"The Beginning"

My story ... When I was a kid I took the Train to school from Windsor Locks Connecticut to a Hartford Connecticut Trade School where I became an Electrician working for 20 years for the State of Connecticut on Airport Runway lights.. While riding that train every morning during the school year, the engineer seen me standing there every day and asked me if I wanted to take ride to Hartford in the Diesel Engine... I've been hooked ever sense.. From the 16x16 Layouts with American Flyer Train sets (2 track) to riding my bike across railroad bridges to now only to watch and wish I was driving..   Thank you for your knowledge and new experiences...

"Lost in the Woodwork"

GOOGLE MESSED EVERY THING UP!!!!!! UPDATE..........................................Mary Kay Letourneau — the former Washington state teacher who became infamous for her sexual relationship with a 12-year-old student she later married — has died of colon cancer. She was 58. How many names do you remember.. “Or If you are famous, things people will remember you by in the future if you screw up”
                      Or “What people will think about when they hear your name.”
                      Or things a publicist will say they can repair but really can’t.

O.J. Simpson…Isn’t he the double murderer that played Football? Did he ever find the killer?
Bill Clinton…“I didn’t inhale.” or “I didn’t have sex with that woman.”
Michael Jackson…Wasn’t he the Pedophile drug addict that was a good dancer?
Robert Blake…..Blake, Who? Was he the one found not guilty of killing his wife. Did they ever find out who did?
Casey Anthony…..Wasn’t she the one that killed her daughter?
Pamela Anderson…Wasn’t she the one with the fake big boobs that did a porn movie on a boat?
Anthony Weiner…Who? Oh, that guy! Don’t need that visual…..
Tiger Woods…Who? Oh, he’s that black golfer guy who cheated on his hot blond wife….
Mary Kay Letourneau…Wasn’t she the cute teacher that had sex with that kid and married him when she got out of prison.
Plaxico Burress…Wasn’t he the football player that went jail after he shot himself in the leg?
Michael Vick…Wasn’t he the Dog Killer guy? I think he played football. I don’t know where…
Pee Wee Herman aka Paul Reubens…..Wasn’t he the guy that talked funny that got arrested for playing with himself in a porn movie theater a long time ago. (1991)
Rap singers….What is that?
Elvis…Wasn’t he a singer that died from taking too many pills.
Chaney Mason…He was a lawyer I think…Oh, Wasn’t he that lawyer guy that gave everyone the finger. I don’t know why?
                                                 ((((( His picture in on the bottom of the page.)))))
Rod Blagovitch….Him? Wasn’t he was just another corrupt Illinois Governor…I think he tried to sell a Senate seat to the highest bidder. He’s in prison isn’t he?
Roland Burris…Didn’t he buy a senate seat from a corrupt Governor? Didn’t last long in Washington, he came back to Illinois…Don’t know what happened to him…
Kate Gosselin….Who?
Arnold…You know, the Terminator guy. The one that married that rich lady….Wasn’t he having sex with his house keeper?
Paris Hilton… Didn’t she have a father that owned a hotel. She did a Porn movie. Didn't she get Arrested for drugs.
Lindsay Lohan…..Who? Wasn’t she an actress or something?
There are so many others that deserve this honor but have been forgotten or have been, as my Dad used to say, “Lost in the woodwork“….

"No Time To Care"

 

Would you believe I wrote this 10 years ago

Today it seems like we are at war with ourselves. Tea parties, riots, gunfire, hate. This is a normal day in the United States. Kind of sounds like Afghanistan or Iraq. We have crime as we have never seen it before. Home invasions, wife beatings and people killing people in the worst possible way because of the uncertainty of the future and very little or no trust in our church’s and our government. You can be sure of this… It will get worse. Its a fact that when people are insecure and don’t have a job and no money the crimes get more blatant and cruel. Greed and the decay of our morals is like in no other time and getting worse everyday. I can sense and feel the change, its shifting, its in the wind. There are too many people here and just not enough jobs to do. Ten million illegal Mexicans alone. Now they can’t even create things to do without tax dollars. We are in debt so far into the future there is no way out. Lately, I have been seeing more and more young American boys and girls working in the fast food restaurants. That’s a good thing but its not a career or something reliable. Its only a job. No one slows down because they can’t or they don’t know how. Young people today are not the same as you and me. Its like they are a different breed. They don’t know the peace and quiet of a world where there is no confusion or doubt. Everyone is geared for speed and no one has the time to care…We have exhausted all the solutions. They all have been tried and its out of control and its too late…The things I wrote about will come true. It will just take time. Thank God I won’t be here….

"Did you Know"

The bike trail runs under Route 84 in Rockville, Vernon and it continues to the Shoreline.. Look it up. When I was a kid I started at the Congamond Lakes in Southwick, MA and went as far as Simsbury Ct.. I finished the ride to the shoreline another time.. Pictures are self-explanatory.. Bike is gone now and I miss it so much this Summer.. Looking through my pictures the memories are so beautiful I have tears...Notice the stonework on the bridge in the second picture.. That is the lane towards Hartford..

"Only Today"

                         

Its one of those days that I sit here and look at the little blinking line on the word processor. Sometimes its a challenge to come up with something interesting to write about. Lets face it. By choice, I live a very, I’ll never say boring life. More like, “Laid back” are the right words. I could write about the past but nothing brilliant comes to mind…I could write about the future but lets face it, we really don’t know what’s going to happen in the next minute. Here's Proof read on...... I was thinking yesterday afternoon on the way home in the wind and rain that I was almost home safely. Wait, I thought, not really. I was 2 miles from home and approaching an intersection and I thought what if someone goes through the red light and broadsides my car? No, I made it through the light but did slow down and I looked both ways first. Then I thought, as I was driving by a convenience store. What if someone with a gun comes out shooting and inadvertently fires at my car as I’m driving by? No, that didn’t happen…..I then glanced in the rear view mirror and thought what if someone rear ended me in an out of control Toyota a 100 miles an hour. Nobody was behind me. A mile to go and I thought as I was driving down my tree lined street in the wind and rain, what if a tree limb broke on one of these huge trees and went through my windshield. Nope, not today….Now I’m a half mile from home and I thought what if someone is shooting at cars from one of these homes, because of anger “Sniper style” and randomly shoots at me? Didn’t happen….Wow, I was turning into my drive way safe at last but wait, what if there is a terrorist in my building with a bomb? Well, I won’t go into that……Laid back or boring? Life in this country is one day at a time. Are you in control of your life or is that Higher Power in the LJ question the other day sort of watching over things? I happen to think I wasn’t in control yesterday. I was 2 miles from home and well, you know what I mean………

"Home"

         

Not to long ago at one time I was a little kid.. We all were.. I miss back then.. I was small. Innocent….  Now, years later there is a feeling of loneliness and I miss things.. I miss the old town I lived in, the people, my friends. Lately I have discovered you can visit but you can never go back.. You can go back to the town but everything is changed. The buildings are gone. It seems like things changed over night. It even smells different… I’m at an age now where you start thinking about genes and health.. I’m so blessed when it comes to that.. It seems like yesterday that I was going to the Catholic school in my little town.. I remember that like it was yesterday…We try to hang on to what we can but it still changes. The people we knew, our parents the material things. Everything changes. The older you get the time moves faster and faster. Now it seems you don’t have time to enjoy a moment anymore. You put up imaginary fences and walls to keep out the bad guys and thoughts but some manage to slither through.. These days its hard to tell the difference between the good and the bad. There are a lots of innocents that will never be the same again. I do everything I can to live and let live but I have a compassion for those who I know will never be able to live, what I consider normal life. They will never have what I had and still have… At times I worry but under the surface there is a peace and understanding, a subtle happiness that I have earned through the years.. That I will never lose.. I wait now with a content and a comfortable feeling to be voided out..

"Seaside Asylum in Waterford Ct."

Took these pictures in 2019.. Seaside has been in the news lately so I thought I would share them with you.. The last picture is the view of Long Island sound.. Looking out to the ocean on the left across a small channel is Ocean Beach in New London Connecticut.

 

Seaside Asylum in Waterford Ct. was originally built to treat kids with Tuberculosis but used as an elderly home, medical hospital, and a facility to treat the mentally handicap. It has been closed since the 90's and is set to become Connecticut's newest Sate Park.