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Working on increasing my storage in the bronco

9/10/2021

Roses are red, these flowers are blue, clicking the pics will increase your view.

A million flowers on a bush. But don't take my word for it, you need to count them yourself.

It got up to 95° today, which is pretty hot for almost the middle of September. Fortunately, the humidity was in the single digits, so it wasn't as bad as the temperature would indicate.

But it is starting to cool off now. A couple of weeks ago, daytime temperatures were mostly in the 90s, now they're mostly in the 80s, and night times are getting down into the 50s. Which around here means that it's only 90 for a couple of hours, and by sundown, it's getting chilly, and when I get up in the morning, I have to turn on the heater for an hour or so to take the chill out of the Arctic Fox.

Every day I do something to get the bronco ready for me to live in this winter. Some days I accomplish a lot; some days, not so much. But, at the moment, I'm trying to create storage in the bronco where there is none, and at the same time, I don't want to damage the bronco in any way because when I go to sell it, I have to put it back the way it was. So this means I can't be tearing out walls or doing anything permanent. And, by the way, I don't want to be spending much of any money on this project either.

And so far, what that means is I can make some places for storage, but it doesn't look all that great, but how it looks is not high on my list of things to be concerned about.

After I get some storage problems sorted out, I will turn my attention to the truck's back seat, which has a tremendous amount of space since it's a crew cab. But it's not a very usable space since everything is just piled on the floor. So I'm thinking of taking out the remaining half of the split seat, having taken out the first half of it a couple of years ago, and building some shelves so I will have more than one flat area to put all my stuff.

It seems like a pretty easy project, but there again, I have to make sure I can do this without permanently damaging the truck, so I can put it back to normal if the need should arise.

Theboondork

Blue wild flower.

A prehistoric Heliosaurus bird flew directly over my head the other day. This bird long thought to be extinct, was the first bird to learn to hover, and it learned to hover so well it never went anywhere to meet any female Heliosaurus's they all just hovered in one spot until there were none left.

7 Comments

OFM

9/10/2021 06:47:58 pm

I am sure you have seen them but in case not, there are some crazy videos on the Internet of folks modifications of small cars for boondocking. The Prius was popular for a while. You might get some storage ideas from them. Good luck I am anticipating a wonderful result of you superior work effort.

Tom

9/10/2021 07:35:40 pm

I don't normally refer to my work effort as "superior" my work effort is more like, just enough to get by, amazingly shoddy, or shamefully inferior, and other definitions in that same vein.

Yes I do see a lot of folks camping in cars since boondocking areas appeal more to car campers than RV parks. And yes some of them are fairly ingenious at making themselves relatively comfortable in a somewhat difficult situation. So getting information from them is a good way to learn about living small. Also videos by truck camper aficionados, particularly the folks that like soft side, pop up truck campers, is also a good source of information about living with less, when there's not even room for the less.

I don't know what we would do without the Internet Barney. No matter what I want to do, there's someone out there that already did it, and made a video about it.

Tom

9/10/2021 07:49:36 pm

And in my case done it better most of the time.

Judith

9/10/2021 08:36:34 pm

Is that a box with electrical conduit coming out on the wall of that log cabin? Hm. Sure looks like it. An old fuse box size.
And are those lilacs? Way too late in the year...but who knows what happens in Denver. Of course I do not expect a straight answer from you. Well, there are such things as mountain laurel even in TX, and they look like lilacs.
Sounds like you are having good weather. Here too..it's actually gotten down to 60...and the humidity has finally gone back to normal. So keep at your projects!

9/10/2021 10:35:38 pm

Yes that does appear to be an electrical box of some kind. And why would an old log cabin have electricity? That's a good question. The cabin was probably built way before electricity came to Fairplay Colorado, but when the town did get electricity there were probably people still living in that old log cabin and they found one way or another to have some electric lights.

Now you can't do that in a normal town because there are rules, regulations, laws, HOA's, and covenants. But in an old gold mining town like Fairplay building codes were nonexistent and you could do pretty much whatever you wanted to do, and build whatever you wanted to build, as long as it didn't interfere with the mining. Which explains why a lot of these old towns burned to the ground... Often on more than one occasion.

They could be Lilacs, and I trust your flower identification a lot more than mine, so Lilacs it is.

Yes the weather here is right on the cusp of becoming fall, and it was pointed out to me today that last year on this day... It snowed. So the weather is pretty good at the moment, but my coat is out of the closet and hanging next to the door right now.

My projects are many, and my ambitions are few, but Falls on the way and the desert whispers my name.

Tom

Linda

9/11/2021 01:49:16 pm

If you build shelves and you want to steady them between the walls without piercing the wall, I wonder if you can put those rubber anti-slip matts between the shelves and the walls to wedge them in.

Dave's family used to have a cabin that was built with upright trees for walls that had plasterboard and siding added later. We discovered that when trying to cut through a wall to install a propane furnace. That cabin had electricity which was, obviously, also added later. So, I have no problem with that wood cabin having electricity.

9/11/2021 02:53:35 pm

That's a good idea Linda about the anti-slip rubber mats. But I don't know if I would trust anything in the bronco that was wedged in. Everything in the bronco is built cheap and thin. Sometimes I wonder what's holding the whole thing together. But I think if I tried to wedge something, the thin substance that passes for wood would simply deform and the shelf would fall off in the near future.

Yeah most people that were living in old houses or log cabins didn't buy new homes when electricity came to town, they simply added electricity to the home they had. And electricity being new to the area there was no one around that called themselves an electrician. And since there was no rules on how to do it, the homeowners either did it themselves or called upon someone known as a "handyman" who didn't even know what electricity was until he touched a hot wire.

I used to own a couple of really old houses in Cripple Creek that I had rented out, and all the electric wires were stapled to the inside walls. Fortunately there wasn't many wires, and there was no 220 only 110.

So if you go to some of these old mountain towns in Colorado you can find log cabins that were electrified by someone's great-grandfather, and if they haven't burned down yet it's a miracle.

Tom

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