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Skriven 2008-09-16 09:35:34 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Carol Shenkenberger
Ärende: RE: picnics and stuff 885
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Howdy Carol!
->     
->  > -> ;-)  Tis the season yet again and for the first time I will miss it. 
All
->  > CPO
->  > -> watchbill and i will be on watch.
->  > ->
->  > And this may be your last go round as well!
->  > Ahhh the memories! (grin)
-> 
-> Thats ok.  I've been to 12 of them.  Lets let the first year Chiefs have the
-> night off.  I stand the watch so they can be free.  We worked it so the 
othr
-> watch is an IT1.  Festivities start at about 11pm and i have to be at work 
at
-> 5am.  IT1 is on watch now and i am his relief.
-> 
5am is one of my favorite times of the day...(grin)
Specially if it's when someone is coming to take the 
watch from me! 

->  > -> Mom didnt really do 'parties' much but I have.  We use our back 
screened
->  > -> porch pretty heavy for them when we do.
->  > ->
->  > Not parties, all family, most often during
->  > harvest time, cotton picking, or canning
->  > time...best time was hog butchering time...
-> 
-> 
-> I have no 'large family' to relate to othr than the common extended military
-> one.
->
I had that too, but it was fun having the time when I was young 
to get to spend time with all my cousins and relatives. Although
it did have it's downside...mostly that any of us kids could get
wholloped for misbehaving by any of the aunt's or uncles who
were handy ...and could catch us! (grin) We seldom managed
to get away with much....not to say we didn't deserve a lot
of those spankings!(grin)
 
->  > 13, and I have more cousins than you could
->  > shake a stick at! (grin)
-> 
-> Ah I wish!  I have 2 cousins I have met, and 2 nieces I have not (unless 
you
-> count the elder one being a buldge in my sisters tummy).
->
Nah, that don't count (grin).
 
->  > -> Could be some of that is we all have more produce to use and a more
->  > global
->  > -> outlook on food than they did.  How often have one of us here 
mentioned
->  > -> something and had the others go 'what the heck is that'?
->  > ->
->  > Most of what my mom cooked she learned from my
->  > grandmother...and they mostly cooked from the garden.
->  > My grandparents had a farm...a BIIIIG farm, and the
->  > kitchen garden was probably close to an acre in size.
-> 
-> (but standard stuff we all know and love, not the odd stuff we later take 
to
-> like diakon and such).
->
Very standard...and there were fields of corn 
for animal feed, fields of peanuts, fields (and fields)
 of cotton, and fields of cabbages, and fields of 
beets, most of the rest I remember as being 
pasture. Oh and I forgot the tomato garden 
and pepper garden which were separate from the "kitchen" garden. 

->  > ->  > -> Rushing through messages.  Got called and have ro work the 
night
->  > shift fo
->  > ->  > -> another.
->  > ->
->  > ->  > You scratch their backs they scratch yours!
->  > ->
->  > -> Hope so!  Suposed to get a night off for it to pay it back.  We'll
see.
->  > ->              xxcarol
->  > 
->  > Old navy saying ...."Better to Be the relief than NEED a relief!"
-> 
-> Very true!
->             xxcarol
-> 
I'll be getting ready to go to work in a bit.
Working the Beach Boys Concert at the ballpark today.
What a mental flashback that's going to be!
chat with you soon!
hap 
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