The Bridge Road Shops, a local group of businesses that have banded together in the neighborhood, have just installed a monument which includes a Liberty Bell-like bell. Â I chatted with an owner of one of the shops and she mentioned that the monument stands on the grounds of the old Fernbank school. Â I understand that the bell in the monument once hung in the school though I could not verify that. Â Regardless, it’s an awesome looking bell and is an interesting addition to the neighborhood.
Anyhow, we used to watch a tv show called How I Met Your Mother. Â In one of the episodes, Barney, the wild single guy takes his pal Ted to Philadelphia to lick the Liberty Bell…just to break the monotony.
Winter time gets pretty monotonous around here so I decided we needed to “lick the bell”.
Emily and Isaac were too embarrassed to partake on Saturday, but Abigail and I had no qualms, even as traffic passed by us. Â Sure enough…we licked the bell and we hereby claim the honor as the first family to lick the Bridge Road Bell! Â Licking the bell did interrupt the normal. Â We broke the monotony of a winter day at least, if not the entire winter. Â Spring feels not so far off now.
Oh. My. Gosh. I can so see you doing this – busy traffic and all. Hope it tasted well!
Kris
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I’m so glad your tongues didn’t stick!!!
There’s gotta be a law against bell licking, I’m just sure of it!
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Hmmmm…I just wanna know if Emily kissed you after that, you crazy man! (Nice jacket btw.)
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You are one crazy man! The bell must be cold!
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Um, ewwwww!
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Well Warren, the way things have been around here the last few weeks I’d be glad to lick the bell. lol Anything is better than this.
Chris
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You don’t know where that bell has been!
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Was the bell that tarnished before you started licking or was it the result of all of that saliva? How did it taste…really? And what’s that black stuff on your chin?
It’s nice to see at least one of your family brave enough to follow Crazy Dad’s lead.
You are now “Legen…wait for it…dary”!!!!
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HA! It was a lot of fun…I was sort of interested in having an audience for the licking but we did have to time it such that our tongues wouldn’t freeze to the thing! As to what it tasted like…well chicken of course!
Well I’ve seen it all now-bell licking. I have to admit it does look like fun.
Oh my, wow. Hahahahaha…………………
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I have added a couple of new photos to the Fernbank School page. Thought you’d like to know.
Take care!
Jerry
http://www.mywvhome.com/old/photo5.htm
Awesome Jerry! Thanks for letting me know. I dig the pictures…glad you found them!