After the boatvtrip into the falls, we headed back to lake placid, next morning we climbed Pitchoff the mountain to your right driving up from Keene to Lake Placid. balanced boulders makes a great photo opportunity. After hiking we grabbed some boats and went for a Paddle As almost always happens when I go on vacation in the Adirondacks, we got caught in a surprise thunderstorm and soaked thoroughly. The next day we drove to the top of the Whiteface auto road and climbed to the summit
After Whiteface my son and I went paddling on mirror lake, the one the vilage of lake placid is actually built on. Immediately after we launched clouds rolled in and rain fell, however it was absorbed by a lower level of air and never got us. We had a nice circuit of the lake. Sawfish in her new home Work trip to Martha's Vineyard Flying to Tennessee to get my IA at Baker, a training school for aviation mechanics. Flashback to a camping trip with my sister's family. Family ride on the Salem Windham derry rail trail
labor day paddling revisited a local pond from when we lived in Maine. We never found the good swimming areas back then, but did on labor day. Milton three ponds is a beautiful place to Paddle. Turns out my wife is a better shot than I am Skating with my son, he likes it better than biking in hot weather some more work at Logan Airport getting some more firewood processed
my mom boughtus a digital piano, our girlslike playingit because theycan practice with headphones these guys built a couple of my sawfish kayaks over the summer, a bit shorter than normal, but obviously plenty capable. Haverhill river ruckus fireworks another example of the creativeness of foam kayak builders Z he's got it outfitted nicely Connors farm corn maze with my sisters family got to fly over the corn maze the next week at work look over salem harbor from the air another builder who made a sawfish then had a family member give him a plastic kayak. We added the foam sponsons for standing stability for casting. Making more of a dent in my massive pile of logs someone turned 18, they had a great time at the trampoline psrk
made a big breakthrough in the backlog, whittled enough of the big trunk section down to be able to move it and get at the smaller rounds underneath. my son does all the splitting now, this is all the small stuff we got out after moving the big stuff out of the way. Really loving this woodstove. The draft is fed right into the coals, and they will catch almost anything from just a few coals. Downdraft, top loading stoves aren't the norm, my dad had one and I think it's still the best design I've ever run
AWESOME Pictures!!! Thanks so much for sharing Rowerwet , I really enjoyed them! I know lots of those places! Brings back some very nice memories!
thanks for sharing your year with us. That was some big wood rounds and I love the cover on the woodsplitter. Looks a little familiar.
Thanksgiving we were in Pennsylvania again for a few days. We got together with my wife's best friend growing up and her family. Her daughter is our oldest daughters best friend, and our daughter is over their house many times a week as they work and go to church together. smoked chicken for Thanksgiving dinner, smoked in their own smokehouse. The flavor was incredible! views from around their farm, trying to walk off a few calories as the sun set.
another walk in God's country, we all love the incredible views of the endless fields and mountains. a visit to a covered bridge, since the kids didn't know what one was. my wife grew up at the end of this mountain but had never driven over it in her life. So I we drove over the mountain and came back up the valley on the other side. I'm not exactly sure what this is meant to be used for, found it with the grilling stuff at Walmart. It's the perfect tool for scooping the ashes out of a top loading stove.
now that it's dark when I get out of work, I swapped my schedule to 4 ten hour days. Spent Monday attacking my backlog. Some of this wood has been sitting, waiting to split for two years now. Looks like I probably have enough to completely refill my racks. put the tree up with the kids after a whole day of ripping trees apart.
Chaz goes into work an hour early and leaves an hour earlier so he can have that one hour of day light to work on wood. Nice tree.
before and after bathroom project Haverhill sunset over the new boardwalk city Christmas tree in Washington Square somehow the blocker for the lower Merrimack valley failed and we got some decorative snow. Miracles never cease my firewood buddy is 18 now and started donating plasma with me. They pay pretty good for each donation, but the first month is close to $1,000. Unlike whole blood donation you can donate twice a week, and will not have any weakness, I've been doing it for months now and can go mountain biking the next day with no side effects. my youngest in a choir of homeschool kids, they did an amazing job. another glitch in the matrix, somehow all that rain Friday managed to produce some ❄️, luckily it melted before anyone could expect this to mean winter might happen.
state of the art, fully featured, latest, greatest, navigational instruments (for the 1970s) with a modern GPS (for the early 90s) in a recent aircraft I did an annual inspection on. this rack had a roof I made out of a bunch of 20 gallon plastic barrels. Unfortunately each seam leaked, do my wood wasn't really kept dry. I finally got around to installing the old pool wall as a roof only planned on doing that for a few years now. easy way to make a shed for my splitter for the winter (to keep the snow off, almost seems like wasted effort) the tonneau cover was free, the wood was ripped out of a free pallet. another spot I ran out of roofing for, finally covered lawn cart tucked away in the shed another cord of maple and ash going up Neighborhood lights
Christmas, it was great to have our oldest daughter home for a few days neat gift she got for her siblings Christmas day with my parents. If you like board games, ticket to ride is an awesome game. Ticket to ride Europe has more challenges with tunnels and ferrys, and it's much harder to rack up a high score. this was the last time I would see my father in this world. We gave him the USB heated vest which he loved. My mother got him the felt hat. trying to make a family picture in the park a beach visit is always on the agenda for our oldest as she misses the ocean Haverhill lights new years eve. My son and I drove to Teterboro, NJ to replace that flashlight in a corporate jet since he had never seen new York city or the statue of liberty, he asked if we could before we went home. We got to liberty state park at about 1030 pm. It was closed, but the restaurants were open for parties, so we parked there and walked to the statue. It was so dark and foggy we couldn't see the water on the other side of the railing. Then suddenly all of the lights in the park came on at once, turned out there had been a fire and power failure inside the park buildings. The fire department showed up, but couldn't get in through the locked gates. we headed towards the statue, hoping to get to see it through the fog. Finally as we passed the elis Island bridge, the light from the torch could be barely seen. As we got closer. The statue began to appear in the fog. near the statue, the fog broke enough to see the island, the rest of the Harbor was walled off by the fog. we headed back to the van directly across the park, using GPS to figure out which pathways to follow, it was so erie as the lights were still off there. Google maps took us through the Holland tunnel and around the south and west side of Manhattan, the views were amazing and there was absolutely no fog. We drove past the WYC.
cool aircraft I get to work with and around. what happens when the crew doesn't bother to dump the drinking water out of the tanks before leaving the jet outside for three days at Christmas... two whole water systems on this jet ruined by freezing... my parents visited my sisters family before new years, came home, shut their hose down, drove to Florida and the next day my father was taken home to where he's been preparing for since he was born again in college. This was their wedding picture, taken the same year 1971. my sisters wedding day I was almost born in Kentucky, here's my mother, pregnant with me when they spent a semester at a Bible College in Kentucky. Thankfully they came back to Massachusetts before I was born. my wedding day one of our favorite memories as children, walking the tracks in Holliston, MA. flying down to Florida for my father's memorial service. It stopped snowing just long enough for my plane to get our without much delay mom hadn't been able to get her car in the garage since they had arrived since they had brought two nicer bikes with them. She thought she'd have to get rid of some,even though the grandkids like to use them when they visit. Between preparing, the memorial service, visiting, and other stuff, I got the corner organized for her. I didn't want to leave her again without good memories, so I rented a kayak on the Homosassa River and took mom to see the manatees. they were thick along the bank, enjoying the warmer water, we had a great trip and some good memories. beautiful memorial service car, bikes, and the golf cart all fit nicely.
two pictures from the same day. Leaving Florida with enough time to come home and take the girls sledding we love our sled legs! The day before this I took my mother paddling to see the manatees... new family tree ornament to remember a trip a few years ago drove to Quonset point for work, only to find out that they forgot to tell us that the plane wasn't there it was still in Pittsburgh... So I hoped over to Jamestown and visited a park my grandparents would take me to as a kid. Hadn't been here since I was very young, back then you could explore inside the old bunkers it tried to be winter again after a long day in portsmouth new Hampshire, I came out of the hangar to see this beauty parked on the cargo ramp. then the weather decided to be spring, so we went exploring the Seabrook-Hampton rail causeway over the marsh. This will be the crown jewel of the seacoast NH rail trail if the towns ever get their act in gear and start building, they've all agreed to by 2030, so I don't see what the holdup is all about. The rail bed is washed out in sections, indicating it needs more culverts and bridges to be able to handle the storm surges. It's a beautiful walk and in remarkable condition. tire change on a big corporate jet extremely cold sunset in Providence last night
