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A friend and I went to tour the castle on a weekday. We where the only ones on tour, the guide seeing we where very interested in the house took us to parts not usually on tour. I think tour was suppose to be 45 minutes, ours was almost 2 hours.
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Very nice.....A site worth seeing if anyone else gets in this area......
So I am searching this man, Henry Chapman Mercer....... He is from that area and my family arrived there in 1725 with a Chapman joining our family in the 1800's Johnny Appleseed sister married into my family....just haven't found out if he is connected to Henry...BUT they both come from New England......
So I am searching this man, Henry Chapman Mercer....... He is from that area and my family arrived there in 1725 with a Chapman joining our family in the 1800's Johnny Appleseed sister married into my family....just haven't found out if he is connected to Henry...BUT they both come from New England......
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Here is what I think is a more impressive picture of that home on Wikipedia (link)! I can imagine that visitors could spend 2 hours and more in there ...
That doesn't look so close to NY on a map, @Nyboy. Must just be the "smaller size" of the States in the East
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I hope Freedhardwoods is okay with the hijack ..
. but, I will refrain from mentioning my cousin in Lehigh County and ancestors from Philadelphia and New England .
Steve
That doesn't look so close to NY on a map, @Nyboy. Must just be the "smaller size" of the States in the East
.I hope Freedhardwoods is okay with the hijack ..
. but, I will refrain from mentioning my cousin in Lehigh County and ancestors from Philadelphia and New England .Steve
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@freedhardwoods So so sorry for hijacking your thread....tomorrow I will go out and start my own..
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Wow digitS', No way could I have gotten my phone out to take a picture of my deer attack. It was too fast, I was too close. I was busy screeming....... How did you ever get that shot??
digitS'
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Ha!
It's in the exurbs where I probably broke the law, shooting 2 marmots with 22 shorts. (And, the bunnies run frreeee!)
He was just rising when I snapped that picture. I realized that he was lying there as soon as I arrived in the garden and about 30 yards from him. I didn't miss a step and just continued, on past the neighbor's raspberry/grape jungle and on up the hill to about 150 yards away.
Then, I circled back as quietly as I could, past the sweet corn, on the other side of the jungle (see the raspberry vine in foreground) ... camera on and ready. I was about 50' from him when he stood up. Click!
He moved right on out into the nearby alfalfa and disappeared.
Steve
edit: About 200 yards away, I saw Wiley's cousin behind the neighbor's garage, this year. He was in front of a tractor scraper blade and I must have seen movement because I just stopped and stared, wondering what I was looking at. Then he, also, just moved about 15' on out into the field and disappeared.
It's in the exurbs where I probably broke the law, shooting 2 marmots with 22 shorts. (And, the bunnies run frreeee!)
He was just rising when I snapped that picture. I realized that he was lying there as soon as I arrived in the garden and about 30 yards from him. I didn't miss a step and just continued, on past the neighbor's raspberry/grape jungle and on up the hill to about 150 yards away.
Then, I circled back as quietly as I could, past the sweet corn, on the other side of the jungle (see the raspberry vine in foreground) ... camera on and ready. I was about 50' from him when he stood up. Click!
He moved right on out into the nearby alfalfa and disappeared.
Steve
edit: About 200 yards away, I saw Wiley's cousin behind the neighbor's garage, this year. He was in front of a tractor scraper blade and I must have seen movement because I just stopped and stared, wondering what I was looking at. Then he, also, just moved about 15' on out into the field and disappeared.
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Steve how big was he ? The sunflowers are making him look giant size.
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Recently I had technology backfire on me. I got a deal on a remote game caller on eBay. It is digital, wireless, and can be controlled from about a thousand feet away, also, almost a dozen different calls can be selected. My intention was to place it in the woods and point my trail camera at it to photograph whatever showed up. I thought I would bring a book and sit in the truck and let the call run for an hour or so. I headed to Grafton and placed the call in a tree and set up the camera. After I returned to the truck I selected distressed rabbit, fired it up and sat there listening to it scream. In only a few minutes it set off dozens of coyotes howling like mad. At that point I thought: how am I going to retrieve my camera and call with dozens of coyotes converging on it? As I was not anticipating the reaction I got, I did not bring my pistol with me. I turned off the call and sat in the truck for some time after the howling stopped, but it was still scary going into the woods to get the gear. 
