Interesting ferry ride. Lots of turkey consumed.

Not too much happened last week, it was mostly unpack from the LAN, prepare for the next excursion.  As an addendum to my previous post though, winter definitely wants to come early this year.  It didn't stick for more than a day or two, but it is coming.  

 

I discovered something at work, I have never seen an ethernet cable with grease in it, but apparently burial rated ethernet is greased like this.  Interesting, and really messy to work with since I am making a bunch of patch cables for a new patch panel. 

 

I went to Krass' for a friendsgiving over the weekend.  I decided to take the ferry because Amtrak has jacked up their rates to where they aren't really really cheaper anymore, despite the fact that the ferry is quite expensive on its own.  The way down was quite nice other than the fact you have to drive through CT to get there.  

 

That is a big cleat.

 

After taking in the water for a bit since I had almost the whole outdoor deck to myself, I went and whipped up some dinner and started to disassemble the conversion.  I got the web of bungee cords that held the microwave and stuff on top in place taken apart.  I can see out the back again.

 

The friendsgiving was a lot of fun, and there was a lot of cheese.  Krass smoked some as well.  He used cherry, which came out better than the applewood that I tried.  I might have to try again.

 

Loki is getting long in the tooth, but still loves the attention.

 

Interestingly, there is still some color down on Long Island.

 

The ferry ride home was something else.  There was a gale warning, and the water was rough and reflected that.  Keeping in mind that this ship can hold at least 70 cars, so it is very big, the spray was reaching the passenger level above the car bay.  The announcer on the PA system at the end was them kicking people off the outdoor decks.

 

I tried but failed to catch a video of the cars bouncing the ferry was hitting the water so hard.  The boat was rocking really good too.  I did get a video of that.  For a ship that size, that is a lot of rocking.  

 

I tried to get video of the waves, but it didn't really come out very good, and the wind pretty much drowned out my voice despite the phone being about a foot from my face.

 

There weren't a lot of cars on it though.  Driving home through CT was only aggravating, it wasn't downright awful like normal. 

I still need to make a decision as to when I am driving down for Thanksgiving.  There is a possibility of heavy snow on Saturday (they keep going back and forth between rain and snow), and the latest report puts it on Friday, but if the weather is not going to allow me to work on the carport, I might drive down Thursday into Friday like I normally do.  If I can work on the carport this weekend I might drive down Sunday night into Monday

Back from the LAN, need a plan for winter.

There hasn't been an update for a while since I haven't really done much.  I went out to Aunt's and Uncles to finish up cleaning out his camper spot (he had already sold the camper).  I got a reminder that winter was coming; I had to take Route 9 across Vermont because I forgot to move my ez-pass, and the mountains in Vermont were already covered in snow.

 

I didn't get a good picture, but the wind was howling too.  There were whitecaps even on the smaller ponds. 

 

I got some more stuff.  

 

I have been doing some cheese exploration, since the regular cheese I get has gotten really expensive.  And I eat a lot of cheese.  This deli cheese was a dud.  

 

The CR-V went and got its new tires and whatnot installed.  I am hopeful that these tires are the last ones I ever have to put on the car, but we shall see.  I estimate it will be in the 160k-170k when these are toast, and I often get rid of vehicles around that timeframe.  Unfortunately the coolant leak (I had to put coolant in it twice on my trip) was the radiator.  I didn't think it was shifting bad, but the transmission service made a world of difference, and it now shifts much faster and firmer.  

 

On a side note, this was the first significant mileage I put on my e-bike since I got the pedals drilled out and fixed properly a couple months ago, and it seemingly worked well.  It was a bit chilly (especially the second ride where I didn't remember to wear pants), but the bike performed as expected.  My car had an almost identical twin when I went to pick it up.  Same trim too, it had the same sunroof and leather interior.  

 

I didn't do anything during the week, since it is dark before I leave work now.  I did check that I can lift one half of the carport, since I still need to figure out how move that before winter.  

 

Last weekend was the LAN, up in Vermont.  One of the days was nice and we went out for a hike. 

 

It went around a pond.  The water was surprisingly clear for the northeast at least.  It wasn't as clear as your alpine lakes out west, but for Vermont at a lower elevation it was nice.

  

There was a little restaurant on the water, though it was closed, presumably for the season.  The water was a bit on the chilly side, I would guess low 50s, maybe upper 40s.

 

The house for the LAN had a hot tub.  I made use of it.  I miss mine, and can't wait for the deck to be built to get it set up again. 

 

This weekend I am going to a friendsgiving on Long Island.  I had to drive in with snow on the ground this morning, so it looks like winter doesn't want to wait.  I need to get moving on at least the carport.  Once the carport is done, at least everything is covered and I can work on things a lot easier.  I am thinking I might just skip my final mow for the year; I don't have enough daylight hours, and at the present moment the only functional mower I have is the push mower, which is really hard to start when it is this cold out.  The following weekend is the traveling weekend for Thanksgiving.  I might take off Sunday night instead and see if I can get the carport finished or at least in place and ready for roofing next weekend.  I am pretty much out of time, which seemingly happens every year.