up in smoke

East of Monterey, when I drive to Souderton for my job Tuesday morning, I see the Limerick nuclear machine. One of those puffs is me turning the pipe organ on and using electricty.

I see this sight right after I turn north off of Route 23 in the village of Histand, which is 2 miles or so east of Route 100. If you like the Byzantine Pennsylvania web of roads, this is West Bridge Road. In four miles I'll be in Spring City. Cross the Skylkill and I'm in Royersford.

Hey, I like farmers who leave the corn stalk in the rough. Monterey farmers whack and chop them to the ground asap.

Flagstone walk

Two property projects finally were done the same week--a new walkway and a new roof.

Here's the walkway torn up and the new curved path for the flagstone. Stacked up like books on a shelf are the squares of Pennsylvania Blue, the flagstone quarried in northeastern Penna. and across the border into New York state.

Maybe machines have replaced most physical labor, but not here. The Kilgore Landscaping crew just dug in with plain old shovels. They had only a few more feet to dig and they said to me, This is amazing! All this digging and we still haven't hit a rock.

That's good old Monterey.