If a talk show comes on I change the channel. Doesn’t really matter who it is though.

Thank you kind stranger!

Mountain division trail is a trail along train tracks that's public that you can walk. It starts in Standish and runs into Fryeburg I believe. Off of river road in Windham is a parking area next to the trail where a very short walk takes you over a railroad bridge. I'm 95% certain the tracks are decommissioned but it's state land and intended as a walking trail.

That Stephen King was full of shit, man!

Or, for that matter, the railroad police? The old Pan Am Boston & Maine police dept., all two people of it, has likely been replaced by a much more capable CSX team.

When I built a similar but smaller “hoop house”, I got the longest rebar I could find, then got PVC tubes that were about a foot shorter than the rebar. For each hoop, I jammed one end of the rebar in the ground, then threaded the rest through a PVC tube, then jammed the other end of the rebar into the ground. I used another piece of rebar as the top ridge line, and used zip ties to attach the hoops to the ridge line. It worked pretty well — the biggest problem was remembering to leave the door flap open for ventilation on sunny days!

If you have a gardener in Gardiner, will it grow?

Don't use the 1" bendable PVC. Sure, it is less expensive than the 2" but it does not hold up well. I've done 2" with a fairly steep roof angle covered in the thick Poly - which does filter some of the sun but it worked ok. Not as good as glass on wood, but I could build it larger at a slightly lower cost.

How else were we supposed to get to the rope swing under the bridge if we didn’t cross said bridge?

I live by the train tracks and we call it the hobo highway. All the crack heads hang out walking the train tracks for whatever reason. Just seems like you would be asking for trouble walking on them

Yeah Outsiders PBR (punkabilly rebels). Great band.

I lived near tracks and this was, without exaggeration, 30% of my childhood and teen years growing up in Maine. What else was I going to do??

Movie money.

And if you want to go on the tracks, you have to get a spotter that watches you for like $20,000 an hour

I know right!! I loved finding the old railroad spikes!

It is illegal, but it's one of those laws rarely enforced. We walked the tracks all the time as kids, sometimes for miles. No one cared as long as we paid attention and were careful.

I get it. I just happen to live by a rarely-used spur, and it is the absolute shortest way from my house to the school. I would love it if the kids could walk to school that way. Shorter and safer that the road routes.

Don't do one like in the picture, it won't hold upto the snow. You need a gothic arch (although some take the plastic off each year, I don't have experience with that). If you bend your gothic arch it will be just a little more work but well worth it, this is an example of the kind of arch I mean https://www.farmersfriend.com/p/gothic-caterpillar-tunnel

I would not trust pvc pipes, I would personally look at trying to source some chainlink fence posts and use a pipe bender on them, you can set in your limits on a board so that all your bends are repeatable.

Worth looking into the NRCS who do a season extension grant for poly tunnels, go talk to your local extension and you may be able to get one for free but they have rules that you will need to be up on.

Personally when I build my next one I will probably use wood and frame it out, then use polycarbonate instead of plastic film and would be more interested in a Chinese/arctic style greenhouse (southern side exposure with northern side covered up and used for a thermal mass etc).

Fuck it's been a long day...what's the rockabilly band PBR or soemthing?

. . .or squashed by a train.

Correct. Relevant: https://youtu.be/z3f-ZcmZlDk

Not sure about the downvotes—I understand the allure. However, the reason for it is about liability and danger. It's surprisingly easy for a train to sneak up on you when you're on the tracks (not kidding—I've been air horn blasted off the tracks by a train that I didn't hear coming). The railroads hate cleaning the mess, dealing with the therapy for the engineer, and fighting lawsuits in court as the result of person vs. train. The train usually wins in a spectacular way.

That's why you need to watch for Hobo signs that will warn you where the bulls are.

I didn't realize I was such a rebel as a child

Then you should probably avoid walking along active train lines.