A Peak Experience

I commented on Paul's "Sheep Mountain" post that I was going to examine my water damaged slides to see what I could retrieve. So far, I've found a few from that great trip to Alaska in the Fall of 1973. They're scannable but lacking in detail. Tom Bergum, Bill Sjoblom, Steve, Paul, Dean and Dan. We're probably about a fourth of the way up the mountain. You can get a little perspective by locating our two parked cars far below. One has a canoe on top.

eat, sleep, work

Here are a few turnaround photos.


To the right is our biggest Lock Tag Try box. A system for making equipment safe for craftsmen to work on.




It is kind of a crazy time when they shutdown the plant and fix and check everything that cannot be done while we are online. We are running now!!! I have been on 12 hour nights from Oct 5 to Nov 10 when my normal night shift will be over. I did get 4 days off for good behavior.










This kind of reminds me of looking through a thick forest or jungle. A man made one.














A urea ship is being loaded. It was actually a little darker and the camera was braced on a fencepost.











This was a taco feed. We did a lot of feasting....

Find the Bean

1984

We now jump to 1984 with a completed Carlson family saying goodbye to dad and Dean as they prepare to board a plane headed for the Philippines.

eRR Favorite Link List...

Per A-Rob's wish, I did a little research and figured out how to add a list of favorite links to this blog site. You should see it in the sidebar on the left. Here's how to add to the list...

• Go to the Dashboard by clicking on the B in the upper left corner of the blog.
• If you're already signed on, sign off.
  
• Sign in as the e round robin administrator. Mark sent this user/password a long time ago in one of his invitation emails. (I'm not going to post the user/password here.)
  
• Click on the Change Settings icon.
• Click on the Template tab.
• You will see a window with html code. Scroll down a little more than halfway and you will see a line that says:
  <!-- Begin #sidebar -->
• Just a little further down, you will see a line that says:
  <h2 class="sidebar-title">Links</h2>.
• To add another link, just copy and modify the line that says:
  <li><a href="http://www.zippythepinhead.com/">Zippy the Pinhead</a></li><!-- This is DeanTheBean's link -->

I was thinking... Maybe we should start by limiting the number of links per user to one.

I also made one other little change. I set the comment settings to show up in a popup window instead of the full screen. I think it's nice to be able to see the blog while viewing/creating comments. Agree?

Al & Marge

I'm pretty sure this picture was taken on one of mom & dad's fall tours. Does anyone recognize the town in the background?

Holly

Holly is doing fine in Perth. She told us in an email that she was in a photo of workers at the Kaio coffee/clothing store. There is a little about what they are doing on the
Kaio webpage.

VISION OF KAIO Kaio is a coffeehouse and clothing shop located in the city of Perth created for young people. The name is a Greek word which means "to light" or "to burn". The word righteousness is derived from the word Kaio and that is the heart of this ministry, to be a righteous light and to reach this generation!

Chloe

Dance-s'more asked to see Chloe. Chloe's the one on the right.

Nellie

This is one of our little females.
Nellie is the one who plays the piano at 3 in the morning to let us know she wants to go outside. Also, she often goes on walks with Chloe and me at 5 in the morning.

Thank You Heidi Brottlund!

Hats off to Heidi Brottlund! (Though you might want to hide your hair in the process.) Heidi Brottlund has stepped up to the plate and admitted that she was the one who criticized her mom's hair. This took a lot of courage, especially in light of the solemn injuction of Scripture to "honor thy father and thy mother".
But more to the point. . .take that DeanTheBean, I was right and you were wrong!
Though to demonstrate my humility I must confess that examining the situation from a logical perspective, all clues pointed towards a Quick rather than a Brottlund. (The following statement was in no way a comment on any family members hairdo - past, present or future)

Sex and the Kitty

Earlier someone asked about the kitty that ended up at the Lindstroms. Well the kitty now has the name Pepper and is doing fine. But I have another puzzle based on the pictures we posted. When I brought the kitty to the vet for its first checkup, the receptionist asked whether it was male or female. I said we weren't sure but my brother thought it might be female. The receptionist took one look at the cat from 10 feet away and instantly said, "Oh, that's definitely a female." Here's the puzzle. How could one tell this cat is a female with only a casual look? (Dean can't participate cuz I told him the answer)

Family Meeting

It's been three months since brother Mark began this site. Enough time for a number of issues to come to mind.

1. First, I think brother Mark deserves a hearty Thank-you for starting the e-round robin. The family blog is a great idea that fills a void.

2. I am also thankful for whoever made this Blog Spot on the WEB. I still can't believe they give us unlimited space to post whatever we please. . .for free! They are not doing this because they like us. What's in this for them? And I have no idea.

3.There is a thought that came to mind with the confusion over which Heidi thought her mom's hair was wierd. . .specifically . . . should we even allow people to issue comments anonymously? I'm on the fence here, but I know that technically we could flip a few levers and people would need to create a Profile before they could comment or post. A few advantages would be that it would eliminate all spam and we wouldn't have to enter a code each time we made a comment. Personally I figure the more participation the better and we should stick with anonymous. But the question is. . .would anonymous comments further or slow-down the participation of all.

4. Also concerning the Heidi fiasco. . .there is a tender issue which has the potential to open up a can of worms. The question of which Heidi issued the criticism gets us into the touchy area of which lady had the silliest hairdo. Well, it doesn't take a genius to see that has the potential of blowing up the entire family dynamic. I don't suppose we can resolve this by simply issuing the decree that everybody had a silly hairdo back then and most of us look even sillier now? Perhaps we could defuse this tension by moving the question beyond Lois Ann and Jean. As I have looked at all the old pictures posted on this site, I have frequently thought about the silliness of the hairdo - including my own. Perhaps we could search our photos to find other examples and give some kind of award for the silliest hairdo in the family.

5. This is something DeanTheBean commented on somewhere - how is it that Steve, Greg, Jean and others are able to post and yet they don't seem to have a Profile? I thought you had to create a Profile before you could post? I'm glad they're posting but I'm confused about the Profile thing.

6. Has anyone else noticed that both Greg and Steve posted once and then fell off the face of the earth?

Grain Elevator Strike

The reason for all the ships in the lake was the grain elevator strike of '79. I remember the strike well - I was one of the few that voted "no". It set me back a bit as I was trying to raise money for my last year of school.

Candid... ...Posed

Wood Pile

Do you all have your wood for the winter? If not, I wouldn't be surprized if there's still some in Duluth.

Heidi or Heidi?

This post used to start with the following paragraph. . .
This is a half-welcome to Heidi. She made a brief appearance to criticize her Mom's hair, but notice that the signature was not "Heidi" but "Anonymous". Methinks the Brottlunds need a profile. Somebody give us Heidi and Josh's e-mail address and we can invite them to join. (I suppose I could try her old e-mail address. I like to welcome new people with a photo, but all she gets for now is a hint of a picture.
BUT DeanTheBean has entered some comments (see comments below) convincing me that Anonymous could as well be a Quick as a Brottlund. So will the real Anonymous please step forward?
Note: A few days after this post I did get an e-mail from Heidi Brottlund asking to be invited to join the e-round robin so that is one point on the side of Heidi B. By the way. . .I'm so unobservant that I do not even know if both Heidi's took their husband's names or not.

Brookston Bridge

Things to love about this photo: Dick's pants, white belts, Ralph's sideburns...

Welcome, Heidi! Did everyone notice Heidi's comment about Saturday's post?

Women With Smiles

Since Dancestoomuch guessed correctly (I think) with "Somebody's House" (see post from Thursday), I present this picture as his prize.

Jean, you can, perhaps, make this gift complete by telling us who everyone is - there are three or four I am unsure of. (And welcome by the way.)

I See Carlsons and Tuckers - LIFTOFF!

Welcome Jean and Ralph, Erika and Joe. I don't want to move to quickly here, but now. . .let's see if you can post pictures of two little Celts? Also if the regulars haven't noticed, Jean has gone through October posts and peppered them with comments. And for Erika: Alaska Robin is Mark, Dean the Bean is Dean, Northberger is Paul and Dancelot is Dan.

This is work??

I want some more!!

We are having turnaround. We work for about a month of straight 12 hour night shifts. In order to make it more like home we are cooking eggs, bacon, sausage and potatoes.

For tomorrow we are seasoning 40 lbs of prime rib on the right. There are about 24 of us operators eating on night shift.

During day shift they do most of the work, thankfully. We are usually too full to do much at night.