A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....12-18-02

Billie, Molly Pitcher, daisyscarlett

[Pippin]

Thanks, There was much more I could have typed but my eyes were tearing up so I had to stop.

[Molly Pitcher]

Yes, the railway bridge!! and for one of my birthdays, my father took a few of us on the train across the Bay! Wow! You brought that all back.:-))

[WVNan]

Hi Pip. It is always a pleasure to read your writing about things. You have such a touching way of writing. Your heart comes through. Merry Christmas and BTW, happy new home to you!

[Pippin]

You must have had great fun growing up in Galveston.

[daisyscarlett]

Good morning lonestar. I guess you and Wienie liked the thread yesterday with all those precious pets. Merry Christmas to you and Wienie...BTW, are you near Galveston?

[Pippin]

Thanks, Nan! :^)

[Molly Pitcher]

Thanks, Misty!

Pippin, your words just glow!!

Billie, appreciate what Daisy did so much, and did you see? ru, and I have traded memories!!

[WVNan]

I guess my childhood in rural Tenn. during the Depression years made me intolerant of selfishness. People don't know what deprivation is these days in America.

[Molly Pitcher]

Thanks, jw. Alas I never made it to W. Texas....at least than I can remember!

Nan, that is a beautiful, sweet story! Thank you!

[WVNan]

Molly! I was waiting for you to be here so I could tell you how much I enjoyed your contribution to this thread. This may be the best one yet (but I say that every day).

[Pippin]

It must be something in growing up during that time and in that place. My dad grew up during the depression, he was born in 1932, the beginning of the depression, in east Tennessee. He, too, cannot tolerate selfishness.

[MistyCA]

Oh, Nan. That is beautiful! Thanks for sharing that memory with all of us. I wish the children of today...more of them....knew the value of such memories. It is what gives fiber and strength of character to people. My sister also kept her very first dolls, although they had no fingers because she had this obnoxious little sister who managed to cut them off at some point! :( (me)! My only excuse is that I was very much younger.

I can remember wanting a little table and chair set when I was little. I remember seeing a flat large package under the tree and I knew that must be it! And it was! Oh, what I would give to still have that today. But the memory will be there forever.

[daisyscarlett]

Hi Pippin. Thanks for the memories of Tenn.

I do remember those old pumps used in the country, (North, South, wherever) to get water. Whenever we visited Grandma, my brothers and I would fight over whose turn it was to pump. Not to get out of pumping, but because we all wanted to pump.

So good to finally see you again Pippin. We missed ya on Monday. Wonderful Christmas vignette about your memorable first Christmas as a server. I thought you were going to say that the snowstorm kept everyone from Church so there was no one there to serve! But it went in another direction.

Have you seen the Two Towers movie yet?

[MistyCA]

Awww. Bless your heart, Pippin. :)

[daisyscarlett]

Aquamarine asked me to extend her apologies for not being here. She and Mr. Aqua left early this a.m. to spend the day and evening in Gatlinburg TN and won't be back till noon tomorrow. They are going to visit Aqua's favorite art gallery there and possibly purchase a new picture for Christmas. I am sure Gatlinburg is a Place in the Heart of many.

Lodwick, if Aqua were here, I just bet she would be playing Galveston by Glenn Campbell and Country Roads by John Denver...(shameless hint, ha ha)

[Molly Pitcher]

LOL! You're easy to please then! Everyday's Finest thread is the Finest.....

[Molly Pitcher]

LOL! Hope Aqua has a wonderful trip!!

[WVNan]

obnoxious little sister who managed to cut them off at some point!

LOL. You know, the funny thing is that my obnoxious brother, Bill, in a fit of anger the next spring, grabbed my dolls away from me and tossed them into the flooded creek water. I never saw them again and it broke my heart. I never stopped looking for them whenever I returned to that place, even as I became an adult. I kept thinking I would somehow find them, but I never did. They live on in my memory as the best gift I ever received.

[ST.LOUIE1]

Hi, Daisy! Cute Babe graphic.

Angels, eh? Well, ok, I agree. : )

[ST.LOUIE1]

Does your mind ever shut down? LOL