Tag: Armstrong Trail
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Jr. High: lightning policy @ Penn Trafford in Trafford
We game planned for their high power off fence but didn’t need it today. Thanks to the high voltage lightning! Thanks to all for sitting out the weather. Since the game never started, the home, athletic department makes official call.
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Making sure my spoons are filled up each day.
Hello My Name is Crawford, I’m approaching my 2nd Birthday, but I still have a lot of puppy in me. Mom and Dad keep talking about my spoons each day. They also discuss how Crosby used to be just like me. Today they even mentioned me standing in the boat like Reba. I’m just me.…
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Spark lightning and good weather in pool 9
Some days you just have to go with the water. Some days you have to deal with the weather. Some of our neighbors celebrated birthdays and Christmas in July. Since we had our visitors last week and learned our gas tank only held 25 gallons. This week started with some great weather, hot weather and…
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Puppy Fatigue. . .patience, training and love.
It’s 8pm on a Friday night. The evening cruise is complete. Soccer practice is over for the week. There have been several nights where I, Mr. Crawford has awaken his humans somewhere between 1 and 3 am. There was the new street opening after several months of digging, pipe laying, a new sidewalk and paving.…
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Legendary Investor John Doerr on Picking Winners — From Google in 1999 to Solving the Climate Crisis Now (#543)
Illustration via 99designs“We invested a billion dollars in a hundred different cleantech companies, and most of them failed. Failures come with the … Legendary Investor John Doerr on Picking Winners — From Google in 1999 to Solving the Climate Crisis Now (#543) I’m not sure where y’all stand on the climate change issue. I know…
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It was so big, it made the NY Times.
You need to open this post email and read/watch it from the blog. If you didn’t hear about this yet, it made the New York Times. Turn up the sound on the video and note that these are schools from two counties just outside of Pittsburgh. If anybody wonders why I agreed to coach middle…
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Starting October 2021: Me Too, Soccer, River Season, Locks and Dams.
It’s October the boards are out at Allegheny River Lock and Dam No. 9, No. 8, No. 7 and No. 6–the pool level is dropping in Pool 9 at a rate where the dock will be coming out very soon, if not in the next few days. Phoebe has confirmed that we will still have…
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Riley’s River Dog report 20 July 2021
Elle,Crosby and Phoebe set out to check on the current status of the Allegheny River along Seybertown Road this morning 20 July 2021. Here is what they have to report and video and photo. If you haven’t been watching Allegheny Outfitters upriver regarding emergency rescues or Kinzua gauges you may want to start following both…
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We are all connected to this one sweet works.
Heat dome in the west, hurricanes in the gulf, rivers rising with the northeast rains. Say what you may about science but here’s a picture. Guess which one is Mondays versus Wednesday if you live in Pittsburgh you know. Duke even received a mouth full of water jumping and not realizing how deep the short…
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Water dogs.
Here’s a little Fourth of July photo dump. We hopefully have pulled a new generation of river rats into Knee boarding and tubing. Phoebe and Crosby are still good with just trails. They are not yet ready to swim as sisters, Phoebe tried the life jacket and an assisted doggie paddle, but didn’t enjoy the…
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Never did I ever, think I’d be a Planet Fitness member.
There were many years where Monday would be leg day: Squats, presses, leg extensions, lying leg curls, walking lunges. All those hard core bodybuilding workout items. Tuesday would be the big chest day to get full utilization of the decline, incline and flat benches. Never did I ever think going to PF and having only…
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Training on the Allegheny River, with the SUP.
If you need a minute to breathe, open this up in your browser and play the video. Just listen and take in the water. After reading about the discharge from Olean into the Allegheny sometimes being on top of the water is the better option. It sounds like Olean is not happy either since they…
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Paddle down
The water was really nice this past weekend, the wind was even more amazing as it was pushing us up river. Leslie is lucky as the little camera was left behind so she wasn’t captured digitally. We did try the Rivers Edge. The had a Really nice menu and a deck to see the river.
