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