Reflections of My Life

I am up early this morning to get ready to go to the Walton Farmers Market. It is 41 miles away and a nice drive. I am taking my camera and can carry it in the seat of my walker at the market. Sonny will stop alongside the road anytime I want to take a picture. I love that about him! I have many photos taken from a moving truck that did not come out good.

The office of the aging passed out free coupons for $20. worth of fresh, local produce at local farmers markets. They cannot be used in the grocery stores. They were for people 65 and over with low incomes. They do that every year, state wide. My freezer is full so I can't really store much. If they still have blueberries though, I might take a chance with freezing some of them. It is funny that I used to write on my homesteading blog about canning or dehydrating everything because with a freezer you could lose everything in an instant. I know several people who did and not even due to the power outages but due to a faulty appliance or a plug coming out of the socket and not being noticed. Here I am dependent on a freezer in my refrigerator.

I ordered some keto/low carb food from Amazon. When I am shopping in the grocery stores sometimes they are so busy that I don't have time to study the different products. At least online I can read what others say about it. Though I don't base my purchase on the reviews. I have found that many things others do not like about something is exactly what I like about it! Must be the rebel in me........yeah, it is still there even at this age.

I make it a point though to not eat many sweets, keto or not. I think it makes me want to eat more of it. I bought some stainless steel mug sized cake pans for making keto mug cakes. Make one only. And only once a month. I have friends who have been on keto for a long time and they post their meals on fakebook. A keto dessert every night. Alcoholic drinks often. Keto snacks between meals. I don't do that. I am cautious with the sweeteners, even the ones I use. My snack is usually cut up bell peppers slices in a variety of colors. i love the real small ones. Vitamin C (which is needed for your immune system) or cheese. I don't usually snack though.

Have a great day and I hope God is good to you today.
 

The farmers' market we went to yesterday was not even worth getting out of the car for! About 4 tables and mostly flowers and jars of canned foods. Nothing I wanted to buy. I was planning on buying produce.......some fruit, vegetables and no corn or potatoes. From their fakebook page I thought it was a big farmers market. The day was not a waste though, we found other things to explore.

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First we went to the Cannonsville Reservoir. I have driven by it a million times but never to stop and really look at it. In 1964, five small communities were submerged in water to build it to provide water to NYC. The residents of these communities refer to it as "the taking" but it was actually the truth of the law called the eminent domain ("the right of the government to take private property for public use by virtue of the superior dominion of the sovereign power over all lands within its jurisdiction").

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The five communities destroyed were Granton, Rock Royal, Rock Rift, Beerston and of course, Cannonsville which was the largest.

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I can't even imagine it. Maybe some of the Americans on this forum remember this happening. I was twelve in 1964 and lived in FL so would not have been aware of it.
 
The Taking of Cannonsville
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Satellite image showing the Cannonsville Reservoir. The light blue area indicates original riverbeds. Trout Creek enters from top to join West Branch of Delaware River, Speedwell Mountain is at upper right. Overlay of 1869 map indicates former location of Cannonsville.
 
Meanderer said:
The Taking of Cannonsville
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Satellite image showing the Cannonsville Reservoir. The light blue area indicates original riverbeds. Trout Creek enters from top to join West Branch of Delaware River, Speedwell Mountain is at upper right. Overlay of 1869 map indicates former location of Cannonsville.
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At the bottom is a link to the pictures before, during and after. It is so sad to me. Imagine how it felt watching them destroy your home and neighborhoods on purpose. Now they say that water is not providing all the drinking water to NY and some even said it was stagnant.
 
katlupe said:
At the bottom is a link to the pictures before, during and after. It is so sad to me. Imagine how it felt watching them destroy your home and neighborhoods on purpose. Now they say that water is not providing all the drinking water to NY and some even said it was stagnant.
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They have done this in Utah as well. Destroyed a town a couple decades back and filled it with water.
 
They also do it for street widening. About four years ago, when the market for houses in Utah dropped to rock bottom, the government condemned, hmm, three blocks of houses on a major street in order to widen the street.

Once the houses were empty, swat teams and the fire department, used the houses for training and then tore them down. ☹️
 
Today Sonny is taking me to buy a new phone. Mine has been struggling for some time. I don't use all that garbage they come installed with or try to get me to install anyway. This time I will be careful with what I add to it since I only use it for talking now. I did used it for fakebook when I was going to Sonny's house more often. Now I don't go there so much. He will pick it out for me and set it up, well actually the store employee usually sets it up. So I will see.

Yesterday, I was thinking how so many of my fakebook friends post mainly memes they share from someone else. They don't really write a post very often and if so, only if something profound happens in their life. Like a marriage, new child or grandchild, an illness, a death, etc. Maybe a new car, motorcycle or house. Other than that not much in the way of their life. I guess they want to keep it private or something like that. A few post their own pictures. Many without putting names on who the people in the picture are. Or at least who they are to you.

I normally try to write something about the pictures I put up. Even if it takes research. Then what happens is that someone will contact me to research something for them. I really do not have time to do that. I hate saying no but have to or I'd be doing it all the time. One person has a college degree and her own business but she can't research something she needs. I hate to say put your subject in a search engine and go from there. But that is what I did.
 
MarciKS said:
I mostly use facebook for funny memes to help with my depression and for gaming.
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I get mine from pinterest or the search engines or make my own. Sometimes I will get on a page on fb and just go through their photos. My friends expect me to post good mornings, coffee and good nights every day and I try to find good ones. Most of the time it is better to make my own which I like doing.
 
katlupe said:
I get mine from pinterest or the search engines or make my own. Sometimes I will get on a page on fb and just go through their photos. My friends expect me to post good mornings, coffee and good nights every day and I try to find good ones. Most of the time it is better to make my own which I like doing.
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once in a while i make my own memes
 
Sonny wanted to sleep later this morning so I told him to wait till tomorrow for getting my new phone. I really did not want to go anywhere. He didn't get home till around midnight last night so I knew he would rather sleep a few hours more. He worked at the go-kart race last night. He cannot stand it that my phone is broken........not broke really, just not working right. He can't call me but I can call him. So I told him I can't buy a new phone yet, I just spent money on a new computer. I didn't say that to try to get him to buy one for me but that is what he doing. He goes nuts if he can't talk to me several times a day. LOL

I ended up doing a load of laundry and while it was in the dryer (bedding and towels is the only thing I dry in a dryer), I went to Tops. I knew I would have an hour. Glad I went. It was beautiful outside. People everywhere!
 
Meanderer said:
The Taking of Cannonsville
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Satellite image showing the Cannonsville Reservoir. The light blue area indicates original riverbeds. Trout Creek enters from top to join West Branch of Delaware River, Speedwell Mountain is at upper right. Overlay of 1869 map indicates former location of Cannonsville.
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A very interesting read! I looked at all the pictures and tried to imagine the towns filling up with water.

I remember Lake Wallenpaupack near where my parents were from. it too was man made but I don't think any houses were sacrificed.

Eminent domain was used for the building of Interstate 84 through my hometown. It went through the large central valley. People whose homes were taken were paid far more than their homes were worth.
 
RadishRose said:
A very interesting read! I looked at all the pictures and tried to imagine the towns filling up with water.

I remember Lake Wallenpaupack near where my parents were from. it too was man made but I don't think any houses were sacrificed.

Eminent domain was used for the building of Interstate 84 through my hometown. It went through the large central valley. People whose homes were taken were paid far more than their homes were worth.
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I don't remember any mention of what these people were paid. They had to move over 2000 graves! I am going to see if the library has that book they mentioned.
 
I love it! I was putting Jazzy in the bathroom where I keep it so my door was open. Pretty soon I heard someone talking and Rabbit was hopping around looking toward the open door. My next door neighbor, who I have never gotten to know very well since I moved here 3 years ago, was by the elevator and smiling at Rabbit. She was talking to him!
 
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