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[perchie.girl]

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Yep I have many friends that either chose not to or just didnt. I was thirty three and a half and oops... then thought just as well the women in my family have a history of not being able to have children after about 35. and as an only child of an only child .... sigh.

If I had known how easy it was for me I even lost weight in the process... I worried but the doc said that kid will take all he needs.... Only a couple of worried tearful days and one food craving... french fries... just with salt just one small fry.... and I was a happy camper.

I even Sold a mobile home and bought a house all in the first six months... Boy that nesting business is powerful stuff...

Now I am 59 and he is 25.... he turned out good. VBG

deb

 

[superchemicalgirl]

It marks where the fire hydrants are.... and did you know the lines on the road.... the dotted lines that mark traffic are over fifteen feet long .... It depends on the speed limit. I learned that one cruising around as a teen My boyfriend suddenly slamms on the breaks and pulls over to the side of the road and gets out.... I though What The.... He got in and told me... it had just occured to him as we were were going down the road.

Interesting... we don't have that here. We have giant reflective sticks attached to our fire hydrants so we can find them after it snows to shovel them out.

Now I am 59 and he is 25.... he turned out good. VBG

deb

Sounds like you did good with him.

 

[perchie.girl]

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I understand about the sticks.... I have seen pictures of them lining roads to mark where they are. We do get snow up in the mountains I havent looked to see if those communities have reflective sticks. On the free ways the reflective markers are buried in a slot so the snow plows dont scrap em off. Here they drive probably a good 40 miles an hour scraping snow and flinging black sand.... In the sunshine the black sand heats up any ice left .... Then after it all melts the same machines have sweepers that fling the sand to the side and another machine picks it up and piles it where it can be reused. No salt here... but then the snow doesnt shut down roads very long.

If it snows up at my house I am stuck there till it melts... I dont have four wheeled drive. its only happened once though.

LOL and when it snows here we get droves of families up from Mexico to "see the snow"...

Not so much any more.... not bragging just a sign of the drout. we used to get twelve inches of precipitation a year... Last year we got three.

If it gets much worse I may have to sell or walk away from it... I dont know. The water table is down 100 feet in all the wells up where i am. that means some of the older ones have begun to go dry. My well is only 450 feet deep.... some have drilled to seven hundred in anticipation.
deb

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Yup every year before the ground freezes I go out and put about 25 of the reflective sticks in the ground to mark where the paths are and where rocks and stumps are so we don't plow into them. It's amazing how you think you won't need that but when you get a covering of snow everything looks so different.

We get droves of people up here to see the leaves in the fall. No one is really interested in our snow.

 

[vehve]

Yup, good to put those sticks up. Otherwise the plow truck driver totals our rock walls in the parking lot.

 

[dsqard]

SCG if it makes you feel better no one is interested in our fall but they are all about the snow. This year has not been so great for the ski resorts. Many of them are already closing down for the season. I remember one year after we moved up here one of the resorts didn't close until the beginning of July. Now that is not usual either but we had a lot of snow that winter. I remember the long poles on the fire hydrants from when I lived in Maine.

 

[chickadoodles]

SCG I asked them about the dance and there is no such dance. Sorry.

 

[kssunflower]

It marks where the fire hydrants are....    and did you know the lines on the road.... the dotted lines that mark traffic are over fifteen feet long ....  It depends on the speed limit.  I learned that one cruising around as a teen My boyfriend suddenly slamms on the breaks and pulls over to the side of the road and gets out....  I though What The....    He got in and told me...  it had just occured to him as we were were going down the road.

Thank goodness no one was on the road because It was a two lane and there was about a three hundred foot decent on the otherside.....  Same guy ran over his own spare tire one time...

He drove a baja bug....  He hood popped open on the same stretch of highway...  He slammed on the breaks to shut the hood his spare tire flew out in the process and he proceeded to run it over not knowing....  what a dufus....

deb

No wonder you gave up waiting for prince charming.

 

[ronott1]

Back to the Book club topic, Terry Pratchett died today. He has had Alzheimer's for a while now so there have not been any new disk world books.

 

[vehve]

It must have been hard on his family, seeing him deteriorate, a man with such a great imagination. Alzheimer's is truly a horrible illness, mostly for the family.