EWWWWWWwwwww..........
 
 
 
 
 
 
Could be worse I guess, according to TheWeatherChannel.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

86 , holy cow !! You in Florida ?
It's 34 today. No rain yet and as Smokey bear says. Only you can prevent forest fires . With the wind , no campfire today.
Moved the boat 1 step closer. Working on another fencing project before the rain comes.
While we don t need more mud, I'll take full rain barrels

About an 1/8 of ice last night this am. It has stopped raining.  It's cold (33) , windy and just plain nasty out. The wind cuts right through you like a knife.

The wind continues to be brutal. Lost one of my sugar maples and a few poplar on the back 40.

Night temps will continue to dip into freezing for the next week. High temps barely  hitting 50, this is not conductive to getting stuff done.

BTDT,when the sun hits that grass you may need a bigger mower My mower is in the shop for some work,I hope they call me soon.Had a good soaking rain last night and now the streams went from low and clear to high and muddy.Fishing is now out for awhile.

Pafisher I hear you on the "out comes the sun and up pops the grass". Stupid grass. 😖


Took a ride past some area trout streams and they are definitely showing results from the past rains. But by golly, there's a few die hards out trying their luck.

On another note, today is 4/17 so WHAT THE HELL 😡

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It's on it's way HT, comin by air mail!!!  Except, this drop shipment is gotta be unloaded first.
 
 
 
Woke up this morning to 32 degree temps and overcast skies til about 1:30 when out popped the sun and the temps found their way into the mid forties.  Didn't take me but seconds to vacate the easy chair and head for the mancave where the pressure sprayer and rain gear are stored.  Shortly before sunset, I'm shoving it all back in the mancave with the relief and self satisfaction of job well done.  Well at least half well done but looking at the above map, work will be delayed for a day or two when sunny warm weather is to once again return to my back yard.  At which time, out again will come the sprayer but it won't be, the washer the second half of the project.  This time Mr. Wagner will be joining me for a round of fun, assisting me with the application of specially formulated wood treatment, derived from a secrete recipe of select oils and penetrates.
 
The instructions call for applying the oil with a roller or a brush and you can bet your bottom dollar THAT ain't happening!!!  Painting a house with any coating using a brush sucks and takes forever and a day to complete.  Spraying the coating followed by a few brush strokes to work the oil into the wood is soooooo much easier and makes it possible to git-r-done before fishing weather arrives.  Not that I am a fair weather angler mind ya but it ain't, a bad thing.
 
Anyway if the weather dude is correct as he has been with every dam fowl weather forecast, I should be seeing by Friday, sunny and increasing warmer weather for my little piece of Penn's Woods.
 
Fishin..... here I come!!
 
OH BTW, better half says I've done such a great job on the house she's gonna let me,  paint the deck.

That’s about enough.

I have outside things to do — round up fine privet, plant wild flowers, spread some pasture mix seed, etc. and this wind, rain, snow, drizzle, cold isn’t letting any of that get done.

26 degrees at 6am , come on Son

Well I don't know if all-yinz-all got the weather we did, here in my little piece of Penn's Woods but if yinz didn't, it sucks to be yinz.  Then again, maybe I didn't get the weather some of yinz-all got aaaaaand it sucks to be me?    But anyways, with the house all washed and ready for some sunny days and bit of sustained temps in the 50s, before applying a coat of oil, I decided to take a break and go look at some real estate that just came on the market.
 
Traveling unknown roads of The Pennsylvania Wilds can lead to some very beautiful scenery along with exciting adventure because, in looking at the views, you didn't pay attention to where you were going plus, cell service and GPS suck in many of the valleys of Pennsylvania.  However, some FYI when becoming lost in the valleys,  with today's technology,  one merely need to find the next road that goes straight up in order to regain cell/gps connection so that one may find, where the hell one is at. 
 
I did stop and ask for direction but the dude just stood with his arms crossed grumbling something about pale face soooo I just moved on.  Funny, the guy, I swear looked like a fellow in a picture I once saw, titled "Chief Cornplanter".    Saw some other fellas tending a fire under a big copper tank with copper lines coming from it but I didn't stop for directions, I figured they was too busy making maple syrup or sumpthin so I didn't wanna bother them.  Thought we might see a roadside stand where they was selling syrup but didn't which was OK too cause the stuff they was cooking, smelled like creamed corn. 
 
Eventually we did find the homes, listed for sale in the small river communities along the banks of the mighty Allegheny River as well as,  meeting some very nice folks that vacation or live there year round.   River people are cool.
 
I thought perhaps yinz might enjoy a few pics of what we folks of the Pennsylvania Wilds enjoy in our back yards.
 
Good time and tight lines.

LONG WAY DOWN.....

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LONGER WAY DOWN.......  

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Going down........  ( as in sunset, yinz hogs)


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Good morning Pennsylvania

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HT appreciate the flowers on the pics, it is beautiful and to think, many folks don't know what's in or how to enjoy their own back yard.
 
Tough decision to relocate, but we moved to our present home to be closer to my terminal but now I need not worry about that and,  when I lived in the little town of Franklin PA. we would be on the river every chance we got.  I'm not going to find stripers and such swimming in my portion of the river, but I can't remember a time we didn't discover something new, when we were on the water.   The gooder part, if we relocate, the something new will be a new G3 with a "BIG" Yamaha jet drive...zoom zoom.  Probably a telescope too, for the front living room if we buy river side.  I mean hey, when ya live in them dark valleys along the water ya get some pretty good views of the moon and stars when they come out.
 
As for the mighty muddy Hudson, there wasn't a time when I was trailer trucking across one of her bridges that I wasn't drooling.  I hear ya on the being busy, I been enjoying your garden thread and look forward to seeing and hearing your future adventures.  But as they say in the old country "I BeenThereDoneThat"!!  Sold my tiller last summer and while we enjoyed having horses and raising a few head of beef on another homestead, I'm just to ****ed old for that stuff anymore. 
 
Some food for thought (no pun intended) do not name your animal(s)!!   I know "pork fat rules" but for some reason, it just don't taste the same, while your eating and thinking about Porky.
 
Good times and tight lines.
 
 
Forgot to mention for my fan club, through the miracles of modern technology, even though I may be living deep in the valleys of the Pennsylvania wilds I will still have my internet!!!

Happy birthday to your son r3.

Hey, ya remember when you turned 47 and thought ya was gittin old? lol I remember those days, sitting behind the wheel thinkin about retirement. If I only knew then what I know now.

Yea they are I put up the gutters and eaten alive

So I'm sitting at my lap top looking out my back door (10:36AM;4/28) and my deck is slowly covering with cute tiny snowballs. 
 
WHAT THE HAIL? 
 
 
 
 
 
UPdate:  10:52AM, little snowballs have stopped falling and now being melted by moderate to heavy rain!!!