Planetary Verbosity

So what’s it like to take a vacation to the southern Jersey Shore in late September? Nicer than you may think, actually. The weather is usually really nice (t-shirt and shorts weather most days), and the water temperature is still in the 70s – it’s sometimes even warmer than the air temperature during this time [...]

We’ve been on vacation for the past week. I’d planned to blog from here (and have successfully kept Facebook updated), but I’ve been too exhausted most evenings to post anything. We’ll be back soon; here are lots of pics in the meantime. The first night we were here (Sept. 27), this is what the moon [...]

Over the last two weekends, Dave’s Jeep has undergone an interesting transformation. For those who haven’t seen it here before, it’s a 1989 Wrangler (YJ): It gets him to work and back several times a week, it’s great for off-roading and getting away from civilization, and it has even survived two run-ins with deer. Even [...]

In what ended up being a rather chilly semi-staycation, we spent Thursday through Sunday on our homestead. We’d intended to camp outside at night, but with temps in the 40s, it didn’t really work out that way. We ended up coming back to our in-town house to sleep on Thursday night and Saturday night, and [...]

It was pretty hot and humid this weekend, but we did spend a few hours at the homestead on Saturday, and we were fascinated by something in particular that happened there. We heard a tree fall in the forest…and since there were two of us there to hear it, it made quite a racket! I [...]

Ok, I got the East Broad Top RR videos uploaded to YouTube… The first one was taken shortly after we arrived. At that time, they were just getting ready for the very first passenger excursion of the day, so I was able to get this video of just the locomotive and tender pulling through and [...]