A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day 08-06-02

LadyX and Billie

[dixie sass]

Hi Cuz! Couldn't ask to be related to a better group of Southern Belles! G.R.I.T.S, one and all!

[COB1]

THANK YOU, FWI, FOR BEING HERE AND BEING YOU!!

I had to wait to post for one of FWI's freedom rants!
Beautiful!
I'd really hate to have to be a judge in a contest of eloquence between LadyX and Freedom'sWorthIt!
That was a great lead-in, LadyX, and what we all think about this great freeper and friend.

[dixie sass]

I wonder what he's been up to? Giggle - wink, wink, nudge, nudge - sho' is late getting here, giggling.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Pretty Place, NC! I have not heard of it. Sounds so quaint and lovely.

But there are a lot of "pretty places" in NC - including many beautiful waterfalls like this one:

[lodwick]

[dixie sass]

See ya latah, sistah cuz!!!

[ValerieUSA]

[Aquamarine]

Lodwick, you provide such a lovely atmosphere here, you think of everything. Thanks!

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

I hope that America remembers - we truly are united in our fight to remaain free!

[dixie sass]

I really do have to do a better job of proofreading, sighhh!

[dixie sass]

Oh Lodi, Thankyou!!!! Hugggggggggggs!!!

[lodwick]

Thanks Aquamarine - I love finding stuff on algore's wonderful internet. ;-)

Who! you don't need a weatherman to tell which way the wind's blowing here. grannie9's lovely home in NH.

[Aquamarine]

I'm guessing that picture was taken in the Great Smoky Mtns. National Forest. If you didn't make it into Cades Cove Tenn. that's in the Park then you will definatley have to come back to photograph that and please don't wait another 43 years! LOL!

[dixie sass]

The pics didn't come out.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Hillary's Lovely Legs - thanks for posting that letter! It was a joy to put that book together - and I appreciate so much your work to get all those good things to our heroes out on the USS Theodore Roosevelt! But, a letter from an Admiral - WOW - that was something!

Dixe Sass and LadyX - GRITS - both kinds - are good'uns, aren't they? (The real thing - and Girls Raised in the South! LOL!!!)

COB1 = am so glad you liked the rant enough to join in the party here today! :-) ((Hugs to you)) And I thought I saw that you were going to go all around the nation visiting Freepers - just let me know when its our turn in central NC land!

[LadyX]

"Many of our ancestors who were from the Highlands of Scotland settled there because it reminded them so much of the Scotland that they had to leave after the Great Uprising."

Aye!!
- - and one of the finest days of my life was in 1974 when I went to the meadow on Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina to witness The Highland Games!!

It was such a thrill to know you are 'part' of that, with it all singing in your blood, 'remembering...'

In addition to all the individual events and demonstrations and games, the highlight was - with bagpipes a'playin' - the Review of the Clans, who each had a tent around the entire perimeter of the field.

Everyone would thrill to see the Leader of each clan with his baton (forgot the specific name of it! - 'Venerable One' Memory Lapse Moment..:))) with its members in dress kilts struttin' with enormous pride -

TRULY AWESOME !!!

LOL - mixed with the Scottish blood is a heavy amount of the Irish - the German - the English - and a little French - all of which makes me a gen-u-wine AMERICAN!!

[ValerieUSA]

I didn't see any waterfalls -- just some rapids, but not a real falls.
Near sunset outside Waynesville

[Aquamarine]

That looks like Dry Falls, the one that you can walk behind located in Highlands, N.C.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

(that's ok - Dixie - about the pictures not coming out - no prob)

Lody - thanks for posting Grannie9's beautiful N.H. pictures.....they are beautiful as well. And all that Valerie and others have posted have made this thread a festival of color and beauty! Thanks to all.

[LadyX]

Hi, Cobby!
Glad you climbed down from your rig to honor us with your presence to help celebrate FWI's Day.

Hey - I am just The Front Man for our Finest Friend..:)))

(okay - front woman...:)))