Sunday, August 2, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
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The culverts are running; the culverts are running, July 31, 2009
Floods of '09
In the last few days we've had 2 floods here second only to the 100 year flood back in the summer of '00. These culverts are normally dry in the summer but this year they have been running constantly.
Tomorrow looks to be a sunny day - a day to resume my leak detection program...
Catching up
As my few faithful readers know, I've been seriously behind in my posts of late and finally got caught up to date. If you want to step back to where I left off, you can start at Friday, July 24, 2009 - Pittsfield MA
Night camp
On my property off Less Traveled Road - The Home Place, Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- I used to camp in a few locations on what little I had left of the family farm
- In the driveway by the house
- Across the road where the barn once stood
- On the 20 acre piece off Less Traveled Road
- Now, with the kind support of the friends who now own the place, I camp across the road where the barn once stood.
- Verizon cell phone service - Terrible, barely usable with an amplifier
- Verizon EVDO service - Terrible, barely usable with an amplifier
- Find other references to Home Place
- List the nights I've camped here
- Check the weather here
Heliograph routes of the 1890 Practice
The date was May 15th, 1890, and the Army's Department of Arizona had just completed a major heliograph practice; it was, in fact, the largest the world had ever seen. I call it the "Volkmar Practice", after the man responsible for it, Col. Wm. J. Volkmar, the Assistant Adjutant General and Chief Signal Officer for the Department of Arizona. Although the practice lasted only sixteen days, preparations for it took months of reconnaissance and preparation. Involved in the long range signaling maneuvers were twenty-five heliograph stations stretching from Whipple Barracks near Prescott to Fort Stanton near Ruidoso, New Mexico. My guess is that close to two hundred men were involved, both cavalry and infantry.