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OK I'm making a public confession right here and now, in front of all my brethern here. I've been drinking big phat juicy ice pepsi's lately for the last two weeks. You like that one didn't you TIM? Go ahead a call me a Green Tea traitor...go ahead Tim I'm ready for you to use my confession against me bud!!!! :lol: Ahhhhh you can go for it too Dora! Go for it girl!!! It was goodddddd and I'm doing it again too. :-D I got to say lately though the Pepsi's here havent been tasting like cleaning fluid stuff from the Pepsi plant in Charlotte, which is about 10 miles from here. That's why I was drinking cokes, then cokes tore up my stomach up (got to figure if they can desolve a penny) yes I was stupid and so I went to green tea. But my daughter brought this Wild Cherry Pepsi home and man I just love it. :shocked!:
Kind of reminds me when I was a little girl and I would go to the soda shop in the local drug store and you would get a coke with a splash of cherry syrup. Ahhhhh the good ole days with soda shops and 3 pieces of candy for a penny, and playing outside until 10 pm catching fire flys and playing hide and go seek, kick the can, or simple simmon says, or riding cardboard down a hill of grass (works just like a sled on snow) . Makes you wish you could reach back and grab one of those days just to enjoy another one again now.
OK now that Tim and Dora are clicking their heels with glee cause I'm drinking Pepsi, I hope I made your day!!! :multi:

Kudos HIM,
Carol

I vote Wild Cherry Pepsi!!!!!!!!!!! Number One best taste!!! Now that should stir things up real good. tehe ha he ha
 
I must say, Carol, you've always struck me as a "Wild Cherry" kind of gal.

Boy I could relate to what you said about the old time drug stores with the soda counter and penny candy. When I was a little girl my favorite place in the whole wide world was Baker's General Store in Greely Hill, California. Back then, Mr. Baker was still alive and if I gave him a penny, he would give me this little bag. On this counter in the store was a number of those old fashioned candy jars, and I could take my little bag and fill it with as much candy as it could hold. It was a great place, kind of dark, smelled like fresh fruit and laundry soap. It had an almost black wooden floor, and a big meat counter in the back. Mr. Baker would cut slices off of these big bolognas or hams or roasts for sandwich meat. And, it was a true General Store, you could buy anything there from workshirts to baby dolls to steaks.

Once when mom and I were there a hippie couple came into the store. It was the first time I had ever seen real hippies and they didn't disappoint. They both had tie-dyed shirts, love beads, torn jeans and the only way to tell which was the man and which was the woman was that the man had the beard. They wanted to buy 1 potato. Mr. Baker sold all his potatoes by bulk so he really didn't have a price for just one potato. A 5lb bag was something like .25 cents, and Mr. Baker wanted to know if they wanted 5lbs, but they said no, they just needed one. So, true to Mr. Baker's style, he just gave them a potato. The hippies were really impressed by this and told him what a cool guy he was. After they left, Mr. Baker said, "I guess love is all they need."

I made the mistake of going back there years later, long after Mr. Baker died and the store was sold. The building was the same, but the inside was basically a mini-mart. Not the same thing at all. And the candy jars were gone. If the new earth has any of the things that this earth has, I'm hoping that Mr. Baker's store winds up there.
 
Oh gosh Dora you describe the same little store I went into as a little girl. The wooden floors, the soda counter and on the other side the little one cabinet pharmacy that sold coke syrup for upset stomachs, asprin, stuff for scrapes or burns, the smell of meats being sliced in back, the 10 cent dolls, and the jars of candy all different kinds, and our little brown paper bags to fill, I use to love the horehounds covered in sugar. I remember one summer I saved up a $1.00 and bought a gallon jar of horehounds....I was in hog heaven after sharing with my friends. I can close my eyes Dora and I can get that same feeling and remember those smells when I was a little girl going in there. And Dora they are some of my fondess memories. Playing outside and my grandmother ringing that big old bell on a pole to come home, sneaking green onions and tomatoes with a salt shaker in her garden hiding and eating like crazy and her coming out asking me: have you been eating my green onions girl? I had to reak of them but I would say no. Leaving the front door open at night listening to the crickets and watching my fireflys in a old mason jar while in bed. Or helping grandma wash clothes in those old wringer washing machines and getting my hands caught in it. Or her killing a couple of chickens for dinner and me climbing up in the tree cause the last time though she had cut their heads off and they're running around in the yard knowing they were after me. LOL Making go carts out of crates and riding down hills in them. The only time TV came on was for Bonanza Sunday night at 8pm. You know Dora, I think that's what wrong with these last generations, they didn't enjoy the innocents of life then, they don't have a grasp of what they're even about, and it really saddens me that they can't reflect back to such wonderful childhood times like us and enjoy the simple loving times like us. It didn't take much to make us happy when we were children. And the barn was my playground all day, such wonderful adventures I had in that old barn, checking out birds nest, playing in the hay stacks, or playing tag in the corn fields. I just loved it when I was a little girl when bright and early in the morning when the dew was covering everything and looked like diamonds hanging on the spider webs and the tall grass and flowers, and I use to play like I was the princess of the diamond city and make dolls from the flowers until the sun took all dew away later. Gosh Dora were'nt those the wonderful days to be a child?

Kudos HIM,
Carol <><
 
You know Carol, sometimes I get downright cranky about living way out here in the middle of nowhere. Just a trip to the grocery store is a day-trip and with gas prices being what they are, it's not exactly economical.

But, I had a childhood just as you described, down to that old wringer style washer. As soon as chores were done, I was free as a bird and could hike all around our hills and play hide-n-seek in our very own cave and "accidently on purpose" fall into the creek. Snack time was climbing the apple tree, pear tree, or plum tree, plucking blackberries or raiding radishes, green onions or baby carrots from the garden. During summer, once the garden really started going, supper was generally fish caught from the creek, or a chicken from the hen house, vegetables cut from the garden and milk from the cow. Everything we ate was in it's natural state that same morning. It was a good life.

And, that's why, even though I get grumpy about it at times, it's worth the inconvenience to live out here and provide the same for our kids. Again, as soon as chores are done, they are out the door. About the only difference is that we don't have a creek running through all summer long (ours dry up), so they pack water with them. What we have to sacrifice in order to live out here is nothing compared to what the kids are getting. At least, when they look back on their childhood, they will have memories of fun times, rather than of just TV shows or video games.
 
Carol Lowery said:
OK I'm making a public confession right here and now, in front of all my brethern here. I've been drinking big phat juicy ice pepsi's lately for the last two weeks. You like that one didn't you TIM? Go ahead a call me a Green Tea traitor...go ahead Tim I'm ready for you to use my confession against me bud!!!! :lol: Ahhhhh you can go for it too Dora! Go for it girl!!! It was goodddddd and I'm doing it again too. :-D I got to say lately though the Pepsi's here havent been tasting like cleaning fluid stuff from the Pepsi plant in Charlotte, which is about 10 miles from here. That's why I was drinking cokes, then cokes tore up my stomach up (got to figure if they can desolve a penny) yes I was stupid and so I went to green tea. But my daughter brought this Wild Cherry Pepsi home and man I just love it. :shocked!:
Kind of reminds me when I was a little girl and I would go to the soda shop in the local drug store and you would get a coke with a splash of cherry syrup. Ahhhhh the good ole days with soda shops and 3 pieces of candy for a penny, and playing outside until 10 pm catching fire flys and playing hide and go seek, kick the can, or simple simmon says, or riding cardboard down a hill of grass (works just like a sled on snow) . Makes you wish you could reach back and grab one of those days just to enjoy another one again now.
OK now that Tim and Dora are clicking their heels with glee cause I'm drinking Pepsi, I hope I made your day!!! :multi:

Kudos HIM,
Carol

I vote Wild Cherry Pepsi!!!!!!!!!!! Number One best taste!!! Now that should stir things up real good. tehe ha he ha
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Doesn't feel good to be experienceing the goodness God brings to a life through an ice cold Pepsi Product? It just makes any Joy better. :)
 
Tim you are such a nut!!!! Heck we're all a bunch of nuts. I hope there's no squirrels around, cause we're all going to be in a whole heap of trouble. But hey Dora and I can get a head start by pointing out Tim first!!! :lol: Hey Dora I think that will give us a good lead, the squirrels will be on Tim for a while. Hey Dora if you got Tim's address, we'll jut send the deadly squirrels to his house and then we don't have to run girl!!! :wink:
 
Carol Lowery said:
Tim you are such a nut!!!! Heck we're all a bunch of nuts. I hope there's no squirrels around, cause we're all going to be in a whole heap of trouble. But hey Dora and I can get a head start by pointing out Tim first!!! :lol: Hey Dora I think that will give us a good lead, the squirrels will be on Tim for a while. Hey Dora if you got Tim's address, we'll jut send the deadly squirrels to his house and then we don't have to run girl!!! :wink:
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Don't you know that, although it would be somewhat funny to watch him run, I would have to take up arms and help him out? :smt070
 
Hi Caroline~

Stand by your guy ... and always remember that respect is alot like love to a man.

:D Good show my girl - the beauty of a woman of virtue~ whose spirit is both gentle and quiet~
His creation in you and so precious in His sight. :-D

Just a little encouragement I hope~ during this season of engagement, when the pedal can speed to the floorboards without a second thought ...

Opps! Sorry if I am sounding mommish~ its the grandmother in me. bonnie.
 
Hey Caroline, you can send them to my house for my hubby, they would have a feast on my big nut of a husband. :lol: I need the break from laughing all the time with my hubby, he makes my tummy hurt....but after I recover from him, I guess I would have to help him out too. :smt068 But it is nice havng my personal comedian, or court jester. :wink:
We need someone mommish in here Bonnie, but blame that on my hubby, he brings the child out in me!!! tehe ha he tehe ha
 
I think I could hold my own against evil deadly squirrels. I have Sniping Monkeys to guard the my house and body guard Gorrilla's if they should get in and the love of a good woman to keep me strong. Most of all, God be for me, so who could be against me?
 
sheshisown said:
Hi Caroline~

Stand by your guy ... and always remember that respect is alot like love to a man.

:D Good show my girl - the beauty of a woman of virtue~ whose spirit is both gentle and quiet~
His creation in you and so precious in His sight. :-D

Just a little encouragement I hope~ during this season of engagement, when the pedal can speed to the floorboards without a second thought ...

Opps! Sorry if I am sounding mommish~ its the grandmother in me. bonnie.
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Thanks Bonnie, that was sweet :D
 
Hey that was awesome until you posted....... :lol: Where are those squirrels when we need them? Caroline get out the gun.....they're coming.....put Tim in lock down for his protection!!!

Wowwwwwwwww 7,777 that is pretty cool Tim.

Hey why did the squirrel run to the other side of the road? It saw Tim coming out for the morning paper!! :lol:
 
Carol Lowery said:
Hey that was awesome until you posted....... :lol: Where are those squirrels when we need them? Caroline get out the gun.....they're coming.....put Tim in lock down for his protection!!!

Wowwwwwwwww 7,777 that is pretty cool Tim.

Hey why did the squirrel run to the other side of the road? It saw Tim coming out for the morning paper!! :lol:
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Ha ha, that's a good one :P

Don't worry, I'm locked and loaded and ready to go... :smt066
 
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