Hampden, Hicks in the Sticks

[xoxoxoBruce]

Load of wood headed for the kilns...



The hotel did a good business because it was on one of the main routes from Philly to Boston via NYC.
Then at the behest of the King, Ben Franklin established three "post roads" that were marked off with mile posts to charge for
mail transport. The northernmost route was through town but Ben moved it 20 miles further north which killed much of the traffic.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Someone sent me a further explanation of the cattle drives through town.
Plus a story I hadn't heard about Badass Aunt Dot, her sister, a friend Polly, and my Uncle Chet, riding 4 horses down from Vermont.

Google says 80.2 miles but that's on roads that didn't exist then.

[xoxoxoBruce]

1965 Memorial Day parade, and there's Badass Aunt Dot driving a couple of her ponies.
Raising and breeding ponies were a hobby of hers for as long as I can remember.

[Griff]

The Mrs of one of my bike riding buddies drives ponies. It's been very good for my garden.

[xoxoxoBruce]

They had a forest fire and it was a stinker because of no vehicle access and it was burning what they call underground mostly,
which isn't actually underground but under the detritus built up on the forest floor.
Finally after three days the got a national guard helicopter to drop enough water to kill it.
The drone videos aren't like the fires out west very little smoke and flames, just crawling uphill.

Anyway I was alerted to this so I went searching and found this gem on the fire departments site.


$7250, 30 lb, washer.
Is there a state or federal office of official names and phrases for anything bought with tax dollars.
I guess it would be next to the department of silly walks.