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Friday, August 19, 2011

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8:15 AM | Posted by Sharp's Travels
Cheri took another day off and I think she can finally see some light at the end of the cold tunnel. Today was a play day for me. Coz came over at 10:00 am and we went for a motorcycle ride. We rode over to and around the Friesland area where we use to live before we retired. They are building a wind farm all around Friesland and I wanted to see how much was done. There were around 30 windmills already up and several more in various stages of being built. We stopped along the road and watched them lift the generator into place on one of the towers. We talked with a guy about the windmills. He said the towers are 300 feet tall and each windmill blade is 150 feet long. Each property owner gets $7500.00 per year for each windmill on their property. The windmills came in on the rails and then were delivered by semi truck to each site. They had to widen the roads at all the corners in order for them to get the 150 foot blade puts the length of the truck around corners.  It is a huge undertaking. When they get done there will be 90 windmills in the wind farm. I did take a lot of pictures that you can check out. Then we rode over by the house we use to own and live in, sure is amazing how much the trees have grown in the last 6 years and see all the flowers Cheri planted. From there we headed over to Cambria to have lunch at a bar and grill called the Dump. Coz and I each had a bacon cheese burger and fries. I must say it was the best burger I have ever had, Coz said the same thing. We said something about it to the waitress and she said that they use fresh meat and fresh buns all the time. It was all I could so to eat mine as it was sooooo big, I think there must have been a half pound of meat in it. Then it was time to head back home as Coz is going to grill chicken for us along with baked potatoes, broccoli, and fresh baked biscuits with Cheri’s help. We planned on having everything ready by the time Nikki got home, but she surprised us as she got off work early. After supper we played a couple of games of Hand and Foot, which we guys won one and the girls won the other. It was a great day in the neighborhood for me and a better day for Cheri. I have uploaded pictures of the day. There are two albums: Windmills near Friesland and Friesland house. Click here https://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravels then click on the album you want to look at.

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