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I work for a civil engineering firm and I have always been amazed at the service life of terra cotta. We have removed 100 year old pieces that looked like new, especially the interior. However, the photos you posted vividly illustrate the biggest problem with terra cotta pipe and that is, the...

A little too much cloud cover tonight, unfortunately. Plenty of stars but I started noticing a little white haziness. We stayed put for 10 minutes after the event was supposed to happen. Aircraft were easy to see in every direction. I checked NOAA satellite weather and I could see a thin but...

I have several NOAA buoy stations saved in my phone that I monitor for fishing weather in the summer. Although I never fish that far north, I always like to glance at the Texas Tower #4 buoy (44066) during stormy weather. There's usually a major ass-kicker going on out there when we are getting...

Until last night, I didn't know Sh&t about Starlink. I have educated myself very quickly after my son sent me a video last night of what looked like a miles-long illuminated train arcing through the sky. Here is a link offering information on the best times to see them based on your position...

I wouldn't say that the low attendance numbers would be alarming to the NJDEP. I would say that they would find those numbers to be emboldening and encourage them to keep moving forward with their plan.

14 degrees in P'Town right now. Winds have diminished. We had a few power blips last night. I had to reset appliance clocks this morning. Headed out in about 15 minutes for some coyote hunting.

The fully documented Shit Storm of June 23, 2015. Note the 4th highest wind gust ever recorded in Philadelphia history. https://www.weather.gov/media/phi/Severe%20Thunder%20Storms%20June%2023.pdf

Here you go Jon. June 23, 2015. Less than an hour after one of the most violent set of storms I have ever seen passed through. We were without power for three days after this. No filters or editing. My wife took the one of me filling wine buckets to get water to fill our toilets. No power = No...

I have lived in this area for over 2,000 weeks this year and I will never tire of this particular view. I literally have hundreds of photos from this same perspective, standing on an old dike road. In those 2,000 weeks, I have probably stood there over 2,000 times. I think of it as my front...

I am a huge fan of Leupold rifle scopes and their binocular products. I have a pair of their BX-4 and another pair of their BX-3 10X x 50mm binoculars. I am a really nice guy so I let my wife use the BX-4's when we hunt together. :)A little pricey for the BX-4's ($700 +/-) but good glass when...

I think we had a similar conversation many years ago Bob. I could never live around a homogenous gaggle of old people yapping about their meds and nosing into your business because they sure as hell don't have anything else to do. :) As for methane collection and other odors, if they are still...

There used to be a boat stashed right about here, along with a few dozen decoys. I used to hunt and hike back there before you-know-who closed West Mill Road and cut off a few thousand or so acres of public land from public access. It still infuriates me and always will...

I would say duck blind. There is an extensive one southeast of Wescoat Bogs and I have been to remnants of one east of the active bogs off of Dave's Road. You have been to the one southeast of Wescoat on my Bog Slog hike. https://boydsmaps.com/#18.77/39.665595/-74.663884/njgin2020/0.00/0.00

I think the 1949 topo is just lazy cartography. From experience, I can say with confidence that although the entire area is certainly wet as s*it, it is broken up by stretches of uplands. See attached NJGeoweb screen capture.

Gabe is spot on with the borrow pit theory for gathering material to construct a stream crossing. That road shows up in the 1870 Vermeule maps as well. There are several of these pits in my neck of the woods, all dug in closely adjoining uplands to build stream crossings and dikes along the...

The only deer season open in that area is winter bow. Of course if you were acting like coyotes or fox there could have been issues. :)

Update: Nearly 4 years later, the ladder stand sections are still waiting on their owner to return in the exact position and condition in which Guy found them.. I was there yesterday looking for coyote and it really looks like the owner would be coming back tomorrow.

Bozarth is a very old name throughout the Tabernacle area. It seems that Bozuretown Road is an aka for Bozarthtown. I know a fellow surveyor who was licensed a little after me named Howard J. Bozarth who is based in Tabernacle.

Hmmmmm. https://info.csc.state.nj.us/jobannouncements/DefaultJobAnnouncement/ViewCompetitiveJobDescription?guid=35318&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

Nice work Guy and Jess!