A POSSIBLE RECIP ARRIVED YESTERDAY AND IS HOLED UP IN THE GUEST HOUSE WITH RIZZ
WE Hve it organized... when somone flys into boston's logan, they get on the shuttle bus to peabody-- once on the bus-- they call teh office where if someone picks up a cuppa coffee and then goes to the bus stop, it works perfectly- no one has to get a car- because once heere-- tehre isn't much need to go anywhere--- they can always get a ride somewhere with the trainers as they drive aarond training dogs.;
trINERS are often in supermarkets- so they can buy speciality items .... like the little cups of lemon merangue jello to which i have become addicted.
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i don't know how people live without a horse traqiler- particularly an almunimun one which can be sprayed pretty clean... in my carreer as a horse trailer driver, i have been called to move grand pianos to a doctors total library ( i think that was the heaviest---) i no longer have that tractor trailer size thing-- but even a normal horse trailer gets put in action-- college kids-- graduting-- getting married... or divorced... whatever.... this week it is linda moving from her "city home" to the wilds of newbury- there will be extra furnature--- not beiong one to turn down anything,,, we are planning a saturday morn throwing sofa's ouT second story windows etc...
i am told our sofa collection in the laundry building is in tough shape.. spring is here.. time to ride the suburban roads on the large trash days- with th horse trailer on behind...
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round things... like wheels are a particular fascination of mine-- finally yesterday i realized the part of my childhood that wws terribly deficient-- there was in newburgh a street, which had a nice downward slope for about 300 feet then sloped upward- teh town had a yearly soap box derby- of the real kind- i was never in it-- but i was fascinated---i never undeerstoood teh rel;ationship between wheels turning and the soap box thing...it was long befoe things like helmets were invented- kids fell over got scratched up bandaged up and put back in the "race"- today you would be arrested for even trying to hold such a thing - actually true-
there was "the great race" from watertown to marblenhead 26 miles-- started as an arguement in a bar-- was it faster to go by land or sea between those towns.- started-- small group 4am-- probably because the bars just closed... the winner was disqualified because he must have cheated... that remained the basic rule-- and it grew to eventually several thousand semi sober adults wandering around bostons streets and waterways.my family participated- i rode my old penny farthing bike beating the tv host who had sailed his waterbed....
it may have been th first party bar bike contraption where 10 people all pedlaled while welded to a beer keg- they have them now in new orleans etc...
one i wolod like to re create wqs teh 20? pedal bikes all strung together with a hole on either end of a 2x4 attaching a bike seat to the handle bar stem of the next bike-- one year there were 20 people on that one "vehicle---- they did finally get to the finish.. but stopping and going was a terrible problem
maybe i can get someone to try that again... janine??????
THE IRS KILLED THAT GREAT RACE---- SOMEONE MADE SHIRTS AND YOU GOT ONE FOR TEH $15 ENTRY FEE... SINCE THE SHIRTS COST $7- AND THERE WERE THOUSSANDS OF RIDERS, SOMEBODY MADE A PROFIT-- THE IRS WAS ANNOYED... NOBODY HAD THE MONEY- WHOEVER RANI IT JUST MELTED INTO THE CROWD OF NITWITS ON THES CRAZY MACHINES...
WONDERFUL!!
