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To: nw_arizona_granny
"I listen to the police in Denver, Las Vegas and all over the west."

Oh! I didn't know about scanners with that kind of reach. Outdated, I am.

"You are blessed if you know your neighbors, I don’t and I have owned this property over 30 years and lived in it 20 of them."

We only know a few good ones. Most of the neighbors we've met in the surrounding 20 miles or so are the usual--spoiled, apathetic, impatient and wasteful.

"I do know that across the street, living in a travel trailer, is a family that has all been in prison, more than once."

There are a few of those around here but mostly from relatively petty misdeeds of the past and most of them with cooler dispositions due to aging.

"Next to them, someone is building an almost mansion, the garage is started and it is over size with 3 doors, so the house will be something to see."

"A misplaced investment, as my mobile is 50 years old and shows it and there is no way that I can make it pretty, as I can’t even go outside."

We're living small, cheap and will be building again soon. ...working all of the time on the code considerations and plans now for the little place before going back to work as a laborer on small projects for income (little income but okay).

"Whatever you do, don’t get old."

LOL! ...good one! :-) ...Army surgeon told me 20 years ago that I would be in a wheelchair about 7 years ago. But I keep moving around pretty hard to try to put that off long enough to do a few more things for loved ones.

...will try to remember to say a little prayer for you. IMYHO (in my young and humble opinion), it's what we do for others that counts...and learning about how we got here.


100 posted on 02/09/2009 5:42:41 AM PST by familyop (combat engineer (combat), National Guard, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
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To: familyop

I listen to the police scanners on the internet, you can get a start here and there are other sites:

http://co.scanamerica.us/index.php

I thank you for the prayers and will return them, as even I don’t want a wheel chair in my future.

It is good that you are still able to build, that is a help.

Yes, we do need to learn from others, I have all my life and have been blessed in finding folks that shared their knowledge with me.

Now it is my turn to pass it on.

My own family will not listen to my old ideas, they will go to the store and wish they had listened someday.

I have a hard time convincing Scott that I buy store labels and chuck roast, I don’t even like the fancy roasts he buys, to me they are tasteless.

So goes life, we live it and one day it is over.


108 posted on 02/09/2009 6:08:56 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2181392/posts?page=1 [Survival,food,garden,crafts,and more)
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