Let's visit.....

[Reziac]

Back about 1962 there was a tornado west of Fargo ND. It picked up a hanger off the airport (left the planes behind, undamaged!) and moved it about 300 yards -- plunked it down in this farmer's yard, almost perfectly intact. He was delighted with his new "barn". The airport wanted it back. It went to court. The farmer won and got to keep the building.

[Broz]

LOL, interesting... Guess they figured he deserved it for living next to an airport...

[rickers]

Originally Posted by jimj

Hope all are doing well, rickers, glad to here you're up and around again! As summer is predicted to be here as of this weekend (80 degrees predicted) we're gonna have to revive the CD float idea here soooooon!!!!

Hey jimj, glad to see ya here on the porch ! That politics board will give ya a heart attack !
Speaking of storms, I did an arts and crafts show and general fair/festival in Veradale near Spokane one year (as a vendor) and the wind came up big time. Farmers all over eastern and central Washington had bare ground exposed from plowing and the wind picked up tons of dust. On our way back home to Montana it started raining MUD ! I had a few clean empty buckets at home and they were filled with muddy water the next day.

[Reziac]

If I remember right, the farmer's logic was that the airport had "littered" on his property, and if he chose to keep the "litter", that was his business... the airport should keep better track of its things. The airport countered with something like that the weather had stolen their building and the farmer had "received stolen property".

That was the same storm where we had to open all the leeward windows to keep air pressure changes from breaking them. You could hear windows popping all down the street.

Oh! Here's a picture of our house in Moorhead MN -- probably taken about 1962! http://images.auctionhelper.com/imag.../vpm101304.jpg
Well, you can barely see it in the distance behind the Mo-Ho-Tel... it's the yellow duplex (built in 1960) to the far right. You can just barely see my bedroom window at the extreme right. The red pickup truck (the tiny red blot) on the side street belonged to our landlord, who was a contractor. At the time this was the edge of town -- the next street over was the last one before town ended. Concordia Stadium was a block away (host to 4th of July great fireworks) and the municipal swimming pool was a block beyond that. Sure was a great place for kids to live!

Wow, the old trees are still there, and all the little sticks have grown up. Nice to see the neighbourhood hasn't changed too much since I lived there!

[rickers]

Here's a picture from the front porch of the house I grew up in, at the end of a culdesac street on Point Loma, Insain-Diego. The birdy is my Old Macaw "Blue". He loved camelias.

[seven of nine]

Originally Posted by Reziac

Back about 1962 there was a tornado west of Fargo ND. It picked up a hanger off the airport (left the planes behind, undamaged!) and moved it about 300 yards -- plunked it down in this farmer's yard, almost perfectly intact. He was delighted with his new "barn". The airport wanted it back. It went to court. The farmer won and got to keep the building.

Priceless!

[Reziac]

And here's a picture taken in 2000, of the house I lived in from 1958-1960, in Bismarck ND:

http://www.doomgold.com/misc/231_W_Thayer.jpg

The big elms that used to line the street are all gone thanks to Dutch Elm Disease, and someone planted bushes on top of the flower-beds (used to have lily-of-the-valley next to the porch) but it looks like the house is still in good shape. I loved that house.

[seven of nine]

Are you guys scanning these photos? When said son is home from school I will have to get a quick tutorial. Lots of milking cow pics in the collection.
Here is a conversation starter; How about your first pet that you can remember, or how about a childhood memory, happy of course cause this is the porch where we take refuge from the world.

My dad was known to trade for a horse, never paid more than 50 bucks for one One old nag was named Penny. Stubborned old paint. Came with a foal who was untouched and wild as the day is long. Would bite you if you got on mom. Well it was an event just to get her off on her own for a long time, she just did not want to separate from that little stallion. One day pop said enough and being a man of his own, haltered that 5 month old and rode him around the better part of a day. Now my 6'5'' daddy was quite a sight with feet dragging on the ground but it worked. Best little horse we had for along time. Of course the vet did eventually come by and relieve him of said glands. Not bad for five bales of hay.

[seven of nine]

How about a visit?
Seems lots of different people here around lately, would they care to come to the porch and have a cup of coffee and polite debate and discussion.
Yes Rickers, the cousins are welcome, they can sit on the step

[Broz]

Hello from my Ozark porch to yours. Hope ya all had a great weekend we did. I'll take you up on that coffee one day hopefully before the snow flies.