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Happiness gently landed on my shoulders

Check out the short videos I took at Niagara Falls over the weekend…it is amazing to think about how much water falls 24/7 year after year after year.

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It is good to be home – spent the day cleaning and organizing.  I sorted through book shelves today replacing old books with newly acquired books.

Just a couple of thoughts after more than 20 hours on the road in the last 5 days…traveling thru Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York.  What is up with the toll roads, people.  I wonder how much toll money actually goes to road use and how much just goes to maintain all of the huge toll booths at every exit and the wages of all the folks needed to man (woman) these booths…

THERE IS A FARMER…(note to self – do not drive because this gives “him” time to think)  It obviously bothered  him that on a beautiful spring day, there didn’t seem to be farmers out in the fields…because everytime there was a farmer working the field he announced…THERES A FARMER.  I decided that if he continues the farmer watch the way he spots hawks, wild turkeys and other very small creatures not clearly seen with the naked eye that his door was suddenly going to open on a curve and he was going to need to tuck and roll.

All of this got me thinking …. what is the major crop in Ohio?  Obviously there is a moratorium on billboards…what do you folks look at while driving the interstate..surely not the cars ahead, behind and beside you.  When people talk about Iowa being so boring to drive thru, I always think – but it is so green and lush and beautiful and now I can say and Iowa has billboards to read.

It was a great trip  – and many, many hours on the road, I didn’t have one moment when I thought about calling 911 about someone not driving like I thought they should.  With the volume of calls I receive on a daily basis from I-80 about the way drivers perceive other drivers, this was a surprise that I didn’t see a bunch of morons on the road. 

That is it for now so until next time……

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  1. kirby1960 Avatar
    kirby1960

    Ohio grows amusement parks.  Niagara Falls grows fast food restaurants.  If I had known you were going, I would have recommended a detour to a beautiful little town called Niagara-on-the-Lake.  It’s about 30 minutes from Niagara Falls on the Canadian side.  I plan to go this summer on the way home to see my mom.

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  2. G'hog Avatar
    G’hog

    There are toll roads because the eastern Democrats never met a tax they didn’t like. Actually, most of the toll roads were suppose to be temporary, but state legislatures get used to spending the easy money and it’s less conspicuous to extend the tolls another five years than to actually raise taxes. The cash crops in Ohio are corn and soy beans. They also raise a lot of livestock. They just aren’t as good at those things in Ohio as we are in Iowa. There is also a great deal of tobacco grown in southern Ohio, along the river and in the hills of eastern Ohio.The farmers are behind this year everywhere. Crops are going in late. We have global cooling going on and it’s reeking havoc with the planting schedule.  

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  3. skanickadee Avatar
    skanickadee

    Absolutely lovely pictures!  Seems like it was a fun vacation.The Illinois’ toll roads drive me crazy.  We put so much money into tolls and the roads are horrible.

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