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Posted: 2/20/2017 9:20:24 PM EST
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I'm in Ft. Washington/Blue Bell/Plymouth Meeting area for a bit. Kinda like it here.
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Posted: 2/21/2017 8:08:08 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Fulminata:
Small world, I went to Highland Elementary when I was a kid for a couple of years and one of my uncles taught there for close to 20 years too. In fact, the last place I lived in DuBois was just down off Highland street on Scribner and the house was on maps of DuBois dating from 1880 or somewhere thereabouts. Everyone thinks living in a 100+ year old house sounds like fun...until you have to deal with maintaining a 100+ year old house. Then it becomes a matter of finding some other innocent soul that thinks Prohibition era wiring and even older plumbing sounds like a "nice challenge" instead of the hell that it actually is, and telling them to make an offer... Yeah, our house has railroad ties as floor supports. |
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Posted: 2/21/2017 8:08:28 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SGStiles:
Yeah, our house has railroad ties as floor supports. |
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Posted: 2/21/2017 9:37:05 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SGStiles:
Yeah, our house has railroad ties as floor supports. I'm so tempted to do the whole Deadpool,"Your house has floor supports?" thing but that house was actually massively over-engineered structurally, it just had ancient wiring and plumbing, oh and a half filled in mystery well I found under the back porch. That was fun to fill back in...after I made sure there wasn't some Gold Eagles hidden down in it of course. 
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PA, USA
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Posted: 2/21/2017 10:56:13 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By R2point0:
4) Weep as Pennsylvania is proven yet again to be superior to other states. Pennsylvaani iwwer alles 
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Posted: 2/22/2017 3:31:44 PM EST
[#6]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Truman_Sparks:
I'm in Ft. Washington/Blue Bell/Plymouth Meeting area for a bit. Kinda like it here. Decent area, welcome. Now check out the Wilds! 
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Posted: 2/22/2017 4:16:22 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Phillgui:
Decent area, welcome. Now check out the Wilds! http://pawilds.com/fileadmin/_migrated/pics/regionMapNew.jpg I like the Wilds. 
That's why I live there. 
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Posted: 2/22/2017 5:23:33 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Fulminata:
I'm so tempted to do the whole Deadpool,"Your house has floor supports?" thing but that house was actually massively over-engineered structurally, it just had ancient wiring and plumbing, oh and a half filled in mystery well I found under the back porch. That was fun to fill back in...after I made sure there wasn't some Gold Eagles hidden down in it of course. UncleS they took turns.
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Posted: 2/22/2017 5:26:10 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Fulminata:
I like the Wilds.
That's why I live there. I am jealous. I go every chance I get. Work keeps the wife and I near Philly. Lots of parks and great food here plus friends. But we could buy an estate up there for the equity in our modest home! |
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Posted: 2/22/2017 6:55:29 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SGStiles:
UncleS they took turns. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SGStiles:
UncleS they took turns. I knew I liked you for a reason.
Originally Posted By Phillgui:
I am jealous. I go every chance I get. Work keeps the wife and I near Philly. Lots of parks and great food here plus friends. But we could buy an estate up there for the equity in our modest home! Yeah land around here is a little schizophrenic at the moment. You can find quite a bit of acreage for a very reasonable price, and then the adjoining parcel is 2-3 times the price without any real reason to be. I've seen places with over 100 acres not far from here, complete with a house, range, barn and guest cabin go for $300,000 and then 10 miles up the road I've seen a patch of woods only good for a camp (and it'd be a pretty shitty camp too) go for around the same price, it just doesn't make any damn sense sometimes. In general though the cost of living is so low that it's pretty ridiculous compared to other places I've lived, even in PA. The only real downsides are getting internet that doesn't suck can be a challenge, and as soon as it gets cold no matter what you do you're going to be putting field mice in body bags for a couple of days because they will figure out a way to get in. Other than that it's awesome, the first night after I moved out here from town I had the best sleep of my life, no loud idiots wandering home drunk from the bars, no cars idling blasting rap at 11, nothing but crickets and the wind. Although when an Elk decided to let loose with the Trumpets of Jericho one fine morning taking me by surprise that was something...different. Those bastards are loud, and when that big bull did it I damn near took cover thinking a Stuka was coming for me; but it wasn't, just an elk. No Stukas out here, but today I did watch two A-10s do practice runs down the valley below my house for the first time in a few months, must mean the Rat Named Phil lied and Spring is really coming.
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Posted: 2/23/2017 10:28:52 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Fulminata:
Small world, I went to Highland Elementary when I was a kid for a couple of years and one of my uncles taught there for close to 20 years too. In fact, the last place I lived in DuBois was just down off Highland street on Scribner and the house was on maps of DuBois dating from 1880 or somewhere thereabouts. Everyone thinks living in a 100+ year old house sounds like fun...until you have to deal with maintaining a 100+ year old house. Then it becomes a matter of finding some other innocent soul that thinks Prohibition era wiring and even older plumbing sounds like a "nice challenge" instead of the hell that it actually is, and telling them to make an offer... Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Fulminata:
<strong>Originally Posted By DeltaAir423:</strong>
G'ma is from DuBois. We had the property up on S Highland street from the late 1800's to 2006. Small world, I went to Highland Elementary when I was a kid for a couple of years and one of my uncles taught there for close to 20 years too. In fact, the last place I lived in DuBois was just down off Highland street on Scribner and the house was on maps of DuBois dating from 1880 or somewhere thereabouts. Everyone thinks living in a 100+ year old house sounds like fun...until you have to deal with maintaining a 100+ year old house. Then it becomes a matter of finding some other innocent soul that thinks Prohibition era wiring and even older plumbing sounds like a "nice challenge" instead of the hell that it actually is, and telling them to make an offer... If you drive down S Highland, and you look at 9 S Highland and 15 S Highland (the houses that were in our family forever), you might notice that the houses look like they fit together. They do. There was a family spat in the 1920's that resulted in the house being physically cut in half, and then moved to opposite sides of the property. I thought it was a BS story for the longest time till after my Great grandmother passed, and we were going through family books and the like. There were pics from where the house was split, and then put on logs to relocate both halves. |
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Posted: 2/23/2017 3:17:37 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Fulminata:
I knew I liked you for a reason.
Yeah land around here is a little schizophrenic at the moment. You can find quite a bit of acreage for a very reasonable price, and then the adjoining parcel is 2-3 times the price without any real reason to be. I've seen places with over 100 acres not far from here, complete with a house, range, barn and guest cabin go for $300,000 and then 10 miles up the road I've seen a patch of woods only good for a camp (and it'd be a pretty shitty camp too) go for around the same price, it just doesn't make any damn sense sometimes. In general though the cost of living is so low that it's pretty ridiculous compared to other places I've lived, even in PA. The only real downsides are getting internet that doesn't suck can be a challenge, and as soon as it gets cold no matter what you do you're going to be putting field mice in body bags for a couple of days because they will figure out a way to get in. Other than that it's awesome, the first night after I moved out here from town I had the best sleep of my life, no loud idiots wandering home drunk from the bars, no cars idling blasting rap at 11, nothing but crickets and the wind. Although when an Elk decided to let loose with the Trumpets of Jericho one fine morning taking me by surprise that was something...different. Those bastards are loud, and when that big bull did it I damn near took cover thinking a Stuka was coming for me; but it wasn't, just an elk. No Stukas out here, but today I did watch two A-10s do practice runs down the valley below my house for the first time in a few months, must mean the Rat Named Phil lied and Spring is really coming. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Fulminata:
Originally Posted By SGStiles:
UncleS they took turns. I knew I liked you for a reason.
Originally Posted By Phillgui:
I am jealous. I go every chance I get. Work keeps the wife and I near Philly. Lots of parks and great food here plus friends. But we could buy an estate up there for the equity in our modest home! Yeah land around here is a little schizophrenic at the moment. You can find quite a bit of acreage for a very reasonable price, and then the adjoining parcel is 2-3 times the price without any real reason to be. I've seen places with over 100 acres not far from here, complete with a house, range, barn and guest cabin go for $300,000 and then 10 miles up the road I've seen a patch of woods only good for a camp (and it'd be a pretty shitty camp too) go for around the same price, it just doesn't make any damn sense sometimes. In general though the cost of living is so low that it's pretty ridiculous compared to other places I've lived, even in PA. The only real downsides are getting internet that doesn't suck can be a challenge, and as soon as it gets cold no matter what you do you're going to be putting field mice in body bags for a couple of days because they will figure out a way to get in. Other than that it's awesome, the first night after I moved out here from town I had the best sleep of my life, no loud idiots wandering home drunk from the bars, no cars idling blasting rap at 11, nothing but crickets and the wind. Although when an Elk decided to let loose with the Trumpets of Jericho one fine morning taking me by surprise that was something...different. Those bastards are loud, and when that big bull did it I damn near took cover thinking a Stuka was coming for me; but it wasn't, just an elk. No Stukas out here, but today I did watch two A-10s do practice runs down the valley below my house for the first time in a few months, must mean the Rat Named Phil lied and Spring is really coming. Cheers to you! I am hoping to buy a property in a couple years, hopefully the prices don't jump on me. Would be great to have a weekend cabin. And if internet coverage improves I can work from there at times. A guy can dream. Elk, shooting, dirt bikes, hiking- fantastic. I have family in Clinton County too. |
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Posted: 2/25/2017 12:34:53 AM EST
[Last Edit: GiggleSmith]
[#13]
Just did some digging.
Here are our DC Reps that are Co-Sponsors to HR367 - HPA CosponsorDate Cosponsored Rep. Shuster, Bill [R-PA-9]01/12/2017 Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-PA-3]01/12/2017 Rep. Thompson, Glenn [R-PA-5]01/27/2017 Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-4]02/16/2017 Now for our  Tweedledum and Tweedledee Senators to sponsor S59 
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Posted: 2/25/2017 5:10:45 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GiggleSmith:
Just did some digging. Here are our DC Reps that are Co-Sponsors to HR367 - HPA CosponsorDate Cosponsored Rep. Shuster, Bill [R-PA-9]01/12/2017 Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-PA-3]01/12/2017 Rep. Thompson, Glenn [R-PA-5]01/27/2017 Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-4]02/16/2017 Now for our Tweedledum and Tweedledee Senators to sponsor S59 Glenn Thompson is my Rep in DC, and back in the fall before the election was one of the speakers at a pro-2A rally they held at Grice's along with my state rep and state Senator. He's definitely on our side when it comes to 2A issues and is an all around good guy. As for our Senators down to the hive of scum and villainy, the nicest thing I can say is that hopefully we'll be able to say "former Senator" Casey next year. |
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Posted: 2/25/2017 5:26:13 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Phillgui:
Cheers to you! I am hoping to buy a property in a couple years, hopefully the prices don't jump on me. Would be great to have a weekend cabin. And if internet coverage improves I can work from there at times. A guy can dream. Elk, shooting, dirt bikes, hiking- fantastic. I have family in Clinton County too. Internet service out where I live is getting better, and it's not terrible everywhere around here or even close by to where I live. Comcast's cable lines end on the next road up from me, so about a mile away, and about a mile in the other direction one of my friends has it too but he lives along one of the "main" (well okay, it's paved) roads. I was stuck with Dish satellite internet for over a year after I moved here, which is kinda-sorta quasi-fast-ish but has horrible latency (so no gaming) and a 15GB a month "anytime" cap (so no excessive Netflix/Amazon/Hulu) and that was painful. Last month I just got DSL which has no cap and very low latency, I held off going that route until they got fiber optics put in in the fall, now I'm just waiting for them to show up again (first guy that came out this week didn't bring the right stuff) to boost my speed to what the lines will actually handle instead of what they installed last month based on the "projection" of what speed they'd handle; they'll handle a hell of a lot more than they projected, at least as far as to my place, so that's to the good. I shoot in my back yard, everyone on the road I live on but one guy has some sort of range setup at their place, so the hills are alive with the sound of gunfire when it's nice out. As for hiking, I don't even call it hiking, I just say I'm going on one of my walks. I have a camera around here somewhere with pics I took on one of them in the late summer/ early fall, I'll have to see if I can find it, it's gorgeous here in the fall. About a mile and a half away is one of the State Parks too, so if it's nice and I feel like being even more outdoors-y then just living here means, it's no problem to just go do it. I've lived in big cities, small towns and everything in between, but honestly I haven't been as happy as I have been since I moved out to the middle of the woods on the side of a mountain, it's awesome.
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Posted: 2/25/2017 4:14:28 PM EST
[Last Edit: GiggleSmith]
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Posted: 3/7/2017 9:07:26 AM EST
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Well the black bears around here are out of hibernation.
Just took the dog out to do his business in the rain, he spent a whole bunch of time sniffing around like he usually does and right when I was about ready to use the "okay quit dicking around" tone to get him to come in he stops and stares down my driveway, I thought maybe he heard or saw someone down at the bottom of it coming up (since I'm expecting UPS sometime today) and instead about 50' away is a black bear standing on all fours in the middle of the driveway staring at us. It actually tilted its head like a dog will do when it's trying to figure something out. We looked at him, he looked at us, as soon as I got the dog to understand it was time to go in, like right fucking now and he started coming with me the bear just kept crossing the driveway and bounced up into the woods and up the hill. Not very exciting really (which is a good thing) but I haven't seen them out and about this early in the year since I moved out here. I blame the weather, and by extension that stupid ass rat over in Punxsey.
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Posted: 3/7/2017 9:14:23 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Fulminata:
Well the black bears around here are out of hibernation. Just took the dog out to do his business in the rain, he spent a whole bunch of time sniffing around like he usually does and right when I was about ready to use the "okay quit dicking around" tone to get him to come in he stops and stares down my driveway, I thought maybe he heard or saw someone down at the bottom of it coming up (since I'm expecting UPS sometime today) and instead about 50' away is a black bear standing on all fours in the middle of the driveway staring at us. It actually tilted its head like a dog will do when it's trying to figure something out. We looked at him, he looked at us, as soon as I got the dog to understand it was time to go in, like right fucking now and he started coming with me the bear just kept crossing the driveway and bounced up into the woods and up the hill. Not very exciting really (which is a good thing) but I haven't seen them out and about this early in the year since I moved out here. I blame the weather, and by extension that stupid ass rat over in Punxsey. |
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Posted: 3/7/2017 9:33:42 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JK_Pyre:
Phil had one job.... Yep and he fucks it up by the numbers every year. I can't believe they still get people to show up in the middle of winter to actually watch him fuck up by the numbers every year either. I blame Bill Murray. |
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Posted: 3/11/2017 1:08:32 PM EST
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Pull your snow shovels out of storage... Tuesday could get interesting with the impending NorEaster.
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PA, USA
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Posted: 3/11/2017 1:16:16 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By IH1026:
Pull your snow shovels out of storage... Tuesday could get interesting with the impending NorEaster. Now that the cold weather is back.....might as well snow, too. |
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Posted: 3/11/2017 1:24:29 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sawgunner73:
Now that the cold weather is back.....might as well snow, too. Yeah I just ordered a fuel oil delivery for Monday, just in case. 
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Posted: 3/11/2017 1:35:47 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sawgunner73:
Now that the cold weather is back.....might as well snow, too. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sawgunner73:
Originally Posted By IH1026:
Pull your snow shovels out of storage... Tuesday could get interesting with the impending NorEaster. Now that the cold weather is back.....might as well snow, too. Looks as though the bad stuff is supposed to be in Eastern Pa with one model comparing it to the Blizzard of '93. |
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Posted: 3/11/2017 3:47:02 PM EST
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The Local Weatherman was right for my area: About 2 inches of snow that stayed mostly on grass and plants. Most of the snow is now gone.
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Posted: 3/12/2017 9:41:08 AM EST
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Posted: 3/19/2017 6:33:21 PM EST
[#26]
Everyone blow away with the snow? Haven't been any posts on here in a week!!
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Posted: 3/19/2017 6:40:10 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By IH1026:
Everyone blow away with the snow? Haven't been any posts on here in a week!! 
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Posted: 3/19/2017 6:50:24 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GiggleSmith:
Keeping PA Great: ETA: Stopped for a Red Light. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/40561/MAGA-Beer-153880.JPG We are getting semi-auto hunting in PA. |
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Posted: 3/19/2017 8:44:59 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By IH1026:
Everyone blow away with the snow? Haven't been any posts on here in a week!! 
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Posted: 3/19/2017 9:51:43 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By IH1026:
Everyone blow away with the snow? Haven't been any posts on here in a week!! Here is a pic i took this morning.  Attached File |
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Posted: 3/19/2017 9:58:11 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lee-online:
Cleaned up the 20" we got last week. The 3" we got last night melted during the day today. Here is a pic i took this morning.https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/101506/snow-3-19-17-169971.JPG All it's done the past couple days is rain. |
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Posted: 3/23/2017 7:42:30 AM EST
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Me on the first pages sure is annoying...
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Posted: 3/23/2017 9:40:12 AM EST
[#33]
Running the A/c in my car when it's 30 degrees outside but the sun is so bright. Very unusual in western PA.
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Posted: 4/1/2017 6:03:31 PM EST
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There's still too much snow on the ground.
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Posted: 4/1/2017 6:08:09 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GiggleSmith:
There's still too much snow on the ground. I live on a dirt road, which is now a mud road, and I swear the mud is giving people as much of a problem to drive on as the ice did. Watching headlights swinging back and forth while cars fishtail down the road has become a spectator sport for my dog at the front window. |
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Posted: 4/9/2017 5:19:40 PM EST
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I swear this is Sen Casey's Theme Music:
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Posted: 4/9/2017 6:57:06 PM EST
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We went from snow to grow. My grass needs cut already.
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Posted: 4/9/2017 8:06:40 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By camarojsmith:
We went from snow to grow. My grass needs cut already. |
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Posted: 4/9/2017 8:12:33 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Fulminata:
I like the Wilds.
That's why I live there. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Fulminata:
Originally Posted By Phillgui:
Decent area, welcome. Now check out the Wilds! http://pawilds.com/fileadmin/_migrated/pics/regionMapNew.jpg I like the Wilds.
That's why I live there. 
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Posted: 4/9/2017 8:14:10 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By camarojsmith:
We went from snow to grow. My grass needs cut already. |
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Posted: 4/9/2017 8:30:46 PM EST
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I've been working here in NEPA (Damascus/Lackawaxen) since early January. Of course as the weather is getting nice it's time for me to return to Arizona. I like this area and will return to visit sometime in the future. I'm bummed it didn't get hot enough for me to hop into the river.
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Posted: 4/9/2017 8:37:02 PM EST
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Posted: 4/9/2017 8:43:46 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Pilot1:
Hmmm. Looks like West Chester to me. We are getting semi-auto hunting in PA. 
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Posted: 4/9/2017 9:00:34 PM EST
[Last Edit: bespride]
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Posted: 4/10/2017 11:42:08 PM EST
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Quote HistoryI hate to be That Guy, but that's Virginia marked as annexed on the map not North Carolina...
And in other news, PA is once again showing it's glorious meteorological schizophrenia, three days ago I woke up to snow on the ground, today when I went to town around noon it was somewhere between 80-83 since none of the banks' thermometers could agree on one single temperature.
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Posted: 4/10/2017 11:55:21 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Fulminata:
I hate to be That Guy, but that's Virginia marked as annexed on the map not North Carolina...
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Posted: 4/11/2017 4:21:55 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mah_lee:
I saw it on one of the chans, and liked the NJ purge part. That's all
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Posted: 4/11/2017 5:25:10 PM EST
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Posted: 4/11/2017 6:31:57 PM EST
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Too funny.
Reminds me of four glorious days I spent in Uniontown on business once. |
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Posted: 4/11/2017 6:34:31 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GiggleSmith:
Maybe next weekend for me... |
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