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I am a bit behind on posting adventures but since it is a rainy Sunday, I will try and catch up.   Two weeks ago, my friends Clare and Sebastian Pedersen, came in from Seattle for a bit of a … Continue reading →

Interesting article here on The Magna Carta – it’s 8 century anniversary this year, its impact and suggestions of what it means.  I think it is interesting and intrinsic about The Magna Carta that, while the article does not mention … Continue reading →

Invasive plants were coming back after being cleared by John Bakewell of Carlisle Arboriculture.  So I decided to take over my dad’s scythe with the brush blade to clear stuff on the other side of the silt barriers (since it … Continue reading →

Today, Sunday, we went over to the building site with brooms and a bucket for splashing water around – to try and make the rock Gneiss a bit more camera friendly.  Along the driveway we achieved great success – everywhere … Continue reading →

I was reading the excellent Carlisle:  Its History and Heritage by Ruth Chamberlin Wilkins and came across the founding of the mill on my property on Bedford Road, Carlisle.  I have excerpted it below by hand. Product Details (Amazon.com)  Unknown … Continue reading →

I did a bit of digging for my prior post and when I Google searched for William Koford, I stumbled on the DigitalCommonwealth website.  It is wonderful and pretty well organized considering it appears to be structured via an automated … Continue reading →

I mentioned in this post here  that my parent’s had found some old photos that Alice Koford had taken and given them in the late 1960’s when they purchased the property on South Street in Carlisle.  The photos were taken … Continue reading →

I think my whole family is just chocka-block full of great people – but today, I want to do a little timely bragging about my SiL Tenley. She started a photography business 3 years ago with a vision of combining … Continue reading →

As part of my drive across the country recently, I took a fair amount of video from the Thomson Mill in Shedd OR and the Thomas Kay Mill (Willamette Heritage Center in Salem OR). I realized this morning that I … Continue reading →

Spring is flirting with us but my thought this morning (Sunday) looking out was that things were still pretty frozen.  We got above freezing a very little bit today but the ground is frozen very, very hard still 22 days … Continue reading →