Recent content by Boyd

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/nx-s1-5438566/tick-bites-symptoms-region-disease

Just got back from a short walk with my freshly-treated clothes. Didn't see any ticks. The flies are certainly still there and a few mosquitoes, but they didn't seem as bad as yesterday. It was just a short walk though, will go out for a longer one later today.

The bugs were terrible yesterday at my place! I am out for 4 or 5 hours every day and it was noticeably worse than I've seen for quite awhile. The ticks were bad this spring, but recently they seemed to mostly go away. Yesterday they were back though. Didn't get any bites, but was constanty...

Somehow, I managed to dance between the raindrops here, all we had was a very brief, light sprinkle - nothing measurable.

Getting close to me, but not quite here yet. I went out in the woods after that last post and just came in, the approaching wall of dark clouds was a little scary through the trees out there. Getting very windy now.

Here it comes, looks like it might reach me sometime around sunset? NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 145 PM EDT THU JUN 19 2025 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 442 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS NEW JERSEY COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE ATLANTIC BURLINGTON...

The latest scam Why would I need a "Promo Code" to renew my membership? What is aca.customerfeed.com??? But the best tip off is the lack of a secure address - http and not https. However, the disturbing thing is that my membership really *is* going to expire soon and that makes me think that...

Thanks Scott, that's pretty much what I assumed. But just using layman's "logic", wouldn't clearing a huge amount of land and building 270 homes threaten a wetlands area more than one isolated house in the middle of a big forest? Seems like you would want a larger buffer zone to minimize the...

Yeah, some hot and humid days ahead. Looks like the heat advisory is North of me though. I'd be happy just to see a reminder that the sun still exists! Very few breaks in the cloud cover here for days, yet no measurable rain until this morning.

Started raining hard here around 5:00 AM, that passed and now another system is moving through Atlantic County. Good news! All of the other recent storms have sailed by to the North and this is the first rain we've had in about a week - we need it!

I'm interested... but not interested enough to go facebook. :D ( I'm sure someone will keep us updated here at NJPB though)

"It recommended that Devel avoid impacting a 300-foot wetlands buffer in the Kettle Run Road site." My little 1,000 sq ft home is all by itself and my property includes wetlands with a 300 foot buffer. Kind of surprised that a 270-home development wouldn't require an even larger buffer, and...

FWIW, this appears to be the location (actually, lot 10 is just outside of the development itself, but most of the other parcels don't have any owner info) https://boydsmaps.com/pines/#15/39.828060/-74.897337/darkstreets/0/0/

Interesting... I saw a bunch of posts from BarryC when I was going through old threads to fix broken terraserver and topozone links. Looks like the last time he posted was 2003, I didn't join until 2004.