The Good With the Bad

They're tearing down St. Alphonsus High School in Dearborn. That's important to me because my kids went there, and also having been active in the Parish. I happened to be in the area yesterday and stopped by to take pictures, out of something of a morbid curiosity. We feel sad, yet we have to check certain things out anyway.

But then, as luck would have it, I ran into three old friends whom I hadn't seen in years who just happened to be looking over the half torn down buildings themselves. One in particular, a fellow curler, I had not seen in probably two decades.

I stopped and we all had a nice talk. So perhaps what brought us together was bittersweet, but the catching up was quite good too.

 

Small world dumpster diving

My dumpster arrived yesterday. I have some debris to clear and an old porch to tear down. So I ordered a twenty yard dumpster. But that's another story. Today's story is about how small our world really can be.

The delivery driver was a gregarious fellow, and we enjoyed a relatively brief conversation. It turns out he graduated from the same school as my oldest child, St. Alphonsus in Dearborn, MI. And he's from Naubinway in Michigan's Eastern Upper Peninsula. We have a place there, in Hessel as many of you know. Indeed Hessel and Naubinway are both in Mackinac County.

Small world. I find this all out over a dumpster.