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[karl E lutz]

gargoyle what yousay may be true to an extent.nowdays no one will let their children play out doors without an adult nearby.I recall very clearly being 4 years iold and walking down to the library with my older brother of 5.We made it there and back with no trouble.
We walked to school, and home for lunch every day and it was a mile one way.That does;nt happen these days.

 

[oesdog]

Yes that is totally true. As kids we walked everywhere and we didn;t always have adults to take us. I remember once on a day out from the Ark
- I was able to walk three villages away and back on my own exploring and I was just 7yrs old! It was a case of you got thrown out the door after breakfast and you were not expected back until dinnertime. No one was worried about you at all!!!!! I do remember dragging my little brother out of the house at 6 am one morning after I had a bit of a ding dong with my father the night before. I decided we were running away from home! Now for the life of me I cannot remember what went on between my Dad and me or why I felt the need to take a Boy! Younger brother yuk! I remember a car drawing up beside us and then ................... No it was not someone trying to hurt us!!!!!!! It was a lady, who obviously knew us because she called us by name but I didn't recognise who she was. She wound down the car window and exclaimed, "what on earth are you two doing here this early in the morning????" I was shocked into silence, then my little brother pipped up - oh were going to grannys for breakfast! All she said was take care of eachother and mind the road and I will see your mum later????? Ahhhhhhhhh I rushed home!!!!!!!! Lucky for me my parents were still upstairs so I grabbed our stuff and stashed it and started making breakfast.( Like a good girl!) I was terrified for days that lady would tell my parents! Yes we were watched and you couldn;t go anywhere without someone knowing who you were where you went and worst of all who you belonged to!!!!!!!! It was good back then and much safer!!!!!!!!! I am certain of that.

Oesdog

 

[Gargoyle]

The neighborhood I grew up in was pretty rough at the time, now it is one of the safest anywhere. I walked 3/4 mile to kindergarten alone, although often I'd meet up with a classmate and walk with him. That was normal. If anyone let there kid walk that same route now, the parents would get hauled in for child neglect and it would be all over the newspapers, the child would probably be taken away and put in a foster home.

Back then it was a middle class area bordering on very rough ghetto, definitely not safe. The route I took is now patrolled not only by Chicago police and the University of Chicago Police (100 state-certified police officers with full police powers)... but the route passes Wallace Muhammad's home (head of the Nation of Islam, the Black Muslims). His private guard, the Fruit of Islam, stands out front 24/7 and they guarantee that nothing bad or even suspicious happens anywhere near there. The school I went to is directly across the street from Obama's home, so the Secret Service ensures that block is totally safe. I suspect the FBI and others also cruise around.

Parents back then didn't worry, but there were real threats. Now, in that neighborhood at least, there really isn't anything to worry about, yet parents probably keep their kids inside playing video games instead of letting them play outside unsupervised.

 

[karl E lutz]

Good morning chicken wranglers
Gargoyle I thought tony rezco owned that whole nieghborhood.
Anyway It is a lot different now.Freaks and hoods don't have any resevations about perpertrating a violent crime against children like they used to.It used to be that children and women were left alone "more than now anyhow.Chivalry died in the "80"s and the Clintons turned black and white into grey with politically correct rather than morally acceptable.Life is more complex just because of that,so we don't have clear cut standards that keep things simple.Descensatised to violence and innumerable other immoralities by television we are up against the wall and on the downslide of civilization.Just take one evening of television programming for example.Sunday used to be a family television event;mutual of omaha's wild kingdom,followed by a wholsome disney program.
Now disney dresses the young girls like tramps, on thier own channel and sunday has simpsons,family guy"which is any thing but",and what ever other trash they can get people to watch.It is to the point you must choose what is least offensive or do as I do often enough turn it off.
Enough ranting from me ,
God Bless!

 

[Gargoyle]

Good morning chicken wranglers
Gargoyle I thought tony rezco owned that whole nieghborhood.

Nah, Rezco only owned one house with a very large yard. Most of the houses around there have pretty large yards; I worked on one a couple blocks away that was 18,000 s.f. on a 1/4 acre lot, it had been vacant for a dozen years before the renovation.

 

[quercus21]

Good morning people,
Looks like another nice weekend wanting something to be done. We are thinking of heading into the mountains this weekend. Another walk in the woods. Spring does feel in the air, but it hasn't fooled the early bulbs, no snow drops yet. I wonder if they are going to be alright, some plants/seeds need the hard cold to function properly. The ground never really froze around here, maybe a inch or 2.
I'm a few days behind doing the floor. This Monday I have it planned to start. I have the whole week cleared. Next project is the raise beds in the garden. Thought of ordering meaties have been going through my mind. A couple of sour cherries trees are in ordered.

Karl: You gave me a flash back with those shows: Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, Walt Disney, Wild Wild West (parents banned us from watching, to violent?), Lost in Space, F - Troop, Gilligan's Island to name a few.

Enjoy your weekend

 

[karl E lutz]

Good morning chicken wranglers,
Wow gargoyle 18,000 sq. ft. is huge I wonder what the utility bill is?I showed my wife the pic of your mantle and she wondered aloud if you do work for people,I told her that you said you work on comissioned pieces and she was impressed.So do you do household renovations also?
Q You take me back,My family spent a couple of weeks watching rea lmccoys, and old tv from my past. We really appreciated the simplicity and the wholesomeness. I had forgotten F troop,I have often wondered if that was a spin off from the cartoon go go gophers?
Everyone have a great weekend, God Bless!

 

[Gargoyle]

Good morning chicken wranglers,
Wow gargoyle 18,000 sq. ft. is huge I wonder what the utility bill is?I showed my wife the pic of your mantle and she wondered aloud if you do work for people,

That was a 100 year old mansion, originally built for the head of Sears Roebuck; however it went through hard times from the 50's to the 80's, first it was a boarding school, then it was vacant for around a dozen years with people breaking in and stealing things... a young successful couple bought it and spent a year completely gutting and renovating it. Good thing about a house that size, you can have both sets of in-laws visit at the same time and never see each other.

Personally I like small homes, where you actually can use all the living space without getting lost.

I work on all sorts of projects, no two are the same; residential, commercial, institutional, religious, public. Of late with the change in the housing market, there is much less of the fireplace/fountain/residential type work, but the sculptural has been holding on. I'm doing more work for churches of late.

 

[math ace]

BTW MathAce, I went to J.U. It is my understanding that it usually rains in Jax - at least 1 heavy per day as I recall - but that was many many moons ago.

We haven't had any rain in weeks... The East side of Jacksonville probably sees rain on a regular basis.
I am way west and do not get rain that often.... My winter temps are colder than the east side too.

Thanks for the link on the fireplaces.

 

[math ace]

I'm having quite a week at work. So far two arrests, one drop-out, one twisted ankle, gang graffiti on the wall by a kid I wouldn't expect it from, and two angry parents in one day. I think I'll have a glass of wine tonight.....

It might take more than one glass to recover from all that !