Yup, yup and yup. And those kids were almost totally helpless, until they died as teen-agers. Not a situation I'd wish on anyone. Hope that helps you some.Quote:
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Yup, yup and yup. And those kids were almost totally helpless, until they died as teen-agers. Not a situation I'd wish on anyone. Hope that helps you some.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Okay----RE: my new, 2005-model Felt Tri-bike, from the hock shop. I know what you kids are thinking, giving that crime-runs-rampant here in Zurra's 3rd largest city, that just built a nice, new 1200 bed jail to cope with it. By the time it opens, it will already be too small. But see---it appears that the bike I acquired has been in storage for quite awhile, judging from the dust & dirt and pet hair vaccumulated on it. So, yeah---after I filed my p-shop receipt in my file cabinet, I used a spray bottle & vinegar & a damp cloth to give er a preliminary cleanup, and compressed air to blow out the chain, etc. Then, used a hand pump to inflate the tyres and put a battery in the obsolete-but-deluxe cateye cyclo'puter, and chain lube on 'er. Had to drop the seat down, and adjust the clip-on aero bars. Ha. Rode it up and down the street several times, and it runs good, considering. But, somebody put a stem on it with a 45 degree uptilt, which raises the bars almost high enough to spot any pizza places along the road. Ha. That defeats the purpose of a tri-bike! You're SUPPOSED to be "all humped over", on a tri-bike! It has 23c tyres and a tig-welded aluminum frame, so you notice bumps on the road surface. This keeps it from being too compfterbal. You kids'd hate it. Yup. Anyway, I placed an order for a used 17-degree stem, from a charity in Wi. Also---of course I sat-n-watched an old video I've seen a number of times, but not lately. You kids need to watch it---it's "John Cobb on tri-bike fit". Cobb is even older than me, and is an expert and consultant on the subject. Yup. Just last fall, in Tx, he finished 140th or so, in a triathlon! I have no such ambitionp; I'm a poor swimmer, but maybe could keep up with Mr Cobb, after a little work. Hope that helps you some. Thank Mee. I must now return to my regularly-scheduled program of vegetation control.
Okay---I just wondered if you kids would be interested in forming up a group, so we can maybe get discount rates on an overnite tour at one o' the skeeeryest places in Zurra! Coming up soon is the tour o' the old Gas Chamber in Jeff City. You are even allowed to sit in one o' the two chairs! Doesn't that sound like fun? Prolly a LOT cheaper than a trip to Hawaaiayav or Can Coon Mexico or Transylvania to see Draculas' Castle. Or, Londumb, to visit where Anne Boleyn got axed. Yup. Here's a photo. Let me know, if you need more info.Attachment 4470
If memory serves, it was about 25 yards behind me when I took this picture. Not just the general location, but the very spot. https://scontent.fluk1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...oQ&oe=62A4F96EQuote:
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Somewhere to the left of this one, taken several years earlier than the one above.
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Hope that helps you some.
Boobby I visited the Gore psychiatric museum, in St. Joseph Missouri last week. That is in your home state I believe. They showed all kinds of instruments that “treated “the mentally ill decades ago. You would probably enjoy it. I did not.
I’ve been in London several times but never went to the Tower or Anne Boleyn’s last living place. As you are well aware I visited Dracula’s castle which is actually a big giant myth. The castle has really the home of a much beloved queen Marie who served the Romanian population well in just the last century.
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I remember taking my grandmother to her cousins funeral, decades ago. We started at her old house, which had a tiny front yard, the street, and then the prison wall.
The families thought was, if they actually escaped from the prison, criminals would NOT want to stick around so close to it.
I would have thought that scary places to you would have been things like Animal control services (and their death chamber), retail establishments (since you seem to be in Springfield, maybe Grizzly tools), and restaurants like Pete's ZA place.
TMS, I guess I really ain't skeered o' nuthin', since about everything around here is stigmatized, anyway. I stopped at the Villisca Axe Murder House up in Iwah, the police state, in two thousand and six, late on a Saturday afternoon, and found the owner/curator waiting for some overnighters to arrive. He left me in the house alone, so I could go upstairs, by myself, while he waited outside for the paying guests. The place may look large in photos of the exterior, but is a fairly tiny house. Especially for a family of six. The staircase to the second floor was so small and winding, that I wondered how they got furniture up there. Yup. But yeah the room that creeped me out was the downstairs sewing room/guest bedroom off the parlor. Yup.Attachment 4471
Also, Faux/Lilies, as long as you were in St Joe, you coulda visited the city cemetery where Ken Rex McElroy, Skidmore town bully is interred. Also, one of my former neighbors. Then, on to Skidmore, to see the sites there. I call that region, sw Iwah/N/W Zurra, the skeery triangle. You've got the grave of Bonnie Brown Heady, and her former home in St Joe, PLUS the site of the last lynching in Mo. in Nodaway County. and all kinds of creepy stuff. My English Perfesser from ICCC in FD, Iwah s grave, too, at Savannah. She was a spinster and then a went into a convent up there, at age Sixty two. I referred to her as "Gory Dorthie" because she always dwelt upon weird, depressing, macabre subjects. Especially about men dying or being maimed in motor vehicle or industrial accidents. But, never said a word about you kidses' favorite place, Ukrainia, or Row Versus Wade. FYI, Wade, was the long serving Dallas County prosecutor of record in not only that case, but at the time of the JFK assassination and related events, so also prosecuted Jack Ruby. Isn't that cool? Yup. How do you like that? Anyway, Sister Dorothie would be a good case study for you kids to start a thread about, and diagnose. Ha.
Okay---this just appeared on my F-book feed of "Zurra Nostalgia". It really takes me back---- to when I had food poisoning or something like that. Ha. It's been covered by all the Americana Roots bands. Yup. You kids'd prolly really like it, though. Thankk Mee.Attachment 4473Attachment 4473Attachment 4473
Okay---As a bonus, here's an old photo of Ed Epperly holding the actual Villisca Axe! How do you like that? It was found leaning against the wall in the sewing room. Yup.
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