{"id":2652,"date":"2021-10-18T11:13:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/?p=2652"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:13:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:13:44","slug":"odds-and-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/index.php\/2021\/10\/18\/odds-and-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds and Ends&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long time, once again! I feared this might happen \u2013 there has not been a lot going on here and I have been wrapped up with outdoor projects such as cutting\/splitting wood, installing a firepit, and trying to get ready for our annual Halloween party (taking place this coming Saturday). And on top of all that, we went up to Maine for the weekend to visit my wife\u2019s sister and family, and attend their annual Halloween party. All that left me with precious little time to write. Even now, I have so many details to work out and get ready for the party Saturday that I really should be outside working or shopping and not parked here typing. Yet here I am!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">So let\u2019s see here\u2026the firewood. I had just about run out of wood to split. The last tree I dropped is all cut and split except for four or five stubborn pieces I\u2019ve yet to split. I really had zero interest in taking down another tree now, right before the party (and perhaps at all for the foreseeable future). So I found a guy selling log length wood \u2013 essentially six to ten-foot sections of trunks and branches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1465-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2653\" width=\"415\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1465-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1465-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1465-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1465-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1465-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1465-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">He dropped it in my driveway completely clogging up most of the upper half of the driveway so with the party coming up, it was almost my fulltime effort to get it all cut into 18\u201d lengths and then moved down to the back of the yard for splitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So for days I cut and cut and cut \u2013 sawdust and wood chips everywhere and a huge pile of big heavy pieces that needed to be moved. I cut about half of it and then spent a day or two loading each piece into my wheelbarrow and taking the journey back to my splitting area. Using my FitBit, I counted the steps from the driveway to the splitting area and back, then used stride length to determine distance. It turned out to be just under a quarter-mile round trip, with at least three or four hundred pounds in each load. I ended up with something like nine-miles of travel to get it all moved! Back breaking work\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1468-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2654\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1468-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1468-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1468-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1468-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1468-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1468-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I have a huge mess in my splitting area so I have begun splitting and then moving the split wood back up to my storage areas. Now some of you may be asking why I don\u2019t just split where I stack and store it, but if you don\u2019t know, splitting wood makes one helluva\u2019 mess! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1523-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2658\" width=\"389\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1523-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1523-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1523-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1523-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1523-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1523-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just too much mess and ground destruction to do up in the upper yard by the house. So I\u2019ll be moving the wood once again \u2013 and then again (in smaller quantities) as I move it into the house for burning. All I can say is that it is good, hard, honest work and that I enjoy pretty much all of it. But quite time consuming!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The firepit was my anniversary gift to my wife. Our anniversary was the first weekend of October and like last year \u2013 and unlike all previous years for decades \u2013 we did not go away to celebrate. We stayed home and went out to our favorite Chinese place to celebrate and it was wonderful. Since we\u2019ve been spending so much time in the yard, and she has never been quite happy with the smallish metal fire pit we\u2019ve been using, I got here a nice big one made of formed cast concrete to look exactly like cobblestones, which is then colored for the look you like: gray or brown or whatever. It includes cap \u201cstones\u201d and an internal metal ring to protect the pit itself. It did not take long to put together and we\u2019ve already used it twice. I placed into a larger area than I had the smaller one and that opened it up nicely. A great addition to the yard! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1538-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2656\" width=\"437\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1538-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1538-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1538-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1538-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1538-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1538-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1554-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2657\" width=\"342\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1554-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1554-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1554-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1554-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1554-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I won\u2019t get too much into Halloween in this post; I put up a few things in the woods pretty much every day, slowly getting it ready, and my wife has been doing the same indoors. I can\u2019t\/won\u2019t put out any of the powered units yet, just in case of rain between now and the party; I also like to hold back a few things to surprise the grandkids the day of the party. But I have a lot to do still just decorating, never mind getting all the food and drinks and pumpkins (I think at last count I need more than 20) to be ready for Saturday. And then, somewhere around Wednesday we begin the fingernail biting as we watch the weather forecast praying we get no rain. Once you buy all the food, you really can\u2019t just decide to move the party to the next weekend due to rain \u2013 you are stuck with what you get! It\u2019ll be fine \u2013 it always is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now the trip to Maine; the party was great fun and the kids (now in their late 30\u2019s \/ 40\u2019s) had a great time, as did the grandkids. There was a candy hunt, pumpkin carving, a hayride, and great food \u2013 a really wonderful time. The drive up is right around five hours, sometimes longer depending upon traffic. We were on track for a five hour journey until we began to see brake lights up ahead on RT95 north, which quickly brought us to a complete dead stop. And after five minutes of that, I realized that I had not seen a single car pass by on the other side \u2013 the four southbound lanes were completely empty and quiet, apparently stopped up ahead of whatever it was that interrupted our drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We ended up sitting there for just about one full hour \u2013 yes, a full hour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1570-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2661\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1570-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1570-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1570-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1570-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1570-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got on my phone and determined that there had been a severe crash just a little distance up ahead and that they had to shut down the entire highway to land a helicopter to life-flight the victim(s) to a hospital. Eventually we saw the helicopter take off and shortly after it did, southbound traffic began to flow. However, we did not; we stayed there at least another 15 or 20 minutes until we finally began to creep forward. Our four lanes were force-merged into a single lane so it was a slow crawl to get past the scene where there were literally dozens of fire, rescue, DOT, and police personnel. We never did see the car \u2013 only where it had entered the tree line on the right side of the road and the debris scattered everywhere. It had gone so far and so deeply into the trees that it was invisible to us; clearly a reflection of the speed it had been traveling at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been a while since I have driven any great distance on a major highway \u2013 over a year. And what I quickly found was that 80MPH is the new 70MPH. The Massachusetts speed limit is 65 away from the cities. So the rule of thumb is usually 5-10MPH above the posted limit \u2013 used to be. At 80MPH I was barely keeping up with the flow of traffic and that was in the right-hand lanes; I estimate 90+ in the high-speed lane! People are just driving faster, which is fine as long as people drive carefully and correctly. But all bets are off once people begin capriciously switching lanes to \u201cbetter\u201d their road position and drive a little faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have no idea if this is what really happened with this accident, but I simply cannot envision a driver suddenly yanking the steering wheel hard right and taking a 90-degree departure into the trees on the side of the road. Just doesn\u2019t happen. What does happen is that people suddenly change lanes and cut off other drivers; and sometimes they misjudge the opening and clip the front of the car that they are cutting off with their rear bumper. And when that happens, the struck vehicle often gets ricocheted off the road like an errant pinball while the car that caused it just keeps motoring on down the road. Again \u2013 I don\u2019t know that\u2019s what happened here \u2013 in this case the car that left the road could have been the offending vehicle, essentially doing it to himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My daughter and her husband were some distance behind us so I texted them to be aware and possibly find an alternate route. As it turned out, they were still in the motel and by the time they were ready to leave, traffic was moving once again. He later told me that when they passed the scene (still only a single lane all that time later) the car was being pulled up onto a flatbed. He said it looked like it had been filleted \u2013 roof peeled off, doors gone, window pillars gone, all evidence of the long- and difficult-time rescue personnel had extracting the driver (not sure if there were passengers). And for a what? Another few miles per hour? So not worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But all this talk is for a reason. Once I got home last night, I began to think about all the evidence in front of me; where we were in relation to the accident and the speed at which we were traveling. And it occurred to me that we had to have ben scant seconds from being right in the middle of it. We were stopped less than a quarter mile from the accident. At 60MPH a quarter mile represents 15 seconds of travel. At 80MPH a quarter mile is around 11 seconds. So we were a mere 11 seconds behind that crash; perhaps less because I like to be conservative and I think we were actually less than a quarter mile from it. Sobering thought\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The randomness of fate; a driver cuts me off and I take my foot off the gas for a second or two, I move into a different lane and get stuck behind a slower car for a few seconds before I can pull out to pass it. Those seemingly insignificant tiny delays were all just enough to keep me out of that accident. The vagaries of chance \u2013 it\u2019ll boggle your mind the more you think about it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enough for now \u2013 I still have a looooong list of things I need to get done so I need to stop now. Enjoy this upcoming week of real autumn weather (at least around here)! Stay well dear reader!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long time, once again! 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