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Worst Weather in the World

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I flew up to Maine to see my sister and cousins for a few days. As part of the trip we went up Mount Washington in NH. We went up on the Cogged Railway. It's A unique old vehicle system that only uses a large cog underneath the engine hooked into a ladder type of rack on the tracks all the way to the top. The modern engine uses a 600HP John Deere driving a hydraulic pump which in turn drives several hydraulic motors turning the large cog. Mt Washington is known for the extreme cold and highest wind in the world. Yes, the world. That was not the case when we went up. The winds were 3 MPH and the temp was 62 degrees. the highest ever temp ever recorded was 72 degrees and a 3 MPH wind is generally unheard of. So, the weather was quite kind for us.
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New Driveway! and Contemporary Logistics

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Another couple pics of my new driveway going in on the farm. I dont know about you all, but I get package deliveries and I have no idea of what they are when they arrive. I seem to have some dual thinking. I am usally thinking "where is that thing? Did I order it? Did I plan things right?" And at the same time the stuff I am "waiting on" arrives before I am really waiting. The parcel delivery thing is so fast these days it seems crazy. I can see the discussion of the future (maybe now). "Whadaya mean--- I ordered that blanked-blank DAYS ago! I can't belive these delays!" Maybe I am just of the generation where we mailed in a bunch of box-tops from cereal boxes (to places like Battle Creek Michigan) and had to wait something like 9 weeks for essentially a cracker jack toy--- even if "cracker jack toy" has meaning anymore.
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