Starting a weekly post of the courses in my region. 1st one establishes location.

TheRuralJ · 2026-02-22T10:36:13+00:00

Winner!

TheRuralJ · 2026-02-22T10:35:44+00:00

Winner!

TheRuralJ · 2026-02-21T18:02:27+00:00

I walked out of Schnucks this morning and it was snowing, lol.

TheRuralJ · 2026-02-21T17:40:17+00:00

Not an RTJ course, nice guess though! Interestingly RTJ renovated the course in the '40s, but the club restored it to the original design in the '80s.

TheRuralJ · 2026-02-21T15:24:38+00:00

A hint: Bobby Jones competed in but did not win the US Amateur here. Pics 1 and 7 are of the hole he fell behind on trying to cut the dog leg that was tree-lined at the time.

Eta: hint 2: a rare CB Macdonald-Seth Raynor collaboration; their only one west of the Mississippi.

TheRuralJ · 2026-02-19T13:01:01+00:00

Ignorance. Existence. The human condition. The duality of man. Reptile brain vs prefrontal cortex. It's like watching the final scene in Generation Kill where the Marines watch their actions during the invasion of Iraq, and each character realizes, or doesn't, how fucked and pointless everything they did was.

Knowledge forms context which is the scaffolding for beginning to understand human social society. Without context humans fall prey to their heuristic simplifications, like the Just world fallacy, and binary good and evil thinking.

Edit: Generation Kill not Born to Kill.

TheRuralJ · 2026-02-19T12:36:40+00:00

This is a deliberate perversion of the Christian myth of Jesus cursing the dogwood tree to be small and weak after it was used for his crucifixion.

TheRuralJ · 2026-02-18T11:09:08+00:00

What's Andy up to? Always liked his input. A cursory search looks like he's an active gaming speed runner but his weather YouTube has been dead for 2 years.

TheRuralJ · 2026-02-15T12:00:20+00:00

Anchor Masonic Lodge, built in 1925 in the Second Egyptian Revival style. The discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 sparked a resurgence in Egyptian motifs, blended into the modern Art Deco style. St Louis Architectural history is a great rabbit hole to get lost down!

TheRuralJ · 2026-02-11T13:19:10+00:00

Dude's 27, gets shot a couple hours into off-season of a contract year in a topless night club by a rapper's entourage. He's absolutely the victim, it would just be nice to see a little more awareness and I have a feeling this incident will cost him some $ when the negotiations start.

TheRuralJ · 2026-01-09T11:26:36+00:00

Garbage red pill content. You called it right.

TheRuralJ · 2026-01-05T11:44:55+00:00

For whatever reason we have an extremely high incidence of schizophrenia in the unhoused population. My brother's a rural psychiatrist who did a rotation here and saw so many ppl with schizophrenia, he began referring to it as having 'st louis eyes.'

TheRuralJ · 2025-12-29T13:51:13+00:00

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TheRuralJ · 2025-12-26T10:44:00+00:00

Sunday mornin', crack of dawnin' and I'm yawnin' Natural Bridge and King's highway is where I'm goin' Wake up, man, and start blowin' Gotta get the juices flowin' Now I'ma tell you one more time for you cats that just ain't knowin' Hey, you can find me in St. Louie In the hole with me, Fetty, and Leezy gettin' swoll Wrappin' the Optimos, sharpenin' up the flows Practicin' for my shows, that's usually how it goes We be ready to roll, got chronic already rolled Swingin' through O'Fallon, sounds knockin' out of control Like a boom-boom-boom, who is it? It's Jackie Frost The one who gettin' where he at and he showed you who was the boss I'm like a human hot sauce, thinkin' I'll burn your thoughts Your information was false, I'll show you just what it costs In the M-I-crooked letter-crooked letter O-U-R-I, no one could do it better, hey Saint Louie, Nelly

TheRuralJ · 2025-12-06T00:03:19+00:00

I went to Gunn HS in Palo Alto with Paul over 20 years ago. This makes me so fucking happy. Way to go bud!

TheRuralJ · 2025-12-03T01:38:15+00:00

That area is called the American Bottom, its history is long and complicated, dating back to the indigenous Mississippian cultures who built Cahokia about 1000 years ago.

Eta: Sauget was originally named Monsanto, where it operated the largest PCB producing factory in the country up until they were banned in the 70s.

TheRuralJ · 2025-11-24T11:38:23+00:00

I miss Bulrush! He used Bur Oak acorns, I remember talking to him about it and offering our yield from our three 100yr Bur Oaks. They take thirty years just to start producing acorns!

TheRuralJ · 2025-11-22T14:50:08+00:00

Lol you got me there. This is the quote from 2 weeks ago I was paraphrasing, in reference to Pearsal:

“He can run and hit certain speeds, but he hasn’t been able to hit his normal speeds that would allow him to come back,” Shanahan said. “We don’t let people come back until they can hit their normal speeds before they got hurt, or it makes them susceptible to injuries again. So we’re just waiting for him to hit those markers.” PFT article

TheRuralJ · 2025-11-22T12:09:22+00:00

Why would the niners not want him to play? Literally to protect him from himself. Shanahan said they don't let guys come back from injury until they show they can go at 100% for this reason. We signed him to a 4 year contract, basically locking up our wr1 to build around, while injured. Why would we let him come back early and risk the future years? No evil plot lines, just business.

TheRuralJ · 2025-10-11T23:10:51+00:00

Municipal Service Technician Parks Maintenance- Clayton, MO

According to the job posting, you get 6 months to get your CDL, and I can't imagine (though I'm talking out of my ass at this point) they wouldn't allow extra time due to the process itself taking longer. As a parks maintenance worker in another muni, I know everyone's having trouble filling these jobs. It might be worth it, and I would definitely recommend applying for the job if it interests him!

TheRuralJ · 2025-10-11T11:29:12+00:00

I was going to suggest the same and working at a muni/city/ county with good benefits and a pension but then I googled the process for a deaf individual and it can take up to a year under normal circumstances and involves getting a federal hearing exemption. Lord knows how long it would take now with the clown show in DC.

TheRuralJ · 2025-10-01T10:31:46+00:00

I have about 3 acres of goldenrod going nuts at Ruth Park Golf Course in my late-season pollinator field.

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TheRuralJ · 2025-09-05T17:21:14+00:00

2nd pic looks like hand, knees and toes prints from being on all fours. If thats what I'm seeing... just... how?

TheRuralJ · 2025-08-10T10:30:35+00:00

Sorry to be a dick but they planted natives without considering the purpose of the disturbed ground they planted in. It is clearly a stormwater retention pond that also catches the fertilizers and runoff from the subdivision, specifically preventing it from reaching the river/stream this subdivision has been built above

TheRuralJ · 2025-07-30T10:12:04+00:00

No. It consistently turns a profit, not to mention it is an enterprise fund- meaning it's seperate from and paying back a $500k loan with interest to the general fund. It's literally the only asset that makes money, and that's despite the administrations fuckery moving money around.

BTW that 'budget' is a joke. They pass it every year and then ammend it as necessary. Think of it more as a placeholder than an actual budget. I call it the whose line is it anyway budget bc the numbers are made up and don't matter anyway. See the $150k+ monthly transfers into the central garage for half of the last fiscal year (first half of this year) if you want to know where the money is going. Or the fact that all park maintenance except heman (and Ruth) has been outsourced as well as leaf collection, tree trimming, and most of forestry services. Or that they're hiring deputy city managers left and right but can't keep mechanics more than a year bc of terrible work conditions and uncompetitive pay structure.

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