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Skriven 2011-06-04 20:01:15 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 11702 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
Ärende: pantry                                                   [1]
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Hi Hap,

->  hn> here) 10 acres of peach, 10acres of pecan,
->  hn> less than an acre of apple, same for pear...

-> Is it still intact or has the land been split up and sold off?

 hn> Long and sad story...When my grandmother
 hn> passed away (being preceded by my grandfather)
 hn> it was her wish that all my aunts and uncles sell
 hn> their shares of the farm to my oldest uncle( the one
 hn> who was actually still working the farm). Which they
 hn> all did. He prospered for a number of years and then
 hn> sometime in the early 70's he fell upon hard times and
 hn> ended up going bankrupt and losing the farm. It got
 hn> sold to some "investors" from New England, who
 hn> turned out to be buyers of hardwood for several
 hn> New England furniture makers...they harvested
 hn> the Pecan trees, walnuts, and fruit trees...they
 hn> doubled their money in just that alone.They then
 hn> sold the property to someone else who put up a
 hn> trailer park where the Pecan trees used to be.
 hn> First time I drove by it I cried.

I think I would be too; it's a shame. Scalliwags!

->  hn> real big ones around the house. The house
->  hn> was rebuilt on the orginal foundation of the
->  hn> Plantation house that was destroyed during
->  hn> the "recent unpleasantness with the north" as
->  hn> my grandmother used to say (grin). The kitchen

-> I've used that expression before. Mostly to educate that the war was
-> anything but civil.

 hn> It was Everything but civil...and
 hn> Reconstruction was not that nice
 hn> either!

Not to a lot of people, that's for sure. Don't know of too many people
who benefitted by either one.

->  hn> and a series of long benches on the "wall"
->  hn> side..where we kids all packed in.  There

-> That's right, shove in all the kids and the left handed ones throw
-> everyone off. (G)

 hn> LOL the lefties all sat at one end!!

All the other cousins forced them to? Probably not a problem over all,
especially if there was a decent age assortment. Older ones could help
the younger ones learn how to use a knife and fork better. We were
trying to teach Robert how to cut meat with a knife and encouraging
Sarah to use fork and spoon more than fingers. She does quite well
overall but like all kids, finds that fingers work more efficiently than
fork and spoon at times.

->  hn> was also in the center of the kitchen a
->  hn> big wooden "butcher block" table where
->  hn> meats would be cut and such. There was
->  hn> a gas stove and a big old woodburning
->  hn> stove as well. Double sinks AND a pump
->  hn> right out of the counter!! The sinks did

-> Nice! The other night as I was cleaning up, I was thinking about how
-> nice a big old farm sink would be. Then I realised--by the time we're
-> able to (if ever) build or buy our dream house and put in all the "toys"
-> we want, we'll be too old to appreciate them. So, just have to be
-> content with such as I have and work around problems like lack of space.

 hn> Yep...we're in the same boat!

Problem around here is how to get around without bumping into book
shelves. (G)


->  hn> Memorial Day, and when I got home
->  hn> Anne made dinner for me! Hamburger
->  hn> patty and brussels sprouts!  boy was
->  hn> it Goooood!

-> Early evening for a change?

 hn> Day game...starts at 1:10 and
 hn> I get home in time for a "late"
 hn> dinner!!

I meant as in you got to get home relatively early in the evening. Nice
to have dinner at a reasonable hour for a change.

->  hn> I have today off from the ballpark and
->  hn> will go back for a day game tomorrow
->  hn> and have thursday off then work straight
->  hn> through tull 5 june, being boss two of
->  hn> those games.

-> But you're still enjoying it and that's what counts.

 hn> YEP!

Even with dumber'n dirt folks. (G) Some of them really make you
wonder...........

-> -> military child of a couple of generations ago but with enough "farm
-> -> raising" you knew how to entertain yourself.

->  hn> Yep, and as a parent I would be
->  hn> (and was) very cautious about letting
->  hn> my kids just "go out and play" without
->  hn> any adult keeping an eye on them! it's
->  hn>  a very different world than the one
->  hn> I grew up in.

-> Same here. I was cautious with my girls but they still had a lot more
-> freedom to "run" than most of today's kids have. They didn't have as
-> much freedom as I did but that's the changes in the world. Rachel makes
-> Robert check in every so often (a set amount of time) if he's playing


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Ruth
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