Norma, Lots of inexpensive meals in those days. Ours was spaetzles. If we had onions then my father fried them and put them on top. If no onions then he fried cubes of bread for the top. Of course, fried in bacon fat. Boy, I loved that. I didn't know we were poor. We made toast on the top of the coal stove. I didn't know then that we were eating Texas Toast. LOL Dot ooo---This Email Scanned for Virus---ooo by ooo--- Norton Anti-Virus---ooo ----- Original Message ----- From: "franor" <franor@atmc.net> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [NJ-Memories] Re: Creole > Pat, > I'm with you I like Plain food, very little spices. As far as I go with > spices is Sweet and Sour by Lee & Per. however use a lot of cinnamon or > nutmeg. Like Herbs and grow some . I have never eaten crawfish and since > you described the head, never will. Lol. > I do eat oysters, and love Oyster Dressing which we will have for > Christmas. When eating I cannot look at the oyster black spot knowing what > it is. I just put the dressing in my mouth without looking. Have to be > careful eating Oyster Stew also. > > Bet your Mom and I cooked a lot alike. Used a lot of cabbage and sauerkraut > must be the German in me. A lot of those recipes came down through the > families. > My Mother made something that doesn't sound so good but it was. She took > boiled potatoes, cut them up, and tore up bread, put in a pan with lots of > butter, S&P and a little milk. Kinda looked liked dressing but we ate it > alone. I guess times were tough in those days in the 30's. > Norma > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Tacy413408@aol.com> > To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 2:45 PM > Subject: [NJ-Memories] Re: Creole > > > > Norma, > > > > I love to collect recipe books. Just weeded out a few for my daughter. > When > > they refer to Creole or Cajun down here it usually means spicy hot. I, > > myself, am into plain old flavorful food without the hot spices. > Personally, > > I think that kills the flavor. Now I do like the old recipes that come > down > > thru my husbands family, minus some of the fat and hot spices/sauces. > > > > The whole family loves crawfish, but I only like them in dishes like > etoufee. > > Not one for sucking the heads. That is where all of the hot spicy liquid > > is. Also, the people down here love to eat the fat from crabs. I have > news > > for them, I don't think that is fat. LOL > > > > I love the Pa Dutch and Amish recipes. My brother cooks a delicious > venison > > roast in saurkraut and with Granny Smith apples and spices. We grew up > > cooking with saurkraut, etc. > > > > Pat > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

In a message dated 12/15/02 3:20:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, PalmaG72@aol.com writes: > > Diesel - It seems everytime in the past 10 yrs Rti 31 is worked on - > everytime I go on a trip that way those orange and gray barrels are on it > ---Marie G > Marie, Rt.31 should have been widen many years ago. There are only a few good roads going south to north in New Jersey. Forget about using Rt.1, there is so much traffic on it now that it takes forever to get any where. Rt. 206 is just as bad. You can't make good time on any of them. One good thing they did, was to make it illegal for truck's to use Rt. 31, except for local deliveries. So when it's finished, it should be a good road for at least a few years. Diesel

Betty, Thanks for the Excedrin site........forwarded it to all I know...... A bottle story........my Uncle Bill decided to start collecting bottles way back when (1970's) he went around to dumps, old farms and just everywhere throughout NJ. He got to be quite the expert and had quite the collection. He even had his own milk bottle publication. On a visit here to Pa one time I asked what I should look for so that when I went fleamarketing I would look for him. Well, once Sunday I went to our local fleamarket and only found those real small milk bottles that you would get in restaurants with your coffee, well this guy had 12 of them and I said sure I'll take them, then he also had a small box of those cardboard lids that were unused but go on top of these little bottles, he said take them for $2.00 I said I'll give u a buck, he said OK. I had them for quite awhile finally Uncle Bill comes for another visit..........gives me a generous $2 ($1 profit for me) and goes home. Two weeks later he calls and tells me he sold them to a guy in Canada for $300. Oh well........ Ellen

To All, This is legit. I did it and Excedrin acknowledges their gift! Subject: toys for tots If you go to the Excedrin home page and click on the link for the Toys for tots, Excedrin will donate $1 to the Marine Corps Toys for Tots program. There is no cost to you. http://www.excedrin.com/ When you are finished, please forward this to everyone! > BETTY,

Hi Tater. Back again to ask for a picture of your bottle collection. I can't believe there is another nut out there like I WAS. I hunted every dump I could find around our area. We have a bottle collection too. A lot of milk and of course medicine bottles. I found an old spittoon I love, and a pair of old fashioned glasses in a case, they are really old. Was lucky the case was buried deep, and the glasses in tack. Sometimes we would drive our school buses and then rush home to dig for bottles till time to run again. I have a few little old creamers I love but hard to find. I can't dig anymore so maybe thats why I dig people now in genealogy. Take a lot of gravestone pictures too. We have a little shoemaker box we've had forever and knew it was a grandfather's and recently in the census found out he was a shoemaker by profession. Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: <DieselDis@aol.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 10:35 AM Subject: Re: [NJ-Memories] misc. > In a message dated 12/14/02 9:16:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, > greenflash60@pocketmail.com writes: > > > IT,S SAT. HERE, THINK i,LL GO CHECK OUT SOME YARD SALES...I NEED A YARD. > > LOLOLO > > LIKE I NEED FLEAS FROM THE FLEAMARKET.LOLOLO > > O.K. I KNOW THAT,S REALLLY CORNEY. > > > > LEE-IN-THE-KEYS > > > > Lee, > It's Saturday here today also. (: We don't have all the yard sales here in > the Pocono's like you guy's have in Florida. The Flee Markets around here are > closed also. So now I get on E-Bay, and buy stuff I don't really need. When > were in Florida during the winter, we take in the yard sales every Sunday > after church. There are plenty of them in Ft. Myers, so we get our exercise > for the day getting in and out of the car. Last year I brought one of those > old Morse code toy sets from the fifty's. Remember those? They have a red > light on them, and you send & receive by tapping on a lever, connected by two > wires. I'm saving it for our little Red Head when he gets a little older. I > just brought a soda bottle on E-Bay for $18.00 with my family name on it. > Seems there was someone on my Dad's side who bottled soda in New Jersey in > the 1800s. When my kid's were growing up, we went bottle hunting almost every > Saturday morning. We dug as deep as three feet to get great old bottles. > Along with our old bottles, we found a very old three sided bottle, a gold > lead pencil that lady's would hang around their neck, along with all kinds of > old stuff. I have a picture of all our old bottles if any one is interested > in seeing it. There are a lot of treasures out there, I'm just to old to go > digging for them any more. > Diesel > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

In a message dated 12/14/2002 3:03:05 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > I'm a firm believer in that delete key also. That and being selective > as to what I answer keep my 200+ e-mails at bay. > Just to fill you in . . . I do use the delete key on spam and stuff from unknown sources as well as anything I know I don't want. The problem with forwards from friends is that first of all, most of them send really good material, especially inspirational material that happens to be sent right at the time when I need it (or when another friend needs it -- many of you have commented that something I forwarded to you was just what you needed at that time, and you wouldn't have gotten it if I'd deleted it without reading it); and second, many of them also append family or friendship news or prayer requests (which I really don't want to miss) to forwards that they send to me. If I indiscriminately delete every item that says "Fwd" in the subject, I'm risking missing something really important. In fact, I've already had that happen several times -- and later on I'd find out that there was something I really needed to know in that e-mail along with the forward. The only way I can be sure not to have that happen is to open each and every item that friends send to me. I figure, though, that if I ask friends to please limit their forwards to one a day, they'll understand and pick the very best one and add their news or prayer requests to that one. That can cut my mail volume by close to half and get it to within manageable levels. I've been sent a few e-mails that have implied that there must be some problem with me, since the writers hold down full-time jobs and still manage to handle their e-mail volume. Actually, there is a problem with me . . . I have Attention Deficit Disorder. What that means is that because of my high level of distractibility, (1) ordinary chores, like household stuff, take me twice as long as they would for a "normal" person; and (2) the same e-mail note that might take you five or ten minutes to dash off could take me a half hour or more. A detailed one can easily take over an hour. Some of you have already gotten e-mails from me that took you probably five minutes to read but me an hour and a half to write. This one that I'm writing right now, I started thirty minutes ago, and I caught my mind wandering several times through it. Hopefully you'll understand where I'm coming from and try to keep your mail to me strictly limited. The only alternatives that I'd have otherwise would be to drop the list entirely (I've already done that once, and I found out that I missed people too much to stay off) or to change my e-mail address and give it only to very special people, and I don't want to do either -- and I don't think that you want me to do that, either. Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr

Diesel, Sorry to hear about your foot. Sometimes those sprains are worse than breaks. But you DID get an excuse to sit at the computer. :-) We have been watching rte 31 for a few years now. Wonder how long it will take. How do you like paying $1.25 to cross the bridge? Can you still cross it at New Hope for free? Didn't realize it was Friday the 13th until I wrote a check at Staples for new ink cartridge. That's when I thought "Why did I come out in this weather on Friday the 13th?" But since I was already out I hit a couple more stores and then we ate at Texas Roadhouse. Do like that place. I have had several different things and have liked them all. Dot ooo---This Email Scanned for Virus---ooo by ooo--- Norton Anti-Virus---ooo ----- Original Message ----- From: <DieselDis@aol.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 5:42 AM Subject: [NJ-Memories] Triskaidekaphobia > When I found out it was Friday the 13th after waking up yesterday, I > wanted to stay in bed, and forget about going to Trenton to work. Well, I > went anyway against my will, and sure enough it happened. I either broke my > foot, or sprained it. It swelled up, turned black and blue. The biggest > mistake was taking my shoe off. I had to cut the shoe to get it back on, and > drive home. I'll get it x rayed today, Just what I need right now, and I'm > still not done with my Christmas shopping. Look's like I might have to stay > home, have a beer, and play with my computer all day, and let my wife do all > the work for a few week's. Now if there is a good side to this story, that > must be it. LOL. > For those of you who are familiar with Rt. 31 from Rt. 78 down to > Trenton, they are really going to town in widening it. They completed four > lanes a few years ago almost to Stanton Station. They took away part of that > big hill that stuck out along the left side of the road going south, and are > working their way to Flemington. The left side going south is completed, and > their now working on the right side. I would say it should be finished in > another few month's. They have also started working on four lanes below > Flemington on Rt. 31 from a little past Ringoes to Hopewell. Not all the road > is being worked on right now, just sections of it. Their moving the poles > back, and moving dirt around, and it look's like a lot of homes along the > road are vacant, and about ready to bite the dust. I hate to see some of > those very old building's come down, like the Log Cabin that used to be a > favorite watering spot for me. When they opened Rt. 33 in The Pocono's to Rt. > 78, that saved me from driving through Easton, and P-Burg, and saved me 15 > minutes traveling time. When 31 is finished to Trenton, that should save even > more. Anyone else have any thing to report on the 13th? > Diesel > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Betty, Thank you, and the very best to you, and yours. Diesel

We live NW of Pinecrest. We're out in Horse Country. Before we bought this house we had looked in Pinecrest. Unfortunately, even though it has a 2 acre minimum it wasn't zoned for horses and we weren't willing to give ours up thus Horse Country! And yes, I do work downtown at Jackson where we see it all! Yes, I know there are some people on here from this area but I haven't had the time to seek them out. Maybe after the first of the year. I've told the hospital that I won't work the overtime anymore and will just do my 40 hours except in dire emergencies. I'm tired! Liz Hogan Diaz South Florida eghogan@hotmail.com >From: Judy Lamken <kilkee@attbi.com> >To: Elizabeth Hogan-Diaz <eghogan@hotmail.com> >CC: NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: Unidentified subject! >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:12:23 -0600 > >Hi, > >I can't agree more. Although I do post to the list I don't feel the need >to answer each and every post. I use that delete key a lot too. I think >I've got you all beat with the number of genealogy and dog lists I'm on >along with several Irish lists if I get less than 200 e-mails I wonder if >my server is broken. :-) > >I used to live in Pinecrest. FL. Where do you live? Since you mentioned >busy ER I'm assumining you must be in the Miami or Lauderdale area. Did >you know there are several list members living in FL? >Enjoy your nice weather! > >Judy Lamken >mailto:kilkee@attbi.com > >Elizabeth Hogan-Diaz wrote: > >> >>I would try using your delete key if it is something that doesn't interest >>you! If it is taking you 2-3 hours each day to deal with the mail it >>sounds like you haven't learned to use that key. ;-) It isn't necessary >>or rude NOT to answer each and every post. Nobody expects you to do that. >> >>We all have time constraints, Doris, and at this time of year most of us >>are more pressed for time than at others. Please don't think you are >>alone. Some of us here have FULL time jobs, husbands, family and other >>responsibilities. Personally, I have a husband, two teenage kids, a full >>time job as a physicians assistant in a BUSY big city emergency >>department, a good size home, two dogs, a horse and a tank full of fish. >>I rarely post here but do read all the notes. >> >>I'm also involved with several other lists and it isn't unusual for me to >>receive about 100 posts each and every day. I receive all my lists as >>digests which keeps the mail around the hundred mark. The KEY to >>maintaining you sanity with these lists is to either just delete when the >>going gets tough or read and don't reply to anything that doesn't demand >>an answer from you personally. With digest you need to see the subject >>index and read only those that interest you. I think you will find it is >>tolerable that way and you WON'T be hurting anyones feelings that way. >>Life is TOO short to become so overly involved with email. Put your feet >>up, have a nice glass of wine and just chill out. You'll enjoy it! >> >>Liz Hogan-Diaz >>SOuth Florida >>mailto:eghogan@hotmail.com >> >>>I'm still getting bunches and bunches of individual mail from friends >on >>>the list, and I'm getting overwhelmed. Would all of you please limit >>> >your forwards to me to just one per person per day -- pick the best one >>> >and send it on? And if it's one of those e-mail warnings about >>> >something or other, please check it on a good urban-legend site before >>> >sending it on (I use Snopes.com; they've been really good). Some people >>> >are sending me five and six pieces of mail a day; and when you multiply >>> >that by how many people who are doing it, I've been getting sixty or >>> >eighty new e-mails every day. It's taking me between two and three >>> >hours a day to deal with all my e-mail, and that's more time than I can >>> >afford, especially around the holidays. And some days I've had to take >>> >the time to check out four or five of those darned urban legends and >>> >hoaxes, just in case they just might be true, and they almost always >>> >aren't. >> >> >>>Thanx for your help -- and I hope I'm not hurting anyone's feelings. If >>> >it weren't for the fact that I work eight hours a day three days a week >>> >and have a house to keep up and a husband to spend time with and >>> >outside responsibilities, too, I'd love to get all that mail. >> >> >>Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) >>"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." >>-- >>Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr >> >> >> >> >>_________________________________________________________________ >>Tired of spam? 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I guess you don't mean candy. What happened to coal. Robin ----- Original Message ----- From: <PalmaG72@aol.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 5:22 PM Subject: [NJ-Memories] Judy - > Judy - How Mean - wanting us to treat Santa so terrible ---You better Watch > Out -----You'll get reindeer drops in your stocking ----------LOL > ------------Marie G > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Hi, I can't agree more. Although I do post to the list I don't feel the need to answer each and every post. I use that delete key a lot too. I think I've got you all beat with the number of genealogy and dog lists I'm on along with several Irish lists if I get less than 200 e-mails I wonder if my server is broken. :-) I used to live in Pinecrest. FL. Where do you live? Since you mentioned busy ER I'm assumining you must be in the Miami or Lauderdale area. Did you know there are several list members living in FL? Enjoy your nice weather! Judy Lamken mailto:kilkee@attbi.com Elizabeth Hogan-Diaz wrote: > > I would try using your delete key if it is something that doesn't > interest you! If it is taking you 2-3 hours each day to deal with the > mail it sounds like you haven't learned to use that key. ;-) It isn't > necessary or rude NOT to answer each and every post. Nobody expects > you to do that. > > We all have time constraints, Doris, and at this time of year most of > us are more pressed for time than at others. Please don't think you > are alone. Some of us here have FULL time jobs, husbands, family and > other responsibilities. Personally, I have a husband, two teenage > kids, a full time job as a physicians assistant in a BUSY big city > emergency department, a good size home, two dogs, a horse and a tank > full of fish. I rarely post here but do read all the notes. > > I'm also involved with several other lists and it isn't unusual for me > to receive about 100 posts each and every day. I receive all my lists > as digests which keeps the mail around the hundred mark. The KEY to > maintaining you sanity with these lists is to either just delete when > the going gets tough or read and don't reply to anything that doesn't > demand an answer from you personally. With digest you need to see the > subject index and read only those that interest you. I think you will > find it is tolerable that way and you WON'T be hurting anyones > feelings that way. Life is TOO short to become so overly involved > with email. Put your feet up, have a nice glass of wine and just > chill out. You'll enjoy it! > > Liz Hogan-Diaz > SOuth Florida > mailto:eghogan@hotmail.com > >> I'm still getting bunches and bunches of individual mail from friends >> >on the list, and I'm getting overwhelmed. Would all of you please >> limit >your forwards to me to just one per person per day -- pick the >> best one >and send it on? And if it's one of those e-mail warnings >> about >something or other, please check it on a good urban-legend >> site before >sending it on (I use Snopes.com; they've been really >> good). Some people >are sending me five and six pieces of mail a day; >> and when you multiply >that by how many people who are doing it, I've >> been getting sixty or >eighty new e-mails every day. It's taking me >> between two and three >hours a day to deal with all my e-mail, and >> that's more time than I can >afford, especially around the holidays. >> And some days I've had to take >the time to check out four or five of >> those darned urban legends and >hoaxes, just in case they just might >> be true, and they almost always >aren't. > > >> Thanx for your help -- and I hope I'm not hurting anyone's feelings. >> If >it weren't for the fact that I work eight hours a day three days >> a week >and have a house to keep up and a husband to spend time with >> and >outside responsibilities, too, I'd love to get all that mail. > > > Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) > "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot > lose." -- > Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

I would try using your delete key if it is something that doesn't interest you! If it is taking you 2-3 hours each day to deal with the mail it sounds like you haven't learned to use that key. ;-) It isn't necessary or rude NOT to answer each and every post. Nobody expects you to do that. We all have time constraints, Doris, and at this time of year most of us are more pressed for time than at others. Please don't think you are alone. Some of us here have FULL time jobs, husbands, family and other responsibilities. Personally, I have a husband, two teenage kids, a full time job as a physicians assistant in a BUSY big city emergency department, a good size home, two dogs, a horse and a tank full of fish. I rarely post here but do read all the notes. I'm also involved with several other lists and it isn't unusual for me to receive about 100 posts each and every day. I receive all my lists as digests which keeps the mail around the hundred mark. The KEY to maintaining you sanity with these lists is to either just delete when the going gets tough or read and don't reply to anything that doesn't demand an answer from you personally. With digest you need to see the subject index and read only those that interest you. I think you will find it is tolerable that way and you WON'T be hurting anyones feelings that way. Life is TOO short to become so overly involved with email. Put your feet up, have a nice glass of wine and just chill out. You'll enjoy it! Liz Hogan-Diaz SOuth Florida mailto:eghogan@hotmail.com >I'm still getting bunches and bunches of individual mail from friends >on >the list, and I'm getting overwhelmed. Would all of you please limit >your >forwards to me to just one per person per day -- pick the best one >and >send it on? And if it's one of those e-mail warnings about >something or >other, please check it on a good urban-legend site before >sending it on (I >use Snopes.com; they've been really good). Some people >are sending me five >and six pieces of mail a day; and when you multiply >that by how many >people who are doing it, I've been getting sixty or >eighty new e-mails >every day. It's taking me between two and three >hours a day to deal with >all my e-mail, and that's more time than I can >afford, especially around >the holidays. And some days I've had to take >the time to check out four or >five of those darned urban legends and >hoaxes, just in case they just >might be true, and they almost always >aren't. >Thanx for your help -- and I hope I'm not hurting anyone's feelings. If >it >weren't for the fact that I work eight hours a day three days a week >and >have a house to keep up and a husband to spend time with and >outside >responsibilities, too, I'd love to get all that mail. Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

I'm still getting bunches and bunches of individual mail from friends on the list, and I'm getting overwhelmed. Would all of you please limit your forwards to me to just one per person per day -- pick the best one and send it on? And if it's one of those e-mail warnings about something or other, please check it on a good urban-legend site before sending it on (I use Snopes.com; they've been really good). Some people are sending me five and six pieces of mail a day; and when you multiply that by how many people who are doing it, I've been getting sixty or eighty new e-mails every day. It's taking me between two and three hours a day to deal with all my e-mail, and that's more time than I can afford, especially around the holidays. And some days I've had to take the time to check out four or five of those darned urban legends and hoaxes, just in case they just might be true, and they almost always aren't. Thanx for your help -- and I hope I'm not hurting anyone's feelings. If it weren't for the fact that I work eight hours a day three days a week and have a house to keep up and a husband to spend time with and outside responsibilities, too, I'd love to get all that mail. Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr

Judy this is a good one. However down here DON"T "Go outside, yell, "Ooh! Look! A deer! And he's got a red nose!" and fire a gun" They shoot at anything that moves. We do have the the United States Redneck Forces here and they are always on alert. Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: Judy Lamken <kilkee@attbi.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:37 PM Subject: [NJ-Memories] 19 Ways To Confuse Santa Claus ! > 19 Ways To Confuse Santa Claus ! > > Instead of milk and cookies, leave him a salad, and a note explaining > that you think he could stand to lose a few pounds. > While he's in the house, go find his sleigh and write him a speeding > ticket. > Leave him a note, explaining that you've gone away for the holidays. Ask > if he would mind watering your plants. > While he's in the house, replace all his reindeer with exact replicas. > Then wait and see what happens when he tries to get them to fly. > Keep an angry bull in your living room. If you think a bull goes crazy > when he sees a little red cape, wait until he sees that big, red Santa > suit! > Build an army of mean-looking snowmen on the roof, holding signs that > say "We hate Christmas," and "Go away Santa." > Leave a note by the telephone, telling Santa that Mrs. Claus called and > wanted to remind him to pick up some milk and a loaf of bread on his way > home. > While he's in the house, find the sleigh and sit in it. As soon as he > comes back and sees you, tell him that he shouldn't have missed that > last payment, and take off. > Leave a plate filled with cookies and a glass of milk out, with a note > that says, "For The Tooth Fairy. :)" Leave another plate out with half a > stale cookie and a few drops of skim milk in a dirty glass with a note > that says, "For Santa." > Take everything out of your house as if it's just been robbed. When > Santa arrives, show up dressed like a policeman and say, "Well, well. > They always return to the scene of the crime." > Leave out a copy of your Christmas list with last-minute changes and > corrections. > While he's in the house, cover the top of the chimney with barbed wire. > Leave lots of hunting trophies and guns out where Santa's sure to see > them. Go outside, yell, "Ooh! Look! A deer! And he's got a red nose!" > and fire a gun. > Leave Santa a note, explaining that you've moved. Include a map with > unclear and hard-to-read directions to your new house. > Set a bear trap at the bottom of the chimney. Wait for Santa to get > caught in it, and then explain that you're sorry, but from a distance, > he looked like a bear. > Leave out a Santa suit, with a dry-cleaning bill. > Paint "hoof-prints" all over your face and clothes. While he's in the > house, go out on the roof. When he comes back up, act like you've been > "trampled." Threaten to sue. > Instead of ornaments, decorate your tree with Easter eggs. Dress up like > the Easter Bunny. Wait for Santa to come and then say, "This > neighborhood ain't big enough for the both of us." > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

In a message dated 12/8/2002 2:02:22 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > It was actually beautiful,and lent a White Chrismas air to all the holiday > >preparations.Neighbors were sharing snowblowers,woman were making soups > and > >stews,and our block made it an "Event". > When we got snow back in NJ, you'd see all the kids coming out of the woodwork to ride their sleds down our hill. Snow was a fun thing when I was growing up back there. Out here, although people think of Colorado as snowy, we actually get very little of the stuff, and it usually falls in increments of less than three inches and melts away in hours. Lots of people don't even bother shoveling. Of course we do have exceptions, like the two feet we got in October of 1997, but those are the exceptions that prove the rule. Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr

This is us!!!! And the way we grew up. The real question is, How will this current generation survive????? Looking back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have. As children we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat. Our baby cribs were painted with bright colored lead based paint. We often chewed on the crib, ingesting the paint. We had no child-proof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes we had no helmets. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. We played dodge ball and sometimes the ball would really hurt. We played with toy guns, cowboys and Indians, army, cops and robbers, and used our fingers to simulate guns when the toy ones or the BB gun was not available. We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank sugar soda, but we were never over weight; we were always outside playing. Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't, had to learn to deal with disappointment. Some students weren't as smart as others or didn't work hard so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade. That generation produced some of the greatest risk-takers and problem solvers. We had the freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), the term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system. We all took gym, not PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now. Flunking gym was not an option...even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym. Every year, someone taught the whole school a lesson by running in the halls with leather soles on linoleum tile and hitting the wet spot. How much better off would we be today if we only knew we could have sued the school system. Speaking of school, we all said prayers and the pledge (amazing we aren't all brain dead from that), and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention for about the next two weeks. We must have had horribly damaged psyches. Schools didn't offer 14 year olds an abortion or condoms (we wouldn't have known what either was anyway) but they did give us a couple of baby aspirin and cough syrup if we started getting the sniffles. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything. I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself. I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, PlayStation, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital cable stations. I must be repressing that memory as I try to rationalize through the denial of the dangers could have befallen us as we trekked off each day about a mile down the road to some guy's vacant lot, built forts out of branches and pieces of plywood, made trails, and fought over who got to be the Lone Ranger. What was that property owner thinking, letting us play on that lot. He should have been locked up for not putting up a fence around the property, complete with a self-closing gate and an infrared intruder alarm. Oh yeah...and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed! We played king of the hill on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites and when we got hurt, mom pulled out the 48 cent bottle of Mercurochrome and then we got butt-whopped. Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics and then mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat. Mom invited the door to door salesman inside for coffee, kids choked down the dust from the gravel driveway while playing with Tonka trucks (remember why Tonka trucks were made tough... it wasn't so that they could take the rough Berber in the family room), and Dad drove a car with leaded gas. Our music had to be left inside when we went out to play and I am sure that I nearly exhausted my imagination a couple of times when we went on two week vacations. I should probably sue the folks now for the danger they put us in when we all slept in campgrounds in the family tent. Summers were spent behind the push lawn mower and I didn't even know that mowers came with motors until I was 13 and we got one without even an automatic blade-stop or an auto-drive. How sick were my parents? Of course my parents weren't the only psychos. I recall Harry Hinson from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop just before he fell off. Little did his mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck. To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that we needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How in the world did we survive???

In a message dated 12/7/2002 7:16:22 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > Doris, Pat, > an anyone else who is not is a major snowstorm wih power outages. > I'm still around and trying to get my head above water in the mailbox -- I got sixty e-mails today alone, and Saturday's usually a slow day for e-mail. I'm totally swamped. In fact, if you guys wouldn't mind not sending me chitchat until the Christmas holidays are over (a joke, a prayer request or an inspirational is fine, though), I'd sure appreciate it. I'm badly backed up, and it's taking me a couple of hours a day to plow through the e-mail (time I can't afford and still be able to hold down a job). Don't take me off the list, though; I still want to get the memories! Hope you folks back East are digging out OK . . . Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr

Hi Everyone, I'm back. We got our electric on at midnight. It was so cold in our place you could actually see our breath. We stayed at our place the whole time except for getting a shower and a good hot meal and wonderful fellowship. The only thing that is left to come on is our cable. That isn't important. They have been a little worried about early next week. It may be more of the same. Charlotte and the State of NC has called out the National Guard and has declared a state of emergency. Duke Power our electric company has called in 8 other states to help in the electrical devastation. People are much meaner than they were during Hugo (and I thought they were bad then). Well I have to go. Talk soon. Love, Robin

Even though we've grown older this wish is sincere Merry Christmas to you and a Happy New Year. Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 1:59 PM Subject: Christmas Poem Christmas Poem Merry Christmas To My Female Friends On Memories: > > If I were ol' Santa, you know what I'd do > I'd dump silly gifts that are given to you > And deliver some things just inside your front door > Things you have lost, but treasured before. > > I'd give you back all your maidenly vigor, > And to go along with it, a neat tiny figure. > Then restore the old color that once graced your hair > Before rinses and bleaches took residence there. > > I'd bring back the shape with which you were gifted > So things now suspended need not be uplifted. > I'd draw in your tummy and smooth down your back > Till you'd be a dream in those tight fitting slacks. > > I'd remove all your wrinkles and leave only one chin > So you wouldn't spend hours rubbing grease on your > skin > You'd never have flashes or queer dizzy spells > And you wouldn't hear noises like ringing of bells. > > No sore aching feet and no corns on your toes > No searching for spectacles when they're right on your > nose. > Not a shot would you take in your arm, hip or fanny > >From a doctor who thinks you're a nervous old granny. > > You'd never have a headache, so no pills would you > take. > And no heating pad needed since your muscles won't > ache. > Yes, if I were Santa, you'd never look stupid > You'd be a cute little chick with the romance of a > cupid. > > I'd give a lift to your heart when those wolves start > to whistle > And the joys of your heart would be light as a > thistle. > But alas! I'm not Santa. I'm simply just me > The matronest of matrons you ever did see. > > I wish I could tell you all the symptoms I've got > But I'm due at my doctor's for an estrogen shot. > Even though we've grown older this wish is sincere > Merry Christmas to you and a Happy New Year. > > > >

Marie, Why did I have you in Fla.? I live in NC, and we didn't get anything because we're near the ocean. It was 20 this morning and I had to wait till 11 when it warmed up to 40 so I could go to the store, had cabin fever too. I see in our paper today that the motels around us are getting full of people from inland NC. Glad Robin has a place to go, looks like she is in the middle of it. I wrote to our Memory friend Faye over by 95 and she hasn't answered, maybe she's snowed in too. Don't fall Marie, I have 2 times since late Sept., and am in misery, as most know. However I am again typing and annoying people with my send outs. Glad Judy is enjoying the lovely snow. I know it is beautiful, but no thanks I am too old to enjoy now. Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: <PalmaG72@aol.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 10:43 AM Subject: [NJ-Memories] North Carolina > My daughter has a friend in NC and they are without power - she had to go to > her mother's house - her sister's house had a tree go into it - we had 8 > inches of snow and it is slowly melting - I am not going to walk to shopping > center today - I don't want to fall -it is suppose to warm tomorrow here in > central NJ ----hope so and I hope we don't get any other snow all winter -I > hate having cabin fever -----Marie G > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >