tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post821779182932829931..comments2024-03-28T12:29:39.157-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: Plain Tales from the West HillsFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-67234792119946193142009-02-14T20:07:00.000-07:002009-02-14T20:07:00.000-07:00Thank you for sharing some wonderful Kipling.Thank you for sharing some wonderful Kipling.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-14710593249079413122009-02-13T22:15:00.000-07:002009-02-13T22:15:00.000-07:00My attorney's office (in a small house-like buildi...My attorney's office (in a small house-like building) had all copper gutters until one Saturday (no one in the office, natch) some group of guys with an official-looking repair truck came in broad daylight and hauled them away. They replaced the stolen gutters with old metal.Fran / Blue Galhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18293627981248346055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-88851908026176423732009-02-13T17:20:00.000-07:002009-02-13T17:20:00.000-07:00Very funny story. Now I am awaiting the next inst...Very funny story. <BR/><BR/>Now I am awaiting the next installment of your wonderful fiction about the Holocene and late Pleistocene and the little creatures one imagines existed during those times, and how they dealt with the threats to their own abodes -- if not copper-trimmed, precious all the same.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-65060475626446275782009-02-13T14:13:00.000-07:002009-02-13T14:13:00.000-07:00Actually, I think that Barry did him a favor. It ...Actually, I think that Barry did him a favor. It is useful to be jolted out of one's own complacency from time to time. It lets you re-evaluate things.<BR/><BR/>My dad, who was a natural gas utilityman, loved playing tricks on his new crew members. It would get them thinking about things, which is important if the thing you need to fix is covered by 8 feet of dirt and you need to decide where *exactly* you should start digging.<BR/><BR/>One of his favorite tricks was to park the wheel of his truck over the curb-box of some house they were going to work on. (Being a 40 year man, he knew where things were).<BR/><BR/>As they got out of the truck, he would tell his crew-mate to turn off the gas while he got the tools ready in the back of the truck.<BR/><BR/>He would then wait to see how long it would take for them to figure out where the curb box *had* to be located.Aelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788190394672505925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-49064130215746107802009-02-13T11:36:00.000-07:002009-02-13T11:36:00.000-07:00Why is it so terribly tempting and satisfying to d...Why is it so terribly tempting and satisfying to do those little things?Red Sandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00468789655058139527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-18741817618414169592009-02-13T10:30:00.000-07:002009-02-13T10:30:00.000-07:00HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! The wonder of it all.HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! The wonder of it all.Rick98Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05011558086087201037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-31761132372824449352009-02-13T10:26:00.000-07:002009-02-13T10:26:00.000-07:00That is classic!And serves people right for not kn...That is classic!<BR/><BR/>And serves people right for not knowing before hand what they're buying into.<BR/>Down here in CA every house purchase comes with the location of nearest fault line, and flood line.<BR/>In fact, I think we're all amatuer geologist down here...especially when the earth gets to rocking and rolling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com