Category Archives: Personal

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540 miles to Cleveland

By Rusty | Published: September 12, 2008

Last night we left Raleigh at about 3:30pm with the aim of making it to Cleveland. The supposed ten hour drive ended up only taking us about nine hours, but for a good long stretch in West Virginia the weather was nasty. That weather would have been cool for photography, but our 70-80mph clip took […]

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By Rusty | Published: September 11, 2008
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Rock You Like a Hurricane

By Rusty | Published: September 3, 2008

In an interesting turn of events, we have a Tropical Storm (expected to return to Hurricane strength soon) Bearing down on the Eastern coastline, and scheduled to show up late Friday and peak sometime Saturday morning.

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Water Management

By Rusty | Published: September 1, 2008

Dealing with water on our little wooded lot has proven to be quite the bear in the (just under) three years that we’ve been here. After the great flood with Tropical Storm Alberto, we’ve been pretty fortunate to not have any major maintenance issues as a result of it. The only real result of all […]

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If a Tree Falls in Suburbia…

By Rusty | Published: August 29, 2008

Does anyone hear it? Apparently so! I just lost a good chunk of one of the larger oaks in the back yard. Hopefully we’ll be able to borrow a friend’s chainsaw this weekend. Any volunteers want to come help? You can have as much firewood as you want in exchange!

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