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Spring coming to North Austin. Redbud blooms for about one week now. We're about a month ahead of KY and TN.

Tree (large bush) on the right may have possibly died from the big freeze last month. I'll give it a few more months.

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Went to a family reunion a few times in the country outside Mt. Vernon. Went spelunking outside of town one time in college. Now that is something if you've never done it. No tourist stuff....but you better go with someone who knows what they're doing. Put your hand 1/2 inch from your face and you can't see it. Got kind of hairy a couple times.
I have been in every cave in this area and there are more caves here than any place on earth. Spelunking used to be my middle name.

I am on the left, then Dean Ewing and Mike Bell. This was 1963.
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Dean and I coming out.
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And the Science Fair:
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I have been in ever cave in this area and there are more caves here than any place on earth. Spelunking used to be my middle name.

I am on the left, then Dean Ewing and Mike Bell. This was 1963.
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Dean and I coming out.
48377920_1981093092006265_744460141843185664_o.jpg

And the Science Fair:
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I was able to hop into a few caves but not back then, I was TWO. Bless you Sir.

Oh, I DO hope all your days today are GREAT. May your needs be met and your desires in the Lord be fulfilled.

Great pictures...

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Good morning D, not a lot going on today, Mrs. M made me put up my glass stuff, told me I need to get ready for the spring and summer stuff, fishing and detecting!!!

WC it looks like you have a stalker, every time you venture out of the D, he's there!!! But you do always have an answer for him!

We never had a dentist until our MOM decided it was time to start going. I was scared to death of him, he was a great guy and a family friend, but he had a scar from one side of his forehead to the other side, where he had been in a car wreck!!!!

With our strawberries, Mrs. M is going to make a strawberry pound cake, with a strawberry glaze!!!

I hope the D, has a great day!!! Prayers!!!
 
Good morning D, not a lot going on today, Mrs. M made me put up my glass stuff, told me I need to get ready for the spring and summer stuff, fishing and detecting!!!

WC it looks like you have a stalker, every time you venture out of the D, he's there!!! But you do always have an answer for him!

We never had a dentist until our MOM decided it was time to start going. I was scared to death of him, he was a great guy and a family friend, but he had a scar from one side of his forehead to the other side, where he had been in a car wreck!!!!

With our strawberries, Mrs. M is going to make a strawberry pound cake, with a strawberry glaze!!!

I hope the D, has a great day!!! Prayers!!!
Yeah, he has been there for a year or two now. He's a wanna be man.
 
Back to caving: After college we were still caving and had enough money to buy some good equipment.
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A big formation in Cave Springs in Smiths Grove:
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Me climbing out of a pit in a cave near Park City:
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Here is a find we made outside Cave City on Prewitts Knob, there were rocks stacked in a small passage that blocked it off. We removed the stone wall and the dirt was black (from the Indian's bodies decay). Of course at first we did not notice any bones until one skull started shinning. I got sick as we dug the black dirt out. We then called in the archaeologists.
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Picture taking in caves was a hard thing as there is no light except what flash you used. The old black and white pictures were made with old flash bulbs and usually you would have to use three or four to get a decent picture. In the late '60's we got some strobes (big Honeywell Strobe light that used D batteries for power) and Ed and I both had good 35mm cameras so we would set the camera up and walk around flashing the strobes at the object we were trying to get a picture of.

I loved caving. My caving ended when I fell into a pit 1971 and messed up my left leg bad and had to walk out on my own power. Sherry said no more caving.
 
The one and only time I went spelunking was with about 4 other guys at college. One or two may not have been students and we met them in Mt. Vernon...don't recall. But 2 of them knew what they were doing. Was gone all day and probably down climbing/crawling in the cave for a good 4-5 hours. Absolutely exhausted when we got back to campus. Didn't eat dinner...showered and laid down on the bed without dressing....fell asleep. Next afternoon (slept about 18 hrours) I'm woken by talking and laughing. Roommate had come in with his girlfriend and didn't know I was sleeping au naturel.
A wee bit embarrassing.
But I loved the spelunking.
 
I have been in every cave in this area and there are more caves here than any place on earth. Spelunking used to be my middle name.

I am on the left, then Dean Ewing and Mike Bell. This was 1963.
48982110_1981093032006271_8516960082573918208_o.jpg

Dean and I coming out.
48377920_1981093092006265_744460141843185664_o.jpg

And the Science Fair:
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Bertrand Spelunking Higginbotham. Has a nice ring to it.
 
I now have to ask for, forgiveness! I thought I was a better man, but I was weak! I had to go out for a bit and when I walked by, they said, hey cord you know you want some, but I kept walking, but I just couldn't keep on walking. So I turned around and said yes I want some, so I bought me some chicken livers!!!! LORD please forgive me!!!!

Love fried chicken livers.
 
During my UK days it was "hair of the dog". Actually didn't work like everyone thinks but back then it didn't matter.
When I was younger I played music with a group........it was mostly guys that I went to HS with.......we would go to a bluegrass festival every month from April to Sept.......a couple of them were hard drinkers.............one of them would say that, "his hang over was so bad.......he had to drink four beers before one would stay down.....and he wasn't too far from the truth......
 
Raise your hand if you had to take a bath in one of these when you were a little one. I did, if I recall grandma called it her No 5. Since we did not have a swimming pool she used it for the grandkids to splash around also. But you had to pump your own water.

Once they dug a well with an electric pump we hooked up water hoses to cool off. But that was after grandpa died and the boys got some "juice" for the house. Or better known as electricity.

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Went to a family reunion a few times in the country outside Mt. Vernon. Went spelunking outside of town one time in college. Now that is something if you've never done it. No tourist stuff....but you better go with someone who knows what they're doing. Put your hand 1/2 inch from your face and you can't see it. Got kind of hairy a couple times.
My foster grandparents had a place in Glendale, KY that had a huge cave on it........you could drive a tractor trailer in the mouth........it was in a big sink hole........people used to come from everywhere to go splunking the cave...one group from Wisconsin stayed in there for two days......lot of fat rabbits came out of that sink hole.......
 
Raise your hand if you had to take a bath in one of these when you were a little one. I did, if I recall grandma called it her No 5. Since we did not have a swimming pool she used it for the grandkids to splash around also. But you had to pump your own water.

Once they dug a well with an electric pump we hooked up water hoses to cool off. But that was after grandpa died and the boys got some "juice" for the house. Or better known as electricity.

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Raise your hand if you was always last in line..........a gray bath.........
 
  • Good Afternoon, D-Leagueanites and Lurkers.
  • 3 mugs of Dark Magic today.
  • Small breakfast.
  • Clouds disappearing. Thanks.
  • My GM had one of those. And one of those.
  • I love Fried Chicken Livers in wonderful gravy with about as many biscuits as I could hold..
  • Dad loved the Gizzards. I didn't care for them.
  • Pet Peeve: These drivers that roar up and down our little;e narrow road at 30/40 mph. The speed limit is 25. Lot of Walkers. The Sheriff needs to be called, but I don't want to be that guy.
  • Five Pugs live next door. Yappers. Saw them chasing a Whitetail down the fence row yesterday. Funny as heck.
  • Rain stopped.
  • As you were.
  • Carry on.
 
I do too, I really like them and their kissin' cousins fried chicken or fish gizzards.

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Growing up, you either ate what food was on the table, or you went hungry. That's how I acquired my taste for livers and gizzards. Listening to your gut growl wasn't much fun. As for my daughters, a team of mules couldn't drag them to a plate of livers.
 
Delta dental, wife has that with her job. They pay I think 50% for implants. Not sure about anesthesia cost. Will be sitting it up after next regular dentist visit.
I just checked our provider, MetLife Dental. They took over coverage for Delta Dental. They also cover 50% in-network and 40% out-of-network. I'm gonna get my teeth fixed this year.
 
Raise your hand if you had to take a bath in one of these when you were a little one. I did, if I recall grandma called it her No 5. Since we did not have a swimming pool she used it for the grandkids to splash around also. But you had to pump your own water.

Once they dug a well with an electric pump we hooked up water hoses to cool off. But that was after grandpa died and the boys got some "juice" for the house. Or better known as electricity.

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"Somebody shut that juice off." "Cut that light off."
 
  • Good Afternoon, D-Leagueanites and Lurkers.
  • 3 mugs of Dark Magic today.
  • Small breakfast.
  • Clouds disappearing. Thanks.
  • My GM had one of those. And one of those.
  • I love Fried Chicken Livers in wonderful gravy with about as many biscuits as I could hold..
  • Dad loved the Gizzards. I didn't care for them.
  • Pet Peeve: These drivers that roar up and down our little;e narrow road at 30/40 mph. The speed limit is 25. Lot of Walkers. The Sheriff needs to be called, but I don't want to be that guy.
  • Five Pugs live next door. Yappers. Saw them chasing a Whitetail down the fence row yesterday. Funny as heck.
  • Rain stopped.
  • As you were.
  • Carry on.
Mr. Don, write a letter, tell them you have almost seen some people and CHILDREN hit by cars, that might work, annomyus , wait aanomyus , nope annnumyous , ah heck don't sign your name!!!! That happenrd close to here only drugs were involved, someone sent a letter to the task force and didn't sign it, wasn't long till there were cops everwhere, hummmmmmm! Wonder who! I don't like to lie, but if it saved someone's life I would!!!!
 
Shocking news for me: A guy I worked with every day before we shut down our office, not a close friend but a genial colleague, dead of Covid. I'd put his age as early 50s. I was working with him on a project so his boss reached out to me Monday and said he was sick with Covid so the work was delayed. Then we get this awful news.

Ironically I'm slated to get my first vaccination in the morning -- just before I drive to Kentucky to be part of my dad's 90th birthday celebration Saturday. I was thinking about blowing it off so I could get on the road sooner, but if it helps lower the chance I can catch and spread the virus, I'm going for it...
 
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