Side Note on trip to Bishop Hill

It takes 5 miles to get to Route 150 from BFE. Yesterday I turned left to head up to Alpha and then to Bishop Hill for the car show. Right past the tracks after getting on 150 is a rather rundown house on the left with some junk in the front yard. There have been some old derelict cars/trucks and there appeared to be rusted metal machines of some sort lying about. Then I noticed a big poorly painted sign on plywood, "If you don't like what it looks like, then don't look."
I didn't stop to take a picture of it then, but wish I would have. After I got home yesterday afternoon after the show I hopped on my bike with my camera, but sadly, the sign had been taken down. I'll check off and on going to work and if it reappears I'll take a picture of it.

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Summer Swim

It's Monday and the start of another work week. Except for me. I have the week off because the parents of my daycare charges are taking the week off, too. This is one of those wordless posts I love on Mondays so I can put my laziness in full view of loyal readers. These pics need no words. Why muddy the waters? They were taken at the pool at Sinkhole Estates aka Death Valley. The nice thing about this pool is it is heated in winter. If one must find positives in one's situation, I suppose that is one. But, please, no more.

Re-opening Was A Hoax

Flashback Friday

Class, Or Lack Thereof The Dwight Vice gravestone in Oquawka, Illinois. I bring this old chestnut out every so often just to remind me that class is classless. Dwight Vice was killed in his home near Oquawka in 2001. It was one of those things that can generate crime: two guys thought Dwight had a lot of money stashed at home because of his pot-selling sideline to supplement his fishing job. Not really one of those big drug deals gone-bad things. Marijuana was, according to the trial, about the only stuff Dwight sold. But these two guys barge into the house and killed Dwight and attempted to kill his 11 year old kid, Darryl, before they took off with what money they could find. His son, now 23, was stabbed in the back and left for dead. He survived and is wheelchair bound and has undergone several surgeries to repair his wounds. He will be paralyzed for life. None of this is pleasant. Reading the facts of the murder and attempted murder are most unpleasant

Existing In BFE

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