Post a useless fact

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..... or are you saying that hundred year old shit still exists and does not dissolve as quickly as in the south coastal areas.

I know that there are buildings from the late 1600's
around.

My town has a bunch from then it was founded in 1639

[DirtDawg]

..... or are you saying that hundred year old shit still exists and does not dissolve as quickly as in the south coastal areas.

I know that there are buildings from the late 1600's
around.

My town has a bunch from then it was founded in 1639

Check out this thread I found. This is where I grew up, along the Rio Grande River. They call these buildings "old" but they were mostly made just before WWI.

There is one old Spanish Mission, which I can't find a pic of (yet) that still exists in my old stomping grounds, (built some time during pre-French rule of Mexico) but most everything is gone from the time of Texas' independence and before. The town where I went to high school was established in 1889 as a train stop, just inside the border with Mexico. Needless to say there is an incredible history of train robberies, (mostly robbing the payroll of the army patrols ) and Texas Ranger activity during that time. One of the Rangers was my great grandfather and his two brothers were in the cavalry in that area, trying to make it safe for white people to settle. It still took two generations before the so-called law  quit shooting people at random for being Mexican.

I was born about eighteen years after a massive raid, (perpetrated by the Grandfather of the man who was mayor of the town when I was in school) which took the lives of many legal residents, in order to confiscate all the court records and move the county seat a bit farther north, away from the border. That was in 1937. I was born in 1955)

They were still not organized into a decent community in the sixties. This is why there is nothing old. They wouldn't stop burning each other's shit to the ground in order to try things their own way.

[Calandale]

Don't see a link. 

there's nothing old out here.
At all.

Late 1800's is when the earliest real buildings
showed up.

I miss Ft Niagara.

[DirtDawg]

Don't see a link. 

there's nothing old out here.
At all.

Late 1800's is when the earliest real buildings
showed up.

I miss Ft Niagara.

Sorry.
I messed up the link at first then I discovered it it after adding more personal trivia.

[Lemon Aguilera]

i watched Piratess Of The Caribbean, their clothes reminded me of you, Cal.

[DirtDawg]

BTW, only n00bs notice or need signs which warn of rattlesnakes. Rattlesnakes are everywhere.

I've been struck three times, but one never got through my boots and sunk fangs into my skin.

Scorpions are a different story though.

[Callaway]

BTW, only n00bs notice or need signs which warn of rattlesnakes. Rattlesnakes are everywhere.

I've been struck three times, but one never got through my boots and sunk fangs into my skin.

Scorpions are a different story though.

There is only one common poisonous species of snake in Colorado: the western rattlesnake, which is native to the plains, so you won't find a rattlesnake much above 7500 feet elevation here.  I have been lucky, because I used to have a snake phobia.

[Parts]

BTW, only n00bs notice or need signs which warn of rattlesnakes. Rattlesnakes are everywhere.

I've been struck three times, but one never got through my boots and sunk fangs into my skin.

Scorpions are a different story though.

Like the alligator signs in Florida   When I lived there the oldest house in town was from around 1900

[Calandale]

Sorry.
I messed up the link at first then I discovered it it after adding more personal trivia.

thanks.

One of the buildings reminds me
of a VERY old church, in St. Augustine.
I think 'twas 1600's

[Calandale]

Scorpions are a different story though.

Know someone who woke up,
with one in his mouth. 

[DirtDawg]

BTW, only n00bs notice or need signs which warn of rattlesnakes. Rattlesnakes are everywhere.

I've been struck three times, but one never got through my boots and sunk fangs into my skin.

Scorpions are a different story though.

Like the alligator signs in Florida   When I lived there the oldest house in town was from around 1900

Yes, exactly.
The written history is quite recent in many areas of the south.

[DirtDawg]

Scorpions are a different story though.

Know someone who woke up,
with one in his mouth. 

They never did that to me, because their little clicking sounds wake me up as they move. They get in your clothes when you are not looking, though. I have never lost a battle with a scorpion in my pants, but I have mental scars from teh trauma. FUCK!

My cousins used to come to stay with us for several weeks in the summer while their parents went away to work. My poor mom kept all seven of us alive somehow.

My brother and I returned once to live with them after they had been away at our house most of the summer. Their house had become infested with scorpions during their time away. There were hundreds of them in the house when we arrived. Like cockroaches-in every drawer, under the bedclothes, in the bath, fucking everywhere!! I never wanted to stay with them again.

[Calandale]

I think you've given me nightmares.
And I'm awake.

[Parts]

My ex brother in law emptied his M-16 in his sleeping bag in Vietnam thinking there was a snake in it there wasn't

[DirtDawg]

BTW, only n00bs notice or need signs which warn of rattlesnakes. Rattlesnakes are everywhere.

I've been struck three times, but one never got through my boots and sunk fangs into my skin.

Scorpions are a different story though.

There is only one common poisonous species of snake in Colorado: the western rattlesnake, which is native to the plains, so you won't find a rattlesnake much above 7500 feet elevation here.  I have been lucky, because I used to have a snake phobia.

I've never been afraid of snakes, but rattles freak me WAY out!