Ladonna, They give you a phone number you can call on that URL that I gave you. I have a Medicare phone # which I call here in AZ..but I'm not sure if it would apply to where you live. The number is: 1-800-633-4227. The people are usually pretty nice. I know how you feel. We are concerned about a lot of things which are coming up; however, why not call Medicare & ask some questions & then Google Humana & see what they have to say. I had to make several calls the other day, b/c I just found out that Medicare will only cover pap smears every 2 yrs. I called my doctor & they are supposed to have all my records on their electronic devices..but they couldn't tell me. Then I called the doctor I will be going to & asked them about the coverage & they suggested that I call Medicare. They said that Medicare would have a record if they had paid for a pap smear for me within the last 2 yrs. Well, they had nothing & all I can figure is that my last pap smear was when I was on regular health insurance. I'm 66 yrs old now..but just turned 65 in May 2 yrs ago. The young man who I talked to at Medicare said that he didn't see how I would have any problems b/c they had no record of me having this test. Maybe if you called the number I gave you & ask if they had a number near where you are in OK, they could help you? I got my hands on this number b/c I was checking into coverage for my husband when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. They are helpful..& unlike some places, they didn't put me on hold for forever!! Ladonna, when I was airlifted to The Mayo Hospital in Phoenix, we were told that I had coverage there...we were told that when I started going to Scottsdale to the Mayo Clinic there, that I had insurance for them. Turned out that after a certain amount, everything came out of our pockets b/c I was "out of network". That's one term to remember b/c that taught us a big lesson. The other thing that you should remember..and we learned the hard way too, if you get a bill which is beyond your means to pay...all you have to do is show that you are willing to pay them something towards that bill. Once they take your money & cash that check or however you pay them..they will have to take your money from then on b/c you gave it to them in good faith. We lost nearly all our savings to The Mayo Clinic & hospital b/c no one told us I was "out of network". They refused to take a small payment each month & there was no way we could pay what they were asking. Well, after talking to them several times, we cashed in most of our stocks & bonds...that nearly exhausted our total savings for retirement. If I had just known that, instead of asking if they would accept say $100 per month, I had just sent them a check, then we would have been okay. Hopefully some of the things which I have told you will help you or someone else out. I have a good friend down in the Valley & her husband has been to the Mayo Clinic & Hospital on several occasions & all they do is pay they a small amount each month. Oh, how I wished I had known that when all this came up!! "Once burnt, once learned!" ~Jen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ladonna Pipkin" <fromtheghetto@rocketmail.com> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 7:50 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] HEALTH INS. JEN AM SO AFRAID I WILL MAKE WRONG DECISION AND WIPE OUT WHAT LITTLE SAVINGS I HAVE. LP --- On Mon, 12/27/10, Jen LaBonte <AZJen@npgcable.com> wrote: From: Jen LaBonte <AZJen@npgcable.com> Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] HEALTH INS. To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, December 27, 2010, 3:37 AM Ladonna, We have Medicare (it's required by my husband's union as well as BC/BS) & Blue Cross/Blue Shield. I know of 2 people who have Humana..don't know whether or not it's Human God Choice; however, they are quite pleased with Humana. Thing is, they have Humana as their supplementary insurance..like we have Blue Cross/Blue Shield as our supplementary insurance. I guess you could go to www.medicare.com to find out more about Medicare. I have been thinking about going there when I got a chance, but so far, that hasn't happened. As I'm sure you know by now, the government is going to be taking away much of our Medicare in either 2013 or 2014. Sorry if I have upset someone on this site for saying this..but it's the truth. Today I got a complete e-mail about how the death panels have been put back in by Obama. I didn't know they were out...but I guess he's putting them back in. (?) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ladonna Pipkin" <fromtheghetto@rocketmail.com> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 3:14 PM Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] HEALTH INS. > COULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME OR SUGGEST A INSURANCE BETTER THAN > MEDICARE??????????? > I HAVE MEDICARE A & B AT THIS TIME AND I AM THINKING OF SWITCHING TO > HUMANA GOLD CHOICE. > THOUGHS PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-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 SOUTHERN-CHAT-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 SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
JEN AM SO AFRAID I WILL MAKE WRONG DECISION AND WIPE OUT WHAT LITTLE SAVINGS I HAVE. LP --- On Mon, 12/27/10, Jen LaBonte <AZJen@npgcable.com> wrote: From: Jen LaBonte <AZJen@npgcable.com> Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] HEALTH INS. To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, December 27, 2010, 3:37 AM Ladonna, We have Medicare (it's required by my husband's union as well as BC/BS) & Blue Cross/Blue Shield. I know of 2 people who have Humana..don't know whether or not it's Human God Choice; however, they are quite pleased with Humana. Thing is, they have Humana as their supplementary insurance..like we have Blue Cross/Blue Shield as our supplementary insurance. I guess you could go to www.medicare.com to find out more about Medicare. I have been thinking about going there when I got a chance, but so far, that hasn't happened. As I'm sure you know by now, the government is going to be taking away much of our Medicare in either 2013 or 2014. Sorry if I have upset someone on this site for saying this..but it's the truth. Today I got a complete e-mail about how the death panels have been put back in by Obama. I didn't know they were out...but I guess he's putting them back in. (?) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ladonna Pipkin" <fromtheghetto@rocketmail.com> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 3:14 PM Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] HEALTH INS. > COULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME OR SUGGEST A INSURANCE BETTER THAN > MEDICARE??????????? > I HAVE MEDICARE A & B AT THIS TIME AND I AM THINKING OF SWITCHING TO > HUMANA GOLD CHOICE. > THOUGHS PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-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 SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Ladonna, We have Medicare (it's required by my husband's union as well as BC/BS) & Blue Cross/Blue Shield. I know of 2 people who have Humana..don't know whether or not it's Human God Choice; however, they are quite pleased with Humana. Thing is, they have Humana as their supplementary insurance..like we have Blue Cross/Blue Shield as our supplementary insurance. I guess you could go to www.medicare.com to find out more about Medicare. I have been thinking about going there when I got a chance, but so far, that hasn't happened. As I'm sure you know by now, the government is going to be taking away much of our Medicare in either 2013 or 2014. Sorry if I have upset someone on this site for saying this..but it's the truth. Today I got a complete e-mail about how the death panels have been put back in by Obama. I didn't know they were out...but I guess he's putting them back in. (?) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ladonna Pipkin" <fromtheghetto@rocketmail.com> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 3:14 PM Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] HEALTH INS. > COULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME OR SUGGEST A INSURANCE BETTER THAN > MEDICARE??????????? > I HAVE MEDICARE A & B AT THIS TIME AND I AM THINKING OF SWITCHING TO > HUMANA GOLD CHOICE. > THOUGHS PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message
COULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME OR SUGGEST A INSURANCE BETTER THAN MEDICARE??????????? I HAVE MEDICARE A & B AT THIS TIME AND I AM THINKING OF SWITCHING TO HUMANA GOLD CHOICE. THOUGHS PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At the time I wrote about Daddy wrapping the apples up the two older boys slept across the dog trot hall in an unheated bedroom...In beds loaded down with Mama's handmade quilts..made it hard to turn over !Common back then..jail time now ! The baby slept with Mama and Daddy in the front room where the fireplace was located, and us 3 girls slept in a big bed in there too...Eventually there was 9 kids...4 boys and 5 girls... What did we eat on Christmas day ? That's an easy one..I remember seeing Mama sitting at that big homemade table all alone..NONE of us kids ate breakfast..just candy and fruit. We didn't have any special food except all the cakes and stuff we had readied in the last few days...Coconut cake made with the 'milk' poured on the layers and freshly grated coconut ...Chocolate cake with thick icing, fruit salad, boiled custard. etc. Oh yes, we ate GOOD on Christmas...Mama was such a good cook, and had a 'sweet tooth' too... Thanks for sharing your own memories, Jen ! Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > My, what wonderful memories you have of your past Christmases. I have some, but none as wonderful as yours. I do remember, however, some of my most wonderful memories go back to when we had just enough to live on. ____________________________________________________________ Savings After the Holidays Find Great Values and Offers with inSite℠ from American Express®! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d16e187839327a7ecm06duc
Jeannie T. My, what wonderful memories you have of your past Christmases. I have some, but none as wonderful as yours. I do remember, however, some of my most wonderful memories go back to when we had just enough to live on. We still lived in our little 2 story home on Indiana St. One year my Mother sewed clothes for Toni dolls which my sister & myself got for Christmas. That was quite a Christmas present b/c my Mother detested sewing & years afterwards when I looked at the clothes she sewed for us, I could tell that her love went into each item. When I was 8 yrs old we moved into our new home across town. My parents had designed the home & it was just about everything they wanted & could afford. I loved that home & when my mother passed away in the early 90's, I was given half of it in my Mother's will. I offered to buy it for half of what the house was worth & my sister said that the only way she would let me buy it, is if I paid her the bank appraised price. There was no way we could afford that, so that's when we decided to pack up & move west. The reason I wanted it, was not why my sister thought I wanted it. She said that I planned to improve it & make money off of it. The reason I wanted it was b/c I never got to spend much time in my home. When I was old enough for High School, I was sent away to a private boarding school. Then in the summers, we had summer home in WI & we all left for there & usually spent the entire summer up there. I just wanted to spend some time in my home that I had so little time in while growing up. My sister simply didn't understand that & felt that I had some hidden agenda regarding our home. When she acted like she did...I figured it wasn't worth living in the same town with her now that both our parents were gone. If we had bought my parent's home, chances are we would have done very little to it. It was a large home & we had already discussed how we would heat & cool the place & we had decided that we would merely block off areas which were not lived in & would heat & cool only the areas which we did live in. It would have been senseless for us to try & fix that home up. It was built in the 1950's & looked like the 1950's. I would have been happy to have been there. My Mother's gardens were in the back & there were other things that went with the house which I know I would have gotten a lot of enjoyment out of. It wasn't worth arguing over...especially when my sister refused to believe anything which I told her. She looked at our home & b/c Paul & I had done so much work on it, I guess she figured we would do the same on my parent's home. The difference was, that we had bought that home soon after we were married & had worked on 1 room a year. As it turned out, the house was sold to the second couple that walked through it. Then we had to wait until they could show that they were able to purchase it with a secured mortgage...so we put up with realtors calling all the time, saying..."I have a client with the money in his hand & he wants to see the house." The reason our home was so much in demand was b/c we had 3/4 of an acre & it was right in town. When we had bought it, we had checked with the city & found out there was an easement running through all the back yards on our side of the street. We figured if we got tired of the land, we would sell the back half off so that someone could build a home on it. Turned out years later, that the amount of land which we could sell a buyer wouldn't be enough for a new home & the city took the easement away from us. By then, we had gotten use to all the extra yard & we had spent many years cultivating a wonderful garden...vegetables as well as flowers. It nearly broke my heart when the people who bought the house, tore out everything we had taken years to grow. I guess now that their children are grown, they have brought in professionals to landscape the yard for them. I have seen pictures of the house & front yard & you wouldn't recognize the place. They put a second story on the place...which we had planned to do if we had stayed there. And they did many more things than we could not have afforded, so I'm glad the house went to someone who seems to like it so much. Once we got to AZ, we were suppose to meet a realtor in Cave Creek, AZ. We went to her office & she had left a note saying that she had an unexpected emergency come up & she would see us the next day. So we continued on to Fountain Hills, AZ. We saw a number of homes there & I spotted one which I felt would be just right for Paul & myself. We had the earnest money down by 4:00 PM that afternoon. Paul wasn't too pleased that I had made this quick of a choice...but it was just the house for us. It was small..but we didn't need a lot of room. It had a pool in the back...which with AZ summers I felt we needed. It even had solar heating for our pool. As it turned out, they started work on a road in front of our house about 4 weeks after we had been there. They also started work on a golf course in front of our house too. We knew this would take place; however, we were told it probably would be years before they did this...and then it turned out to be 4 weeks!!! Paul, my husband got very sick. We know now that the reason he felt so badly was b/c of all the dust & dirt which was going on in front of our house. That's when we started looking for another home & finally found what we wanted up in the mountains in Payson, AZ. He has since been diagnosed with COPD. The doctor says he is able to use 70% of his lungs, which is good for someone with COPD. I was also diagnosed with aspiration pneumonia after 8-9 years of being in & out of hospitals. Turned out that I was born with my stomach behind my heart & late at night after I was in bed, I ended up sleeping sitting up. All my food was going into my lungs & no one seemed to be able to diagnose me. I was finally air lifted to the Mayo Hospital in Phoenix, where I had no idea where I was for nearly 2 weeks. As usual, my husband was told at first not to expect me to be alive in the morning..unless what our hospital said was true.."The I made very quick recoveries." Well, once again, I was there in the mornings. I cannot help but think that our Father had something in mind for me. I still am wondering what that is. I'm sure some day I will be able to figure that one out. Back to Christmas. Jeannie T., I can remember being told to get back in bed b/c my Grandparents had heard Santa's sleigh bells & if he realized that I was up, he would merely pass us by. Being under 8 yrs old, I believed so much in Santa & would race back upstairs afraid that he had heard me & of course, by then, I thought I could hear the sleigh bells too!! One year when we were in our first home on Indiana St., we left the usual cookies & milk out for Santa . In the morning, come to find that Santa had left a bit of his beard on the glass when he drank the milk. I was much older when I discovered that my Father had pulled hairs off of Skipper, our wired hair terrier...he was white & black & those white hairs really looked like Santa's beard to me. I know that I probably got more gifts than you did. And yet this was just after the WW II & money was still scarce & I know that we seldom got to eat meat. I really don't remember the meals we had on Christmas. My Mother was a good cook. However, there were many Christmas's that we traveled to our Grandparents in IA. I'll never forget my Grandmother's Suet Pudding with Lemon Sauce. We also had many other things b/c she was quite thrifty & canned most of her own fruits & vegetables. Jeannie T., do you remember any of the meals you had on Christmas? The ones that I remember most are when we visited my Grandparents in IA. I'm sure we didn't starve in IL...but I also know that we had to be very careful of the food that we received & of course, like most kids, if I didn't finish everything on my plate, I was told, "Just think of all the starving children in other countries who would love this food." My comment was, "Send my food to them." However, that was when I was young & if I had gotten smart like that when I was older, I would have been in a lot of trouble. Well, I wish you all a Merry Christmas & a Happy & Healthy New Years!! Thank you, Jeannie T., for sharing some of your most precious memorable moments with us. I guess I'm a "newbie" b/c I don't remember your stories about Christmas. One question...you only had 2 brothers & the rest were sisters (6 sisters)? I feel sorry for the boys in that they had to sleep in a room that wasn't heated. Didn't your Mother give them down comforters to keep them warm? I don't know what I would do without ours up here. Our nights drop way down in the teens & that comforter along with a sheet & blanket is just enough to keep us warm & cozy all night long. (We have no furnace on at night & that comforter has been a real life saver to us in the past few years.) ~Jen in Payson, AZ ----- Original Message ----- From: <askgranny@juno.com> To: <SOUTHERN-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 11:48 PM Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Christmas memories.... > It's December 24th and all around the world children of all ages are > thinking of Santa Claus's visit tonight...We don't have any youngens > around to make it special for us till about Tuesday when Ol Buzz invades, > so I'll just have to rely on my many happy memories.... My early > Christmases are still fresh in my mind because Daddy loved this joyous > season and made them special for us....While I'm sitting around waiting > for Santa Claus I thought I would share some memories with > you...Everything's as ready as it's going to get up here on the ridge and > theres a gentle snow falling...Not enough to cover the street yet, but > plenty to suit me...and make it more like Christmas for the youngens... > > You may have seen this letter before, but to the newbies on the > list...read on.... > > My earliest Christmas memories are from when we lived at the Jones place > in a big old log house with a dog trot hall down the middle....Robert and > Jerry slept across the hall in an unheated room and the rest of us slept > in beds in the room with the big fireplace.....The Christmases all roll > into one about that time...and I can't separate them out....One Christmas > Eve I remember waking up and seeing Mama and Daddy sitting in front of > the fireplace talking quietly ....I sat up in bed and asked " Is it > Christmas yet ? " Mama said " No , go back to sleep ." We knew we had to > be asleep or Santa wouldn't come...might not even leave us anything if we > weren't sound asleep ....Mom had told us of Uncle Louis struggling to > stay awake on Christmas Eve so he could see Santa Claus....He felt a hand > brush down across his face in the dark...Santa, seeing if his eyes were > closed !.......Best I remember he didn't get a gift that year.... > > We had a big orchard there at the Jones place, and one late Fall day > Daddy wrapped apples in pages torn from an outdated Sears and Roebucks > catalog and laid them carefully in a big wooden box to save till > Christmas.....We'd never heard of anyone doing that and of course he made > a big production out of it...him being a storyteller ..We just couldn't > hardly wait till Christmas that year to see if the apples had stayed > good...The box was placed in the unheated boys room to stay cool, but it > never occurred to us to sneak in there and eat one.......{ They kept > pretty good .}When we got up on Christmas morning Daddy had a big fire in > the fireplace and we quickly opened our gift and began eating the candy > from our stocking....I can remember seeing the flickers of lights the > fire made to add to the soft halo of light from the coal oil lamp setting > on the dresser.....Most special of all though, older brother Robert had > bought me a gift ! {We never exchanged gifts as some families do.}..He > had rolled up a comic book and wrapped it up as a gift for me....I can > see us now, I'm sitting off to the side of the fireplace in a straight > back chair, he's bending over the back of it helping me roll the comic > 'the other way' so it would lay flat and pointing out things in it...It > seemed we were in our own little world...and the happy voices of the > other kids enjoying their Christmas morning seemed very far away....I > don't think I'll ever get a gift that means more to me..... > > One Christmas while we lived in that big log house Christmas was a little > different...when we got up our folks weren't in the living room....Having > breakfast in the big lean to kitchen , maybe ? We rushed up to the > fireplace to see what Santa had brought us and doggone if there wasn't a > big bundle of switches standing there! Uh oh.......We'd been weaned on > tales of how bad boys and girls didn't get nothing from Santa but a > bundle of switches....What if our parents found out we'd been bad ? We > came up with a wonderful idea...just grabbed that bundle of switches and > threw them as far as we could out into the yard......Scattering them > around so's they'd blend in...Went back in giggling to each other....Now > Mama and Daddy wouldn't know we'd been bad ! 'They didn't see a thing, > 'and Christmas went on as usual....We didn't hear Santa when he came , > but Daddy said he heard the sleigh up on the roof.....Couldn't understand > why Mama didn't get a present, but she showed us a pretty little milk > glass jar of deodorant cream , hidden on top of the cabinet, that Santa > had left her.....Daddy used to fill his shoes with fruit and candy when > he filled our stockings, and had more fun than any of us.... > > As I think back over the long years of my life I'm reminded of one time > when my sister Joyce went to great lengths to find out what we were > getting for Christmas...I was about 12...she was 19 months older...Sis > knew Mom had hid something in the boys closet , but couldn't figure out > how to get back there in their room without Mama seeing her...She finally > crawled over the partition in our closet into their > closet....Unfortunately she stepped on the gifts getting down !...Mama > had got us two big girls a nice wall picture each....On Christmas > morning, Joyce very generously volunteered to take the one with the > cracked glass....Said Mama sure looked at her strangely ... She never did > tell her the truth, but years later she told me....Seems like a strange > gift, but it WAS something we would keep ....and if we'd been careful it > would have been a lifetime gift.... > > I still have a gold locket Santa brought me on an earlier Christmas , > but Joyce misplaced hers ...maybe on one of the moves they made while > Johnny was in the Air Force......We were so near the same age we usually > got similar gifts ..to cut down on the wrangling, I suppose...Our gifts > never amounted to much but at least we got some little token ...One > year...when I was about 14, I got a pair of panties - probably the least > I ever got.......I embroidered my initial on them in lavender, so they > became a special memory...I think the younger kids got more than the > older ones did... > > Looks like Mama would have handmade a lot of stuff for us while we were > gone to school during the year...She was a very crafty person..but can't > remember anything homemade but youngest sister Jan getting a doll bed > with covers made from material left over from a dress Mom had made for > her....With all those children she had to do a lot of sewing...Sometimes > we would come home from school and one of us girls would have a brand new > dress...Mom would get the Sears and Roebuck catalog and find a style of > dress that appealed to her and cut it out using one of the dresses that > fit us as a pattern...She would use scraps of other fabric to make > collars and cuffs, piping on a pocket, etc. to make it special....I think > one reason she didn't make things for us is because she just wasn't > 'into' Christmas, and Dad was...so she missed him more at that time of > year, maybe... > > Yes, we were definitely 'pore folks'....and only got a token gift from > Santa , but we had special foods fine enough to grace the Squire's > table. Every single Christmas we had a freshly baked coconut cake,[ > Remember how ladies used to save out the coconut milk and drizzle it on > the cake layers ?] and maybe one of Mamas special chocolate cakes, > standing high on the cut glass cake stand she got for selling Lee salve > door to door when she was a girl....AND we had boiled custard, fresh > fruit salad, and a Stack Pie...In case you never heard of that it is > about 5 pies stacked up with a meringue pie on top...Pie crusts are made > a little thicker, and dark and light fillings are alternated as you > remove the pies from their crusts and stack them on a serving plate...It > is cut like a layer cake....And we had nuts, candy and some fruit bought > with a miserly sum sent us by her 'rich' sister Clyde....She USED to send > us 10 dollars a year, and Mama could buy a bushel of apples and a bushel > of oranges...then she started sending 5 dollars after the oldest of us 9 > kids got up pretty good sized....Somehow they thought we could earn > money...Where, in the middle of the winter out in the country amongst > other pore folks ??? I griped about it one time and Mama said with a > smile " She doesn't have to send us anything ." People amused her...I > guess her sister wasn't as bad as her husband Iven .....Strangely enough > he didn't manage to take it with him when he died...I'm sure he thought > he > could.... > > Oh yes...We had a few fireworks to set off on Christmas morning ...EARLY > ! The oldest boys would set off the precious fireworks out in the front > yard while the rest of us watched....from the window if it was very > cold... Those Roman candles shot the beautifully colored balls of fire > into the cold dark skies with the bright stars as a backdrop and we > thought it was wonderful...not ever having seen real fireworks....I'm > sure we looked forward to our meager celebration much more than the jaded > children of today...I figure Mama did fine for a 'widder' woman left with > 8 youngens and one on the way .....Jeannie T...Awash in memories.... > > ____________________________________________________________ > Refinance Rates at 2.8% > $160,000 Mortgage $434/mo. No Hidden Fees- 3.1% APR! Get a Free Quote > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d15a35f41af9798cam06duc > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message
It's December 24th and all around the world children of all ages are thinking of Santa Claus's visit tonight...We don't have any youngens around to make it special for us till about Tuesday when Ol Buzz invades, so I'll just have to rely on my many happy memories.... My early Christmases are still fresh in my mind because Daddy loved this joyous season and made them special for us....While I'm sitting around waiting for Santa Claus I thought I would share some memories with you...Everything's as ready as it's going to get up here on the ridge and theres a gentle snow falling...Not enough to cover the street yet, but plenty to suit me...and make it more like Christmas for the youngens... You may have seen this letter before, but to the newbies on the list...read on.... My earliest Christmas memories are from when we lived at the Jones place in a big old log house with a dog trot hall down the middle....Robert and Jerry slept across the hall in an unheated room and the rest of us slept in beds in the room with the big fireplace.....The Christmases all roll into one about that time...and I can't separate them out....One Christmas Eve I remember waking up and seeing Mama and Daddy sitting in front of the fireplace talking quietly ....I sat up in bed and asked " Is it Christmas yet ? " Mama said " No , go back to sleep ." We knew we had to be asleep or Santa wouldn't come...might not even leave us anything if we weren't sound asleep ....Mom had told us of Uncle Louis struggling to stay awake on Christmas Eve so he could see Santa Claus....He felt a hand brush down across his face in the dark...Santa, seeing if his eyes were closed !.......Best I remember he didn't get a gift that year.... We had a big orchard there at the Jones place, and one late Fall day Daddy wrapped apples in pages torn from an outdated Sears and Roebucks catalog and laid them carefully in a big wooden box to save till Christmas.....We'd never heard of anyone doing that and of course he made a big production out of it...him being a storyteller ..We just couldn't hardly wait till Christmas that year to see if the apples had stayed good...The box was placed in the unheated boys room to stay cool, but it never occurred to us to sneak in there and eat one.......{ They kept pretty good .}When we got up on Christmas morning Daddy had a big fire in the fireplace and we quickly opened our gift and began eating the candy from our stocking....I can remember seeing the flickers of lights the fire made to add to the soft halo of light from the coal oil lamp setting on the dresser.....Most special of all though, older brother Robert had bought me a gift ! {We never exchanged gifts as some families do.}..He had rolled up a comic book and wrapped it up as a gift for me....I can see us now, I'm sitting off to the side of the fireplace in a straight back chair, he's bending over the back of it helping me roll the comic 'the other way' so it would lay flat and pointing out things in it...It seemed we were in our own little world...and the happy voices of the other kids enjoying their Christmas morning seemed very far away....I don't think I'll ever get a gift that means more to me..... One Christmas while we lived in that big log house Christmas was a little different...when we got up our folks weren't in the living room....Having breakfast in the big lean to kitchen , maybe ? We rushed up to the fireplace to see what Santa had brought us and doggone if there wasn't a big bundle of switches standing there! Uh oh.......We'd been weaned on tales of how bad boys and girls didn't get nothing from Santa but a bundle of switches....What if our parents found out we'd been bad ? We came up with a wonderful idea...just grabbed that bundle of switches and threw them as far as we could out into the yard......Scattering them around so's they'd blend in...Went back in giggling to each other....Now Mama and Daddy wouldn't know we'd been bad ! 'They didn't see a thing, 'and Christmas went on as usual....We didn't hear Santa when he came , but Daddy said he heard the sleigh up on the roof.....Couldn't understand why Mama didn't get a present, but she showed us a pretty little milk glass jar of deodorant cream , hidden on top of the cabinet, that Santa had left her.....Daddy used to fill his shoes with fruit and candy when he filled our stockings, and had more fun than any of us.... As I think back over the long years of my life I'm reminded of one time when my sister Joyce went to great lengths to find out what we were getting for Christmas...I was about 12...she was 19 months older...Sis knew Mom had hid something in the boys closet , but couldn't figure out how to get back there in their room without Mama seeing her...She finally crawled over the partition in our closet into their closet....Unfortunately she stepped on the gifts getting down !...Mama had got us two big girls a nice wall picture each....On Christmas morning, Joyce very generously volunteered to take the one with the cracked glass....Said Mama sure looked at her strangely ... She never did tell her the truth, but years later she told me....Seems like a strange gift, but it WAS something we would keep ....and if we'd been careful it would have been a lifetime gift.... I still have a gold locket Santa brought me on an earlier Christmas , but Joyce misplaced hers ...maybe on one of the moves they made while Johnny was in the Air Force......We were so near the same age we usually got similar gifts ..to cut down on the wrangling, I suppose...Our gifts never amounted to much but at least we got some little token ...One year...when I was about 14, I got a pair of panties - probably the least I ever got.......I embroidered my initial on them in lavender, so they became a special memory...I think the younger kids got more than the older ones did... Looks like Mama would have handmade a lot of stuff for us while we were gone to school during the year...She was a very crafty person..but can't remember anything homemade but youngest sister Jan getting a doll bed with covers made from material left over from a dress Mom had made for her....With all those children she had to do a lot of sewing...Sometimes we would come home from school and one of us girls would have a brand new dress...Mom would get the Sears and Roebuck catalog and find a style of dress that appealed to her and cut it out using one of the dresses that fit us as a pattern...She would use scraps of other fabric to make collars and cuffs, piping on a pocket, etc. to make it special....I think one reason she didn't make things for us is because she just wasn't 'into' Christmas, and Dad was...so she missed him more at that time of year, maybe... Yes, we were definitely 'pore folks'....and only got a token gift from Santa , but we had special foods fine enough to grace the Squire's table. Every single Christmas we had a freshly baked coconut cake,[ Remember how ladies used to save out the coconut milk and drizzle it on the cake layers ?] and maybe one of Mamas special chocolate cakes, standing high on the cut glass cake stand she got for selling Lee salve door to door when she was a girl....AND we had boiled custard, fresh fruit salad, and a Stack Pie...In case you never heard of that it is about 5 pies stacked up with a meringue pie on top...Pie crusts are made a little thicker, and dark and light fillings are alternated as you remove the pies from their crusts and stack them on a serving plate...It is cut like a layer cake....And we had nuts, candy and some fruit bought with a miserly sum sent us by her 'rich' sister Clyde....She USED to send us 10 dollars a year, and Mama could buy a bushel of apples and a bushel of oranges...then she started sending 5 dollars after the oldest of us 9 kids got up pretty good sized....Somehow they thought we could earn money...Where, in the middle of the winter out in the country amongst other pore folks ??? I griped about it one time and Mama said with a smile " She doesn't have to send us anything ." People amused her...I guess her sister wasn't as bad as her husband Iven .....Strangely enough he didn't manage to take it with him when he died...I'm sure he thought he could.... Oh yes...We had a few fireworks to set off on Christmas morning ...EARLY ! The oldest boys would set off the precious fireworks out in the front yard while the rest of us watched....from the window if it was very cold... Those Roman candles shot the beautifully colored balls of fire into the cold dark skies with the bright stars as a backdrop and we thought it was wonderful...not ever having seen real fireworks....I'm sure we looked forward to our meager celebration much more than the jaded children of today...I figure Mama did fine for a 'widder' woman left with 8 youngens and one on the way .....Jeannie T...Awash in memories.... ____________________________________________________________ Refinance Rates at 2.8% $160,000 Mortgage $434/mo. No Hidden Fees- 3.1% APR! Get a Free Quote http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d15a35f41af9798cam06duc
Back at you, Ladonna!! God bless you & all your loved ones. Much Love, ~Jen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ladonna Pipkin" <fromtheghetto@rocketmail.com> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 10:02 AM Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] LOVE > Listers & Lurkers, Saints & Sinners, > LOOK UP HE IS COMING. . . . . > MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR > WITH LOTS OF LOVE AND BEST WISHES. . . > LADONNA > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message
For those celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, this is a good historical background. I would love to go to Bethlehem during the Christmas season. It won't happen, so I can only read about it./Emma Merry Christmas During the Christmas season, many Christians from around the world make a pilgrimage to Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ. Most visit the Church of the Nativity, which is regarded by some as the traditional site of the birth of Jesus. But after two thousand years, do we really know where Jesus was born? The Church of the Nativity is one of the oldest churches in the world. "This is the place where Jesus Christ was born," said Professor Qustandi Shomali of Bethlehem University. "The Church of the Nativity was built over this place in 326 when Emperor Constantine decided to declared Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire," Shomali said. "Since then pilgrims from all around the world started coming to Bethlehem to visit this place. The place where Christianity started." Inside the church, the original columns from the 4th century still stand. Constantine's mother, Queen Helena built the church. But why would she build it here? "We do know that the identification of the site where Jesus was born already traditionally goes back to the middle of the first century at least," Shomali said. In the first century, the Roman emperor Hadrian destroyed the town of Bethlehem. After he destroyed the town, Hadrian built a temple and planted a grove of trees over the site where Christian pilgrims had come to honor the place where Jesus was born. "Around what was left of the house which was only a cave where the virgin gave birth to the Child," said Stephen Pfann of the University of the Holy Land. "People remembered this. People within 15 years were already going back to that site to visit it." "In fact, this temple instead of destroying the place, preserved the place" Shomali said. Jerome wrote in 396 A.D., "Even amongst those who are strangers to the faith it is known that inside that grotto he who is adored and glorified by the Christians was born." Through the centuries, the church itself went through a number of changes, but it is still one of the few churches in the Holy Land that was never completely destroyed. The main entrance into the Church of the Nativity is called the Door of Humility, because you have to bend to get inside the church. It was originally built by the crusaders and then altered by the Ottomans in order to keep mounted horsemen out of the church. Fourteen-hundred years after Queen Helena built the church, Christian pilgrims still come from around the world. Many record their personal pilgrimage both inside and outside the church. The central place lays inside the grotto. Many believe it's the very cave where Jesus was born. A star marks the exact location. Many crowd down the narrow stairs to get inside the cave. Down below, pilgrims often touch the star and record the moment they got to see the birthplace of Jesus. For many, it is a profound emotional and spiritual experience. Father Peter Vasko of the Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land leads pilgrims to Bethlehem. He says it is especially meaningful during the Christmas season. "I think it's an absolute wonderful occasion for pilgrims to come so close to Christmas to be here, to pray at the spot where Jesus was born and to bring that prayer back in their own lives," Vasko said. Another event recorded in the Bible took place after Jesus was born. Shomali gave CBN News a rare look underneath the Church of the Nativity. "This is the place where we have the tomb of the innocent children," Shomali said. "Herod killed around 6,000 children from the whole area in order to kill Jesus Christ, because he didn't want a new king to replace him." Shomali also revealed some of the other tombs built below the church. "Here are the tombs of the innocent children," Shomali said. "These are the bones of some of the children that we believe were killed by Herod." Another significant event took place just outside Bethlehem. Pastor Steve Khoury of Calvary Baptist Church in Jerusalem showed CBN News the caves that many believe were used by the shepherds on that Holy night. "And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, 'Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a savior has been born to you; He is Christ the Lord.'" (Luke 2: 8-11) "According to history, the shepherds would use these caves to store the sheep during the winter; to store their food in the caves and also places to live, Khoury said. "The shepherds were very close to their sheep." Those shepherds became the first witnesses to the fulfillment of a prophecy given 700 years before when Isaiah proclaimed, "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel." (Isaiah 7:14) Today, that Christmas message is still the same for pilgrims, professors and pastors. "The reminder that God himself came to earth, to die on the cross and be born in a manger," Khoury said. "This is the essence of it, that people lives are changed. Peoples' lives will be changed if they hear about the power of Jesus Christ." *Originally published December 18, 2009
Listers & Lurkers, Saints & Sinners, LOOK UP HE IS COMING. . . . . MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR WITH LOTS OF LOVE AND BEST WISHES. . . LADONNA
I've made these little homespun looking muslin angels for years, sold them by the dozens...But not for THAT amount of money! I just picked up a piece of muslin one night while looking for something else and decided to make up a few while I watched TV....Ended up making about 25.... Hubby is sick, so I teased him about slacking while I made something to sell..asked him if he was going to go stand on the street corner and sell them for me. He said 'yes'....TEASING of course....After I told him how much they were' selling for' he said it might be worth his while to do it.... I'm getting hubby's malady for my birthday, and Son's family has one that's even worse, so I'll be staying home this weekend, reading some of the plethora of paperbacks I got free at the library a few days ago....One's 74th birthday is scarcely something to be happy about, but getting a jump start on Son's power bill with the 50 dollar gift will make it memorable...Especially since a newspaper article today said the rates are going up for about the 5th or 6th time this year. TVA is no longer such cheap electricity...but probably cheaper than some.... Sorry you have gotten sick ..especially while getting over surgery...Please take extra vitamins so it doesn't affect your surgery site....Jeannie T PS: Got lots of nice Birthday wishes and cards from the list...VERY much appreciated... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:02:26 -0800 "Jen LaBonte" <AZJen@npgcable.com> writes: > Wow!! Looks like you did receive a miracle of sorts today. I have > been > spending most of my time in the bathroom b/c I have what my husband > was up > with all night last night. Hopefully, I'll be better in time to go > to rehab > tomorrow. Have a Merry Christmas, Jeannie T. & BTW, Happy > Birthday!! My > husband will turn 72 in February. It just doesn't seem possible. I > will > turn 67 in May. Time just doesn't stop for anyone & I swear the > older you > get the faster it goes. Your angels must be pretty cute. I'd make > more > too. <g> > > > ~Jen in AZ > > ____________________________________________________________ Refinance Rates at 2.8% $160,000 Mortgage $434/mo. No Hidden Fees- 3.1% APR! Get a Free Quote http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d0b272f22e0c6ae08m06duc
VERY EMBARRASSING !My computer has a mind of it's own, and snatches my e mails away before I finish it, and this time got it mixed up with another letter...SORRY! Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:45:18 -0600 askgranny@juno.com writes: > Thanks ! I got a get well card from Jerry with a ps about my > birthday..Guess he thought I'd be sick because I just turned > 74..... ____________________________________________________________ Refinance Rates at 2.8% $160,000 Mortgage $434/mo. No Hidden Fees- 3.1% APR! Get a Free Quote http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d0b1a5164416ade0m06duc
Thanks ! I got a get well card from Jerry with a ps about my birthday..Guess he thought I'd be sick because I just turned 74.....Hey, he's not that far behind me, right ? Heard from both sons, got the malady Bear's been moaning about for days now, so won't get to go to the Holiday get together at McKenzie unless you could send a miracle this way..Of course Richards bunch has a DIFFERENT Malady, so I'd be afraid to even set foot in their door...another miracle, please ! Hey, I had a miracle today...Talked to an elderly woman in Big Lots today about all kinds of old timey stuff as we shopped around...Very interesting...Saw her loading her car as I got ready to drive away and decided to give her one of the little muslin angels I make...Told her I'd enjoyed talking to her very much and wanted her to have the angel...She asked if we went to church and tithed and a lot of other stuff...I told her not really, my disabled son and his family account for any extra money I have...I'm freezing my tail feathers off in the meantime and finally cut in to tell her I had to go..She said'' Come back here...I want you to have this , my grandson just loves angels " and handed me a bill..I assured her I didn't want any money for the angel...just really enjoyed talking to her..She insisted I keep the money..which I noticed was a $50 bill. She was determined , I told her it would go on my son's next power bill, and we both left happy. I hurried home to make more angels! *grin* Jeannie T ____________________________________________________________ Globe Life Insurance $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d0b158be142e6adc9m06duc
Don't worry about getting letters mixed up. I figured that everyone else knew what you were talking about. I liked the story about the lady at Big Lots. You express yourself very well. I'm sure that's why she wanted to give you something for your angel. Very nice Christmas present for your son too. ~Jen ----- Original Message ----- From: <askgranny@juno.com> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 1:00 AM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Jeannies angels... > I've made these little homespun looking muslin angels for years, sold > them by the dozens...But not for THAT amount of money! I just picked up a > piece of muslin one night while looking for something else and decided to > make up a few while I watched TV....Ended up making about 25.... Hubby is > sick, so I teased him about slacking while I made something to > sell..asked him if he was going to go stand on the street corner and sell > them for me. He said 'yes'....TEASING of course....After I told him how > much they were' selling for' he said it might be worth his while to do > it.... > > I'm getting hubby's malady for my birthday, and Son's family has one > that's even worse, so I'll be staying home this weekend, reading some of > the plethora of paperbacks I got free at the library a few days > ago....One's 74th birthday is scarcely something to be happy about, but > getting a jump start on Son's power bill with the 50 dollar gift will > make it memorable...Especially since a newspaper article today said the > rates are going up for about the 5th or 6th time this year. TVA is no > longer such cheap electricity...but probably cheaper than some.... > > Sorry you have gotten sick ..especially while getting over > surgery...Please take extra vitamins so it doesn't affect your surgery > site....Jeannie T > PS: Got lots of nice Birthday wishes and cards from the list...VERY much > appreciated... > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:02:26 -0800 "Jen LaBonte" <AZJen@npgcable.com> > writes: > > >> Wow!! Looks like you did receive a miracle of sorts today. I have >> been >> spending most of my time in the bathroom b/c I have what my husband >> was up >> with all night last night. Hopefully, I'll be better in time to go >> to rehab >> tomorrow. Have a Merry Christmas, Jeannie T. & BTW, Happy >> Birthday!! My >> husband will turn 72 in February. It just doesn't seem possible. I >> will >> turn 67 in May. Time just doesn't stop for anyone & I swear the >> older you >> get the faster it goes. Your angels must be pretty cute. I'd make >> more >> too. <g> >> >> >> ~Jen in AZ >> >> > ____________________________________________________________ > Refinance Rates at 2.8% > $160,000 Mortgage $434/mo. No Hidden Fees- 3.1% APR! Get a Free Quote > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d0b272f22e0c6ae08m06duc > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Wow!! Looks like you did receive a miracle of sorts today. I have been spending most of my time in the bathroom b/c I have what my husband was up with all night last night. Hopefully, I'll be better in time to go to rehab tomorrow. Have a Merry Christmas, Jeannie T. & BTW, Happy Birthday!! My husband will turn 72 in February. It just doesn't seem possible. I will turn 67 in May. Time just doesn't stop for anyone & I swear the older you get the faster it goes. Your angels must be pretty cute. I'd make more too. <g> ~Jen in AZ ----- Original Message ----- From: <askgranny@juno.com> To: <SOUTHERN-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:45 PM Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Thanks ! > Thanks ! I got a get well card from Jerry with a ps about my > birthday..Guess he thought I'd be sick because I just turned 74.....Hey, > he's not that far behind me, right ? Heard from both sons, got the malady > Bear's been moaning about for days now, so won't get to go to the Holiday > get together at McKenzie unless you could send a miracle this way..Of > course Richards bunch has a DIFFERENT Malady, so I'd be afraid to even > set foot in their door...another miracle, please ! > > Hey, I had a miracle today...Talked to an elderly woman in Big Lots today > about all kinds of old timey stuff as we shopped around...Very > interesting...Saw her loading her car as I got ready to drive away and > decided to give her one of the little muslin angels I make...Told her I'd > enjoyed talking to her very much and wanted her to have the angel...She > asked if we went to church and tithed and a lot of other stuff...I told > her not really, my disabled son and his family account for any extra > money I have...I'm freezing my tail feathers off in the meantime and > finally cut in to tell her I had to go..She said'' Come back here...I > want you to have this , my grandson just loves angels " and handed me a > bill..I assured her I didn't want any money for the angel...just really > enjoyed talking to her..She insisted I keep the money..which I noticed > was a $50 bill. She was determined , I told her it would go on my son's > next power bill, and we both left happy. I hurried home to make more > angels! *grin* Jeannie T > ____________________________________________________________ > Globe Life Insurance > $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d0b158be142e6adc9m06duc > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Wish we have a cheaper store to buy things at..but we are somewhat limited on where we shop. If we would like to go to a Costco or Sam's Club...we would have a 2 hr drive just to get there. Plus, then you have to subscribe & I figure that would be the cost of the gas to get to the place. ~Jen ----- Original Message ----- From: <askgranny@juno.com> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 10:40 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Publix Supermarkets...a good thing, huh ? > Glad to hear Publix is reasonably priced...They tore down our old > hospital and are busily putting in a Publix and other stores. Bad part > about it, they built the new hospital across town, so instead of taking > 15 minutes to drive there we figure on 30 or 45....Figures....Jeannie T > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:33:04 +0000 (UTC) *paula* > <freckletoes@comcast.net> writes: > . Our Publix is cheaper than WalM on lots of things especially on BOGO > items. I stocked up on boxed cake/bread mixes that were BOGO. Came out > to be 60cents box. am now looking for a cheap stove source like a > Habatchi and/or a dual fuel camp stove. This just isn't fun..... >> >> paula in too windy, too cold, too wet sw fla usa >> xoxoxo > ____________________________________________________________ > Refinance Rates at 2.7% > $160,000 Mortgage $434/mo. No Hidden Fees- 3.04% APR! Get a Free Quote > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d07110a563e76404em06duc > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message
I think that's basically how my sister took it. She is used to getting her paper on her door step & I guess she was a tad upset this AM b/c it wasn't there. We just finished unsubscribing from our paper & they still bring it. We have gone out twice & bought it, only to find it in our paper box. I'm surprised the second time they delivered it & saw that the other paper was still in there, they didn't question it. I will call the paper tomorrow & tell them so they can straighten the delivery person out. ~Jen ----- Original Message ----- From: <askgranny@juno.com> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 10:35 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] NO PAPER ? > At least she GOT a paper...I couldn't believe we didn't....Granted it was > only 10 degrees, but very little snow on the road...maybe he'll bring it > tomorrow. I think it depends on your carrier..I freely admit I couldn't > do the job....and appreciate SO much walking out to the street and that > paper being there 99% of the time , winter and summer....Salute ! Jeannie > T > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:25:10 -0800 "Jen LaBonte" <AZJen@npgcable.com> > writes: >> My sister lives in a suburb which is 40 miles west of Chicago > (Wheaton, IL..where I also grew up). Her newspaper today was delivered > by a girl who came out to Wheaton from Chicago. She certainly must > have wanted that job pretty badly to drive that far!! ~Jen > ____________________________________________________________ > Refinance Rates at 2.7% > $160,000 Mortgage $434/mo. No Hidden Fees- 3.04% APR! Get a Free Quote > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d07110a5d3a76404fm06duc > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Oh well, he had fun...I'm sure he will remember if you remind him how to make an angel before it snows again. ~Jen ----- Original Message ----- From: <askgranny@juno.com> To: <SOUTHERN-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 11:58 PM Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Buzz / angel ? > My Son wrote this : > > We were walking from the front to the back alongside the house when Buzz > suddenly pitched forward full length into the snow, and started moving > his arms and legs frantically. I quickly picked him up from the 4" drift > he landed in, and started trying to clear the snow/ice mix out of his > hood and off his face. The snow was so wet about an inch was sticking to > him all over his front, you could only see him from the back, the front > blended in with the yard. When I got his mouth clear he yelled "Don't > mess up my Snow Angel!". > > I have yet to tell him that you are supposed to lay on your back to make > snow angels; I'm pretty certain I'll tell him before it snows > again....Jeannie T's Son > ____________________________________________________________ > Refinance Rates at 2.7% > $160,000 Mortgage $434/mo. No Hidden Fees- 3.04% APR! Get a Free Quote > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d0723635f4c3640f1m06duc > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message
yes i am blessed with a host of the greatest friends. luv lp --- On Tue, 12/14/10, Jen LaBonte <AZJen@npgcable.com> wrote: From: Jen LaBonte <AZJen@npgcable.com> Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] PRICE ALERT To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 6:30 AM You are lucky to have such nice friends. When we lived back in IL, the grocery stores always had boxes up near Customer Service. Everyone left coupons there & then you could pick up those which you might want in exchange for what you left. It was on an honor system..but no one really seemed to have problems with it. I have noticed at our library lately, they have the same thing. ~Jen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ladonna Pipkin" <fromtheghetto@rocketmail.com> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 11:34 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] PRICE ALERT JEN IF I SEE THEM I CLIP THEM. MY FRIENDS JUST LIKE TO HELP AND ALWAYS WANT TO KNOW HOW I MADE OUT. LP --- On Mon, 12/13/10, Jen LaBonte <AZJen@npgcable.com> wrote: From: Jen LaBonte <AZJen@npgcable.com> Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] PRICE ALERT To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, December 13, 2010, 5:55 AM Ladonna, Do you ever just clip coupons out of newspapers for yourself? I did that for a long time, but I always forgot to use them. They even sent out information that you could earn $$ by clipping coupons. However, that was a scam b/c there was no way that I would ever be able to collect the coupons that they expected me to. Like I've said, I we really have to get out & buy things again. Our Social Security Checks are going down & very honestly, I'm getting rather leery of what is going on with our country. ~Jen in Payson, AZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ladonna Pipkin" <fromtheghetto@rocketmail.com> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 2:16 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] PRICE ALERT > PAULA > ..HAVE BEEN STOCKING UP I HAVE FRIENDS AROUND THE U.S. THAT OWN SPAS > AND SALONS AND THEIR CLIENTS/PATRONS SOMETIMES CLIPS THE COUPONS AND SEND > TO ME AND I WAIT UNTIL THEY ARE ON SALE THEN USE MY COUPONS AND LOAD UP, > SOMETIMES ON DOUBLE STAMP DAY THEY HAVE TO GIVE IT TO ME, NEEDLESS TO SAY > I LAUGH ALL THE WAY HOME. > GAS HERE IS 2.80. > LP > > > --- On Sun, 12/12/10, *paula* <freckletoes@comcast.net> wrote: > > > From: *paula* <freckletoes@comcast.net> > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] PRICE ALERT > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > Date: Sunday, December 12, 2010, 5:10 PM > > > LaDonna..... you must have read my mind! I was just going to post and ask > for some prices around the list. I see things edging up day by day. Gas > here in SW Florida is $3.00 / gal for regular. > Found a bargain at WallyWorld on 4 cans green beans/$2.00. Also same for > Campbells Tomato soup and Chicken Noodle. That was a sale though. There > are no canned goods here less than $1.00/can (or very close to that) and > most are $1.25 and up. No better prices at Save-a-Lot or Big Lots either. > Have to go out for deli meat today and will record some of the prices. > > Just read a good article then saw program on history channel - to be > prepared for power failures. We may just be getting warned in a subtle > way. > > If the price of gas keeps going up that means diesel fuel will go up. > Diesel fuel goes up that means the price of moving food will go up. Price > of moving food goes up then the price of food will go up. FedEx (hubby's > work - so far) has all ready put in a rate increase and I'm sure they are > not the only ones. > > paula in windy, warm, (but not for long) sunny sw fla usa > xoxoxo > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ladonna Pipkin" <fromtheghetto@rocketmail.com> > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 10:05:20 PM > Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] PRICE ALERT > > SHOPPERS > IN TISHOMINGO, 0KLAHOMA THE PRICE OF CHERRIES $8.99 PER LB. > FOLGERS INSTANT COFFEE 120 CUP SIZE $5.99 PLUS SALES TAX. > LP > > --- On Sat, 12/11/10, Belle Shepherd <belleshep@cox.net> wrote: > > > From: Belle Shepherd <belleshep@cox.net> > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] New Computer > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > Date: Saturday, December 11, 2010, 5:02 AM > > > > Jen, thanks for your note, hope all is well in Arizona. Have you put your > house up for sale yet? Its a buyers market these days. Glad your knee > surgery went OK. Please keep in touch. > > Regards, > Belle > -----Original Message----- > From: southern-chat-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:southern-chat-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jen LaBonte > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 8:07 PM > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] New Computer > > Dear Belle, > > Congratulations on the new computer!! Have your Grandson show you how to > enlarge the printing (the incoming font). It's not hard & I'm sure you can > do it!! > > Take care!! > > ~Jen > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Belle Shepherd" <belleshep@cox.net> > To: "Southern-Chat@Rootsweb.Com" <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 7:43 PM > Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] New Computer > > >> Just wanted to let everyone know that I was having some problems with my >> computer. My grandson has set me up with a new computer and is trying to >> teach me how to use it.We got all the email moved over but it took a few >> days. >> >> >> >> I have trouble responding due to my poor eysight. 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