Shakesthegrounds Rumblings

[CellarDweller]

coolness on the odometer reading, Bro!!!!!!     

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Last weekend I started spring cleaning. It continues.

It never ceases to amaze me the amount of dust bunnies that accumulate under everything. The cobwebs in the corners. Where do these come from?

But what really amazes me is the amount of crap I have held onto for one reason or another. I have carried 10 bags of trash to the landfill. Among the things I have come across:

6 unopened decks of playing cards, the most recent of which from the Wild Mustang in Atlanta.

A file folder full of blank paper.

37 unsent post cards.

43 recived postcards.

A large number of dry ink pens.

Lots of clothes that no longer fit.

A couple dozen corks from whine bottles, some real some synthetic.

Piles and piles of photographs

7 Flashlights

My crowning achievement so far has been cleaning out the junk drawer in the kitchen. For 18 years it has been a catch-all for everything  I could hardly open and close it. Now it contain three pair of sissors, two dispensers of tape, one drop cord (extension cord) and a film canister full of pins.

Now I must be vigilent to keep it from getting that way again.

[jstephens9]

You sure are doing better with spring cleaning than I am 

[jstephens9]

coolness on the odometer reading, Bro!!!!!!     

Does Truman have a little gay thingy in his car that talks too? Chucks is more than funny 

[CellarDweller]

Does Truman have a little gay thingy in his car that talks too? Chucks is more than funny 

*says in really gay voice*

You made a wrong turn......


 


Congrats on cleaning out the house!

[loneleeb3]

the most recent of which from the Wild Mustang in Atlanta.

I hope that didn't go to the land fill!! 

[Shakesthecoffecan]

I hope that didn't go to the land fill!! 

Naw, it and all the decks of cards are sitting with the cribbage board I no longer know how to use.

[injest]

You sure are doing better with spring cleaning than I am 

when he finishes he is coming to MY house!!

(he dont' know it yet though)

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Change is a strange thing sometimes.

The nearby town where I work is on a bulldozing boom. One whole city block has been cleared so that this summer a sports complex can be built. It will be a good thing in the long run, will bring people together in an area where nothing much has happened in a long time. But I can still remember.....Cousins Brothers, it was kind of a hard ware store run but two old brothers whose last name was Cousins, weird, huh? It was THE place to get your old push mower fixed. 15 ft. ceilings made of stamped tin, now just a memory.

This morning I was cruising into town and saw this little white frame house next to the Divine Holiness Church being knocked down. It has sat empty for years, like a house I own. I made yet another note I need to do something about mine this summer before I get a notice from the city. I wondered if the church was going to put in a parking lot, which they don't currently have. Little house gone, my birthplace going back to open spaces at its heart. I was about go down memory lane when suddenly memory lane lept up and slapped me.

Up ahead on my right I saw something I had not seen since 1981. The National Business College had relocated out of the Jefferson Plaza, taking with them their sign that had for 27 years covered the painted bricks that must be a hundred years old:   "Hotel Thomas Jefferson, Fireproof" I had to pull over and gaze at it, and as I did the a ghost passed me in a 1965 Plymouth Valiant. A grown woman and her baby brother, she was teaching him how to read by reading the signs they saw. That sign looked down on us both.

[BelAir]

Hi Shakes, I can't remember where exactly you are in the world geographically, but I hope you and yours weren't affected by the tornado damage...

Bel