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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

FROZEN...Water Main Break...

......Across the street from our complex today the pipe split from frozen temperatures, shooting water sky high all along the street where school buses and parents pick up the children after school. There had to be a lot of soaked kids and parents. Our windows faced the whole thing and the broken... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, January 20, 2025

Gonna Be Cold, Cold, Cold Here Tonight...

......I'm trying to take precaution procedures just in case. I do not want frozen burst pipes. That happened to me once in the first house we bought after we were married. It was an old house and we had no idea that there could possibly be problems with frozen pipes. I kept thinking I heard water... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Memories Are Made of This for Me...

.....An old, old building in an old, old neighborhood of Kansas City, MO is changing hands again and will have a new face lift and interior changes from Self Storage to Historical Lofts. Years before either of those, it was a Government U.S. Army Records Center which also shared a whole floor with... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, January 11, 2025

"LEDGE ALERT! LEDGE ALERT!"

It sounds like a dire warning, I know, and that I am going to fall off of a cliff or something, or that someone is about to jump out of a window of our three-story apartment complex.... but it is just one of the ways that Sis and I communicate because we have such different schedules and different... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Looking Down on a Winter Wonder Land...

We have four deer that come out of the wooded area and feed at the bird feeders and trays of feed for wild animals. I look down on a shiny white winter wonderland with the sun shining so brightly that it hurts my eyes. The school below is vacant of children and teachers but the heat is kept going... Sign in to see full entry.

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