains...

West of Seattle.
The Marina, Van's Boat is in there somewhere

Van and I

View from Erick's apartment,
he's a god for fixing my computer after nearly a year.

Happy 33rd Birthday to me....

So Tony and Eric asked what i wanted to do on my Birthday... (so this was back in June)

All i wanted to do was ride the carnival rides at Riverfront Park... took me back to childhood...

It was awesome!

Happy Graduation Shelby ! ! ! !

Joseph, Shelby and Daniel

Proud Mama, and the kids
Newport Graduating Class of 2008

My two closest Women

Adrienne, and Shelby

Shelby and I

This is hard to explain.... I had to pick Joseph up

because he was getting his sisters' heels covered in mud.

Don't ask........
Adrienne and I

My Mom will be so happy about this picture.....

Three Gernerations...

Georgine, Shelby, and Adrienne
Oops
Me with Adrienne, and the kids.
Sultry Women
Hmmmm..... Well, a picture is worth a thousand words....

A stop in Central Missouri...

After the Cancun trip, Josh and I stayed in Missori for a few day.

This was at his family's bar in a town i now forget... it was a long long night of drinkin, let me tell ya....

The rather interresting bartender....

Cancun, Feb 15th

Cancun

this was day one, the only day i wasn't sick with the flu.

so these are the only pictures i have to share....

These two became my personal partenders...
This was the last time I saw those sunglasses, glad they were cheap.

They quickly became the property of Miss Bartender

Women Love me.... what's all this about?

And i woke up sick the next day.... ;-(

A DEEP WINTER

Winter On Diamond Lake

Newport received more than 80 inches of snow. It was wonderful to see so much snow, but could do without it year after year.

This is my cabin, the one on the Left with the light.

The Snow walled walkway to my cabin
Tony's Greenhouse, He had to make snow steps to get down into it, to get the season started.

Lake Tahoe

late last fall I visited Tahoe with my buddy Josh and his family.

It's such a beautiful Oasis in the middle of a desert.

These are some of the pics i tood on our hike down to the Lake.

I LOVE THIS NEXT PHOTO

AS WELL AS THIS ONE
AND THIS... OK, I LOVE MOST OF THESE PICTURES!!!

I haven't forgotten about the blog!!!

I HAVEN'T HAD A COMPUTER IN AGES... HOPEFULLY SOON.

MORE TO COME!!!

Moon, October 26th/27th

The Full Moon as seen from Work, Friday Oct. 26th.

As the Moon was setting, the sun was rising and highlighting the Tamarack's on the Mountains....

24 Hrs Later, the Full Moon from home, over Diamond Lake....

Heavy Frost had fallen on the dock.

Early to Mid October

So these are so very late, but pics of Fall up here......

Labor Day Weekend

Just south of Canada..... such a beautiful drive in northern Idaho!

Josh , background.... Canada!!!!

Can't drive it into Canada? Ship it!
We decided to look for a lake... don't follow signs on dirt roads, they don't get you where you want to be, but you find great vistas like this.!!!



The ULTIMATE REDNECK ROLLER COASTER.

no kidding. extra seats bolted to the back of this pickup truck... four women on the 'coaster'

i have nothing more to say about this, you can form your own oppinion.

Elk Farm
This cute place had Deluxe Rooms and QUEER beds!!!



Josh was amused by the old phone booths up here.