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Post by keith on Mar 19, 2011 19:53:29 GMT -5
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Post by keith on Mar 21, 2011 7:47:01 GMT -5
I've wondered how Dr. McCoy's tricorder worked. It's obviously the wireless version of Brother Jesse's diagnostic socket. By the way, you can buy one on Amazon www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Original-Medical-Tricorder/dp/B001BAO8NSConcerning the DEC problems with burning brush a couple of past incedents in the Roberts Road area come to mind. (Roberts runs up from Oneida St from Washington Mills toward Frankfort Center. It doesn't quite connect to Mucky Run but it comes close.) In the first case a homeowner just off Roberts tried to declare the vacant lot he owned next to his home a bird santuary. In his case I think it was a property tax dispute. He lost. At about the same time the town of New Hartford ran into problems with it's program to compost green waste. The town has a program to compost the brush & leaves it collects from the residents. The original site was between the RR tracks & Sauquoit creek near the foot of Roberts Road. DEC decided that run off from composting leaves could get into the creek and everything was moved to a site behind the little league field. It's not easy being green. |
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Post by Dave on Mar 21, 2011 8:55:47 GMT -5
No, you're right, it isn't easy being green. That's really interesting about the guy off Roberts Road who wanted to declare a vacant lot a bird sanctuary. I've was using that joke at least 30 years ago when Mrs. Dave would complain about my"burn pile." I always meant to burn the brush pile before it got so large that it would be dangerous, even though it was in the field more than a hundred feet from the house. So I'd give up and tell her it was a bird sanctuary. Of course, I didn't get away with it and one year I "hired" the local volunteer fire department to come here and light up the brush with a pumper standing by. Hosting the drill cost me a fairly hefty donation and two cases of legal beverages. But that was more than twenty years ago before all the proscriptions on open burning.
Did you notice I changed the graphic of the photo you sent me and eliminated the cross road name? I didn't want to specifically identify the barn, although I'm sure it's recognizable to anyone living in the area. I visualize Lance's farm as not visible from Mucky Run road, but up a long driveway through woods that open to large fields and the barn, house, etc.
I'm thinking about a place for Natalie to live. Frankfort seems too far away and I don't want her in east Utica, although that might be interesting. Maybe a mobile home somewhere near.
In fact, maybe Lance buys a trailer for her and Burton on the far side of the property so she's at the farm for emergencies but not within sight after hours.
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Post by keith on Mar 21, 2011 10:59:21 GMT -5
Yes, I noticed the graphic change & figured it was something like that. I know Google had had problems with privacy issues, not that I think this would become that public.
There are a number of mobile homes on Mucky Run and some long driveways so those are not unreasonable settings.
There are houses along old Rt5S (it's called Southside in Herkimer Co & Broad St in Oneida) plus a couple of short side streets in the area between the post office & the city line. I also noticed a burned out tavern on Southside closer to Frankfort. Don't know the story on that.
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Post by Dave on Mar 21, 2011 13:53:09 GMT -5
Burned out tavern? Maybe Chief Burgouyne and Bits were there to put out the fire. They'll appear in a few days in MonkInTheCellar.
Did you see my post about the Mexican Rock group? I still haven't found the video I'm looking for.
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Post by keith on Mar 21, 2011 15:17:56 GMT -5
I'm searching through dusty file cabinets of my brain trying to make some sort of association. Nothing yet.
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Post by keith on Mar 21, 2011 22:00:58 GMT -5
I had gotten as far as looking through some Los Lobos stuff when I had to leave for a meeting. Glad you found it. they have a very listenable sound.
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Post by keith on Mar 21, 2011 22:02:30 GMT -5
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Post by Dave on Mar 21, 2011 22:19:10 GMT -5
I put it in the wrong thread, though. Moving it now to Morning Music.
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Post by Dave on Mar 21, 2011 22:23:53 GMT -5
Women have been operating farms for a long time, I believe. When their men died, the only living to be had for many farm wives was to continue the operation. Also, as farmers' incomes were reduced, many left the farm for full time work in the local community while the wives continued to operate the farm. Looks like an interesting article and I'll read it in the morning.
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Post by keith on Mar 22, 2011 5:13:11 GMT -5
My Grandfather had a fulltime job as a highway engineer which took him away from home on projects for extended periods and also operated a family farm. While he was away building a road or bridge (or during WWII) that left my Grandmother to run a household of 6 children and the farm. I think that was considered "housework."
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Post by Dave on Mar 22, 2011 6:11:46 GMT -5
Sure! "By the way, when you finish baking the bread from scratch, honey, and scrubbing the floors and doing the laundry, would you milk the cows twice a day do the fields, etc. while I'm gone?"
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Post by keith on Mar 22, 2011 13:29:08 GMT -5
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Post by Dave on Mar 22, 2011 21:32:12 GMT -5
Interesting comment tonight on latest post, CCLVII. UFO. Reader says Matins is normally around 2:30 a.m. (normally true as far as I remember) and no monks would be walking around talking at that hour. But Beep is of course no ordinary monk and beyond that the Order has slipped quite a bit in what was its discipline. I won't comment back to that effect because I don't want to argue in the comments section. And actually I have no wish to argue at all.
Other opinions welcome. Don't know if the commenter has followed the complete story.
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Post by keith on Mar 22, 2011 22:59:33 GMT -5
What ... huh... oh, I'm sorry I was listening to the "turn it up" music.
My first thought was that I, as a Mid-western Protestant, could get away with mis-remembering Matins; but you as an Irish Catholic ... well let's just say there is a nun with a ruler with your name on it.
Back to your point, Beep and normal are incompossible (see Ambrose Bierce).
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