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FE Power Forums => Non-FE Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Heo on June 13, 2023, 03:54:32 PM
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Summer is late a couple of weeks this year but now finally its here
so i gave the rowing boat a new coat of pinetar,linsead oil,turpentine
and me and the wife had a picknick
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It is beautiful down by the river at my moms place
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same place one month ago
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The other day me and the wife took a trip up the river
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Kamlunge rapids
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Bondersbyn
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Lake Storlappträsk
In Sweden we have this old right that every free man is allowed to roam the land and stay for the night. So here and there it is built smal
"bbq" places with tables and benches and some kind protection from the wind and rain. A group of guys from the closest village goes together
and build it. I suspect it is often to getaway from the wifes and to drink beer ;D ;D This is a such place upstreams the rapids
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absolutly beautiful place with tabel/bences a fire ring a log shelter wit dry firewood and a even a Boule court :o. And you hear the thunder from the rapids in the background
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Nice Heo your always doing something exciting.
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In Sweden we have this old right that every free man is allowed to roam the land and stay for the night. So here and there it is built smal
"bbq" places with tables and benches and some kind protection from the wind and rain. A group of guys from the closest village goes together
and build it.
That's a great tradition to uphold.
Beautiful scenery, everywhere around you. That sure looks like a small rowing boat for such a big river! ;D
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Heo - Glad to see your wife getting around well :D Looks like a great adventure you're going on. If it makes you feel better, we're having a "cold" cloudy Spring here in Southern California!
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Nice Heo your always doing something exciting.
Well, im trying to now when the wife has healed from the crusched ankle and broken bone
almost a year since we done any adventure
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In Sweden we have this old right that every free man is allowed to roam the land and stay for the night. So here and there it is built smal
"bbq" places with tables and benches and some kind protection from the wind and rain. A group of guys from the closest village goes together
and build it.
That's a great tradition to uphold.
Beautiful scenery, everywhere around you. That sure looks like a small rowing boat for such a big river! ;D
Yes it is , sorry to say it is threatened by idiots that use it for comercial purposes and arange trips with tourists
and leave trash and damages behind on other peoples property. I my self try leave no trace behind me,
It is a traditional small boat from this lower part of the river. My dad and me built it in mid 80s out of aspen
after an old boat we had. They are traditional built out of spruce, but we had a big aspen we put through
the sawmill and made boards out of. So it is realy homebuilt...we cut down the tree, made board out of it
and built the boat. Ohh wait, we cheated and bought the copper rivets to rivet the boat together ::) ;D
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Heo - Glad to see your wife getting around well :D Looks like a great adventure you're going on. If it makes you feel better, we're having a "cold" cloudy Spring here in Southern California!
Well, She is almost healed by now and happy that she can wear high heel again.
But she still get a lot of pain when using the leg to much but its getting better and better
It is nice to be able to go on smal trips again
And buy cold you probably talking about a nice summer day here ;D ;D
Tomorrow it looks like we get sunny and 75+ degrees thats considered a nice summer day
Its rare but sometimes we get up to high 80s, low 90s
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Summer here too. We've had a rainy spring for once, and now can't go outside without getting mauled by mosquitoes. It's 88 today, be 103F on Saturday and 109F on Monday. Any weeds not sprayed grow chest high in a couple of days. In other words, we don't go out unless we're at the drag strip and then we stay in the AC'd trailer until called for rounds.
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It's 88 today, be 103F on Saturday and 109F on Monday. Any weeds not sprayed grow chest high in a couple of days. In other words, we don't go out unless we're at the drag strip and then we stay in the AC'd trailer until called for rounds.
I couldn't imagine being suited up, full helmet, inside the car, windows up, on hot asphalt, in 100*+ temps. A couple years ago I got so hot waiting in line that I started to get light headed. Not good right before doing 120+mph. I bought an under jacket garment that you soak in water to help keep you cool. Works pretty good, but it's still brutal on asphalt at times.
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BTW - beautiful day out Heo. Love the countryside. The green is nice.
The track we frequent will be switching to gates open 3, Driver's meeting at 4:30, time trials about 5 for July and August here. We were starting at 11 AM. I'm in the slow car so only a single layer jacket and pants. Pants because I wear shorts under and if I go out early I wanna be comfy LOL! Now the dragster, which was a 5.3x car, is miserable - 3.2A/5 jacket, pants, shoes, gloves, full face helmet. Yea, and it's all black too. Basically a snow suit to wear in the summer. And since we race out west of Odessa Tx, it's nothing but sand/dirt. The concrete temps get in the 130s, starting line track temps can exceed 150 in summer. I use a older blue RCI 3.2A/5 jacket as a winter coat here. Several people here are using "circle track" under coolers with ice. No room in a dragster. Which I'm thinking about sending off to someone else. If you stay under 6.50 or so (1/8), track life is way much simpler.
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Yes the green in early summer is special, so light and intensive. Later in summer
it turns darker green.
Today wife wanted to go buy some summer flowers, to plant. So i went with her
on operation market garden, but it was closed until moday.
So we made a road trip out of it. Took the less traveled roads home
The bridge over Granån
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Granån from the brige
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On the other side of thre river the pinebarrens starts. It go on for hundreds of miles to the north.
We followed smal dirtroads through there. We found this cute small lake maybe 100x50 feet
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Nothing but moss, pine,sand and gravelpits as kids we used to run our dunebuggies here
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Odd place to find a shoe, probably from some of the new drugadicts that gone missing resently. If you remember
they go missing here and their shoes is found in strange places (wife thinks i conected to their dissapearance since
i find shoes and the car of one of the missing :D)
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Lake with a picknik place in the barrens
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Left the barrens and followed The Sangis "river" down to Sangis. Here the Björkfors rapids
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Was going to buy an icecream at the store in sangis but found a newly establised Cafe was a German lady that
somehow ended up there
Nice location down by the river
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Wife had a waffle and i had an Appflestrudle with reservation for the spelling
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That's just - awesome. Wonderful way to spend some time together. Nice shirt BTW. ;D
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Looks like a very nice holiday. Reminds me of my father's days in the Arctic Circle. The so coveted summer!
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I'm glad you're Holley equipped, Heo!
My descendants come from Sweden. Would love to visit some day.
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Looks like a very nice holiday. Reminds me of my father's days in the Arctic Circle. The so coveted summer!
I live just south of the Arctic Circle down by the coast at the gulf of Bottnia close to the finnish border
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I'm glad you're Holley equipped, Heo!
My descendants come from Sweden. Would love to visit some day.
If you come up north let me know, your welcome at my storm bathered logcabin
I can guide you around, or you can borrow a car from me and drive around by your self if
you preferre that
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Better to find the shoe than a foot...or a body. ;D
That river looks like it would be a good one for a kayak. Lots of beautiful areas around your parts, Heo.
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Better to find the shoe than a foot...or a body. ;D
That river looks like it would be a good one for a kayak. Lots of beautiful areas around your parts, Heo.
Dough, you have a point there ;D
Yes when you slow down and look around, you discover whats around you and that it is pretty beautyful in some spots.
That smaller stream granån, runns in to the sangis River downstream from björkfors rapids.
And gets wider and that runs down to the coast to the Sangis village. Would be interesting kayaking down both of them
Had an idea about launching the rowing boat somwere upstream close to the road.
Should have done it then when i had the healt for it ::)
For you that like hiking, there is a 50 miles long hikingtrail in the area ;)
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Found this one to
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So many questions and no answers. Why is it a Truck garage out in the middle of nowhere,why does it have a balcony,
was someone living upstairs ??? Where has the road to the doors gone Whats inside.......the 32 ford coupe the truckowner bought cheap in 56 to take the
newly rebuilt 59AB engine from to his 46 ford dumptruck but never got around to because he went through the ice with that same dumptruck
and drowned.....or just a rusty bicycle,old coffecans with bent nails, leaky cans with banned herbicides, old rotted windows
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summer here too
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100+ degrees thats real summer :o
Remember when i was in Crete. Some days
it was so hot so when i was riding motorcycle
the faster i drove the hotter it got
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I have a Holley shirt the same. Lovely area and lovely wife. You are a lucky man.
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Thanks TomP
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LOL heat - it was 112F on the back porch Monday. City south of us set a new all-time record of 114F yesterday. It's nasty, and a bit humid which is also odd as it's usually dry here. Last race out in Odessa back on 6/10 the RH was 5%.
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Not that warm right now but it'll do.
Heo I'll make trip to Sweden in couple of weeks to watch the start of streetweek in Mantorp.
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Not that warm right now but it'll do.
Heo I'll make trip to Sweden in couple of weeks to watch the start of streetweek in Mantorp.
Are you taking the ferry or driving the E4? I live 1 km from the E4 of you want a cup of coffe
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From Stockholm to south.
You're up north if I remember right?
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From Stockholm to south.
You're up north if I remember right?
Yes 50 kilometers from Tornio
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I'll be on work trip there in winter so we'll drink coffee then ,or something stronger.
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I'll be on work trip there in winter so we'll drink coffee then ,or something stronger.
You are welcome
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My aunt is visiting and wanted to take a trip around the vilages
She moved south in the 60s so she wanted to se how it had changed
so wife and i gave her a trip in mothers coupe
Random creek in the forest
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Traditional 19th century NorthSwedish farmhouse
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We stoped by at some rapids and had coffe and mothers freshly baked spongekake and chocolate chip cookies
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A fisherman decided it was more interesting talking to aunt and the wife
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Some random pics
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That's beautiful!! Makes those winters a bit more bearable...
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That's beautiful!! Makes those winters a bit more bearable...
Yes you live for the summer. It is short but nice, lucky us its daylight around the clock
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That picture with the fisherman is to funny, very beautiful Heo!
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So the summer is soon over. With some luck we have a month left,
but probably 2 weeks
So we go to my wifes hometown Lycksele for the annual Motorweek
I had prefered to drive the galaxie but some problems with the brakes
stoped thath. So its wifes SL as a substitute
We left home with overcast skies
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Stoped by at stepsons place
The German shepherd that broke wifes leg last summer
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Wife and my Grand stepson
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then scenerys like this for 3 hours only broken up by abandoned villages and overgrowing farmland
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Somebody have restored an old Gulf gasstation in an dying village. There was a VW type3,Opel Kapitän, and a VW type3
rallycross car inside
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Was open from 1947-1982 about then the big death of the inland started to show. It begun in the 60s
but was in full blow in the 80s
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Great pics Heo!
Sorry to hear about the Galaxie, but brakes are for sissies. It reminds me of F1 boss Gunther Steiner a while back making a remark on the radio about his driver Mick Schumacher: "He's driving so slowly he doesn't need the brakes!"
I love the shots of the inland areas, and the Gulf station. Enjoy your time with the family. Cute Grandkid :D I'll be thinking of you guys when I'm on the lake in northern Minnesota in a few weeks. Lots of Swedes up around there!
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Was down town today and found this on the supermarket parkinglot
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I talked to the owner, a real nice guy. The car came to sweden in the 70s. He bought it as a totaly dismantled shell in 2006
had it fully restored in 2008. drove it here, no trailer ride
Some other random pics
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When was the last time you saw a Superbird on a gravelroad?
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some Biaritz,,,ses
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Rare Skylark
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Olds, I like those early 50s Olds Coupes
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A 351 Windsor shohorned in a Volvo Amazon
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Nice view over the Umeåriver
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A couple of nice 56 Fords
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A nice hat for Bill Conley ;) ;D
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Sorry - Double post. For some odd reason I've lost my mind!!
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A nice hat for Bill Conley ;) ;D
You had to do that to me >:( >:(
Thanks a lot. Now, what were those other things in the pictures??
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A nice hat for Bill Conley ;) ;D
You had to do that to me >:( >:(
Thanks a lot. Now, what were those other things in the pictures??
The devil made me do it ;D ;D
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Last night we had a tropical night, to hot to sleep so i took the AJS for a ride at 1.00 a clock
Moonlit a hard southern breeze and a thunderstorm in the distance, it was a magic view
Drove around for a couple of hours on smal roads.
There was no trafic exept for me so i turned of the headligt not that a 6 volt lucas head light
make a big differance ;D And no need to stress the perhaps a few amp generator
Was fantastic, just me wind in the face and the motorcycle playing its bass solo.
Seems to run better and better the moore i use it
Today we had the hotest day of the year 90 degrees in the shadow. summer going out with a bang
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Times like that are magical!
I remember when I was young and (a little less) stupid I did a long 2:00 am water skiing session under a full moon. There was nobody around and the ocean was perfectly still. It was spectacular! Of course you had to know where the rocks and other hazards were, but that's stuff for old people to worry about :o :o
I'm jealous of your epic motorcycle ride. Those are rare times when you're one with your machine and everything feels right.