stormdog | (no subject)

After leaving Posi's place on the Friday morning last, the two of us hit a string of thrift stores. We're both thrift store junkies, and we made some good finds. I found a piece of luggage to replace my rolling cart that broke a wheel on my last trip to Chicago, a nice LowePro bag for my second camera, a book for my sweetie

lisagems, and other stuff. As for Posi, he picked up a Sigma zoom lens in a bag with some 35mm film for $5. And it fits his camera! Shortly after congratulating each other on the deal though, we found it it doesn't work. After consulting the internet, it probably needs to have a control chip swapped out to work with new newer Canon DSLR bodies that we have. It's old enough that Sigma doesn't do the work anymore. Posi was unconcerned, and plans to do it himself. Told you he was a hardware hacker.

We headed west out of town, stopping for Polish buffet for lunch. Oh man have I missed Polish buffet. Pirogi and blintzes and latke, oh my! (Incientally, why do blintzes form a plural with an 's' while pirogi and latke don't?)

Thence it was westward again, following a fairly arbitrary path toward our destination, the motel Posi had booked in Dubuque, Iowa by way of Savanna. After our first stop to photograph the turkeys I posted pictures of before, our second stop was to take some shots of an abandoned one-room school house that I later learned, after googling the names of the streets at the nearby intersection, was in the small village of Riddot, population 164. I can't help but want to stop and spend some time with abandoned buildings when I see them. I wish I could get to know this one a little better. There's not much out on the internet to tell more than the building itself did; that it was in school district number 5, that it was built in 1871, and that it hasn't been used in quite a long time.

I hope

asakiyume gets to see them before she leaves for Timor-Leste!

District 5 School House - Ridott, Illinois