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Piping plovers are beginning to hatch on the NF! :eek:

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Audubon Society: Avoid piping plover areas

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On beaches across the North Fork piping plovers are beginning to hatch, and the North Fork Audubon Society wants everyone to know they’re out there and to be careful not to disturb their nests.

The chicks are hatching this week, Jennifer Murray of the society said, and people need to be careful when they walk on beaches, and respect the signs and fencing around nesting areas.

In particular, she said, it’s important to keep dogs leashed and, if they need to run, take them to dog-friendly parks and not to beaches where there are nesting areas.

Plover chicks, Ms. Murray said, “don’t fly until they are about a month old and their defense against predators is to just hunker down and look like a rock, and they can get stepped on.”
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Mrs. V. and I are getting used to going up and down the stairs several times a day. :biggrin:

Happily the stairs are narrow enough so that we can grab onto something on both sides when going down. :thumbsup:

WLNG Oldies 92 is playing old times patriotic music today so I have turned them off. If God really loves America she has a funny way of showing it. ;)
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The weather cleared enough yesterday so both North Fork towns held their Memorial Day parades. :thumbsup:
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Now that the rain has stopped the lawnmowers are back. :(
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Volkonski wrote: Tue Jun 01, 2021 5:19 pm Now that the rain has stopped the lawnmowers are back. :(
Just curious. Doesn't your grass get cut too? Maybe you could all decide on the same day/time to cut the grass. And I'd MUCH rather hear a lawnmower than a leaf blower.
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Our grass gets cut once a week by a 3 person team with 54 inch wide riding mowers. Just 10 minutes and they are gone. :thumbsup:

Today the guy who does 3 cottages here with an 18 inch push mower took over an hour and a half.
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The Polish Town Festival has been cancelled again this year. :(

By the time the organizers decided that the pandemic would be sufficiently under control it was too late to get everything done by August. You don't just conjure up tons of kielbasa in a few weeks time.
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After the rainy Memorial Day weekend we had two days of clear weather.

Now I sit on the porch waiting for two days of rain to start. :(

The good news it that the weekend's weather will be perfect. Sunny, high 70s. :biggrin:
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WLNG Oldies 92 reports that rain will arrive in 20 minutes.

Small craft warnings will go up at 2 PM.

Right now it is calm. Too calm. :?

We await the tempest.
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The rain arrives.
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A determined older couple from the road just south of our Circle just walked thru with their dog.

They had rain ponchos. Poor doggy had none. :(

Hope there is a warm towel waiting for it when they get home.
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Nobody likes a wet dog. - Thomas Jefferson
Out from under. :thumbsup:
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Just now in the rain our sprinkler service arrived to turn on our system.

Poor guy looked wet and cold. :(
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Volkonski wrote: Thu Jun 03, 2021 9:38 am Just now in the rain our sprinkler service arrived to turn on our system.

Poor guy looked wet and cold. :(
:o Hope there is a warm towel waiting for him ;)
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He was wearing shorts and a Tshirt.

He got drenched checking all the sprinkler heads.

I expect he had the heat turned up in his truck. ;)

Sigh. So far June isn't busting out all over. :(
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Lawnmowers to the left and lawnmowers to the right. :(
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Now the garbage truck is here for the second time today to get our neighbor's (to the right) yard waste.

At least it drowned out the sound of the lawnmowers for a while.
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Finally quiet here. I can hear the traffic on Main Road.

Weather forecast for the weekend is great so there will be a lot of traffic.
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Volkonski wrote: Fri Jun 04, 2021 5:29 pm Finally quiet here. I can hear the traffic on Main Road.

Weather forecast for the weekend is great so there will be a lot of traffic.
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Beautiful morning. Sun is shining. Birds are singing. Had rain last night so grass is still too wet to mow. ;)

Yesterday evening we went out with some of Mrs. V's cousins to celebrate the birthday of the Russian wife of the cousin who lives on the Circle.

We went to the nearby historic Jeddidiah Hawkins Inn. Masks were required until you were seated. The 8 of us had a whole room to ourselves. Servers were always masked.

Spent too much but that inn is a once a year guilty pleasure.

New York seeing very low Covid positivity rates and hospitalizations. :thumbsup:
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Have you starting composing your Lawnmower Symphony yet? It sounds (pun intended) as if you are getting lots of inspiration. Each mower must have a different tone and rhythm. The movements could be:

1st: Riding Mower Driven by NASCAR driver
2nd: Push Reel Mower Four Reels
3rd: Self-propelled Mower
4th: Any Teenager Anywhere Mowing A Lawn
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That could be interesting.

Listening to a lawnmower when you sit at a fixed point you hear the doppler shift of the pitch of the sound change depending on whether the mower is getting closer or moving away.

Also the loudness varies as the mower goes behind buildings or other sound absorbing objects.

When the clippings bag needs to be emptied there is a sudden temporay quiet during which you can again hear the birds and the distant traffic.

Charles Ives could have done something with all that.

Try listening to his "Fouth of July" where he includes all sorts of music and sounds from a late 19th century small New England town's celebration.
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Volkonski wrote: Sat Jun 05, 2021 12:29 pm That could be interesting.

Listening to a lawnmower when you sit at a fixed point you hear the doppler shift of the pitch of the sound change depending on whether the mower is getting closer or moving away.

Also the loudness varies as the mower goes behind buildings or other sound absorbing objects.

When the clippings bag needs to be emptied there is a sudden temporay quiet during which you can again hear the birds and the distant traffic.

Charles Ives could have done something with all that.
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Ah, see Arthur Honegger's "Pacific 231".
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And the lawnmowers are running this warm Sunday morning. :(
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