Drive thru funeral home??? How does that work???
Drive in,
Drop off dead uncle Charlie.
Quick cremation,
Drive out.
All done
Home in time to watch the football
There's a funeral home not far from where I work. Hopefully I can get a photo of it tomorrow lunch time before anyone beats me to it
Here is one of our local Funeral Homes. I was having a super busy super stressed out day at work today so it was relaxing to go for a nice ride to look for tags.
Next Tag (one step before the funeral home) Your scooter at an Aged Care Facility/Old Folks Home
I've never seen that before, a "Hydrant Booster". as a FF, just curious how that operates, if it works as a fire pump for the complex or a pumping station for the local water grid.
BootScootin'FireFighter wrote:I've never seen that before, a "Hydrant Booster". as a FF, just curious how that operates, if it works as a fire pump for the complex or a pumping station for the local water grid.
Unfortunately I have absolutely no idea how it works or if it's just for the old folks home or for the whole hydrant system. I've never taken any notice if there's more of them around town. I'll keep an eye out for more
I haven't updated the list in a while, so here it is. If you see any errors or omissions, please let me know.
<table border="1"><tr><td>2008</td><td>=====</td></tr><tr><td>WoBoScoot</td><td>Monument/Statue</td></tr><tr><td>7eregrine</td><td>School Bus</td></tr><tr><td>BoneGirl</td><td>Wall Mural</td></tr><tr><td>Syd</td><td>Abandoned, Burned Out or Decayed Building</td></tr><tr><td>BoneGirl</td><td>Covered Bridge (done twice)</td></tr><tr><td>Syd</td><td>Waterfall</td></tr><tr><td>BoneGirl</td><td>Amusement Park</td></tr><tr><td>etak</td><td>Hot Dog Joint</td></tr><tr><td>Syd</td><td>Old Trailer-Style Diner</td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td>2009</td><td>=====</td></tr><tr><td>BoneGirl</td><td>Brewery</td></tr><tr><td>etak</td><td>Vintage Clothing Store</td></tr><tr><td>Syd</td><td>Vintage Music Store</td></tr><tr><td>etak</td><td>Home Under Construction</td></tr><tr><td>Syd</td><td>Church</td></tr><tr><td>etak</td><td>Comic Book/Trading Card Store</td></tr><tr><td>Cheshire</td><td>Local Quirky Hangout</td></tr><tr><td>KRUSTYburger</td><td>Funny Sign Selling something Weird or Has Something to do with Corn</td></tr><tr><td>etak</td><td>Botanical Garden/Arboretum</td></tr><tr><td>Syd</td><td>Zoo</td></tr><tr><td>Lagerhead</td><td>Airplane</td></tr><tr><td>BoneGirl</td><td>Ice Cream Bar/Dairy Bar/Whippy Dip</td></tr><tr><td>OScoot!</td><td>Roller Rink or Skating</td></tr><tr><td>gr8dog</td><td>Lighthouse</td></tr><tr><td>KRUSTYburger</td><td>Chickens or other Barnyard Animals</td></tr><tr><td>BoneGirl</td><td>Overhead Train Track</td></tr><tr><td>gr8dog</td><td>Boat Launch</td></tr><tr><td>OScoot!</td><td>Green Field</td></tr><tr><td>bluebuddygirl</td><td>Farmer’s Market/Vegetable Stand</td></tr><tr><td>OScoot!</td><td>Flowers or Shrubs of the same color as your ride</td></tr><tr><td>BoneGirl</td><td>Water Tower</td></tr><tr><td>gr8dog</td><td>End of the Road</td></tr><tr><td>UnionZac</td><td>Music Venue</td></tr><tr><td>gr8dog</td><td>Decorative Structure (no fountain)</td></tr><tr><td>Syd</td><td>Public Sculpture (no fountain)</td></tr><tr><td>BoneGirl</td><td>Baseball Field (non-professional only)</td></tr><tr><td>bluefox</td><td>Farm Equipment or Machinery</td></tr><tr><td>BoneGirl</td><td>Riding Stable/Horse Boarding/Horse Riding</td></tr><tr><td>etak</td><td>Barbed Wire</td></tr><tr><td>gr8dog</td><td>Hay</td></tr><tr><td>OScoot!</td><td>Outside Dining Establishment</td></tr><tr><td>UnionZac</td><td>Local Coffee Shop</td></tr><tr><td>OScoot!</td><td>Train passing by scooter</td></tr><tr><td>BoneGirl</td><td>Trailer Park</td></tr><tr><td>UnionZac</td><td>Industrial Setting</td></tr><tr><td>gr8dog</td><td>Downtown</td></tr><tr><td>BoneGirl</td><td>Port-o-Let</td></tr><tr><td>basmith42</td><td>Lemonade Stand</td></tr><tr><td>BoneGirl</td><td>Food Chain mascot</td></tr><tr><td>Syd</td><td>Power Plant/Distribution Plant/Substation</td></tr><tr><td>KRUSTYburger</td><td>Tree Tunnel/Tree Canopy over street</td></tr><tr><td>NewbieMichelle</td><td>covered bridge</td></tr><tr><td>SarahJ2001</td><td>Smoke Stack</td></tr><tr><td>gr8dog</td><td>Drive-In Restaurant</td></tr><tr><td>UnionZac</td><td>Two Roads Diverged into a (green) Wood</td></tr><tr><td>gr8dog</td><td>Marina</td></tr><tr><td>KRUSTYburger</td><td>Your scooter with another unknown scooter parked somewhere</td></tr><tr><td>SarahJ2001</td><td>Roller Coaster</td></tr><tr><td>etak</td><td>President’s Tomb</td></tr><tr><td>UnionZac</td><td>Buffalo</td></tr><tr><td>NickieMcNichols</td><td>Something scaled much larger than lifesize (a literal cornucopia of fruit, infact)</td></tr><tr><td>UnionZac</td><td>Vineyard</td></tr><tr><td>pdxrita</td><td>Giant insect</td></tr><tr><td>polianarchy</td><td>Another SCOOTER of the same color that is NOT a Buddy</td></tr><tr><td>UnionZac</td><td>Tire pile</td></tr><tr><td>NickieMcNichols</td><td>Rainbow flag</td></tr><tr><td>BoneGirl</td><td>The Nativity</td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td>2010</td><td>=====</td></tr><tr><td>Syd</td><td>The word museum</td></tr><tr><td>BoneGirl</td><td>Nature Preserve or Nature Center</td></tr><tr><td>NickieMcNichols</td><td>Biker bar</td></tr><tr><td>Cheshire</td><td>Big Hole (construction equip preferred)</td></tr><tr><td>NickieMcNichols</td><td>Feed Store</td></tr><tr><td>xteraco</td><td>Filing Cabinet</td></tr><tr><td>UnionZac</td><td>Historic Mansion</td></tr><tr><td>gr8dog</td><td>Scooter under a bridge</td></tr><tr><td>Syd</td><td>Donation Bin</td></tr><tr><td>bpatrick5</td><td>Plane in flight</td></tr><tr><td>xteraco</td><td>Junk food</td></tr><tr><td>BoneGirl</td><td>Dragstrip/Raceway</td></tr><tr><td>Syd</td><td>Fountain</td></tr><tr><td>Tony McGurk</td><td>Butcher's Shop</td></tr><tr><td>BootScootin'FireFighter</td><td>Jail</td></tr><tr><td>Tony McGurk</td><td>TV Station</td></tr><tr><td>BoneGirl</td><td>Clock Tower</td></tr><tr><td>Tony McGurk</td><td>Airport Control Tower</td></tr><tr><td>BootScootin'FireFighter</td><td>City Skyline</td></tr><tr><td>Tony McGurk</td><td>Brewery</td></tr><tr><td>BoneGirl</td><td>Road Closed Sign</td></tr><tr><td>ScootLemont</td><td>Flag</td></tr><tr><td>BoneGirl</td><td>Funeral Home</td></tr><tr><td>Tony McGurk</td><td>Old Folks Home</td></tr><tr><td>ScootLemont</td><td>Cemetary</td></tr><tr><td>=====</td><td>=====</td></tr></table>
Syd wrote:Geez, this is getting a little dark, doncha think?
What are we going to have next, a pile of worms? Or ashes?
Drats, I had a bucket of ashes from cleaning the fire out on the weekend too. Unfortunately they went in the garbage for Monday night's collection. I shoulda got a photo first
I thought about taking the alternative to burial and posting a tag of my scooter with ashes/urn, using my first dog's tin can. But I decided to go another way.
So, here's the Guadalupe Cemetary - a nice old, desert cemetary:
The new tag starts the cycle anew. Your scooter at a fertility clinic:
good luck with that tag. I've google earthed the closest clinics and none of them have such vibrant advertisement. Unless I can get my scooter into the elevator lobby by the directory, this could be a real long search.
LUNCH TIME? No wonder you are so quick with these, It's like 10:30 at night right now here! As far as fertility clinics go, I couldn't find any locally...
There are a couple within 10 miles of me but I am not sure what the signage is out front - I will have to check them out.
I do like the "theme" this has taken..... ads a new dimension to it.
ScootLemont wrote:Syd
whats the temp in Tempe these days?
93 here today with 88% Humidity & feels HOT
93 and 88%? Shudder's not the right word, but you know what I mean.
According to the Tempe Town Lake Weather Station, the high today was 103 and the current humidity is 12% (but humidity tends to increase as evening progresses). Gotta tell you though, I rode about 20 miles this afternoon after work, and it was hot.
KRUSTYburger wrote:LUNCH TIME? No wonder you are so quick with these, It's like 10:30 at night right now here! As far as fertility clinics go, I couldn't find any locally...
It's the middle of winter here so it's starting to get dark by the time I finish work so I go tag hunting in my lunch hour. So when it's 10:30PM in the USA, I'm already out hunting the next day at lunch time. So I'm kinda in the future... Cool
ScootLemont wrote:Syd
whats the temp in Tempe these days?
93 here today with 88% Humidity & feels HOT
112 in Scottsdale yesterday. Working up to 111 today. But, they claim that monsoons are coming this weekend (finally!!). That'll bite into evening rides.
Doh!!! I just got home with a photo of an IVF clinic & Howard beat me to it
Congratulations Howard on your 1st WWST post. Well done
OK off to find a Humane Society...
I stopped at the gate on the way out to photograph the 120kph (75mph) speed limit into the RSPCA grounds. The sign below it says to drive carefully & beware of people walking dogs.
I'm not allowed to go that fast on my Learners Licence
Pensacola's got the BEST mini golf! You can't even see half of all the awesome sculptures!
For the next tag how about a Bait & Tackle? The only catch is it has to have a big sea creature visible in the pic (could be a mural or sculpture or sign).
Mine is kind of hard to see since it's on the other side of the building, but there's a shark on the right side of the photo above the sign.
Ha! Actually the holes on that course go all the way back past where you can see the batting cage. It's separated into 2 courses cuz it takes so long to do both.
For the new tag I suppose I should be a little more inclusive and make it a fishing OR hunting supply shop with either a sea creature out front or other commonly hunted land animals. If nobody finds one in 3 days then you can post any fishing/hunting shop. Okee dokee?
That one's not as easy as it may seem. I haven't seen a phone box in years. The exception being two of them that I saw in an antique store in northern AZ a while back.
Cell phones kind of put an end to them around here.
Howard
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What Howard said. There used to be a booth in the middle of the Mojave desert, but I understand even that one is gone now.
Equally hard is to find an open air kiosk that is not attached to a building, or nearly so. They get vandalized so much, it's not worth it for providers to put them out in the open. But I remember seeing one while looking for another Hunt (or Tag) photo. Wish I could remember where.
Howardr wrote:That one's not as easy as it may seem. I haven't seen a phone box in years. The exception being two of them that I saw in an antique store in northern AZ a while back.
Cell phones kind of put an end to them around here.
Howard
Hmmm... They're still everywhere here in Australia. If no-one has found one by the end of the weekend I will re-post a new tag
Remember what I posted earlier? Well, never mind. I asked some coworkers if they knew where I could find a phonebooth and one said: "Right next door to Schlotzky's." The same place I've been to dozens of times. Go figure.
Now I'm hungry, so the next tag is a Donut Shop. Not just any donut shop though, no Dunkin', no Krispy Kreme, no (inter)national chains, just your local independent purveyor of deep-fried deliciousness. (Smaller chains are Ok too. Who knows I may be in your area some day?)
Ugh Syd! I had a real American phone box that I was going to snag today...grrr. And in Rhode Island, Dunkin' Donuts IS our local donut shop. There's one on every corner and people give directions with reference to a DD location (turn right where the DD used to be). And even tho' DD wasn't born in Rhode Island, we feel it's OUR local donut shop. I think it's cute that our neighbors to the north are trying to sell Tim Horton's here.
Circle is right by my house but their doughnuts suck big time. We are more of a Krispy Kreme town, since our first one opened in the 60's. Anyhow here it is:
Now the new tag: A BARBER SHOP
It's gotta have the spinning striped pole (or at least a stationary striped pole).