From 88c79031efd681aaf96c2148de52221baadc1fb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gennyble Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2024 06:53:59 -0600 Subject: 2024-12-08 06:53 CST --- served/words/weeknotes/2024/48.html | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+) create mode 100644 served/words/weeknotes/2024/48.html (limited to 'served/words/weeknotes/2024/48.html') diff --git a/served/words/weeknotes/2024/48.html b/served/words/weeknotes/2024/48.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d4bc4ac --- /dev/null +++ b/served/words/weeknotes/2024/48.html @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +--- +template=post +title=Week 48; Walking +style=/styles/post.css +style=writing.css + +published=2024-11-13 7:24pm CST + +description=My car broke down and I walked some. +art=../../images/nov23-geohash-moss.gif +art_alt=moss growing on a log. The image has only 32 colours. The green of the moss really pops out at you. +--- + +It's been 18 days since the last weeknote. + +This time-period has been pretty alright, minus the car trouble. Thus is +car ownership, I guess. + +I got a nearby geohash (geohashing.site) +on the 23rd. It was in the midst of a forest preserve hiding in brush and grasses +under a grand, old tree. I bet it looks stunning in the summer and fall. Perhaps +there'll be a trek back there in four or five months. + +It was a very nice walk. After I got the point, I walked down an old-and-overgrown +path and came upon an old, now-decommissioned USGS +water level measuring thing. I couldn't find it on their map of water-level-measuring-things +(that's the official name), and it looked like decommissioned sites were mapped, so +I emailed them. + +They provided me with the number identifying the USGS No. 05527910 as well as the time +it was active. Then I went down + +
+ +In 1957 North Mill Creek was dammed by the then property owner creating a large lake +which was named after him: Ramussen Lake. Mister Ramussen passed in 1986 which let +the Lake County Forest Preserve to purchase it in 2001. + +USGS No. 05527910 was active from 2007 until 2019. + +It monitors North Mill Creek, which seems +to be runoff from the Elmwood Farm Lake (called the Ramussen Pond on one GIS map i looked at, + potentially in honour of the farm owner who passed in 1986 at the age of 78). This +lake-pond with a contested name is apparently artificial; it was formed when \ No newline at end of file -- cgit 1.4.1-3-g733a5