Outside My Windows III - Around the Campfire

[theirishguard]

Richard, thanks, now buy something LOL
Tom

[R9SCarry]

Yours truly gets airborne!

Beaut' spring day and went to help a local guy with a flying field sort out some computer issues, web stuff etc.  Semi social call really as well as excuse to get bike out!

Business over with - he got out his old 2 seat ultralite and off we went for a 30 minute trip locally.  He is not that far from my place and so we did some fly-overs there and around.  

I did I think post a few aerial pics some time back taken by American Images but this was a chance to photograph things for myself, as well as nearby spots.  Unfortunately yet - winter brown is still somewhat the color tho trees soon will be out.

First is a view across to where I am - bit right of center on top edge of the big long field - usually planted with corn.





Same place but from another angle - home is just left of center.




Just up the road a mile away is Pleasantville, looking approx to the North.  Allegheny range in distance.




This is the guy's house and flying field - a very nice 2,000' plus strip - good too for my RC planes!  Landing strip is in top third of pic.




Coming in on final - damn, I love flying!

[Richard S]

Thanks, Chris!  Those photos made my pulse quicken with some great memories of puttering around the skies of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania in a Cessna 150 back in the '70s.  The land is still as beautiful as I remember it.  

[CaptBW]

Thanks Chris. Very nice photos.

[MountainMan]

Nice Chris - have never been in an ultra light - looks exciting - with that corn field you can have your own "Field of Dreams".

[Michigunner]

Great pictures, Chris.

Fun to see.  Thanks for doing it.

Bill

[theirishguard]

Chris, thanks for your up in the air views, beauiful. It can take away ones breath.
Tom

[DTM_39]

Chris looks like a pretty exciting afternoon. Nice pictures. Dan

[MountainMan]

What I Did Today - Or The Curse Of Living In The Woods

Didn't have the fun Chris did on my day off.  I still had piles of leaves that where left over from fall.  So I loaded them on a tarp and pulled them over the hill a couple hundred yards to dump.  Leaves look light but this much, and many wet, are rather heavy.

Did ten loads like this today.  Last fall I hauled away about twenty loads before the snow.  And this is just right around the house - about 5% of the property - the rest of the property is left natural.  Need to get something to make this easier.

Still need to rent a brush hog - there is another two days.  Then picking up twigs and branches that came down around the house over the winter.  I think it would have been more fun to not have the week off.

Oh well - it is nice and peaceful in the summer.

Cell phone pictures so not the best:

[R9SCarry]

Dave - for cell phones pics those are great!

I do not envy you that size area to clear or the qty of leaves!!  Bonnie and I had enough fun this afternoon emptying our small pond to clean that out and remove a lot of stinky rotten leaves.

And yes - wet leaves get real heavy!!!

But ahhh - the sense of achievement!!!

[Aglifter]

I don't know if these are still made -- benefit of having a farm where every implement has been kept in functional condition since the late 1700s when my family bought it...

But, we have a trailer, that's intended for spreading normal manure/mucking from stalls -- we fill it w. leaves, then go out and spread them/use it as a dump trailer, depending on what we're up to.  The main benefit is it's a trailer meant for fairly light, bulky loads that can dump.


The other bit is use a plastic mucking shovel to move the piles

[theirishguard]

Dave, I sure like the stone used in building your house. Now, you know what real work is!
Tom

[Michigunner]

Beautiful home, Dave.

I find that in early November the leaves all blow away.

The natural methods work well.

[Michigunner]

Chris,

Do you have a picture of that ultra-light airplane?

That must really be fun, as long as the air is nice and quite.

Bill

[R9SCarry]

Bill - no I don't.  Crazy really I should have taken a pic of it.  It's an old 1986 model with partial fuselage and canopy, tho I had my side panels off for pic taking.

Pretty basic machine but flies well.  This one, unlike many, has a fully covered wing - flat bottom with quite significant angle of attack - most of course are the under-cambered style.

Next time I go up (sometime I hope) I'll make sure I take a pic of it.