Yaaaaawn-----were did every body go??

[Lead pot]

I hope by your absence your getting that dredge and the high bankers repaired and tuned up
and see if you are still in shape to fit in that wetsuit and get that battery charged up for the metal detector.

Kurt

[Lead pot]

come on now! y'all startin te skare me

[Graybeard]

This forum has never gotten much use and has just been barely hanging on. Lately it seems no one has any interest in it.

[Lead pot]

Hi Bill,
Man I'm glad to hear that, I thought maybe they all got et by a bear
Say did you ever get that shed build? or has the wind pushed it over already?

Kurt

[Daveinthebush]

Panning for gold is more of a summer activity.  With 250" of snow this winter and 50"+ on the ground, I am not panning much.  I was cutting firewood yesterday and fell up to my armpits in the snow next to a few young spruce trees.  We are a long wany off from prospecting up here.

[Graybeard]

Hi Bill,
Man I'm glad to hear that, I thought maybe they all got et by a bear
Say did you ever get that shed build? or has the wind pushed it over already?

Kurt

The center section is finished. It has most but not all of the inside panels on, is fully wired and has the lights in place. We have a 30'x38' pad poured for the first side shed but the roof is not yet up on it. It's been a slow go. The roof for the first of two side sheds should be up this spring I guess.

[Lead pot]

Dave I can understand the hard water this time of the year up your way.
I worked the area north of Homer last spring and the water was still hard in May.
I talked to my friend that lives near Healy and he said it has been in the 50's and most of the snow has melted down, it's been below zero here and the wind and snow is keeping my tractor low on fuel moving it around.
Put those snow shoes on when cutting wood .

Well Bill keep at that shed, I never made it past your place when heading south, maybe it's because working on your shed I got tired working on mine, but I still have the map to your place.

Kurt

[Graybeard]

We do a little on it from time to time. My brother-in-law and his friend that works with him are going to put the roof on the side shed this spring. I have a metal building they want that I told them I can let go as soon as the roof is on the side shed so they will do the work in exchange for the building. Then as I have time and am able I'll get a back, side and maybe even a front put on it.

We kinda took a break from it last year and got a pond dug up front near the highway. It's full now and I'm waiting on the state to give me a call to go pick up the bream to stock it. Then bass will go in come June and catfish when the truck comes by with them so I can get some.

With the center "shop and storage" section of the barn finished the side sheds are not a rush project for sure.

[jdt48653]

i guess we are coming out of hibernation! i just received my new drywasher from ron coen,
its called the GOLD EXORCIST.looks like a good rig,also just bought a new gps garmin rino530.
we missed our window for stanton this winter,my mother in law had some medical problems and needs us around for a spell.so we`er going to hit the southeast this spring,the northwest this summer,and stanton this next winter. graybeard did i see your name on the gpaa forum.
                                                                           good au too all!

[Lead pot]

I planed on Stanton my self for this winter but my Daughter is expecting her first Babe any day now so it will next winter.
I don't think I'm going back to Alaska this summer, I thought about Idaho or Oregon.
Where do you go in the SE?

Kurt

[Graybeard]

graybeard did i see your name on the gpaa forum.

I sorta doubt it since I don't even know what a GPAA Forum is. But then since I don't know what it is I can't say for sure. Help me out by explaining what GPAA is and then I can say for sure.

[Lead pot]

  Bill this is what a lot of old retired fogies do beside shooting 
http://www.goldprospectors.org/
Kurt

[Graybeard]

Well for sure if it's about Gold Prospecting then you didn't see me there. It's not an area of interest to me.