KaiserSozes-brother

KaiserSozes-brother t1_ja0uskg wrote

Bees “know” there keeper as well.

When I was a boy we had hives on the field road near the alfalfa fields. It was common to walk the path to the point I didn’t think twice about the bees. I had a friend visit, and the bees didn’t like him for some reason and it was messy. I told him to calm down, but it didn’t work. I learned to give a wide brerth from that point forward it the bees didn’t know my guest.

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KaiserSozes-brother t1_iwepe1q wrote

My father had a childhood friend who served in the merchant marine in WW2.

My dad was a little kid 10-14 years old during the war and one of the big boys from the street came home. He didn’t have any of his peers to talk to, they were either working long shifts or away at war and he confided in my dad he was running away. He had seven merchant ships shot out from underneath him and he couldn’t go back to sea. He gave my dad all of his possessions, The toys he was too old for and clothes. This was a big deal with rationing, nobody got anything new.

That was the last my dad ever heard of him… Mexico wasn’t in the war, that was the plan. He said he had done his part!

I hope he made it, seven ships shot out from under him.

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KaiserSozes-brother t1_irihl9o wrote

Great Sand dunes is a beautiful park in a remote area of southern Colorado.

It isn’t a desert as much as wind blown sand dunes. The winds reliability blow from the southwest and then into a mountain dropping their wind collected sand in a pile. I’m sure there is a more scientific answer, but you get the idea.

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