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LOL at the old drunk trying to take a pull off the breath-a-lyzer. I love that it broke the cops up. Some stuff you have to laugh at.

There are a hundred places like that in the water gap and they all have evil spirits too! And mold. Edit: forgot bats and guano, lots of both.

I've had two wolf or fisher spiders, depending on who you ask, one of which was huge (posted pictures here a couple years back). But never, thankfully, a widow or a recluse, at least not that I have identified.

That's very cool. Part of what may be going on here is that the Chinese cost advantage is beginning to evaporate. It was pretty steep fifteen years ago. Now the big sellers/builders have got all this infrastructure invested in moving goods across the pacific, and they don't want to retool. It's...

I encountered a Maryland State Trooper once who was pissed off that I wasn't drunk. He had just pulled me over late at night for doing 105 mph down a two-lane country road in my '78 Caprice. He couldn't believe anyone who was sober would be that stupid. I educated him on just how dumb a sober...

You might have something in terms of general civility over that time period, but then it is almost impossible to decouple those changes from the other huge changes that have taken place. For one thing the population of the United States has almost doubled in my lifetime, and world population has...

Worse now then they've ever been? Your examples basically prove my point. They're the same things my Dad complains about when we talk about how things are now. A few decades ago, in the 50's or maybe the 60's, kids were respectful to their parents, companies didn't lay people off, shoppers...

As much as I would like to, I can't conjure up a well-defined time when it was better. We Americans, hell, perhaps all humans, have a tendency to "remember" a time "just a few decades ago" when everything was much better than it is now. The problem is that it wasn't better, it was worse. Despite...

Yeah it's been very wet up here this year, especially with T.S. Irene, and then the October snow dump. Some areas of the pines are low wetlands, and other areas are dry uplands. I don't know how this year's precip measures up, but I will say I've been out there plenty of times right after a...

That's a pretty darn cool site.

I don't know that anyone implied there was a mystery surrounding the condition of the roads. There was at least a little bit of a mystery about why the water was so high when we hadn't had that much rain. Anyway, I don't disagree with most of what you wrote either. I would point out that there...

Excellent thread-jack, Jerseyman :).

It's interesting that the transition in road conditions took place between the 30's and 50's. I'm inclined to think the popularity of 4WD trucks has something to do with it, and I would bet there were a lot of surplus Jeeps and other vehicles available after the war. Just an unsubstantiated...

It's definitely getting pretty bad when Quaker Bridge Rd. is impassable to Washington without 4WD.

Wet, followed by wet, with occasional deep holes, and a 30% chance of spending the night in your truck. Got a late start on an outing yesterday with my friends Jack and Jake. We went in south on Carranza and carried on to Friendship, then down Hawkins Bridge Rd. to the bridge, and on to 563...

We were fortunately out only 24 hours or so, and it was actually after the storm. I have friends in CT who are still out. This might have been the storm that finally pushes me to get a generator. In terms of preparedness, I keep a propane heater and two propane lanterns, as well as flashlights...

We've seen many awesome raptures this season... raptors, sorry, I mean raptors.

Another fortune that I will never make :).

That's encouraging. I'm thinking of something cylindrical where the bottom part contains the heat source and a plastic container, and the upper part has the opening and baffles. The idea would be that you could tap them down into the container and slide it out, and then maybe empty it into a bag...

Yes, just a picturesque name for a stink. And I can quit smoking, but I can't keep the dog inside unless I can get him to use the litter box. Anyone have a litter box for a 115-lb. Lab?