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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Friday, January 15, 2010

Western Vistas

In wrapping up my pictures of oddities seen on the scene in the West, I came across these random shots.

This one was actually spotted the first day (at a Walmart) and taken by Drew. I don't know what it's for, but that car is decked out! We both liked it. I had to seriously talk Drew out of wanting to paint on Grandmary's car. Sorry kid. Get your own in a few years and you can do what you like to it.

I was driving through St. George and out of the corner of my eye I saw this sign. What does it say about me that I thought it was a Hooter's sign? HOO -- PES, Auntie Nettie. HOOPES Read the WHOOOOOOOLE sign. Plus silly, St. George would not approve a Hooter's. Mesquite, maybe. St. George? No.

Suggestion to Mr. Hoopes: Don't use red in your construction signage when you have a perfectly good blue logo that won't cause confusion to strangely-minded out-of-towners.

Finally, in the apex of my "only in the West" moments, there were these two adjacent plots, discovered whilst driving up the dirt/rock road to my sister-in-law's mother's place. I couldn't believe it.

Apparently a fire started at this house, burning it to the ground,

and then spread to this one next door .... leaving not much behind. Oh, except for the TOILET which everyone can see ...
The two plots have been like this for AT LEAST 6 MONTHS. That's right folks.
Half a year of two burned out homes, just sitting open to the elements,
for everyone on the street to see,
and they are still there.
Only in the West, I tell you. (Okay, and maybe parts of the South).

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