The bishop's lawyer came unannounced yesterday with a new Realtor. They did not call as required by law and common courtesy, but I allowed them into my apartment. Then they went into my neighbors apartment when she wasn't there. I told them that we ask 24 hours notice before our apartments are entered and the Realtor guy says "She won't know we were here." Well actually she will because i'm going to tell her. We have done nothing but cooperate with everyone involved in the sale of this house. I hate that we are being disrespected in this way.

It just so happened to be a free day for me and I have been wanting to clean the wood work in the hallway. The stairs are really beautiful, but they were covered in at least 20 years of dust. All the woodwork is original and most of the stairway was left unpainted. What is wrong with people who paint beautiful woodwork or cover it up with nasty carpeting? Murphy's Oil Soap is so great. ((e:libertad) product endorsement) I wish I could give before and after pics, but I don't want to spend the time fussing with photos.

While I was cleaning, I broke something that was very special to me and Steve. It was this statue of an Asian woman that used to be Steve's Grandmother's. When she died it was one of the things I got to keep from her house. It was the worse feeling to have broken the statue and then have to clean up all her pieces. I called Steve right away to tell him. I am saving her head. Right now it is in the big plant from his grandma's house.

It took me hours to clean all the woodwork and I was happy to do it. I felt like I was restoring this old house! You would have thought that the people that live in this house would appreciate the restored stairs, but no. My neighbor just walked passed me while I was cleaning and didn't say a thing and Steve had nothing nice to say either.

No it is the Prudhoe Bay oil transit line.

So I wonder how the shut down of a major Alaskan oil field will affect the gas price contest?

It seems they need to shut down cause they are seeing major corrosion on the pipeline. I wonder if it looks like (e:pmt)'s heating ducts? Here is the article about the closure.

Here is the obituary (e:mike) and I found today at the Historical Society regarding the Dr. who died in my house. His picture was featured and he is rather handsome. Hope to learn more soon. Primary documents are time consuming! The house was probably built about 1890. Lexington was named Butler prior to 1888.

February 25, 1929

Buffalo Evening News

Funeral services for DR. Albert T. Lytle, director and treasurer of the Lafayette General hospital, will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Buffalo Creamatory chapel in West Delavan avenue. Dr. Lytle died of a heart attack Sunday afternoon in his office, 200 Lexington avenue, where several patients were waiting to see him. He was 68.

A graduate of the medical school of the University of Buffalo. Dr. Lytle was a staff physician at the Lafayette hospital. Active in medical circles, he was a member of the American Medical association, the Academy of Medicine, The Roswell Park Medical club, and the Erie County Medical society having served as a treasurer of the latter group for 15 years. He was president of the eighth district branch of the Medical Society of the State of New York for four years.

In addition he was a member of queen City lodge of Masons.

Dr. Lytle is survived by his wife, Alice Hastings Lytle, and one daughter. Helen H. Lytle.

Some of you might not be parents, but you may have nieces, nephews,
grandchildren or friends with children. This will pertain to you too. As I
read the following, my heart sank. I urge each and every one of you to
pass this on to as many people as you can. I cannot stress how important this is! This is very disturbing news.

In addition to the following true story, I will also add that my own sons were playing in the ball pit at Chuckee Cheese one day. One son lost his
watch, and was very upset. We dug and dug in those balls, trying to find
the watch.

nstead, we found vomit, food, feces, and other stuff I do not want to
discuss. I went to the manager and raised hell. Come to find out, the ball
pit is only cleaned out once a month. I have doubts that it is even done
that often. My kids will never play in another&n bsp;ball pit. Now read this:


PRETTY SCARY!!

Please read and be very careful with our childern!!!

Be very careful when taking your kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews, etc.to
the McDonald's Ball Pit play area. Ask the manager when was the last
time they cleaned the play area out. Please read this even if you don't
have children and forward it to everybody you can! This is so sad and so terrible!

Hi. My name is Lauren Archer, my son Kevin& nbsp;and I lived in Midland,TN. On October 2nd, 1999 I took my only son to McDonald's for his 3rd birthday.
After he finished lunch, I allowed him to play in the ball pit. When he started whining later on, I asked him what was wrong, he pointed to the back of his pull-up and simply said "Mommy, it hurts." I couldn't find anything wrong with him at that time. I bathed him when we got home, and
it was at that point when I found a welt on his left butto ck.

Upon investigating, it seemed as if there was something like a splinter
under the welt. I made an appointment to see the doctor the next day, but soon he started vomiting and shaking, then his eyes rolled back into his head. From there, we went to the emergency room. He died later that night. It turned out that the welt on his buttock was the tip of a hypodermic needle that had broken off inside. The autopsy revealed that Kevin had died from a heroine overdose.

The next week, the police removed the balls from the ball pit. There was
rotten food, several hypodermic needles: some full, some used; knives, half-eaten candy, diapers, feces, and the stench of urine.

If a child is not safe in a child's play area then where? You can find
the article on Kevin Archer in the October 10,1999 issue of the Midland
Chronicle.

Please forward this to all loving mothers, fathers and anyone who loves and cares for children!

Don't think it's just McDonald's either or that this is something that
just started. When my oldest son who is now 9 was small the area Burger
King closed their play area for awhile for "remodeling" because in another
town there had been an incident similar to the one described above that happen @ a Burger King A little boy had been playing in a ball pit &
started complaining of his legs hurting. He later died too. He was found ;
to have snake bites all over his legs & buttocks. When they cleaned the
ball pit they found that there was a copperhead nest in the ball pit. He
had suffered numerous bites from a very posinous snake. I wouldn't let my son play in the ball pit after that. I was lucky even though that wasn't
at our Burger King or McDonald's it could have been. I still have my son.

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This is bullshit. How could a baby get stuck w/ a heroine needle and overdose?! Nobody would leave a full heroine needle laying around. They would have shot it up allready. Snakes in the balls? Maybe, but no. Snakes don't make nests in ball pits with little or no food and no way of getting out. The balls may be filthy, but think with your head and not your filthy balls.