Do you have this where you live?

[Twisterdog]

Hmmmmmm ..... we have precious little that is exciting, that's for sure.

The bigger town near me once had a moose in our cemetery. And a herd of pronghorn (antelope) living on the lawn of their college. There used to be an ice cream truck in the summers when I was a kid, but it isn't around anymore.

In the town I live in, here is what we DON'T have: stoplights, gas stations, stores, theaters, sidewalks, crime, smog. And here is what we DO have: horses walking down the street, a one-room post office where everyone meets to gossip at 8:00 am, a volunteer fire department and a ladies' auxillary, and an abandoned mine tipple. What the heck is a mine tipple, you ask? A big building where coal was brought from the mine, separated by hand into piles by size, and loaded into railroad cars. The wives and kids of the miners usually worked at the tipple. I believe the tipple here is the only complete free-standing coal tipple left in the USA. (I attached a picture). We also have an underground coal mine that is slowly burning. In the winter, a whole mountain ridge steams, and all the snow melts off of it. Rather unique, I suppose.