OH MY GOODNESS ! Y'all HAVE been having a rough time ! And I thought we had problems when Hubby figured the weather wrong this AM and it started raining when he was hanging out the first load of laundry ! One of his retirement jobs. You should be so lucky to get rain , huh ? {He refuses to use the perfectly good clothes dryer..}. It's been dry here too, so it was a mixed blessing.... Picked our first green beans late yesterday, dug what few potatoes that grew and picked the few sugar snap peas....Today I cooked the beans, peas and new potatoes, Sliced up the 3 cucumbers hubby picked and a big Vidalia onion in vinegar, sugar and water..pepper and salt.... Sliced store bought tomatoes...Had a meal fit for the squire....Dedicated the meal to the Grand kids ...Had I known what a rough week you'd been having I'd have tacked your name onto the list ! Just remember, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger...Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:25:18 -0500 Doug Crim <ddcrim@gmail.com> writes: > Ever had a week like that? We had ours last week.... ____________________________________________________________ Groupon.com Official Site 1 huge daily deal on the best stuff to do in your city. Try it today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4df842edd522d19b97m06duc

For no reason in particular since few people are in the mood of writing much, I was surfacing some old posts and ran across one that caught my eye - the history of bottle trees. It's really interesting..... http://www.felderrushing.net/BottleTreeImagess.htm Wish I had a yard now. One of the favorite pasttimes of our children was collecting "pretty" rocks. We hauled them home from our camping trips and had to limit each child to a certain size box for the rocks. Five people, plus our tent and all the gear for a 2/3 week trip stretched the limits of the car or small trailer. We decorated our walkways and flower beds when we got home. One child didn't want his rocks any place but in a box in his room so he could look at them and label them. They'd have collected bottles too if there'd been room. juanita

I loved it, thank you. Connie > For no reason in particular since few people are in the mood of > writing much, I was surfacing some old posts and ran across one that > caught my eye - the history of bottle trees. > > It's really interesting..... > http://www.felderrushing.net/BottleTreeImagess.htm

I've never done or known anyone who had a bottle tree. Now, rocks, I can stay with the best. I have all my life picked up rocks from trips. I don't remember where the ones from my childhood came from, just that they were special to me. When I married in 1960 I came with my two boxes of rocks. My husband did not understand. My mother died in 84 and I got her box of rocks. My mother in law liked the idea of the rocks. So, when she died in 87 I received her two boxes of rocks. I continue adding even now. the past two years: Utah, Flordia, & Jamica. The past 10 years, since retirement, Alasks, all over New England, Kansas, S. Dakota, Nebraska, Guatemala, Columbia, Costa Rica, Beijing, Low lands of Scotland, Northern England, Paris and from just outside the Western Wall in Jerusalem. I know it is just fill rubble but thats where I picked it up. I think that's enough folks. I love my rocks! 100 degrees here today and still no rain. I hate to pray for a hurricane but that may be the only way we get rain. Frances TX Gulf Coast ----- Original Message ----- From: "juanita" <juanita2@cox.net> To: <MEMORY-LANE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 6:16 AM Subject: [ML] Bottle Trees > For no reason in particular since few people are in the mood of > writing much, I was surfacing some old posts and ran across one that > caught my eye - the history of bottle trees. > > It's really interesting..... > http://www.felderrushing.net/BottleTreeImagess.htm > > Wish I had a yard now. One of the favorite pasttimes of our children > was collecting "pretty" rocks. We hauled them home from our camping > trips and had to limit each child to a certain size box for the > rocks. Five people, plus our tent and all the gear for a 2/3 week > trip stretched the limits of the car or small trailer. We decorated > our walkways and flower beds when we got home. One child didn't want > his rocks any place but in a box in his room so he could look at them > and label them. > > They'd have collected bottles too if there'd been room. > > juanita > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1382 / Virus Database: 1509/3704 - Release Date: 06/14/11 >

We are slowly getting our plumbing problems resolved... always a pain in the butt but we've been there before... Our small garden is also flourishing but the heat is beginning to take it's toll.. we've already had eight days of triple digit temps and it looks like that's going to continue... Have I mentioned how much I HATE Texas summers? lol :-)** On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:26 AM, <askgranny@juno.com> wrote: > OH MY GOODNESS ! Y'all HAVE been having a rough time ! And I thought > we had problems when Hubby figured the weather wrong this AM and it > started raining when he was hanging out the first load of laundry ! One > of his retirement jobs. You should be so lucky to get rain , huh ? {He > refuses to use the perfectly good clothes dryer..}. It's been dry here > too, so it was a mixed blessing.... > > Picked our first green beans late yesterday, dug what few potatoes that > grew and picked the few sugar snap peas....Today I cooked the beans, peas > and new potatoes, Sliced up the 3 cucumbers hubby picked and a big > Vidalia onion in vinegar, sugar and water..pepper and salt.... Sliced > store bought tomatoes...Had a meal fit for the squire....Dedicated the > meal to the Grand kids ...Had I known what a rough week you'd been having > I'd have tacked your name onto the list ! Just remember, what doesn't > kill you makes you stronger...Jeannie T > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:25:18 -0500 Doug Crim <ddcrim@gmail.com> writes: > > Ever had a week like that? We had ours last week.... > ____________________________________________________________ > Groupon.com Official Site > 1 huge daily deal on the best stuff to do in your city. Try it today! > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4df842edd522d19b97m06duc > > > > > > 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 >