In a message dated 2/10/2008 8:55:30 AM Pacific Standard Time, barg [email protected] writes: For all those folk who know nothing about village life, do you have any questions on the subject? How did people entertain themselves in village life? Having grown up in rural California, even with all the technology and such that we had in our teen years (I was a teenager when the internet was just taking off), we still dealt with boredom, and the youth in this town still feel bored at times. What kinds of pasttimes did people of any and all ages occupy themselves with when they didn't have to work? Annalee **************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp003000000025 48)

In a message dated 2/10/2008 8:27:06 AM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: OK folks, time to put out the Welcome Mat once more and give a hearty welcome to Samuel Phillips. Welcome Samuel! I'm Annalee in California, and I've just joined the list myself. I am looking forward to getting to know everyone, and also getting to know more about England. :) Annalee **************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp003000000025 48)

In a message dated 2/10/2008 1:52:36 AM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Hi Annalee, I'm Maggie - I live right on the coast in Essex, England which is on the right hand side of the country fairly close to London. I'm not sure if I've welcomed you yet cos I've had ISP probs and been blowing blue smoke....LOL.....so 'Welcome'. Maggie LOL, thank you for the welcome, Maggie! :) I had been having a heck of a time with ISP trouble for a while myself, until I switched...strangely enough, AOL, which I used to use and had given me so much trouble, is what I'm using now and it works really well! Annalee **************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp003000000025 48)

In a message dated 2/9/2008 10:06:35 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Hi Annalee, I'm Edna and I live just south of Wendy on Vancouver Island. We're a fair bit north of you and in Southern Canada. Hi Edna, thank you for the welcome! :) Annalee **************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp003000000025 48)

Masses of congratulations and good wishes to you two and the little Phoebe and of course to all the family including the very proud Great Grandma Marlene. Glad she arrived safe and sound. Best Wishes Johno, Mary and Cathy

Ok,Geo. I'll try and help out with the topic. I lived in a rural area. WE had a farm of 65 acres. ONly about 15 acres were cleared for hay fields, gardens and pasture land. We had 2-3 cows at a time--some pigs and chickens. A couple of times a cow dropped a bull and we would raise it for beef. When spring came it ws time for sowing seed for the hay fields and planting crops for the humans. If I remember correctly we would buy 100 pounds of seed potatoes. When May 30 came we cut up the seed potatoes and several of us would plant them. Then there was the usual veggies to plant. After that came the weeding---harvest time was busy because we would pick and my mother would can. AGt the back of our property we had a swamp where blueberries grew in abundance. We would go down several times and pick the berries and Mom would can them. One year she canned 88 quarts od blueberris. Many pies that year. We lived 5 miles outside town--there was a small general store about 2 miles away.Saturday nite Mom did the weekly shopping. I grew up in the 40'&50"s and from what I have heard on the list we would have been considered having a posh house because we had indoor plumbing.Because there were so many of us--9kids,Mom&Dad and my grandfather sleeping arrangements were cramped--some bunck beds--and my sister and I slept on an open porch. In winter time we would shake the snow off the sleeping bags--we also had soap stones that we heated in the oven and put in our beds to warm them up before getting in--they were good for keeping your feet warm. Should have put this earlier--Our earleist tractor was a Model T Ford which my brothers put together from other car parts.BY the time I was about 13 we had a regular John Deere which I drove along with my older sister. When your feet could reach the pedals you were aloud to drive. There was a lake a little ways from our house and when our chofres were done we could go swimming---In the winter we would play hockey. There were always sand lot games going on during the summer thru the fall--usually baseball or American football. Having 4 older brothers I played football and baseball. Hope this adds to the other information that you have. Jean USA "Geo." <[email protected]> wrote: Just a gentle reminder... We have had four submissions on this month's topic and very interesting they were too. If anyone else as any stories, anecdotes, descriptions of life, customs, etc. in a village, farm or rural area won't you please share them with us? They can relate to any era. Do you know anything of the places your Ag. Lab. or farmer ancestors lived? Did you live in a village or on a farm yourself? For all those folk who know nothing about village life, do you have any questions on the subject? Geo. . . "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? If not, PLEASE change it." ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The following story is about life in the community and parish of Forgandenny where my family came from in the prior to 1800. This is an agricultural community where my 6XG grandfather served as an elder of the kirk pictured at http://perthshire.blogspot.com/2007/12/forgandenny-perthshire-scotland.html The article, reproduced below, tells of Forgandenny as it is now and some of its history. My grandfather mentioned above was a tenant of Lord Ruthvan at Freeland. Capt'n John Forgandenny Perthshire Scotland Forgandenny Parish Church lies about two miles from Forteviot, Perthshire, Scotland. Tour Forgandenny, Perthshire, Scotland, on an Ancestry Tour of Scotland. Best Scottish Tours, Best Scottish Food, Best Scottish Hotels, Small Group Tours of Scotland. Rent a Cottage in Scotland. Forgandenny in 1846. Forgandenny, a parish, partly in the county of Kinross, but chiefly in that of Perth, 3½ miles (W.) from Bridge of Earn; containing 796 inhabitants, of whom 66 are in the village. This parish is about ten miles in length, and two in average breadth, and comprises 12,800 acres, of which 2000 have never been cultivated. It is divided into the upper and lower districts; the former comprehends a part of the Ochils, covering fully three-fourths of the surface of the parish; and the latter, stretching from the foot of these hills, on the south, to the river Earn, on the north, consists of a well-cultivated tract, somewhat similar to the Carse of Gowrie. The scenery is good, on account of the beautiful variations of the surface; the land gradually rises from the river southward, and the acclivities of the Ochils by degrees attain the height of 1000 feet above the level of the sea. Considerable beauty is also conferred on the scenery by the course of the picturesque Earn, which is well stocked with salmon, sea-trout, and other varieties, with whiting, pike, and eels; and besides this river, the May, a fine mountain stream rising in Auchterarder, enters the parish at its south-western extremity, and flows northward in the direction of the Earn: it contains a large supply of fine trout. The higher district is cold, its soil light, and though it bears good crops of other grain, wheat is never sown here; but on the lower grounds all kinds of white and green crops are produced of excellent quality, the soil being rich and strong. Much of the hilly waste has been recently laid down in excellent sheep pastures: some of the highest grounds have been made to yield fine crops of turnips, and have been inclosed with wire fences; and furrow-draining has been much practised in the lower parts of the parish, where, also, the farmbuildings are almost entirely constructed after an improved method. The rateable annual value of the parish is £5879, of which £340 are for the Kinrossshire portion. Trap rocks constitute nearly the whole of the substrata; but they are so soft and friable as to be almost useless, even for the building of stone fences, or any other purpose except the repair of roads. The old red sandstone lies under this rock, though at too great a depth to admit of quarrying; in the upper district are to be seen beautiful specimens of conglomerate, and numerous blue and purple pebbles appear in the decomposed trap. A thin vein of limestone exists on the estate of Dumbuils, but on account of its sandy character, and the distance of coal, it is not wrought: copper is said to have been formerly obtained in the wood of Condie, though no traces of it are now visible. The natural wood covers about forty acres, and 400 are in plantations, comprising the trees usually grown in the country. The mansion of Freeland, belonging to Lord Ruthven, is a modern residence, having been remodelled about 1834; and that of Condie, an ancient structure, has received some recent additions: the other mansions are Rossie and Torrance, the former erected about eighty years since, and the latter about fifty. The population are entirely agricultural: besides the village of Forgandenny, there is a small hamlet in the Ochils, called Path-Struie, or the Path of Condie. The road from Stirling to Bridge of Earn passes through the former village, and affords facility for the conveyance of the produce, which is disposed of at Perth, Newburgh, in Fifeshire, and sometimes at Kinross. The parish is in the presbytery of Perth and synod of Perth and Stirling, and in the patronage of the Crown: the minister's stipend is £200, with a manse, and a glebe of six acres, valued at £15 per annum. The church, a plain edifice of considerable antiquity, was formerly one of the eleven prebendal churches of Dunkeld cathedral; it has lately undergone repair, and accommodates 410 persons. There are places of worship for members of the Free Church and the United Secession. The parochial school, situated in the village of Forgandenny, affords instruction in the usual branches; the master has a salary of £34, with a house and garden, and £10 fees. There is also a school at the Path of Condie, instituted by an act of the presbytery of Perth, dated 1660, and confirmed by the privy council in 1663, empowering the heritors to appropriate the vacant stipend of 1659 to its endowment; the money was placed at interest for the payment of the teacher, and was augmented by the Rev. Mr. Willison, a late incumbent, who made a bequest of a small field, producing £7. 10. annually. A library of religious books, and one of miscellaneous works, are attached to the parochial school. On the north side of the Ochils is a hill on which formerly stood an important fortification, supposed by some to have been of the vitrified class, but considered by most as Danish. Its boundary line, once formed by a circular stone wall, circumscribes an area 170 yards in diameter; and the hill, called Castle-Law, commands most extensive prospects, embracing the mouth of the Tay and the German Ocean, on the east; Strathearn, to the Grampian mountains, on the west; a large part of the counties of Perth and Angus, on the north and north-east; and the Lomond hills, on the south. Posted by Sandy Stevenson

Congratulations to all Jean Oz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glennis" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [TRIVVIES] A New Little One To Cherish > Congratulations to all! And what a lovely name. > Glennis > > Marlene Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Maria and Andy have just phoned to say that > little Phoebe Mary Paige has arrived > she weighed in at 6lb 7ozs at 11. 15pm UK time > Saturday 9th February > One Relieved Gt Nan who hasn't moved outside today > Marlene > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Support the World Aids Awareness campaign this month with Yahoo! For Good > http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/ > . > . > "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? > If not, PLEASE change it." > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > . > . > "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? > If not, PLEASE change it." > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Hello Annalee, welcome I'm Jean in Perth Australia, a little north of Geo. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Valerie Bower" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 9:21 AM Subject: Re: [TRIVVIES] New Member > Hi Annalee > I`m Val and I live at Manly Beach, Sydney, Australia > Welcome > Val xx > > > >> Hi, folks. Please welcome Annalee from California to the List. >> >> Welcome Annalee. Please make yourself to home, drag up a keyboard and >> introduce yourself to the List. They're a pretty friendly bunch of folks >> and they don't bite. Well, not very hard anyways. <g> >> >> Geo. <in Busselton in the south-west corner of Western Australia.> >> . >> . >> "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? >> If not, PLEASE change it." >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > . > . > "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? > If not, PLEASE change it." > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Yes Scruff is fine in the respect of her infection but now she has a huge lump come up at the back of her head. My son said it could be where she got the injection but it is so huge I wonder. She has to go back on Tuesday as a follow up so I will get him to look at it then Di Di http://photobucket.com/albums/d100/didi_45 [email protected] > its always hard for pets when their routine is disturbed, isn't it, Di? > Funny how people don't think about that when they are not accustomed to > a pet's routine. Old ones specially do not like changes at all. > > Hope Scruff is back to her usual self soon > bye > mary > > Di Di wrote: >> Oh Mary I am so sorry to hear this but as you say he was a good age. >> >> Since I have come home I am concerned about Scruff......the vet said she >> ok >> as I took her there on Tuesday but she is not the old Scruff.....I am >> thinking maybe me leaving her was not a good thing. She may buck right >> up....I hope so and i am just giving her all the love she missed when I >> was >> away. >> >> I know her life was not as good as I give her. My friend told me she had >> trained Scruff to wait for her food till Jesse the cat had finished >> his.....I always feed them together....she is too old to be made to do >> different things. But I must not complain because my friend did move in >> and >> look after both of them for 6 weeks. >> >> Hugs >> Di Di >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> >>> sorry to hear about George, Johno. I know just how you feel. My >>> daughter's old dog, Nicky, who has been living with me these past couple >>> of years finally died Jan 15. She was almost 16, a lab/border collie >>> cross, so was a good age. She was almost blind, and deaf and had >>> arthritis, but still enjoyed her quiet life here - that day - when her >>> kidneys failed, and I had to take her down to the vet.... I still miss >>> her and expect her to appear from time to time - though my hands are >>> pretty full these days with a 10 month old West Highland Terrier I was >>> given early in November - Jock is full of energy, and requires many >>> walks no matter how cold it is out there... >>> >>> mary >>> buried in snow >>> >>> >>> Johno wrote: >>> >>>> Hello All >>>> >>>> A sad bloggo this week as we lost our lovely cat George last week to a >>>> tumour. He was a lovely brave cat who battled on for nearly 6 months >>>> but >>>> in the end it proved too much for him. We all miss him a lot. I made >>>> a >>>> bit of a mistake in the bloggo though and called him our black cat when >>>> he was, in fact, white. Sorry about that George. >>>> >>>> http://www.connolley.co.uk/Bloggo_de_Johno.htm >>>> >>>> Hope you are all keeping well >>>> >>>> Kindest Regards >>>> >>>> Johno >>>> . >>>> . >>>> "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? >>>> If not, PLEASE change it." >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>>> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> . >>> . >>> "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? >>> If not, PLEASE change it." >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >> >> . >> . >> "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? >> If not, PLEASE change it." >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > . > . > "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? > If not, PLEASE change it." > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Annalee I`m Val and I live at Manly Beach, Sydney, Australia Welcome Val xx > Hi, folks. Please welcome Annalee from California to the List. > > Welcome Annalee. Please make yourself to home, drag up a keyboard and > introduce yourself to the List. They're a pretty friendly bunch of folks > and they don't bite. Well, not very hard anyways. <g> > > Geo. <in Busselton in the south-west corner of Western Australia.> > . > . > "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? > If not, PLEASE change it." > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Annalee, I'm Maggie - I live right on the coast in Essex, England which is on the right hand side of the country fairly close to London. I'm not sure if I've welcomed you yet cos I've had ISP probs and been blowing blue smoke....LOL.....so 'Welcome'. Maggie

Oh that is brilliant. Congratulations to all......and to you Gt Nan..... Hugs Maggie Maria and Andy have just phoned to say that little Phoebe Mary Paige has arrived she weighed in at 6lb 7ozs at 11. 15pm UK time Saturday 9th February One Relieved Gt Nan who hasn't moved outside today Marlene ___________________________________________________________ Support the World Aids Awareness campaign this month with Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/ . . "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? If not, PLEASE change it.." ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Annalee, Welcome! I'm Capt'n John, just outside of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia

Congratulations to all. A new twiglet for the tree !!! :o) Pat.xxx :o)) A Maid of Kent Maria and Andy have just phoned to say that little Phoebe Mary Paige has arrived she weighed in at 6lb 7ozs at 11. 15pm UK time Saturday 9th February One Relieved Gt Nan who hasn't moved outside today Marlene ___________________________________________________________ Support the World Aids Awareness campaign this month with Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/ . . "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? If not, PLEASE change it." ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

In a message dated 2/9/2008 9:48:28 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Hi Annalee,I'm on the west coast from Vancouver Island,bit north of you''Welcome from me as well.........Wendy Thank you for the welcome, Wendy! :) Annalee **************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp003000000025 48)

Maria and Andy have just phoned to say that little Phoebe Mary Paige has arrived she weighed in at 6lb 7ozs at 11. 15pm UK time Saturday 9th February One Relieved Gt Nan who hasn't moved outside today Marlene ___________________________________________________________ Support the World Aids Awareness campaign this month with Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/

Hi Annalee > I`m Val and I live at Manly Beach, Sydney, Australia > Welcome > Val xx Hi Val, thank you for the welcome! :) Annalee **************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp003000000025 48)

In a message dated 2/9/2008 7:36:02 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Hello Annalee, welcome I'm Jean in Perth Australia, a little north of Geo. Thank you for the welcome, Jean! :) Annalee **************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp003000000025 48)

See I cannot even spell LOL Di Di http://photobucket.com/albums/d100/didi_45 [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- > Welcome to the list Annalee. I am diane co owner of this list. I am a > bit > quite right now as I have just returned from Xmas in the UK with my > family.......also I am STILL waiting for my big computer to be repaired. > I > am not impatient but if you hear a scream......tis me!! :-) > > > Di Di > http://photobucket.com/albums/d100/didi_45 > [email protected] > > >> Welcome Annalee! I', sure you'll like it here. ... Lizzie >> >> =================== >> Hi, folks. Please welcome Annalee from California to the List. >> >> Welcome Annalee. Please make yourself to home, drag up a keyboard and >> introduce yourself to the List. They're a pretty friendly bunch of folks >> and >> they don't bite. Well, not very hard anyways. <g> >> >> Geo. <in Busselton in the south-west corner of Western Australia.> >> . >> . >> >> >> . >> . >> "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? >> If not, PLEASE change it." >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > . > . > "IS THE SUBJECT LINE STILL RELEVANT? > If not, PLEASE change it." > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >