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Christmas Countdown 3.0

Posted on December 12, 2020 Updated on May 18, 2024

Another installment of the Gingerbread House submissions. ~Vic

If you’d like to vote:
Homes for the Holidays 2020

Masonic Lodge Gingerbread House Image One — **Youth/Family Category**
12-05-2020
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Masonic Lodge Sign Image Two — 04-30-2019

Masonic Lodge/Eagle Lodge Image Three — **Lot 23**
Site of Edmund Fanning’s House 1762
Eagle Lodge #19 1791
**Masonic Lodge #71 1823**
**Civil War Hospital 1865**
04-30-2020
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Christmas Countdown 2.0

Posted on December 11, 2020 Updated on October 4, 2023

Ah-ha! Now we know why there was so much hoarding. ~Vic

Paper Towel Toilet Paper Tree Image — Purple Crow Books
12-05-2020

Christmas Countdown 1.0

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Snapshots Sunday: Walsenburg

Posted on August 23, 2020 Updated on May 18, 2024

Walsenburg Sign Image One — Photo Credit: Acts & Tracks (Radio Ronin WordPress Site)

As a companion piece to the Fort Sumner post, my ex-Marine and I headed north, still on our way to Liar’s Lodge. We headed into snow and landed in Walsenburg, Colorado, in Huerfano County, a town smaller than the one I am living in and, as of 2019, continues to hemorrhage people from a peak of 5,855 in 1940. We arrived after dark and stopped to eat. There’s not much there, back then or now. ~Vic

New Mexico Mountains Image Two — Driving north on I-25 through New Mexico.
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Mileage Sign Image Three — Las Vegas, New Mexico, by the way…

Driving Into Snow Image Four — The snow showed up.
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Snowy Road Image Five — Continuing north.
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Empty Diner Image Six — This is from December 2008 but,
the diner looks like it’s from 1974.
Alpine Rose Cafe
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Deserted Diner Image Seven — It was open but, deserted.
We had a decent meal.
It’s still there as of 2018.
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Radio Station Image Eight — KSPK
It appears to still be there.
It is the only home of Colorado Rockies Baseball
in Southern Colorado.

Huerfano Courthouse Image Nine — County courthouse and jail all lit up.
The lights in the windows are odd.
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Snowing Image Ten — It started to snow, again,
while I was attempting another picture.

Additional Reading:
Returning to the Place I’d Never Been (Acts & Tracks/radioronin.wordpress.com)
City of Walsenburg (colorado.gov)
Walsenburg (colorado.com)
Walsenburg (Uncover Colorado)

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30-Day Song Challenge: Day 24

Posted on December 24, 2018 Updated on December 27, 2023

Music Challenge Image — Photo Credit: goodreads.com

A song by a band you still wish were together…

Oh, the music we have lost.

Far Too Jones (1995-2000)
This was another band out of Raleigh, nicknamed the Tobacco Road Quintet. They also had one album produced by Mammoth Records and got a lot of local airplay. The only reason this band broke up, as best as I can tell, is because they had no label support. They just couldn’t break out of the region, much like what happened to Echo 7 in Myrtle Beach (whom, I know, personally…I may have to put up some of their music one day).