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Morning Star

It was a beautiful sunrise this morning. As I let Trey out the door I couldn’t resist snapping this picture.

World Population

The planet’s population is projected to reach 6.5 billion at 7:16 p.m. EST Saturday, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and its World Population Clock (http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html) . Population levels are growing, but at a slower rate than in the past few decades. The current growth of world population is estimated at 1.1 percent a [...]

Listible

I found a great web site of lists at http://www.listible.com/ They use tagging, voting and listing to sort resources in a way that will be digestible. You can search what you need quick. You can contribute your resources easier. They maintain pages of favorite, featured and new lists.  Their current front page [...]

Burning the Brush Pile

Usually every year I accumulate enough down limbs, brush and old fence posts over the course of Spring, Summer and Fall that I have a big brush pile to burn in the winter. This year’s pile was one of my largest ever due to the tree damage from the July microburst and cleaning out [...]

Would you let this man near your furniture?

Eric’s pal Trevor’s dad works in a sawmill and as a result Trevor is very knowledgable of chainsaws, log skidders and the tools of the trade. Eric and Trevor each got matching toy chainsaws from Trevors grandpa – batteries included.

High Winds and Low Power

We had high wind conditions today. I had just made it into work and the sky got dark, it started to blow and the rain came. There were shingles and trim flying off our office building. I heard a cracking sound and looked out my window as a large maple tree came [...]

Dakota Marie’s 1st Birthday

Billie Jo holds Dakota back from her Tomato Soup cake. She was one year old.

Weighing Trey

Trey tipped the large scale at the vet’s yesterday at a svelte 93 lbs. That’s a lot of dog and he occupies a lot of floor space when he is stretched out.

Living in the Gilboa Dam floodplain

My parents live in the flood plain of the Schoharie River and the entire Schoharie valley has been consumed by recent disclosure of possible catastrophic failure of the Gilboa Dam. The Gilboa Dam Information Web site at http://www.gilboadaminfo.com/index.htm offers a near real time water volume chart which indicates at what stage (1132 [...]

Local Water webcams

Depending upon the weather, visibility and amount of water these views can be quite spectular.

Cohoes Falls http://ny.water.usgs.gov/rt/pub/01357500.htm

Ausable River http://ny.water.usgs.gov/rt/pub/04275000.htm

Reynolds Channel at Point Lookout either as a webcam http://ny.water.usgs.gov/rt/pub/wc-01310740.html  or as a movie http://ny.water.usgs.gov/rt/pub/wc24-01310740.html
BTW – I always like to put in a plug for another of my favorite webcams (actually [...]