We hit 90 today and the next two will be hotter. At 6 p.m. it's 89 outside and 90 inside, so it's time to open the windows on the east side of the house. In an hour or so when the sun drops below the trees to the west we can open those windows, too, and hopefully get a breeze moving through.
Poor Buddy moves from place to place looking for a cool spot. There isn't one.
We left home about 6:15 this morning and stopped 45 minutes up the road for breakfast at a one-off joint in Harrisburg for some really, really good BACON. The eggs, hash browns, and toast were good, too, but this place is known for old farmers wearing overalls and John Deere hats and their BACON.
From there another hour north to the Gervais/Brook exit and "The Great Steam Up." This is an annual event that is almost too cool and certainly too much for the time we had allotted. That, and it was already getting crazy hot at 11:30.
This event started years ago to feature old steam engines but it has grown to include antique farm equipment of all types, sizes, brands, purposes....
I took short videos of some of what was there because many of them were running, and amazing to watch in operation. Some HUGE steam-driven tractors creeping along at 2 mph. Unfortunately I don't know how to include videos into my blog, and even if I did I can't do it here at home where we have internet slower than those big tractors. I may try tomorrow from Starbucks.
So here are two pics that don't do justice to what we saw.
Some of the tractors were huge and dated back to the very early 1900s. There were engines not much bigger than a bread box that were used to run washing machines, and a warehouse with monster diesel and gas engines used in commercial operations - mills, canneries....
There was also a big flea market where you could buy all kinds of antique farm equipment, logging tools, antique kitchen tools, old wrenches....
I talked to a couple of old guys with even older engines about how they work and what they were used for. Learned a lot.
Pam watched some quilters using hand-crank sewing machines.
I could easily have spent several hours more there, but it was getting hot out in the sun and Pam was nearing the maximum boredom threshold.
I'll go back, probably by myself next year.
I took the front fenders off to get access to the door hinge bolts. I think I got the driver-side door aligned properly but won't know for sure until I put that fender back on. Cautiously optimistic.
It's now 7 p.m. and we've had dinner. The temp inside is now up to 91 but we've just opened everything up so I'm hoping the temp will begin to drop soon.
Poor Buddy.
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