Awake: 6:00am Temp 19 Snow Overnight @ Nicktown
We drive to the community center & exercise for 40 min & then attend the
8:00 am Communion service led by Sister Lee. Next we join the resigned
coffee club members for 45 min.
Our forwarded mail arrives today from Alaska + a small check valve from
the Newell Corp that I had ordered on the 9th of February. More about
that check valve in a day or so.
Gary & Rosemary arrive @ 12:45. We are going to see the Al & Kevin spec
house they are building in the town of Mundy’s Corner. Kathy & I toured
this same house Jan 30th with Al. Now Gary is curious to see their inside
construction methods. From Nicktown, Gary drives us by way of Belsano—Twin
Rocks—Nanty Glo & Mundy’s Corner. Just outside of Mundy’s Corner, we make
a stop @ the Direct Value Outlet Store. What a place! A little bit of
anything & everything.
@ the Al & Kevin spec house, Gary is not able to view much of the detailed
construction. Since our visit in January, both the main & upper floors
have been covered with sheet rock & only the basement revealed the 3”
joist used above.
Next we make a quick stop in Ebensburg @ the Wal-Mart for groceries, the
library to return books & the postal drop box to mail a letter before
returning to our bus @ 3:45pm.
While Kathy brings out the healthy snacks, I pour Rosemary, Gary, & us
some of our finest 92 Spectator point wine…..only the best for G & R. We
sit & gab for hrs.
After G & R leave for their home in the metropolis of St. Augustine, Kathy
& I decide to attend the “Acid Rock” meeting held in the town of Heilwood
(20 min) away @ 6:30pm. As the expression goes: “standing room only”! It
was so crowded @ this meeting that there was no standing room available.
In the area of State College, PA some yrs ago, while widening an
interstate, they discovered a large accumulation of pyrite rock (acid
rock). While buried this pyrite is not dangerous, causes no harm, but when
exposed to rain and/or air, it becomes lethal, contaminating streams and
causing respiratory distress and other possible ailments. The people and
politicians from State College in an effort to rid their community of this
“acid rock” are in the process of getting the necessary permits to run 300
truckloads per day over narrow country roads, thru several communities and
dump this rock in Indiana County. Meanwhile 300 truckloads of “fly ash”
(used to neutralize the Pyrite) would also be driven over these same
roads. The people of Indiana & Cambria Counties turned out in record
numbers to protest the trucking route as well as the dumping site; “the
people of State College should find a way to deal with their problem and
Not make it someone else’s!
9:00pm dinner: Leftover Italian sausage.
Late evening: we finish watching “The Kid.” A different kind of movie I
thought.
High temp: 28 Lights out: 10:50pm
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