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Back South Again with More Projects

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A lot of driving. I have forgotten how much driving is involved when on the farm. Everything is far. But I also had to drive up and back twice to Syracuse to pickup/drop off Angie at the airport and a business meeting for Wisdomino in Albany. Yeah it was a lot of driving for me. All and all it was about 4000 miles in three weeks. Early in the morning I decided to check out some auctions (dangerous). I ended up being high bidder on a 2015 New Holland Boomer 33 ( "hours unknown, does not run, may have problems, no key, no battery" ) from the State of Tennessee. I figured I could swing by Nashville and pick it up on the way to Georgia. And indeed I did. It was only a couple of hours extra, maybe 4. But, it was more efficient than going to Georgia and then back and forth to Nashville. Nashville is about 4 hours from Duluth. So I was looking at a 4 hour savings. After I go through it and getting if working I will tow it up to the farm in NY. I wasn't prepared for a trac...
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I heard some street wisdom a while back that said if you are absolutely destitute you will do at least one of the following, Steal, Beg or Sell your body. I have trips to Brazil and Arizona coming up. I am excited about Brazil. I am going to an "Eco Community" (basically tree houses) for a weekend.
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I went flying this weekend. It was very cold in Atlanta. The windchill got down to +17 degrees F. Brrr. I took a very fancy plane out (2012 Cirrus SR-22) for a test flight. I think the avionics in the plane are better than most jets.