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Day 38- Visiting family – Rolling Hills of PA
This week is the last meeting of the trip with family. Jim’s daughter and her family live in Stewartstown PA, which is just over the border from MD about 6 miles from the campground where we are staying. It is an easy drive which makes the day longer for other things.
This part of NW Maryland (pron: mare-a land) and the adjoining area of Pennsylvania are very rolling and the roads are old trails that are very narrow and twisting. One has to be extra cautious when driving them as “blind spots” and sharp turns are frequent. This is especially true of drivers, like myself, that are unfamiliar with them. It is, however, intensive farming country with wheat, corn, and hay as the chief crops. There are no large,1,000 acre, expansive farms like we saw in Eastern North Carolina, but small ones which include some cattle and many horses. (See yesterday at Hanover)
The housing that Kathy and Steve have is in the middle of this rural area situated on a small hill that gives a good venue of the surrounding countryside. It is spacious for the children to play and of course lots of lawn to mow. A wheat field comes right up to the property at the back. Jim met the bus when the children arrived from school and was greeted with huge hugs. It has been almost three years since we have seen them in the flesh. The rest of the afternoon was spent assisting with homework, and getting up to date on what they were all involved. Steve is a driller working for the Corp of Engineers and is home on “leave” from assignment in Florida where he has been working in the Okeefenokee and other areas in which dams need testing for their safety and stability.. He is a master driller so there are many stories he can tell about the days on the job, when things can go wrong, and employees get upset with the work or want to “slack off”. Steve is a hard worker and has a great record with the Corps as getting things done on schedule or ahead of time. He began watching drilig at the age of 8 or so withy his grandfather, so has seen many situations that his co workers have not, and hence knows how to solve time, the “easy way”. In the evening it was Cub Scout Den meeting for one, more homework for the other two. Tomorrow we will attempt to see the Field Day at the Elementary school as today’s was postponed.
So this entry is a bit shorter and concise. We are enjoying the site that we have the trailer as it is really isolated in woods with the Hermit Thrushes waking us up in the morning. If you have ever heard their bugle like call you will know what I mean. We still have not had hummingbirds come to our feeder but we believe it is too far under the cover of the trees. They like to be in open areas to feed, like the flowers in your garden!
The weather has been overcast and threatening rain although it did not rain all day yesterday. Today is foggy as that cold front that is coming creates the reversals of air that brings on the fog especially in the cool mornings. Tomorrow may very well be the last entry as we will be moving from Plumsteadville PA, where we pick up the bells, to western PA to OH to MI in two days.
This week is the last meeting of the trip with family. Jim’s daughter and her family live in Stewartstown PA, which is just over the border from MD about 6 miles from the campground where we are staying. It is an easy drive which makes the day longer for other things.
This part of NW Maryland (pron: mare-a land) and the adjoining area of Pennsylvania are very rolling and the roads are old trails that are very narrow and twisting. One has to be extra cautious when driving them as “blind spots” and sharp turns are frequent. This is especially true of drivers, like myself, that are unfamiliar with them. It is, however, intensive farming country with wheat, corn, and hay as the chief crops. There are no large,1,000 acre, expansive farms like we saw in Eastern North Carolina, but small ones which include some cattle and many horses. (See yesterday at Hanover)
The housing that Kathy and Steve have is in the middle of this rural area situated on a small hill that gives a good venue of the surrounding countryside. It is spacious for the children to play and of course lots of lawn to mow. A wheat field comes right up to the property at the back. Jim met the bus when the children arrived from school and was greeted with huge hugs. It has been almost three years since we have seen them in the flesh. The rest of the afternoon was spent assisting with homework, and getting up to date on what they were all involved. Steve is a driller working for the Corp of Engineers and is home on “leave” from assignment in Florida where he has been working in the Okeefenokee and other areas in which dams need testing for their safety and stability.. He is a master driller so there are many stories he can tell about the days on the job, when things can go wrong, and employees get upset with the work or want to “slack off”. Steve is a hard worker and has a great record with the Corps as getting things done on schedule or ahead of time. He began watching drilig at the age of 8 or so withy his grandfather, so has seen many situations that his co workers have not, and hence knows how to solve time, the “easy way”. In the evening it was Cub Scout Den meeting for one, more homework for the other two. Tomorrow we will attempt to see the Field Day at the Elementary school as today’s was postponed.
So this entry is a bit shorter and concise. We are enjoying the site that we have the trailer as it is really isolated in woods with the Hermit Thrushes waking us up in the morning. If you have ever heard their bugle like call you will know what I mean. We still have not had hummingbirds come to our feeder but we believe it is too far under the cover of the trees. They like to be in open areas to feed, like the flowers in your garden!
The weather has been overcast and threatening rain although it did not rain all day yesterday. Today is foggy as that cold front that is coming creates the reversals of air that brings on the fog especially in the cool mornings. Tomorrow may very well be the last entry as we will be moving from Plumsteadville PA, where we pick up the bells, to western PA to OH to MI in two days.
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