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Some Pictures From My Father's Place

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LostLassie said:
I do see there is a healthy stash of firewood while it appears to be mid-summer.
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He likes to stock up for just Az mornings in December and january when the mercury dips below 50 degrees. Aside from being an eyesore and lowering property value he enjoys choking people with his wood stove, when he fires that sucker up you start choking and your eyes start running from 3 blocks away
 
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Maybe it's a chimney issue. I love wood fires, usually.

BTW, did you ever read/consider sharing the manifesto? That's a new group to me. Was it the same as Urantia Papers/The Fifth Epochal Revelation? Just wondering, since I might want to convert.
 
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No biggie. I can understand your reluctance to read it. (Found the group on a 'net search anyway--big in AZ.) If your dad had issues with conventional religion, I can see what aspects of their doctrine appealed to him. If he experienced it as a personal revelation, I can understand the impulse to share.

Actually, this makes me wonder if my own offspring is slowly compiling a file of my occasional Facebook messages, so they can one day be the source of a similar thread somewhere. Some of us can just never reach the point of letting our adult children be adults, and feel driven to continue to try to "parent"--especially if we have reservations about the perceived shortcomings of our performance the first time. The sense of responsibility to the person you provided a vehicle for here can be very persistent. The older we get, the more intensely we may feel our own mistakes, and wish to compensate by offering guidance, regardless of how flawed our own road maps may be.

Reading your posts in this thread, I'm reminded of an ancient Chinese curse someone once told me about: "May you have an interesting life."
When did you piss off the Chinese? :wink:
 
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LostLassie said:
No biggie. I can understand your reluctance to read it. (Found the group on a 'net search anyway--big in AZ.) If your dad had issues with conventional religion, I can see what aspects of their doctrine appealed to him. If he experienced it as a personal revelation, I can understand the impulse to share.

Actually, this makes me wonder if my own offspring is slowly compiling a file of my occasional Facebook messages, so they can one day be the source of a similar thread somewhere. Some of us can just never reach the point of letting our adult children be adults, and feel driven to continue to try to "parent"--especially if we have reservations about the perceived shortcomings of our performance the first time. The sense of responsibility to the person you provided a vehicle for here can be very persistent. The older we get, the more intensely we may feel our own mistakes, and wish to compensate by offering guidance, regardless of how flawed our own road maps may be.

Reading your posts in this thread, I'm reminded of an ancient Chinese curse someone once told me about: "May you have an interesting life."
When did you piss off the Chinese? :wink:
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I don't know but my life has never been what others would consider normal, full of dysfunction at every twist and turn.
 
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another angle

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Looks like my mother-in law from Hell's place now. When asked about it she replied; "I'm leaving it for you kids to clean up!" (unsaid...as a punishment for abandoning her) It's not unusual at all. We had a friend who's father worked at a dump for twenty years. He brought home everything! 20 broken lawnmowers. 5 driving mowers. Dead refrigerators. Broken furniture. Old clothes. An old Victorian house stuffed with crap. It made Dub's father's place look organized.
Six huge metal dumpsters. That's what it took to make a dent! :hoke: And not one 1966 Shelby Cobra or Ferrari!
 
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Taosman said:
Looks like my mother-in law from Hell's place now. When asked about it she replied; "I'm leaving it for you kids to clean up!" (unsaid...as a punishment for abandoning her) It's not unusual at all. We had a friend who's father worked at a dump for twenty years. He brought home everything! 20 broken lawnmowers. 5 driving mowers. Dead refrigerators. Broken furniture. Old clothes. An old Victorian house stuffed with crap. It made Dub's father's place look organized.
Six huge metal dumpsters. That's what it took to make a dent! :hoke: And not one 1966 Shelby Cobra or Ferrari!
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From what I've seen on the reality shows about the subject, the vocation of trash collector or junk dealer or dump worker seems to lend itself to this activity. Quite a few people on those shows have had those jobs.
 
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