The Twelve O'clock Whistle

[6pt-Sika]

There was a plant in our town . It was called “Kentucky Flooring” then anyway I dunno about noon but they would blow a steam whistle at quitting time . They used boilers for the dry kilns . They also had a big big stationary steam engine . Anyway when they went to replace to of the old hand fired boilers with a new water tube auto fired boiler I ended up with the whistle

[mobirdhunter]

We live in the country, a rural setting for sure. Our post office, and therefore mailing address, is the small town of Greentop, population 388. We are actually in another county and it causes all kinds of grief with who provides our fire protection (but that’s another story). The town has a post office and “city building” (a one room affair). Our only business, a bar, recently closed down. There is a guy who sells night crawlers from his garage.

Every day, at 12:02, the town siren blows. Unless the wind is strong from the West, we can hear it. We’d never hear the warning in a storm, but it’s a constant reminder to me that I love my rural life in a place that is known for deer and turkey hunting and not much else.