Back in Pennsylvania, and about 20 miles east of our little home town of Stoystown…on route 30…at Shellsburgh one turns left {north}, on route 96 and then travel about 6 miles to the area of New Paris…In that area is a special location that is supposed to defy gravity. {To a certain extent}…
It is called “Gravity Hill”…! Yea, sure…must see this. I had never been to this site. About 2 years ago, while back in our home area, we were with friends of ours and we drove down to see this phenomenon.
Jack stopped the van when we arrive at this “spot”…and said something to the effect…“watch this”…He put it in neutral and…It rolled backwards…Just the opposite way I thought was down hill…I perceived we were driving slightly down hill…We got out and looked around and had the strangest feeling of what we just experienced.
I commented, I need a piece of lumber about 10 ft. long and a level to lay on top of it to convince me of what is really happening here…Of course, not having such “tools”…I am left to wonder…
I still don’t know what to think.
You can pull it up on the internet and read about it. Just type in “Gravity Hill”…That should bring up plenty of web sites of the location.
There is also one just west of Moncton, New Brunswick. We went by it on our way to Fredericton this past April, but, even though there were advance signs pointing the way, we missed the site itself. This site is noted in the AAA TourGuide for the Atlantic Provinces.
Back in '72, when I was moving Ricki, her children, and household goods from Boise to Reform, Ala., I thought that the car was having trouble on I-80 between Laramie and Cheyenne–we slowed considerably and what I saw around us gave me the impression that we were going down hill, but we were actually going uphill. We did make to the top, and it was comparatively downhill the rest of the way.
Good Morning Folks! I don’t know about the rest of the country, but it looks like those of us who live in the Dakotas are going to have a fairly nice day. Currently we have 57.7 degrees here in Sioux Falls.
The Coffee is about finished brewing and I’ve mixed a fresh batch of orange juice. On the warmer bar this morning there is a generous assortment of donuts, rolls and bear claws. I’m going to leave it up to CW to pepare breakfast when it comes to anything more substantial.
We’ve had a bit of badly needed rain overnight, but right now, don’t know how much. About an hour ago, it was 67 degrees as our morning start. Might see some more rain today as well. Yard has greened up a little already.
If I don’t get the grass mowed before I leave it’ll be a real challenge when I get back. And getting it mowed before I leave might be a problem, as there is rain in the forecast…
Hey, Trains - Anyone from the staff going to be in Owosso this weekend?
You have to go way down to the bottom to get to the lyrics. When singing it, be sure to sing “I owe way.” I had remembered the first stanza and the chorus, but I had never remembered the second and third stanzas. This song is a bit different from what most young people listen to nowadays.
Good Wednesday afternoon, folks. Ray, thanks very much for taking care of breakfat this morning. Went to get on the computer this morning, and could not get up. Tried 4 times on firefox, and a couple of times on IE, kept getting same message, that whichever browser I was trying, could not connect to the ISP. Finally, after 4 calls to the internet provider, we managed to get it taken care of. Something about the computer not communicating correctly with the DSL.
We have had a steady rain since sometime very early this morning. Kind of cool, so we don’t have the large industrial fan on the front part of the house, and fan in bedroom window is turned off.
Guess we’ll combine lunch and supper and have:
Meatloaf w/green beans and mashed taters and corn on the cob, and you can choose between cole slaw or garden tossed salad.
Vegetable beef soup w/cornbread and grilled cheese sandwiches.
Hope everyone is having a good day, staying dry (if you’re getting rain), and you all take care.
Cw thanks for supper.still raining here but just lightly.the ground is soaking it up real good. Matt is looking at maps for michigan and I need to go find the bags in the closet.hope I don’t see the closet monster.Last night for work…
Mostly cloudy skies today, with a little drizzle mixed in. Still drizzling now actually. A very cool day today as well. I’m not sure of the high, but if it stayed below 70* it was the lowest high in the month of July in Indiana in recorded History. Pretty neat stuff. Spent the day at Grandmas. Had fun… Well, mostly relaxing on the PC, and on the couch. I got home a while ago, and helped Dad put away the suitcases. Mom had her first day back to work yesterday. She was pretty tired and grumpy. I can see why dealing with tired grumpy patients all day.
Mmmmm! CW, I love meatloaf![dinner]
Well, yall’ have a good evening and I will talk to you all later on.
Thanks much for doing dinner for the rest of us tonight, Paula. I had kind of wondered if you and Walt were having computer problems this morning. I would have stepped in and prepared dinner for tonight otherwise.
Right now the temperature here in Sioux Falls is sitting at 90.1 degrees, but the air here is very dry, with the humidity at only 19%. The last week or so here has been very nice. I know that it will not last forever though.
CW had mentioned that she is serving meatloaf for dinner tonight. When I was a kid, my Mom would make meatloaf fairly often as it was one of my Dad’s favorite dishes. I never cared for it much and I used to turn my nose up at meatloaf all the time. However, leftover meatloaf makes a pretty darned good sandwhich when it is cold and comes out of the refirigerator.
Good Thursday morning ,everyone. Well, the rain is out of here, and it looks like we’re going to have a pretty nice, sunny day ahead. With all the rain yesterday (our rain guage recorded 1 1/2 inches), the official total was 1.15 inches, we only reached a an official high of 69 degrees F. Today’s high is projected to be 79 degrees.
Coffee, juices, milk, iced teas, and hot water for hot tea are ready.
On the warmer bar this morning: bagels and bear claws, along with bacon, sausage, eggs, oatmeal and toast (plain buttered toast, cinnamon toast and french).
You all get to decide what you want fixed for lunch and supper, so let me know in plenty of time to start cooking it.
Mookie, your coffee mug is on the front counter, and everyone have a great morning.
we have rain again here in nw ohio. we also have doughnuts from the radio station.we got the mystery tune of “rock this town” by the stray cats.My bag is ready for michigan.mamma and matt have a few things to get around.got some things to do today.tommorow morning is an early start.
Finishing my packing tonight. I’ve been trying to get some stuff done on the truck, but that’s hit some snags, so it can wait until I get back (won’t be using the light bar in Michigan, anyhow). Dog sitter is all lined up. House is a mess, since I’ve been working on everything but…
With any luck, I’ll be checking in to my hotel room in Howell between 3 and 5.
Word from our volunteer on the ground at Owosso is that she’s “busy.” Fans are starting to poke around (and in some cases get in the way).
Joe, Larry, and anyone else here going to Michigan, travel safely, have a great time, and hope you bring back lots of pictures!
I’ve got some sloppy joes ready for lunch, along with fries and salad for lunch today. Seems to be kind of slow in here, so decided not to fix a whole lot of food. Don’t want to be wasting food, fixing it, and nobody around to eat it.
Going to be catching a bus in about a half hour, to go to the library. Have run out of reading material, so need to go restock on books to read. Guess I’ll take my rain jacket with me, to be on the safe side: weather report says we have a possibility of a stray shower coming in. I know of a few people around the neighborhood who have step throat (Sarah being one of them), and don’t want to run the chance of getting sick, or carrying more germs into the household. You all take care, and have a good afternoon.
…Just got off the tractor…Another mowing complete. Moderate temps today makes it an easy deal for this time of the year. Below normal {temps}, but plenty nice with off and on sunshine today.
Nice stock market rise today as I just checked, makes it a bit nicer…
Ford is recording much above earnings {est.}, to boost the activity in the market today. Now if we can just get GM on the band wagon to move forward in a rightful manner. Really don’t know about Chrysler.
More autos produced, more railroad business and so on…Guess anything like that helps our stagnant economy right now.
Quentin…the best Ford I ever owned was a '64 Galaxie 500 with a 390 engine. I am also partial to '60 and '61 Galaxies…those usually had the 352 engine.
I also at one time had an '82 Ford Escort Wagon…An “OK” car…but not a Galaxie.
well turned out to be a nice afternoon.mowing got done and stuff is ready for michigan.Read in the paper that another notch got put on the jefferson ave viaduct.the picture showed the guy calling his boss while the police officer was writing the tickets.Cw thanks for supper.going to get a good nights sleep tonight.We have an early rise in the morning.
I was hoping for an early leave tomorrow, but there may be something in the mail I’d like to have before I leave, so I may get out a little later. Since I have a PO box, it’s possible I can bug the postmistress to scan through what’s there early…