Its hot and muggy out there today, so you can see

[George-CT]

I have free time on my hands.... I just did a screen capture of where I live and relationship to the lake that is below us off the hill.
Its a big water shed area fed by 3 streams....Where you see the airport, you see a zigzag border at the top, thats and huge Army Core of Engineers dam to control those 3 rivers.... If you go to Google and google North Windham, CT and zoom in you will see its a big stone rip rap dam... Good fishing there, duck hunting and most anything but swim...Not allowed as it feeds the town of Willimantice water supply. Mikie, that body of water is a little like the one by your place that goes underwater. All that was 2 big farms. When the build the dam, all of it went under water... The roads lead to it and stop... It never drops low enough to detect except the edges. It will move up or down 50 feet in spring run off. They call it slightly fluctuating. Wonder what a lot of fluctuating is.

As you can see I set up Google to show me Geocaches... The Green blocks are the cache, and the letters and numbers describe it if you go on Geocach.com. Some of those around the lake are mine that I placed. Royal, about center screen, that winding river river running along the road that goes up to the 198 cache, Dianas Pool cache is the river you see in the video.....

All the blue squiggly lines on lower right is horse, bike, quad paths on our property and the single number ones are a path we laid out this winter to and old rail bed, that goes for miles...Again, if you google you can see the rail beds etc....

Though this may give you and idea where I live... As you can see its getting crowded around here and the land is being broken up pretty fast now. The economy slowed it up right now....and no farms sold off for housing in the last 2 years....

George-Ct

 

[Royal]

for a scooter ride yesterday and since my speedometer does not work I have a mount for my GPS on it to watch my speed. Of course it also lets me know where I am near a Cache I have not found. I was not really hunting for caches but while riding I would just drive past to see if they would be easy finds. I was in shorts and tank top so I was not going to be running through the brush and I also hesitate to take the scooter back n the woods. That sand it murder to ride that suck through.

I drove past a half dozen or so and decided to hit them another day but I did find two. They were easy finds and in neat areas that I would have never experienced without hunting for the caches.

Mary and my daughter and her family will be up Friday and I have to get this house cleaned up a bit. I used to bust my butt and try to get it ready to pass a woman's inspection but found that was impossible but found that was impossible. She is going to clean it no matter how much effort I put into it. Now I just pick up the worse of it, clean the cat litter and clear out any dead animals. Taking the rotten food out of the frig is a biggie too. Wimmins are just not tolerant of green fuzz.

 

[George-CT]

For geocaching its my favorite program... When we were going down south, I would use it to plot my route each time so I could grab the easy ones near the route...also gave a nice break and chance to stretch the legs. Even found them at Cracker Barrels when we stopped to eat at them... I drive by them a lot when on the bike and like you, hear the GPS go off, but I'm not about to leave the bike alone if I need to go a distance into the woods. Around here in areas it would be gone when you came back.... I need to get out and grab a bunch of them myself... Some one just put 3 of them up by our dirt bike track... Thats tick heavy in the brush where they are so I might wait to the dead of winter on those....

My wife has a sign over the kitchen sink that reads...... My only domestic quality is that I live in a house. She told me straight up way back when, the horses will get fed first, the barn will get cleaned first. If you need it quicker, you know where the stove and broom are...

So we are conveniently cluttered but very livable..... Fact she and her girlfriend are out on the horses now... Just made them some ice coffee, they will need it when they get back in....muggy as it gets.....

George-CT

 

[Royal]

80 so far and that is not much by geocaching standards. Cripe, I have read where some loonies have found a hundred on a weekend! The are doing it for different reasons than I do though. I will not hunt urban caches and rarely a micro. Like the ones I hide I like hides that take me to an interesting area that I would never see for any other reason.

We are suppose to get more rain today and down in Waterford they are calling for heavy rain and hail. That sure sucks

 

[Wayne in BC]

they have subdivided more acreages down the road from us and i am concerned that our dead end road, one way in and out which keeps the bad guys away may be opened up to another hiway access.
Huge amount of building here the past several years.
Now some of the newcomers to the Island over the years understand what i meant when i told them that in a couple years they would be saying "i'm here now, shut off the ferries!"

When i moved back here 21 years ago i could leave to go fishing at 4 AM and not see another vehicle in the 7 miles to the launch point, now no matter what time it is someone is tailgating you and leading a pack of other idiots desperate to gain 10 seconds to their destination a couple miles away

 

[George-CT]

happening either. Hey, we will let you borrow our commander and chief.... He will slow the growth down, backrupt BC enough that all progress will stop....So far thats all he has done that I see.... This was country with one small post office on rt 6, a mom and pop grocery store, that would cut and wrap your deer for you
after hours....Everyone knew every one.... then they built a walmarts on rt 6 on the edge of town and all h-ll broke loose on building. They must know something we don't and everyone wanted a piece of it...The mom and pop grocery joint closed up. Now its 3 small mini malls, 2 donut shops, 1 advanced auto store, Aldie food mart, Wendy's, Apple-bee's restaurant, Tractor Supply, New Post office, Huge gas station with a mini mart in it also and a new restaurant called Ribbit's., New Aero Dinner by the airport for fly in folks and the rest of us...Thats pretty neat and food is decent.... some of it nice, but it loose the country flare that we had all along there and they widened route 6 to 4 lanes thru here so traffic hauls thr what was a town, then it goes back to 2 lanes.... My road has stayed the same but a lot of the farms that had frontage on the road sold off, so a bunch of homes sprung up. They like the country, I think, but don't like the roosters crowing, most people around here shoot, city slickers don't like that either....Don';t like the farm equipment on the back road, slows them down. Hell its only a 30 mph road to start with..... If it were up to me I'd have a place with no road and it would have a heli pad....

George-Ct

 

[Wayne in BC]

these days the city raised peeps are a very different breed of cat that should have all been neutered years ago.
Actually we have a liberal provincial gov't here in BC that is trashing everything in sight and raising taxes continually to pour into their trough and friends pockets.
One good thing is that the town closest to me, Qualicum Beach, will not allow big box stores and has intentionally and successfully kept the small town image. I think the population is close to 10 thousand now. It was less than two thou when we moved here.

We now have transplanted but aging yuppies here that complain about "road apples" and Roosters.
There is a battle going on right now, the regional district (county) is trying to implement building permits and more zoning in order to make realtors, construction companies, big lumber mills, greedy and crooked insurance companies etc happy.
For example it seems that if i cut down some nice Fir trees, have them milled by a bandsaw and use the lumber to build with it is not near as good as the big forestry companies wood cause they put a nice lil stamp on it

There are many many houses here hand built that way that have outlasted the modern ones by 30 years and still going!
It is the same old "protect the people from their own stupidity" nanny state thing.

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

I use to ride horses and hire out to find the stray mama cows with their calves. Everywhere you go there are people...too many people. It will never be the same as it was when I was a boy. It is sad to watch the farms and ranches sell to the developers...sad to watch the small towns die. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Micheal_R]

And how big is the lake itself?

I have a real problem with the so called 'experts' and 'politicians' who permit this type of landscape rape. There is only so much good farmland around [only about 3 % of B.C.] And these idiots want to flood it for power, flood control, etc, etc... choose any reason that you can think of.

It does not impact the decision makers..... but to those who live[d] there, it is/was home.

Anyway, I will get of my soap box now.... but this is my prime reason to dislike and distrust our government.

Calm seas

Micheal

 

[Micheal_R]

There is farm equipment on the road all the time...heck, we even have several cattle drives each year... You want to slow traffic down, .... get them stuck in a herd of several hundred cows. : The drives are legal and well accepted by the locals... tourists have a problem though... especially with all the cattle ..... um,.. deposits... that they have to drive through!!! :

Calm seas

Micheal

 

[Wayne in BC]

that is the cost of convenience and the world changing to hold an economic gun to our heads.

 

[George-CT]

showing the height to the top of it.. The top is 52 feet and it has never gone over it but been close.... It was put in to conrtol all the brooks, rivers up this way that feed this. Below us, there were a lot of old thread mills on the rivers, power houses, you name it...In the 50's and later they got cleaned out from floods. Loss of life, loss of buildings etc...This is the first control point, there are other points.
The 50 foot change in height of the water is right at the dam. no beachs on it so no way beach to open up. Shoreline is all tree's and whats left of the old farm land. I will take pictures of it this week and post them. Picture is worth a 1000 words....You will then be able to see the height of it and what its holding back....... Here is something a lady posted on it and shows the areas above the dam where if floods out the roads....

Flood control