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The Loves of my Life  I know, I know, but I really am smiling!
For a long time I have been reluctant to post any pictures of "the loves of my life". I'm not sure why unless I'm just being over-protective, or maybe even possessive. These girls are all my granddaughters. (The youngest is missing in pic to the right). These three girls are all cousins - none are sisters. Gramma and I like to get all of them for a week every summer for pictures - and fun. Hopefully we will one day be able to get all the grandsons together and do the same thing, but we may end up trying it with half now - half another time. There is getting to be too many of them to have them all at one time. (Or maybe we're just getting too old!). Anyway. I sure think I'm a lucky grandfather.
  You all take care, now.
L e e My Street Marker - A Porta-Crapper! Portable Outhouse, aka "thunderbox".
aka Porta-Crapper, aka Sanitation Device
I live in a neighborhood that 25-30 years ago was actually considered 'out in the country'! It has pretty much built up in that period of time. I've lived here 34 years and have watched it grow. Heck, a block away from me used to be a private airport. Now, one of the state's largest high schools sits on that property.
As is the norm, new streets were laid for the subdivisions, but little was done to the main roads that was there long before they ever started building subdivisions - until recent. Apparently they couldn't put them off any longer. So, they finally got around to completly re-doing one of the main roads (a two lane road), opting to straighten it out eleminating several turns, building a new bridge over the creek, making it four lanes, and in some instances, just rerouting it (since there is another town involved in the completion).
I use that road, when it's open, to go/come from the mall since I walk at the mall 5-6 mornings every week. Well, there is so much construction going on widening it, and straightening it out, and rerouting it, that many of the cross street signs have either been removed or run over by construction equipment. Others are set way back off the road, easily missed. So, now the whole street has taken on a new appearance. It passes through subdivisions that it never used to. Quite a different view.
After they reopened two lanes, and for several days on my way home from the mall I kept missing the street that I turn on to get to my house. I kept looking for some landmark that I could use. And, THERE IT WAS! An outdoor Porta-Crapper! The road crew had set up a Porta-Crapper in the median right where I needed to turn. Bless there hearts. They must have been thinking of me and my delemma.
Now, I know that the scheduled completion date for that street, or road, or boulevard, whatever they decide to call it, is to be March of 2010. Gosh I sure hope they have street sign in place where they can be seen by then. If not, I guess I can go back to using the freeway again. (Maybe they'll leave that Porta-Crapper there in place! LOL
When you think about this for a bit you can't help but wonder 'whatever did we do before Porta-Crappers'!
Take care, my friends. Life is great!
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