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[JEEPJL]

2 yrs ago in Albuquerque . Fun to watch with my first cup !
Good Morning !!

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[JEEPJL]

Mornin y’all. Hope your having a great weekend! Gotta get ready and go see some jeeples off, with a great deal of sadness.

Great pictures , great memories , great Jeeples
not Good Bye , but more like See ya next time !

Looked like an awesome weekend Mark !!

 

[Blodgetter]

So, avid watchers will recall the last time I went Jeeping here, there was a certain hill that gave me some trouble. Well, today, same hill, but now the ground was wet and loose (hold it together, @Billy). Gabrielle does not have KO2s, (I am seriously reevaluating this). I could not get any traction on this hill to save my life. Mark even walked down and rode shotgun to help me pick a good line.

Ski slopes such as this one have ditches or gullies cut across them so that snowmelt and runoff have channels to flow in, rather than washing out the slope. We use these ditches to our advantage - they occur regularly up the slope, and offer a great place to reverse back down to, reevaluate your lines, and try the hill again. Your goal going up this hill (25 degrees or more in places) is to make it from one ditch to the next. I got my front wheels in the ditch (good), but my rear wheels couldn't push me over the top of the ditch because of the loose ground. So, I decided, with Mark temporarily riding shotgun, to try to ride the ridge of this ditch towards better traction, in a grown-over meadow on the mountainside.

There was a hole. We didn't see the hole.

Gabrielle found herself without any ground under her front passenger or her rear driver wheel. I was in the classic teeter-totter situation. On a hill. Pitched 28 degrees nose-up, and rolled 16 degrees to the driver side. Gabrielle is gently rocking back and forth, she eventually settles with the front passenger tire about 12-15 inches off the ground. Any attempts to wiggle out of it increased the sideways roll. As a reminder, "losing it" here means tumbling down a ski slope. Mark slowly slides out (wasn't sure how much his weight was helping me). I soil myself, he runs up to get Eve and the winch, and Alex takes a bunch of pictures. Winch on to get all four wheels back on the ground, and a little extra tugging to get me up the hill.

We all laughed at the end, but not an experience I'd like to repeat anytime soon.

Chris did great on “Chris’s Hill” all things considered. The manual makes it a rough stretch when it’s been raining all week. Eve refused however to leave any more Jeeps behind, and so, in the self sacrificing way she has, she swung into action. Even though it mitigated the chance to spend alone time with Goose.

 

[JEEPJL]

Master Bathroom / Walk in closet / Walk in shower
Nice eh ?
I love my Job !

 

[JEEPJL]

 

[Matthew/E36]

What is that a gravel/half road course or something? What bike are you riding...wider tires and the others are on mountain bikes?

(Curious if I should get a road bike, or adapt my mtb for now)

 

[Matthew/E36]

So since getting the house, and the power bill is ours, I have become the light Nazi. "Why is this light on?"

We have a laundry/mud room between the kitchen and garage...I put one of those sensor switches in. Nice to not reach for it cutting through and it shuts off. I've actually put some Lutron ones in elsewhere just for the dimmers...they have some good programming settings.

 

[Matthew/E36]

Master Bathroom / Walk in closet / Walk in shower
Nice eh ?
I love my Job !

Nice work...great layout too

 

[JEEPJL]

Nice work...great layout too

Thanks!
There's a complete vanity set up on the other side of the walk in shower like a His & Hers

tough angles to shoot !

 

[Matthew/E36]

Useful to creep up and over the cut runoff ruts on the mountain, getting up the steep slopes easier, and, for me, MUCH easier to launch the manual trans up those slopes when you get an extra 2.72 on your final drive ratio.

Yeah, I just hit the trails once so far and the MT would take some getting used to on hill!

 

[Matthew/E36]

So, avid watchers will recall the last time I went Jeeping here, there was a certain hill that gave me some trouble. Well, today, same hill, but now the ground was wet and loose (hold it together, @Billy). Gabrielle does not have KO2s, (I am seriously reevaluating this). I could not get any traction on this hill to save my life. Mark even walked down and rode shotgun to help me pick a good line.

Ski slopes such as this one have ditches or gullies cut across them so that snowmelt and runoff have channels to flow in, rather than washing out the slope. We use these ditches to our advantage - they occur regularly up the slope, and offer a great place to reverse back down to, reevaluate your lines, and try the hill again. Your goal going up this hill (25 degrees or more in places) is to make it from one ditch to the next. I got my front wheels in the ditch (good), but my rear wheels couldn't push me over the top of the ditch because of the loose ground. So, I decided, with Mark temporarily riding shotgun, to try to ride the ridge of this ditch towards better traction, in a grown-over meadow on the mountainside.

There was a hole. We didn't see the hole.

Gabrielle found herself without any ground under her front passenger or her rear driver wheel. I was in the classic teeter-totter situation. On a hill. Pitched 28 degrees nose-up, and rolled 16 degrees to the driver side. Gabrielle is gently rocking back and forth, she eventually settles with the front passenger tire about 12-15 inches off the ground. Any attempts to wiggle out of it increased the sideways roll. As a reminder, "losing it" here means tumbling down a ski slope. Mark slowly slides out (wasn't sure how much his weight was helping me). I soil myself, he runs up to get Eve and the winch, and Alex takes a bunch of pictures. Winch on to get all four wheels back on the ground, and a little extra tugging to get me up the hill.

We all laughed at the end, but not an experience I'd like to repeat anytime soon.

Wow, that's crazy! Thanks for the pics and story...too bad STL is like a million miles from there, haha!

 

[JEEPJL]

We have a laundry/mud room between the kitchen and garage...I put one of those sensor switches in. Nice to not reach for it cutting through and it shuts off. I've actually put some Lutron ones in elsewhere just for the dimmers...they have some good programming settings.

Lutron is our #1 choice in switches , dimmers and Timers .
These timers are very helpful with bath fans but can be used for other rooms as well = FYI

 

[Matthew/E36]

Lutron is our #1 choice in switches , dimmers and Timers .
These timers are very helpful with bath fans but can be used for other rooms as well = FYI

When I was a lighting designer, Lutron was the go-to. They can get pricey in a hurry, but the products are great. For example the cheapest Maestro ones I have around the house let you customize the on level, on delay, off delay, attach time and decay times. I found most of the house lights only need to be on to 80%, or you can double tap to full brightness.

 

[ResponsibleAdult]

Lutron is our #1 choice in switches , dimmers and Timers .
These timers are very helpful with bath fans but can be used for other rooms as well = FYI

We did entirely Latrobe when we renovated this place, and have been really pleased. I love the dimmer delay (or whatever it’s called). Great feature.

 

[JEEPJL]

When I was a lighting designer, Lutron was the go-to. They can get pricey in a hurry, but the products are great. For example the cheapest Maestro ones I have around the house let you customize the on level, on delay, off delay, attach time and decay times. I found most of the house lights only need to be on to 80%, or you can double tap to full brightness.

So advanced from just 5 years ago !
Clients are wanting screw-less plate covers now ..." don't know the significant's in that ?? "

we do a lot of motion sensor also and the fan timers !

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