From A Wide Spot In The Road

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  1. Nancy Hart

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    Hey @Bill Boggs. I'm happy to see that you are still kicking after your post yesterday.

    Since the new phones have a camera and an alarm clock, I take my camera to bed sometimes too. ;)

    I joined the Camera Club in high school. There were so few members I ended up treasurer, if I recall correctly, so I quit. They never did much.
     
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  2. Bill Boggs

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    I can't add anything to the regular posts here on the forum but I'll add a few words here. My neighbor who bouight my car knocked on my door early this morning, I 'll say about eight-thirty because "early" means different
    things to different people. He knocked even though I have a door bell. I like people like that. He's off work, not working, sitting at home, bored he tells my wife and if she didn't mind, he'd like to mow our yard. I've got a pretty
    big yard, fore and aft, and the grass and weeds were getting high and thick, due to all the rain. We had never formally met our neighbors. He told me his name when he bought the car but I didn't remember we've had.
    Afterward he took his weed eater and went all around the house. I could tell he did good work; he did a polished job, one that would make people asked, "Who is your yardman?"

    I asked him how much he charged to work off a little boredom, he said, nata, nothing. I told him it didn't seem quite right him out there working off all his bordom and me sitting here feeling I hadn't talked to anyone in two years,
    bored as all get out, and couldn't get out there and do what he just did, so we sat there and talked for an hour. He said he paid his grown kids to mow his yard because their jobs are not two solid and one of them is laid off and
    another working part-time during this crazy period we're going through.

    He said ahe raised my cellar door to see if thered was any water in it and said there was a little seepage or leakage somewhere, but the whole floor was not covered. lI told chim I had a back plexiglass window in the back brocken
    and I had not been able to get it fixed, that those I called didn't want to mess with a small job of that sort. He said he'd look at it after while. I've tried to keep it dried out and ready to use because here in Oklahoma, you never knew
    when you might need a shelter. He said he was pretty handy, he'd fix it. He wrote down both his and his wife's name and phone number and gave us a call about about we needed or needed help with. I suggested I could see areas
    where we might help each other. Just get aquinted talk but it felt good to sit out and visit with another human being.

    And a good thing about these forums, if someone writes some boring stuff or it's not up your alley, you can always turn them off, go somewhere else. Now if you've gotten this far, go have your self a good day or what's left of it.
     
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  3. Shirley Martin

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    That's wonderful, @Bill Boggs. It made me smile. There are some good people left in this ol' wicked world, aren't there? I'm sure he enjoyed your chat as much as you did. I think we need human fellowship as much as we need food.
     
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    @Shirley Martin, Afraid I'd have to agree with you, Shirley.
     
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  5. Bill Boggs

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    Well yesterday I felt like an old curr dog who had been kicked around and mistreated.
     
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    :( hope your better today Bill
     
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    Rupert is a self made man even tho his father,Keith, came from a journalism/publishing background. By the time Rupert was introduced into news publishing.. most of his father's papers and journals had been sold. One that remained was the low circulation Adelaide News. It is from these small beginnings that Rupert Murdoch built his publishing empire. There is an Australian television mini series about Rupert's early business days. I found it like a book you can no put down. If you are interested in watching it @Bill Boggs I will see if I can find a copy for you.
     
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  8. Bill Boggs

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    i appreciate it, @Craig Swanson, but I have my hands full right now.
     
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  9. Beth Gallagher

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    Hey Bill... I hope you're feeling better these days and can check in with us. I need an update on the Wide Spot in the Road goings-on. :D
     
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    it's "cur"
     
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  11. Bill Boggs

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    Thank you. I knew it didn't look right but in the heat of battle, I let it go.
    Keep up the good work @Hal Pollner
     
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    Yes ma'am, I'm still kicking and I've been kicked and I've been kicked around some lately.
     
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  14. Bill Boggs

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    Woke up to a slow, soft rain this morning. After brekfast went out on the patio with my second cup of coffee.
    It's a layed back sort of day.
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    Tomorrow I'll straighten up and fly right.
     
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