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Comments (16)Shareclub usually meets in the boardroom of a daycare behind a Lutheran church, while the caretaker cleans. When we arrived tonight - door locked. Called the caretaker - he's sick. So we arranged for a room in a nearby library, at a fee of $26.50 for a non-profit group. Usually about 20 there, only about 14 tonight (probably some were missed by the notifying person at the door of the daycare). We've been meeting for years - usually have met where room is free. This is the first time that we've had to pay, that I'm aware of and I've been attending for about 7 years, I think. On return home, female canine (changing her title to "feckless canine") had torn the bottom out of a grocery bag hanging on the kitchen chair, chocolate bar wrapper strewn all over floor, she'd eaten some of it. When she was here some time ago, pulled a bag of choc. covered almonds off of a kitchen chair, ate quite a few, threw up after a while. Regurgitated almonds, even though (still) choc. covered, are not an appealing dish. She doesn't like being left alone - the other day, she'd pulled the garbage bag all apart, strewing junk all over the kitchen floor. After my return, I made the mistake of giving a tart a minute of microwave - to smoke when I opened the door, and some raisins rather charred. Glad it wasn't yesterday - or I'd have thought it an inauspicious start to my new year. ole joyful...See MoreOle joyful's request
Comments (23)I still agree with our traffic act ... that it's a privilege ... to drive on the public highway. Any person has a right, wearing a seat belt or not, to drive any vehicle, licensed or not, passed mechanical/emissions test or not, on private property ... but only if s/he owns it. Or has the owner's permission ... which makes that situation a "privilege" that must be granted, doesn't it? How would you like to have me tell you that I have a right to drive my car on your driveway? farm? In our area, a youth can only drive on the public road initially if s/he can pass a test showing that s/he knows many of the traffic laws ... and only if accompanied by a licensed driver, for some time, until s/he has proved her/his capacity to operate a vehicle within appropriate parameters (which until that time does not include driving on an expressway, or driving between midnight and 5 a.m., or with more than one other youth in the car, or with any trace whatever of alchol on his/her breath) at which time s/he is granted an unrestricted licence (except can't have more than 0.08% of alcohol on his/her breath). And if s/he transgresses those parameters, the privilege will be withdrawn ... for a period. In fact, I don't have a right to drive any vehicle on the highway, as is. When I purchase a vehicle, it must pass certain mechanical tests and limited emission tests before the government allows me to put a licence plate on it, and if I am caught driving it on a public road without a licence plate, I have some serious consequences to face, regardless of whether I possess a driving licence. Actually, if I don't pay a fee before my birthday next year, the "right", "privilege" or whatever we choose to call it, will expire, and if I put it on the road the next day, there'll be consequences that I won't like (if I'm caught by certain designated persons policing the rules). Plus, every couple of years, it must re-pass an emissions test and if it doesn't, they won't accept my fee in order for me to continue to exercise my "right" ... "privilege" ... whatever ... to continue to operate it on the public roads (but I can operate it on my own farm, even if it doesn't pass the emissions test). If it's been through an accident and an evaluator assesses that it has suffered structural, rather than merely cosmetic damage, I will not be allowed the "right" ... "privilege" to continue to have a licence on it. But this issue is beside the point ... my suggestion here was that everyone choose to make a distinct effort to re-evaluate and most likely upgrade their driving knowledge and skills. Probably we upgrade our computers oftener than re-evaluate/upgrade our driving skills. But the choice not to re-evaluate/upgrade our computer will hardly ever be responsible for someone's death or serious injury, whether that of others or our own. ole joyful...See MoreOle joyful's joyful
Comments (44)Actually, when you have to have a 4-year-licensed driver sitting beside you ... and can't drive on the freeway ... and not between midnight and 5 a.m. either ... ... somehow, one gets the feeling that one has arrived at one's second childhood! ole joyful...See Moreole joyful needs a prayer ... or two
Comments (21)joyfulguy: Go ahead and tell about Saurday night baths. Its part of our heritage that happened not so long ago, but might seem primitive by today standards. My sister and I with our 2 parents lived in a small 4 room house on a small farm in southern Illinois. Electricity did not reach these farms until 1947. During the 1940s, my sister and I bathed in a No.3 galvanized wash tub placed behind the kitchen stove to afford a screen. (Be careful not to back into the kitchen stove if it was fired up.) Water came from a pitcher pump at the kitchen sink. It drew water from a cistern. The cistern was replenished by rain water from the roof of the house. (We prayed for rain when the cistern ran low.) Water wss heated on the kitchen stove. The stove also contained a copper water tank that eventually heated 5 to 10 gallons of water. On hot summer nights, water may have been heated outside in another tub at the clothes washing site. We bathed on Saturday night so that we'd be fresh for church the next morning. That was the only scheduled bath of the week. In summer, just before supper, we might go the swimming hole in the river; It was only 1/4 mile from the house. That was a great way to rinse the sweat off and cool down. In 1947 after electric powewr came to the countryside (REA), the bathing routine did not change due to practicalities. After I entered high school in 1950, I got a shower every day at the end of the physical Ed class. That became my source of bathing (and athlete's foot). You probably should save the descriptions of outhouses for another time, but those were part of the landscape. Farm houses built in 1900 did not have plumbing. If you were out in a field, you went behind a bush. (My uncle cautioned me: "Do not squat with your spurs on!")...See More
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