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Just this week 72 year old woman camping at Yellowstone wanted bison to pay attention to her. She won the prize.
Actually just trip to the hospital. Call it a friendly warning.
Well I guess as long as it wasn't a trip to the morgue it wasn't too bad!
You would think someone at 72 would have learned something but guess not!
I try to respect anything that is over half my weight and even that is too big as the worst bite I ever got was from a kitten you could hold in one hand! Those little teeth are sharp!
 
Out for a ride today and came across this cool old barn. Stone construction.
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I'm thinking it's been there a long time the road to the north of it is Stone Barn Road.
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Never been on that road before, thought I would see where it goes. After 5 miles it turned into gravel. Kept going.
At the end of it the fields were posted with these signs.
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Took some looking but I found a few. I'll let Mailman crawl over the fence to get a closer pic. Some had horns and did not look friendly.
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Trouble with getting barn pics is most are well off of the road. Most farmers have dogs and/or shotguns.
This was the 4th gravel road I went on today. Time to clean the rims, they be kind of dusty.
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Stone barns are so majestic.
Very rare in my area; Can't even remember when I spotted one last.
The effort involved in constructing a large natural stone building is truly amazing.
 
Oops I did it again. :wink2:

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Oops I did it again.

Going Commando?

BTW, love the colour and style of that bike.

Had a Commando 850 Mk IIa once - it weren't the best bike ever and I didn't know enough to fix it up in them days.

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Not that I'm saying I know enough now . . .
 
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It was predicted to go to 90F in the Catskill Mountains yesterday, so I got up at 430am, loaded the '82 on the trailer, and was on the road by 530.
Pulled into Mine Kill State Park at 830 to unload, and it was a perfect 75 degrees with full sun, humidity only 56.

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I was the only person there, with the exception of the groundskeeper, who I've gotten to know, and a federal policeman, who always asks about the XS650 and how it's unique.
The park is monitored and supported by the US government, because it's next door to NY Power Authority's Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project

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The plant was commissioned in 1973 and some of its main features include the following: an upper reservoir, a head of 1,042 ft, a powerhouse containing four turbine-generators that release flow into the lower reservoir on Schoharie Creek within the project boundary just below Brown Mountain.

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I was off to Stamford, then south on Rt 18, a winding country road south to South Kortright, where this large very active milk farm is, straddling the pavement.
Had to scamper taking this picture, as huge farm vehicles were coming in and out.

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Up the road, Route 5 takes you very steeply to the top of Plattekill Mountain , where this impeccably maintained horse farm exists.
Someone waved hello from down below.

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About 5 miles south in the quaint hamlet of Bovina is one of my favorite barns. I always stop to admire.

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First, the barns look fantastic! Second, "...Quaint hamlet of Bovina is one of my favorite barns." I'd live in that with the Horses! Third, and pushing for first place, the bikes look butt-kicking OVER the TOP!
 
Second, "...Quaint hamlet of Bovina

Bovina is nestled in between hills and avoids almost all attention; it has to be discovered by the wandering traveler
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In the center of town is a superbly preserved mid-1800's Old Country Store named Russell's.
I stop for a homemade oatmeal/raisin cookie with a cold glass of milk.
The next Game? (Picture your XS650 in front of an Old Country Store)

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The park is monitored and supported by the US government, because it's next door to NY Power Authority's Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project


Now you have me needing to go back and reread a book I just finished reading about the Finger Lakes Reagion from 1779-1929. As I seam to recall mention in it to a pumped storage system being used sometime back in one of those years. Way earlier than I would have thought of it being used!
 
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took a bit of digging through the book but found the couple pages where the project was mentioned. I outlined the appropriate paragraphs in red.
Only thing is I am not sure if this project was actually completed, but just the fact that in 1929 it was in the planing stages shows how old the idea of Pumped Storage is in the US!

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A little more digging and I find that the 1st dam for this project was built and the initial power plant did go online the last day of October 1929! Guess that was not a good day be starting a new expansion of a power project! Apparently the bigger dam needed for the completion of this project was never built. The local power company does still have some control over the lakes but not sure if there will ever be an extension of the project.
 
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