Boy, I bet that WAS an exciting flight over the National Airport. Wow! Would you tell us a bit more about the "grave rod" for finding unmarked graves. That sounds really interesting. and how in the world did they determine the sex of the person? My mom's bro Ervin was supposed to be able to use one of those forked sticks? that would tell you if it was a good place to dig a well, they said he never missed, and all kinds of people came to get him to figure out where they should dig, but even as a preteen, I just assumed he had smarts about what would be a likely place for a good well. He was a funny guy and would have liked the reputation for using a witching stick or whatever they were called. . In a message dated 2/10/2013 1:58:43 P.M. Central Standard Time, janiegaby@suddenlink.net writes: I find "hopping" anywhere and impossibility! I need to go to MS and make my rounds again but it is much harder than before. I always stay with my best friend from school, Carolyn Ware Rinicker and her husband DUDLEY RINICKER, who cataloged all the cemeteries and worked on broken tombstones and genealogy. Carolyn has had knee replacements, she is about 1 1/2 yrs older then me and Dudley is about 4 yrs older and not very spry anymore. They always took me to the places I wanted to go and Dudley showed me how to use the "grave rod" or whatever he calls it to determine where graves are with no markers and even what sex they were. It really worked! I have been seeing that the old Weston Cemetery between Bowling Green and Centerville(near West) gets taken care of and I sure need to find a young person that would be interested in doing that job. I can't think right now of the name of the man who owns the place now (he lives in Jackson with lots money) but he promised his workers would take care of cemetery and they did put nice iron fence around it but if I don't check once in a while I think they get lax on mowing. It is across the pasture but reachable by car but gate stays locked so I have to let them know when I am coming. Lots of people buried there. Needless to say none of the three of us do much "hopping" anymore. Nova, enjoyed your trips to N.O. I have been their quite a few times and cruised out of there once. I have traveled a lot before retiring and have some pretty good stories but have probably told them already! My most exciting one was being in a plane flying over National Airport when Air Florida crashed. The pilot said "Ladies and Gentlemen, we are in a HOLDING PATTERN awaiting landing instructions". My friend said "I thought it seemed like we were standing STILL". Her husband and I looked at each other and couldn't help but laugh while explaining to her what a holding pattern was. We were flown back to VA. and they put us on buses back to DC and let let us out at the CLOSED airport instead of hotel(many of us going to same place as it was Postmaster meeting). We found one taxi and he crammed as many inside as he could with our luggage tied and hanging everywhere. People were still walking in the snow at the edge of the river. Enough - Janie -----Original Message----- From: Peggy Palmertree Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 12:45 PM To: palmertree@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PTREE] Gone Piddlin I don't think the 3 of us would be able to go cemetery hoping, like Buckoo & I did back in the 80's & 90's. ________________________________ From: "Srod46@aol.com" <Srod46@aol.com> To: palmertree@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [PTREE] Gone Piddlin Remember it is not your best friend who bails you out of jail, your best friend is the one sitting cell next to you, going "Wooooo Hoooooo, that was a gooooood time!!!!" In a message dated 2/10/2013 3:20:57 A.M. Central Standard Time, palmertree.listowner@gmail.com writes: You are so right! I imagine Nova would be a ring-leader for sure. She could get away with it since no one knows who she is or where she's from. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I will have to call and let Dudley refresh my memory. If I remember right it was made out of a coat hanger and it moved when you went over a grave and it dipped one way if female and the way if mail. -----Original Message----- From: Srod46@aol.com Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 8:19 PM To: palmertree@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PTREE] Janie, your flight Boy, I bet that WAS an exciting flight over the National Airport. Wow! Would you tell us a bit more about the "grave rod" for finding unmarked graves. That sounds really interesting. and how in the world did they determine the sex of the person? My mom's bro Ervin was supposed to be able to use one of those forked sticks? that would tell you if it was a good place to dig a well, they said he never missed, and all kinds of people came to get him to figure out where they should dig, but even as a preteen, I just assumed he had smarts about what would be a likely place for a good well. He was a funny guy and would have liked the reputation for using a witching stick or whatever they were called. . In a message dated 2/10/2013 1:58:43 P.M. Central Standard Time, janiegaby@suddenlink.net writes: I find "hopping" anywhere and impossibility! I need to go to MS and make my rounds again but it is much harder than before. I always stay with my best friend from school, Carolyn Ware Rinicker and her husband DUDLEY RINICKER, who cataloged all the cemeteries and worked on broken tombstones and genealogy. Carolyn has had knee replacements, she is about 1 1/2 yrs older then me and Dudley is about 4 yrs older and not very spry anymore. They always took me to the places I wanted to go and Dudley showed me how to use the "grave rod" or whatever he calls it to determine where graves are with no markers and even what sex they were. It really worked! I have been seeing that the old Weston Cemetery between Bowling Green and Centerville(near West) gets taken care of and I sure need to find a young person that would be interested in doing that job. I can't think right now of the name of the man who owns the place now (he lives in Jackson with lots money) but he promised his workers would take care of cemetery and they did put nice iron fence around it but if I don't check once in a while I think they get lax on mowing. It is across the pasture but reachable by car but gate stays locked so I have to let them know when I am coming. Lots of people buried there. Needless to say none of the three of us do much "hopping" anymore. Nova, enjoyed your trips to N.O. I have been their quite a few times and cruised out of there once. I have traveled a lot before retiring and have some pretty good stories but have probably told them already! My most exciting one was being in a plane flying over National Airport when Air Florida crashed. The pilot said "Ladies and Gentlemen, we are in a HOLDING PATTERN awaiting landing instructions". My friend said "I thought it seemed like we were standing STILL". Her husband and I looked at each other and couldn't help but laugh while explaining to her what a holding pattern was. We were flown back to VA. and they put us on buses back to DC and let let us out at the CLOSED airport instead of hotel(many of us going to same place as it was Postmaster meeting). We found one taxi and he crammed as many inside as he could with our luggage tied and hanging everywhere. People were still walking in the snow at the edge of the river. Enough - Janie -----Original Message----- From: Peggy Palmertree Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 12:45 PM To: palmertree@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PTREE] Gone Piddlin I don't think the 3 of us would be able to go cemetery hoping, like Buckoo & I did back in the 80's & 90's. ________________________________ From: "Srod46@aol.com" <Srod46@aol.com> To: palmertree@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [PTREE] Gone Piddlin Remember it is not your best friend who bails you out of jail, your best friend is the one sitting cell next to you, going "Wooooo Hoooooo, that was a gooooood time!!!!" In a message dated 2/10/2013 3:20:57 A.M. Central Standard Time, palmertree.listowner@gmail.com writes: You are so right! I imagine Nova would be a ring-leader for sure. She could get away with it since no one knows who she is or where she's from. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I'm waiting to see how that works. ________________________________ From: "janiegaby@suddenlink.net" <janiegaby@suddenlink.net> To: palmertree@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 11:17 PM Subject: Re: [PTREE] Janie, your flight I will have to call and let Dudley refresh my memory.  If I remember right it was made out of a coat hanger and it moved when you went over a grave and it dipped one way if female and the way if mail. -----Original Message----- From: Srod46@aol.com Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 8:19 PM To: palmertree@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PTREE] Janie, your flight Boy, I bet that WAS an exciting flight over the National Airport.  Wow! Would you tell us a bit more about the "grave rod" for finding  unmarked graves. That sounds really interesting. and how in the world did  they determine the sex of the person? My mom's bro Ervin was supposed to be able to use one of those forked sticks? that would tell you if it was a good place to dig a well, they said he never missed, and all kinds of people came to get him to figure out where they  should dig, but even as a preteen, I just assumed he had smarts about what  would be a likely place for a good well.  He was a funny guy and would have  liked the reputation for using a witching stick or whatever they were called. . In a message dated 2/10/2013 1:58:43 P.M. Central Standard Time, janiegaby@suddenlink.net writes: I find  "hopping" anywhere and impossibility!  I need to go to MS and make my rounds again but it is much harder than before.  I always stay with  my best friend from school, Carolyn Ware Rinicker and her husband DUDLEY  RINICKER, who cataloged all the cemeteries and worked on broken tombstones  and genealogy.  Carolyn has had knee replacements, she is about 1 1/2  yrs older then me and Dudley is about 4 yrs older and not very spry  anymore.  They always took me to the places I wanted to go and Dudley  showed me how to use the "grave rod" or whatever he calls it to determine  where graves are with no markers and even what sex they were.  It  really worked!  I have been seeing that the old Weston Cemetery  between Bowling Green and Centerville(near West) gets taken care of and I  sure need to find a young person that would be interested in doing that  job.  I can't think right now of the name of the man who owns the  place now (he lives in Jackson with lots money) but he promised his  workers would take care of cemetery and they did put nice iron fence  around it but if I don't check once in a while I think they get lax on  mowing.  It is across the pasture but reachable by car but gate stays  locked so I have to let them know when I am coming.  Lots of people buried there.  Needless to say none of the three of us do much "hopping" anymore. Nova, enjoyed your trips to N.O.  I have been  their quite a few times and cruised out of there once.  I have  traveled a lot before retiring and have some pretty good stories but have  probably told them already!  My most exciting one was being in a  plane flying over National Airport when Air Florida crashed.  The  pilot said "Ladies and Gentlemen, we are in a HOLDING PATTERN awaiting  landing instructions".  My friend said "I thought it seemed like we  were standing STILL".  Her husband and I looked at each other and couldn't help but laugh while explaining to her what a holding pattern was. We were flown back to VA. and they put us on buses back to DC and let  let us out at the CLOSED airport instead of hotel(many of us going to same  place as it was Postmaster meeting).  We found one taxi and he  crammed as many inside as he could with our luggage tied and hanging  everywhere.  People were still walking in the snow at the edge of the  river. Enough - Janie -----Original Message----- From: Peggy  Palmertree Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 12:45 PM To:  palmertree@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PTREE] Gone Piddlin I don't  think the 3 of us would be able to go cemetery hoping, like Buckoo & I  did back in the 80's &  90's. ________________________________ From: "Srod46@aol.com"  <Srod46@aol.com> To: palmertree@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday,  February 10, 2013 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [PTREE] Gone  Piddlin Remember it is not your best friend who bails you out of jail,  your  best friend is the one sitting cell next to you, going "Wooooo  Hoooooo, that was a gooooood time!!!!" In a message dated  2/10/2013 3:20:57 A.M. Central Standard  Time, palmertree.listowner@gmail.com writes: You  are so  right! I imagine Nova would be a ring-leader for sure. She could get  away with it since no one knows who she is or where she's  from. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list,  please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word  'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the  message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the  list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the  word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the  message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from  the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the  word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the  message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message