Real Haunted Houses in America: Part 3

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5 Pittock Mansion

Most haunted houses in the United States bear the spiritual scar of past horrors. But the Pittock Mansion in Portland, Oregon, is a different story. The ghosts there are said to be fairly friendly.  Pittock Mansion was first constructed in 1909 by Henry and Georgiana Pittock. Already elderly, the wealthy Pittocks wanted a home for their retirement. Architect Edward T. Foulke designed them a beauty — a 46-room French Renaissance mansion overlooking the city below.

But by the time Pittock Mansion was completed in 1914, the Pittocks didn’t have much time left to enjoy it. Georgiana died in 1918, and Henry died a year later. In death, however, the Pittocks seemed determined to stay at their mansion. After all, they’d hardly been able to enjoy it in life.

Today, the mansion is a historic site and open to the public. Visitors and workers alike have reported odd experiences that suggest the Pittocks stuck around in the afterlife. Most of these encounters happen in the upper stories of the house, where their bedrooms were located.

There, many people claim to have smelled rose perfume — as if Georgiana is passing through the room. Visitors have also heard footsteps throughout the house and insist that portraits of Henry Pittock sometimes move. One visitor says that she saw a woman in a long dress. And a staff member recalled that one night after she had turned off all the lights and locked the mansion, every light in the house suddenly flared back on.

Visitors have even reported hearing the sound of shoveling and heavy footsteps outside. Some speculate that this is the groundskeeper doing his rounds. Like Henry and Georgiana, he lived and died in Pittock Mansion.  All in all, though, Henry and Georgiana Pittock seem like friendly ghosts. Though they make their presence known, they seem perfectly content to share their beautiful mansion with the public.

6 Franklin Castle

Considered the most haunted house in Ohio, Franklin Castle is a strong contender for the most haunted house in America, too. And for years, its grand turrets and stone façade masked terrible tragedies.

In 1881, German immigrant Hannes Tiedemann built Franklin Castle in Cleveland for himself and his family. However, not long after they moved in, Tiedemann’s teenage daughter died of diabetes. Then his mother died. Soon, three more children died. And finally, Tiedemann’s wife, Louise, died in 1895. Shortly after that, Tiedemann himself left the house.

But this series of tragedies led some to speculate that Tiedemann had more than bad luck. Before long, rumors spread about what had really happened behind Franklin Castle’s ornate walls. The darkest of the rumors claims that Tiedemann hanged his teenage daughter and killed the others. Human bones were even found in the house in 1975, but most believe that the current owner planted them to drum up publicity for ghost tours.

Today, Franklin Castle is home to many purported ghost sightings. People have claimed to see a “girl in white” wandering the halls, allegedly the ghost of Tiedemann’s daughter. Others say they’ve seen Louise Tiedemann staring down at the street from a window. The room where she died is known as the “cold room.”

Franklin Castle is allegedly so haunted that several paranormal teams have visited it to investigate.  “Franklin Castle is unlike any other,” explained Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures investigator Zak Bagans. “You can come here, open the door, walk inside and begin having experiences like that.” He and his team claimed that something pushed them, and they recorded a ghostly voice that muttered: “Feels like… kill you.”

Certainly one of Ohio’s most haunted places, the Franklin Castle may also be one of the most haunted houses in America. Though visitors can only see it from the street, you may still catch a glimpse of Louise Tiedemann from the window.

SOURCE: ALLTHATSINTERESTING.COM

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  1. Morning All!
    we put the second quilt at the bottom of the bed, but didn’t use it. it was great sleeping though…fairly cool in the bedroom–great snuggling weather. I saw the moon last evening before we went to bed, but no stars this morning–must be another cloudy day coming.

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    1. Morning, Pat! Brrrrr…..down to 29 outside this morning! I turned the furnace off overnight since I like it cooler when I sleep anyway and it was COLD this morning! Only 63 inside! I turned it back on when I got up – thankfully, it started up and is putting out some heat but I’m still hearing weird clicks off and on. I just hope it’s not some part that is unavailable these days. Wheezer showed up at some point and ate the tuna but he’s not on the chair this morning.

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  3. TheseTruths
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    Wolf
    October 16, 2024 02:03

    Democrats Bud Lighted Their Entire Brand, And It’s Too Late To Save It

    …For years during the Biden-Harris administration (and even before then), Democrats pandered to left-wing activists and embraced radical ideas, such as sex changes for minors and “anti-racism.” At the same time, they told normal, working men, many of whom would have probably voted Democrat, that they were toxic, privileged, racist, undeserving of attention or doomed to be irrelevant in the woke America of the 21st century.

    Now, less than a month from Election Day, Democrats are scrambling to court the very same voters they have chastised for years.

    The Harris-Walz campaign launched a media blitz over the weekend to target black and rural men and sent the Minnesota governor on a pheasant hunting trip in his home state. Of course, the hunting PR stunt was an embarrassing misfire. Walz was caught on camera whining about shoulder pain from recoil while failing to load and clear his shotgun. The gaffe only underscored the hunt’s artificiality — that it was just optics, that Walz, in reality, has no clue what he is doing when it comes to firearms, that he has no natural appeal for men…

    Kamala Harris is taking a more direct approach. The vice president is pretty much bribing black men by promising them forgivable small business loans based on their race. Not only is it a cynical ploy, but it is also likely illegal. Also, what will white rural men think of this proposal? They get Instagram reels of Tim Walz stalking a Minnesota field for pheasant, but the black man in the city gets a $20,000 loan. Okay, message received.

    All of this will backfire, of course. Democrats should’ve taken a lesson from Bud Light, but they didn’t. You cannot Bud Light your brand for well over a decade and expect to salvage it in just one election cycle. Normal American men are not that stupid. Come Election Day, they will see this for what it is: a fake, cynical, eleventh-hour bid to convince them that what they have seen over the past several years never actually happened.

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  4. TheseTruths(@thesetruths)

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    October 16, 2024 02:13

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    https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/hldliability-liz-cheney-contacted-controversial-j6-witness

    Liability Liz? Text messages raise fresh ethical concerns since Cheney was a DC attorney and local bar rules require approval of defense counsel for any communications with witnesses.

    While vice chairwoman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, former Rep. Liz Cheney used an encrypted phone app to directly and indirectly communicate around defense counsel –and possibly ethical rules — with a witness who would later change her testimony in shocking fashion, according to evidence obtained by congressional investigators and Just the News.

    Cheney’s Signal communications with witness Cassidy Hutchinson on June 6, 2022 and her friend, Alyssa Farah Griffin, were recently obtained by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee that has identified significant problems with the original Democrat-run inquiry into the Jan. 6 incident.

    The communications are now raising fresh concerns about the ethical conduct of that Democrat-run investigation. At the time of the communication, Hutchinson was represented by attorney Stefan Passantino, who told Just the News he did not authorize the contacts with Cheney and was not aware of them until contacted by Just the News. 

    Cheney is a licensed lawyer in Washington D.C. where the DC Bar rules stateunequivocally that “a lawyer shall not communicate or cause another to communicate about the subject of the representation with a person known to be represented by another lawyer in the matter, unless the lawyer has the prior consent of the lawyer representing such other person or is authorized by law or a court order to do so.”

    …Contacted by Just the News, Passantino said he was troubled to learn about the text messages and never authorized Cheney to talk to his client without him present.

    “I absolutely had no knowledge at the time that Congresswoman Liz Cheney was communicating with my client behind my back – either directly, through her staff, or through cutouts,” Passantino told Just the News. “I filed suit against Congress over a year ago on these matters and had absolute confidence in my claims at the time I filed them.

    “I am frankly shocked that the smoking gun documents still exist and have come to light. I am currently examining what additional remedies may be available to me in light of Chairman Loudermilk’s remarkable investigative work,” he added.

    More details at the link. The thing I remember most is the hug that Cheney and Hutchinson exchanged, as if they were best friends who had gone through something together.

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  5. TheseTruths

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    October 16, 2024 02:14

    “NotKennyRogers”

    I think red counties in swing states should refuse to report their vote totals until the blue counties in swing states report their vote totals.

    This way you don’t give them the chance to cheat by knowing how many votes they need.

    For real. Not kidding. What say you, @GOP?

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  6. Troublemaker10
    October 16, 2024 2:17 am

    Good gosh…now Kamala is promising to “pass the multi-trillion dollar reparation bill for all Black Americans” in order to try to get the black vote. She knows it will never pass anyway….

    🔥🚨BREAKING: Kamala Harris announced that she will pass the multi-trillion dollar reparation bill for all Black Americans if she is elected as president in a last attempt to win the Black vote. pic.twitter.com/kkQfBMkuuw

    — Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) October 15, 2024

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  7. Troublemaker10

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    October 16, 2024 2:57 am

    Peter Bernegger
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    Breaking: lawsuit filed in Wisconsin which will expose @actblu and@WellsFargo bank for criminally laundering money into political campaigns.

    Cont (court filing attached)…

    Breaking: lawsuit filed in Wisconsin which will expose @actblue and @WellsFargo bank for criminally laundering money into political campaigns. pic.twitter.com/I0nM7i7gKB

    — Peter Bernegger (@PeterBernegger) October 16, 2024

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    1. Just spit-ballin’ but I’m guessing that eventually, SCOTUS would overturn that but the damage will have been done, I expect….unless they accept it on an expedited basis….??? I never have understood the separation of powers thing….

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      1. each are independent. congress cannot tell the other 2 branches how to do their job and vice versa.
        the president has no authority over whether congress certifies an election. just like he can’t “make them” pass a bill. he can propose one…but they decide what to do with it. he can veto ones he doesn’t like–but they can override that. and SCOTUS gets to decide if it’s compatible with the Constitution.

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  10. what a bunch of jackasses…dems are encouraging other dems to call for tickets to PDJT’s rally in NYC and then either NOT go (so there’s empty seats) or go and be a PITA.

    article

    (OPINION) Democrats are trying to cancel or at the very least spoil President Donald Trump’s upcoming campaign event at Madison Square Garden in New York City, further evidencing their desperation in the final weeks before the election and their hostility toward American freedoms.

    New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, for instance, demanded last week that the arena dishonor its contract and cancel the Oct. 27 event, which he equated to a Nazi rally.

    Hoylman-Sigal failed in depriving his fellow New Yorkers of an opportunity to engage in the democratic process and hear live from their candidate; however, Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway III and other establishmentarians hatched another scheme: implore fellow travelers to register for free tickets to the event.

    The ostensible purpose of this plot is to ensure that fewer people will attend the rally or to maximize the number of agent provocateurs in the crowd.

    On Oct. 9, George Conway tweeted, “Could someone post the sign-up link for TFG’s big event at MSG? I think we should all go. Thx bye.”

    Conway was a one-time contender for possible Justice Department positions in the Trump administration who soured in the shadow of his successful then-wife, Trump’s former senior counselor Kellyanne Conway.

    Deemed a “total loser” by Trump, Conway co-founded the Lincoln Project with a handful of former Republican operatives, including Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt, Reed Galen, and John Weaver, who reportedly had a habit of sexually harassing young men online.

    The Lincoln Project and its leadership has not only churned out pro-Harris content such as the recent “Be a Man, Vote for a Woman” ad and helped set the stage for the attempts on Trump’s life with incendiary rhetoric —

    Wilson, for instance, told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes in 2015 that the donor class will have to “go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump” — but staged a fake white supremacist rally in 2021 to smear then-candidate Glenn Youngkin ahead of the Virginia gubernatorial election.

    The co-founder of the false-flag outfit shared the link to the event on Monday, writing, “Enjoy!” — a message the Lincoln Project, which has spent years whining about supposed threats to democracy and election interference, subsequently amplified.

    Numerous Harris boosters responded, indicating they had signed up to attend or intended to do so in hopes of denying a seat to someone who might sincerely wish to attend.

    Trump critic and self-identified author Nancy Levine Stearns, for instance, boasted in reply to Conway that she had secured two tickets to the event.

    John Sipher, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, was less subtle than others, writing, “Get ’em just in case. The only downside is a few empty seats.”

    Hollywood script-reader Mark Hamill similarly dumbed it down, tweeting, “Who would sign-up, then NOT go? (except everyone who puts country over party),” to which Conway replied, “Honestly I think we should go.”

    Instead of once again recommending a bullet for the presidential candidate shot by a Democratic donor, Rick Wilson sarcastically wrote, “Oh no. This is totally wrong to flood the zone on this. No one should do this.”

    https://endtimeheadlines.org/2024/10/mark-hamill-and-other-unhinged-harris-supporters-join-forces-to-sabotage-upcoming-nyc-trump-rally/

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    1. I hope by the time it starts, they allow people waiting in line to enter in the place of those w/tickets that didn’t show up. I would also expect those who do get in and try to start trouble will be ushered out promptly by Trump supporters and/or security. In any case, no doubt the Trump team is well aware of this.

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  13. Well, alrighty then – so much for the furnace! Won’t come back on again so I’ve got the oven going w/the door open….sigh….and my track lights turned on – they get pretty hot!

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      2. At least I know it’s not a gas line issue – which requires getting into the crawl space – since the oven fired up. Oh…..furnace is trying to start up again – start/stop, start/stop, start/stop, start/stop, start/stop…..something just isn’t firing…..

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          1. That’s what I’m thinking. About 6-7 years ago, I was having issues and he found some excess water somewhere that he had to drain so I’ve got a bucket ready just in case. Oh, it just came on finally…..it should stay on until it reaches the temp that I set of 75 but it isn’t doing that either. It stays on for a while, then just cuts off again. Ah, well….this, too, shall pass!!! Temp is up to 67 inside….

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  14. Winston
    Winston
    October 16, 2024 7:47 am

    President Trump will STOP foreign countries from taking advantage of the United States on trade:

    “Stupid people made these deals. I saw trade deals that were so stupid that you’d have to be an idiot to sign them. And we signed them for years.” pic.twitter.com/YKlULRv2uL

    — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 15, 2024

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    1. Yeah, but here’s the thing – they aren’t idiots (well, ok, some are) – just corrupt! All of those “trade” deals entailed backroom under-the-table “deals.”

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        1. I don’t think so – not with legislation that has been voted on and passed by Congress. But there is also always some kind of exit clause buried in the fine print – no doubt Trump could find something to trigger it.

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            1. I’d think Ric Grenell or maybe Kash Patel would be a good one to peruse those documents. Or Navarro, maybe? Someone with a lot of trade experience…

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  15. NF: In some cases, yes, they were forced to assimilate as more modern civilizations naturally require and – again, in some cases – they were treated abominably but it wasn’t across-the-board and often they invited such treatment with their own savagery and unwillingness to work WITH the new arrivals.

    EXCERPT: “Yesterday was Columbus Day, a holiday in honor of an important man who did something important. However, under Joe Biden’s misrule, it has been rebranded into a travesty called “Indigenous People’s Day.” No one is sure what the day is about. Most Americans ignore it while the left enters into a bacchanalia of America-bashing and virtue signaling.

    I have a great deal of problems with this new commemorative day because I can’t really figure out what we are honoring with that celebration. The contributions made by the aboriginal peoples of North America to American or world culture are exceedingly small. A handful of words — canoe, moccasin, squaw, etc. — have passed into common usage. There are a modest number of burial mounds and some rock glyphs to record their passing.

    None of the American Indian tribes had developed metallurgy or the wheel. Mathematics and even a rudimentary means of writing were unknown for the most part. Warfare was endemic and brutal, and frequently had the objective of genocide. Slavery was part of the culture of most Indian tribes, as was ritualized torture, human sacrifice, and cannibalism.

    In short, I find very little admirable about American Indian culture — the documented variety, not the maudlin, Dances With Wolves fake culture the left imagines existed — and can’t think of any reason Americans, of all ancestries, have to be sorry that it is a thing of the past.

    There is nothing new or particularly notable about the fate of American Indian tribes in their conflict with Europeans that is different from any other primitive culture facing a more advanced one other than the fact that the victors, adhering to Christian values, stopped short of slaughtering or forcibly assimilating the survivors and, in a singular act of charity, allowed them “sovereign status” on reservations where they have their own governments and institutions sustained by federal largess and casinos.

    If you want to be proud of your American Indian heritage, that’s your business and you’re welcome to it, just don’t expect most of the country to agree that you’re owed anything that hasn’t already been paid in full….”

    https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/10/15/opinion-coddling-indigenous-peoples-has-bred-anti-americanism-and-grievance-mongering-n2180624

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  16. RED STATE: “While Congress is officially not in session until after the November 5 election, that doesn’t mean there’s no business getting done on Capitol Hill. On Tuesday, investigators for the House Judiciary Committee heard closed-door testimony from former Fulton County Special Prosecuting Attorney Nathan Wade in a bid for information regarding Wade’s relationship with District Attorney Fani Willis and whether federal tax dollars helped bankroll it. 

    Former Fulton County Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade left Capitol Hill on Tuesday after a marathon four-and-a-half hour grilling by House Judiciary Committee investigators.

    Wade, whose legal team included former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes, said little to reporters before, after and during his closed-door deposition. No lawmakers were seen entering or leaving the room.

    “This is all I’m going to say – we gave our testimony, we cooperated and we are through,” Barnes told reporters after the session.

    …

    The House Judiciary Committee has been seeking information on Wade’s relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is investigating former President Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia. Trump and 18 allies were indicted by a grand jury in August 2023 on charges including racketeering and conspiracy.

    Wade was brought into that investigation by Willis as a special prosecutor, but stepped away after it was revealed he and Willis began a romantic relationship, which has since ended.

    That the testimony actually took place is something of a minor miracle, given the difficulty investigators initially had in locating Wade to serve him with a subpoena and the subsequent interference run by Willis in the form of letters directed to Wade and Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Friday. 

    In late September, we brought you the story of the mysteriously missing Wade. Ultimately, he was tracked down and served by the U.S. Marshals. (This also came after the odd situation in late August where Willis and Wade were caught on camera together at the scene of her daughter’s arrest.) 

    But ahead of Tuesday’s testimony, Willis let it be known — both to Jordan and Wade — that her office was asserting all applicable privileges and instructed Wade “not to answer any questions about his role in the election interference case or about any evidence in that case.” 

    https://x.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1845949426973528464

    To be fair, there may well be applicable privileges that would prohibit Wade from disclosing certain information at this time. (Willis lays them out in her letters — whether her contentions are valid I’ll leave to those better familiar with Georgia law.) We don’t know the extent to which Wade followed said instructions — and clearly, there was some testimony given, as Tuesday’s deposition was described as a “marathon four-and-a-half-hour grilling.” 

    Presumably, at some point, we’ll be privy to the testimony — if the committee releases the transcript and/or if they issue a report on their findings. Until then, we’re left to wonder.” 

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  18. Just The News: “North Carolina GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson on Tuesday announced a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against CNN for a recent report tying him to a series of racist and sexually graphic comments on an online pornography forum. 

    “This is a high-tech lynching on a candidate who has been targeted from day one by folks who disagree with me politically and want to see me destroyed,” Robinson, now the state’s lieutenant governor, said at a press conference Raleigh, according to the New & Observer newspaper. 

    In a suit filed in Wake County Superior Court, Robinson is seeking $50 million in damages, alleging the cable news network intentionally defamed him with the report last month that he called “salacious tabloid lies.” 

    The site to which CNN has tied Robinson is Nude Africa on which he allegedly called himself a “Black NAZI” and said he would buy enslaved people if slavery came back. 

    The suit also names as a defendant Louis Love Money, a North Carolinian who made a music video hinting that Robinson had purchased pornography at his porn shop.”

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  19. “A Year After 10/7: Radical Professors, Programs Were Funded by Federal Grants: Following months of campus upheaval, we examined $283M in foreign studies grants.”

    OpenTheBooks, Oct 16, 2024

    EXCERPT: “Taxpayers fund universities, both public and private, in numerous ways. You already know about the hundreds of billions worth of research grants that flow their way, often outstripping the money they earn on actual tuition. We’ve reported the preferential tax treatment they receive on their massive endowments! And unfortunately, we help them keep tuitions high as President Biden continues forgiving certain people’s student loans — $168.5 billion and counting!

    Agencies and departments across the federal government also spend huge sums of money on grants that are meant to advance our national interests in various ways.

    In the case of the Department of Education, that includes — again — funding universities to support the study of foreign countries and regions around the globe.

    Our public interest in that? It’s meant to help turn out more professionals in foreign policy, foreign aid and national security roles. These would be young professionals qualified to understand regional geopolitics and represent America’s interests.

    Just one little problem….

    At some of the best-funded programs — like at Columbia University — radical professors have been touted on their grant applications and have repeated some of the same anti-Israel, anti-Western views we hear from student protestors.

    THE BIG NUMBER

    Since 2020, the Department of Education has doled out $283 million worth of foreign studies grants, and there are two key types. The first are “National Resource Centers” (NRC) grants — these go directly to departmental programs. The second are called “Foreign Language and Area Studies” (FLAS) grants. Universities can use these to give students fellowships to study these foreign regions and learn less commonly taught languages.

    While the grants can go to studies of any part of the world, we are focusing specifically on the Middle East where Hamas committed the October 7 atrocities, the subject of all this campus unrest. Over $22.1 million has been given to support at least a dozen of these programs since 2020.

    TOP-FUNDED MIDDLE EAST PROGRAMS…..”

    https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/a-year-after-107-radical-professors

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  25. I’m back. banana run took 15 minutes. talking to mom another 30 minutes. driving around animals in the road, hunters trucks in the road, and garbage pick up trucks in town? an eternity…lol

    and oh yeah, the 20 something year old check out girl told me all about her grandfather who had a stroke and an argument she was having with her best friend (some guy restocking shelves) about going to Baltimore with him and leaving her 3 kids with their Dad–as if! LOL

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    1. LOL – she needed someone to talk to! I swear there is a hotline between the gas company service department and my furnace! It has been working perfectly since about 8!!! I swear that somehow that sucker KNEW I’d called for service!!! I’m going to insist he at least give a good look-see!!

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  27. Ok, then….repair man said he can hear the gas valve vibrating when it shouldn’t be so he is ordering the part. I couldn’t hear it but, then, I don’t know what to listen for. Part is coming from IL, should be here Friday so he will be here to install it late afternoon. Yeah!

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  34. “Roman Milestone found in the Artle Beck, Caton in 1803. It was made during the years AD 127-138 when the Emperor Hadrian was in power. It shows that Lancaster is four (Roman) miles away but does not include Lancaster’s Roman name in any recognizable form.”

    “Interesting exhaust ports. There must be an aerodynamic reason they look like that.”

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  36. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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