Snow Pictures Please!

[ultrarunner]

October 2007 at the cabin with the bee house to the right...

Primary heat is a wood fired ceramic tile oven located in the middle of the house... takes a couple of hours to warm up and then just a handful of wood in the morning and another at night to keep things toasty...

 

[atgreene]

A couple of My Oshkosh.

 

[MossRoad]

Here's a few I took Saturday, 02/16/2008.

1. Me...
On an oxbow lake that I grew up on. It was a mile long 180+ degree bend in the Saint Joseph River north of South Bend, In. Only about 120 yards at its widest point. Back in the 30's the WPA cut it off from the river and straightened the channel of the river. They thought it would dry up. Wrong! It is spring fed and actually rose in level to the point of about 4 feet higher than it used to be. Deepest point along the high banks is 22'. Average depth is 8-10'.

2. Looking east...
About a quarter mile to the road. The river is on the other side. There used to be a beach on the right that I was a lifeguard at during high school. Several of my sisters guarded there, as well. That clump of trees on the right is a fenced area where a diving area used to be.... long gone due to liability issues with the city insurance.

3. Looking west...
Again, about a quarter mile to the high bank. Right in the middle of the top of the bank is the home my father built in the late 50's. It is 90' vertical from the water level to the top of the bank. We had steps... about 150 of them, that I would run up two at a time carrying two boat oars, a lifejacket, a tackle box, two fishing poles and a 10 pound anchor. I still take the stairs two at a time to this day. The lake bends to the left in that shot and goes more than a half a mile back to the east. To the left of the house you can make out a ridge. That leads into a ravine where supposedly the French explorer LaSalle came up from Lake Michigan and went up that ravine to a portage about 4 miles to the Kankakee river. The Council Oak Tree was about a 1/4 mile form the top of that ravine. If fell down a decade ago... my dad cut a chunk off it before the city put a stop to it.... they wanted to sell the pieces.

4. My boyhood home at sunset...
I spent the first 24 years of my life in that house. 17 picture windows, great view out over the lake with Notre Dame University off in the distance. The sun happened to be setting and I figured it would get close to going right over the house. Looks like I was right as you can see the sun through the windows of the house.

 

[RobS]

A couple of My Oshkosh.

Well, that about trumps the rest of us! Impressive for sure, is it your "personal" machine?

 

[RobS]

Here's a few I took Saturday, 02/16/2008.

1. Me...
On an oxbow lake that I grew up on. It was a mile long 180+ degree bend in the Saint Joseph River north of South Bend, In. Only about 120 yards at its widest point. Back in the 30's the WPA cut it off from the river and straightened the channel of the river. They thought it would dry up. Wrong! It is spring fed and actually rose in level to the point of about 4 feet higher than it used to be. Deepest point along the high banks is 22'. Average depth is 8-10'.

2. Looking east...
About a quarter mile to the road. The river is on the other side. There used to be a beach on the right that I was a lifeguard at during high school. Several of my sisters guarded there, as well. That clump of trees on the right is a fenced area where a diving area used to be.... long gone due to liability issues with the city insurance.

3. Looking west...
Again, about a quarter mile to the high bank. Right in the middle of the top of the bank is the home my father built in the late 50's. It is 90' vertical from the water level to the top of the bank. We had steps... about 150 of them, that I would run up two at a time carrying two boat oars, a lifejacket, a tackle box, two fishing poles and a 10 pound anchor. I still take the stairs two at a time to this day. The lake bends to the left in that shot and goes more than a half a mile back to the east.

4. My boyhood home at sunset...
I spent the first 24 years of my life in that house. 17 picture windows, great view out over the lake with Notre Dame University off in the distance. The sun happened to be setting and I figured it would get close to going right over the house. Looks like I was right as you can see the sun through the windows of the house.

Wow, how familiar Dave! Ironic, my Thursday night bike group rides right past there on our way out of town, North on Riverside then West on whatever that road is between Pinhook and the city garage. Can't say as I've seen a view of it quite like your first picture. And what a fun place to grow up!

 

[MossRoad]

Wow, how familiar Dave! Ironic, my Thursday night bike group rides right past there on our way out of town, North on Riverside then West on whatever that road is between Pinhook and the city garage. Can't say as I've seen a view of it quite like your first picture. And what a fun place to grow up!

Boland drive... it used to be Colfax Rd. That was the city limits when I was a kid. My dad and another man bought that block and divided it up. Lots went for $2000.00. Lake lots were much more expensive.... $2500.00

My dad named the street Ribourde Dr. after Father Ribourde who traveled with LaSalle.

They straightened the curve at the intersection of Ribourde and Boland a couple years ago and added a left turn lane when heading west... Back in the mid 80's I used to hit 110 on my '77 RD400 through there running up from Riverside to Portage. Now I'm not comfortable doing 40 in a car.

 

[RobS]

Boland drive... it used to be Colfax Rd. That was the city limits when I was a kid. My dad and another man bought that block and divided it up. Lots went for $2000.00. Lake lots were much more expensive.... $2500.00

My dad named the street Ribourde Dr. after Father Ribourde who traveled with LaSalle.

They straightened the curve at the intersection of Ribourde and Boland a couple years ago and added a left turn lane when heading west... Back in the mid 80's I used to hit 110 on my '77 RD400 through there running up from Riverside to Portage. Now I'm not comfortable doing 40 in a car.

I knew someone who lived on Ribourde, Blaschke I think. They have quite a mess going at Boland and Portage now, putting in a roundabout I guess?

 

[atgreene]

Well, that about trumps the rest of us! Impressive for sure, is it your "personal" machine?

I have a plowing and excavation business and that old girl is my ace in the hole. The other 3 trucks can usually handle the route, but when we get a heavy snow or have a real winter it's time for the Oshkosh. I picked it up this fall after I sold my other truck with a wing.

It's a 1963 M4819 all wheel drive with a 270 Cummins and a 20 speed 2 stick transmission. It's fun to watch the snow roll.

 

[RobS]

I have a plowing and excavation business and that old girl is my ace in the hole. The other 3 trucks can usually handle the route, but when we get a heavy snow or have a real winter it's time for the Oshkosh. I picked it up this fall after I sold my other truck with a wing.

It's a 1963 M4819 all wheel drive with a 270 Cummins and a 20 speed 2 stick transmission. It's fun to watch the snow roll.

Very cool AT. You may have to indulge us with more photos of that beast! We have some of them at our airport, with very wide blades. There may be a few in the highway fleets too but the Vplows don't come out here often anymore.

 

[MossRoad]

I knew someone who lived on Ribourde, Blaschke I think. They have quite a mess going at Boland and Portage now, putting in a roundabout I guess?

They lived across Portage from us by Corpus Christi, where I went to school with their youngest daughter for a few years, until she transferred to Holy Cross. Then I met her again at St. Joe High. They were very nice and came to my dad's funeral.

That ditch where the roundabout is going was the lot my dad's partner was going to build on. The city ran an 8' drainage pipe from the airport, under Bendix Dr., under Corpus Christi, and into that lot. It was open ditch in that lot and 8' pipe again under Boland. It drains down to Pinhook by going under Boland again about 3 or 4 hundred yard from Riverside... but that has been plugged up for 40 years. My dad's partner sued the city, won a huge settlement, and retired to California.

If you come up from Riverside, on the left is Pinhook. Look to the right about 200 yards from Riverside and you will see a large cahin link fence parallel to the road. Up there is a cemetery with probably a thousand unmarked graves. If you have no money, you go there. At the west end of the fence there used to be a driveway going up to a farmhouse. That farmer ran the farm for the County Home that is still on Portage. It burned down when I was 7 or 8. There used to be an apple orchard there with about 20 cement gravestones with bronze stars on them. They bulldozed the driveway and tossed the gravestones into the ditch. I have told several folks in local government about it, but no one seems to care. I may try Nancy Sulok. Develpers are itching to get ahold of that County Home land... but I doubt they realize there are a thousand dead people there.