Just for you. :) I'm sorry you had such a rough day, it is hard losing a valued co-worker. Hang tough...
Posted on 08/14/2002 4:02:31 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society
We will not tire, we will not falter and we will not fail! [President Bush]
Good Morning!! Do not let the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington, nor the brave members of our Nation's military who have given their lives to protect our freedom, die in vain!!
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For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.
Now it just needs to do that 2 or 3 times a day for a week, and we'll be fine!
Mozie is happy.:)
And I think it's heading your way.:)
Well gee, isn't that special??????
Holy smokes. The mother of all of chutzpah.
Yikes.
It's headed your way, Nita and lysander, but it's been the dryness, not the heat, which has worn me down this summer.
It's a looooooong winter, so I hate to complain about the heat.
Just for you. :) I'm sorry you had such a rough day, it is hard losing a valued co-worker. Hang tough...
We were havening the exact same conversation in the car on our family trips out West. Even very late in their lives, my parents would still tease my sister and I about the fact that they couldn't get our noses out of the Nancy Drew books, when we reached the Grand Canyon!
The other day when I was teaching Sarah to parallel park, I took her to where I spent my childhood days in the 50's and 60's. From the age of 5 - 16 we lived at Pathfinder Courts. It was every child's dream. Nice families, plenty of room and many friends.
There were 3 buildings. We lived in bldg#1.There was a friendly rivalry between bldg#1, 2 and 3 and very few fights.
Sunny summer days were spent playing baseball, swimming in a nearby pond (with leeches and water mocassins), playing football, roller skating races around all the buildings, hopscotch,kick the can, jump rope and more.
On rainy summer days we would play in the rain and then rescue frogs and toads who were trapped in the storm cellars. We would hook a grocery bag to a string with a safety pin... gently squeeze it through the grate...lower the bag about 6 feet to the bottom of the storm cellar.
The next part was tricky. How do you encourage a frog to jump in the bag? By taking a long stick... we nudged the frog's behind to direct them into the bag....quickly yanking the string to close the bag. Hours we would be at that grate catching frogs so that we could take them to the pond. To this day I wonder how many of them were repeat catches. :-)
Winter days were spent having snowball fights with the kidsfrom the other buildings. Oh, if you could see the huge forts we made. Sometimes we would put snowballs in the freezer to make them special. One thing we DID NOT do is aim for the head...ever. There was also the usual skating at the pond and sledding down the hills. What fun we all had!!!
These apartments many time were first homes and often times families moved on to better places after a few years.
Good families...successful families.
Yesterday I learned that at this development young 14 and 15 year old girls were arrested for prostitution. For crying out loud... I was still catching frogs at that age. Guys were my friends...like brothers.
So sad what has happened in the last 30 plus years. These young girls thought they had it all...when that actually had nothing.
We had little, but had all.
How fortunate I am.
We lived on a street that ended in a woods/forest and I spent most of my youth climbing trees, helping clear an area for a baseball field, ice skating and just hanging out in that woods. I can't imagine what it would be being used for today!
This morning I was thinking about it being VJ-Day today and how, after it was announced on the radio that the war was over, my Mom and I actually broke into the Police Station, climbed up to the belfry and rang the fire bell. T'was exciting to see everyone come running!
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Good for her. After all it was reason to celebrate.
We never had it easy...but we never knew we never had it easy. :-) Before ice skating we would have to shovel the snow off the pond.
To make extra money we shoveled parking areas at the Project for 25 cents a spot...sidewalks 10 cent from one apartment to the next...AND we even shoveled clothes line areas. No dryers back then and people would hang clothes out in the winter. They would freeze...stiffer than a board....yet somehow dry a little. LOL
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