Another Line of Demarcation That Has Moved in My Life Time
for most of my younger years when the Old Mill Dam was still intact (a remnant in granite is visible on the far right) the normal high tide came just above the gravel bank on the right of the foreground tree leaves but on the left side of the creek (high middle photograph)- occasionally with favorable winds and a good moon it would come just to the foot of the dam (where the flat water starts to run more like a creek) - but now the tide rises, slightly for certain, but higher by about six inches or so on a regular schedule - and in weather conditions as said above, it will rise visibly on the far side of the second easterly bridge fed my Mauldin Avenue
Tree Work - III
The agility and hand and arm strength of these tree surgeons is incredible - notice that Jeremy's right hand is holding the limb he just chain-sawed off using his left hand only to run the chain saw, as the limb toppled downward he is in position to throw the limb slightly to the right of the tree - I am impressed as always at their work skills - and always with constant vigilance as to where the chain saw is, where the limb is and where it is going, and where the boom is in terms of obstructions - a big thumbs up for truly professional work!
Tree Work -II
Cecil Tree Service, LLC started business in 1958 by Jerry Cox and is still going strong under his son, Jerry, and his grandson Jeremy - the intrepid young man in the bucket boom preparing to take down this lovely pine not because I am anti-tree but because the base is in a high state of decay at the back giving me the shivers every time I park my truck.
Well - Tree Work Needs Done
I called my favorite tree trimmer in the Cecil County area - and a day later he is on the job making me safe again
Escape!
I was focusing on Big Blue with the background ducks but before I could snap the photograph he was off and away
Just A Comment On Number of Pageviews By Country
When I look at the daily and 'now' statistics for page views per country I never see Canada anymore - and it was sort of a disappointment. But when I look at page views per country over the course of a week, then amazingly Canada is second from the top. What I figure is that there are a lot of countries around the world that see my blog but perhaps only for one day out of that week and at the time they viewed more than Canada did on that particular day - and since Google only gives the top ten countries for any one period of time, if Canada is perhaps 11th or12th for the day it just gets dropped, while some country paging in just one day a week with a few hits disappears from the top ten over the term of a whole week. At any rate, thanks old friends and hopefully some new, from Canada for tuning in faithfully for this low-key blog,
Stuck - IV
a crucial step when moving the mower by hand is to disengage the transmission by pulling out the bypass valve lever - the lower left of back plate - and even more important is to re-engage same by pushing it fully in before starting the motor to move forward (the lever is fully depressed in the above photo so motor may be safely started)
