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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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We were up in Boston this weekend. I needed to rescue a bunch of antique radios and test equipment. We packed up 35 boxes of stuff for the movers to bring to Georgia. A much smarter move than driving the truck up and back down. It is 16 hours each way, it would have been a much larger commitment.
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Here is a pic I took a couple months back of a fire truck greeting us on the ramp. No we weren't on fire thankfully. It was the last flight for the captain before retirement. The other pic is Jackson county Airport, Georgia.
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A pic from Curitiba Brazil a couple of weeks ago. I always seem to see cars upside down in Brazil.
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We were up in Rochester and Berkshire, NY. It was nice to spend time on the farm. We had half a day in Rochester, here is the quick video.
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Back from a trip in Minnesota. One of my global teams. Folks from USA, China, France, Brazil, Italy, Germany, England, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland shown here.