Okay so here it is. Sunday morning I finished my last shift of that rotation and after I got a couple hours of sleep, Taylor and I went out for a snowmobile ride. As I was just going on to Range lake I pinned it to full throttle and instead of shooting off across the lake, I bogged down. 4 Days latter and 200$ I have the sled on the lakes again. On after changing the plugs and making sure I had compression and spark I took out the carburetors, to take inside to clean out and dry. I like any redneck used my bathtub as my workshop….. On Tuesday I proceeded out and put the carbs back onto the sled and found it made no difference, what a disappointment. That evening Scott came over and we pulled it to a friends garage where it stay. Wednesday morning bright and early … well 11am by the time I was up and ready to go, I went over to the sled and started taking it apart to sadly find out that I had blown a piston! So I continued to take it apart. When I had what I needed off it was about 4:50pm and I needed to get to Force One (Polaris dealer) before 5. I got there, I needed 3 things 1 piston, 1 reed valve, and 1 base gasket. When I was in there I got 1 piston and 1 reed valve. I then drove all the way back to the sled thinking I might be able to start putting it back together tonight. WRONG. It was 10 after 5 when I realized I forgot the gasket, oh well at least I got to relax for an evening. But first thing Thursday morning and this time I mean 9:30 i went to Force One and got the gasket and with no help at all (I been getting guidance from Sam, a friend of the family, who with out him I wouldn’t have been able to do this. Thanks) I managed to get it back together and running strong by 12:30pm. I cleaned shop and took off down the road a couple time to make sure everything was in order.

That is how I spent my 4 days off. I must say I handled it better then I thought I would. You just gotta learn to take what life throws at ya.

What else has been happening in the last couple days, well theres that federal political things, but I don’t care for that anymore. I just so sick of all the politics. I want to go live in a cabin where I never hear about any of it.