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Skriven 2011-06-08 15:29:24 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: RE: pantry
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Aloha Ruth!
-> 
-> ->  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.
-> 
Most of the carpetbaggers stayed, mostly
because they had taken over properties, and
businesses of the local population. To my 
aunts a Carpetbagger is lower than low, badder
than bad and more evil than evil. They consider
him a direct employee of the devil himself.

-> ->  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.
->
At least they married into it, but yes
in many ways a very similar outcome.
You won't find any Bishop Trust in 
the South however.
 
-> -> -> 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.
->
Anne has one set of shelves full of gardening
and flower books, I have one set full of Techie
type photography books, another full of field
guides and reference books so I can always 
identify what is in the photos. Another two or 
more full of cookbooks, and another full of 
watercolor art books (I'm an amateur watercolorist)
Then there are the fiction and non fiction books!
 
->  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..................?
-> 
In all my youth I only saw one pro 
game...at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.
4th and 5th grades we were in South
Carolina and there was a minor league
team (probably single A) nearby...but
I never got in to see a game, though we
did (a group of us kids) hang around the
parking lot by the outfield fences hoping
to grab a homerun ball to use ourselves
for sandlot play. 
chat with you soon!
hap 
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