"Melissa Wobschall" writes:
> A horse trailor? I guess it's practical but kind of interesting. LOL
> Here's to a peaceful year of neighbors for you!
>
> We met our new neighbors across the way last night. They don't go out and
> blow cigarette smoke into our apartment, for which I am very thankful.
Wow! That's extreme. I'm glad your new neighbors aren't
in to sharing second-hand smoke with you and especially your
children.
> They
> talked with us for a couple of minutes and seem very friendly. It's quite
> the change of last year, tht's for sure. Now we just have to wait for the
> upstairs neighbors to move in. I'm all for cleanliness but I hopr these
> new
> neighbors don't choose 2 in the morning to vacuum. *smile*
Or hope and pray they don't set up a meth lab or
tap dance on their floor-your ceilings. Beverly once had some
girls above her who did the tap-dancing anyway. 1982 was a
little before the meth lab monster took hold around here.
Here are some thoughts about drinking water.
The lion statue at Purdue is probably your basic
ornamental fountain and one would not be very smart to
drink that water. Most decorative fountains recirculate the same
water again and again. If you just did that with ordinary water,
it would get gross and ugly quickly as algae would bloom. To
kill off algae, lots of chlorine is added along with other
chemicals similar to what one finds in a swimming pool to make
the water crystal clear but inhospitable to algae and other air-bourn
life which would love to be fruitful and multiply in water.
It wouldn't kill you by any means, but it would at least smell
like laundry bleach and probably taste terrible.
There has been a nice fountain just South of OSU's
library building for well over 50 years. It is sometimes the
focus of student mischief. More than once, the water has been
spiked with sea marker die of various colors or detergent so
that it overflows a mountain of soap suds all over everywhere.
The maintenance people would love to drown the kids who
put soap and die in there because they have to thoroughly drain
and clean up all the works before refilling it.
When my father was going to school here in the early
1960's, kids were doing exactly the same things so this is
nothing new.
I remember once in the sixties some kids got the bright
idea that the basin of the library fountain sort of looked like
a place one could use to build a fire. The fountain is always
drained in Autumn to keep it from freezing so one night, some
boys got hold of some hay and leaves and ignited it in the empty
basin.
Here's where a relatively harmless prank got serious.
The fountain is actually made of rather expensive marble
imported from Italy, if I recall right. Marble is just a form of
limestone which becomes what it is under heat and pressure. If
you just apply heat without the tons of volcanic pressure, it
reverts back to limestone with the consistency of chalk.
Those guys did thousands of Dollars of damage and the
basin had to be rebuilt.
As for the taste of our drinking water here, we are now
blessed with very good tap water, so it is
perfectly good to drink right out of the faucet. That wasn't always true
in the past.
Our water was not contaminated with anything dangerous
but it came and still partly comes from a lake which heats up in
late August after a Summer of Sun. This causes water on the
bottom containing dead algae to rise to the surface and we get
to drink it. It is a bad river-bottom taste but won't make you
sick.
Today, we get some water from that lake but also get it
from another source which does not have the same problem so the
water now only occasionally gets that taste and it is hardly
anything to complain about especially if you remember how it
used to be until about 10 or 20 years ago.
Until later,
Martin
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