Posted on 04/07/2012 1:58:19 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Let me know if you dare to be on the “ping list” of my intermittent ramblings about society and nothing in particular.
But I'm guessing Ben Franklin, despite his own admittedly libidinous ways, didn't have to write up a lot of neighborhood orgy reports.
I buy those little bottles to cook with.
Put me on you ping list. I love your essays.
There’s a mom here who sits with her kid in her idling mini-van AT THE END OF HER DRIVEWAY. The bus picks her kid up AT THE END OF HER DRIVEWAY. Nothing wrong with the kid - he hops out and runs into the bus when it arrives. It’s a safe, low-traffic area. I don’t see where THE END OF HER DRIVEWAY is such a hazardous place for her little snowflake to stand for a couple minutes. He’s out there alone on his ATV all the time.
Maybe she’s trying to keep him from playing hooky.
My brother worked as a highway engineer in MN, in one of the outstate regions. He once referred to these converted RR right-of-way walks as ‘rape trails’, as they give a false sense of isolation and security.
Sam, if you really want to cause a stir, make up a carbon-tax ticket book and hand them to the moms in the idling cars at the bus stop. Start with the Volvos. Heads will explode!
Yes, I’m not a big yogurt eater, but we have Stonyfield Yogurt. Very good.
We also have that beer can and bottle problem. Everyone around here is very green, including the teenagers, but I think some of them still seem to get a kick out of throwing their used cans and bottles out of the car window. Our town has an annual pickup day.
Anyway, that’s better than whoever threw a used washer and dryer down from the dirt road into our woods. A bit much to haul back up the hill, but someone did eventually get it—probably the road workers who were fixing a nearby culvert.
Actually, Vermont has a long tradition of junking cars and trucks in the woods. When a car is used up, they would just drive it into the woods and leave it to rust away. We had a clump of old Model A’s and Model T’s, off of a logging trail through our woods, but in the past ten years they have finished rusting and now are resting under the soil and the fallen leaves. Too bad, in a way. There were some really neat looking fenders.
I’m assuming the getting in touch with nature event was coed.
(An assumption I wouldn’t make here)
Grilled Jalapenos
Crumbled bleu cheese
Buffalo wing sauce
Bacon
Simple, elegant and veeeeery tasty!
we have a rail trail in my town in sc. i think if kids live with in a mile they should walk.
Yeah, the kids in my country neighborhood raises hell all of the school breaks on their four wheeler and motor bikes but can not even walk a quarter mile to the bus stop.
WALKING SCHOOL BUS
MINNEAPOLIS - Some students in Minneapolis are trading in tires for tennis shoes when it comes to getting to school.
Lyndale Community School is embracing its “walking bus” which started a few years back and has been growing ever since.
Every day, the “bus” operates on a set route, picking up more kids along the way. Four different routes operate on Friday.
Interesting blog. Add me to the ping list.
As an avid runner and cyclist, I wish we had them.
Added to my ping list. I will try to get one of these out every Saturday but I’m going to have to take better notes during the week because after I posted this, I thought about another half dozen things that happened this past week that should have been in this column.
C. 1970 I lived about 3-4 houses inside the 1 mile limit, over which you could ride the bus. I walked in decent weather, on rainy / extra cold days the moms would carpool. It was all quiet subdivision roads, nothing busy/fast. It is absurd people think they have to have a bus for <1 mile.
I live a couple miles from a rail trail and put in 100 to 250 miles a week on it. Bicycle, not foot. :)
Goes thru some of what are euphemistically referred to as “bad neighborhoods.” Wouldn’t recommend it for a woman by herself.
I live a couple miles from a rail trail and put in 100 to 250 miles a week on it. Bicycle, not foot. :)
Goes thru some of what are euphemistically referred to as “bad neighborhoods.” Wouldn’t recommend it for a woman by herself.
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