Espola's newest neighborhood

My son came to visit last night. He took a handful of the balls in the clay pot on the patio down to the 6th tee and hit them off into the dark with a middle iron. We didn't see any of them in the morning, but there is a pond right behind the 6th green so they might be there.
Excellent. That’s how abandoned balls from courses should be repurposed. Returned for use, by a strapping young lad, eager to improve his short game. Well done.
 
My parents bought this house in 1968, when we kids were just starting to leave the nest for college, military, and careers. They sold it in 1987, which made them one of the longest-termed owners in the house's history. It was originally built in 1843 and was a doctor's home and office at one time, according to old-timers in town. After them, it was a bed and breakfast for a time and is now being renovated as an art center downstairs with space for a community online radio station upstairs.

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My parents bought this house in 1968, when we kids were just starting to leave the nest for college, military, and careers. They sold it in 1987, which made them one of the longest-termed owners in the house's history. It was originally built in 1843 and was a doctor's home and office at one time, according to old-timers in town. After them, it was a bed and breakfast for a time and is now being renovated as an art center downstairs with space for a community online radio station upstairs.

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If it is anything like our family homes in Connecticut, big house, lots of (small) rooms, small doors, low ceilings (except in living room/family rooms), large kitchen area.
 
Shopped for the first time at the Aldi store in Escondido. Prices competitive with 99c or Smart and Final. Eggs 99c/dozen. Bananas 39c/lb. The things I missed were canned chili w/ beans (they had beans in chili sauce - not the same) and frozen microwavable single entree meals (they did have a breakfast mix of potatoes, eggs, sausage, and cheese, but I just make that at home). As a test, I bought a can of their house brand (Chef's Cupboard) New England Clam Chowder - $1.35.

About the shopping cart quarters - you put a quarter in the cart to release it from the stack, and get one back when you hook the cart back up to the stack - but it's not your original quarter since they swap carts at the checkout.
 
Some people look at this and say it's a poorly maintained bridge. I see the patched roof as evidence that they are still maintaining it.

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Photo by Brooke Clark
 
Shopped for the first time at the Aldi store in Escondido. Prices competitive with 99c or Smart and Final. Eggs 99c/dozen. Bananas 39c/lb. The things I missed were canned chili w/ beans (they had beans in chili sauce - not the same) and frozen microwavable single entree meals (they did have a breakfast mix of potatoes, eggs, sausage, and cheese, but I just make that at home). As a test, I bought a can of their house brand (Chef's Cupboard) New England Clam Chowder - $1.35.

About the shopping cart quarters - you put a quarter in the cart to release it from the stack, and get one back when you hook the cart back up to the stack - but it's not your original quarter since they swap carts at the checkout.
You can come over to my house and pick up all the dogshit in the backyard for free.
Its probably about as good for you as the garbage you already bought, and might even taste better.
Open ended offer.
Take it or leave it.
 
QUOTE="espola, post: 265307, member: 3"

Some people look at this and say it's a poorly maintained bridge. I see the patched roof as evidence that they are still maintaining it.

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Photo by Brooke Clark

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Some see this as a Plane/Helicopter crash....I see it as an opportunity
to sell a New Plane and Helicopter along with Flight training...!
Three for the price of one....

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Looking into the background of a news story today about the VA cleaning up its computer and administrative errors by deleting over 200,000 applications for VA medical care, I discovered that I might be classified by the VA as a "combat veteran" even though the closest I ever got to anything like combat was flashes on the western night horizon that might actually have been lightning. While on the USS Enterprise 1974-75 WestPac cruise, we all received 2 months pay exempt from Federal income taxes because we were in the combat zone off Vietnam (the 1973 cease-fire agreement notwithstanding) and all who participated in Operation Frequent Wind (evacuation of Saigon) were deemed eligible for an Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (although I never got mine because I transferred out of the squadron too soon after).
 
My great-uncle (father's father's brother) Wagoner Ralph Henry of Fayston, Vt. who was killed in July 1918 in France when the truck he was driving to move his unit, the 101 Machine Gun Battalion, between sites where they were covering an infantry attack, was shelled by German artillery.

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My father's cousin Lt (jg) Melvin Clyde Phillips, Naval Academy graduate, lost with the sinking of the USS Grayback (SS-208) on or about Feb 26, 1944, sunk by Japanese air attack near Taiwan.

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How I found out about Peanut's death - in spring of 1970 I was attending US Navy C-school classes on F4-J radios at NAS Miramar, near San Diego. I was killing time in the base library and picked up an old copy of Life magazine - the June 26, 1969 issue. An article in that issue was "One week's dead" with photos and names of all 242 deaths "released by the Pentagon during the week of May 28 to June 3, a span of no special significance except that it includes Memorial Day". Peanut's name and photo were on page 29.

https://books.google.com/books?id=p...5nEvG87pQaRfA8s9RpjLyhwso#v=onepage&q&f=false
 
How I found out about Peanut's death - in spring of 1970 I was attending US Navy C-school classes on F4-J radios at NAS Miramar, near San Diego. I was killing time in the base library and picked up an old copy of Life magazine - the June 26, 1969 issue. An article in that issue was "One week's dead" with photos and names of all 242 deaths "released by the Pentagon during the week of May 28 to June 3, a span of no special significance except that it includes Memorial Day". Peanut's name and photo were on page 29.

https://books.google.com/books?id=p...5nEvG87pQaRfA8s9RpjLyhwso#v=onepage&q&f=false
Thank those of your family, your friends, people you have known and all of those who have given the ultimate sacrifice for this country and democracy as a whole. Those are the people that made America great.
 
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