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Posted by Disarranging Mine 4 months ago.
That was yesterday.Words that have been ricocheting around in my brain all week: "Getting shot sure hurts a lot more than getting blown up." As said by a friend of my daughter and her husband and later said to me. From his hospital bed. Alive.
Posted by Disarranging Mine 4 months ago.
* Photo is from morning in Washington Park, where you can see the colors are starting to change. This is my favorite weather. Not too hot, not too cold. I just wish it would last longer.* Everett Dirksen. Mark Kirk, the Moderate Republican U.S. Senato...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 4 months ago.
Time to stock up.The Mother Road Festival is in town.
Posted by Disarranging Mine 4 months ago.
Williams Boulevard, where they don't have to look up the meaning of a more just and verdant world.
Posted by Disarranging Mine 4 months ago.
Recently re-lighted neon starburst over the Bel-Aire Motel shot from across the street. (Daylight view.)On Route 66, the motel was a popular destination for families back in the day. It had a sparkling swimming pool between the parking lot and the road....
Posted by Disarranging Mine 4 months ago.
A year ago, and for a long time before, this was a hopeless dump. Someone fixed it up real nice. I love that color for a house. Enos Park Neighborhood, North Fifth Street, Springfield.* Do you remember what you were doing in the summer of 1971Sam Nava...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 4 months ago.
Eleventh and South Grand.Have you hugged your bureaucrat lately
Posted by Disarranging Mine 4 months ago.
My new sock monkey. We share a lot of the same qualities. It's going to be a nice winter.
Posted by Disarranging Mine 4 months ago.
I was going to sit in this chair this morning, drink my chai, read the paper, stare up at the sky and think. But the chair was already occupied.
Posted by Disarranging Mine 4 months ago.
Does anyone remember postal bonds We bought them at school in the 60s. Each week we would bring a nickel or a dime to school, which would get us a sticker, which we would then lick and put in a little booklet. When the book got filled up with stickers...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 5 months ago.
Today. Same nest about five years ago. Never did find out what built it.
Posted by Disarranging Mine 5 months ago.
A division of the Illinois State Museum, which has nothing to do with what follows.It was December 28, 1978, and the lawyers I was working for had been hired by some big time New York bankers to do some real estate work. I don't remember the specifics of...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 5 months ago.
You're on your own.Changing scene on Ash Street.
Posted by Disarranging Mine 5 months ago.
I'm sitting here arguing with myself over whether to buy or not buy The Best of Simon and Garfunkel for $11.99, and trying not to think about the heat on this late Friday night.
Posted by Disarranging Mine 5 months ago.
We just got upgraded from a moderate to severe drought. The cracks in the ground are so big, you could lose a small dog in there. Turn off the heat and make it rain.
Posted by Disarranging Mine 5 months ago.
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