How'd it go today?

[Tree09]

That's awesome Stig!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bermy]

Fabulous news Stig, the best, hooray!!

 

[Bermy]

Congrats on the new job and the unit, you must have found a reasonable price somewhere in this heated market, well done.
Treeaddict, a unit over here is an apartment.

 

[flushcut]

I laughed at your post. But that is fantastic news!

 

[Jonny]

My girlfriend’s son has outgrown his bicycle, so she was shopping around the web, Walmart and Amazon for something new. On a whim I checked out our local Craigslist and found a few miles away, an excellent condition DiamondBack 6 speed kid’s mountain bike with 20” or 22” wheels for 75$. So saved a few bucks and got a much better quality bike than we’d find at Walmart.
Should fit him well for a few years, and probably still be in good enough shape to pass it along to one of his younger cousins, once he outgrows it.

 

[Treeaddict]

Good job Jonny! Quality used sure beats junky new!

 

[Patrick A]

Dug a little, lifted a lot, almost ready to collect highly desirable water.

 

[flushcut]

Are you collecting water to drink/irrigate or thermal storage?

 

[Patrick A]

Are you collecting water to drink/irrigate or thermal storage?

Irrigation of plants in fields and greenhouses

 

[pigwot]

Kentuck Knob and Fallingwater were great. Rained the whole time but that just kept the crowds away 🙂

Our tour guide was great and shared a ton more insights than the tour I took 22 years ago. I asked her about a claim a guide at Kentuck Knob had made (all the stone was quarried locally except the floor which came from a site in Maryland) and she jumped quickly to correct his mistaken statement to insist ‘all’ the stone was from the site, a mere 500 feet away. We hiked some trails and as we came back through the visitors center there she waited with book in hand and read us the actual truth in black and white!! Such dedication. She has tour-guided for 14 years. When she asked where we were from and we replied ‘Delaware’ she immediately asked if we knew the “Spencer House”. She was thrilled when I told her how my friend David and I saved it from an uprooting oak in a gale of a storm, setting two 2 inch bull ropes to guy it to two other trees. And how the following day, after removing the tree with a crane Mr. Spencer gave us a personal tour (no one but family and close friends had been in the house since it was completed). The daughter sold the house back in 2013.




The Dudley Spencer House, also called Laurel, is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Usonian home in Wilmington, Delaware. Wright designed this home in 1956 (finished in 1961), and named it "Laurel". This house is of the hemicycle design, and is built of irregularly coursed fieldstone.

For Sale: Frank Lloyd Wright Home in Wilmington, Delaware - Philadelphia Magazine

This three-bedroom home on 6 acres is the only Frank Lloyd Wright home in Delaware. It’s called the Dudley Spencer House, after its owner, and […]

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[Burnham]

I've always admired Fallingwater.

 

[pigwot]

And F.L.Wright died on this day April 9th, in 1959. He insisted on the use of “Cherokee Red” paint in most of his designed houses. In many of the houses he designed there is a small square tile of Cherokee Red with his initials inset in the wall by the front door. Karen commented on how demanding he was that his customers accept his color scheme.

Last evening Karen and I were discussing how I need to finish paving a pathway along her herb garden and the patio it will lead to, and I jokingly said, “I wonder if they make Cherokee Red pavers”.
She jokingly replied, “Okay Frank!”

 

[flushcut]

Why not? It’s a good looking shade of red.

 

[lxskllr]

The artist gets to call the shots. The client can take/leave as they see fit.

 

[stikine]

This was from last night... forgot to post it then.

 

[Bermy]

Decent sized vegetation fire kicked off yesterday, seven brigades two dozers and a water bomber to pull it up. It got off the paddocks and up into the quite steep bush. Could have been worse. Mopping up blacking out today.

 

[SeanKroll]

Good work!

Yikes!

 

[Treeaddict]

Glad it was not serious

 

[Treeaddict]

Pat, John, and I, along with another climbed the Maryland state champion white oak today. ‘Twas a blast. By shirts: Pat-blue, John- grey, Mike (me) -orange.

 

[Burnham]

What a tree!

 

[SkwerI]

I remember doing that 20 years ago with some guys from this forum in N Florida.

 

[lxskllr]

Yea, that tree was very impressive. Nice location too. Easy access, but not a bunch of people everywhere.

 

[pigwot]

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Superman (Mike) dropped by our climb today.

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[Treeaddict]

I told you guys and gals I was gonna hafta try that rear ring😂

 

[stig]

Nice tree.
Did you get permission for that climb, or was it ninja style?