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Getting going – head East young man, head East…. err – thats not the doing the quote correctly is it?

Ha – properly quoted or not, I am hitting the road today.  Had a wonderful dinner with Jacque, Pat and Gina last night at McCormick & Kuletos  – Thank you very much guys for taking me out to dinner – it was really fun.  AND we got to see all the paper sky lanterns flying ...

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Trip planning – visiting water powered mills

My property in Carlisle is the site of a historical colonial era water powered mill.  The town records indicate that the there was a mill on the site on or around 1660 – which is only 30 years after the founding of Boston.  I will need check this but I believe the mill burned down ...

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Cold today in Carlisle

I am flying today (Saturday) back to San Francisco in order to help pack my stuff out onto the moving van this coming Wednesday. At 6:50am on the front porch – as the sun is rising – the temperature is a stunning 18 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.  As in -18! Yikes!  Good thing it is ...

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Old photos found while we were researching mills (saw and hoop)

My mom found some old photos that we received from Alice Koford when they bought the land on South Street – my dad just scanned the two black and white photos below.  When the spring comes, it will be neat to try and recreate the photos today.  We are having a bit of a debate ...

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Clearing snow, fooling around with photos

My dad and I tag teamed on clearing snow – we decided not tackle things from 2 days ago yesterday because it was so windy.  Today was negative ten degrees below zero (-10 below 🙂  on the porch -when the sun was shining on the porch. We got the snow blower going and cleared the ...

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A snowy day in Massachusetts during a string of ‘clipper’ storms

the view from inside of the drifting snow in Carlisle, MA ...

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A snowy day in Carlisle – good time to …

… Update my website structure to make it easier for me to update and use – instead of still being in the 1990s and coding everything by hand in HTML ! My old site and content is still available at my old site I am soon going to be driving across country and I am ...