Anyone out there World? What has everyone been doing? I've just been limping along with one bad foot. But it doesn't keep me down. Might have it operated next Jan. I don't want to be housebound when it is fall weather like it is now. Couldn't decide whether to have it worked on or not but guess I need to do it. I don't trust that they can fix it. I've been doing damage to that left foot longer than these doctors have been alive. ha No always, I remember in the seventies a bag boy at the commissary let me go first and then ran the cart onto my heel down the ramp. Wow, it hurt but now can't remember if that was the left heel or not, but just things like that. Haven't walked in front of a grocery cart since. I'm either pushing it or behind the one pushing it. Hurt it once, beating a cocky little grandson to first base. He didn't think Gma Nova would/could take off that fast to beat him to first base. Boy, did he get a surprise! so I did, hit a cow's foot hole or a gopher hole on the way. We had stuffed grass into some garbage bags to make bases and was hitting the ball. He was a really good kid but John was working the whole weekend and Curt had gotten tired of doing the same old things so we were playing baseball in the field behind our house. I think like Burt Reynolds when he asked some old prisoner, who had hit the warden or someone in a game, Was it worth it? Yeah I thought it was at the time. ha Another time on the 4th of July I was chasing the neighbors horses or brumbies as I like to call them across the yard to head em off at the pass rather our driveway behind our house out to the blacktop road where cars and pickups go by like the devil is chasing them. But I was heading across the front of the yard and I got there in time to scare them back towards their place. BUT some neighbors dog barked and here came four huge horses galloping fast up the lane towards me and Goldie my dog, she was just barking like mad. They were going to have to run over me to get to that black top road, they would have surely killed some family driving by. I've heard stories of those long legs going thru windows and windshields into the car and them still maybe kicking. awful. But Thank God they came to a grinding halt right before they got to me and Goldie, turned and ran back past that dog and into their own yard and another neighbor walked over and was putting them in a pen. We let their horses graze on some of our back field and when Joe had gotten his 46 Ford Coupe out of the pole barn down there he had not fastened the wire tight enough and feeding over the fence, one horse just pushed it loose and they got out. I finished cooking for the big dinner with a bag of ice on my ankle covered with a red bandanna, the kids who came for dinner and homemade ice cream teased me saying they thought I had joined a gang!! The culprit who caused all this drove up about dinner time, all innocent like, as he said he thought he fastened the wire just fine. NOT!! I like to say "chasing the brumbies" from one of my all time favorite movies Man From Snowy River. When you hear her scream and see where she is, it always takes my breath away. Plus those real mountain men's code was how it used to be when I was growing up. A man's word or handshake was his bond. and the finishing touch to this ankle was last summer at a beautiful wedding on the beach in Calif. I was going down a little hill of sand and my ankle pulled or something and it's been bad since. Have to just pick and choose the shoes I wear as to how they suit this ankle. But going to the "Affair of the Heart" Friday. I went once yrs ago and just remember lacey photo albums but sure there is much much more to see. Got a plan!! I am going to push Mom's old transporter (like a wheelchair but less bulky, it has to be pushed by someone else.) with my and Beverly's purses/drinks in it until I have to sit down. She wants me to go with her and this is the only way. Maybe I can scramble along with my feet like the ladies in the living center.Ha At first I said No Way. But being with Beverly will be fun and worth it. Well, has every bit of Palmertree info and lore been discussed on here? Peggy, I wish you would get Basil talking and take notes and put them on here. I would love that. Is there anyone who remembers any thing at all about Thomas Andrew P'tree who went to Texas along with his future wife Lementine Dean's folks. They married after they got to Texas, he died of pneumonia the next year and left her a young widow pg with my Grandfather Thomas Henry P'tree. She later married a Triggo and a Scarbrough but never had but the one son. I think a couple of grown step children with Scarbrough. She was such a sweet person and totally beloved by her nieces and nephews in Texas. Two of them named their little girls Lementine Tiney after her. Tiney was just a nickname, she was a petite lady. I spoke to one of these girls one time and wrote a couple of notes, she was living in Georgia and elderly back then. I miss all you cousins etc talking on the line. Nova