Good morning!!!!

[pennwalk]

"Leaves are still coming down but end in sight"
Same here. I have been using the EGO with the bagger to get the leaves up here. I have been doing it every 2 or 3 days. In the past I have mowed into the middle of December to get the last of the leaves.

The farmer harvested the soy beans at the farm yesterday.

The un completed house next door has a For Sale sign on it this morning. It is a big house 8000 sq ft. The old man died almost 2 years ago. The shell is in kind of rough shape. They are asking $775,000. We'll see.

Take care

Chris

 

[daugen]

what a lovely day
that went down the tubes
easy drive to Dennis' home, nice to meet his lovely wife who
baked some yummy blueberry muffins for us. I had two.
then we puttered around their beautiful place, in the back fields and down by their stream in his UTV.

contented and happy I headed out for the two hour drive down here to Front Royal. Knew all about road out and had directions to go around it. But I saw the exit for 17, which I had written down and like an idiot second guessed myself. Was looking for a detour sign which turned out to be much further and I carefully took that and followed all the detour signs.

when I wound up at the barricaded road (rockslides) I knew I had missed a turn on the posted detour and then got even more lost. I finally had to head back North to get to route 68 heading West to 81, and came down 81 to 66 which is exactly what I wanted to avoid. Sigh.

by the time I was done I had turned the rv around at least five times on these really small windy roads. The drop down to Harpers Ferry, where the closure was, is super steep. I went up and down those tiny windy roads at least three times, since every new attempt seemed to bring me back to the same place.

First I asked the garbage truck guy. He pointed in the right direction.
Another time I flashed my lights at this older lady who nicely stopped and asked how to get to 340. Oh, all the roads are closed.
yup, apparently more than we thought.
you have go back North quite a ways and cut over to 81.
double sigh.

which I did of course and it was fine.
what an adventure. I passed furnaces and battlegrounds,
probably drove through most of this county.

next time I will follow my written directions. Without real time like Waaz, the Garmin was my worst enemy, kept taking me back to the road that was blocked.

I believe I have earned and am going to have a nice glass of wine, or two, with dinner tonight.
Brother coming over in an hour.
reminds me, need to chill the wine.
cooking vegan spring rolls in toaster oven as hot apps.
drink and munchies before we go out to dinner.

I have pics but have to post later.
all's well that ends well

 

[buckeyefarmer]

what a lovely day
that went down the tubes
easy drive to Dennis' home, nice to meet his lovely wife who
baked some yummy blueberry muffins for us. I had two.
then we puttered around their beautiful place, in the back fields and down by their stream in his UTV.

contented and happy I headed out for the two hour drive down here to Front Royal. Knew all about road out and had directions to go around it. But I saw the exit for 17, which I had written down and like an idiot second guessed myself. Was looking for a detour sign which turned out to be much further and I carefully took that and followed all the detour signs.

when I wound up at the barricaded road (rockslides) I knew I had missed a turn on the posted detour and then got even more lost. I finally had to head back North to get to route 68 heading West to 81, and came down 81 to 66 which is exactly what I wanted to avoid. Sigh.

by the time I was done I had turned the rv around at least five times on these really small windy roads. The drop down to Harpers Ferry, where the closure was, is super steep. I went up and down those tiny windy roads at least three times, since every new attempt seemed to bring me back to the same place.

First I asked the garbage truck guy. He pointed in the right direction.
Another time I flashed my lights at this older lady who nicely stopped and asked how to get to 340. Oh, all the roads are closed.
yup, apparently more than we thought.
you have go back North quite a ways and cut over to 81.
double sigh.

which I did of course and it was fine.
what an adventure. I passed furnaces and battlegrounds,
probably drove through most of this county.

next time I will follow my written directions. Without real time like Waaz, the Garmin was my worst enemy, kept taking me back to the road that was blocked.

I believe I have earned and am going to have a nice glass of wine, or two, with dinner tonight.
Brother coming over in an hour.
reminds me, need to chill the wine.
cooking vegan spring rolls in toaster oven as hot apps.
drink and munchies before we go out to dinner.

I have pics but have to post later.
all's well that ends well

Glad you got there. Looks like you went up 67 to Boonsboro, then caught 68 over to I81. That was the long route. Not sure why your GPS didn't take you down the road to the Left at the detour, at the Exxon station.
Have a good dinner, and thanks again for stopping by.

 

[newbury]

<snip>

by the time I was done I had turned the rv around at least five times on these really small windy roads. The drop down to Harpers Ferry, where the closure was, is super steep. I went up and down those tiny windy roads at least three times, since every new attempt seemed to bring me back to the same place.

<snip>

I passed furnaces and battlegrounds,
probably drove through most of this county.

<snip>

Don't despair Drew. That happened a lot to me in my travels while "ground" truthing sattelite imagery. Especially when solo and in Germany. Never got REALLY lost, just spent a lot of time doing recon.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Don't despair Drew. That happened a lot to me in my travels while "ground" truthing sattelite imagery. Especially when solo and in Germany. Never got REALLY lost, just spent a lot of time doing recon.

Same thing happened to me up in PA leaving popgadget's place. I missed a turn because Waze was trying to take me down to the toll road which I didn't want, then I turned up another road since I saw where waze was trying to take me, then I toured half the backroads around sellersville before I finally got to 309. Yep, we've all done it.

 

[Thomas]

Had a nice visit with Drew. Coffee and blueberry muffins, and the 5 cent tour. Thanks for stopping by Drew, was nice to meet in person finally.

I see LOT of wisdom.

 

[Thomas]

30F cloudy.

It was trible test of courage trying to us the wind in my favor blowing leaves completed the task tho

Saw 2 large flocks geese headed south,must be they decided boogie before old man winter comes for visit tomorrow morning.

Plans for the evening high % setting on my back pockets and share bowl ice cream.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Thursday) morning. Overnight Low of 15.3C and it's presently 24.5C, humid with high cloud cover and fairly calm. There was 1.0mm of rain in the gauge.

The trip into town was successful plus I needed to make a 'driver's medical' appointment (annual) due to my having Type II diabetes.

No wood stacking yesterday as, every time I was prepared to get at it, it rained. Oh, well. The last of the wood delivery was completed this morning so I'll see what I can accomplish prior to a Parrish Council meeting late this arvo @ 1630.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[daugen]

had a nice dinner with brother and wife at Element in Front Royal.
Fairly limited menu but very good; beef tips were like three small filets.
I brought one home for a sandwich.

very hard driving here at night when you don't know where you are going. Even my brother's nav system in his car was marginal

got the drone up for a few minutes
had to get a pic of the TBN coffee mug
only the privileged few have them

 

[rswyan]

50F and clear @ 19:45, headed down to around 48F for the low overnight (but rising to around 60F before it does) Low this morning was 36.7F. High today was 56.7F. Reasonably pleasant.

Some rain moving in later as a cold front comes through. Clearing out by tomorrow afternoon with highs in the mid-50's.

Ten Day now includes 2 days at the tail end with highs around 60F ...

Spent the afternoon grinding up leaves in the back and on the west side down here around the house. Almost no wind. Got that mostly done ... for now anyways ...

Still need to do some work with the hand-held leaf blower to clean out the beds and grind up what's left on the east side. As well as finishing the front.

Woman wants the whole house vacuum unit pulled down off the wall and inspected. The precipitating event for this was the vacuum quit running while She was vacuuming. This is periodic phenomena ... probably owing to the poor connection setup of the low-voltage control wires at the unit that turns the motor on when one of the flaps is opened to connect the hose.

In investigating that She noticed what seemed to be oil on the exterior of the case. Not really sure what that is but the motor itself is sealed and personally I don't think that whatever is on it is from the vacuum itself ... but the brushes in the motor are replaceable and are supposed to be checked every 5 years. So it's probably (over) due.

At any rate, the initial request was to take it down so She "could take (the entire unit) in to have it 'serviced' ..."

Yeah, no ... we ain't doing that ... since there really isn't any service to be done to it beyond replacing the brushes which I can do.

Need to finish up large Menards order and get that placed so I can pick it up in the next few days while it's chilly and wet outside. Will include a 50A or 60A sub panel for the garage so I can get the outlet for the Unisaw wired up and get it connected.

Hope everyone had a decent Wednesday ...