The Joyce Road Neighborhood

This blog will be used to communicate items of interest for the Joyce Road neighborhood. (Click on blog images for larger view)

24 January 2016

Snow? Where's the Snow?

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A major snow storm struck the east coast this weekend, but came short of hitting northern PA and Joyce Road. While some of the major cit...
19 January 2016

Visiting Myra

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Our granddaughter, Myra, is now 5 months old and we traveled to Iowa last week to visit her and her parents, Chuck and Nikki. Myra is...
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08 January 2016

Where's the Snow?

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It's now the second week of January and the big question is "where is the snow"? We haven't had any measurable snowfa...
30 December 2015

Winter Grouse

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It wasn't a partridge in a pear tree, from the song "Twelve Days of Christmas", but a grouse in an Autumn olive tree. Overn...
26 December 2015

White Christmas?

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With east coast temperatures setting record highs in the 50' and 60's, this year's "White Christmas" was caused by fog...
24 December 2015

Snow Fleas

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The winter solstice was earlier this week (Dec. 22nd) and we are officially in Winter, but the temperatures are in the 50's and 60's...
17 December 2015

We've Been Traveling Again

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Our recent travels were to a palace in Bavaria ... Castles on the Danube ... and a brewery in Bohemia where pilsner beer originated....
08 December 2015

Princess Pine

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While looking for the elusive Odocoileus virginianus ( ♂ ) , I came across a small patch of Princess Pine ( Lycopodium obscurum ), also kno...
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07 December 2015

Frost

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While December 1st marked the start of meteorological winter, the afternoon temperature on Saturday was in the mid 40's but the overnigh...
03 December 2015

Fog

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It was a damp, rainy, foggy day. The day started off foggy and in between rain showers the fog would roll in/out. Now you see our barn ... ...
30 November 2015

PA Deer Season

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Today is the start of the Pennsylvania (Rifle) deer season, which is somewhat a statewide holiday. For the past few days following Thanksgiv...
29 November 2015

Blue Heron

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It's almost the end of November and ice is starting to form on the local ponds, but a Blue Heron is still hanging around the pond at our...
25 November 2015

The Approach of Winter

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After one of the warmest Novembers on record, we've had couple of cold mornings and ice is forming on Miner's Pond as some snowflake...
23 November 2015

Another Bear Attack

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For the second time this Autumn a bear has attacked one of my apple trees. This time the bear didn't knock the tree over, but shook the ...
22 November 2015

Oyster mushrooms

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I continue to add to my list of edible mushrooms that are found on our property. With help from our son Chuck on identifying mushrooms, I wa...
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