Who left the dimensional door open? - Thread 021

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THREAD 021

Dregs and Flakes

Posts since 1/29/02 23,804

[grannie9]

So I had a little overbite... I got braces later.. Brat!!!

[grannie9]

Grannie added the leaf.. lol

[Kathleen]

What a roly-poly cutie!

[Kathleen]

I found new color nail polish ''Sunsparks'' by Revlon

I painted my nails wild woman ruby red last night. They would have frowned on this color back in the days of catlic school...lol...

[palo verde]

Chloe is cute!

[palo verde]

wild woman ruby red sounds pretty
is it by Revlon
I'll look for it

neets is ready for a change

is andysmom cleanin' out gutters?
is loddy in dallas
is westy defrosting his frig
dregs and flakes have adventurous lives

[grannie9]

Chloe and Dad..

[grannie9]

Except for me.. I just sit around knitting my eyebrows.. lol

[palo verde]

Chloe with her daddy is tremendously sweet picture
thanks chickie
Love, Palo

[grannie9]

One more.. and I'm done for the day on the scanner..

Brother Christopher and Cloe...

[westmex]

Arizona

Tumacacori Nat. Monument
This is just down the road from Palo's house....Doesn't she live in an interesting place?
.......Westy.....

[andysandmikesmom]

Hi all, just got back from shopping...what a grind...and I had lots of stores to go to, so I was really just a shopping...nothing interesting, just lots of food sales...

So, I just got home a short time ago...BigDom was awake, and so I had to feed him...give him some muscles so he can unload the car....of course, I am stuck with putting everything away, so still have to do that....

A reprieve has been given on gutter cleaning....BigDom says there are too many good sports shows on today, so maybe gutter cleaning will have to wait until tomorrow...I am glad, because I can take only so much in one day...all that food shopping, and putting away of foodstuffs, is all I can to tackle today....

Gran...that pic of you and your sister is adorable, and you are not a homely child...and I will bet you were never a homely young lady, nor a homely grannie...

Those pics of Chloe are just precious...shes a good little eater isnt she? I love her bath time, you can see her cute little chubby baby body...what a little sweetie she is...
Babies are just the best thing in the whole wide world...and they are such cuties for such a short time, its imperative to enjoy them at that stage as much as you can, because before you know it, those baby days are gone...But what a sweet, obviously cherished little cherub she is....

I pulled a real boner at the last store I was at today...got out of the car, locked it up, and YIKES...locked up the car with the keys inside....what a dunce...I paid no attention to the warning bell going off, my mind must have been wandering....had to get someone from the store to bring their trusty wire coat hanger and perform a breaking and entering feat to get my door open...I hate to call home and have to wake BigDom up to come in the Garbagemobile, with his keys.....the young clerk who worked wonders with the coat hanger and opened my door, said I should have a spare or two made up, and keep them in my purse, so that if should happen again, as least I will have a spare to rely on...

I have never done this before in my all my years of driving, so I guess I should not feel so bad...this young man who helped me, said hes done that before, and so ever since then he keeps a spare set of keys in his wallet...

I could just hear BigDom if I had had to call him...He would have said, "Woman, where is your mind?" or something rude....like he never forget something, yeah right...Of course, I must admit, I was pretty lame, because there is a warning bell that constantly dings, if you open the drivers side door without taking the keys out of the ignition...but I just went on my way, and paid no attention to the warning...eeegaaads....I must be losing my mind....

Westy, our Palo sure does live in an interesting place.....once the weather cools down in a few months, I expect her to go to these places and bring us all a report....

[habs4ever]

Those are cute pics.I like the brother and sis one too...save it because, that warmth won't last ;-)

[habs4ever]

You wouldn't mind if Palo calls BigDom and snitches, would you?? ;-)

[andysandmikesmom]

That blabbermouth Palo, better keep her trap shut about this incident, or else I shall have to come over there and steal her Lulu from her....I shall hold Lulu for ransom...I will feed her so well, and give her so much love, she will want to remain with me and Dizzy and BigDom...

BigDom will buy her special bakery cookies, and bring her water in a silver bowl, just like he did with Helga...

You hear that Palo? No snitching...

[westmex]

I gave up bar drinking a long time ago..Looked in at the Mercantile..Typical piles of junk for the tourists...
.......Westy....

[andysandmikesmom]

Well, BigDom has finished unloading the car, which means now I have to put everything away...Ugh...Wish I could just twitch my nose, and everything would fly out of the bags, and go to the correct place...I sure do get lazy and crochety in my later years....

Driving around town so much today, I was taking note of all the trees and bushes...lots of them are beginning to turn colors, and of course, signaling the beginning of the fall season, and the end of the summer fun....

The kids here dont go back to school until, I think the Tuesday or Wednesday after Labor Day...that is how it was when I was a kid living in Chicago...we never went back to school until the Wednesday after Labor Day...that was kind of nice, easing back into school, with just a two day school week for the first week of back to school...

But when living in North Carolina, the kids went back to school, nearly in the middle of August....of course since we did not go back to school until after Labor Day in Chicago, we did not get out for summer vacation until the middle of June...my boys, going back to school in mid August, got out the end of May...

I think in North Carolina, the timing of return to school actually had to do with harvesting of the tobacco crops...the kids who live on working tobacco farms, are integral parts of their families planting, caring for, and harvesting of tobacco....so I think they wanted the kids out of school by the end of May, to be free to help with the tobacco farms...by mid August, ,most of the tobacco has been harvested, and the kids are free to return to school...

One year while we were living there in North Carolina, the heat had really become excessive, much hotter than normal...and it was harvest time for the tobacco....most families do lots of the work themselves, and they also hire seasonal workers...but in that excessive heat, there seemed to be a series of work related deaths, a large number of people actually dropping dead in the tobacco fields...

So there was a ban on picking tobacco, until the temps lowered...I think that ban was in effect for about two weeks...It finally cooled down some, and the ban was lifted...but what about the kids returning to school?

Well, the solution was to postpone school for two weeks...and that is what happened...I just got a chuckle out of that...school put off by two weeks, due to too many kids needed in the tobacco fields, to help on their family farms...

For those of you who have never seen a tobacco field, when the tobacco plants are in full leaf, its really quite a sight...and watching the workers pick the tobacco is really quite interesting...every tobacco farm has these various bldgs on their farms called 'tobacco sheds; where they hang and dry out the big tobacco leaves....

Now when BigDom was first at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he was there a few months ahead of me and the boys, who were still in Chicago....when Mike was done with school, BigDom took leave time, and was going to come back to Chicago to get us...he looked around for a place for us to rent, but thought that since the houses were so cheap to buy, compared to Chicago, ,he decided to buy a house, without my having seen it...and that is what he did...

So he came back to Chicago, spent a little time there, and then we all headed out for Fort Bragg, North Carolina...we pulled in really late at night, and since the house keys were supposed to be at the Realtors, we dorve by there, not expected anyone to be there because it was so late...we figured we would have to spend the night in a motel...

But fate smiled, and the realtor was still at the real estate office...so we got the keys, and headed on our way...Now Bigdom had been to our new house, only twice, and then both times in the daytime...and since it was about 10miles off base he was not real familiar with the area, especially because it was just a little housing development, out in the country, and built, with many little tobacco farms surrounding it....

So when we finally got on the right road, and headed up that road, it was pitch dark, and pretty devoid of house and people and such...all I remember seeing was those old tobacco sheds, something I had never seen before...

I kept thinking to myself, good grief, is BigDom going to put us up in one of those old looking shacks...Having let him buy us a house all his own, without my approval, was beginning to look like a very bad idea...

However, we finally did find the housing area, and found out house, which turned out to be a wonderful, delightful little home for us, with lots of rooms, and lots of landscaping on a huge lot....so we were impressed...

But to this day, whenever I see a pic of a tobacco shed, or remember back in North Carolina, when driving by the farms we would see the sheds, I am reminded of how I thought I was going to have to live in one of those old creaky bldgs..


Now I best shut up and put the groceries away...see ya all later...

[Argh]

Even with the Flash thingie it didn't work for me. That's OK because I happen to know how big I am. Thanks anyway, Miss Chris!

[christine]

I was pretty lame, because there is a warning bell that constantly dings, if you open the drivers side door without taking the keys out of the ignition...


you habituate to this little rings and dings of warning.

[christine]

care to share? ;)