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MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Cesar R M said:
Forgot to post this one before closing for tomorrow:


A close up of the mineral separation shafts.

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I am enjoying your photos and explanations so very much. I really appreciate the effort you are putting into the descriptions. :)
SteveBrickNJ said:
Help me, I'm stuck to my chair bouncing from one forum to another. :banghead:
Surely I should be doing something else LOL :bookworm::)
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Hence why I don’t bounce too much. No time. :(:banghead:
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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MinnieM123 said:
Oh cut your own down. Hubs and I used to go to a family-owned tree farm out in W. MA and cut down our tree every year. Unfortunately, the owners were elderly and finally had to sell off the land. It's no longer a tree farm. :mad:

Now, we just go to a local nursery, and we buy them already cut. But I do miss clomping around the snow in the tree farm, and cutting down our own tree.
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When I was a kiddo and we lived in San Jose, Ca., we went to a tree farm in the nearby Santa Cruz mountains all 8 years we were there to cut our own Christmas tree. And, a few times, I remember there was even snow involved...! ;)
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Gabe1 said:
Schaumburg is goofy like that with liquor they have so many venues and hold the businesses tight to being strict to laws, none of them want their liquor licenses pulled so the businesses police that pretty hard themselves. 2nd largest economic development center in the State of Illinois only next to Chicago. They are the same way with their health codes and given their massive convention district and the amount of hotels and restaurants they have to have a no wiggle room for error approach. I haven't lived in Schaumburg in over 30 years and then only for a year. 75,000 people was a bit much for me so I'm not sure if there are buffets there or not. I pulled it up on a map and there are a few buffets but they are on the fringe roads that divide Schaumburg from other bordering towns no dots in the thick of it all so maybe across the street from Schaumburg? Me, when we head there we are near the mall when we dine, Chuy's is actually built in a separate building but on WoodField Mall property just down the road to IKEA. Schaumburg is 20 square miles so I don't have a cause to go elsewhere as the tollway dumps me right off at WoodField Drive. Like Chicago it has it high end areas to areas that an ambulance won't go without police backup.

Funny when I was small my Dad was one of many contractors for building Woodfield. He brought my family there when they finished the building but it had not opened yet. I was in awe of how big this place was as a little kid. At the time it was in the middle of nowhere, corn and cows, very few homes. It is crazy big now. The North South expressway that boarders one side wasn't even a thought when it opened. Back when it opened only had about 18,000 people living there to now 75,000. While you guys in Austin have a much larger footprint, bigger I believe more square miles than Chicago proper and wildly more people then they do in Schaumburg my guess is was that same type of growth that is difficult to keep up with the changes.
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Yes, the changes and growth in the 41+ years we've been here are insane. There are parts of the area I hadn't been to in a while that I needed to go to in recent years...I didn't recognize them to the point of getting more lost than I cared to... :cyclops:
Just insane. I really wish I had had the forethought to take before pics way back in the day.
The funny thing about it though is our neighborhood really hasn't changed much at all since it was fully developed out by about '82.
When we moved here in '76, we were short 2 schools, and about 2/3rds of the homes, and there seemed to be nothing much else around. I remember us kids asking mom and pop why we were moving out to the country... :cyclops:
Now, it's like an island in a sea of developement. It's quiet, pretty, and pretty much crime free, but, is also close to everything we need, and much more...!!! :)
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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figmentfan423 said:
While I agree most boys at a certain age become human garbage disposals, my boys have taken it to a whole new level. They've been politely told that's all you can eat at an all you can eat buffet, had waiters and chefs ask the question "do you realize how much food that is, maybe you should order just one for your party and split it"(coming from people who's income comes from how much food sold), people on line at the grocery store have asked what type of party are you having, the cashier answers her boys like to eat and consider the annual Nathan's hot dog eating contest a training guide for every day living:bawling::banghead: What really gets me is neither has an extra ounce on their bodies:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead: Side note my favorite cashier is retiring at the end of the year:(:(:(:(
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I have favorite cashiers too. And some the opposite. I've been know to scope the lines to find a friendly or dodge a grumpy. :rolleyes:
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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Goofyernmost said:
At one point in my family there were two nuns, one teaching Brother of Christian instruction and one Franciscan Monk .
None of them stayed in the calling. One left more dramatically then the others. It seems that they tend to frown on Pregnant Nuns. All married, had families except one that became a raging alcoholic.
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Ha! Sad as it is your spoiler made me laugh. None of it surprised me, heard it all before. My Great Aunt remained in the Order her entire life, she entered at age 14 as she was orphaned and no where to go. She was one of the most bitter evil people I've met in my lifetime. I can only imagine what it was like for her to be a teacher of students. My Mom tried to keep evil woman away from us through most of our childhood.

The lady on the property diagonally behind us for 25 years quit the nunnery too. I had my DD take piano lessons from her for a few months.
I overheard her yelling at my shy and meek DD and that was the last lesson. She was also the music teacher for our Catholic Elementary School. (we joined the parish in the next community over)
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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figmentfan423 said:
While I agree most boys at a certain age become human garbage disposals, my boys have taken it to a whole new level. They've been politely told that's all you can eat at an all you can eat buffet, had waiters and chefs ask the question "do you realize how much food that is, maybe you should order just one for your party and split it"(coming from people who's income comes from how much food sold), people on line at the grocery store have asked what type of party are you having, the cashier answers her boys like to eat and consider the annual Nathan's hot dog eating contest a training guide for every day living:bawling::banghead: What really gets me is neither has an extra ounce on their bodies:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead: Side note my favorite cashier is retiring at the end of the year:(:(:(:(
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Hahaaa...!
I can definitely share similar stories.
My mom used to talk about the cashiers all disappearing when she/we showed up at the grocery store and the manager had to roust them.
My middle brother and myself, in our later teens, once ate a Red Lobster out of all-you-can-eat crab legs (or so our waiter told us :cyclops:). We showed up around 4p and the place was empty. They brought helping after helping after helping and we still could have eaten more.
It was suggested that we show up a little later in the evening next time and try some other dishes. o_O ;)
I could go on, and on, and on.....................
None of us eat like that these days.
Let's just say that if me and my bros could somehow travel back to the age of y'all's DSs, myself, and whichever of my younger bros of your choosing (hint: choosing the skinnier of the two wouldn't make a difference ;)), we would challenge them to an all-out stooooopid hogfest, and I'm confident we'd win...!!!!! :joyfull: :D ;) :happy: :)

And, yes, I never gained a pound until about my early 20's...although, that was mostly because of the beer and inactivity, after having been very active and not drinking in HS.
My youngest bro is not quite as "husky" :hilarious: as I am, and my next youngest bro is still thin, but, not in even close to an unhealthy way.

Darn...just when ya' need a time machine, there isn't one around... :bored: ;)
So, unfortunately, we'll just never know... :cyclops:


;)
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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figmentfan423 said:
My inlaws family have one of those giant family reunions every other year, name tags required with how you're related to the "founder" of the family
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My inlaw family did this 2 weeks after Christmas every year on my FIL family. Odd thing is the elders really didn't like each other. Several years ago something happened between my inlaws and the family of my FIL sister. The tradition for generations came to an abrupt halt and never resumed and nobody ever spilled what happened. My guess is his Sis said something that really crossed the line and FIL had enough. A sweet man with a long fuse.

Then the MIL side had the same kind of reunion in the summer at a forest preserve and they'd reserve one of those huge picnic shelters. I worked a great deal of weekends in the summer and went out of my way to schedule myself to work for picnics in the forest.

My family has never done one of these reunions. Last time I can remember my Mom's huge family of 12 siblings getting together I was in preschool and just prior to my Granddad passing. I still clearly remember trying to push Granddad down a flight of stairs in his wheelchair. I wanted him to be downstairs with the rest of the family. :p Such a helpful Granddaughter I was.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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figmentfan423 said:
My inlaws family have one of those giant family reunions every other year, name tags required with how you're related to the "founder" of the family
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Ours just have a number on them...as in what numeric order we entered the family.
Again, most all of us adults know who we all are. Most, anyway... :cyclops: ;)
But, the kiddos just change so much from year to year when they reach that certain age. Sometimes, you're just... "OK, who is that? :cyclops:".
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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MinnieM123 said:
So if people need to wear name tags, that means that you all don't know everyone in the room.

My hypothesis is that perhaps not everyone in that group is a part of the family. I suspect some imposters have slipped in the back door, and put on a name tag with some common name -- and when asked by a family member about what part of the family they belonged to -- they'd say, "Oh, I'm with him!" :p
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Interlopers!!!!!!!!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
Hahaaa...!!! :hilarious:
Actually, there's so darn much friggin' food, that if the venue wasn't way out in the stick-sticks, we'd probably be pullin' folks off the street to come in an finish it up...!!!!! :hilarious: ;)
 

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