Jon Los

Author: Jon Los

  • The Summer Kitchen

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    There was a place where anyone who was cast off from society, who found themselves on the shit end of the stick, who were looking for a closer relationship with God, or who just needed a place to unwind, could land and just go ahhhhh…. It was like stepping back in time, oh a hundred…

  • Done!

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    My dad shortly before he passed away from pancreatic cancer. Sorry for the two lower pictures being bad but they went through a fire and by a miracle, they survived… It took a year, but when my one of a kind Kenworth motorhome rolled out of the shop it blew me away. It still needed…

  • “Free” Electricity

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    When the power goes out, I call me. After a unusually warm winter so far, we are having a bit of a cold snap. And with it comes frazil ice and the plugging up of my coanda screen, which stops the water from flowing through the penstock, which stops the turbine and the water to…

  • We Were Almost There

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    Things were humming right along. The motorhome project was out of my hands and being taken care of. I was hauling containers around southern BC and Washington making decent money. And I was lonely. We used to have a paper called The Buy & Sell. I guess we still do but it’s all online now.…

  • You’re Gonna Be Rich!

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    One of the hardest things I had to face while building the motorhome was my friends who became envious of my good fortune. My good friend, Bill, actually said to me, “We can’t be friends anymore because you’re going to be rich”. That shocked me, and broke my heart.I never did have much self confidence.…

  • Nope, It Doesn’t Float

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    I was about two months into the project and had the truck at the place where it was going to be transformed into a motorhome. The boys got right to work and there was nothing else for me to do but wait. I did drop in regularly to give them ideas, check on the progress…

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