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Night Sparrow's Nest
Wednesday July 2, 2008
At times I’m not cheery,
my life can be down right sad.
No mater how hard I try
I find I can’t pull myself up
and out of the despair.
Depression is like being
in a dark hole and
the harder I try to climb out
to the light the more I get
knocked down again.
I keep trying till I get right,
for life is far too short to waste
one single moment.
Some days are better
than others, those are the
days I look forward to.
Good days or bad days,
live life don’t let
life live you.
Have a great 4th of July,
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Monday June 30, 2008
Hocking Hills State Park is in Logan, Ohio and where my husband and I spent a week vacation a few weeks ago. 7 days is not nearly enough time to so see and do all there is to do. There are 9 State Parks in the area plenty of cabins and campgrounds and hiking and more hiking. We were lucky it had rained before and rained while we were on vacation insuring the waterfalls shared there beauty for all to see. We canoed down the Scioto River, it rained upstream and the river was running fast, we hardly had to paddle the canoe at all, it was a beautiful day. Hocking hills is a great place to go with many places to see and much to do, we will be going back next year. I wish we had at least another week to spend there and I’m sure two weeks wouldn’t be enough time to see all there is to see.
Old Man's Cave
Old Man's Cave derives its name from the hermit Richard Rowe who lived in the large recess cave of the gorge. His family moved to the Ohio River Valley around 1796 from the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee to establish a trading post. He and his two dogs traveled through Ohio along the Scioto River in search of game. On one side trip up Salt Creek, he found the Hocking Region. Rowe lived out his life in the area and is buried beneath the ledge of the main recess cave. Earlier residents of the cave were two brothers, Nathaniel and Pat Rayon, who came to the area in 1795. They built a permanent cabin 30 feet north of the cave entrance. Both brothers are buried in or near the cave. Their cabin was later dismantled and relocated on the nearby Iles farm to be used as a tobacco drying house.
Lower_Falls
Whispering falls
Rock House is unique in the Hocking Hills’ region, as it is the only true cave in the park. It is a tunnel-like corridor situated midway up a 150-foot cliff of Blackhand sandstone.
Rock_House
This House of Rock has a ceiling 25 feet high while the main corridor is 200 feet long and 20 to 30 feet wide. The cavern was eroded out of the middle zone of the Blackhand sandstone. The resistant upper zone forms the roof and the lower zone forms the floor. Water leaking through a horizontal joint running parallel to the cliff face caused the hollowing of the corridor. This main joint or crack is very visible in the ceiling of the Rock House. A small series of joints run north to south at right angles to the main joint. Enlargement of this series of joints formed the window-like openings of Rock House.
Inside rock house
Nature has hewn out of this cliff the Rock House complete with seven Gothic-arched windows and great sandstone columns which bear its massive roof. As one might imagine, Rock house was used for shelter by past visitors. Hominy holes, small recesses in the rear wall of Rock House, served as baking ovens for Native Americans using the cave. By building a fire in the small recesses, the rock became heated on all sides, and food could be bakes in this crude manner. Further evidence of past use is the presence of chiseled out troughs or holding tanks found in the stone floor. When rainfall is abundant, springs of water permeate through the porous sandstone and flow into these troughs fashioned by man and, when full, continue across the floor and out of the windows. In this way, residents were able to maintain a small water supply in Rock House. According to local folklore, other not so welcome visitors frequented Rock House. Robbers, horse thieves, murderers and even bootleggers earned Rock House its reputation as Robbers Roost.
Cedar Falls was misnamed by early white settlers who mistook the stately hemlocks for Cedars.
Cedar_Falls
If one were to venture down the Lower Gorge of Old Man’s Cave, you would eventually enter the picturesque valley of Queer Creek. At the point where Old Man’s Creek merges with Queer Creek, the trail takes an abrupt turn east and enters this new valley. The trail leading to Cedar Falls passes through the most austere area in Hocking Hills. This remote, primitive chasm is laden with hemlock and bound by steep rock walls and their accompanying grottos and waterfalls. It is a wild and lonely but spectacularly beautiful place.
Have a great day!
Night Sparrow
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Sunday May 25, 2008
Fighting and trying,
to get through each day.
Trying to work and dealing
with pain made worse by working.
What’s wrong with me?
I’m a good person,
I’m truthful and honest.
You reap what
you sow, or
so I was taught.
Nothing I do is right
these days. Is it me?
I’ve been told I try too hard
and I wear my heart
upon my sleeve.
I was raised to believe
work hard and good things
will come your way.
The rules have changed,
lairs and cheats and lazy
people get ahead in today’s world.
Hard working honest people get
spit in their faces and laughed at
behind their backs.
Is it too much to ask for an
employer to understand,
some people are limited to
what work they can do?
I guess it was! I guess it is!
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Tuesday May 6, 2008
I have been sick with some head cold congestion crud and haven’t been online much.
Most know I work two jobs one as a bus monitor/aide and the other as a pizza delivery driver/cook/cashier.
The children I work with are between the ages of 3 and 5 years old, I enjoy working with children. I think I like working and dealing with children because of their simple honesty, it’s not in them to lie. Don’t get me wrong I have had a few 5-year-olds lie and I will say that I believe lying at such a young age is a learned behavior. The two children that flat out lied to me I believe learned to lie from their parents, please know I don’t say this lightly but I know their parents have lied many times in the past to the bus driver, teacher and myself. Children learn from their parents and usually act like their parents, this is just my simple observation and opinion.
And now to the point I have had a few situations at work delivering pizza’s, one involving a co-worker and two with customers. I would like to know what you think I should have done and what you would have done.
Complaining co-worker
I work with a woman that complains all the time because she doesn’t get to deliver pizza’s, she was offered the job and didn’t want it. This co-worker makes more on the hour than I do but she is jealous because I get tips and some nights my tips are pretty good. One night a week or so ago a customer gave me a $ 2.50 tip then he handed me another 5 bucks and ask I split the 5 bucks with the complaining co-worker. The customer used my co-worker first name, she had taken his order over the phone and he said he had given her a hard time he had been drinking. What would you have done? Also all worker use to get food half priced but because of this co-worker complaining now no employee gets food half off. All employee’s get a free sandwich at the end of their shift except delivery drivers again because of this same co-worker, she says drivers get tips.
Big tipper
Last night I delivered a pizza to a nice fancy new home, the pizza cost including the $3.00 delivery fee (my boss charges for gas and insurance) was $18.49. Long story short this customer gave me 2 twenty-dollar bills and 2 one-dollar bills and said there you go. The customer was going back in his house, when I looked down the money was fanned out with the 2 dollar bills in the middle with a twenty dollar bill on each end.
What would you do? What do you think is the right thing? It’s not unusual for me to get a $15.00 dollar tip and once I got an eighteen-dollar tip but usually when I get big tips it’s on $25.00 to $80.00 dollar food orders. The average tip for where I live and deliver is $3.50 to $ 5 bucks.
Cheap tipper
Sunday I was sent on a delivery that was out of the area we normally deliver to. I thought it was a little too far away from the pizza store, I don’t know who originally told this lady we delivered to her home but supposedly we had delivered pizza to her in the past. The total cost for her order on Sunday was $20.48 including the delivery cost. After driving for almost 20 minute’s I finally pulled into her driveway, the house was a very nice older home. Usually when customers live far out we are the only place that will deliver to them and they tip pretty well. When I told the customer the price she asked if the cost included my tip. I told her no that it included the delivery charge the company charges, then the customer puts two dollar’s back in her pocket and handed me $ 21.00 dollars then she says keep the change and have a nice day. I mumbled thank you while walking away I mean damn, it took about 40 minute’s round trip and she gave me 52 cents and acted like she had done something.
I’m not a rich person as far as money is concerned but we manage to get by, if you are interested in knowing what I did I tell all in my comments.
Have a great week!
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Sunday April 27, 2008
Kroger’s encourages their customers to use reusable shopping bags online with Kroger’s Design a Reusable Shopping Bag Contest. The top 10 designs will be featured on the new Krogers.com, and every Kroger Shopper’s Card holder who enters the contest will get a free Kroger reusable shopping bag. I designed and submitted a bag design (Bag ID #13864), the image below.
Below is a link to the contest site where you can design a bag, see and vote on bag designs you like, and if you like my design you can vote for it. Designing the bag was fun and other people submitted some really neat bag design, you can design a bag using the many designs available on the site or you can use your photos.
http://www.designagreenbag.com/vote-for-designs/bag.aspx?BagId=13864
Sorry the link can only be used one time a day to vote for my bag the only other way to get to the bag I designed is to go into Kroger's contest site and go to page 259 and vote for Bag# 13864.
Enjoy and have a great day!
Night Sparrow
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