Monkeys and keyboards aside, one Random + CSS still doesn't make poop.

My first attempt at a fully constructed coin bra is almost done. I'm pretty proud of it. I'm also trying to crack down on the dreadfalls for Tekko. I'm not sure I'll have as much stuff to bring along as I'd hoped, but something's better than nothing.

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My meanderings a few days ago took me on a drive this time, following the general direction of the train tracks in an attempt to figure out what other nearby mining locations I've missed. I now have four places to try to research/get into. I also have pics of what happens when a flooded mine spills into the local waterway.





There is absolutely nothing left alive in this creek.

I took Kabuki and the lovely new camera zen_of_nihilism bought for me and went on a walk in the woods. I intended to get more pics of the grates/vents that are all over the area, but ended up getting distracted. See, I took a wrong turn, meandered down a grassy path instead of the shale ones the ATVs tear up, and think I found the main part of the old colliery's remains.

( Just a few! )

So the shale/slag/culm piles I've been taking pictures of are from a mine that ran from 1872-1953--which is right about the time my house was built.

So the mine's still right there. I've walked past it and around it and over it a number of times. I might even be living on top of it.

Suddenly my crooked floor and sad, still-cracking cement porch make a little more sense.


And the tons of cement things with manhole covers on top, that are all over the place on the other side of the tracks? I thought they were for the sewers. They're for methane, to keep the mine underneath from blowing up.


I started link-hopping and found citations of how this mine's helping nuke the local water supply (with acidic mine runoff) and then found a citation from the early 1900s about how mines legally need to have two entryways. wingedrivers and I may have found this other entryway last week while we were lost wandering. (Look familiar, wingedrivers?)


I have a day off tomorrow. I'm supposed to finish writing out my summary of the current book project for my crit group for tomorrow afternoon . . . But expect a massive picpost anyway. :D



I hope my house doesn't fall in. D: