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J herb

So. Oregon

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Posted: 05/13/23 09:57pm

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HI Mike,
good to see you posting! Like you winter never got nice enough when we had time to do some winter camping,
did make a trip in early spring to go see a long time friend that lives in northern Cal. And stayed the night in the van.

I really like your new heater and it make your van very homey and conformable on those cold night,
we have both elect and propane heaters too.

We did make a camping trip to the Oregon Coast last week and it was nice, hope to make one more trip to the
upper river near Crater Lake NP. Before the summer people start camping.

I will post some pictures of my new upgrades next week if I get them done.

Hope that you get some more trips in soon.

J herb

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Posted: 05/14/23 06:40pm

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J herb wrote:

HI Mike,
good to see you posting! Like you winter never got nice enough when we had time to do some winter camping....

Even though our winter was long and cold, I managed to accomplish a lot. I purchased a new large format scanner so I could scan in a full page on our scrapbooks. I got through the 40 scrapbooks my wife has kept up over all these years. I digitized them and loaded them on a portable hard drive for each of our boys to keep and look at in their old age when we are long gone. My wife always kept a commentary on each trip we took so they got those scanned in too. Then I purchased a negative and slide scanner (see attached picture). I proceeded to scan in every photo negative (several thousand) that I have taken in my entire lifetime. Also scanned in all the 35mm slides I took with my 35mm SLR camera. I used them in my science teaching for years. Most were bioloby or earth science related or the numerous national parks we visited with our boys. So my boys will get them all digitized for posterity. They may not look at them very often or never, but they will have them if they want them. I guess you could say I am digitizing our life for our family. Next winter I hope to get a digitizing scanner to scan in all of my father's and my 8mm home movies that date back to the late 1950's and early 1960's. That will be a big project too for me to get done. My father even had some of his relatives 8mm movies from the late 1940's that are in surprisingly good shape. Looking forward to next winter, but for now I will concentrate on camping this summer and the Black Hills Corvette Rally in July. My wife got us a really nice airbnb close to all the Corvette action in Spearfish, SD.

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J herb

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Posted: 05/16/23 10:05pm

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Mike,
that looks like a real nice scanner and it will be a lot of fun to
work with. My friend that lives in Northern Cal. has a flatbed scanner
and has done some work with it.

Have fun at the Corvette Rally and post pictures of it when you get back home in July.

swaddy

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Posted: 05/25/23 04:58am

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Black95 wrote:

As I mentioned in my previous thread about window screens that slip over the top of the door like a sock to keep the bugs out and still allow you to roll down the windows. The first ones I ordered did not fit so I returned them. I did some more searching on the internet and found another brand called Qualizzi Mottors that came in XXXL size. I am happy with them because they fit over the back doors of my Express van and they fit over the driver & passenger doors too. They even fit over the outside mirrors and were still tight enough to keep the bugs out. See the following pictures.

They even came in their own zippered storage pouch.
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