Liquid Ice Musing: June 2009

Assimilation (OSI)

Posted by Maggie on Monday, June 22, 2009 | 14 Comments

After assimilation of clues
From the stream
It was discovered
Why the water was green

From an investigation
It had been found
Junk auto business nearby
Let old auto fluids on the ground

Finding its way
To the water below
Contaminating the stream
Where the green did show

Causing the people
To raise a cry
To clean the water
Or fish would die

Children often waded
In the waters of green
Parents were determined
To get the water clean

The EPA went to the offenders
The very same day
Telling them no more fluids
Should be allowed to flow that way

The business was warned
It had mighty few days
Until a solution had to be found
To mend their ways

Fines were paid
Workers were busy many days
Now it is a safe area
Where many children plays

Splashing in water
No longer green
Sparkling clear
The water is clean

First woman to...

Posted by Maggie on Tuesday, June 9, 2009 | No Comments

It was on this day in 1909 that the first woman to drive across the United States, Alice Huyler Ramsey, left New York City for San Francisco. She was 22 years old, a housewife from Hackensack, New Jersey. Her trip got a lot of media attention. In 1909, not many women drove cars, and some doctors thought that it was dangerous for women to even ride in cars because they would get too worked up at more than 20 miles an hour. Alice Huyler Ramsey drove 3,800 miles across the country in a Maxwell 30 with three other women, but she was the only one who knew how to drive. They drove for 41 days and used 11 spare tires. She wrote a book about the trip called Veil, Duster, and Tire Iron (1961). In 2000, she was the first woman inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame.

Gigged In - OSI

Posted by Maggie on Sunday, June 7, 2009 | 30 Comments

We were young military recruits
Out having a bit of fun
Night came too quickly
Now, we were on the run

You would have thought
We were in a race
Speeding down a road
Toward our Air Force base

Curfew was at midnight
Everyone had to be in bed
Driving on this strange road
Never knowing the intersections ahead

All of a sudden
The road split in two
My friend yelled out
"What shall I do?

With too little time to spare
Or try to even make up our mind
We slammed into a tall pole
Attached to a phone line

An ambulance came
Carried us to the base
Where we received punishment
For driving in haste