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Post by bowbum on Oct 18, 2016 15:58:30 GMT -5
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Post by ridgecommander on Oct 18, 2016 17:36:39 GMT -5
Beautiful and way ahead of where we are at color wise.
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Post by bowbum on Oct 19, 2016 8:16:50 GMT -5
Beautiful and way ahead of where we are at color wise. Some areas close-by here are not caught up with this immediate vicinity either. We are losing leaves since the wind yesterday but both of us are still in awe of the brightness and intensity of the colors this year. We put our work aside to take a walk a few times already. Seems we can't get enough of it. I bet we took 300 pictures and filed about 50 of them as "keepers." |
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Post by dennyf on Oct 19, 2016 8:31:36 GMT -5
Most awesome time of the year to be outdoors in PA. The colors, smell of autumn in the air, doesn't get any better.
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Post by timberdoodle on Oct 19, 2016 8:56:36 GMT -5
Beautiful! We're done here going the other way every day now... Yesterday took a couple to Rochester amazing colors in some areas, some little to nothing, some past and the closer we got to Rochester the greener it got... Surprisingly, even some corn fields were still green.. That far North must be the lake effect  ? |
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Post by bowbum on Oct 19, 2016 9:27:10 GMT -5
Beautiful! We're done here going the other way every day now... Yesterday took a couple to Rochester amazing colors in some areas, some little to nothing, some past and the closer we got to Rochester the greener it got... Surprisingly, even some corn fields were still green.. That far North must be the lake effect ? The last two years we traveled north in early October past Albany NY and into New England and each time we noticed our colors ahead of theirs....I think you are right about lake affect and maybe coastal-ocean impact. Took a few more this morning.   ![]()  |
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Post by fleroo on Oct 19, 2016 9:58:16 GMT -5
A couple of what ?
... I think yonder here, we are going to get very limited color to view. Too much Green this stage of the game, and the wind is knocking the leaves off even before they turn. Guess it happens some year ?
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Post by 3212 on Oct 19, 2016 10:52:44 GMT -5
Beautiful.I'm driving up 322 along the Juniata river tomorrow.I hope to see some color there.Its my Oct.doe hunt.I sit on a high spot where I can see for miles.My favorite outing of the year.
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Post by timberdoodle on Oct 19, 2016 15:40:30 GMT -5
A couple of what ? ... I think yonder here, we are going to get very limited color to view. Too much Green this stage of the game, and the wind is knocking the leaves off even before they turn. Guess it happens some year ? a couple... husband & wife and their 2 yo daughter.. The wife has heart trouble doing better now but they are Old Order Mennonite, horse & buggy, steel wheels, no electric types... but sometimes they need to rely on a motor vehicle. to get around. As it was Strong Memorial Hospital and Rochester General yesterday both in Rochester NY... tough trip in a buggy. |
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Post by fleroo on Oct 20, 2016 6:00:16 GMT -5
Always thought the "old order" Mennonite, Amish, etc... shunned modern medicine, and had their own medicinal folk to tend to their needs ?
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Post by bowbum on Oct 20, 2016 7:50:36 GMT -5
Always thought the "old order" Mennonite, Amish, etc... shunned modern medicine, and had their own medicinal folk to tend to their needs ? It's not at all uncommon to see them in Lancaster General Hospital and doctor's offices. If they need a doctor, they go to the doctor. |
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Post by fleroo on Oct 20, 2016 8:17:41 GMT -5
Well, good to hear. Typically a good policy no matter what "order" ?
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Post by timberdoodle on Oct 20, 2016 8:21:22 GMT -5
yep Bowbum is right... last year she was in intensive care for almost two months and the church is helping pay the expenses.. So I can only assume it is not frowned upon by the establishment....
I only know what they tell me and I don't pry into their beliefs. I do know that they are a hard working young couple with three kids and a rather enormous burden upon the family, but you would never know it with their attitude and demeanor. I consider it a privilege to know such people.
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Post by fleroo on Oct 20, 2016 8:27:34 GMT -5
It's good to surround yourself with good folks.
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Post by 3212 on Oct 20, 2016 9:48:04 GMT -5
Always thought the "old order" Mennonite, Amish, etc... shunned modern medicine, and had their own medicinal folk to tend to their needs ? It's not at all uncommon to see them in Lancaster General Hospital and doctor's offices. If they need a doctor, they go to the doctor. For many years the Amish in Lancaster County have been transported by neighbors with cars.Usually for longer distances or medical necessity.There's a cottage industry known as "Amish Taxi's" for hire.As a teenager I transported Amish neighbors to the doctor in 1959/61.I see them at Hershey Medical Center.They tend to have some genetic conditions due to a closed gene pool. |
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Post by bowbum on Oct 20, 2016 18:22:20 GMT -5
It's not at all uncommon to see them in Lancaster General Hospital and doctor's offices. If they need a doctor, they go to the doctor. For many years the Amish in Lancaster County have been transported by neighbors with cars.Usually for longer distances or medical necessity.There's a cottage industry known as "Amish Taxi's" for hire.As a teenager I transported Amish neighbors to the doctor in 1959/61.I see them at Hershey Medical Center.They tend to have some genetic conditions due to a closed gene pool. There's a lot of muscular dystrophy in the Amish community. I worked with a lot of Amish and also with two guys who ferried the Amish around in a van at times. We, and they, called them, (affectionately), the Yoney Bus. Rented my old place to Amish guys about 30 years ago for a week of hunting. That was an experience. |
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Post by dennyf on Oct 20, 2016 19:13:00 GMT -5
SheWolf has a cousin in NJ with a large "garden shop" sort of business. Has a crew that does landscaping and lawn maintenance. Handles everything from plants, trees and shrubs, to exotic birds. Caters to a pretty much upscale clientele and sells lots of playhouses, garden sheds, fancy wooden playground sets, etc. All built by an Amish family business in Lancaster County and he's been dealing with them for decades. His son was an orthopedic surgeon at Johns Hopkins, until he was killed in an auto accident some years ago. Back in the mid 90s, the oldest son's wife in the Amish clan, had major back problems and the doc had her down to Johns Hopkins and fixed her up. She and her husband came down to Inner Harbor for the wedding reception, when the doctor got married, sat at our family table. They were pretty much dressed like Mennonites, plaid shirt, dark trousers for him; bonnet and print dress for her. Went outside for a smoke and the Amish feller came out with me. Someone else asked if he was one of the Amish that cousin Fred got stuff from? Then he asked if someone brought the Amishman and his wife down for the wedding. Jakey said, nah we come dahn in da piggup. After he went back inside, the nosy guy asked me WTH he'd just said, so I 'splained that they "came down in the pickup". Special exemptions for special needs. I remember one bad drought year when a Bishop gave approval for some Amish to borrow tractors to get their crops in more quickly. Oddly enough, they seemed to already know how to operate tractors?  |
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Post by 3212 on Oct 20, 2016 23:36:35 GMT -5
Well,today could not have gone better.The leaves in Juniata were about 50% colored.When I got to my spot a breeze came up and cooled me off.I sat behind an old round bale in a tree line and watched a wooded ridge.Just like last year the deer came out at 6:15.I took a doe with the .243.I took it to a butcher who will skin and age it 5 days before cutting.
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Post by bowbum on Oct 21, 2016 7:45:11 GMT -5
Well,today could not have gone better.The leaves in Juniata were about 50% colored.When I got to my spot a breeze came up and cooled me off.I sat behind an old round bale in a tree line and watched a wooded ridge.Just like last year the deer came out at 6:15.I took a doe with the .243.I took it to a butcher who will skin and age it 5 days before cutting. Congratulation on a fine day hunting. My son got a doe yesterday also in Michigan. |
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Post by bowbum on Oct 21, 2016 7:54:16 GMT -5
Special exemptions for special needs. I remember one bad drought year when a Bishop gave approval for some Amish to borrow tractors to get their crops in more quickly. Oddly enough, they seemed to already know how to operate tractors? Denny my Amish hunters drove themselves up here in two pick ups. They brought along several cases of beer and several jugs of Southern Comfort. The neighbors called me on Tuesday, (I was staying in Forksville), to tell me the PGC come up to investigate some night shooting at my place. I called Barry Hambly, (WCO), and he told me no charges were filed.....they were pretty hammered and turned the floodlights on and were "practicing" from the porch. There were seven guys and they never killed a deer but they drove the woods every day - all day and pushed a bunch of deer to other hunters. The father of one of them worked for me doing block laying and concrete work at times. A month or so later he asked me how it went wit da boys. I told him it took me a week to clean the joint and get rid of all the cans and empty bottles. He smiled and said, "I'll tell Chris, (Byler), it's bout time for Rumspringa to fade out." |
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Post by dennyf on Oct 21, 2016 8:40:35 GMT -5
Ah, rumspringa! At least one large outdoor party broken up by the police in the past year, that I read about. Most of the time such things don't make da news.  Leaves are just starting to change around here this week. Be interesting to see how the weather has affected our local color. Even though we've had more rain than the north central region this year, things are getting dry again in these parts. With the storms that passed thru up north yesterday and last night, I expect more leaves up there will have been knocked off? Read a Pennlive article last evening, about the effects of the northern tier drought. It featured interviews with John Painter, a dairy farmer with large land holdings in both Potter and Tioga counties. Don't know him personally, know of him. He still has hundreds of acres not far from my camp. Some years ago there was a huge amount of corn over on his land, probably at a minimum, 100 acres of corn in several adjoining fields, with some open fields interspersed. Locals put on several drives over there on opening day of firearms deer. One farmer told me they would've needed about another fifty watchers, because every time they went into the standing corn, dozens of deer ran out, crossed the open areas and scooted into another part of the corn fields. Corn is short enough this year, could probably shoot a deer running in standing corn?  |
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Post by 3212 on Oct 21, 2016 9:03:20 GMT -5
Ah yes"Rumspringa".Granddad sold his farm to an amishman.The oldest son moved in with his younger brother as hired man.One weekend the married brother and family left and younger brother was in charge.We would get raw milk from them.I would walk over with a stainless steel container with a quarter in it.This was in the days of milk cans stored in cold water coolers.Well,Friday evening buggies and cars started arriving and the party got going.When I went over for milk the cooler was full of beer and the cans were sitting out.The guitars were playing,a '55 Pontiac was doing donuts in a field with a young boy laying on the hood hanging on to the hood ornament with bloody hands.Girls every where.It went on for two days.
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