Cleaning Service (humor)

As a good blog reader, I’m rewarding you with a complimentary computer screen cleaning service. Click here to receive your reward.

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Proper Hiking Attire

The hikes described in “Proper Hiking Attire” won’t be found in NY State, but the thoughts and comments are universal. Plus it will make you smile….

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Wearable Gifts for Your Outdoors Person

Show your sense of humor and your passion or honor a loved one with a gift to show theirs:
Canoeing T-shirts
Kayaking T-shirts
Backpacking T-shirts
Hiking T-shirts
Biking T-shirts

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Fun Fact for 2009

At five minutes and six seconds after 4 AM on the 8th of July this year, the time and date will be
04:05:06 07/08/09.
This won’t happen again for another 100 years.

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Best of Friends

Click on this YouTube video to watch some unusual friends.

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Is This Footprint Park?

Rich & I were in our front yard doing some yard work one day when a car drove slowly by. The car turned around in our cul-de-sac and pulled up along side us. The young woman driver rolled down her window and asked “Is Footprint Park somewhere near here? It’s supposed to offer hiking, biking [...]

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What the Dog Dragged Home!

This fawn followed this beagle home —- right through the doggie door —- in the Bittinger, MD. area recently.  The owner came home to find the visitor had made himself right at home.

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Geology 101

Have you noticed any rocks while out hiking trails? Perhaps high in the Adirondacks or Catskills, if not near your home. In order to make sure you’re well informed and can speak intelligently, here are some rock-related sentences to use when hiking:
-That’s gneiss. (pronounced “nice.”)
-Don’t take it for granite.
-It’s boulder of you to say so.
-Sedimentary, [...]

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‘High Peaks’ takes lighter look at Adirondacks hiking history

By Doug Gruse, PostStar.co, link to original article
Author Tim Rowland is out to prove that history can make us laugh.
In “High Peaks: A History of Hiking the Adirondacks from Noah to Neoprene,” Rowland retells some of the more entertaining tidbits of regional lore. “What I was going for in this book was some of the [...]

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Cute Things Falling Asleep

Rarely outdoors and even rarer in NY – but what the heck.
For a good laugh, watch these video clips on cute things falling asleep.

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