Daily Archives: November 6, 2016
Living in Six Shooter Junction . . .
Well, I’m finished up at this gate and off for a couple of days. Todd says I’ll probably be back on another gate by Wednesday.
Actually, it’s going to be nice to be off for a few days, especially since I’ve been on Day shift. Besides having to get up at 5:30 AM, there’s real time to do any shopping. By the time I get home it’s almost 7pm, and by the time we eat supper and I do the blog, it’s pretty much time for bed.
And it would be even worse it I was on a 5am to 5pm shift, which means I would have to be up at 4am. NNNOOOOOOO!
Last week when I dropped off our absentee ballots at the Kenedy PO, I was amazed when I walked in. It was like walking back into the Post Offices of my childhood.
Turns out there’s a reason for this feeling. This Post Office is almost 80 years old. Build in 1937 as a WPA project during the Depression, it’s amazing how good a shape it’s still in.
There’s another building in downtown that has a 1912 date on the lintel, and then there’s this old time service station too.
Not bad for a town that in the early 1900’s was nicknamed “Six Shooter Junction” because of all the gunfighter shootouts that happened in the area.
Tomorrow we’ve got an Amazon package coming, and then the lunch buffet at Barth’s. Monday is Chicken Fried Steak and Chicken Fried Chicken Day, crossing off another day of the week.
Thought for the Day:
Always drink upstream from the herd.
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