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Dr Adam Watson in his book "Place names of much of North East Scotland" offers two derivations for Clintlaw, in Gaelic, Claointe-lach - sloping place or in Scots, Clint – a ledge and Law being a small hill. The farm sat on a ledge above the burn on the lower slopes of the law of Little Ley, both name theories fit well.
The farm was bulldozed and committed beneath the waves after the Dundee Corporation Waterworks initiated the damming of the Back Water glen in 1964 to supply Dundee, Coupar Angus, Blairgowrie and the Carse of Gowrie with drinking water – combined with the smaller reservoir of Lintrathen, enough to supply 300,000 people.
The reservoir’s 25 million cubic metres of water flooded most of the Back Water farms, Macritch, Mid and Over Scithie, Todholes and Clintlaw. Coreffie was also demolished to the west of the reservoir.
Sequential Ordnance Survey maps from 1860 show and date the growth of the Clintlaw farmstead, narrowing the stones placement to the original farmhouse or its U-shaped farmstead.
The 1-foot square date stone carries a very prominent mason’s mark, suggesting it was more likely to have adorned the u-shaped courtyard buildings typical of the industrial revolution in the 19thC. This stone marked more than a smart courtyard, it marked the transition to a modern farmstead with a separate dwelling house from a thatched, cruck framed building housing both the inhabitants and livestock divided by a slatted wooden “middle wall”, this mason’s work was lifechanging for the inhabitants.
The bulldozed ruins can be seen across a wide area when the reservoir is depleted and in parts they form an unstable slope into the reservoir.
today, i started thinking about how the fall semester of college is going to creep up on me and i'll have nothing done. i haven't been enrolled in college since right after high school (2007), which is sad.. considering pregnantbrain has me clueless on what to even do next. i called and talked to them, and was actually formally a Vanover when i logged in online (last time I logged in 2 months ago, it still said Cotton).. anyway
all I really have to do now is talk to an advisor and get my classes set up/get enrolled. fafsa should all be in order (or one could hope) and yadda yadda. i'm not sure when i'll get down there to actually enroll and talk to an advisor but i need to make an appointment. :| i'm such a procrastinator.
i looked back over the program i'm going back to enroll into: surgical technology, and have actually made a few career/life decisions in just a matter of minutes. i think it's what's best for me and the babies though. oh.. and sean.. can't forget sean.
conversation tidbit:
me: i think after i get my schooling done with, i'm going to move to henderson (like my best friend, candice) and try to get on at a better paying, better hospital up there toward evansville
sean: and what the hell am I supposed to do for work in evansville? that's too far of a drive for what i do
me: well it looks like you have a year/year and a half to figure it out, huh
i hate to be like that.. but he's either going to have to progress up in his company or find a different profession. i hate it, too, that i've had to be the one to make that decision because regardless of what he wants, i want, or what we want.. it's time to settle it down, stop acting crazy and buy a house. a good job that i will be certified for.. yeah, that sounds good to me. about 4x more than what i make now will help us out a lot financially and be a lot better for the kids, too. give him some time to either straighten himself up... or our marriage decide to part ways.
weird that i say that so calmly, but something has to be done sooner or later
and i'd rather it be sooner..
than later
Photographs from the fire at Rays Avantiplus 545 High Street Preston on Thursday 23rd Janurary 2015.
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life can change. While waiting for the results of the second set of films I was bored and snapped the photo of the mammogram machine. After hearing and not being able to recall the words of the doctor who came down to talk to me I returned home and found a magnolia blossom had opened since I left. It reminded me of all the steel magnolias in my life. And it reminded me of referring to myself earlier in the year as a 'steel magnolia in training'. I refuse to become really concerned until I get more data from the surgeon but I really hope this steel magnolia in training does not have yet another chapter to add to this crazy badly-scripted South American soap opera kind of life I've been living for over two years now!
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Fire hydrant in front of Washington Mutual Tower, 3rd Avenue and University Street, Seattle