Numero siete (#7).......

 7:39 am - Tuesday - May 4th - Seal Rock, OR - 50° F, 100% humidity, wind 6 mph out of the north......cloudy this morning with clearing later....forecast high is 58° F.  On this date in 2020 we were leaving the McCloud Newell Compound in Wittmann, AZ  for Flagstaff, AZ after a two month stay.  We had planned to be there two to three weeks, but the arrival of the Wuhan Flu changed all of our plans for the summer.......↴

After a day of cleaning firepits it was back to regular programming for me Monday.....hauling, and spreading gravel.  I've been working my way up the 'hill' over the past couple of weeks, and only had 6, and 7 to complete to finish that section.  I wanted to work on 6 next, but there was a reservation on that site for Monday, so I spent my energies on site #7 instead.  As with most of these long back in sites it took me three full hours to complete the task of leveling, and widening it first with the large gravel, and then finishing it with a layer of small gravel.....

.....this site had a bad crown in the middle of it, and it was not very wide.  I added about 3 feet to the back of the site, and about 3 feet to the right side (right side as you face it from the street in the picture below), then had to lay down a bed of large gravel for almost the length on each side of the site......

.....you can see how much I had to raise the right side of the site (side nearest the electrical pedestal in the picture below) to make the site level.  The same was needed for the left side......

.....by the time I finished with site #7 it was after 1 pm, so I headed back up the Cross Street hill to the barn to park the Massey-Ferguson for the night.  

By the time I got home it was close to 1:30 pm.....as I was emptying my pockets prior to changing my clothes I discovered my 2-way radio was missing.  I remember seeing it clipped to my right pocket as I was driving down Cross Street first thing Monday morning, but did not remember seeing it the rest of my shift, so it could be anywhere between the barn, and the gravel pile next to site #14.....doh!

I finished changing clothes, then began the walk down through site #2 (right below our site) along the road by site #7, all the way to the gravel pile.....no 2-way radio.  I then walked  back down the hill past site #2, and on to the office where I advised TLE, who was still on duty, I was looking for my radio, then up Cross Street to the barn.....still no radio!  The only place left for it to be was in the barn, so I unlocked the doors, and began to scan the dark interior floor for the radio (there is no electricity in the barn, hence no lighting), and did not see it anywhere.  I then began to examine the Massey-Ferguson itself.....nothing on the floorboard....man, where is that thing?  I was about to turn away from the loader in defeat when my eye caught the form of the radio in the dimly lit interior wedged between the seat, and seatbelt buckle.....an audible sigh of relief could be heard escaping my lungs....what a break!

As I walked back down Cross Street to site #A-2 I radioed TLE to advise her I had found the illsusive 2-way radio, and would see her at home, which would be in just a few minutes as I had just spent the last 1/2 hour in search of the 2-way radio.....okay, enough excitement for one day.

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