"Letters to Miss Emily..."

[backhoe]

I took a little street view stroll around that neighborhood you mentioned. That's a pretty nice area. I see it ends at a private gate before the waterfront.

Which one would that be? We have a lot of waterfront here- the Port is a block away from my house. For fun use google earth for 4101 Riverside Drive and 115 Buckingham Place, Brunswick, and 102 Hamilton Street, Saint Simons ( correct ) Island.

[RedDog]

Maybe The King & Prince Beach & Golf Resort just past Downing (although I don't see a golf course) or maybe a condo development on the north or is that all one and the same development? I took a street view walk and ran right into that gate heading to the ocean. I felt like Treyvon Martin on a Skittles run.

[backhoe]

Maybe The King & Prince Beach & Golf Resort just past Downing (although I don't see a golf course) or maybe a condo development on the north or is that all one and the same development? I took a street view walk and ran right into that gate heading to the ocean. I felt like Treyvon Martin on a Skittles run.

Ah! When I lived there you could walk right up to the King & Prince & it had a Navy-era quonset hut at the south side of the property. I guess it's snootier now. That's one of those differences I have with current "Islanders." My era was like Key West was 40-50 years ago- everything from millionaires in jeans to poor black & white folks to drug smugglers. It's gotten a bit high-toned for my old mongrelish tastes. However, for MaryAnn I'm willing to hold my nose and tongue over these new developments.

For what it's worth that "skittles & iced tea" story sounds like a dope run to me- I don't believe the official spin for a minute.
The Left always lies to advance The Narrative and bolster their pet causes.

One is weaken or dismantle concealed carry & stand your ground laws- we can't have citizens defending themselves. They are supposed to be dependent on the State. The other is to fire up the puppy eater's black base and perhaps start a few riots, or black on white brutality. All according to plan.

[backhoe]

I'll skip the blow by blow account of my two trips out and just give you another, brief, drive-by economic report:

I'm seeing more & more houses completely boarded up- like is usually done with fire. Or arson. Knight Saw Company's old building is up for auction- selling to the walls, apparently. Meanwhile the city is squandering tax money putting those new, "hurricane-proof" metal roofs on public housing. Yes, we pay for that, too. "It's so easy to spend somebody else's money..."

The Recoveryless Recovery proceeds apace. "Who is in charge of the clattering train?"

[RedDog]

I'll skip the blow by blow account of my two trips out and just give you another, brief, drive-by economic report:

I'm seeing more & more houses completely boarded up- like is usually done with fire. Or arson. Knight Saw Company's old building is up for auction- selling to the walls, apparently. Meanwhile the city is squandering tax money putting those new, "hurricane-proof" metal roofs on public housing. Yes, we pay for that, too. "It's so easy to spend somebody else's money..."

The Recoveryless Recovery proceeds apace. "Who is in charge of the clattering train?"

That sounds like the federal programs up here - re-angling exit ramps on overpasses that have existed as they were for decades. Millions and millions of dollars that have only confused locals. There's a new one at Lacombe that now merges in nearly a mile past an overpass from the middle of a farm field where you least expect people to be merging in from. They had to have expropriated farm land for that as well. Madness.

[backhoe]

I'll skip the blow by blow account of my two trips out and just give you another, brief, drive-by economic report:

I'm seeing more & more houses completely boarded up- like is usually done with fire. Or arson. Knight Saw Company's old building is up for auction- selling to the walls, apparently. Meanwhile the city is squandering tax money putting those new, "hurricane-proof" metal roofs on public housing. Yes, we pay for that, too. "It's so easy to spend somebody else's money..."

The Recoveryless Recovery proceeds apace. "Who is in charge of the clattering train?"

That sounds like the federal programs up here - re-angling exit ramps on overpasses that have existed as they were for decades. Millions and millions of dollars that have only confused locals. There's a new one at Lacombe that now merges in nearly a mile past an overpass from the middle of a farm field where you least expect people to be merging in from. They had to have expropriated farm land for that as well. Madness.

"Gooberments" never lack excuses to "spend other people's money..." A few pages back I noted that Brunswick High School- where Emily went to school- had been torn down-- they are going to build a new one with some of that SPLOST money they have extorted from us over the last decade.

Yesterday driving down Norwich Street I passed the location of an old brick elementary school- son of a gun, the City or county had razed it- nothing left but an empty lot...

Meanwhile, we have this new State Senator doing this:

Announcement of Town Hall Meetings

Glynn County Town Hall
with Sen. William Ligon,
Rep. Roger Lane, and Rep. Alex Atwood
Tuesday, April 24, 6:30-7:30 PM
Downtown Brunswick � Old City Hall
1229 Newcastle Street
(at the corner of Mansfield)
For information call 242-2434

McIntosh County Town Hall
with Sen. William Ligon
Tuesday, May 1, 5:30-6:30 PM
Darien - Preferred Outlets at Exit 49, off I-95
1111 Magnolia Bluff Way, NW, Suite 205
For information call 437-6684
Sponsored by the Darien-McIntosh Chamber of Commerce

Camden County Town Hall
with Sen. William Ligon and Rep. Jason Spencer
Thursday, May 3, 6:30-7:30 PM
Kingsland - Camden County Recreation Center
1050 Wildcat Drive
For directions call 729-5600

Brantley County Town Hall
with Sen. William Ligon
Monday, May 7, 6:30-7:30 PM
Nahunta - County Commission Meeting Room
33 Allen Road
For information call Commissioner Ron Ham at 778-3735


Sen. William Ligon serves as Senate Deputy Whip. He represents the 3rd Senate District which includes Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Glynn, and McIntosh counties. He can be reached at his office in Brunswick at (912) 261-2263 or by email at William@senatorligon.com. His website is http://www.senatorligon.com.


Senator William Ligon
Georgia State Senate, District 3
323-B Coverdell LOB
18 Capitol Square
Atlanta, GA 30334
(404) 656-0045
(912) 261-2263


http://WWW.SENATORLIGON.COM
william@senatorligon.com



Sen. William Ligon
158 Scranton Connector
Brunswick Georgia 31525
United States

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That's all real nice, isn't it? Makes him sound like he is really interested in hearing from the people he represents...

Funny, I wrote him 2 letters- one email, one snail mail- asking him "how come my gas ( heating ) bill has doubled?"

Never got so much as a postcard back.

I guess he's too busy attending all these "town hall" meetings & pretending to listen to people to address my concerns- like "how am I supposed to pay my gas bill," and "why is over half my bill not for gas, but for taxes & fees?"

The reason us "Tea Party Types" got together & got organized back around 2009 was our "representatives" quit listening to the people who placed them in office and became a part of the "go along to get along" crew in the State & Federal capitols.

Short of tumbrels & guillotines, I don't know what the answer is other than "keep voting against the bastards until you get a better crew of thieves in office..."

[backhoe]

I never could get a zip file from photobucket- I even tried installing Chrome and that didn't do it, either. I will say Chrome is not only fast, it will import all your bookmarks & cookies so you don't have to go through the hassles you have with that in firefox.

So I manually downloaded over 420 picture files that I added since the last zip file of October, 2010. Talk about a whipsaw of emotions, seeing one by one the visual timeline of "life without Miss Emily..."

Or "since you've been gone..." or maybe "goodbye to all that."

I'm finishing a double backup and when that's done will go shopping, get some SD flash drive cards for copy & transfers of those pictures, get some universal PVC cement for MaryAnn's well situation, and so on.

It's another glorious day. Another day in Paradise. A might fine day to be alive and a good day to die.

[backhoe]

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"Heads on Pikes!"
Oddly enough, back when I used to write letters to the Editors in the local Rag- The Brunswick Snooze- the comment I made that got the most favorable replies was this one:
"March all the Commissioners to the beach at dawn...
Cut their heads off...
Mount their heads on pikes at the foot of the Causeway...
And tell the next batch of "public servants"
'If you don't do any better, this is what will happen to you...'"
That was 20 years ago- people are far more fed up with the BS from Gooberment than the idiots in the Make Believe Media realize. America is sitting on a powder keg of resentment over all the freedoms we have lost.
Whether it's property taxes or sales taxes or red light cameras, it won't take much more to light it off.

I meant every word of it then, and I still mean it now- the fools who lord their authority over us ( And their enablers in the Mother effin' Media... ) have forgotten "one leetle thing..."

They do so with our consent.
When we quit consenting?
All bets are off.

There's more of us than there are of you. You have to sleep, sometime...

[backhoe]

A few more "faded photographs?"

This was the picture on Animal Control's website that sold Miss Emily on adopting Cole-Boy:



Us, at the beginning of a new life together:



and her, near the end of her life:



Here, Emily comes home from work and old Taffy-girl checks her out:



My house at 300 Arnold Road- yes, the paddy wagon was my truck back then:



Here's Emily at the register of her store, The Cat's Cradle, downtown:



The entrance to the house I grew up in:



The bulkhead after hurricane Dora hit it in 1964:

[Edward Kennedy]

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"Heads on Pikes!"
Oddly enough, back when I used to write letters to the Editors in the local Rag- The Brunswick Snooze- the comment I made that got the most favorable replies was this one:
"March all the Commissioners to the beach at dawn...
Cut their heads off...
Mount their heads on pikes at the foot of the Causeway...
And tell the next batch of "public servants"
'If you don't do any better, this is what will happen to you...'"
That was 20 years ago- people are far more fed up with the BS from Gooberment than the idiots in the Make Believe Media realize. America is sitting on a powder keg of resentment over all the freedoms we have lost.
Whether it's property taxes or sales taxes or red light cameras, it won't take much more to light it off.

I meant every word of it then, and I still mean it now- the fools who lord their authority over us ( And their enablers in the Mother effin' Media... ) have forgotten "one leetle thing..."

They do so with our consent.
When we quit consenting?
All bets are off.

There's more of us than there are of you. You have to sleep, sometime...

This is one of the best and most succinct take I have read on the state of affairs.

The damned system though has been emasculating the last generation and transforming them into guilt ridden, binky bopping wimps entitled to their entitlements.

At the same time politically correct miscreants have been establishing themselves into positions where they are transforming those who "serve and protect" into the servers and protectors of criminals in the system. That is more true in canuckistan where we had treasonous lying lieberals through c-68 try to ban firearms, and the ones who carried the ball were the rcmp who acted like commie dictators and started to arbitrarily ban and steal provate property of firearm owners.

We have Caledonia where those who serve and protect do so with criminals. All the while, the cowards of the system, in this case, mcsquinty, order the police to do what they are doing which is anathema to what is right. The spin off is that the grass roots people are now starting to hate the police, who they at one time respected and supported.

The villains behind it all are the nameles and faceless wonders in the system ordering htis corruption and these are the malignant cowards and workers of iniquity who should be tarred and feathered.

The police powers that be, instead of being true to their oaths, become the willing pawns of system criminals and in the case of the police chiefs associations, the members fall all over themselves to be the first to pull down the pants of their political masters and kiss their hairy asses.

There is trouble brewing under the smooth surface of society and I am one of the more vociferous voices of anger in the injustices that are occuring against the whole of society.

I have often said thta good men shot better people than the hrc intolerant bigots but thta is also true of many bureaucrats, politicians, academics, msm whores and even ministers who have and do become liars and workers of iniquity by their embrace of political correctness, apostasy and lieberation theology.

Many see the enemies of freedom in the ranks of the above and despise the sytem as it is.

All is not as it meets the eye and the question is how much longer will such vile scum be tolerated?

[backhoe]

Thanks, Edward- people are groaning under "the system." It's corrupt, inbred, and nepotistic. This didn't matter so much much when everyone was making money, but I am not kidding about "the only thing we need to complete the picture of desolation in my city is tumbleweeds in the empty parking lots." This has been going on for four GD years- and there is no relief in sight.

We- the voters- just voted down another tax increase-- and what do I see in the last paper I saw? They- the Kommissars- are going to hike them anyway.

No doubt they feel secure in that "government safety complex" they built at the old Naval air station, with our tax money- it's so secure you- the taxpayer- can't get into it.

But I have news for them- they have to buy gas & groceries just like the rest of us peons. And then? That safety complex isn't going to do them any good at all...

[Edward Kennedy]

Thanks, Edward- people are groaning under "the system." It's corrupt, inbred, and nepotistic. This didn't matter so much much when everyone was making money, but I am not kidding about "the only thing we need to complete the picture of desolation in my city is tumbleweeds in the empty parking lots." This has been going on for four GD years- and there is no relief in sight.

We- the voters- just voted down another tax increase-- and what do I see in the last paper I saw? They- the Kommissars- are going to hike them anyway.

No doubt they feel secure in that "government safety complex" they built at the old Naval air station, with our tax money- it's so secure you- the taxpayer- can't get into it.

But I have news for them- they have to buy gas & groceries just like the rest of us peons. And then? That safety complex isn't going to do them any good at all...

In some areas of the US I have travelled recently it makes me sad to see places such as yours becoming like ghost towms. SHopping centers closing, businesses for sale, store windows papered over from the inside...depressing.

[backhoe]

In some areas of the US I have traveled recently it makes me sad to see places such as yours becoming like ghost towns. Shopping centers closing, businesses for sale, store windows papered over from the inside...depressing.

It wasn't this bad under Wee Jimmy Carter- he of the gas lines and 23 1/2 percent interest rates and Cubans in Angola fame- at least people could usually find work.

[backhoe]

An email came in from MaryAnn while we were preparing to leave, postponing out meetup at her house a half and hour and asking me to re-flag the parking lot at the old office. Since I had time and was about out of surveyor's flag I went to Lowe's and got much wider “danger!” tape, made a couple of better stanchions to hold it better and then we drove the truck Islandward.

When we got to the office there was a black SUV and a white Japanese sedan parked in the back with four guys milling around them. I went over and identified myself as the owner's Runner. One of them cryptically said “We'll be outta here in 5 minutes.” They were wearing FLETC shirts so they may have been running surveillance training like they do. In any event they weren't doing anything I could see that was harmful so I marked off the entrance & exit and we went to MaryAnn's place.

After I gave her flowers & lighters & an SD card with over 400 ebooks in it we moved heavy things around- a rug, a porthole mirror and that huge picture of the Oglethorpe Hotel. Talked about houses & spouses, cats & dogs. She gave me a short sword and a nice picture of my old house on the beach. A sign to set in the drive-through at her old office when we went home.

When we went out on the porch to catch the cool sea breeze Cole did everything but climb in her lap- I do believe he's adopting her, and that's for the good. I expect him to protect her like he did his inconveniently dead “Missy.” We headed back to town after setting the sign in place- it would have made the trip more efficient to shop on the way home but The Kid was hot so I did not want to leave him in the truck with the AC shut off- so we went straight home.

Tomorrow we'll rendezvous at the old office at 9:30 & take it from there.

-30-

[backhoe]

Well, that was gut-wrenching-- Mac from the Squeaky Wheel emailed me that those tapes of Emily's had arrived OK and sent a sample as an attachment.

He noted the instrumental overwhelmed her voice and even fiddling with the equalizer I could not bring it through enough to make her out clearly. But that voice... the little I could hear of her sweet clear voice?

Worlds. Dead, dead worlds, so many gifts and so much talent gone in a lost heartbeat.

Maybe she mixed that one song down poorly. Or maybe he needs the Ross 4-track she made it on to get a clearer copy.
Or maybe her voice and her music are lost to me and to the ages.

And maybe that is how it is supposed to be.

You weren't supposed to die so young and so fast Miss Emily- we were not given a chance for The Long Goodbye.