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WE have owned only one place that a big yard decoration would have fit. I would have loved this in my front yard:
Have you seen big decoration? I think the biggest I ever did see was called Cadillac Ranch, they over did it me thinks.
Original cars, 1974.
What would you use if you had a BIG home and room for an eye catcher?
Nite Shipslog
PS:
This one I do not want!
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How was this material made and lifted in 432 BC?
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The other day 'MA' commented on a ‘home place’, remembering a ‘swinging Bridge’. There is a swinging bridge in our past also. Kat and Dick (Sis & BIL) had a place in the NC mountains. An Old cabin that the extended family used and enjoyed. There was a swinging bridge across the mountain stream. It was actually installed & maintained by NC State DOT for years. It was a walking bridge.
All the kids loved it. One day Jack Jr. was on the bridge and screamed loudly after being stung by a hornet. Sherry (a young lady then) went bounding across the bridge, unknowingly stirring a huge hornet’s nest underneath. That was long before she wore pants. Hornets swarmed under her dress mixed in the slips and dress (modesty went to the wind, imma tell you). At least 14 made it to her legs and she suffered some terrible stings.
However, we still used the bridge and enjoyed it for many more years (with the nest gone, of course) The State finally took the bridge down.
more..
Do you ever want more? I love Butter-pecan Ice Cream. MOST of the time, when it is finished no matter how BIG the bowl was, I want just a little more.
I misplaced a lot of things in my childhood. My daddy used to tell me, “You would lose your head it it wasn’t screwed on to your neck!”
Filled the car Monday, gas cost: $3.57 per gallon.
I was over at ‘Spare Parts and Pics’. Peter went out to the Carlyle mine. Even crazy enough to walk down into one of the shafts. ‘BUT’ he mentioned all the **concrete used to make the mine workable in such a rough area. That was in the early 1900s, The mine peaked in my birth year 1939.
So I started down a rabbit trail. In my mind going back to the Pyramids. How did they do that in 2600 BC. I walked the Parthenon in Athens in 1957 & 1970, How did they do that in 432 BC?
So now I am looking in on the Aztecs on this side of the world. How did they do that in 1050 AD?
Sorry, when I get on a rabbit trail, I get lost..
And click-bait did not sent me this time. LOL
Take care...
Nite Shipslog
** Concrete: I learned that the Carlyle concrete was probably some of the first ‘Gunite’ or ‘Shotcrete’ used. Gunite is still used today but not the same methods. It was probably hauled out in bags as powder and forced into water by pressure.
Where there is a will there is a way, THEY SAY!
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(first: Hey Victor, I knew about the Euro, I just forgot. I even used to know my name!)
When I read blogs many times, I get the idea that someone writing may be a musician. Our family appreciated music. Mama started Shirley (6) on the piano and she learned. She tried me(7), but only one 50 cent lesson and I told mama ‘not for me.
Dad bought a second hand Sax from a friend, I held it for awhile, looked at it, wow, there are a lot of buttons on that dude. I gave that up too. Dad got his money back. I have few regrets in my 87 years, I just mentioned a couple.
I watch grandson Josh tickle those keys and Stephen pic the guitar and wish I has stuck with the piano. THEN the biggest regret is the sax, I love to hear that instrument. It yanks my chain. BUT I gave that up too.
I settled for the trumpet, and got pretty danged good at it, but slowly, as my sister Shirley did on the piano. I started doing my own thing on the trumpet, NOT reading music, I started playing by ear. That is ok, but it limits one. I could pick up the horn and play most anything, not even knowing the key of the music, but I could not add those cute ‘runs’ that the pro could add.
I played the trumpet for many years in church. Sherry’s niece is a pianist/organist. WE attended the same church. Once, I asked Brenda, ‘what was that last song you played?’ She told me. The song she played was not the song I did. I laid the horn down and never picked it up again. I realized later, my hearing was my problem. A fellow named Troy, picked it up and played it. It became his horn. If you make music with a wind instrument, you do not always learn lyrics, just the music. I know few lines to songs.
Sherry took piano lessons for a while and coulda been good at it, but She lost interest. Today that is one of her regrets. Son Jack Jr. turned out to be a good trumpet player, Mark never showed any interest in musical instruments but he does have a good singing voice.
I don’t know why but I see MA, Susan, Myra and Diana (Nana) as possible piano players.
Since I am not a soothe sayer, Imma quit trying, but I think Victor may play the keyboard or a guitar. ;-) but most likely he plays chess.
Nite Shipslog
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Music is a big part of life in this world. I think the music of your teens/twenties will be the best when you look back over your life. Yeah lyrics from my teens meant so much:
A wap bob a lu bob, a lop bam boom, TUTI FRUITY AW RUTY!
WE thought it was fun anyway! ;-)
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I saw some nice used cars the other day. Price in large letters, ONLY $25,000! I have a problem, 1956, when I got my license, a NEW Ford/Chevy was $1600. Shucks the Caddy was $3100. Back then I heard the Rolls sold for about L5000 or about $20,000.
(The Rolls sells new today starting at about $350,000)
Out of my understanding! Those used cars I saw sell for more than a Brand New Rolls Royce in 1955! What happened to our economy? I guess Victor would say what happened to the euro?
Hearing that gas prices are on the rise, we filled the coach. It is full now and ready to start to NC in a few weeks. Our round trip to NC in this gas coach is 166 gallons.
We were paying about $380 round trip but now at present price of $3.45 per gallon, it will be about $520. WE can fly round trip cheaper. OUCH! Of course that flight trip cost will double too.
I hear this upward cost is only temporary, I sure hope so, because if gas goes to $4-$5 a gallon our traveling will sure be cut down LOL.
I know, I know, Sherry too says I am now OLD and should not be on the road. But before I disappear I want you to know my little brain
thinks I am as ‘cool’ as I was 70 yrs ago. Uh
OH! AFTER I wrote that, looking back, READING IT, mmm...mmm, maybe, just maybe I could be hallucinating. I will think-on that; I hope I will be back tomorrow. ;-)
Nite Shipslog
PS: Life is good, brains may not be all they are cracked up to be, it is said some folks do not use ½ their brain capacity. It is hinted that I DO NOT USE
mine at all. But I am trying. When I say ‘I am
TRYING!’ Sherry says, “YOU SURE ARE!”
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I order a lot of stuff like many people today. I never cease to think of how things turn around. As a kid my mama ordered from Sears & Roebuck catalog. Even her baby chicks came in the mail in a box with holes in the sides. I loved that.
And for many many years very few folks ordered, NOW? Wow, Amazon has out stripped Walmart. Who woulda thunk it?
Anyway as you all know once you order and it is delivered, immediately you get the auto email, “How did you like the product?” Most of the time before you have had time to even use it.
I have tried to respond, and a few times I might give them 5-star and say a few words. Once or twice I used 3-5 words, I.e. “I enjoyed the product!”
I immediately received the notation, ‘not enough words!’ What? Don’t tell me how to comment. You asked, I responded, you should be happy about anything good that is said!
Anyway, I told them I would not respond again. I know they don’t care but I definitely won’t feel bad bout NOT making a comment.
Take care out there I just wanted to VENT, Thanks.
Nite Shipslog
PS: WE are settled in Eustis again. Nice place. Mark will be over and we will attend church here in the park. Our pastor here has a dog on the stage with him. He is very wise man, an in depth sermon, very well delivered and less than 30 mins.. Singers from different states most use guitars. Good sounds...
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I have enjoyed this short stay near Orlando. Too much traffic in this area to suit my sweetheart and me. But I did enjoy the Sand-hill Cranes and their crazy loud sounds. Also, I tried to get some pictures of a couple with two skinny chicks but I wasn't very successful.
I was feeling sorry for you girls the other day as I was wiping my hands on my work trousers. Girls can’t do that. Sherry said Boys are not supposed to do it either. BUT where else are we supposed to wipe ‘em? WE don’t keep a box of Kleenex with us??
We boys (NOT WEE boys) are just lucky I guess, our pants can handle it.
Unique things:
Sherry and I watched a coach pull in, to park. A lady got out, went around and disconnected the jeep she was towing. Then moved the Jeep into a parking spot. She proceeded to back the big coach into the site perfectly and do all the hookups (Power, water and Sewer). She leveled the coach, opened the awing and went in. A few minutes later she was out under the awning, drinking a cup of coffee and reading a book. Tough lady, I want you to know, that was a job. I just about bet she wiped her hands on her pants! LOL
Sherry said, "I wouldn’t do that. IF you were not here I would be in a house watching TV." She could do it of course, but prefers not to wipe her hands on her pants.
Another view from our front window:
Nite Shipslog
PS: Life is good even if I do break the rule and wipe my hands on my pants, that’s why they go to the trouble to make ‘Spray ‘n Wash’. ;-)
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The surroundings of RV parks and campgrounds has changed since the arrival of COVID. WE are seeing many more children where we once only saw old folks until Summer. Example, A couple just parked across the road, they have three children, a puppy and a cat.
They are home schooled and the parents work from ‘Home’; for them, home is where you park it.
I had to smile when the oldest child asked Sherry if we had any kids? LOL The mother was there, I laughed, looking at her saying, “Yes we do but they are on Social Security.”
Electric bikes, scooters and 4 wheelers are the thing. Yes even life on the road has changed very much.
I don’t guess it is sad, it is really history repeating itself IN CHANGE. i.e. Dad would say, when I wanted
a car, “When I was a boy and wanted to go
somewhere, I walked or rode a mule bare back. Things
have sure changed!” And of course they had.
WE catch ourselves saying things like, “At one time we could understand the words of a song when Elvis, Sedaka, and Ray Charles sang !”
Speaking of those and hundreds more, we are reminded no matter who you are, how rich you become or famous you are; unless you are a president, inventor, or great philosopher you will be forgotten.
A generation or two down the road someone may remember a grandpa or grandma named ....mmmmm ? And they will be saying, “Hey we used to do things much different than these crazy kids today!”
I hope in a few years (if time goes on and I am alive) I can still move and think well enough to tell the great grands how much fun it was to be alive in the 1940-1970 era of music and TV! (Part of the Silent Generation)
Many of my elders thought the 'Rock and Roll' teens in my time were headed to hell in a hand basket. Some folks think that today, but when I see our fantastic Grand kids, and I know you have some too; I know the country will be in pretty good hands…
Nite Shipslog
PS: Oh yes RV parks have changed, as I type this, it is about 8:30PM and I hear noise, children cutting up. We used to hear only bugs or night noises after 6PM, LOL…….Don’t leave, I’m even gonna try to do better;-)
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We thought Mr. Luke was going to be the dedicated bachelor. Then he met THAT lady. JENNA!. But first he was a cute kid, a tow head who was always ‘sweet’ around us. Brothers and sister mom and dad may have different insights. LOL
Above is SHORT Luke the comedian no legs!
He was good in school and very good on the little league baseball field.
My pride in him was his frugality. He WORKED, saved his money and by the time he was around 20 he had saved $16000. He located a house in Paw Creek, NC owned by a Hell’s Angels Chapter. He bought the house. With the help of his dad and William (one of our go-to workers, he calls Sherry mama) the house was transformed. He was our youngest and the first to own his home outright. You gotta be proud of that. (Mark was in Florida part of the time and he said Luke would pay for his gas to come up and work some.)
He has become a leading plumber at the Charlotte International Air Port and doing great.
Palmer (Palmy, PJ) is already a traveler. She has flown several trips to Ohio (Jenna’s mother lives there), She has visited her grandpa and the other great grand parents here in Florida. Trips to the beach and a cruise or two and not a year old yet. This child is very sweet and cuddly.
Palmy dropped by to see us not long after she was born. Grandma now has girls around.
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PS: These GRANDS are THE BEST things, yes they tickle my heart strings! I hope you enjoyed the Grand Tour, this was of course more interest to the family, a tribute from our time here on this planet.
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