Only 116 days until we all get to be the Charlie Browniest we can be!
It looks like this sign has been telling people where to go for some time now.
This is the Clinton Gulch Dam Reservoir, built in Colorado in 1977 because some people looked around and said, "This would be a pretty nice place to store our drinking water."
If you have to ask that that pedal is to the left of the brake, you can't drive this '57 Chevy with a manual 3-on-the-tree transmission (but I could teach you!) What's that little button on the floor, huh?
This is the Shot Tower in Baltimore, where molten lead took a vertical trip down 215 feet to become shot for rifles. Built in 1828, this was, at the time, the tallest building in the United States. It's in downtown Baltimore on E. Fayette St, close to Little Italy.
I don't think people use sundials anymore, but if the awning here is at the right angle, you could use the shadows to tell the time.
They do not mess around in Australia. So you cut down some trees to improve your view from the sunroom? Fine. The government will impair your view with a nice sign until the vegetation returns as before. FAFO!
There's an extra kick in my step this week because "Only Murders In The Building" is back for season 4. Every time I think they couldn't keep up the quality, they always do. Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, and Martin Short, left to right.
An interesting life, this. He was known as Cory Wells, one of three lead singers for Three Dog Night. They alternated leads among Cory, Danny Hutton, and Chuck Negron. You remember Cory's sweet soulful voice from "Try A Little Tenderness," "Eli's Coming," "Mama Told Me Not To Come," "Never Been To Spain," "Shambala," "Let Me Serenade You," and "Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)." But his story as a member of one of the biggest bands of the early 70's rarely mentions that he led an abstemious life forever, never touching drugs or alcohol at all (the other members of 3DN cannot say that). While they were coming in at 4 AM from a night of carousing, Cory was getting up to go fishing! He loved fishing so much that he wrote articles about it for field and range magazines, but no one connected the writer to the singer, because he wrote them under his real name: Emil Lewandowski. He passed from blood cancer in 2015, but what a story!
I'll bet this house is in Pennsylvania, where the custom was to have two front doors on a house: one for regular in and out traffic, and one leading to the parlor, for when the preacher came a-calling. This house gives me a homey feeling.
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