Who left the dimensional door open? - Thread 015

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[westmex]

Nope it is a museum now. When Mex 1 was completed they couldn't let the prisoners run around loose..Before there was no place for them to go. The Baja is not a kind land away from civilization....There is a new regular prison with guard towers and the whole works just south of Santa Rosalia, the old French mining town....and it is 85° here now.....
......Westy...

[okimhere]

85??!! You two live in sizzling country - LOL. Our high was 84 today and it's 71 now. It was chilly this morning and so perfectly wonderful! We had Washington State weather.

That was my first thought, too, Mom - "Mom and Palo can go to town on their own????? What fun". That would have been some prison, eh?

[lodwick]

Evening Mom - feel free to start your remembrances of your family whenever you're ready.

We're ready right now. Thanks, and God bless all you guys. JL

[westmex]

FYAOC....
.......Westy....

[andysandmikesmom]

Today was exceptionally warm...too warm for me...but tomorrow begins a cooling trend for the next week, temps just around 70...that to me is ideal...

Could you just see a prison where Palo and I lived, but were allowed out during the day to work and shop...that would be some prison...

[okimhere]

HeeHee....I might find something to commit just to join you in that Club Fed. Los Angeles has just released 842 prisoners whose time was not quite up and beds were needed for incoming. Sort of the same thing except they now have to find their own sleeping arrangements.....no returning to a cell.

How does Dizzy take the heat? He doesn't go out, though, does he?

[okimhere]

Coooooooool picture! Pretty.

[westmex]

I don't think you would have liked it...No shopping malls, just hard nitty grity living..Wasn't a supermarket or mall in Mulege the last timeI was there...or a bank.....This wasn't Cabo San Lucas....
......Westy...

[andysandmikesmom]

Well,I will begin about Uncle Oscar...he was my dads uncle, the brother of my dads mother...now Uncle Oscar was one of 12 children(great grammie had about 20 or so pregnancies, some resulted in stillbirths, some in miscarriages, but 12 lived into adulhood)....and Uncle Oscar was the youngest, the baby of the family....there were 6 boys and 6 girls, just like in the movie 'Cheaper by the Dozen'...

Now all 6 boys served in WW1...they were a very patriotic family...I believe all the girls had husbands who also served in WW1..I know my grammies husband(my grandad) and all of his brothes served in WW1...so say what you will about their oddness, they did go to war, proudly served...

My grandmother and Uncle Oscar, and all the kids in the family were born in New Jersey, and spent a good deal of their lives there... When my grandmothers daughter(my Aunt Helen) married and moved to Cal...grammie went with...my dad went into the army, just before WW11, married mom and settled in Chicago...

But the rest of that whole family, stayed back east, some moved to Philadelphia, but for the most part, they all stayed in and around Frenchtown N.J., a small town of about only 2000 people where everyone knows everyone...

Now in this wacky family of mine, drinking was the biggest pastime of the boys, and of some of the girls...Uncle Oscar, was quite a big drinker...one time the boys were out, carousing around, and Uncle Oscar was sitting in the back of the car, in the Rumble Seat...

Being as he was loaded, and prone to thinking he was smarter than everyone when he was like that, he was standing up in the rumble seat, shouting directions at the driver of the car...the driver got angry, stepped on the gas, and all anyone remembers seeing was Uncle Oscar, being thrown head first out of the car, and flipping up in the air...when the dust cleared, on the road, Oscar was injured and had to be taken to the hospital...

He broke his hip, very badly...apparently he did not believe it was broken, and he tried to escape the hospital, by jumping out of a second floor window(He must have still been drunk)..Patients reported seeing a man fly past their window...(No one to this day, understands how Uncle Oscar dragged himself to the window, and threw himself out of it)...

Well, he hurt himself again, but surprisingly no greater injury than further injury to his hip...I guess, being so drunk, he was 'loose' when falling, and the alcohol dulled the pain...

Anyway, after a lengthy stay in the hospital, and cared for at home, by greatgrammie, he returned to normal health...tho for the rest of his life, his one hip was higher than the other and he walked with a limp...

But he never wanted Greatgrammie to know, that the reason he got thrown out of the car, was because he was drunk, and lost his balance when the car started up...so the boys all made up a story...I dont know what the story was, but they all thought greatgrammie bought into it...years later greatgrammie revealed that all along she knew Oscars injuries had something to do with his drinking...

Then as now, its very hard to fool your mothers...

More to come...

[andysandmikesmom]

Dizzy seems to know how to take care of himself...I turn the ceiling fan in the family room, on to high...and it really does cool the place down...

Dizzy does not go out, so he has to find little cool places in the house to be...but he sure is shedding like crazy right now...all that long fur, all over...

Right now I have his special chair, right under the ceiling fan, and hes all sprawled out on that chair, just enjoying the breeze...

So hes OK, I guess...

[lodwick]

That's so fine - thanks for airing some long ago laundry with us. I don't think that Oscar would care.

Have a nice evening and see you manana. JL

[palo verde]

westy thank you for the beautiful waterfall
it is loveliest pic I ever saw in my life
smooch
love, Palo

[westmex]

Have a nice evening and see you manana. JL

The word is mañana, not manana.....sheesh...
.....Westy.....

[westmex]

Figured you needed YAFO.....lol....
......Westy...

[andysandmikesmom]

The Oscar story will continue on tomorrow...things just go downhill from here...

[palo verde]

lol you are right
it was hot as blazes again today
a beautiful waterfall which went on forever is just what the doctor ordered
I put it up as my wallpaper
thanks westy
Love, Palo

[palo verde]

I like the Mission Santa Rosalia de Mulege too
(taken from the school grounds)
it is attractive to look at and makes Mexico seem real to me
Love, Palo

[palo verde]

Old Mulege Prison is pretty pic too
I didn't realize it is hilly around there
everything is so flat here
that rocky hills and palm trees
give nice vista
Love, Palo

[westmex]

Have a few more pics of the Mission, but have to scan them first...Maybe next week....
........Westy.....

[palo verde]

its not only the waterfall
it is the cool deep dark green forest around it
that is antidote to hot dusty day on desert
Love, Palo