For those who wish to know: My wife and I have returned back to the Columbus area of Ohio due to our health, to be near our son. We are now living in the beautiful Teay's Valley area of Pickaway Co. in the the village of Ashville. I have alway's enjoyed Ohio so it was not hard to come back here. Our sons felt it would be wise to live near one of them. After 11 operations in the last 4 years, it was difficult for them to have to rescheduled their plans to be with me in St. Louis. Our address is below:   Dr. Alton Loveless  Alton and Delois Loveless 527 Virginia Street Ashville, Ohio 43103 573-330-7728 Cell For "Monday Moments" blog go to: altonloveless.blogspot.com for additional stories.    ________________________________ From: "spice3@juno.com" <spice3@juno.com> To: Lovelace@rootsweb.com Sent: Tue, May 25, 2010 10:14:34 AM Subject: Re: [LL] Tues May 25, 2010 Mornin' Cuzzies, Everytime the news comes on abt. the oil spill, Ole Buckley begins to agitate his petroleum engineering mind, saying, "Well, I don't know nothing about off shore wells, but I wonder if they've tried this."  Then I'm taken thru some technical description of capping a blow out well on land, which though not a piece of cake is obviously much easier to deal with.    My Daddy, a geologist,  were he alive, would be doing the same thing.  These oilmen.....they loooove working these wells!    Never understood why.....that's some dirty and difficult work usually in weather waaaay too cold or waaaaay too hot! Now, the geologists and the engineers don't actually do the work.....they do the thinking and the telling.  In the Houston Chronicle was a story about one of the 11 who was killed in the Gulf.    "His girlfriend said he had been calling her before and after every shift --- unusual for him.  She says he was frustrated with problems on the project.  'Everything that could go wrong was going wrong,' she said. 'Every time he'd call me, he'd say, 'This is a well from hell.' "    Ah guess.  o : Since the country continues to have a need for petroleum until the alternative energies are developed, one would think the safest places to drill which we have in abundance is on land.....which the special interests block.    So, it forces drilling in the most difficult of places.....doesn't seem right bright.    Also, seems as if decisions these days are based on who's pocket is fullest of the most money.  Ah, me! In the meantime my heart breaks for the Louisianaians who are w/out a doubt the cutest people in the world!    They have their own little culture down there, and have great fun and spirit!    I have several little chums who live in New Orleans....some of the funniest stuff I receive thru email comes from a 90+ gal who can bang purdy good on a computer key board.  ( : Y'all have a good one! Buckette ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOVELACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message