Davidson Woods

July 24, 2006 Sylva, NC
Anne and Chuck submitted on January 14, 1970
The country life continues. Elley visited early last week, and Mom and Dad Strehl arrived while she was here and stayed until today. With visitors we rafted the Nanthahala River, rode the Blue Ridge Parkway, visited Cherokee, and enjoyed watching waterfalls. On Sunday we went to Hot Springs, NC with the Strehl's. We hiked the A.T. into town while the parents enjoyed the town itself. The hike included a descent to the French Broad River zig-zagging down the bluff. The tiny town is a back-packers haven. It is the first town that the trail passes through from the south end. A.T. plaques are part of the sidewalk all along Main Street.
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BLOG TITLEBLOG CONTENTThe country life continues. Elley visited early last week, and Mom and Dad Strehl arrived while she was here and stayed until today. With visitors we rafted the Nanthahala River, rode the Blue Ridge Parkway, visited Cherokee, and enjoyed watching waterfalls. On Sunday we went to Hot Springs, NC with the Strehl's. We hiked the A.T. into town while the parents enjoyed the town itself. The hike included a descent to the French Broad River zig-zagging down the bluff. The tiny town is a back-packers haven. It is the first town that the trail passes through from the south end. A.T. plaques are part of the sidewalk all along Main Street. Today Chuck mowed the large lawn and checked the progress of the sweet corn. It is coming along nicely. Lots of lettuce, squash, beans, and Swiss chard have been harvested. The first tomato turned red yesterday. On Saturday Anne baked a blackberry/blueberry pie with blackberries picked wild from the property and blueberries we picked from a nearby farm. Wonderful. We woke up to the sound of horses this morning. They were not ours. Two of our neighbors horses were out. Exciting for everyone. The good news is that they left no residue on the lawn. Looking forward to our next set of visitors, the Carbones, at the end of the week. All is well.
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Just out from backcountry
TEAM submitted on January 14, 1970
We thought we'd check in since we have a temporary period of access to the rest of the world. We just completed a 3 night adventure in Yellowstone backcountry. Lots of fun!! Lots of hiking. If you feel like looking on a map, we hiked to Bighorn Pass one day and Fawn Pass another day (roughly 9100 feet elevation). Base camp was 5 miles in from West Yellowstone, along the Gallatin River (roughly 7500 feet elevation). Many elk seen but mostly when hiking with 10 people and llamas, few close encounters (all but Anna got up from our picnic area to explore, and an elk walked within 10 feet of her, thinking we were all gone).
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BLOG TITLEBLOG CONTENTWe thought we'd check in since we have a temporary period of access to the rest of the world. We just completed a 3 night adventure in Yellowstone backcountry. Lots of fun!! Lots of hiking. If you feel like looking on a map, we hiked to Bighorn Pass one day and Fawn Pass another day (roughly 9100 feet elevation). Base camp was 5 miles in from West Yellowstone, along the Gallatin River (roughly 7500 feet elevation). Many elk seen but mostly when hiking with 10 people and llamas, few close encounters (all but Anna got up from our picnic area to explore, and an elk walked within 10 feet of her, thinking we were all gone). Throughout our whole trip however we have seen lots of wildlife: moose, black and grizzly bear, bison, elk, white tail and mule deer, pronghorn, wolves, coyote, bighorn sheep, golden and bald eagles, raven, red-naped woodpeckers, meadowlarks, osprey, peregrine falcon vs. goshawk (split decision on ID), sandhill crane, yellow bellied marmot, and others. Found lots of bones, and a few fossils and obsidian flakes discarded by frustrated native ancient flintknappers. Also wading through the Gallatin found a piece of very old petrified tropical wood. We enjoyed getting to know the differences between all the llamas personalities. Some cuddly and some definitely not. Obviously very interesting geologic features including the mountains, and thermal features. Also interesting history. We will try putting pictures up, if we have time. It's getting late so we'll possibly try tomorrow.
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Fun puzzle to solve if you have some time...
Mike submitted on January 14, 1970
If you have the time, and it does take some time, then you should try this. MENSA (organization for really smart people) says if you can solve this problem in a reasonable amount of time (20 minutes) then your IQ should be well above average to Genius. This quiz was made up by Albert Einstein and according to him 98% will not solve it. There is a row of five houses, each having a different colour. In these houses live five people of various nationalities. Each of them nurtures a different beast, likes different drinks and smokes different brand of cigars. 1. The Brit lives in the Red house.
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BLOG TITLEBLOG CONTENTIf you have the time, and it does take some time, then you should try this. MENSA (organization for really smart people) says if you can solve this problem in a reasonable amount of time (20 minutes) then your IQ should be well above average to Genius. This quiz was made up by Albert Einstein and according to him 98% will not solve it. There is a row of five houses, each having a different colour. In these houses live five people of various nationalities. Each of them nurtures a different beast, likes different drinks and smokes different brand of cigars. 1. The Brit lives in the Red house. 2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets. 3. The Dane drinks tea. 4. The Green house is on the left of the White house. 5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee. 6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds. 7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill. 8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk. 9. The Norwegian lives in the first house. 10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats. 11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill. 12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer. 13. The German smokes Prince. 14. The Norwegian lives next to the Blue house. 15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water. Who has fish at home? (are you one of the 2%). AND YES...I DID SOLVE IT!!!
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Birdbrains
Patty submitted on January 14, 1970
We had a lovely Saturday together as a family. Dan had gotten in on Thursday so we had a nice game of Up and Down the River that night. Friday the men in the family went to Auriesville and walked around. Apparently, they have sold the Retreat House, where we think Uncle Francis died, so they couldn't get to that building. I had to work so they all graciously and pleasantly agreed to go on the Pitchoff hike with me in the Adirondacks on Saturday. We heard a strange sound probably a bird but it was almost mammal sounding--we actually thought it was kids fooling around for a long time. Another bird was flutelike in its song so I thought that might be a thrush.
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BLOG TITLEBLOG CONTENTWe had a lovely Saturday together as a family. Dan had gotten in on Thursday so we had a nice game of Up and Down the River that night. Friday the men in the family went to Auriesville and walked around. Apparently, they have sold the Retreat House, where we think Uncle Francis died, so they couldn't get to that building. I had to work so they all graciously and pleasantly agreed to go on the Pitchoff hike with me in the Adirondacks on Saturday. We heard a strange sound probably a bird but it was almost mammal sounding--we actually thought it was kids fooling around for a long time. Another bird was flutelike in its song so I thought that might be a thrush. We stopped at Stewart's on the way out for well deserved food and drink and finished up at home with Homestyle pizza and the documentary about the guy and the grizzlies. "GrizzlyMan". Dan left this am to go back to chitown but not before we twitched as a definite bird, a mom nesting very business like up near Matt's roof. A & C we need you up here to make us respectable. TEAM maybe you are seeing real grizzlies. Love you all, Patty
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Web Site Migration
MarkD submitted on January 14, 1970
New Update (8/25/06 9 am): the web site has been migrated but this will not probably take effect until mid afternoon. Please refrain from posting or changing anything until you see another blog post from me because your new content might not migrate. If for some reason the site does not look normal or I haven't posted by this evening, please understand that I am working on it and should have it back up shortly. Please bear with me. Thanks Update (7/12/06 noon): the site has not yet been moved. They are still working on a few issues that need to be fixed before it happens but it should be any time now.
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BLOG TITLEBLOG CONTENTNew Update (8/25/06 9 am): the web site has been migrated but this will not probably take effect until mid afternoon. Please refrain from posting or changing anything until you see another blog post from me because your new content might not migrate. If for some reason the site does not look normal or I haven't posted by this evening, please understand that I am working on it and should have it back up shortly. Please bear with me. Thanks Update (7/12/06 noon): the site has not yet been moved. They are still working on a few issues that need to be fixed before it happens but it should be any time now. I have been advised that my hosting company will be migrating the web site to a new server on 7/11/2006 at 12:00:00AM (don't ask me whether that is the morning of the 11th -- I assume it is but don't know). Here's how they tell me it will work: <em>We copy your account data, Web files and e-mail onto the new hosting platform. Your site remains “live” on the current PowWeb hosting platform and will continue to be available to your site visitors as it always has. We thoroughly test all aspects of your account in the new hosting environment to make sure everything works correctly. We may ask you to help us test things along the way. Throughout this testing process, your site will be “live” on the current PowWeb hosting platform and will continue to be available to your site visitors. We will e-mail you a notice before your site is scheduled to be moved. After your site has passed our rigorous quality assurance tests, we point your domain name(s) to your site on the new platform. At this point, your site visitors will begin to access your site on the new platform. We e-mail you a second notice to inform you that your domain name has been pointed to the new platform and that the migration is complete.</em> Hopefully this will go smoothly, but if If you experience any problems, please let me know by email or otherwise.
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July 3, 2006 Sylva, NC
Anne and Chuck submitted on January 14, 1970
Mid-summer in the mountains. It is a warm 85 degrees and the sun in intense. At dawn it was foggy and cool as usual. About nine o'clock the sun had dried out the lawn and turned the day toasty. Chuck had watered the garden areas where he planted the second crops of lettuce and beans last Friday. We are already enjoying the harvest of lettuce from the first crop and a bit of basil, coriander, and dill. The corn is already stately and thigh high. No major problems with pests. The dogs are always on patrol, but we still worry that some Peter Rabbit will elude them and find a way through the wire.
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BLOG TITLEBLOG CONTENTMid-summer in the mountains. It is a warm 85 degrees and the sun in intense. At dawn it was foggy and cool as usual. About nine o'clock the sun had dried out the lawn and turned the day toasty. Chuck had watered the garden areas where he planted the second crops of lettuce and beans last Friday. We are already enjoying the harvest of lettuce from the first crop and a bit of basil, coriander, and dill. The corn is already stately and thigh high. No major problems with pests. The dogs are always on patrol, but we still worry that some Peter Rabbit will elude them and find a way through the wire. Chuck was to mow the lawn this morning in preparation for the holiday, but found the mower being loaded into the trailer for commercial duty. Our host's son is in the landscaping business. His more sophisticated machine is having electrical problems and the crew, it seems, borrows our machine when that happens. In any case, we have no plans to go out tomorrow. It is to be a lazy day at the farm, and Chuck won't mind mowing in the morning if the weather is suitable. We do plan to go out tomorrow evening. Sylva has a big Fourth of July festival. The streets close when they are parked up, usually about 6 o'clock. The shops and restaurants will be open and country, blue grass, and popular musicians will perform until dark, and then the fireworks will begin on the lawn of the old courthouse. The old courthouse is situate on a butress of King's Mouintain at the west end of Main Street about 100 steps above street level. It is square and white and the symbol of Jackson County. Illuminated at night it is always impressive. It makes an elegant backdrop to the fine fireworks display. We have enjoyed the party here on the fourth once before. We look forward to this year's festivities. Last weekend found us out and about. We planned to bird on Saturday. We still have not spent a morning birding the Great Balsam range that is reached by the Blue Ridge Parkway twelve miles east from here. But at dawn we decided to to go a bit farther south in search of the rare and elusive Swainson's warbler. This is a strange little bird that was first discovered along the Carolina and Georga coast in canebrake thickets. Its lovely song, "sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet-sweet-sweet haunts the swamps. Some time later it was discovered that the bird also inhabits rhododendron thickets in stream gorges along the Appalachian escarpment. Chuck has long dreamed of finding it in this cooler and less buggy enviroment. We had, in fact, seen this bird only once in of all places, New York City. An individual had overshot the Southeast in the spring of 2005 and spent a week in Forest Park of Queens. In this age of Internet Birding, Chuck had spied a report prior to a visit to Chappaqua for a shower for Samantha. Since, sadly, men still do not go to showers, he had to occupy himself during the event. He forced himself to go birding at the (birding) famous Jamaica Bay National Wildlife Refuge and also stopped at Forest Park. He had general directions, but the park is somewhat large. He also feared that parking would be a considerable problem. It turned out that there was lots of parking at dawn on Saturday morning. There was a map on a board. He knew the bird had been seen near a pond. The map showed a trail going past a pond. He started walking. Joggers and bikers went by. He began to feel very foolish. How was he going to find a little bird in this big woods, if it was even still here. He walked about one hundred yards and went over a rise. Looking down he saw three people standing below looking through binoculars. He walked gently down the hill and behind them. "Do you have the bird," he asked. "About fifty feet out, underneath a dogwood." He spotted it and raised his glasses. There rolling leaves in the Big Apple was the Swainsons. Chuck savored the life bird for about five minutes, then went on to Jamaica Bay to look for spring birds there. The success became an irritation for Anne, who had never seen this bird either. She wanted it. So, on Sunday, we returned to Pennsylvania via Queens. We parked and went down the trail. The bird was not where Chuck had seen it the day before, but we did not quit. We searched on not for the bird, but for the birders. We found them a bit further out. They had left the bird but gave specific directions. We found and savored excellent views of a bird that is usually only glimpsed in dense swamps. New York City birding at its best! We looked for the bird later that season in its coastal habitat, at the Dismal Swamp in Virginia, but it eluded us there. This time we choose to seek it in spectacular gorge of the Chattooga River along the North Carolina/South Carolina border. We walked some three miles up and down the beautiful stream past carved rock, waterfalls, and pools. We heard and saw hooded, worm-eating, black-throated blue, black-throated green, and ovenbird warblers. We played the song of the Swainson's from time to time, but elicited no response. Just as we returned to the car we heard another hooded warbler singing, and with it the richer song of the Swainsons. Anne picked it out. "Is that a Swainson's?" We listened for a minute but the song faded. Chuck decided to play the recording a few times. No response. We waited a minute. Suddenly we were assaulted with mutliple "sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet-sweet-sweet's. The resident male was making it very clear that this was its territory. It flashed into view. We watched it circle and sing and then vanish again into the Rhododendrons. Mountain birding at its best! On Sunday we bike hiked another section of the Appalachian Trail east of Hot Springs. The bike ride was almost twelve miles. It started with a two mile exhilerating descent and ended with a ten mile gradual ascent along a stream through forest and farm land. At the end, the road became somewhat steep as we reached Allen Gap and the trail. We parked the bikes in the woods and walked some nine miles through cool forest back to the car. We hope to complete all of trail from Roan Mountain south by the end of our time here. We have about one hundred miles left. We will backpack part of it including that across the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. That's all for now. Still having fun in Carolina.
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York PA
Tom submitted on January 14, 1970
This article caught my eye becuase it has the byline,"York. PA" and was a positive message. "Arabs in York, PA"
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BLOG TITLEBLOG CONTENTThis article caught my eye becuase it has the byline,"York. PA" and was a positive message. "<a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110008591">Arabs in York, PA</a>"
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Going to Law school
Tom submitted on January 14, 1970
an article about the cost and traps of going to law school. "Don't go to law school"
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BLOG TITLEBLOG CONTENTan article about the cost and traps of going to law school. "<a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110008556">Don't go to law school</a>"
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gift ideas
Tom submitted on January 14, 1970
Just in time for the summer birthdays. "Encyclopedia of Conservatism"
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BLOG TITLEBLOG CONTENTJust in time for the summer birthdays. "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/books/21conserve.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5094&en=b68c2b58d51612b7&hp&ex=1150948800&partner=homepage">Encyclopedia of Conservatism</a>"
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cookout June 24th
Norb submitted on January 14, 1970
Good Morning All The weather looks good for Sat. Could I have an approximate list for those comming and what you will bring. Patty was working on something but I lost it. Frank just e'd me and said they'd bring beans. Could someone make a cake for Dad?
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BLOG TITLEBLOG CONTENTGood Morning All The weather looks good for Sat. Could I have an approximate list for those comming and what you will bring. Patty was working on something but I lost it. Frank just e'd me and said they'd bring beans. Could someone make a cake for Dad?
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