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Heh, you bet. We have broadwings and redtails up here, as well as turkey buzzards. When both of our dogs were small puppies I kept a very sharp eye on them. I don't think they fear us much, if at all, and there's no reason why they should. They were hunted to the brink, but that was many...

I take our Lab/Golden mix Rascal off the leash in the woods and let him run, and I always have a little bit of apprehension. Hope this guy finds his dog.

I'm jealous of the relationship you share with your daughter, Guy. It's really great to see. My daughters are in their mid-teens, and I'm pretty sure if I was in the woods with them it would be because they planned to murder me.

It's his WIFE? See this just went from outrageous to Jimmy Kimmel territory. Please tell me this is all true so I can be the first to break it nationwide in a comedic format.

Bit of a thread jack, but speaking of stuck I happened to just drive by a site where a guy with a Hummer was trying to pull a loaded semi out of a mud hole, up a slight dirt incline. He had two yellow straps hooked up. Now, a loaded semi is in the neighborhood of 60k pounds. Typical breaking...

If they are actually doing that, they're nuts. What officer would agree to suddenly step out into traffic to see if the driver will stop? "The reason I stopped you sir was that you failed to yield to our undercover officer. So I'm going to have to cite you for that, and for the vehicular...

How is it that every spring my trees shed half a frigging ton of branches onto my acre, and yet when I look up at them they still look like trees? Is there a point at which all of the branches will have fallen off, and they will just be poles?

Eye contact is huge, and people ignore it too often. My daughter just got her driver's license, and while we were practicing I tried to get across to her the fact that until another driver (or pedestrian) looks at you and you make eye contact, they don't know you're there. I am always looking...

I'm not sure how that category differs from the ordinary pedestrians when it comes to getting hit :).

Well, I do think yielding beats hitting them. Hitting them causes all sorts of paperwork. I just don't think any pedestrian with a brain should assume they have the right of way.

Great report on Mary Ann Forge, Jerseyman. Seeing the maps together like that really helps round out the story, and then the link to Johnny Horton's Battle of New Orleans made my afternoon :). I had the original LP including that tune in 1966 or so, and played the heck out of it. One of my...

Haha. If you clicked the "Apply Aroma" buttons, time to come clean :).

I think as you go up the Northeastern corridor it gets worse. I'm in north Jersey, and while we had high water nothing was over its banks in our county that I know of. They might have had some problems further east with the Rockaway or Passaic. Up in Rhode Island and New Hampshire it's a...

The confusion over the definition of "yield" is sort of humorous. It just means to give up the right of way. And as a skipper I used to sail under was fond of saying: you only have the right of way if the other guy gives it to you. I think with respect to pedestrians, if you didn't hit one...

Really nice work!

Do you have a charge/discharge gauge on the dash? If you do it will be in minus territory if you're discharging the battery while running, instead of charging. Also, most cars have circuits to detect when the alternator fails, and will at least display an idiot light. Are the terminals and...

Interesting about McGee, and you're right. The gloomiest views of the 60's have completely failed to materialize. Remember Paul Ehrlich? Global population growth is actually slowing now, but who knows what the future will bring? Regarding sprawl, I don't think it's about what people will...

It is a shame, and I especially agree with the predictable part, since it has been going on in the pines for a hundred and thirty years at least. There's a reason why the term "speculator" has a bit of a shady tint to it.

Great photos, Guy. On the iron fitting... I'm thinking broken-off end of a railing.

All I meant Joe is that the long-term ecological damage of the 4x4s is not my biggest concern. The lack of accessibility to other users of the woods that they create is the real problem. Probably didn't word it very well.