you have heard me say how careful i was to buy property with access to  a lake for drinking water for "stock"  welllll........ now i have to rethink...

If you go out the back gate of  “A” Field there is a gate which once pointed to an overgrown  trail which in about 50 yards joined the lovely.  Bay State trail which is the trail that goes from Cape Cod to Cape Ann and it's a lovely trail.. very quickly out behind our house that trail is about 18 inches wide just enough for horse to walk along and on either side it drops off for 75 feet or so... as you ride along the Ridge of a glacier formation.... ?eskar?   I got on it once on gwen’s horse and there was no way I could turn around—and ended up severely lost--- looking at the trees which supposedly have moss on the north side.... I was lost big time.... before cell phones... and I eventually had to call for a trailer to come get me as I had crossed some bridge over route 95..

back to my eskar---behind our property.  that means that an awful lot of the ground around us by this lake is downhill from these esters whatever they are.... and  the outlet to get all this 30" of rain  into the ocean is a rinky dink little river called the Ipswich river...  \

 

all this is leading-----to -----if the weather drops 30 inches of rain on  this section of Massachusetts all those eskers have  gotta drain downhill headed for something like hood pond and the Ipswich river  then the ocean.  and if it's 30 inches in 24 hours we too at crazy acres.  will be underwater' cause that    is 30 inches piled  up on every square foot available --------ats alota water,  

 

today's weather man did seem to think this number 4 hurricane was bending out to sea--- but he switched the video so quickly I couldn't identify the little bump in the United states coastline  which is Massachusetts....  as he mentioned something about veering West..    I don't know how much veering  he had in mind  but that could be and ominous combination of words....

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dogfest residual

several people asked about the "upstairs rooms" in the house ...-- and were they again be "open" for the shatupon supporters to  come visit ....i said  yes....they could be  available...  for a max of 3 nights ( guests and fish after 3 days??? remember that one?)..remember... we are not a spa.. the word "guest"  is not really applicable- because  life on  crazy acres begins shortly after 7am. and unless you have arrived on the "red eye" from california. you are expected to get up and participate in whatever is happening. --- if you are a shatupon supporter and want an overnight as you pass thru logan airport enroute to or from europe-- that is possible too...   you  arrainge it with lynn ( or kim).  then at the airport....get on the peabody shuttle and call us on your phone so we can go meet  you. makes the timing work..... which means you don't need a car.

as for covid.... of late the general instructions... i assume all will have been vaccinated...no hugging...and be sensable about distance. one cow legnth is advisable...

between the beds, couches, window ledges, and floor, we have never turned  any shattupons  away. 

. wow//. copy pasted .. i am brave...