[RHClarke]

Winter prep. Two words. Important work. Bob and Grant spent a good portion of the last few weekends clearing brush from the trailer parking area and the road to the wagon lines. A few large trees will now feed Lucifer on those rapidly approaching cold days. Bob also spread some gravel over the driveway near his house and on the road leading to the barn. They did a great job as you can now see the wagon lines from the trailer park. I missed out on these activities to recover from a run in with a large tree branch (it went down with a good fight...).

This weekend I finally got long-haired niner's authorization to go to the barn. The first order of business was to clean out the 45 HUP shelter so that I could move around in it. The 43 HUP shelter also needed a cleaning out. Storage space is becoming somewhat tight at the moment, so we had to make due with the resources at hand. My old car shelter (used for the infamous BBQs) got damaged in a recent wind storm. The fabric was shredded in many places rendering it useful only for covering engines etc... The frame was repaired and set up next to the 45 HUP shelter. Since I had some of Greg Wright's famous modular tent pieces, they were used to "wrap" the shelter. It would have taken three center sections to totally cover the shelter frame, but I only had two available. However I did have two end pieces and the result can be seen below. Today I spent a few hours moving various HUP pieces into the "new" shelter. I still have to put some shelving together, but overall the new shelter has given me the space to move around freely in the other shelters. I suspect that that space will be taken up with future acquistions (I hope).

Photo 1: Bob and Grant bleeding babbits
Photo 2: The "new" shelter
Photo 3: The first rule of HUP Club is "You always talk about HUPs"...