Views of the Neighborhood – Different Things

~ John W. Howell

Today we are going to go to the neighborhood and look at two different things. We are being catered by Con Todo of Austin. Our entertainment is Patsy Cline.

Menu (click to enlarge if needed)

Picture of an old time school bus

We are ready

This is a mailbox in the neighborhood. This photo was pulled from Google by The Producer. It is what is considered a ‘before’ photo.

Here is the after. Looks like someone got too friendly with VooDoo Rangers.

Here is the interim view. Need to continue to get mail.

Now for the cement block first phase of construction.

The next phase of stucco work is complete.

 

Finished product.

Here is a culvert with brickwork.

Here is a culvert with brickwork of another kind. (Go figure, right?)

I hope you enjoyed the different things. Relax and enjoy the food and music. I hope you have a terrific week.

79 thoughts on “Views of the Neighborhood – Different Things”

  7. The culvert with the red bricks made me wonder if someone either had gone over that edge, or watched someone else put a wheel off the road. It’s actually a rather good idea: the bricks, not inattentive driving.

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    1. I can’t tell you about the bricks but I think you are close to the reason for them. To get stuck in the culvert would not be a good thing.The bricks that are just laying around have been that way for the last three years. The house is also falling apart, so I suspect it is a rental.

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  9. Quite the idea on redoing the mailbox, and a nice finish. I’ve thought about putting a low wall at our driveway culvert, but decided against it because of winter snow conditions. Patsy Cline sounds nice and brings back memories of listening to her in my ’64 Chevy.

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  11. Yup. We used to live just off the highway in Nevada. Our mailbox had to be along the highway. I must have bought a dozen, because kids think it’s funny to drive by with baseball bats and destroy them. My brother and I built new ones with I-beams, 10 inch iron pipe, and built a butterfly valve out of the same quality materials so the mailman could access them. After setting them in four feet of concrete we never had another problem. They’re still there to this day. Those things would stop a snowplow.

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  12. No food today – I am full of lobster. Nice job on redoing the mailbox but it still looks monolithic. Culverts are always ugly – we have a HUGE one next to our property that the construction company finally surrounded with plantings in an attempt to hide it – only partially successful

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  14. My mailbox is still right up the porch steps, outside my front door attached to the house. Several years ago, the city changed it so all new residents had to have their mailbox on the street. You can drive down the street and see who are the newbies and who are the old timers. And I use ‘old-timers’ very loosely…

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  16. What a shame about the messed-up mailboxes! More than a few neighborhoods have had similar problems, usually via vandalism from kids. Those stucco and cement block varieties look pretty sturdy though.

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  19. LOL! This is funny, John!
    😂⧗😂⧗😂⧗😂⧗
    Patsy’s song at the end is perfect.
    Have a fab Sunday, and remember -“Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.” – Charles M. Schulz

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  22. I love Patsy Cline, John. Good choice for these pictures. They did a good job rebuilding the mailbox.

    The menu was a little hard to read, but I think I saw “Beef, bacon and grilled onions?” Oh yeah.

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  27. My dad used to have problems with people knocking over his mailbox with a baseball bat. He finally built something similar to the one above, and it gave me a bit of happiness thinking about that same guy getting a big surprise when he tried it again.

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