This is the sequel to, 'The Plains of Armageddon' post 
. I've haven't been riding since late May. I was supposed to wait until four months after surgery, but, I figure 11wks is close enough 
I took the Floval Flyer out to an old mill log pond turned park / wildlife refuge / environmental restoration area. The mill that was attached to this log pond died nearly thirty years ago.
Loaded up and ready to go!
The pond has multiple fingers, peninsulas.
This is the end of one of them
Between two fingers.
The end of another finger.
Maybe 50yards from the main parking lot, the entrance to the Plains of Armageddon II, the sequel
. I would guess the vast majority of people that visit Cheadle Lake park have no idea what is back here, even though it is nestled in between the park and a Walgreens on the main street in town. That is the same pond in the background from the previous pics. Just before this pic was taken...I was growled at by the 'resident' of the shack on the right... literally growled at by a 'human being.'
This is the last building standing of the mill. The two huge main buildings burned to the ground a few years back under suspicious circumstances (code for negligent homeless squatters and tweekers, I guess). To give credit where credit is due...this part was a complete disaster last year when I rode through... everywhere there were makeshift shelters, piles of rifled through 'loot', shopping carts galore, a large boat that was being used as a shelter...and trash, needles, and feces everywhere. The town has cracked down a bit on the homeless problem here...which means most of them have moved to the next town over, which is where I grew up most of my childhood...and it is bedlam over there, as most of the city council embraces compassion. Compassion evidently means it's okay to sleep and shoot up in on main street and allowing them to expose themselves to children
.
The doors are locked up on both ends...but, you'll notice there is a bike parked between the building and the shack.
This little shack wasn't burned down last year...I wonder if the FD even knows it happened?
On this side, you can see the auxiliary entrances that have been added
.
Enough of that...back to the park.
This is an temporary drive-in theater set up in the park in reaction to china-virus crisis. Someone had kept the sign from the drive in that was down the road a bit...it was torn down ~20years ago and replaced by a WalMart.
That's that...maybe my next neighborhood post will skip the bad and just focus on the good...maybe.
. I've haven't been riding since late May. I was supposed to wait until four months after surgery, but, I figure 11wks is close enough I took the Floval Flyer out to an old mill log pond turned park / wildlife refuge / environmental restoration area. The mill that was attached to this log pond died nearly thirty years ago.Loaded up and ready to go!
The pond has multiple fingers, peninsulas.
This is the end of one of them
Between two fingers.
The end of another finger.
Maybe 50yards from the main parking lot, the entrance to the Plains of Armageddon II, the sequel
. I would guess the vast majority of people that visit Cheadle Lake park have no idea what is back here, even though it is nestled in between the park and a Walgreens on the main street in town. That is the same pond in the background from the previous pics. Just before this pic was taken...I was growled at by the 'resident' of the shack on the right... literally growled at by a 'human being.'
This is the last building standing of the mill. The two huge main buildings burned to the ground a few years back under suspicious circumstances (code for negligent homeless squatters and tweekers, I guess). To give credit where credit is due...this part was a complete disaster last year when I rode through... everywhere there were makeshift shelters, piles of rifled through 'loot', shopping carts galore, a large boat that was being used as a shelter...and trash, needles, and feces everywhere. The town has cracked down a bit on the homeless problem here...which means most of them have moved to the next town over, which is where I grew up most of my childhood...and it is bedlam over there, as most of the city council embraces compassion. Compassion evidently means it's okay to sleep and shoot up in on main street and allowing them to expose themselves to children
.
The doors are locked up on both ends...but, you'll notice there is a bike parked between the building and the shack.
This little shack wasn't burned down last year...I wonder if the FD even knows it happened?
On this side, you can see the auxiliary entrances that have been added
.
Enough of that...back to the park.
This is an temporary drive-in theater set up in the park in reaction to china-virus crisis. Someone had kept the sign from the drive in that was down the road a bit...it was torn down ~20years ago and replaced by a WalMart.
That's that...maybe my next neighborhood post will skip the bad and just focus on the good
...maybe.
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