The Old Folks Home

[drumstick diva]

SCG are you getting the puppy?

 

[ronott1]

Back from Mass...

Saw a ton of famous graves and even more non famous but super old ones with awesome death motifs.

John Hancock
Paul Revere
Cotton Mather
Boston Massacre Victims
First person to die in the revolution
Sam Adams
Robert Paine
Mary Goose (Mother Goose)
Ben Franklin's family (he's in Philly)
James Otis
John Jack
Daniel Chester French
Henry David Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Louisa May Alcott
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I won't bore you with pictures unless someone has a sincere desire to see any of these.

The Boston graveyards were weird - they only "allow" you to go along a path on the outskirts of the cemetery (the actual rows are "prohibited") and to do that they actually moved gravestones perpendicular to where they should be to make room for the paths. I did not like that. But, it was busy and I can understand the damage that would occur should everyone walk between the rows. I also gave the finger to a redcoat.

Finger to a recoat!
You are such a partiot for sure!

Sounds like a great trip

 

[Alaskan]

Back from Mass...

Saw a ton of famous graves and even more non famous but super old ones with awesome death motifs.

John Hancock
Paul Revere
Cotton Mather
Boston Massacre Victims
First person to die in the revolution
Sam Adams
Robert Paine
Mary Goose (Mother Goose)
Ben Franklin's family (he's in Philly)
James Otis
John Jack
Daniel Chester French
Henry David Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Louisa May Alcott
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I won't bore you with pictures unless someone has a sincere desire to see any of these.

The Boston graveyards were weird - they only "allow" you to go along a path on the outskirts of the cemetery (the actual rows are "prohibited") and to do that they actually moved gravestones perpendicular to where they should be to make room for the paths. I did not like that. But, it was busy and I can understand the damage that would occur should everyone walk between the rows. I also gave the finger to a redcoat.

ooooooh!

You wanna ogle graves with a purpose? Want me to give you my family tree????? You can see if all of my grandparents are still where they are supposed to be? My family came over just a few years after the Mayflower. A stepmother..or aunt?, was a suspected Salem Witch.

 

[getaclue]

micro, They touch our hearts, and some more than others. I'm so sorry.

Ron, we just had a new iron filter installed, and the softener rebedded Friday. It's all working great, but it increased our water pressure a little, and/or loosened some of the old debris in my toilet, and now the float isn't working right. It flooded my bathroom, so I too am needing to replace all the toilet guts.

scg, you can post the pictures if you want. I actually clicked on the ones you posted to get a better look. Thank you!

 

[microchick]

Thanks @chickisoup and @getaclue. They sure do that.

7 Was the only pullet in that hatch. I cried when she got scalped. DH helped me approximate all the edges of he wound that we could and sprayed her with blue kote. She was never the same as far as being friendly was concerned after that. Just a bit of a wild child nut case but I loved her spunk. She was a great layer also.

Yeah, I highly suspect that it was some sort of fungal infection. She was squirting clear water. I knew one of them was so I safe guarded the flock, didn't see any more evidence till today. When you pick them up and they are just skin and feathers over bones God has pretty much taken the decision out of your hands.

I've lost several others that way.

Yep, it pretty well sux rocks. I jinxed myself saying that I hadn't lost any birds lately. Ya think I'd learn. The strange thing is that it always happens on Sunday.

@Alaskan, that is too cool. My mom would say that her ancestors were standing on the shore waving at your ancestors when the Mayflower dropped anchor.

 

[Alaskan]

I love the family history stuff... the whatever non-grandparent that was the Salem witch, was NOT killed because she was pregnant. So they shipped her down to Boston with her toddler, to rot in prison, and after several months (yes, with toddler at her side ), give birth in prison.

Shortly after the birth the insanity in Salem went away, and person connected to me was released and sent home. People in Salem were so sorry for the horror that they collected then handed out monetary restitution to all afflicted parties. Makes me think the hallucinagenic corn fungus theory might be correct.

 

[Alaskan]

Alaskan, that is too cool. My mom would say that her ancestors were standing on the shore waving at your ancestors when the Mayflower dropped anchor.

then....achem...so sorry.... one of my grandfathers is famous as being in the last Indian battle of New England. ..killed the son of the Indian chief Big Foot.

 

[microchick]

Awwwww, I won't hold it against your ancestors, LOL. But I bet Big Foot wasn't too happy.

HEY EVERYBODY! Worked real hard so I could post NUMBER 3000 here on TOFH!

Can't begin to tell y'all how much this thread means to me. Y'make getting old not quite as painful!

 

[CapricornFarm]

I love the family history stuff... the whatever non-grandparent that was the Salem witch, was NOT killed because she was pregnant. So they shipped her down to Boston with her toddler, to rot in prison, and after several months (yes, with toddler at her side ), give birth in prison.

Shortly after the birth the insanity in Salem went away, and person connected to me was released and sent home. People in Salem were so sorry for the horror that they collected then handed out monetary restitution to all afflicted parties. Makes me think the hallucinagenic corn fungus theory might be correct.

I thought the fungus was connected to rye bread.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Awwwww, I won't hold it against your ancestors, LOL. But I bet Big Foot wasn't too happy.

HEY EVERYBODY! Worked real hard so I could post NUMBER 3000 here on TOFH!

Can't begin to tell y'all how much this thread means to me. Y'make getting old not quite as painful!

Congrats!