Lynn: you have the gift! No one I know tells a story or retells happenings like you do. I so enjoy hearing your "accounts" of happenings, Listening to you tell about walking that path I can visualize it in my mind. I believe you do have Indian in your ancestry, your story telling is your passed down gift from them. Hugs Sally ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn Vondran" <lynnvondran@att.net> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 10:17 AM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] A Glenside Story_Adventures Along the Tully > LOL!!!!!! Sally! > Oh, we didn't let that bother us one bit. Though we did make up a > tall-tail once, that we actually started to believe ourselves, which > actually made us a little bit scared to walk that way for a while. That > is another long story. But, as far as this incident, why, the very next > day we were back to our beloved Tully, again. And, we walked that > toe-path many, many times after that. A couple years after this incident, > they built the bike trail, as it is today. Before that happened, we had > lots of privacy along this trail for two more wonderful years of > adventure. > The bike trail runs along parts of the old toe-path, but doesn't curve > this way and that way as much as the little path we kids from Glenside > blazed, or should I say, helped to keep blazed. It just seemed to have > alwayss been there. The bike trail runs from Glenside to Greenfields and > beyond for five miles one way. No, that little shack wasn't there, or at > least I couldn't find it. After they built the bike trail, it was a much > nicer walk along the Tully, a MUCH wider trail, which means they cleared > up some of the thick brush and woods, to opened it up to the public. It > was no longer OUR tiny toe-path, and no longer adventurous, because there > were way too many people who walked it after that. > After they built the bike trail, this would have been in the late 1960s?, > early 1970s?_can't remember exactly when the trail was built, on days I > wanted to play my guitar in private, do some heavy-duty studying for > business school, or just read my Bible, or another good book, I would go > to my favorite bench along the water, and sit there for hours_looking up > only a brief moment to say hi to a passer-by. It was very relaxing, and I > love to hear the water moving along, and the little animals scurrying > about, while reading. The really weird thing about it was that I was > NEVER afraid there, all by myself. Mind you, when it was a toe-path, we > would have never thought to walk it alone. > Much MORE of my Tully adventures later :o) Gotta get the wash, do some > dead-heading outside, and stretch my back, but I'll be back!! > :o) > Lynn > PS "Mind you"_now there is one for Richard Emlin Reed to give its origin > or German and PA Dutch. > > Sally wrote: > Yikes! It is 1;02AM and I just read this story! Now how am I going to go > to sleep!! That was just a tad bit scary!!!!! Great Story!!! Don't you > ever have the urge to go back and see if its still there?? > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Thanks again, everyone. Sally, Maybe, just maybe_it certainly would be a JOY to know!!! Hugs right back to you and the list!!! :o) Lynn Sally wrote: Lynn: you have the gift! No one I know tells a story or retells happenings like you do. I so enjoy hearing your "accounts" of happenings, Listening to you tell about walking that path I can visualize it in my mind. I believe you do have Indian in your ancestry, your story telling is your passed down gift from them. Hugs