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Skriven 2011-06-07 17:27:27 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 11861 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
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Hi Hap,

->  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> One of my aunts called them the most foul thing
 hn> she could think of (my aunts all being good
 hn> church going ladies). She called them Yankee
 hn> Carpetbaggers.

A carpetbagger was one who moved south and took advantage of folks.  As
I understand, a scalliwag swooped in, took advantage of people and beat
feet out of town just before he was ridden out on a rail.

->  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> Oh the carpetbaggers did very well for themselves
 hn> during reconstruction. Much of the wealth of the
 hn> South was taken by them.

Sounds similar to the missionaries and Hawaii.

-> -> 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
 hn> space.

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

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

But only one unit is devoted to cook books. Another has sewing/quilting
etc books, most of them have school related books. A lot of those were
acquired in the last couple of years.

 hn> That's funny! We have the same problem...
 hn> including stacks of books NEAR the bookshelves!

Steve has some of those in the computer room/library/office.  Overall
tho, most of them are on the shelves.

->  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> Well I get home on day games about
 hn> the time the game would start on night
 hn> games...


About what I figured. The night games mean a very late dinner I presume.

-> -> 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...........

 hn> There are great folks as well, and they
 hn> greatly outnumber the idiots on most
 hn> games. Yesterday was a "Little League
 hn> Appreciation Day" so LOTS of families
 hn> and kids, had a GREAT time!

Did you see yourself as you were as a kid? The wide eyed wonderment of a
major league ball park, the taste of a ball park hot dog, maybe an up
close glimpes of your hero..................?


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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