roofs and hammers
The other Jerry writes about his roofing woes and the cost to have his buildings repaired.
This got me to thinking about my one and only roofing job, that I undertook as a do it myself project.
We had just moved into our 1st house circa 1962, which was a small 2 br, 1 b 1 car wood box built in around 1950. We got it from friends of my wifes family who had been renting it out , but as they lived of of town and found it hard to take care of their property they decided to turn the mortgage over to us.
After we had moved in and done some painting inside and out we we quite content in our little abode. My mother in law was in the insurance business and we had our house insured thru her.
February 21, 2008
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twist and shout
As we get older somethings get a little harder to do, one for me is opening a jar whose lid was put on with 20,000 lbs of torque. So to make my life a little easier I got me one of these for Christmas.
That sucker does work, but it sounds like it is going to throw a rod thru the block when is starts up…
December 20, 2007
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My Mom
This Dec 5th my Mother will be 89. She had just turned 18 when I was born in March. I just want all to know how much I love and respect her.
On the left at 19 and 84 on the right…
December 1, 2007
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eHarmony not!
El Capitan is seeking stalker advice on how to find the best way to let someone he has met informally that he would like to go beyond chatting about things.
This is what I did when faced with a similar problem around 14 years ago.
I was employed, just like the Capitan , by the man and our offices would soon by classified as non smoking, so the city said that they would pay for a smoking cessation program provided by a local hospital. Having been a smoker for a gazillion years I knew I would need all the help I could get. So a bunch of us signed up and away we went on a monday evening to be reprogrammed.
The meeting room had around 8 tables, about 8 ft long, which would seat 4 people to one side facing the front of the room, so we had almost 30 or so people there for the classes. When entering we moved to the back table and proceeded to settle in and moving the hand outs around so we could follow along.
Now is when my story begins, there was only one vacant chair left and it just happened to be next to me, just as the instructor was starting with her opening comments here she came into the room glancing for an open chair. As she sat down next to me I said “hi, how ya doing” and she said “fine”, I was mesmerized and could not help but keep glancing at her during the 2 hour session. During the 1st class we kinda opened up and started zinging each other with some stupid jokes and other useless crap. The first evening ended and away we went until next monday.
April 28, 2007
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wandering
My Great Grandparents were Samuel Ridgeway and Mary Elizabeth. Samuel was born 4 Apr 1851 in Marion IN and Mary on 17 Dec 1858 in Auglaize Cty, OH, and were married 3rd April 1880 in Spickard, Grundy Cty, MO. From there they moved to Thompson Nebraska and started their family.
The first of 12 children Simon Albert arrived on 25 Feb 1881 then Lenna Leota born on 9 Jan 1883 flollowed by Willaim Allen on 3rd Mar 1884 and Dads mother Dora Alma was born on 11th Aug 1885, then Samuel Curtis on 16 Jan 1887 followed by Leslie Harrison on 18 Aug 1888, Lewis Leland 28 Dec 1889, Mary Jane 15 May 1891 all born in Auglaize Nebraska.
So now we have a family with 8 children supported by a man whos’ source of income was from gun repair and black-smithing as well as serving as an itinerant preacher of the Gospel. This information was told to me by my Grand Mother Dora when I was a teenager. It seems that my Great Grandfather Samuel heard the call of Oregon so he packed up the family in the SUV of the day, his wagon and went to Milton Freewater, Oregon.
This trip took some where after Mary Jane was born in 1891 and the birth of Lester Arlando on 20 Mar 1895 after arriving in Milton Freewater Oregon. They didn’t stay there long and started a return trip to Nebraska stopping in Rawlings WY where Ira Lyman was born on 12 Nov 1896 before continuing their journey to Thompson Nebraska where Esta Adna was born on 30 Jan 1898.
Now the family has grown to 11 kids and I guess times were tough and work was almost no where to be found so Samuel loaded up the family in the wagon and head south towards my hometown of Caney KS in 1899 where Ada Adell was born on 26 April 1899. The reason for heading south to Caney was 2 fold, there was already family living there and a promised job for Samuel in Oklahoma (Indian Territory). Samuel journeyed alone to Oklahoma to start the new job , but had to shortly return after becoming desperately ill no longer able to work.
Samuel died on Jun 13 1899 and was buried in the “Potter’s Field” section of Sunnyside Cemetery and was joined there by son, Bert, who died Feb. 27, 1901, due to the lack of money to purchase a plot in the cemetery.
Fortunes improved for the family as the older boys were employed by both the brick yard and the smelters which were in operation at the time. Also, Great Grandmothers mother (Nancy Morrison Adams) died and left her $500.00 with which she built a modest residence at 215 West Howard Avenue which the family moved into on Dec. 2, 1902. Although the original structure was destroyed by fire in 1974, another modest residence replaced it and it is occupied by a Mitchell.
Evidence of the great faith and pride imparted to the children is known by the fact that the first thing done when financial conditions improved was to move father and brother Bert over to the respectable section of the cemetery.
This is my family plot where Samuel and Mary rest surrounded by by their sons Simon, Samuel, Lesley and daughters Dora, Mary and Esta.
I did know Samuel, Leslie, Lewis and of course my Grandmother Dora who died in 1973. They were not wealthy but rich in being a family that took care of each other and was respected by all.
November 14, 2006
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