Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

73 degrees in Moundville Alabama.
Today was a day of byways. Almost entire 4.5 hours on two lanes, usually with no one on them.
what an interesting campground and thanks to the Univ of Alabama for making this all possible. Apparently the Univ. runs this place. I was surprised to find they had a few full hookup sites and I wound up with this enormous site for all of 32 bucks a night.
That's the lowest fee I've seen yet. Plus that included admission to the museum.

museum was too far away on this large property for me to walk to but the ebike was perfect for zipping around to the museum.

the museum was ok, they had lights turned down so low it was actually hard to see in there. Had a gift shop, bought some dream catchers for half the price of one's in NM, but not same quality. Still locally made. And I bought a small Indian painted pot for a shelf at home.

this location in Moundville was at one point the largest city North of Mexico, with 10,000 inhabitants.
The original Americans. Something happened around 1300 and they were gone.
Not sure if they know why yet.
I'm wondering if they are prevented from doing archaeological digs due to native American burial restrictions.

saw a lot of cotton today, fields of white, harvesting equipment off to the side, older JD stuff based on tractors.

 

[daugen]

because I didn't have children I was able to take some chances with earning a living and had five careers. I'll clog up the airwaves with that another time.
Brown was 3200 a year for room, board and tuition in 1968. My father put five kids, four of his own, through college, and oldest brother Mark to law school.
None on scholarship. He drove dented old chevy's to save money and put all his focus on education. We were lucky kids.

I haven't donated to Brown since I graduated. My father paid full boat for me.
I don't owe them anything, hoo rah hoo rah. I donate locally.

 

[riptides]

Still in MD. Yard/Estate sale over for the day. Lots of interest in the cars...lots of stuff went out today. More tomorrow and next weekend. Had a lot of stuff move that we did not think would go...all is good.
Hope all have a great evening.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon,
Buppies, hoping for a good night sleep for you my friend !

I've often wondered about some of your careers, because some of you have seemed to do quite well. Thanks for sharing.

Kyle, I did well in the trades, but by 2007 I had not broken the 100K mark ! I made more money than Kathleen when she was a manager at her hospital! I came very close to breaking that 100K in 2006/07, that was darn good money almost 20 years ago ! But then she was promoted to director level in nursing and eventually to VP ! By that time she was closing in on 250K per year so she kind of left me in the dust in the money department!

That’s my story, I have no regrets of being in the trades, I always loved working with my hands ! Still do !

Hope all have a beautiful Saturday!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Back home from nice little train ride, and drive up skyline drive today. Stayed at a nice B&B. (Mother In-law)
Did the same ride as 2 yrs ago, dinner train from Staunton East over the mountain, thru the crozet tunnel and back.
Skyline drive a little past peak, but crowded. Glad we went north, line in front royal to go south was miles thru town.
Crazy people from DC would just park in the road and get out of their car. Had one toaster make a 3 pt turn in front of us, even though there are frequent pull off spots where you can turn around.
But a beautiful day.
Picked up some Chinese for late lunch early supper, as my wife said she was not cooking tonight, and I countered I was not mowing the yard tonight.

 

[daugen]

big old 45 footer rumbled in, took him a little back and forth but he got it in the curved site. He would have done much better with mine but that's the joy of getting in early in a first come first pick place.

I think that's an older Beaver, very glitzy inside.
might even have four a/c units up top.
those older high end models often had a six inch band of chrome, or wider, down the entire length of the rocker panel. Probably blinds nearby cars in the sun.
I'd lay money he has a wine chiller in that thing.
too bad the color scheme is dated
and I sure prefer something calmer and not a "circus wagon"

got a nice pic of the main area, showing a lot of mounds if you zoom in
plus a warning of a nearby airport

 

[Looking4new]

Well, I didn't go outside today. Maybe tomorrow. On the work experience thingy, after high school and before driving truck I apprenticed with an electrician for a bit. Learned enough to wire up outside outlets in this house AND a couple of others. I also wired up two hot water tanks and the furnace here. I think I know enough to hook up my generator to my well pump, but am scared to fry the pump, so I will hire an electrician for that.

My buddy with the busted hip is healing good so far, BUT in April the quacks tell him he needs to go for an operation to rebuild the same hip that he busted. He'll be off work all of next summer, too.

 

[Looking4new]

BEF, the grass isn't going anywhere. It will still be there when you get a round tuit.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

for one of my power courses in college, we had to hook up motor / generators , and had to manually sync them to each other by adjusting the field current of the motor, to control speed / frequency of the generator. We then had lights hooked up on the generator side to monitor when in phase. We had to close our output to the "grid" when in sync. If you were a little off, the generator would literally jump off the floor, and these were no small units.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Sunday) morning. Overnight Low of 8.4C and it's presently 14.5C [heading to 20C], clear with a gentle breeze.

Beautiful day yesterday [high of 26C] and looking to be a repeat today. I'm off to Church in about a half hour and then the rest of the day is His.

That's about it, take care all.