I decided to repeat it 'cause I'm getting older ....

e-mail ^ | June 15, 2015 | knarf

[knarf]

CONGRATULATIONS! You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

[knarf]

THIS school board director LOVES to hear and read words like you wrote ....

I incorporate words and phrases into my comments and responses when they ask me why I voted against such and such

'Course lately .... they don't ask me why ....

I'm not too far from admitting I too am exactly as the .. ( suspected lesbian, but no proof) .. school superintendent .... an embed with an agenda ... and I will use those words

What're they gonn'a do ? ... fire me ?

I'm an elected representative of the people.

[oldvirginian]

Us country boys had work to do.
I grew up knowing how good milk tasted straight from your cow that you milked.
How good real butter tasted, especially when you helped churn it.
How to prepare, sow and harvest your own garden. And no one worried about the sevin dust you used to control pests.

I learned how to sucker tobacco back when it was done by hand. I also learned that the smallest fella was top man when hanging tobacco in the barn, and that it wasn’t good to be “that guy”.

I learned how good fresh spring water tastes from a rusty can on a hot day.
Watermelon picked and put in the spring before the dew came off was colder and sweeter than anything that came from a refrigerator.

I learned how refreshing a soak in the creek was after a day spent baling hay.

I learned it didn’t matter how hot I got, I better not let the horses get too hot.

I learned a damned mule will only do what the damned mule wants to do.
I learned that a corn cob and turpentine applied to the damned mules rear end *will* motivate the damned mule to move, but it may take the rest of the day to find the damned mule.
I learned it’s best to unhook the plow before applying corn cob and turpentine to the damned mules rear end.

I learned my city cousins were spoiled by that conditioned air, idgits couldn’t take any heat a’tall.

I learned my mama and daddy were fountains of knowledge and my great uncle lagged only behind the Father, Son and Holy Spirit when it came to most matters.

I learned work came before play and God came before anything.

I learned the Bible is the best guide to life and living ever known to man.

I learned everything I would ever need to get me through life by the time I was 5.

[knarf]

Ny God, I LIKE that !!

[knarf]

BY God .... I’m gonn’a steal it and post it on my wife’s FB page and attribute it to someone that calls himself oldvirginian

[oldvirginian]

Just the way it was.
I wouldn’t trade my childhood for anything.
Three generations living under one roof.

[sneakers]

“Longing for the good old days” ping!

(Thanks for the ping knarf!)

[rightwingintelligentsia]

I really do feel sorry for this current generation. Not only are they overprotected by the nanny state, they have been subjected to an unrelenting assault of indoctrination and confusion by the media and schools.

[coldflamingo]

My comment/advice to any person that may even hint for a word of wisdom from this “Old Geezer”, (83) “Do not grow up...it is a trap !. I read every word in this posting and
we evidently are existing on the same plane, if not the same Planet now. I had one little anecdote that fits in sideways...We lived on the edge of the Paiute Village outside of LeeVining, Calif. My bestus friend was Teddy, an Indian boy my age (6). He would periodically whip my butt during some rough game and when I started sniffling, would run over, give me a big hug and say, “April Fool”
Life was good...us kids, during the depression didn't know we we brook, we had the whole world to explore, and we did..”God Bless Us, everyone.

[coldflamingo]

“Did Not Know We Were Broke”