What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

Be careful if you have to get over that way....

 

I steer clear and far away from any of that nonsense.
The national guard was brought in today.

My last job was right in the middle of that area. I carried everyday.

 

Well it was time to relax with the family after I worked four hours on fence post today. The kids and I relaxed a bit while thier Mom went and tended to and road her horse for a couple hours. Then I took them all for a ride toward Potsdam, NY. We thought about Mexican food and then decided on a family restaurant called Eben's Hearth. We had not been there in a very long time. Good food, good atmosphere. We all enjoyed it.

Then on the way back I decided to take them for a walk through Heritage Park in Canton, NY. Good time to go through it after the rain came through. The water is running again. Not very deep, but still good to see.

A few shots of it here for you to see:

I think all of you will appreciate the work that went into carving this guy. I don't know his History but will have to look it up. J. Henry Rushton.


Some cool stairs, railings, bridges, and platforms.

 

You're freeeekin me out maaaaan... Had a blast today. All the best players in the area do there thing. One big family...

 

Wet wood, no sunshine= Slippery! Use caution!

 

I wonder how the brook is running at thewoodlands place?

 

Interesting. I thought I had recognized the name from being on a Hall or two at the local colleges.

John Henry Rushton (son of Peter Rushton and Martha D Glines) was born Oct 09, 1843 in Edwards N.Y., and died May 01, 1906.
John Henry Rushton
1843 - 1906
"Canton's World Famous Boat Builder " by Atwood Manley
The name of J. Henry Rushton refuses to die. It is now, (2001), seventy-five years since his death here in Canton, N.Y., in 1926; one-hundred and twenty-eight years since he began building boats here in 1873. Canoeists of today refer to surviving craft of his make as classics. Forest and Stream stated in 1886 that Rushton's name was a household word wherever canoes were used throughout the world.
From his Boat Shop in Canton, originally no more than a small, empty horse barn on State Street; and finally his large three-story factory once located on Flatiron Corner, at the junction of today's Riverside Drive and State Street, he turned out craft which made canoeing history: The Kleiner Fritz, 1878, logging 10,000 miles, one of that trio of cedar lap-strakes in 1879 the first white man-made canoes to cleave the waters of Lake Itasca, the headwaters of the Mississippi: the Alice which in 1881 cruised from, Itasca down the Mississippi to the Gulf; Nessmuk's famed Sairy Gamp, 9 1/2 ft. long, 10 1/2 lbs., now in the Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, NY. Charles Neide's Aurora in which he cruised from Lake George, via the Erie Canal, the Ohio, the Mississippi and along the Gulf of Pensacola, 3500 miles, in 1883; the Vesper which won the First International Sailing Canoe Cup Race held off Grindstone Island on the St. Lawrence in 1886. Then of current time-interest Old Joe, owned by David Wells, 16, of Massena which won Classic Boat of the Year honors at the 7th Annual Antique Boat Show of the Thousand Islands Museum in 1971. Old Joe, still clipping the waves, is one of Rushton's celebrated Princess types, built in Canton in 1884 for Rushton's mentor and life-long friend, Joseph B. Ellsworth, Canton shoe merchant and sportsman.
J. Henry Rushton, craftsman extraordinary, self-trained, possessed of rare genius, was a tiny man, not much more than a midget. Born near the village of Edwards, St. Lawrence County, in 1843, educated in a country district school, ailing and sickly the first half of his life, as knowledgeable and skilled in woodcraft as in craftsmanship with woods, he started building boats by chance here in Canton; aiming to provide himself with a small, light boat in which to cruise Adirondack waters in search of health. A friend bought the skiff before it was finished. Ellsworth ordered another like it "but a dammed sight better" and from that point on Rushton never ceased building boats and canoes, thousands of them of countless design and style.
After his death in 1906 his sons, in turn, continued the business until 1916 when the competition with autos, motorcycles, and World War I resulted in the key being turned in the door. But for fifty-three glorious years Rushton's Boat Shop was Canton's largest industry, and "wherever the name of Canton was known around the world it was due to Rushton." So it was stated in the St. Lawrence Plaindealer in 1889. Today Rushton's name still is magic among the canoeing fraternity.

 

It was low before the rain and after the rain it's low but higher.

 

We saw a live birds of prey demo today.



The birds turned out to be trained ones. They were rather hard to get pictures of but it was pretty cool having Hawks and a falcon flying a foot over head.

 

yeah, it was too stuck at the cuticle. I ended up cutting it off in sections.

 

I don't want to go to work.

 

Drag Racing - love to watch it in person. Live on TV is okay, but you don't get the smells and the sounds like you do at the track. Was so happy when the NH track started bringing in the big guys a couple of years ago - got to see Ashley beat out her daddy in the finals!

 

I don't want to be at work (been here over an hour). Can you tell I decided it's already break time? It's okay, I don't get out until around 4, so they get plenty of my time (on salary too).

 

Maybe weasel - I know a lot of people loose chickens around here to one of their relative, the fisher cat - and they tend not to eat it all or drag off leftovers. Sometimes they've been known just to go on a killing spree.

 

72 and still raining, coffee is on and I gotta' 'nother 12 1/2 of 'em in the workhouse.
Hoping everyone has a good day.