[tcb] Re: @SPAM+++++++++ Re: $CHECK++ Re: Perring's packing up!
- From: "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:22:56 -0600
Now, lets not alienate our city dwelling friends. I have a sister who lives
in Houston and absolutely loves it, and I am coming to a point where I might
look forward to a weekend in Dallas, mostly for food items I can't buy here.
But the difference between Dallas and NY, for instance, is that Dallas just
has no "soul". It's like people live there just because that's where they
happen to be. The money was very good and I was busy accumulating it, but I
never loved it there.
We just have to get everyone in TCB and everyone we love to come out to
"Flyover country" (people in the big cities just fly over us) and live it
up.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob in Southern Illinois" <perring@xxxxxxx>
To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 11:06 AM
Subject: @SPAM+++++++++ [tcb] Re: $CHECK++ Re: Perring's packing up!
Denis,
NYC is truly wonderful, and like all places visited, the unique experience
ofwhat any place has to offer, makes the visit's discoveries worth the trek.
I have often thought, as I travelled around the globe, that there is just
toomuch wonderful world out there to isolate yourself to only one small
section of geography for your total life's experience. Yet, everywhere I
looked, I saw places where I would feel enjoyment might avail itself to me
for only a short time frame. Here on the small acreage we have bought in
Southern Illinois, I am hoping we might find a longer time frame for feeling
as though, "Yup, this is it".
If you think about it for longer than a few seconds, living in a very big
"town" like Houston doesn't offer much after you have had your fill of the
traffic obstacles that one must meet every time one wants to partake in the
mega-city experience. It was just a nightmare to have to go anywhere for
anything. Visits with friends were always timed (cut short) around traffic,
and commute time, and then when you did get out on the highway, it was
alwaysfrightening to envision yourself being run off the road by some lane
changing (no turn signal) cop driving +30mph over the speed limit, or some
road rage experience beyond understanding.
I'm not sure what life is supposed to ultimately be all about, but I don't
think living in the same house for 24 years with a postage stamp sized back
yard is the answer. Given that, we decided what we wanted were 4 mild
seasons, a garden, room for my radio antennas, our own small back yard body
of water (not another pool), and ready access to beautiful country whenever
we get in our VW bus and head out of the driveway.
In Houston, it would take hours for us to gain access to the privacy of
anything remote and isolated, and even then, it was always owned by somebody
else. ......... Texas - no open fishing waters, no open hunting lands, no
open camping, less than wonderful state parks system, etc., etc.
Oh, I admit to loving the Texas experience, as it truly was great,
but.......... when it is time to move on you know it, and we sensed the time
had arrived. There will always be a twitch in my heart and soul when I whiff
a scent that reminds me of Texas, or see a sight that reminds me of Texas,
ortaste a "taste" of food that should be made the way it is better done in
Texas, ...........
or just plain old have a private moment flashback that beckons me to Texas.
Southern Illinois may not have a humongous fiberglass statue of that native
son from Tennessee; Sam Houston, and Southern Illinois may not have a state
museum dedicated to it's prison system, but Illinois offers us other
niceties, and we hope to sample them all, share them with friends from all
over who come to visit, and always make this place a home away from home for
any bus that honks a competitive honk against our ducks and geese as it
valves tick their way into the driveway.
Bob Perring
Nested in the Shawnee National Forest of Southern Illinois,
just 4 miles North of Salt Petre Cave,
where the living is easy,
and the times are seldom hard.
181 Caraway Rd
Murphysboro, IL 62966
tele: (618) 687-3520
cel: (618) 201-0085
At 10:14 1/7/2005, you wrote:
Damn! It sounds like you folks have gone plum native.
We just got back from New York and it seems that I want either quiet nights
with the foxes and the raccoons sneaking up to eat the food scraps we leave
at the corner under our deck, or the intensity of the greatest city on the
planet. The noisy babble in the fish markets in Chinatown, or watching the
biggest owl ever hunting mice in our lumber pile. The hilarious live karaoke
where the band yells at the singer if they forget a word in the song and you
sit at the bar and eat fresh lobster bisque at $5.99 a bowl (of course the
beers are $5 a bottle) or eating (a little) the weird strawberry
Jello/pudding/box cake with pineapple on top dessert the old lady up the
road brought us for the holidays.
It was really great to be in The Big Apple, but to get back to this house
(slow down for the deer) and listen to the calm is even better.
Oh yes, and instead of riding subways all over Manhattan and trying to do
and see everything on our list, I get to come home and try to finish this
wiring on the bus. I have to start all over because I forgot everything I
did, my notes suck and even I can't read them, and the underside of my dash
looks like a spaghetti dinner blew up under there.
It's good to be home.
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