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Roadside Nostalgia

6/15/2016

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If you can remember traveling in your dad's car before 1964, you probably remember the ubiquitous Burma-Shave jingles that dotted the roadside. Five to six red signs, one spaced after the other such that everyone had plenty of time to read the rhyme.
According my internet research, the jingles started in 1926 and the signs were removed in 1963 when the company was sold to Philip Morris. Burma-Shave and its signs were victims of the times - electric razors and interstate highways.

Anyway, our road trip this summer will be spent mainly in one place as we get a chance to be grandmom and grandpop with our daughter's new twins. So, since travel photos will be less than frequent, I thought it might be fun to take a quick trip back in time and resurrect the grand old Burma-Shave jingles. I'll post a new one each week along with the weekly photo.

There will still be occasional posts, but there will definitely be a weekly photo and a new Burma-Shave verse every Monday. We'll start with the one you see at the right. This first one comes direct from my memory as it was along Highway 213 in Maryland, a few miles below Chesapeake City. We would see it every time we drove down to our summer cottage. 

So close your eyes and pretend. It's the 1950s, and everyone is squeezed in the family Buick for the annual road trip. It's July and it's hot, all the windows are down, and the highhway is busy. Suddenly the familiar red signs pop up along the side of the road. Dad reads each one out loud, one-after-the-other, and the whole family gets a good chuckle just when one is needed. You could always depend on Burma-Shave. That's the way it was. Enjoy the trip!
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Toadstool Time!

6/4/2016

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With all the water we have seen the past few weeks, mushrooms on the lawn were inevitable.

I have always been fascinated by the way they seem to appear overnight. I understand it takes a bit longer than that, but moisture will accelerate the process.

Anyway I thought, why not take some close-up photos so we could all take a little closer look at these interesting things we call fungi.

This is the type of thing you do when its constantly raining and some flooding makes it difficult to get around.

Remember to click on a photo to see the gallery in full size. Thanks for visiting. Enjoy!
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Two Mushrooms, One Open, One Still Developing
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Remember These Words?

6/3/2016

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"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."
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Where is this mail carrier when we need her?
Well, apparently these noble words don't really apply anymore.

​Recently we have had a lot of rain in the Houston area, and some folks have had some devastating flooding.

We have not. Thank goodness. However there has been some localized flooding as a result of backed-up storm drains. This has caused a few streets (ours among them) to be closed to through traffic.
The actual number of homes that have water in front of them is very small. Our block, for example, is perfectly dry except for the intersection at one end. In fact, yesterday the neighbor boys were enjoying the lack of traffic and playing ball in the street.

But since there is no through-traffic, there is a semi-barricade at our end to keep traffic localized. This is enough to prevent our stalwart postal couriers from the swift (or any other kind of) completion of their appointed rounds.

There are probably no more than a handful of homes that would require the mail carrier to get out of the truck and walk to deliver the mail. But that is just not going to happen. 


So with no notification of any kind (HOA e-mail network, social media, news release to broadcasters, etc), mail delivery has been suspended for any street in the city that has any kind of a barricade. If we want our mail, we have to go to the post office and pick it up.

​It just doesn't take much to stay these couriers in today's world.
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