Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old people use to tell stories of "back in good old days". You rarely hear people use that phrase anymore. Now people just say, "do you remember when?"
Back In the Good Old Days
As a kid, I always wanted to be a soldier, a policeman or fireman. We rode stingrays with banana seats. I played tag, hide-n-go seek and kick the can and rode bikes. The only television I watched was The Wonderful World of Disney, Flipper, Daniel Boone, Gilligan's Island, Laugh In and Saturday cartoons. Oh yeah...and Lawrence Welk.
Mom was a housewife, she cleaned our house and raised us kids. That is when she wasn't being a Girl Scout leader, PTA mom or a college student. Mom also fixed most of our meals including breakfast, lunch and dinner most everyday of the week. On most weekends, a bucket of KFC was the fare. McDonald's and pizza was a real treat and generally only when we came to Lexington. Danville didn't have too many fancy places like what we call fast food today.
Sunday around 10 am, we used to call my grandparents in New Mexico, there was a 2 hours time difference all four of us kids got to talk to grandma and grandpa. Those were special times.
As we grew up, times changed and the special things became the norm or were forgotten.
Four kids out of high school and going to college lead to the end of the good old days as I knew it. Fun times, sad times and growing up began for us kids. We will remember, but we will never see the good old days anymore.
Being college-aged was fun, but that meant you had had to buckle down and study or work. Writing term papers, projects, taking tests, trying really hard not to get into trouble. Lots of things to study; US History, Philosophy, Psychology. My photography classes and assignments were the best part of college. Trying to develop my skills and come up with my own artistic impressions, expressed in a visual way.
I did one photography project based on rural central Kentucky. I took some real good photos based on that idea. Another interesting idea that I came upon later in life that I never followed though with, was called The Payphone-Project. It could have linked a lot of rural areas with urban areas by a little black box for the cost of a few nickles, dimes and quarters. At one time there were as many as 2 million pay phones in the United States. That would have made some good photo taking. But, alas, along came the cell phone and made finding those payphones obsolete. But we were making progress...there were computers with huge floppy disks and monochrome computers! But no internet or www. That would come later.
Back to the 21st Century
Technology took over and the futuristic things have become today things. Now we have blue tooth and cell phones, not Dick Tracy talking into his watch or Agent Smart dialing his shoe phone.
Gas guzzlers made way for eco-friendly vehicles as gas prices went from 35 cents to four dollars a gallon. Cable and satellite took the place of UHF/VHF television. Talk radio took over the Americas Top 40. A person can find more on the worldwide web faster than the news can report it. Another new concept I've see is using a credit card to pay for air for your tires...it used to be free.
Some people would say that technology ruined the good old days.
No matter where you are or where you've been, there have been so many changes. Even in Nicholasville, KY.
I thought this area could use another cache so I decided to place a puzzle cache. This may take you a while or it may not. All of the information needed to solve this puzzle will come from this page. Solve the puzzle and get a smiley. You will need to BYOP.
It is rated high because, it isn't particularly easy.
The cache can be found at:
N 37 5A.BCD and W 084 3E.FGH
A= Minut Mrt #82, B=Hardy Gulf Mrt, C=Burger King, D=Hardy Gulf Mrt
E= Hagars Grocery, F=Druthers, G=Convenent Food Mrt 707, H=Courthouse
The cache contains log only and there is no writing utensil, so BYOP.
GOOD LUCK!
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