I have Internet

Monday I went into Anchorage to get some parts for the trailer, laundry, grocery etc. and another stop was at Home Depot and picked up 500' of Cat5 cable.  Only way I might get wifi to work here is to purchase special antennas to cost of cable vs the convenience of having internet in my trailer is worth it.  The cable is not so bad but that special tool needed to crimp the ends is expensive!  Decided on another route it involved a short cat5 cable with the ends on it (have that) a pair of side cutters, wire strippers and a soldering iron.  I soldered each of the 8 wires that make up the cat5 cable.  The splice is a little ugly but as you can tell........ it works just fine.  By the time I ran that cable out of the ranger station, under the road through the drain pipe and through the woods I had maybe two extra feet of cable.

Today I had to address a park-to-do list, few things that have to be done before opening Friday.  The weather was nice so first I took the skis off the rescue sled and put the wheels on so it could be towed by an ATV.  This wouldn't have been such a bad job if they had instructions so a good portion of the time was figuring it all out.  This one hour job only took two hours and then a little more to sit down and type it out so the next guy won't have to do what I did.  Next major job was to use the leaf blower and make sure the area was clear around the fire pits in all the camp sites.  It has been very dry here and there is a high fire danger right now.

I started about 8am done about 2pm now a quick shower, lunch, relax a bit then a bike ride down the lake.  There is a park cabin about 3 miles east of here on the lake and two more one at the end of the lake (8 miles) and one about a mile past that.  3 miles is good enough for today.

A picture of the cabin, from the trail.  Will take better pictures late but right now it is in use and they probably would not appreciate me taking pictures right now.  Also notice the lake, all the ice is gone! 

Dinner tonight I decided to use my left over chicken and make a chicken salad sandwich but last night I put the lid of the slow cooker over the bowl, it fit nice.  Well it vacuum packed itself, I could not get that lid off, it wouldn't even budge.  My solution:

I don't think that small hole will effect the slow cooker :)  Ahhhh dinner at last!