The Joyce Road Neighborhood

Overnight a crew completed the leak testing of the sections of 24 inch pipeline that will be pulled through the directional drilling bore ho...

The flowering Crab-apple trees in our lawn have started to bloom and a content buzz of honey bees is heard near the trees. A honey bee comin...

As I walked around our cabin I found a couple of common spring flowers that needed a closer look. The Wild Strawberries ( Fragaria vesca ) ...

The sub-soil on the Wesauking Pipeline has been regraded on the east side of Joyce Road and a crew was busy spreading straw on the bare grou...

Another warm spring day and I was easily distracted from yard work by some Yellow Dogtooth Violets ( Erythronium americanum ) . These wildfl...

The welding crew continued to prepare the "pull-back" sections of the Wilmot Pipeline for leak testing. The team welding an end on...

With near record temperature yesterday and warm weather today, the local toads have started their springtime courting and mating. While walk...

The welding crew was back at the Wilmot Pipeline today preparing the 24 inch pipeline sections for pressure testing. These sections of the p...

Not much happening with pipeline construction today, but I did find some flowering barren-strawberry ( Waldsteinia fragarioides ) in the w...

While wandering through the woods I came across the early spring wildflower Round-lobed Hepatica ( Anemone americana) . This small wildflowe...

The section of the Wesauking Pipeline east of Joyce Road is buried and the pipeline crew is quickly removing the timber planking from the pi...

Wilmot Pipeline The Wilmot Pipeline boring project has reached another milestone with the 36 inch reamer reaching a complete pull to the top...