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Skriven 2008-10-05 13:43:04 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: RE: keeping cool
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Hi Ruth!
-> 
-> ->  hn> Mitchel AFB was on Long Island, near Hempstead. have a
-> ->  hn> look in wikipedia (look for mitchel afb). We were there for
-> ->  hn> my second grade and third grade years. I got to see the
-> 
-> -> OK, I'm not as familiar with AF Bases anyway.  More so with Army ones.
-> -> (G)
-> 
->  hn> Sorta Figured that! (grin)
-> 
-> Spent quite a bit of time on them over the last 25 1/2 years.  And it's
-> been quite an interesting assortment of them as well.
-> 
I spent my first 18 years on a lot of AF bases so I knew 
them a lot better..and most of my school friends were
pretty much the same, so we knew lots of bases where
others had been stationed as well as the ones we had 
lived on.

-> ->  hn> Dodgers (my first major league game) at Ebbets field in
-> ->  hn> their last season in Brooklyn. I don't ever remember having
-> 
-> -> I wasn't even in school then.
-> 
->  hn> Yeh, but you're still a mere slip of a lass!
->  hn> You kids today (lol)
-> 
-> You implying that you're an old geezer? (GD&R)
-> 
Heck no, I'm already a card carrying geezer!

-> ->  hn> bagels at the time, but I was a kid and basically only
-> ->  hn> paid attention to food long enough to cram it into my
-> ->  hn> mouth and be on the run again.
-> 
-> -> Typical boy. (G)
-> 
->  hn> Yup that was me, almost always carried my
->  hn> baseball mitt with me too. I would hook it
->  hn> to the back of my belt when I needed to use
->  hn> my hands for something other than baseball!
-> 
-> Neither of my brothers were that baseball obsessed.  They both played
-> Cub Scout baseball because they had to but they didn't breathe baseball.
->
I lived and breathed it until my senior year of 
highschool. And I love it still!
 -> 
-> 
->  hn> Having lots of fun with the grandson?
->  hn> Oh and of course with the rest of the
->  hn> family! (grin)
-> 
-> Yes, we are.  Today was a "red" day.  We went to Red Robin for lunch and
-> then up to the Red Rock area.  If you've not been, let me suggest it for
-> a photo trip.
->
Been there more than a few times! Have you been to 
Valley of Fire State Park? Lots of big time
movies have been filmed there. and it's
REALLY pretty ...and you're there at the
right time of year, it won't be 125 degrees
if you go!
 
-> ->  hn> My folks still know a bunch of folks there mostly
-> ->  hn> shrimpers and fisherfolk. I have an old Navy
-> ->  hn> buddy who lives right on the Edisto River just
-> ->  hn> south of Charleston.
-> 
-> -> Almost in my back yard. (G)
-> 
->  hn> Yup! Too hot and muggy to spend much
->  hn> of my time there!
-> 
-> 
-> I know,  I'm enjoying the lower humidities of the south west now. (G)
->
The new arrival there yet? I'm sure you're 
going to be a big help and much appreciated
when it happens...although you might not 
find much time to visit here (grin)!
 
-> -> As well as the "clannishness" of folks in the south.  We tend to enjoy
-> -> exploring too.  Done some even with the GPS. (G)
-> 
->  hn> That is SO true! I made a month long trip back "home"
->  hn> after I retired. Saw folks I hadn't seen in more than 30
->  hn> years, and I was still "family" to most folks in the small
->  hn> town where my folks are from. Some folks who've lived
->  hn> there for 20 years or more still have not gotten to that
->  hn> point with the "locals".
-> 
-> Even tho my parents have lived in the same area for 57 years, some
-> people still consider them newcomers.  I was born in that area so I'm
-> "native" but it's not home for me any more.  No real regional dishes but
-> the one chicken bbq place in the area is fairly well know.  They cater a
-> lot of the bigger events like fireman's fund raisers.
-> 
Yeppers, Small town America! 

chat with you soon!
hap 
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