PSUFrankenstein

pics from this weekend - windy most of the weekend, but was able to get out on a boat Sunday for an afternoon...fishing was insanely good.

koi dealer? sounds fishy to me...

There's a train that runs from Reading to Jim Thorpe too although looks like its closed this fall. I'll have to check out the scranton one and hit breaker brewing again

Took a ride on the WKS railroad near kutztown this afternoon.

Do we have to use our vehicles as a restroom too?

The elk mountain of beaches Haha. Surf looks pretty calm. Some bigger swells in south Jersey yesterday

I thought Virginia beach at first but I think that was an asphalt boardwalk thing not concrete

It's a very exclusive mountain. Us peasants that ski blue are not welcome

What beach?

Is razors open yet or is the race team still on it?

I have a Jeep too - does that make me a girl?

Yeah I may do that - I have another similar battery that I use for kayak/fishing stuff that would work. You can also run them off of 18v/24v power tool batteries.

Someone in my neighborhood had a power wheels sitting out for free recently... Pulled out the old wiring mess... Added new wiring to the battery and a small cheap battery from Amazon (battery is now secured with a makeshift foam battery box) She approves of her new ride

I used to snowboard on trails and slag piles and coal hills in Schuylkill county...I had the Reading Anthracite pass for a while and would take the Jeep up there in the winter when it snowed and bring the board. It was fun, but it's not worth buying a pass just for that (I guess you could probably sneak up there with no pass, but I never did...they do check occasionally)

Yeah it was cool hanging out with her all day when I was working from home and she was in day care...but she's definitely happier playing with her friends all day at day care than hanging out with me every day

She had a little help from me casting, but my daughter reeled in a few fish yesterday.

Feeding the giraffes at elm Elmwood park zoo. Awesome, my daughter loved it

looking forward to seeing how this turns out. I was looking at split boards just for the hell of it the other week and they seem pretty expensive. DIY is a great option if it works out for you

Yes, a few times. One restaurant twice - I called before going just to check the reservation situation and both times they told me there were only 2 or 3 tables occupied. The other place I ate we just stopped in to check the situation before eating there. Again, only a few tables occupied. They seemed to be on top of cleaning more and tables were really spaced apart. Not sure what it'd look like if it was at "full" (25%?) capacity.

As long as the parking lot situation is good and the skiing is acceptable I'm good. I'm hoping to do a trip out west next year or maybe even December but that'll depend on what's happening with covid

That sucks - our power rarely goes out, but my parents have Met-Ed and their power goes out all the time...they're not expected to have power back until Friday or Saturday either. We only got 4 or 5 inches of rain...Some places near Reading got 7 inches or more of rain on Sunday...and another 7+ yesterday. I drove by the Schuylkill River this morning and it was higher than I've seen it in years.

I had a friend that lived at the bottom of college hill near the car wash (shammy shine or whatever). His place flooded all the time, but I think that was from the creek, not the Delaware river

Sorry to hear - I haven't had a dog since I was in high school, but losing them is always tough. He was a cool dog. Have a few pics from blue of him on my phone and my daughter likes to scroll through the pics and point him out.

Exactly. Or parents that can't work from home at all. Luckily my wife's job is pretty flexible and she can work from home most of the time going forward, but I've been back in the office.

Got a message from the day care: "your daughter has a runny nose and coughed a few times. We're not sending her home since it's no big deal, but she can't return after today until those symptoms are gone, or a doctor clears her" Great...so every time she has a runny nose or coughs, my wife or I have to take her to the doctor, pay a co-pay, and listen to the doctor tell us it's just a cold or allergies. The doctor said she may or may not have to get a COVID test...shit, if I got sent home from school every time my nose ran, I would still be in high school. Most of my family has bad allergies, most likely my daughter too