#hilltown

[rolfschroedergc]

Repurposing some old 22’ Poplar Timber Beams for a ceiling detail on a Playroom Project. • #rolfschroedergc #designbuildremodel #designbuildfirm #remodeling #interiorremodeling #playroom #remodel #repurposed #craftsmanship #hilltown #hilltownpa #buckscounty #buckscountypa #interiordesign #interior #architecture #preservehistory (at Hilltown, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoK-KrgJ7BQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#rolfschroedergc #designbuildremodel #designbuildfirm #remodeling #interiorremodeling #playroom #remodel #repurposed #craftsmanship #hilltown #hilltownpa #buckscounty #buckscountypa #interiordesign #interior #architecture #preservehistory

[livingonewithnature-blog]

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[cscasphalt]

What are the Types of Pavement Maintenance in Doylestown?

As the cost of raw materials is increasingly rapidly the Pavement Maintenance in Doylestown is getting costlier and this is the reason a timely maintenance and management is extremely important. Maintenance slows down the decoration level of roads and hence correcting the defects or distress soon before they gets more damaged is extremely important.

Hence Let Us have a Look on the Types of Paving Doylestown. 

What are the Types of Paving Doylestown?

Some of the important types of Paving Doylestown are- 

Major Patching 

As the base of the Pavement gets decorated a large portion of the roadway gets cutout or milled and hence they are required to replace them with a new asphalt base. Generally, these are the areas that get decorated by frost conditions and are termed as “blowouts”. 

Sealing the Cracks

Cracks are sealed with asphalt sealant, more often preparatory to few types of a wearing surface treatment. 

Cold or Micro Surfacing

On the cracks a surface treatment ½” or thickness less than that is applied on the surface. This utilizes water based oil and aggregate slurry which is applied on the surface of the road. The treatment is generally used where roads have a solid super structure but the surface is in need of minor restoration for maintaining safe driving conditions. 

Oil and Chip

This treatment is used on several Townships’ roadways and especially the one that are older and more decorated road surfaces. This process allows the application of oil and chip all over the entire surface. This provides a sealed surface which in turn reduces the amount of water penetration into the roadway base. This allows sealing of minor surface cracks, especially during the summer months when the temperature is extremely high as it causes to become soft and pliable.

The Pavement Maintenance in Doylestown needs to be done within time to avoid tickets and later on added maintenance charges.

#Pavement Maintenance in Doylestown #Paving Willow Grove #Paving Solebury #Asphalt Paving in Hilltown

[jesilovedoll]

❄️ winter wonderland ❄️

#naturalbeauty #ohwhatabeautifulmorning #nature #clouds #winterwonderland #new england winter #massachusetts #hilltowns #morning snow #cold #brrrr #December

[3garcons]

Foodstock 8 at The Rustic Barn Pub : The Hilltown Ramblers

first and 10 edition

#the hilltown ramblers #foodstock 8 #the rustic barn #speigletown

[dabiconcordia]

Consolation

How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer, wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hilltowns. How much better to cruise these local, familiar streets, fully grasping the meaning of every roadsign and billboard and all the sudden hand gestures of my compatriots.

There are no abbeys here, no crumbling frescoes or famous domes and there is no need to memorize a succession of kings or tour the dripping corners of a dungeon. No need to stand around a sarcophagus, see Napoleon's little bed on Elba, or view the bones of a saint under glass.

How much better to command the simple precinct of home than be dwarfed by pillar, arch, and basilica. Why hide my head in phrase books and wrinkled maps? Why feed scenery into a hungry, one-eyes camera eager to eat the world one monument at a time?

Instead of slouching in a café ignorant of the word for ice, I will head down to the coffee shop and the waitress known as Dot. I will slide into the flow of the morning paper, all language barriers down, rivers of idiom running freely, eggs over easy on the way.

And after breakfast, I will not have to find someone willing to photograph me with my arm around the owner. I will not puzzle over the bill or record in a journal what I had to eat and how the sun came in the window. It is enough to climb back into the car

as if it were the great car of English itself and sounding my loud vernacular horn, speed off down a road that will never lead to Rome, not even Bologna. By Billy Collins

#areg every #photo pinterest.com #consolation #billy collins #car #staying at home

[calabria-mediterranea]

Civita, Calabria, Italy

Civita is hilltown town in Calabria in the heart of the Pollino National park, in Southern Italy's Calabria.

In Civita, Calabria, the history centers on an Albanian community fleeing from the Turks. While a precise arrival date is not known, the first Albanian explorers most likely came to the area in the 1470s. The “new” arrivals brought their language and culture with them, settling throughout the Pollino Mountains.

In keeping with Civita’s history, the local religion and village architecture reflect Arbëreshe culture. Just off the main piazza stands the Italian-Albanian Mother Church dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta. Its parishioners follow the Byzantine rite as part of the Eparchy of Lungro, an Italo-Albanian diocese in Calabria, subject to the Holy See. The Baroque structure features many elements of the Byzantine church, such as the beautiful iconostasis in walnut and olivewood, numerous icons and frescos.

Civita maintains its original layout, with neighborhoods of old two-story stone houses with large fireplaces situated along narrow lanes. Interestingly, the facades of several homes resemble faces, with a long chimney for the nose and windows for eyes.

The chimney stacks are another characteristic of the village, each unique design giving that personal touch to the habitation.

This village of fewer than 1,000 also boasts the dramatic natural setting of northern Calabria’s Pollino Mountains, part of Italy’s largest national park. One of Civita’s highlights is the Gole del Raganello, a deep canyon carved by the Raganello River, which flows to the Ionian Sea. From Civita’s enviable position of 450 meters (1,480 feet), views of the expansive river valley extend all the way to the sea!

From the oldtown, you can hike down the side of the canyon or take a jeep to the Ponte del Diavolo. This Devil’s Bridge has the familiar tale of having been constructed by the devil in exchange for the life of the first soul who crosses it. Being cleverer than the diavolo himself, the local landowner who made the pact with the devil tricked him by sending a sheep, instead of a person, over the new structure.

Photos by Un Trolley per Due and Calabria: The Other Italy

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[lilydalexf]

👽 X-Files Casefile Fic Recs, Part 4

Here are a bunch of very good X-Files fics featuring a casefile. Not enough? Check out all the recs in part 1, part 2, and part 3. Enjoy! Backlash by Joann Humby Mulder and Scully are still on the run but time's running out. Birdsong by @chekcough The plot of Silence of the Lambs, with Dana Scully replacing Clarice Starling, and a younger Agent Mulder, working in the B.S.U, assigned to help her. It is not at all necessary to have seen/read either 'The Silence of the Lambs' or 'The X-Files' to enjoy this. Dominion by aka "Jake" "So what's in New Orleans, Mulder?" His slanting smile widened into an all-out, cat-who-ate-the-canary grin, producing a seldom seen dimple in his unshaved cheek. "The third in a series of decapitations, Scully. Ritualistic overtones." He waggled his eyebrows. "The heads are still missing." Doorway to the Gods by @wtfmulder Mulder and Scully travel to Arizona to investigate the ‘Doorway to the Gods,’ a rock formation that is said to give wanderers access to a parallel universe. Hallowed by OnlyTheInevitable (@gaycrouton) In order to get a dangerous, misogynistic cult shut down, Mulder and Scully have to go undercover as a married couple to destroy it from the inside. When they get a little too involved, how will they manage to come out alive? Malevolence by aka "Jake" When ex-ISU Chief Bill Patterson is found dead in his prison cell with his face slashed and his eyes cut out, Mulder and Scully pick up the hunt where they left off five years earlier. Still convinced the killer is not a man but an evil spirit, Mulder pursues his own investigative methods, bringing him to the brink of insanity for a second time. Meanwhile, Scully is desperate to solve the case before she loses Mulder to his demons forever. Mezzo Luna by msk "Eleven assaults or acts of vandalism in a quiet Italian-American neighborhood and none of the assailants is less than middle-aged. It's a definite anomaly, Scully. Decent, law-abiding people who erupted in violence and can't explain why. It doesn't make sense." Midori No Me by FridaysAt9 When several couples go missing from a 55+ community in Florida, Mulder and Scully are once again assigned as an undercover married couple tasked with solving the case. Mulder can’t wait to play house as a retiree, but because of the nature of their relationship at its current state, Scully isn’t so sure. Set post Plus One. Reflections of the Unknown by Sophos Scully and Mulder investigate serial killers in New Orleans, and reflect upon their feelings for each other. / Mulder and Scully are brought in to investigate a series of suicides in a Boston home, while dealing with the visibility of their emotions for one another. She Walks at Night by fragilevixen (@fragilevixenfic) Mulder’s knack for getting himself and Scully into sticky situations leads them to the heart of NOLA at the tail end of Hurricane season after barely surviving a Floridian storm—to investigate a rumor of a notable Voodoo Queen and missing girls trying to bring her back. Shine by Ainon Mulder and Scully come to investigate multiple deaths in one family. Stuck in Storage by tiredmoonlight On what she believes to be a wild goose chase case in the middle of South Carolina, Scully ends up locked in a storage closet overnight with her partner. Strangers and the Strange Dead by Kipler In which dead bodies and shivering people disturb the hilltown of Bradenton, and our young, orphaned narrator serves hot beverages to the investigating agents even as she ponders the peculiar, elusive nature of their relationship. The Tiger Complex by LoneGunGuy While investigating a gruesome catastrophe in the Amazon rain forest, Mulder and Scully struggle against a mysterious killer, their own suspicions and the unforgiving jungle itself.

#new post #fic rec #xfiles fanfic #xf fanfic #casefile

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 25 April:

1185 – Henry II sends his son John to Ireland; John lands at Waterford on this date to assert control over Hugh de Lacy, but he fails to achieve this. Henry still suspects that de Lacy wants to be king of Ireland. 1681 – Count Redmond O’Hanlon (outlawed chief) was fatally shot by his foster-brother, Art MacCall O’Hanlon near Hilltown, Co Down. Historian John J. Marshall has called Redmond…

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[studyhaus]

5 Minutes, 5 Words - #223

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Syndrome /ˈsɪndrəʊm/ (n.) - a group of symptoms which consistently occur together, or a condition characterized by a set of associated symptoms.

Dr. Kevin will be presenting a lecture about Marfan Syndrome tomorrow.

Synonymous /sɪˈnɒnɪməs/ (adj.) - closely associated with or suggestive of something.

The bright clothes Sonia wore were synonymous with her cheerful mood.

Synopsis /sɪˈnɒpsɪs/ (n.) - a brief summary or general survey of something.

Clara's blog has the best literary synopsis of Little Women I have ever come across.

Syntax /ˈsɪntæks/ (n.) - the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

I took many months to grasp the syntax of Navajo.

Synthesise /ˈsɪnθɪˌsaɪz/ (v.) - make (something) by synthesis, especially chemically.

After many trials, the team was finally able to successfully synthesise the treatment for the rare disease plaguing Hilltown.

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Definitions from: Oxford Languages.

IPA Phonetic Transcription (UK English) from: tophonetics.com

Sentences are fictitious, though they may be based on real issues that occur across the world.

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Pictures taken from Tumblr Gifs.

#learning #studyblr #english #knowledge #study #languages #sat #vocabulary #englishvocab #act

[paganplaces]

Goward dolmen

The Goward dolmen (also known as Pat Kearney’s Big Stone or Cloughmore Cromlech) is located between Hilltown and Castlewellan in County Down, Northern Ireland.

Read more at: https://paganplaces.com/places/goward-dolmen/

[cscasphalt]

Some Reasons to Consider Pavement Maintenance

Today's roads, bridges, and highways in the U.S. were built for a time when American drivers were less likely to be in a hurry, and the cars they drove were far less likely to be carrying heavy loads. So, roadways are designed and built for very specific purposes. Some roadways are designed to handle heavy traffic volumes, some are designed for commercial trucking, and some are designed for high speeds.

Although automobile traffic requires the same basic set of needs for all roadways, those needs can be accomplished in different ways within the same roadway design standards.

Here are Some Reasons :

Safety

Pavement is subjected to significant wear and tear from cars, trucks, parking, weather, climate conditions, foot traffic, and general use. When pavement is properly maintained, the risks of injury, liability and vehicle damage are reduced.

      2. Experienced Professionals

The surface of asphalt roads and parking lots is continually exposed to harsh weather conditions, heavy traffic, and heavy machinery. It makes the pavement vulnerable to wear and tear, which can lead to cracks and potholes. 

So, it is highly recommended to consult experts for repair or replacement purposes. For professional assistance, you can consult experts at Pavement Maintenance in Doylestown.

      3. Prevention

Pavement will eventually lose value, which is unavoidable. However, addressing and repairing issues as they arise can help to keep potholes, cracks, chips, and overall repairs to a minimum, especially when using pavement preservation solutions. 

But if a road is well maintained over time using proper and adequate techniques, its remaining service life will automatically increase.

      4. Overall Driving Comfort

As you know, uneven pavement with potholes and cracks can be unpleasant to drive, walk, and park on. It is much more pleasant and comfortable to walk on a level, smooth pavement surface.

      5. Risk to Pedestrians

When potholes or surface cracks appear, they can cause damage to vehicles and other equipment, as well as endanger drivers and pedestrians. In recent years, several authorities have spent more than $30 million annually on pavement maintenance, which is carried out by private contractors. You can also consult with experts at the Paving Horsham.

At last, if a road is well maintained over time using proper and adequate techniques, its remaining service life will automatically increase. You can consult with experts at the Paving Horsham.

#Paving Horsham #Seal Coating in Quakertown #Paving Bensalem #Best Driveway Sealcoating in Hilltown

[elminx]

In my first semester of college, I was friends with this girl (we'll call her Jammie because that was her name) who was from South Boston. She invited me into Boston and showed me her house so I thought it only fair to invite her to my home three hours west in the hilltowns.

She told me that she couldn't go there because there might be bears.

At that time I couldn't even comprehend her apprehension.

Of course, there are bears there. That's...the best part.

#words #mine #personal #perspective

[heavenboy09]

5 Years Ago On October 14th, 2018

The CW Network Presents

The Rebirth Of The WB Classic Drama

Fantasy Supernatural TV Show Of 1998

A Little Town Known As HillTown

3 Young Women 🤎🤎🤎

With 3 Different Lives But Are Still Connected Through Time & Space

3 Sisters 🖤🖤🖤

With 2 Different Families, Separated By Birth But Are Reunited By The Bloodline of Their Lineage

3 Witches 🧙🏾‍♀️🧙🏿‍♀️🧙🏽‍♀️ Are About To Discover The Power They Possess & Make Some Magic ✨

The Vera Sisters

Born By The Ancestry Bloodline Of Powerful Good Witches

Who Will Fight The Forces Of Darkness & Stop The Coming Days Of Humanity's Last Hours On Earth 🌎

FOR THEY ARE

THE CHARMED ONES 🧙‍♀️🧙🏽‍♀️🧙🏾‍♀️

STRONGER TOGETHER, NOW & FOREVER

THE CW PRESENTS

THE REBIRTH OF THE 1# DRAMA TV SERIES OF THE WB

CHARMED🧙‍♀️🧙🏽‍♀️🧙🏾‍♀️🧹💜🖤🤎✨

HAPPY BELATED 5TH ANNIVERSARY TO THE CW'S CHARMED

#Charmed #Witches #ThePowerOf3 #TheVeraSisters #MelVera #MaggieVera #MacyVaughn #MelonieDiaz #SarahJeffery #MadeleineMantock #TheWitchingHour #Halloween

#Charmed #Witches #The Power of 3 #The Vera Sisters #Mel Vera #Maggie Vera #Macy Vaughn #Melonie Diaz #Sarah Jeffery #Madeleine Mantock #The Witching Hour #Halloween 🎃 #SoundCloud

[fontainebleau22]

For that meme with writing questions: 8, 13, 22, 39 and optionally 40?

Thanks so much for such great asks!

8. If you had to write an entire story without either action or dialogue, which would you choose and how would it go?

I would choose without dialogue, but that's only because I think it's a pretty artificial distinction: there are so many ways to express someone's mindstate without actual dialogue. Perec, for instance, wrote an entire book (Un homme qui dort) in the second person, and Ducks, Newburyport (which I read recently but will admit I didn't finish) is entirely composed of thoughts flitting through the main character's mind. One of my favourite fics, A Chance to Try Bravery by owlet, has exactly one line of dialogue at the very beginning, but is otherwise made up entirely of Steve's thoughts.

13. What is a subject matter that is incredibly difficult for you write about? What is easy?

Death is something I find impossible to write about, as I don't need to borrow grief; I think what I find easy is the nuts-and-bolts of everyday life - I imagine what I write very vividly, so describing what's in a room is always rewarding.

22. How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?

Lol! I write with a biro on lined file paper, and I keep the papers in a stack on my bookshelf! Once I've decided that a story has legs I type up a version on Word and print it out, then I edit it with a biro. And it lives on the stack too until it's done, then I recycle it. I do copy the files in Dropbox for safekeeping, but I don't write on a screen.

I'm very suspicious of writing apps like Scrivener because it seems to me that they encourage you to do a whole lot of other things rather than write.

39. What keeps you writing when you feel like giving up?

Um. It's the other way round for me, I never feel like giving up. Writing and the escapism it offers is the only thing that keeps me sane, so I would always rather be writing than living my often painful existence.

40. Please share a poem with me, I need it.

I've shared quite a few of my favourites on here before, but I'm not sure if I shared this, which really speaks to me.

11.00: Baldovan by Don Paterson.

Base Camp. Horizontal sleet. Two small boys have raised the steel flag of the 20 terminus:

me and Ross Mudie are going up the Hilltown for the first time ever on our own.

I’m weighing up my spending power: the shillings, tanners, black pennies, florins with bald kings,

the cold blazonry of a half-crown, threepenny bits like thick cogs, making them chank together in my pockets.

I plan to buy comics, sweeties, and magic tricks.

However, I am obscurely worried, as usual, over matters of procedure, the protocol of travel,

and keep asking Ross the same questions:

where we should sit, when to pull the bell, even

if we have enough money for the fare, whispering, Are ye sure? Are ye sure?

I cannot know the little good it will do me; the bus will let us down in another country

with the wrong streets and streets that suddenly forget their names at crossroads or in building-sites

and where no one will have heard of the sweets we ask for and the man will shake the coins from our fists onto the counter

and call for his wife to come through, come through and see this and if we ever make it home again, the bus

will draw into the charred wreck of itself and we will enter the land at the point we left off

only our voices sound funny and all the houses are gone and the rain tastes like kelly and black waves fold in

very slowly at the foot of Macalpine Road and our sisters and mothers are fifty years dead.

#writing asks #trams

[derschwarzeengel]

{Closed} Paint It Black

@chaermed

The sights, sounds, smells of late-October Hilltowne University wreathed around Damon as he leaned against an outside wall of the student center, eyes scanning the crowd for one of the new (well, new to him) Charmed Ones.

It had been a couple months since he'd thrown himself through the mysterious portal that appeared out of nowhere when on the run from an upper-level demon, and he'd found himself in this universe in the college town of Hilltowne, Michigan. It hadn't taken long to figure out that this uinverse was similar to his own, but something felt off. Oh, demons, witches, and Whitelighters existed, sure, but he hadn't been able to sense any of his own kind. Not to mention Whitelighters' version of orbing here was very different from that of Whitelighters in his home universe, reminding him far more of the Apparating effect used in the Harry Potter movies. As for the demons... the hierarchy here was different as well.

Still, until he could figure out a way to open a portal back to his home universe, he was stuck here. Rumors about some sort of prophecy and the Charmed Ones just coming into their powers had directed him closer to the university, going undercover as a graduate student.

In those two months, it hadn't been difficult to figure out the identity of the new Charmed Ones, not after finding reports of the death of Marisol Vera back in the summer semester three months ago. Her obituary had mentioned two daughters, but Damon knew from experience with his universe's Charmed Ones that where there were two sisters there could easily be a third (or, three sisters and a fourth, after the death of Prue Halliwell). His suspicions had been confirmed when Macy Vaughn showed up a few weeks ago, and the demonic world's reaction (specifically targeting the three young witches) cinched it.

Macy Vaughn worked on campus as a geneticist, Damon knew, while the middle sister Mel Vera was a graduate student and TA in the Women's Studies department. Neither would be particularly welcoming if he made his presence known, so that left the youngest sister Maggie.

The Darklighter stirred as he spotted movement, gaze sharpening as he spotted his quarry. After a quick glance to make sure no one was watching him, he let his body shift molecule by molecule into little blue-black orbs of light, vanishing from sight and reappearing moments later in solid form a few feet from her.

"Maggie."

#Charmed 2018 v. Something Wiccan This Way Comes ( Season 1. ) #chaermed