It now looks like we will be meeting up with the Earlcaine in Charlotte were we stop for the night on Thursday. Hopefully, it will be far enough inland that we won't be driving a 36' SAIL through an Earlcaine.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Meeting Earl
We're packing up the motorhome for the annual trek to Atlanta and the labor day weekend race.
It now looks like we will be meeting up with the Earlcaine in Charlotte were we stop for the night on Thursday. Hopefully, it will be far enough inland that we won't be driving a 36' SAIL through an Earlcaine.
It now looks like we will be meeting up with the Earlcaine in Charlotte were we stop for the night on Thursday. Hopefully, it will be far enough inland that we won't be driving a 36' SAIL through an Earlcaine.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
It's official
The latest storm is now sponsered by WhateverEarl!
We're just waiting to see where Jim Cantore is going to be.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
'Onest 'Osifer-we's in the back seat sangin
You know,
sometimes it just figures.
butch and the critters are still waging war. dead-eye butch shoots pellets at them, and every now and then, they jump and let him think that he's shot them. he has nailed a couple of them. our roster now includes, dead tail, the squirrel who no longer has control over his tail; 3-leg, dead tails brother, who now suffers a limp, several big bunnies that have eaten almost all the sunflower farm that butch planted, and lucky, the little groundhog that butch shot as he was trying to get a drink out of our little birdbath (lucky was drinking, not butch)
so,
i was around front where we have some boxwoods planted and found the skeleton remains of some unfortunate critter that decided to croak in my front flower bed. gee, thanks
so i got butch out with a shovel to scoop it up (what, you thought i'd be able to do it-HA) and the plan was to take it across the road and give it a pitch. (oh, stop it's a field, it's not like we didn't like a neighbor) you know us, we're standing there in the driveway, continuing our debate on what it actually was, i went with rabbit-it had no tail, he was arguing squirrel-cause he just knew he'd hit one good. when a car blasts in the drive. we both look up from the shovel debate, and it's a big ole gold car, and the dude driving says "hello folks, just how's it going?" this was the point that i realized the car was a crown vic, and the driver had a crew cut and state police patch on his shoulder.
oh, shit- i swear we did not kill it, we just found it this way!!!!
i couldn't figure out how they knew so fast. the baracks is 30 minutes away on a good day, and we had not been having our little debate that long.
we then tried to explain to the nice state police trooper, that we'd found this in our flower bed, and you know how when you're talking to a nice state police trooper that it seems like you begin confessing everything you know? well, that was the two of us. butch, of course, had to take the shovel over and just make the nice state police troopers day by showing him our discovery.
yes, we're goobies.
all the man was doing was turning around in our drive so he could go hide behind the hedge row and pick up some speeders. i think he was just as surprised by whipping in the drive and having the two of us standing there as we were by him. we told him he could use our drive anytime if it meant he'd stop some of the cars blasting down the pike.
i actually think we may have scared him a little....nah, probably not.
sometimes it just figures.
butch and the critters are still waging war. dead-eye butch shoots pellets at them, and every now and then, they jump and let him think that he's shot them. he has nailed a couple of them. our roster now includes, dead tail, the squirrel who no longer has control over his tail; 3-leg, dead tails brother, who now suffers a limp, several big bunnies that have eaten almost all the sunflower farm that butch planted, and lucky, the little groundhog that butch shot as he was trying to get a drink out of our little birdbath (lucky was drinking, not butch)
so,
i was around front where we have some boxwoods planted and found the skeleton remains of some unfortunate critter that decided to croak in my front flower bed. gee, thanks
so i got butch out with a shovel to scoop it up (what, you thought i'd be able to do it-HA) and the plan was to take it across the road and give it a pitch. (oh, stop it's a field, it's not like we didn't like a neighbor) you know us, we're standing there in the driveway, continuing our debate on what it actually was, i went with rabbit-it had no tail, he was arguing squirrel-cause he just knew he'd hit one good. when a car blasts in the drive. we both look up from the shovel debate, and it's a big ole gold car, and the dude driving says "hello folks, just how's it going?" this was the point that i realized the car was a crown vic, and the driver had a crew cut and state police patch on his shoulder.
oh, shit- i swear we did not kill it, we just found it this way!!!!
i couldn't figure out how they knew so fast. the baracks is 30 minutes away on a good day, and we had not been having our little debate that long.
we then tried to explain to the nice state police trooper, that we'd found this in our flower bed, and you know how when you're talking to a nice state police trooper that it seems like you begin confessing everything you know? well, that was the two of us. butch, of course, had to take the shovel over and just make the nice state police troopers day by showing him our discovery.
yes, we're goobies.
all the man was doing was turning around in our drive so he could go hide behind the hedge row and pick up some speeders. i think he was just as surprised by whipping in the drive and having the two of us standing there as we were by him. we told him he could use our drive anytime if it meant he'd stop some of the cars blasting down the pike.
i actually think we may have scared him a little....nah, probably not.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
4th of July 2010
Shawnee State Park
Schellsburg, PA
All forecasts predicted it was going to be 100 degrees plus all weekend. All I know is it was HOT HOT HOT.
There are 2 geo-caches there on the Lakefront Trail, so we biked down to the lake. When I say down, I mean OMG this is the side of a mountain (yeah, so a little drama here-but, it was a really steep hill). Problem was, even as we were doing the down part, I knew that the up part was going to be a killer. The Lakefront Trail is 3.4 miles long, and obviously circles around the lake and also over a dam.
It was so hot that we’d hike around in the morning a bit and just try to stay cool in the afternoon. We left Monday around noon & didn’t have much trouble with the holiday traffic, which was way cool. (even if the day wasn't)
Schellsburg, PA
All forecasts predicted it was going to be 100 degrees plus all weekend. All I know is it was HOT HOT HOT.
We took ½ day on Friday and were there and set up by 2:30. Short drive just up hill all the way.
There are 2 geo-caches there on the Lakefront Trail, so we biked down to the lake. When I say down, I mean OMG this is the side of a mountain (yeah, so a little drama here-but, it was a really steep hill). Problem was, even as we were doing the down part, I knew that the up part was going to be a killer. The Lakefront Trail is 3.4 miles long, and obviously circles around the lake and also over a dam. 
The first cache took us back a second trail at which point we had to ditch the bikes and hike that trail for a good half mile. After that, there was a good distance of bushwacking involved before finding the cache. You know me and the poison ivy/oak/sumac hysteria, butch just keeps telling me that it’s not poison. I think he knows to lie to me even if I am standing in it.
Of course, after all that tromping, I forgot to take a picture of the cache, so this is the only picture I got of it. Um , yeah, its thataway!
The second cache was near the beach. To get to it, you had to climb up a path, and then hang off the edge of the cliff (okay, but it was a sheer hill) by hanging onto a tree, and the cache was in a hidey hole at the bottom of the tree. I was tromping through while butch was down below, and once I decided it had to be right around here, he spotted it.
We finished the loop at the beach (that just cracks me up-you're at a lake, there is no beach at a lake-it’s just some sand trucked in and dumped), we hadn’t thought to throw the bathing suits in the bag, but we were content to plop down under a shade tree and relax a while. And the hill that was so great going down....it was killer going up. There was no way you could ride a bike up it, so we'd push the bikes for a while, rest a while, and keep on going.
The night sky there was really clear and the stars were just amazing. Even saw a couple of shooting stars.
It was so hot that we’d hike around in the morning a bit and just try to stay cool in the afternoon. We left Monday around noon & didn’t have much trouble with the holiday traffic, which was way cool. (even if the day wasn't)
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