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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 finally got the blog working again. Not sure what happened exactly, but I had to work through all the DNS settings again. Here are some pics from iceland not taken with the drone. It is a very cool place. Almost every scene around every hill is something different as if it was part of a simulated experience and the creators aren't finished yet. At points it felt very post-apocalyptic. The rugged black-crunchy terrain, being in dense clouds after being in lonely expanses and the smell of sulfur was quite different from the everyday stuff.