06-15-13

A few days ago Dave took me to the Jeep dealer here in Idaho Falls to order a dimmer switch for Clifford. 
He hasn’t had headlights since we left Quartzsite.
I started to look at the problem while we were in “Q” but didn’t have a steering wheel puller so I couldn’t do anything about it. 
Dave found out that it was possible to borrow a puller from Auto Zone so we went there today after breakfast and picked one up.
Back at Dave’s, we removed the steering wheel and found out that we needed another special tool to go any deeper into the column.
Dave and I scrounged through his stash of metal, did some cutting, drilling and tapping; bought a couple of screws from Ace Hardware and after a couple of hours we had a tool that would do the job. 
We got to the next level and found that the switch was buried even deeper in the column and would mean taking apart the instrument panel and  a whole lot more just to get to the switch. It started to look like we weren’t going to get to the bottom of the problem in one day. I decided to put the steering column back together so I could drive the jeep.
I will try again when we get home where I have other vehicles to drive while I am working on Clifford.

While Dave and I were working on Clifford today, Jo Ann and Patti went shopping and went to Sam’s Club. Jo Ann also took Patti around Idaho Falls and showed her the falls.

Yesterday (06-14-13) Dave and I took a great ride on the Snake River with Dave’s son, Linn in his jet boat.

We met Jo Ann and Dave at the cafe for breakfast. From there Patti and Jo Ann took Clifford and went shopping.
Dave and I drove out to Linn’s house and hooked up his boat.

From there we headed for a boat ramp about 25 miles up the Snake River.
We launched the boat

and headed upstream.

 

The river is beautiful and goes through some wonderful country.

  

After going about 15 miles up the river, we stopped the boat and began drifting down stream.

We scanned the cliffs for Mountain Goats which have been planted in the area by Fish and Game.

 

Unfortunately we didn’t spot any goats.
Linn pulled the boat into some spots along the edge so we could do some fishing.

   
The fishing was very good.
On the Snake River you are allowed to keep two Germane brown trout. Cutthroat trout is catch and release only and there is no limit on rainbow trout or hybrids.
We caught one Brown weighing about two pounds,

one Rainbow of about the same size

and a smaller rainbow.
We caught and released a bunch of Cutthroat’s, some of them were quite large.

I also caught a two pound Chub which we cut up for bait.

We were on the river from about 10:30 to 5:30. It was a great day of boating and fishing on the Snake River.