Boy your daughter has been through the mill as they say. Hope she gets some good news about her arm. Annette. On Thursday, January 9, 2014 5:46 PM, Neysa <gramneysa@ct.metrocast.net> wrote: Hope your daughter's arm will not need anymore surgery, and heals properly. Would seem if she didn't have bad luck, she would have none at all!! My sympathies. Neysa ----- Original Message ----- From: CAROL KUNZ To: AN-INTERNET-FAMILY@GOOGLEGROUPS.COM ; memory-lane Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 2:05 PM Subject: [ML] Lousy luck for my daughter You all probably remember my daughter being robbed and beaten at her store a while back well, last Friday she was cleaning cobwebs from her ceiling and (I thought she was smarter than this...) she was standing on a swivel chair and fell and broke her elbow. Well, she has been in and out of the hospital as at first they thought she just dislocated it and put it back, then found out it was broken so they operated on it Monday and put a plastic elbow in, seems something has gone wrong so she goes in to see the orthopedic surgeon again today and she says she is sure they are going to have to operate again! I feel so bad for her as she has to be off work at the store and pay someone to replace her. She doesn't take a salary so it plays pretty hard on her. There is no way of telling how long it will be and of course it had to be her right arm. Monday our temperature was 13 below zero and I awoke to 63 degrees inside. I couldn't figure it out, I got a new furnace in June last year so I wouldn't have any more troubles and now this! It was keeping this low temp and I could feel some heat from the registers which I told the girl on the phone. The repairman finally showed up at about 9:00 pm and I had called my SIL next door to come over too. The repairman told me it was working and he couldn't fix something that was working and it was my house not the furnace! I was livid!!! He said the furnace was working and the outside temps wouldn't let it do any better. My SIL finally showed up and was nicer than I was and he had looked at it earlier also and after asking the (very young) repairman a few questions he asked for the book they had left with me when they installed it and come to find out it was a problem with the installers, they hadn't set something properly and after a simple flick of some switch I have heat. Our temps have risen a bit, it's about +15 now and my car is sitting in the driveway in about a foot of snow, it won't start and I don't have anywhere to go until....next JUNE! Carol K http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
You all probably remember my daughter being robbed and beaten at her store a while back well, last Friday she was cleaning cobwebs from her ceiling and (I thought she was smarter than this...) she was standing on a swivel chair and fell and broke her elbow. Well, she has been in and out of the hospital as at first they thought she just dislocated it and put it back, then found out it was broken so they operated on it Monday and put a plastic elbow in, seems something has gone wrong so she goes in to see the orthopedic surgeon again today and she says she is sure they are going to have to operate again! I feel so bad for her as she has to be off work at the store and pay someone to replace her. She doesn't take a salary so it plays pretty hard on her. There is no way of telling how long it will be and of course it had to be her right arm. Monday our temperature was 13 below zero and I awoke to 63 degrees inside. I couldn't figure it out, I got a new furnace in June last year so I wouldn't have any more troubles and now this! It was keeping this low temp and I could feel some heat from the registers which I told the girl on the phone. The repairman finally showed up at about 9:00 pm and I had called my SIL next door to come over too. The repairman told me it was working and he couldn't fix something that was working and it was my house not the furnace! I was livid!!! He said the furnace was working and the outside temps wouldn't let it do any better. My SIL finally showed up and was nicer than I was and he had looked at it earlier also and after asking the (very young) repairman a few questions he asked for the book they had left with me when they installed it and come to find out it was a problem with the installers, they hadn't set something properly and after a simple flick of some switch I have heat. Our temps have risen a bit, it's about +15 now and my car is sitting in the driveway in about a foot of snow, it won't start and I don't have anywhere to go until....next JUNE! Carol K
Glad to hear you are feeling better but sorry to hear about your son and weather. I have been so busy that have not been on line too much and wonder what your problem was. Annette. On Thursday, January 9, 2014 9:11 AM, Barbara Mangan <tipperboo12@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Everyone, I"m back. The pain in my muscles has let up some and what a relief. I was in such pain and it was almost unbearable. My son and his daughter came up for an 11 day visit and what a disaster. He rented a house (bed and breakfast) very close to us. He always stayed at his sister's house but one of the kids was home from college and it made it a little bit tight. Also, his dog is not trained, he got him from the kennel and used her rugs as his private toilet. My son came up not feeling to well and got worse here. He went to Med Express and got 3 prescriptions which did not help him at all. He went to his PCP at home and is feeling better. George caught what he had and they both coughed terribly. It snowed about 4 inches but he was able to get around.. It didn't snow that much before he came up. He stayed inside this place for 2 days because he was so sick. His girlfriend drove up with her 2 kids to meet us. He MAY get engaged, but I think he is thinking it over. Her kids are 1 and 6 yrs. old. She is 18 yrs. younger than him. I hope it turns out ok. Barb http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
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Yup, chicken poop can be a problem. Spiders don't bother me very much. A good chicken will eat all available spiders. My plumbing problems were not related to the sewer. Plumbers had to run a new water line out to the main cut off valve and uncovered a kajillion million rocks. I had raked them into piles and then it got cold. Today is sunny and warm. Too warm! The Dougster worked up a sweat and he was whining just a couple of days ago about the cold. Sheesh! Anyway, the rocks are hauled off and I'm taking a break. When rested, I'l find a few more things to do.. :-)** On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Louise Valine <antique1931@saber.net>wrote: > Doug, glad you are getting thawed out. We have been cold at night but > then towards 60 during the day. They say, they say, rain Sat. like that is > going to happen in the valley, but that is what they say. I think maybe the > votex thing was keeping all the storms north of us and not letting ca. get > wet. > We did have ground fog this morning but I think it was from the moisture > in the air from all the orchards in the area because of it being so dry. > They all have their sprinklers going. A field north of us has flood > irrigated. The almonds start to bloom early Feb. or if the sun keeps > shining maybe end of Jan. Starting out to be a strange year. > Makes me wonder what summer is going to be like. > Hate to think of what kind of bills the people in the really cold are > going to have trying to keep their houses warm. My gosh, Glad we have the > wood stove. Nothing like warm wood heat. Only problem is it doesn't get > back here to the back bedroom very fast when it is cold. > We had chickens when we moved out here. Ken built a shed for them because > I don't like them running all over the yard. Poop-poop. My inlaws had them > running around and with the kids small they would always be stepping in it. > Ick. Any way one hot summer day, you have to realize I was kind of new to > the country, even though lived in it when small but I never had to think > about spraying for any thing. Any way, go out to get the eggs, really hot > day, was a metal roof, well here are black widow spiders hanging down. I > don't like spiders, they were probably to hot to bite any way, but I got > out of there, and that was it for the chickens. I guess the kids gathered > the eggs before that. Should have bought stuff to kill them, but then it > was kind of pay day to pay day getting started with four kids. Both of us > working. Hadn't thought about the chickens for a long time. When I was a > kid dad had a place for them to lay and then they were in a pen. > Your rocks Doug, I think you said had sewer problems Well my daughter > had that a year ago at christmas with her son and family , 4 year old and 7 > year old. They are on the city sewer, the plumber came christmas day, good > thing we weren't having it at her house, it would have had to move out here > really fast. Any way, christmas morning it plugs up, thought they had it > fixed but wasn't and it turned out it was where it goes into the sewer. > The city had to dig up the side walk, the street and all. Good thing the > kids were leaving the day after. Last thing the little girl said was > grandpa the toilete isn't working again. As if they didn't know. We wonder > how we get through these things some times. Of course they were all > unpacked there so it wasn't like just them and could come out here. Only > problem with country living is the outside problems there are city people > don't even know about. Still prefer it to town until I have to. > Trying to get things back in order even though didn't have a tree up. > Still had this and that out so would look a little like christmas. I did > feel bad, when the niece and nephew with their two grandchildren were here > from Michigan and the boys were asking me why I didn't have a christmas > tree. > But we did live through it after all they were only here for a couple of > hours. > Well need to get busy here. Every one be careful out in the cold. don't > overwork yourself Doug, there is still tomorrow. > Louise > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
Actually Shirley, I have a chicken coop... That was one of the demands Sherry needed to retire... She and I built a fine chicken coop together. I open the door for the chickens early in the morning. Feed'em and set'em free. They have the run of 200 plus acres and at dark-thirty, they return to the coop where I lock them up for the night. Thus, the best farm fresh eggs known to mankind. Actually, with all the wide open space and all the varmints around, I'm surprised I haven't had trouble before now, Coyotes, foxes, owls, hawks, etc. The chickens do darn good. Since catching the chicken-killing possum, I haven't lost another nor have I caught anything else in the trap. I'm thinking my troubles are over until another varmint learns what this possum did. There are various plans for what I think you are describing. Often, they are called chicken tractors. Can be moved around to provide food for the chickens and fertilizer for the ground. A neat idea but I'm way too lazy for that. lol On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:33 AM, <Sullyshirl73@aol.com> wrote: > Doug > > I read about your Chickens, and how your thinking about MAYBE getting some > more Chickens ??? Maybe you need to build a Chicken coup ??? or maybe not. > If I could I would love to have Chickens, all different kinds of chickens. > The feed store by us (our middle son raised sheep in Agriculture in High > school, Jalopy was her name, she won first place at the county fair, for > her wool. We went to the Feed store a lot, and they always had all these > different kinds of chickens, I love those chickens and more than once > wished I could buy them and bring them home.) We aren't allowed to raise > poultry on our property, or I would have raised chickens in a minute if i > could !!! Anyway, back to a chicken coup, I saw this chicken coup on TV, > they tried to make it so animals couldn't dig under the coup, and with > chicken wire walls, and they planted climbing roses to go up the side of > the chicken wire, looked pretty, and also the thorns on the roses protected > the chickens to some extent . > Just a thought !!! maybe to much work ??? > > Sully in Sunny California > > In a message dated 1/9/2014 4:32:16 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, > ddcrim@gmail.com writes: > > Not much happening on the home front... We're finally thawing out.. This > morning it's a balmy 52 degrees and I'm loving it. > The rocks I raked last week are still in piles and maybe today I can get > them picked up and hauled off. Have I mentioned how much I detest rocks? > The chicken-killing possum has been dispatched and the trap has been > sitting baited and idle, so hopefully that problem is resolved. Have I > mentioned how much I detest chicken-killing possums? > Now I have to make a decision as to whether to replace the dead chickens. > They are a minor pain in the ass but I've grown accustomed to having > chickens around. Don't need the eggs, but Sherry loved her chickens. Have > I mentioned how much I detest making decisions? > That about covers it for me this morning. How 'bout you? > > The Dougster :-)* > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "an-internet-family" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to an-internet-family+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to an-internet-family@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/an-internet-family. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "an-internet-family" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to an-internet-family+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to an-internet-family@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/an-internet-family. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >
Doug I read about your Chickens, and how your thinking about MAYBE getting some more Chickens ??? Maybe you need to build a Chicken coup ??? or maybe not. If I could I would love to have Chickens, all different kinds of chickens. The feed store by us (our middle son raised sheep in Agriculture in High school, Jalopy was her name, she won first place at the county fair, for her wool. We went to the Feed store a lot, and they always had all these different kinds of chickens, I love those chickens and more than once wished I could buy them and bring them home.) We aren't allowed to raise poultry on our property, or I would have raised chickens in a minute if i could !!! Anyway, back to a chicken coup, I saw this chicken coup on TV, they tried to make it so animals couldn't dig under the coup, and with chicken wire walls, and they planted climbing roses to go up the side of the chicken wire, looked pretty, and also the thorns on the roses protected the chickens to some extent . Just a thought !!! maybe to much work ??? Sully in Sunny California In a message dated 1/9/2014 4:32:16 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, ddcrim@gmail.com writes: Not much happening on the home front... We're finally thawing out.. This morning it's a balmy 52 degrees and I'm loving it. The rocks I raked last week are still in piles and maybe today I can get them picked up and hauled off. Have I mentioned how much I detest rocks? The chicken-killing possum has been dispatched and the trap has been sitting baited and idle, so hopefully that problem is resolved. Have I mentioned how much I detest chicken-killing possums? Now I have to make a decision as to whether to replace the dead chickens. They are a minor pain in the ass but I've grown accustomed to having chickens around. Don't need the eggs, but Sherry loved her chickens. Have I mentioned how much I detest making decisions? That about covers it for me this morning. How 'bout you? The Dougster :-)* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "an-internet-family" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to an-internet-family+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to an-internet-family@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/an-internet-family. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Doug, glad you are getting thawed out. We have been cold at night but then towards 60 during the day. They say, they say, rain Sat. like that is going to happen in the valley, but that is what they say. I think maybe the votex thing was keeping all the storms north of us and not letting ca. get wet. We did have ground fog this morning but I think it was from the moisture in the air from all the orchards in the area because of it being so dry. They all have their sprinklers going. A field north of us has flood irrigated. The almonds start to bloom early Feb. or if the sun keeps shining maybe end of Jan. Starting out to be a strange year. Makes me wonder what summer is going to be like. Hate to think of what kind of bills the people in the really cold are going to have trying to keep their houses warm. My gosh, Glad we have the wood stove. Nothing like warm wood heat. Only problem is it doesn't get back here to the back bedroom very fast when it is cold. We had chickens when we moved out here. Ken built a shed for them because I don't like them running all over the yard. Poop-poop. My inlaws had them running around and with the kids small they would always be stepping in it. Ick. Any way one hot summer day, you have to realize I was kind of new to the country, even though lived in it when small but I never had to think about spraying for any thing. Any way, go out to get the eggs, really hot day, was a metal roof, well here are black widow spiders hanging down. I don't like spiders, they were probably to hot to bite any way, but I got out of there, and that was it for the chickens. I guess the kids gathered the eggs before that. Should have bought stuff to kill them, but then it was kind of pay day to pay day getting started with four kids. Both of us working. Hadn't thought about the chickens for a long time. When I was a kid dad had a place for them to lay and then they were in a pen. Your rocks Doug, I think you said had sewer problems Well my daughter had that a year ago at christmas with her son and family , 4 year old and 7 year old. They are on the city sewer, the plumber came christmas day, good thing we weren't having it at her house, it would have had to move out here really fast. Any way, christmas morning it plugs up, thought they had it fixed but wasn't and it turned out it was where it goes into the sewer. The city had to dig up the side walk, the street and all. Good thing the kids were leaving the day after. Last thing the little girl said was grandpa the toilete isn't working again. As if they didn't know. We wonder how we get through these things some times. Of course they were all unpacked there so it wasn't like just them and could come out here. Only problem with country living is the outside problems there are city people don't even know about. Still prefer it to town until I have to. Trying to get things back in order even though didn't have a tree up. Still had this and that out so would look a little like christmas. I did feel bad, when the niece and nephew with their two grandchildren were here from Michigan and the boys were asking me why I didn't have a christmas tree. But we did live through it after all they were only here for a couple of hours. Well need to get busy here. Every one be careful out in the cold. don't overwork yourself Doug, there is still tomorrow. Louise
Not much happening on the home front... We're finally thawing out.. This morning it's a balmy 52 degrees and I'm loving it. The rocks I raked last week are still in piles and maybe today I can get them picked up and hauled off. Have I mentioned how much I detest rocks? The chicken-killing possum has been dispatched and the trap has been sitting baited and idle, so hopefully that problem is resolved. Have I mentioned how much I detest chicken-killing possums? Now I have to make a decision as to whether to replace the dead chickens. They are a minor pain in the ass but I've grown accustomed to having chickens around. Don't need the eggs, but Sherry loved her chickens. Have I mentioned how much I detest making decisions? That about covers it for me this morning. How 'bout you? The Dougster :-)*
Ruth I am so glad you had a great time when you were out here in California (Azusa) also that your Aunt was a great tour guide. If you went up into the San Gabriel Mountains, up Hwy 39, it took you up to Crystal lake, a place us kids use to go to, and my mom and her husband use to take a picnic up there on 4 th of July. The ship was the Queen Mary in the port of Long Beach, been there my self a few times, Marine World in San Diego, one of the biggest aquarium in California. I don't know the "pucker brush" That Safari place is now gone, but I do remember it !! Solvang is still there, have stopped there many a time on our way home from Oregon, have great sandwiches and good beer. Yes old Mexico "Tijuana", it's a border town, I am afraid it's not improved much, still dirty, lots of dogs running around, and not to safe a place to go. Our son use to go down there to a Orphanage, help out with the children, once he and some men from his church, built a large bathhouse, they put in showers, sinks, and toilets, they built it out of cinder blocks. Also around Christmas he went down there with some friends and baked cookies with the children, let them decorate the cookies for Christmas, something that simple, the children had never done before. They also took a Christmas tree and decorated it and the people at church bought presents for all the children in the orphanage, our son said "when you see how little they have, and yet they are so Happy" our problems seem so small !!! Glad you remember Azusa with fond memories, I only lived there about 3 1/2 years, after about ten years my mom and her husband bought a home in Covina, about 5 miles away. A few years ago, when we went to our tax man, who is in Covina, we drove over to where I use to live in Azusa, the house is still there, a house down the street was for sale, I picked up a for sale flyer, they were asking 375 thousand dollars. I don't think it was worth that, but California real estate is exspensive. I do remember there were a lot of Orange groves around where our house was, but I didn't see one Orange tree anywhere. Sully in Sunny California
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Hi Everyone, I"m back. The pain in my muscles has let up some and what a relief. I was in such pain and it was almost unbearable. My son and his daughter came up for an 11 day visit and what a disaster. He rented a house (bed and breakfast) very close to us. He always stayed at his sister's house but one of the kids was home from college and it made it a little bit tight. Also, his dog is not trained, he got him from the kennel and used her rugs as his private toilet. My son came up not feeling to well and got worse here. He went to Med Express and got 3 prescriptions which did not help him at all. He went to his PCP at home and is feeling better. George caught what he had and they both coughed terribly. It snowed about 4 inches but he was able to get around.. It didn't snow that much before he came up. He stayed inside this place for 2 days because he was so sick. His girlfriend drove up with her 2 kids to meet us. He MAY get engaged, but I think he is thinking it over. Her kids are 1 and 6 yrs. old. She is 18 yrs. younger than him. I hope it turns out ok. Barb
Everyday in our Local Newspaper, they have a small column just inside the main part of the newspaper, PEOPLE, Today's Celebrity Birthday's: it goes on to list some Birthday's of the rich and famous: Today it did list Elvis Presley as Birthday's of the past, Ron Moody 90, Larry Storch 91,Charles Osgood 81, Shirley Bassey 77, Bob Eubanks 76, Christy Lane 74, Yvette Mimieux 72, than it goes on to list seven more people, and the only one I knew the name was David Bowie 67. I am ashamed to admit the older I get, the less names I know. Three of the names above I wouldn't know if they hadn't stated what show they were in or the book they had written. Walter I also am proud and amazed at the progress you have made since breaking your leg. that old saying, "where's there's a will, there's a way" is surely your way. I also read "you said you have gone your whole life with out breaking any bones, now within a short time breaking you back, and now your leg" I am now wondering if you are being tested like "Job in the bible" if so, be very careful what you do in the future, how many tests did Job suffer ???? I don't KNOW?? But I do know Job was rewarded, he lived 140 years after his sufferings. Enjoy your long life dear friend !!! Sully, in Sunny California
As always, a very interesting letter...Re the expensive eggs, what can you do but save the carton and transfer regular eggs into it....... My step dad forced Mom to go from a lifetime of using self rising flour to baking biscuits with 'straight' flour, loved the taste..Mom hated it, so she waited a little while, went back to HER kind of flour and he never noticed the difference ! Yes, she did shuck that sucker and moved back to her little farm..Good thing she hadn't listened to him when he wanted to burn it down for the insurance! Into each life...JneT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:39:08 -0500 (EST) Sullyshirl73@aol.com writes: > I love getting up and reading my e-mail, it's like getting a long letter from someone you like, and you just know it's going to be interesting !!! > ____________________________________________________________ International Travel Travel Guard Travel Insurance. Protect Yourself - Get A Quote. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/52cce79d146c3679d3d77st04duc
Hey! I know about Azusa--everything from A-Z in the USA! I spent a couple of weeks there in 1971. My aunt lived there and I went to California for a national conference of an organization I belonged to, being a true Scot I wasn't going to pay all that money to go out there for 3 days so I visited my mother's next youngest sister. I didn't know this aunt very well but I had a great time. She was a real good tour guide and took me to all sorts of interesting places. The conference was at Disney so I saw more than enough of that. My aunt took me to the big ship, Queen Somebody, an aquarium in San Diago, a safari type place where we drove around and saw African animals, and, best of all, a restaurant out in the "pucker brush" east of there which appeared to be a collection of old shacks--but the food was excellent, the only place I've ever had squid! My cousin took me to Solvang--I still have the cornhusk figures I bought there. Oh yes, I twisted auntie's arm till she took me into Mexico--Tiawana--I never knew such squallor existed till I drove through that town. One day we went into LA to a shopping mall where I bought a bikini, more noted for the fabric it DIDN'T have than what it did have. Marion's neighbor wouldn't let her teenage son go out the back door of their house if I was sunbathing in the back yard in it, LOL. We went to a Mexican restaurant in Olivera street where I learned that I don't have any use for Tekelah. I also can't abide Avacados, Marion got some as a TREAT--UGHH, they are AWFUL! Enough of my travelogue. Ruth On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:39:08 -0500 (EST), Sullyshirl73@aol.com wrote: I love getting up and reading my e-mail, it's like getting a long letter > from someone you like, and you just know it's going to be interesting !!! > Doug, After my mother married for the third time, my mother and > her new husband, bought a home in a town named Azusa. It's about 40 > miles outside of Los Angeles, near the foothills of the San Gabriel > mountains. It was a brand new home, no lawns, just dirt our side, no > fences, really no nothing. My step father was going to put in the > front lawn, he had gotten some mulch, so the next thing was to dig > up the ground and mix the mulch into it, well, everywhere we dug, > rocks, and more rocks. After about two week ends of digging,and > removing rocks, he mixed in the mulch, he planted the grass seed, > and for the first month or two, every time he water, little rocks > kept coming up in the new lawn. My stepfather told everyone that we > grew rocks, and if you could have seen all the rocks we had piled > up, you would have believed it. Come to fine out, they built those > homes on a old Rock Quarry. LOL > Jeannie Your tale about the Mountain Lion !!!! Well, last week in > the foot hills, there was a Mountain Lion, one family caught a photo > of the Mountain Lion on their outdoor security camera, he was pretty > big, and one family had a dog ( a boxer, pretty good size) that > disappeared. The man kept saying he might have run away, but they > kept him outside, (you just know that mountain Lion got him) These > same foot hills are always having Brown Bears coming down into > peoples yards in the heat of summer, they come down for water, and > some times they go swimming in peoples back yard swimming pools !! > We have all kinds of animals come out of our mountains !!! > Lisa Talking about eggs, last week we went shopping for my > sister-in-laws and the one thing they wanted was EB Egglands Best > eggs, the company claim all kinds of things, like they are better > than regular eggs, but they do cost a little more. Well, my husband > said to me, "lets get some of them for ourselves too" now I usually > buy the extra big regular eggs, but we did buy some of those EB eggs > ( each egg has EB stamped on it) I can't taste the difference, but > my husband who can't tell when milk has turned sour !!! Said "he > thinks they taste better than the eggs we usually buy !!! > Well, what do I do, get the eggs he thinks taste better, or go with > the eggs that are extra large, and are not so pricy ??? Don't tell > me to buy both, what if I want to scramble them ??? > I woke up this morning not feeling good, last evening I had this > hot flash, my face turned bright red, and I felt my face, it was > burning up too. I took my temperature and it was normal, so just put > a washcloth, soaked in cold water on my face, till it felt cooler. I > think I also got my face sunburned yesterday when I was outside in > the garden, I watered and than pulled a few weeds, was just cleaning > around some pots and, kind of puttered around, maybe out there for > 45 minutes. Didn't even think about putting any sun lotion on my > face ??? but will next time I go out !!!! > Well that's all for know folks, have to go !!!! > Sully in Sunny California > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >
These stories about milk men bring back so many memories. My Dad was a milk man most of his life. He worked for a dairy in Kankakee, IL before WW1 and had an accident--don't know all the details, but the wagon tipped over, his leg was broken, the horse did not move, thereby saving his life--and he didn't have to go into the service. He later moved to Chicago, and in time moved to the suburbs and he worked for the same dairy well into the 1950's. He didn't have quite enough time in to get his full pension and they let him work a couple of days a week until he did. Can you imagine a company doing that today? My husband also worked for the same dairy for 25 years, but inside. I have milk bottles from all the small dairies that were in this area. Many of the larger farms with a large dairy herd bottled and sold their milk in the small towns near them. I even found a bottle from the dairy my father worked for in Kankakee. Not in the best of condition but it is over 100 years old. I have made provisions to give all of my collection to a historical society in the area. I suppose my kids will keep a couple from the dairies their dad worked for, but the bulk will find a good home. I take them down about twice a year and run them through the dish washer. What a job, but they really don't look nice with fur on them. The small dairies got bought up by the larger ones, my husband saw the hand writing on the wall, and when a friend asked him if he wanted to go to work as an electrician he took the chance. He had been trained as an electrician in the Navy and worked odd jobs for a man in town, so he knew the trade. Best decision he ever made in his life. He did that for 25 years, taught both of our sons, and they have both retired after 25 years each as electricians. As I read this over I can sure see where all of my 87 years have gone!! Grace in frigid Illinois. On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:27 PM, grandbanna <grandbanna@hughes.net> wrote: > That fresh milk and cream was the best. We didn't think about getting > sick in any way from the milk or and certainly didn't care whether it was > pasteurized or not. We didn't have a milkman but milked our one old cow. > Mother milked with both hands at once. That was one thing I couldn't > learn to do. I tried with all my might but pinched that poor old cow and > she would kick or stick her foot in the milk pail so Daddy gave up on me > and assigned me something else to be responsible for. :-) > > Martha > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Louise Valine <antique1931@saber.net> > To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com > Sent: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 21:51:45 -0500 (EST) > Subject: [ML] milk > > When we first moved to town in the early 40's, we had a milkman. For a > while before my brother went in the navy he was on the truck delivering > milk. > I found a bottle at an antique store and bought it just because of the > home delivery and that he had worked there. I don't remember if it all > stopped during WW2 because of the gas and tire shortage or when. I remember > the glass bottles. Cream on the top. > After we were married there was a dairy close by we could go to and take a > gallon jug and get milk. Now I don't think they can sell it like that > because of the pasturizing or something like that. Seems like it was 50 > cents. That was the early 50's. > When we moved to the country, had the cow, we had more milk than we knew > what to do with it. Good think we were all skinny. made alot of puddings, > with four kids it was eaten, also made ice cream, lots of gravys with > things. Thank god only one cow. Also had chickens. Fresh eggs. It was fun. > But now just go to the store and buy a plastic thing with the milk. > I am glad the kids had the experience of living like that. They had the > horses. Raised the calves, experienced death with the animals. Had there > pony's. > They had fun. That is what it is all about. > Louise > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
That fresh milk and cream was the best. We didn't think about getting sick in any way from the milk or and certainly didn't care whether it was pasteurized or not. We didn't have a milkman but milked our one old cow. Mother milked with both hands at once. That was one thing I couldn't learn to do. I tried with all my might but pinched that poor old cow and she would kick or stick her foot in the milk pail so Daddy gave up on me and assigned me something else to be responsible for. :-) Martha ----- Original Message ----- From: Louise Valine <antique1931@saber.net> To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com Sent: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 21:51:45 -0500 (EST) Subject: [ML] milk When we first moved to town in the early 40's, we had a milkman. For a while before my brother went in the navy he was on the truck delivering milk. I found a bottle at an antique store and bought it just because of the home delivery and that he had worked there. I don't remember if it all stopped during WW2 because of the gas and tire shortage or when. I remember the glass bottles. Cream on the top. After we were married there was a dairy close by we could go to and take a gallon jug and get milk. Now I don't think they can sell it like that because of the pasturizing or something like that. Seems like it was 50 cents. That was the early 50's. When we moved to the country, had the cow, we had more milk than we knew what to do with it. Good think we were all skinny. made alot of puddings, with four kids it was eaten, also made ice cream, lots of gravys with things. Thank god only one cow. Also had chickens. Fresh eggs. It was fun. But now just go to the store and buy a plastic thing with the milk. I am glad the kids had the experience of living like that. They had the horses. Raised the calves, experienced death with the animals. Had there pony's. They had fun. That is what it is all about. Louise http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
I love getting up and reading my e-mail, it's like getting a long letter from someone you like, and you just know it's going to be interesting !!! Doug, After my mother married for the third time, my mother and her new husband, bought a home in a town named Azusa. It's about 40 miles outside of Los Angeles, near the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains. It was a brand new home, no lawns, just dirt our side, no fences, really no nothing. My step father was going to put in the front lawn, he had gotten some mulch, so the next thing was to dig up the ground and mix the mulch into it, well, everywhere we dug, rocks, and more rocks. After about two week ends of digging,and removing rocks, he mixed in the mulch, he planted the grass seed, and for the first month or two, every time he water, little rocks kept coming up in the new lawn. My stepfather told everyone that we grew rocks, and if you could have seen all the rocks we had piled up, you would have believed it. Come to fine out, they built those homes on a old Rock Quarry. LOL Jeannie Your tale about the Mountain Lion !!!! Well, last week in the foot hills, there was a Mountain Lion, one family caught a photo of the Mountain Lion on their outdoor security camera, he was pretty big, and one family had a dog ( a boxer, pretty good size) that disappeared. The man kept saying he might have run away, but they kept him outside, (you just know that mountain Lion got him) These same foot hills are always having Brown Bears coming down into peoples yards in the heat of summer, they come down for water, and some times they go swimming in peoples back yard swimming pools !! We have all kinds of animals come out of our mountains !!! Lisa Talking about eggs, last week we went shopping for my sister-in-laws and the one thing they wanted was EB Egglands Best eggs, the company claim all kinds of things, like they are better than regular eggs, but they do cost a little more. Well, my husband said to me, "lets get some of them for ourselves too" now I usually buy the extra big regular eggs, but we did buy some of those EB eggs ( each egg has EB stamped on it) I can't taste the difference, but my husband who can't tell when milk has turned sour !!! Said "he thinks they taste better than the eggs we usually buy !!! Well, what do I do, get the eggs he thinks taste better, or go with the eggs that are extra large, and are not so pricy ??? Don't tell me to buy both, what if I want to scramble them ??? I woke up this morning not feeling good, last evening I had this hot flash, my face turned bright red, and I felt my face, it was burning up too. I took my temperature and it was normal, so just put a washcloth, soaked in cold water on my face, till it felt cooler. I think I also got my face sunburned yesterday when I was outside in the garden, I watered and than pulled a few weeds, was just cleaning around some pots and, kind of puttered around, maybe out there for 45 minutes. Didn't even think about putting any sun lotion on my face ??? but will next time I go out !!!! Well that's all for know folks, have to go !!!! Sully in Sunny California
This morning, for the 2nd morning in a row I did NOT want to get up. I reached over and got my IPad and it was still-13 in Wheaton. It's amazing how little you feel like getting done when there is no place to go. All the schools are closed, we have about 20" of light snow piled up. Ugg. I made sure I had enough of whatever I would need in store, so I am not going hungry. Sons got me three sleeves of coke, so I am OK!! One wall of my great room is all glass--five windows and a patio door facing north. There are shades that are inexpensive tubular "coffee filter" material but I never put them down. I did on Sunday night and it amazes me how much cold they filter out. The south wall also has 4 large windows but is the end of a U between the garage and bedroom wing of the house so it does not get as much "weather".There is a lot of ice built up on all the windows. I feel like I live in a translucent house. Well I guess I will make it one more day and then should be able to clean up whatever mess there is and go to the store. Add to the cold and snow is my inability to get my brace into any thing but Crocs and they are not show shoes. How thankful I am that this "polar vortex" held off until the wake and funeral for my sister in law were over. How many days is it until Spring? We have broken lots of weather records--isn't that comforting? Bet my gas and electric bills will break a few records too. Stay warm, Grace On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:39 AM, <Sullyshirl73@aol.com> wrote: > I love getting up and reading my e-mail, it's like getting a long letter > from someone you like, and you just know it's going to be interesting !!! > Doug, After my mother married for the third time, my mother and her new > husband, bought a home in a town named Azusa. It's about 40 miles outside > of Los Angeles, near the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains. It was a > brand new home, no lawns, just dirt our side, no fences, really no > nothing. > My step father was going to put in the front lawn, he had gotten some > mulch, > so the next thing was to dig up the ground and mix the mulch into it, > well, everywhere we dug, rocks, and more rocks. After about two week ends > of > digging,and removing rocks, he mixed in the mulch, he planted the grass > seed, > and for the first month or two, every time he water, little rocks kept > coming up in the new lawn. My stepfather told everyone that we grew > rocks, and > if you could have seen all the rocks we had piled up, you would have > believed it. Come to fine out, they built those homes on a old Rock > Quarry. LOL > Jeannie Your tale about the Mountain Lion !!!! Well, last week in the > foot hills, there was a Mountain Lion, one family caught a photo of the > Mountain Lion on their outdoor security camera, he was pretty big, and one > family had a dog ( a boxer, pretty good size) that disappeared. The man > kept > saying he might have run away, but they kept him outside, (you just know > that > mountain Lion got him) These same foot hills are always having Brown Bears > coming down into peoples yards in the heat of summer, they come down for > water, and some times they go swimming in peoples back yard swimming pools > !! We have all kinds of animals come out of our mountains !!! > Lisa Talking about eggs, last week we went shopping for my > sister-in-laws and the one thing they wanted was EB Egglands Best eggs, > the company > claim all kinds of things, like they are better than regular eggs, but > they do > cost a little more. Well, my husband said to me, "lets get some of them > for > ourselves too" now I usually buy the extra big regular eggs, but we did buy > some of those EB eggs ( each egg has EB stamped on it) I can't taste the > difference, but my husband who can't tell when milk has turned sour !!! > Said "he thinks they taste better than the eggs we usually buy !!! > Well, what do I do, get the eggs he thinks taste better, or go with the > eggs that are extra large, and are not so pricy ??? Don't tell me to buy > both, > what if I want to scramble them ??? > I woke up this morning not feeling good, last evening I had this hot > flash, my face turned bright red, and I felt my face, it was burning up > too. > I took my temperature and it was normal, so just put a washcloth, soaked > in > cold water on my face, till it felt cooler. I think I also got my face > sunburned yesterday when I was outside in the garden, I watered and than > pulled a few weeds, was just cleaning around some pots and, kind of > puttered > around, maybe out there for 45 minutes. Didn't even think about putting > any > sun lotion on my face ??? but will next time I go out !!!! > Well that's all for know folks, have to go !!!! > Sully in Sunny California > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
Your story about Stuart Whitman is funny. Can you just imagine? Wonder if he left the milk? Louise ----- Original Message ----- From: <askgranny@juno.com> To: <memory-lane@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 10:05 PM Subject: Re: [ML] The Milkman Cometh > Thanks once again for giving me something to pull up out of my aging > memory banks and reminisce about... > > Our milk man was our Daddy, bringing in a bucket or two of milk warm from > the cow, with little globules of butter floating on top it was so > rich.,...I can remember seeing a horse drawn wagon delivering milk when I > first started to town school....one of those cute little boxy wagons..all > enclosed...We made our own butter, and Mama also sold cream to the cream > station in town. She would keep it in fruit jars in the fridge till she > went to town...This is several years after Dad died...as we didn't even > have electricity in our area or a refrigerator to plug in during his > time...Power lines came through there about 1947... > > Must tell you this...Hubby's cousin was acquainted with the entertainer > Stuart Whitman, and tells a tale on him. He went hunting for Mountain > lion and brought one home to have mounted. Tired from his drive he > decided to put the body in the fridge in the garage till the next day. > The milkman opened the door to put the extra milk in it and out tumbled a > mountain lion! I don't remember if he ever returned or not! > Jeannie T > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~````. > On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 12:13:27 -0500 (EST) Sullyshirl73@aol.com writes: >> Did any of you ever have milk delivered to your house ?? > Sully, in > Sunny California. > ____________________________________________________________ > Do THIS before eating carbs (every time) > 1 EASY tip to increase fat-burning, lower blood sugar & decrease fat > storage > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/52cb9bf9bd15d1bf91ca6st01duc > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message