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
Alex Can Think
Animal researchers are finally beginning to catch up to the little old ladies in tennis shoes who say Fifi the poodle can think. The fights are always between a big group of experts who think animals don't have a lot of feelings or aren't very smart, and a much smaller group of researchers who think there's a lot more going on inside an animal's head than we know. The really nasty fights always seem to go one way: it's always the animal "debunkers" who are on the attack. At least, I don't remember a single big academic fight where someone got fired or lost their funding for doing a study where the animal turned out to be dumber than people thought, and lots of studies like that have been done. Claiming that an animal can't do something isn't considered blasphemous.