Cabin video

OK...I admit I never knew about Microsoft Movie Maker. My brother (http://ourwellsfamilynews.blogspot.com/) introduced me to it. So, like a kid with a new toy, I immediately produced a video...and here it is!!

Enjoy!!

PA fall foliage

Have you ever been to the northern part of the State in the fall to see the fall leaves? No?? You should!! There are any number of places one can travel to look at the leaves. One, of course, is The Grand Canyon of PA, http://www.visittiogapa.com/canyon.html.

Our favorite, as you might guess, is in Sullivan County at Worlds End State Park, http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/worldsend.aspx Be sure to travel both to High Knob and Canyon Vista. Stop by the park office for a map, or down load one from the web site.

This years Flaming Foliage Festival in Forksville, http://www.thesullivanconnection.com/events.html only a couple miles from the park, will be Oct. 4 and 5. Free admission!! Try the french fries!! We will be at the cabin that weekend and will definitely visit all of the places I mentioned...hope to see you at one of them!!

Bradford County Weather Now on-line!

Yes...it's true! You can now check out the weather in southern Bradford County form the comfort of your computer! We installed an old weather station and APRS radio set-up (the apprentice has been in mothballs for at least 7 or 8 years) at the cabin. It checks limited weather parameters every 10 minutes and broadcast then, via ham radio, into the APRS radio network. The radio traffic is then picked up and sent to the web for all to see. The link is:
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=N3HCP-3
The perimeters recorded are temperature, wind speed, and rain since midnight. Because this is a very old weather station, some things don't work as they should. The wind direction part of the anemometer has failed, and the rain gauge only reports in .1 inch increments. The system expects .01 inch, so the reading from the station needs to be multiplied by 10 to get the correct rain fall amount. It is my hope that this set-up will survive long enough to prove that a weather station at the cabin is a viable idea. Hopefully I will be able to improve it later.

Northern PA weather

We just got back from a camping trip to World's End with our friends from Myerstown. As usual, the nights were a bit on the cool side. Wednesday morning it was down in the 40's. Part of the problem is that the camp ground is in a Vally near the Loyalsock Creek. on calm, clear nights not only do we get the normal heat loss to the dark sky, but all the cold air from the surrounding hills drains into the valley. Add to that, there was rain on Tuesday do we had evaporative cooling to add into the mix. Put it all together and we were glad we had a heater in the camper!!