Wild Turkeys Visit Our Yard

Wild turkey wandering around our yard in Chaumont, NY. 

A pair of wild turkeys visited our yard in Chaumont NY today. They wandered around the backyard pecking at and inspecting things. Then they walked down the street and crossed over into a neighbors yard. I was able to get some nice photos of them with a Minolta 200mm f2.8 lens. That lens delivers amazingly sharp images. 

Wild turkey portrait. Creature was in our backyard. They are a rather homely bird.

Weather today started out partly sunny with high of 65 degrees. The day finished at under 40 degrees with some rain. There was also a funeral today for my brother Tom's mother-in-law, Ellen Dean from Calcium, NY. She was 82 years old. ai spent some time at Clay St too, accomplished little. Apt #4 has a problem with entrance door and some cieling and wall damage around the chimney. Brother Ron was there checked it out. Hope tohave hime repair it Sunday. iPhone says I walked 3,168 steps today. 

Clay St For Sale, Nice Drive, Robin

 

First Robin seen in our yard, Chaumont, NY.

Friday, March 14 2025. The Better Half and I met with a realtor at North Star Realty in Watertown, NY to have them market and sell our 4 unit apartment house on Clay St. We are listing it for $160K. After that we took a drive just to enjoy the beautiful day. It was mostly sunny and 60+ degrees. We drove RT37 to Hammond, from there cut over to Chippewa Bay on the St Lawrence River. We followed the river back to Clayton, through Depauville and back home in Chaumont. Most pleasant day. Once at home I spotted 3 Robins in our yard. The first ones I've seen this spring. Snapped photo of one of them with a 500mm mirror lens and a Sony a6600 camera.

Ice fishing on St Lawrence River at Chippewa Bay, NY.  It was 60 degrees

Clay St Outlet Wiring

   Yellow 12-2 romex house wire. This is what caught my eye today as I was working at Clay St apartments.

It was a sunny day here in northern NY with some wind and a high temp of 32 degrees. spent about  5 hours at Clay st apartment house doing some wiring. Specifically activating a couple of electric outlets that were installed many years ago but never had electricity going to them. They needed to be wire into a circuit.  Could have taken the outlets out but then would need to fill in the holes in the wall . Anyhow, project was a success. This was also first time in better than 2 weeks that I could raise my right arm overhead to do the job. My shoulder wouldn't permit it. I feel I may have overworked it so will take it easy tomorrow. 

Wiring outlets job

Wiring outlets job

Wiring outlets job

Clay St Gas Meter Damaged by Falling Ice

Clay St apartment house gas meter damaged by falling ice.

Saturday, March 1, 2025 I discovered the gas meter at our Clay St, Watertown apartment house was damaged by ice falling off the roof. The boiler has been running ok. I called National Grid THIS morning which is Monday March 3. They had a man out there within a half hour. He called and said the meter was not damaged, not leaking gas. All repaired. We think the damage happened a month or so ago because our most recent gas bill showed zero use. We knew that wasn't true. 

Gas meter damaged by falling ice. Note damage to vinyl siding also.

Gas meter damaged by falling ice. 

Pieces of gas meter damaged by falling ice.