My new sticker spot is coming along well…

…maybe a little too well.  Will need more room soon!

Battle at the Bunker, haha.

During Battle at the Border, they were jokingly changing the name during our competition.  We locked ourselves in, sheltered from the weather, and pushed through all in one day.  After the fact, they even modified the schedule to the way it went down.  Fun memories.

Got the snow out of the way

We were treated to a pretty day after the snow storm.  

Pretty snowy sunrise the next morning

I got my snow blowing down after John finished.

He got the daylight, but I got to enjoy the beautiful starry night! It was COLD, down into the single digits and windy.  But it was still pretty.  Enjoy the view. :)

Johnny figured he better get busy!

 He needed to clear his driveway to get out for work if Ohio ever opened back up after the snow 🤪

Just a pretty Sunday morning

We woke to quite a blanked of snow Sunday morning a week ago.  Andy and I were glad we got home before it settled in on us. With the wind blowing out of the North East, we figured is was gonna be for real…

What a foot of snow looks like!

Fun with In-N-Out

I grabbed some of the marketing material, activity kit and shirt graphics from our trip.  I like the "10 State" picture in the upper right.  Fresh, simple and delicious quality you can taste.  That sums it up pretty well!

A pretty wild cheese…

We got this one at Jungle Jim's.  It was funky for sure.  It's covered in a layer of mold that gives quite a tang to the cheese.  If you leave it sit out for 30-40 mins, it's better, but still something you'd have to develop a taste for.  Cool packaging, but just a little over the top for more than a spoonful at a time…

Zoe as a tiny pup

This was the add Julie found that made us wanna go adopt Zoe!  She was Bella at the time…. Julie ran across it in her photo album recently.  What a cutie❣️

My nephew earning a few get out of jail free cards…

He likes to go around and see where he can help with his Jeep too… 🤪 I guess my dad trained us well and passed it on.  Zac's dad too!

Julie’s lotion stones…

She found this new concept for lotion where it's in the shape of a bar of soap, and you just rub it around on your hand.  It came in this really cool wooden box with magnet closure.  She got looking into them and realized she could make the little lotion bars herself.  She was successful and they work great. She bought some little tins to carry them in.  Perfect. 

Let’s change a wheel!

I think I forgot to post about me slicing on tire on my last off-road trip in early January.  I didn't see the right end of a culvert and got to practice changing out to my spare on the fly.  Luckily, I had everything we needed and I had several from the group helping out.  Less than twenty minutes and I was ready to roll again.  

Bad news, it's a nasty sidewall cut.  Not really something you can plug or patch.  I probably will, just to have a backup, but I guess I'll be getting a new tire.  All my wheels are at 70% tread wear.  You're not supposed to put a new tire on and mix it with old (diameter difference).  So instead of rotation all five tires, I will just rotate the four used ones until they need replacement, then I can put the spare back into rotation.  If I end up blowing another tire, then I could run two new ones as long as they're on the same axle.  Trying not to be too "engineer brain" about it. 🤪

We got a decent amount of snow…

The bend in the roof of my portable garages is six feet high… The snow slid off the roofs and piled up between them.  Looking at the temperature predictions, that's gonna be there a while!