Kicking around & looking for answers

[LARGO]

I was off Friday & had to go to Ft. Dix on the base for a short visit in the morning. After I was done I intended to knock around but, still not feeling great from a bedridding flu I decided to tromp closer to home. That and the fact that there were many hunter type fellows out there & I am not really sure just who is allowed where so I wasn't sharing woods with them.
So all the way back down to Hammonton to kick around with my old friend the Fleming pike.( seems nuts but I'm attracted to it, I guess everybody's got some little route they like to know about ) I actually was looking into something regarding a different thread. Found what I wanted & went home to make some calls looking into the info.


Saturday morn' has me busy so in the afternoon I choose to go a little deeper into Friday's forage. Ask child age 9... NO, doing jigsaw puzzles.
Ask child age 7...NO, video games. Ask child age 2-1/2. (any sentence that is a question and includes the of course, word "outside" ) & I get the answer I want. So we pack up the neccesities, hop in the car & we are off. Now, the property I am looking over for the other thread is in my family so I have carte blanche access even though it is totally run down. We arrive & I check into some things I could not get to Friday and having done that, I decided to take a walk up in the old woods. ( elevation wise, down is the right word though ) Now, walking with a 2+ year old really helps you look around & enjoy because you move alot slower . At the back of the property I found some old wood piles where I used to catch fence swifts as a youth. It seemed so warm in the sun I expected to see one looking up at me from a log, but no. I then went to the back corner where I knew there was a monument. Right where it always was at the beginning of a footpath that runs parallel a creek behind.
Marked : NJ2WI and in the kind of westerly corner marked "C". There is no doubt in my mind of course... Guy probably already has this one. Being a layperson am I to take the WI reference as Winslow twp & the "C" as Camden County ? Of course the positioning is pretty obvious.
Into the footpath we watch 2 hawks screeching and actually zipping around in the bare treetops... really exciting for Jason ( my boy ) we walk a bit but I am carrying him now and I still feel pretty much like crap, he also has a little cough. So back to the car & on the way I find the tattered remnants of a tree fort I put up at least 25 years ago. Now that one choked me up. Son & I then went home.I got good stuff for my other post.
Long post about a plain couple of afternoons but... 2 things.
Enjoy this stuff, enjoy it with your kids. Many here do, and some soon will. Everyone gets guilty of letting the madness get in the way, I know I do.
And then, thank a fantastistic site everytime you sign on....
I like to get very accurate info of my little piece of the pines and put it all together but in the case of this property once my grandfather died and the property went to crap I ignored it out of depression.Now all the switches are turned back on and it's all good. I poked in & out of this site plenty of times before I posted & now wish I had been on board sooner.
Gotta go..fast, the Santa Firetruck is coming. Kids are jumping. Bye.

 

[Teegate]

Largo,

Scott and I were almost at that location a while back looking for state markers. We parked NE of there along Fleming Pike just before the road heads into the woods, and followed the property line around to the back edge of the property to the NE. If we has continued SW we would have come to that point. That is a nice piece of property you have there.

Here is my report on that day.

http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/showthread.php?t=1636

It's pretty cool that you take your kids out with you, so you are alright by me. It was nice seeing your post. Thanks. By the way, NJ1WI and NJ3WI are not far away, but they do not have stones with them, just the state cement monument like your marker.

BTW, you are correct with your letter(s) assumption.

Guy

 

[LARGO]

Fortunately my uncle still has it. I can still remember my grandad pointing out stuff like that monument. I will have you coords on the mill piece and some neat stuff to follow soon.
I remember that post of yours...cool, While having never participated, I imagine a walkabout with Scott would be cool.
Had to stop earlier, the Santa gig is a blast for the kids & once it goes by on the way into the development behind me I have precious little time to get them up to catch him on the outbound.
I just put Jason to bed & asked did he like our walk today and what did he see. The answer, I saw trees, and I saw sticks,...and birds.
Not to sound too Zen, but in the words of Thoreau...... SIMPLIFY.
I think the kid got it.

 

[Furball1]

Memories

Largo--a great post. My kids are 25 and 18 (taking my 18 yr old out in the canoe next week) and they are always telling me and my wife about how wonderful their memories are of going out in the pines, canoeing, birding at Brigantine (the name thing never really caught on for me, Brigantine means something to me), hiking, visiting historic sites. We were never into amusement parks, we wanted them to get outside of themselves, to take in creation and all it has to offer for their senses, and their sensibility. Memories like these, though they may not seem meaningful at the moment, will come back when they get choked up about how great it was to be with you in the woods. And then you will ponder these things when they are adults, and wonder where those little kids went to, and then you will hopefully try to create new memories with them. Thanks for your insight, it was great reading.