High level conference: When E.S. talks, Granddad listens 2013-11-09 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Having watched all the Netflix episodes of The I.T. Crowd - our family is now able to handle 90% of all problems by just remembering the advice which solves 90% of the problems: "Have you tried turning it off and back on again?," as Roy Trenneman and Maurice Moss advise on any problem. E.S. Waggener, "Ev," above left, thinks he should have an office in Shelbyville and another in Columbia where he can give that advice and much more - and charge for it, as he explained to his techno-challenged Granddad, above. We shouldn't have been surprised but we now have two anecdotal incidents which support the 90% solution; once when our whole site was down and rebooting at our service provider somewhere in Middle America solved the problem. And most recently, when none of our top in house tech advisors could solve the problem of a notional iPhone which wouldn't update emails. That was frustrating. I shared the puzzler with Linda, and she instinctively asked, "Have you tried turning it off and back on again?" (even though she's seem all the episodes only once or twice). When I powered down and restarted, the ancient iPhone behaved perfectly. Will let everybody know when my tech guru, Ev, hangs out his shingle. He's good, and his work is almost as reasonable as the ultimate go-to man, Gerald Holt, the H.P. expert, Rotarian, and the man who brought the epidemic of pedalling your sofa across the countryside to Adair County. Results are all that matters to Ev, so don't be surprised if he charges his $25 minimum for just asking, "Have you tried . . ." even though you ought to have known that already. - GRANDDAD, Ed Waggener Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Scenic Adair County, KY: Tommy Helm's lake, right side up 2013-11-08 - Gentry Mill Road, East Adair County, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Tommy Helm's lake right side up, is prettier still. Paired photos: see also Scenic Adair County, KY: Tommy Helm's lake, inverted Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Scenic Adair County, KY: The inverted illusion forest 2013-11-08 - Gentry Mill Road, East Adair County, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Friday, November 8, 2013 was such a perfectly clear day, and the waters in Tommy Helm's lake on Gentry Mill Road were so clear, the woods were almost as distinct in this impressionistic inversion as the read thing. Tommy's Country Cooking, Helm's restaurant, has views of the lake which beg to photographed. Paired photos: see also Scenic Adair County, KY: Tommy Helm's lake, right side up Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

The ICE trike head on 2013-11-08 - Sano Road near Gentry Mill Road, Adair County, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Face to face with the ICE recumbent trike the fine craftsmanship of the machine is evident. ICE is an acronymn for the British manufacturer's full name, Inspired Cycle Engineering. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Tadpole design trike has low profile 2013-11-08 - Sano Road near Gentry Mill Road, Adair County, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. The low profile of the ICE Adventure bike makes the addition of the colorful pennants a requisite safety accessary. The small rear drive wheel means slightly slower speeds, Gary Rose, above said, and different muscle groups are needed than those used to power an upright. On the highway, he was able to hit speeds in excess of 20 mph - just a bit slower than the speed limit on the State Highway should be. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Marking place on Sano Road 2013-11-08 - Gentry Mill Road at Sano Road, Adair County, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. This intersetion, where Mrs. Marcum and I spotted the recumbents, is a nifty visual, with the signs for two businesses, the county street markers, red stop sign, and most of, the beautiful the Eastern Red Cedar with its skyblue mature seed cones. Genty Mill Road is also know as Chicken Ridge Road, and connects Sano Road to Kentucky 80 just into Adair County at the Adair-Russell Road. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Pedalling their sofas down the road? 2013-11-08 - Sano Road, Adair County, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. That's what we asked Diane and Gary Rose when we passed them, then turned around and met them on Sano Road, today, near it's junction with Gentry Mill (aka Chicken Ridge) Road and told him it is probably illegal to drive a sofa on the highways of Adair County. No, he countered, "Riding your sofa down the road may not be legal but riding your recliner is. LOL :-)." The vehicles are as comfortable as recliners, and are becoming more commonplace in Adair County. People powered trikes allow more people to take advantage of cycling, Gary Rose says - even those with physical handicaps. The bikes are a tad slower than uprights bicycles, he said. But we clocked him a over 20 mph as we followed him. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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