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Just in case my reference was too cryptic, Edmund Gwenn, who played the scientist in "Them" also played Santa Claus (Kris Kringle) in the classic "Miracle on 34th Street". Think I've mentioned it before here, but I'm a huge fan of vintage Sci Fi films and have a large collection on my media...

And Santa Claus (Edmund Gwynne)has to save the day! I think the hunt and flame thrower battle in the storm sewers were James Cameron's inspiration for the scene with the Colonial Marines under the power station in Aliens. There's a great documentary from 2005 called "Watch the Skies!" (a...

Nothing here, car and yard were dry at 6:00 AM, but driving a mile or two, there were some slightly damp roads. Could have been light rain... or condensation from the higher humidity today? Out for a walk around 7:30, everything was dry in the woods. However, it's still somewhat moist from the...

I haven't noticed much difference at my place this summer. Like pretty much every year, I get one or two bites at the beginning of the season when I'm too stubborn to start using permethrin and taking precautions. After that, no bites. And the ticks are almost always gone by the hot weather in...

Reminds me of something my Chinese ex-mother-in-law used to say, "Americans are the only people in the world who need to watch a video to learn how to **** " :D

Out in the woods, I just pluck ticks off as soon as I notice them. At home, I have a little pair of tweezers with very sharp points, if needed. "...With a Pair of heavy-duty Zircon-encrusted tweezers in my hand, every other wrangler would say I was mighty grand." :D

People also use them to archive old copies of operating system software. Over at MacRumors, a member claimed that archive.org had shutdown and could no longer be reached. I checked and it was working fine for me. After some investigation, turns out that some other countries (this person was from...

"The New Jersey Forest Fire Service has responded to 537 blazes since early October, which have burned thousands of acres, Gov. Phil Murphy said. That’s 500 more fires than during the same period last year.." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-jersey-drought-warning-rcna179973

Actually, @Piney2LA posted the thread I linked to above, but it turned out several of us had copies of the book. And that thread also inspired me to finally make Kobbe's Map of the Pines, which I had been thinking about for awhile. The e-book is actually very nice, because the print in the...

Yeah, it's great. Cool that it's available as an e-book. Welcome to the party! :D https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/interesting-old-book-i-found.14404/

I got EZ-pass and used the ACE when I commuted to Center City Philadelphia, but less and less as time went by. The back roads are slower but more enjoyable. Since I retired in 2011, have hardly ever used it. During the pandemic, they sent me a notice they were going to revoke my EZPass for lack...

90% chance of 1/4 to 1/2 inch of rain tonight...

Actually this is the best map. Created by my granddaughter when she was still in kindergarten (she's in high school now). I printed maps of the little trails on my property and we did "treasure hunts" on her visits. So, she made her own ("this is a map") from her home on the "NooYrk Side" to...

You can see the gun club property here, the green areas are public. https://boydsmaps.com/pines/#15/39.657100/-74.467038/darkstreets/0/0/

As I posted earlier, 1970 is the most complete coverage of these vintage aerials, because of the wetlands/tidelands and additional DVRPC imagery. Looks like this is as good as I can do from all the different sources. The Atlantic County and Delaware State aerials are very complete. Have overlaid...

Was just looking at that again. It actually shows much more than just a traffic circle! My version with the 1928 aerials doesn't show Route 38 at all... it hadn't been built yet, that area was still rural! You can see the dividing line between the 1928 and 1930's imagery on the east side of...

This is the clearest picture I've seen of the Estell house on Stephen Lake. Compare this to the 1980 aerials, all those buildings are long gone. Like I said, probably won't be making a map from these however. But you can directly access the 1940 Atlantic County aerials here.

Batsto 1940