Route 66
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Went the many times!
Went the many times!
And there!
And here too!
I never get sick. I tell people it's because as a child I ate dry dog food to impress my friends. I have the constitution of a turkey buzzard. I don't do raw road kill any more though because it tastes like excrement. And it's kinda slimy. And the fur gets stuck in my teeth.Down here, on US 25-E, going to Kentucky & points NW, there was a pipe that stuck out of this mountain, & poured out a stream of DELICIOUS, cold water. You stuck yr face mouth up to it & got yr fill. We never worried about getting poisoned, sick, anything like that, & often, there were several cars waiting for their passengers to get THEIR fill., or fill up plastic jugs. Nowadays, people would likely have "Double-Dying Duck Fits" about something so unsafe & unsanitary, blah, blah, blah. but on a hot day, that cool water sure hit the spot ! There was/is a similar public well near Jefferson City, TN that was actually in a little building/shed, but offered similarly sweet, cool water. I don't remember ever hearing of anyone getting sick/dying from either place, but since everybody is SO effin' uptight about EVERYTHING anymore, it would be amazing if either place is still operational...
Factory farming has been a threat to spring fed ground water, now fracking is a threat, the petro/gas boom hasn't been good for everyone.Down here, on US 25-E, going to Kentucky & points NW, there was a pipe that stuck out of this mountain, & poured out a stream of DELICIOUS, cold water. You stuck yr face mouth up to it & got yr fill. We never worried about getting poisoned, sick, anything like that, & often, there were several cars waiting for their passengers to get THEIR fill., or fill up plastic jugs. Nowadays, people would likely have "Double-Dying Duck Fits" about something so unsafe & unsanitary, blah, blah, blah. but on a hot day, that cool water sure hit the spot ! There was/is a similar public well near Jefferson City, TN that was actually in a little building/shed, but offered similarly sweet, cool water. I don't remember ever hearing of anyone getting sick/dying from either place, but since everybody is SO effin' uptight about EVERYTHING anymore, it would be amazing if either place is still operational...
Yep. I have a natural stream coming out of the bottom of one of my knobs. The guy before me put a little pumphouse there to pump water to a faucet in the garden. On top of the knob is where he fed all his cattle. I've owned it for four years now. I need to get the water tested. Some of my "survivalist" neighbors really covet that spring.Factory farming has been a threat to spring fed ground water, now fracking is a threat, the petro/gas boom hasn't been good for everyone.
My water comes straight out of a hole in the ground, the farm up the road is thankfully small scale. No fracking hereabouts, so far, so good.
I would listen to him when he came on, but can't say I was a hugh fan. He did have style.
Our ring was two short ones. The neighbor's was one long ring.My earliest memories of holidays at grandparents was dinner off a coal fired stove and a 1930s phone without a dial and its own ring pattern on a party line. The TV was a 16" RCA roundy BW, we didn't have one yet.