The katydids have been “singing” now for at least two weeks which used to mean ‘six weeks until frost’.
There is an “on site” meeting over the replacement of the Creston LKR bridge this week.
The Wirt road crew has been fixing bad places on W. Va. 5. Perhaps next they will fix the bad places in the Ann’s Run road so it can receive a new top.
Denise Bunner didn’t win at the Creston bingo game as she & some friends went to a Chris Stapleton concert.
Naomi Toler who carries the mail up Little Creek & down the Richardsonville Road took her first airplane ride Friday with some family members. Their destination is unknown, perhaps Cozumel, Monaco, Reykjavík or perhaps, Athens or Rome.
Peanut put up some fine second cutting hay.
Charlie Warner who lives down in Beaver Dam got to “vacation” in a Charleston hospital after acquiring Lyme’s Disease.
Real estate taxes can now be paid and one gets the discount. Also, it is time to file the annual Farm Use reports to prevent property being taxed as sites for condominiums, high rises, truck plazas, etc.
The Wirt County Fair starts August 5 and many local folks attend and participate in the activities.
The power company has placed some of their new poles on the dePue farm although the new lines have not yet been strung.
Antero reported that their new five well dry gas pad is making 125 million cubic feet/day and shows no sign of decline and that recovery will be 2 billion cubic feet/1000 feet of lateral. One new well is 24,000 long on a lease the firm obtained from HG. The firm states that their total production is 4.1 bcfe/day. [billion cubic feet equivalent = includes liquids, oil, et.]. Antero, based in Denver, indicated they were getting dry gas for use to supply AI data centers.
Expand Energy noted that their production is 4.3 bcfe/day and they are now paying a bonus of $5,000/acre in Pennsylvania.
Slicksters are trying to pick up oil & gas acreage in Gilmer County on the cheap. One outfit offered to pay $1,500/acre to purchase while at the same time a lease broker offered a $4,500/acre lease bonus for the same tract but the offered lease has some poison pills.
NextEra Energy indicated that the firm plans to build 2 GW (gigawatts) of electric power capacity at the old Paducah Kentucky uranium processing facility where a $100 billion data center is planned.
Dominion Energy announced a big gas fired power plant beside the existing coal plants at Mt. Storm in Grant County.
Then it was announced that there is a $66.8 billion merger between the two giants. Likely Dominion is part of the Rockefeller empire.
Mountaineer Gas which is a local gas utility said they would pay $2.289696/MMBTU for June gas.
The Creston area has been having rain.
W. Harrison Schenerlein IV & family finally returned to their home in Florida. It took three tries with the airplanes and the last try was three hours late.
The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude was $82.67/bbl. With condensate fetching $65.67/bbl. And Marcellus & Utica light bringing $72.67/bb
