My weather forecastle switched off three months ago, and the dollar rate isn't helping either.
Cloudy, 19° (Canadian degrees), multicolored trees (Autumn), it's not raining right now, and I'm having a bowl (raisin bran with chopped banana slices) outside.
I've been thinking...
I've been thinking...
Listening to classical music...and waiting for the rain to diverse its imminent downpour...with winds blowing from south to north...outside on my balcony...19° C.
Still thinking... 🙂
Still thinking... 🙂
I got up this morning at about 6 AM. It was 47 F (that's about 8 Canadian degrees) with a cloudless day. It was time......time to climb to the top of the world. By 11 AM was 60 F (15.5 C)
A local park was having their fall festival. The park is called Grand Vue Park, but the only grand view was from the zip line......until early this summer. They put a picnic pavilion and an overlook platform on the top of the hill several hundred feet above the town. Sherri took the car and headed to the festival all bundled up like she was cold or something. I asked her to drop me in the parking lot of a local used car lot on the northern edge of town, across the street from the empty lot that used to be the Fostoria Glass Factory for say 100 years or so. It's the green space in the lower left of the second picture. Dressed in shorts flip flops and a tank top, I started walking. The picnic pavilion and overlook are visible at the top of the picture I took from the used car lot.
According to the "Runkeeper" app in my phone it was a 3.7 mile walk taking an hour and 28 minutes. It's a pretty steep hill. I posted two more pictures I took from the overlook at the top of the world. Part of the town, the Ohio River, and the bridge to Ohio are in the first picture. More of the town, and the valley leading out to where we live are in the second picture.
I was too tired to walk back down the hill, so I went to the festival, listened to the two guitar players doing Beatles, Buffett and other light rock tunes for a while, and got a ride back home in the car.
I figure that I need to go back there with a better camera and a tripod in about 2 weeks after more of the leaves have turned......then again in February when the whole town is covered in snow.
Grand Vue Park | More than just a park
A local park was having their fall festival. The park is called Grand Vue Park, but the only grand view was from the zip line......until early this summer. They put a picnic pavilion and an overlook platform on the top of the hill several hundred feet above the town. Sherri took the car and headed to the festival all bundled up like she was cold or something. I asked her to drop me in the parking lot of a local used car lot on the northern edge of town, across the street from the empty lot that used to be the Fostoria Glass Factory for say 100 years or so. It's the green space in the lower left of the second picture. Dressed in shorts flip flops and a tank top, I started walking. The picnic pavilion and overlook are visible at the top of the picture I took from the used car lot.
According to the "Runkeeper" app in my phone it was a 3.7 mile walk taking an hour and 28 minutes. It's a pretty steep hill. I posted two more pictures I took from the overlook at the top of the world. Part of the town, the Ohio River, and the bridge to Ohio are in the first picture. More of the town, and the valley leading out to where we live are in the second picture.
I was too tired to walk back down the hill, so I went to the festival, listened to the two guitar players doing Beatles, Buffett and other light rock tunes for a while, and got a ride back home in the car.
I figure that I need to go back there with a better camera and a tripod in about 2 weeks after more of the leaves have turned......then again in February when the whole town is covered in snow.
Grand Vue Park | More than just a park
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It was shut down about 3 years ago. Although there are others here that are still operational. If you look carefully under the bridge you will see a coal barge headed south toward an operational power plant. Coal mining has been the major occupation here for over 100 years, but a new evil has come to this place....Fracking.
It seems that there are 3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas locked into the shale deep underground. Hundreds of transient workers have come here to frack it out. Several large processing plants have been built to separate the individual gasses from the raw material using cryogenics.
Several of the newer coal burning power plants have been converted to natural gas burners. That old one stands empty, as do a couple other old ones. This has reduced the demand for coal, and caused some mines to shut down. So the coal people don't like the gas people, and things have turned ugly recently.
It seems that there are 3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas locked into the shale deep underground. Hundreds of transient workers have come here to frack it out. Several large processing plants have been built to separate the individual gasses from the raw material using cryogenics.
Several of the newer coal burning power plants have been converted to natural gas burners. That old one stands empty, as do a couple other old ones. This has reduced the demand for coal, and caused some mines to shut down. So the coal people don't like the gas people, and things have turned ugly recently.
Invite the Hollywood film industry people (lovely surroundings), build more cinema theaters, strip joints, and all that "coal" jazz.
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It's been relatively decent here today...rain...sun...warm...and jazzy.
Judging from the image, it doesn't appear to have a scrubber installed.
Which would suggest it's a NOx blaster, let's skip sulphur dioxide and mercury emission levels.
(somewhat amusing, in the light of recent 'defeating' device stories)
Right before the weekend, my home was hooked up to the all-new mains power cable in my street.
This time with just a single boring phase, instead of blowing-up everything in the house by juicing it with 400Vac/2-phase, like the day before Xmas last.
(privatised government employees, who needs 'm)
Weather is gd beautiful here at the moment, all sunny and no f tourists and/or horse a...s
The Hollywood crowd did show up back in about 1970 to film a "major movie" with several big hitter actors. James Stewart, George Kennedy, Kurt Russell and others were cast in a depression era setting for a movie called "Fools Parade." It didn't sell well at the box office, so Hollywood hasn't come back.....for them it really IS all about the MONEY!
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
(Strother Martin, an actor in particular hard to forget by western aficionados)
(Strother Martin, an actor in particular hard to forget by western aficionados)
Do you know where they filmed 'Avengers: Age of Ultron'? ...That ex-coal tower could make a good set, inside.
Yes, movies are all about MONEY, 100% ...just look @ the top earners (over $1 billion) @ the box office...and lots of kid's stuff loaded with CGI effects.
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* Overcast here today, 17 Canadian degrees. I'm outside on my deck, sitting on my couch, barefoot, and listening to Jazz music (trumpet) on the radio, and having my afternoon coffee with Irish cream.
Who could forget Cool Hand Luke
You can see that tower from most anywhere in town, but it is actually in Ohio. Not much around it either. The influx of transient workers has made hotel rooms hard to get and expensive despite several new hotels, so Hollywood will look elsewhere. The current rumor is that the site has been bought for some kind of industrial facility. About the only kind of industrial facility being built around here recently is a gas fractionalization plant where raw natural gas gets split into its marketable components, and the excess gets burned off. On some nights the eastern sky glows orange from the burner at the Williams Energy plant about 4 miles east of here.
We got home from church around 12:30 it was 59 degrees F. That's about 15 of those Canadian degrees that traveled south from Ontario with yesterdays cold front. Again, cloudless skies so we went outside to cut down some more of the thorny bushes that have grown all around the maple trees due to the previous property owners neglect. Not barefoot this time due to all the thorns.
After almost 5 hours of work, I grilled some tuna outside on the deck (barefoot and shirtless) while Sherri made some baked cheesy green beans (grown next door). Tasty!
Now it's time for my favorite computer game.....George VS the PC board layout. I'm gonna win this one!
Since yesterday there is a marked change in the color of the hillside leaves. Last nights low was 40F (4.5C) and the humidity is quite low. Same weather is expected tomorrow.....YES!
Beautiful day in my neck of the woods. Ham, scalloped potatoes, the last of the gardens string beans, turned out okay. Now onto desert.
Maple leaves are a nice orange/red this year. No frost yet. The blue jays, well it maybe there last game this year unless they pull the rabbit out of their back sides.
Cheers
Maple leaves are a nice orange/red this year. No frost yet. The blue jays, well it maybe there last game this year unless they pull the rabbit out of their back sides.
Cheers
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Baldwin puts you about 400 miles north of me. Our TV weather guys say frost comes next weekend. They get it wrong a lot though.
Funny how I am 400 miles north and we are sort of close. 10 minutes down the road, a friend got frosted out 2 weeks ago, -4C is to hard on most. It depends on low lying area/ground, proximity to water. I am lucky, Lake Simcoe is close, it a BIG body of water, so holds lots of heat, moderates a fair bit.
The terrain here is rather hilly and we are in the Ohio river valley. We all had some COLD days last winter with -12F (-24C) being our worst day (my car wouldn't start). However the worst snowfall we had was 6 inches in one day once, and a few 3 inch days. Just about 5 miles from here (and 200 feet higher) some friends got over a foot of snow in a single day about 10 times!
Nevermind what Boston got....that was evil!
There was this day when the appliance delivery crew refused to come down out driveway until I busted up about 3 inches of ice from a rock driveway.
Nevermind what Boston got....that was evil!
There was this day when the appliance delivery crew refused to come down out driveway until I busted up about 3 inches of ice from a rock driveway.
Even your winters sound close. Seems Buffalo always gets the brunt of the snow, that and across Lake Simcoe, Barrie gets it as bad. Just the traditional snow belts.