We were provided the picture below by a young couple we know who live in Nebraska.?ÿ They were proudly showing off the new playground items installed by the husband's parents over the weekend for the benefit of their little daughter.
It struck me how foreign this vista must appear to so many of our young families today.
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It struck me how foreign this vista must appear to so many of our young families today.
You would never see that in the PNW. There would be forest and hills cluttering up the view.?ÿ
That's some serious flatland
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It was amazing to me, when I moved to Puyallup; how many things were the opposite.
Seeing the horizon was normal, on the great plains; you could use it as a guide, when chaining. It was rare in the PNW; everyone had a clinometer, and slope chaining was normal.
Seasons were opposite; it was always Winter or Sumer in Omaha. Here in Tacoma; it's always Spring or Fall.
I think @holy-cow was talking more about how the kids are sitting on the couch, playing video games; not swinging or going down the slide.
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It's a lot safer on the couch; warmer and drier too...?ÿ
I don??t own a lawnmower. ?ÿOccasionally I visit people who do.
Come on Spring!
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I don??t own a lawnmower.
Neither do I, for about 5 years now.?ÿ Lawn begone!
California, January 2023
Second story about to get buried.
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Neither do I, for about 5 years now.?ÿ Lawn begone!
I have a lawn, but no lawnmower. "Landscapers" come around every Thursday. It's really not expensive. Doing minimum wage tasks with time that could be spent billing $150/hr - that's expensive.?ÿ
There's a bit to the right, runs all the way to the fences at the bottom. HWMBO (ha-ha) plans an orchard. He managed to get 8 or 10 trees in the ground before the frost. I'm hoping for some berry bushes as well. He complains if the temperature is under 50F--so of course we had single digit temps in December--very unusual for the area (mid-Ohio).
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Guess I should have shot some video a few minutes ago.?ÿ My wife has invested in a few 25-lb blocks of bird feed.?ÿ There are two feeders with one about 50 feet north of the house and one about 35 feet south of the house.?ÿ Looked out to see a deer chewing on the block south of the house.?ÿ Before long there were 17 deer out there in that general area.?ÿ Male, female, large and small.?ÿ White-tails.?ÿ One had an injured right front leg.?ÿ If it doesn't heal soon, a pack of coyotes will have a feast one of these nights.?ÿ Eventually, the neighbor's dog came over and made her presence known.?ÿ One deer got between her and the one with the injured leg.?ÿ Everyone is now gone.
Home, home on the range.?ÿ Where the deer and the antelope play...........................
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Gone are the days of the millinery specialists and the hatters.?ÿ One of those people could look at you and say, "You appear to be a 6 7/8."?ÿ I learned that from my grandmother who lived through the days of nearly everyone wearing hats.?ÿ Here head was larger than the average for women, so many times she had to have one ordered or made special for her.
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There was a lady who was born and raised in my home community who went to New York City about 1900 to learn everything she could about millinery.?ÿ Several years later she returned to this little community and ran a thriving business for many years, with clientele from a very wide area.?ÿ She never married, but, I do know some of her distant relatives as her family was among the early settlers here.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57487324/nieca-francis-badger
I can relate to Williwaw and Fairbanks, although in Juneau I did have a lawnmower. I don't have a picture handy but Bing will work to show how I don't need one now.
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