OMG!! Grampa Tanner had one of those and all he had to do was threaten....he could snap it so loud that was enough to scare a kid to Gramma's lap!! paula in sw fla usa.....ouch eech oweeee xoxoxo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roses" <roses4831@msn.com> To: "southern-chat" <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 11:28:21 AM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits/cluttered table/fly swatter Never had a fly swatter used on me. I got the razor strop. Guess that tells you how serious Mama thought my infraction was. <g> Emma > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:24:06 +0000 > From: freckletoes@comcast.net > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits/cluttered table/fly swatter > > I try to keep the table clear but it doesn't seem to ever get that way. To me, it's more "homey" to have a table with goodies and stuff on it....let's me know that someone actually lives here as opposed to just passin' through. MaKettle's table was always loaded so we ate at a make-shift counter that at one time had been a wall. There was always a fly swatter handy too at Gramma Ruth's. No one ever thought any thing about swattin' a fly and just flickin' it "where ever" - on the floor or out the door. sometimes one of the dogs would get it before Gramma did. And fly swatters were always useful for whappin' at kids' legs when they were being onery.....(uh,,,, don't try that now cuz it would be jail time fer shure!) > > paula in sw fla usa.....and that dang fly swatter could sting! > xoxoxo > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roses" <roses4831@msn.com> > To: "southern-chat" <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 10:55:21 AM > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits > > > My Mom used to keep certain things on the table at all times too, but, like you said, covered up with a small cloth to keep the flies away. Now, no one thinks of keeping anything on the table. Everything has to be put away in its place. > My niece in MS keeps her table set with placemats and napkins, ready for the next meal. Not at my house I don't. My poor table is always so piled high with stuff I'm doing good to keep my placemat clear so I can see it. > When you have that blackberry cobbler, be sure to let me know and I'll be there Johnny-on-the-spot. > Emma > > > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:31:22 +0000 > > From: freckletoes@comcast.net > > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits > > > > Seems like those old memories are the best of all. I sure miss those days....everything made sense and if not I sure didn't know! Gramma always had a couple of biscuits and cornbread and cobbler or pie and sausage and bacon ..... on the table covered so the flies couldn't get at it. Just had to come in and peep under the tablecloth to find a goody. Dirty face, dirty feet, dirty hands....grab somethin' and run back out the door. No gettin' scrubbed down with alcohol for fear of some unknown virus or bacteria! > > > > paula in sw fla usa.....thinkin' about blackberry cobbler.... slurp slurp slobber > > xoxoxo > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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

Emma & Paula, Your tables sound like my sister-in-laws place. And as far as that goes, it sounds like Paul's home while growing up. There was always something to 'snack' on when you came into the kitchen. If it didn't need to be refrigerated & was any sort of left over, it was on the table. If you came through the kitchen & spotted something, then you just helped yourself. I don't ever remember a table being set with place mats, etc. I do remember things being covered up though. I always felt so at home at Paul's home & at his sister's home. Rose now, his sister, now lives in N.C. & she pretty much practices the same thing. We really do need to make a trip down to see them one of these days. Talking about getting punished with something. My Mother chased me all the way down our street & into a school yard when I was young. She had a spatula & that really stung when she spanked me with that. Most likely I had talked back to her & that didn't go well with her at all. I can remember only ONE time that my sister got punished. My Mother caught her doing something secretively. She had been taking horse back riding lessons & my Mother took out her riding crop & slapped her across the back of her legs. Now that had to hurt...one would have thought she was being killed by the way she screamed when my Mother punished her. She ALWAYS was right about things & for my Mother to do this to her, it was a real surprise to my sister as well as my Mother. I know my husband's family had a razor strap like you are talking about. They each had their time when their Father would punish them with that strap. I guess their Mother NEVER used it. Strangely, one day it just disappeared & was never seen since then. All the kids thought that their Mother took it & put it some place; however, no one ever knew for sure what happened to it. Then one day my husband & his brother were fooling around & it was a standing joke that they would decide before their Father came into their room whether they would cry or not after their Father spanked them. One day, Paul Sr. came into the room b/c they were goofing around too much. He had grabbed one of the girl's wirehair brushes & had started to spank Jim with it. Previously, Paul Jr.(my husband) & Jim had decided they wouldn't cry. Well, that brush went smack into Jim's buttock & he started crying like all get out. My husband, Paul Jr., looked down & all he could see was blood on Jim's buttock. I think that his Father must have spotted it at the same time b/c he stopped immediately & started apologizing to Jim. I don't think the two of them fooled around much after that. There was only 1-2 yrs difference in age between the two of them & they shared a room together. At night, after they were suppose to be in bed & asleep, Paul & Jim would start playing around. I guess their Father wasn't too happy with them when they did this. That is how it came about that they got their weekly spankings. Paul just came home from the bank. He was going to make a deposit & then pay some bills. Well, I guess they are celebrating Columbus Day today..even though it's Columbus Day is normally 10/12. As long as it gives the employees a longer weekend, I guess they tacked it onto Monday instead of Tuesday...Tuesday, however, is the correct day for Columbus Day. I know that for sure b/c it's my Nephew's birthday on Tuesday & it has always been Columbus Day. Got to get some other things done. Have a great Monday. I have never enjoyed Mondays that much. When I was working, it just seemed as though my weekends went too quickly & before you knew it, Monday would be there again. The thing that I miss the most about working is not getting that pay check every week or every two weeks. That was always nice to have that coming in. I always saved mine while I was working. We used Paul's pay check to pay for bills, etc. Wonder how we are going to get through tough times with the little money that we have coming in now. Yesterday they announced for certain that we would not get another Social Security raise in 2011 as well as 2010. ~Jen in Payson, AZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "*paula*" <freckletoes@comcast.net> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 8:58 AM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] razor strap/fly swatter > OMG!! Grampa Tanner had one of those and all he had to do was > threaten....he could snap it so loud that was enough to scare a kid to > Gramma's lap!! > > paula in sw fla usa.....ouch eech oweeee > xoxoxo > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roses" <roses4831@msn.com> > To: "southern-chat" <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 11:28:21 AM > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits/cluttered table/fly swatter > > > Never had a fly swatter used on me. I got the razor strop. Guess that > tells you how serious Mama thought my infraction was. <g> > Emma > >> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:24:06 +0000 >> From: freckletoes@comcast.net >> To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits/cluttered table/fly swatter >> >> I try to keep the table clear but it doesn't seem to ever get that way. >> To me, it's more "homey" to have a table with goodies and stuff on >> it....let's me know that someone actually lives here as opposed to just >> passin' through. MaKettle's table was always loaded so we ate at a >> make-shift counter that at one time had been a wall. There was always a >> fly swatter handy too at Gramma Ruth's. No one ever thought any thing >> about swattin' a fly and just flickin' it "where ever" - on the floor or >> out the door. sometimes one of the dogs would get it before Gramma did. >> And fly swatters were always useful for whappin' at kids' legs when they >> were being onery.....(uh,,,, don't try that now cuz it would be jail time >> fer shure!) >> >> paula in sw fla usa.....and that dang fly swatter could sting! >> xoxoxo >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Roses" <roses4831@msn.com> >> To: "southern-chat" <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 10:55:21 AM >> Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits >> >> >> My Mom used to keep certain things on the table at all times too, but, >> like you said, covered up with a small cloth to keep the flies away. Now, >> no one thinks of keeping anything on the table. Everything has to be put >> away in its place. >> My niece in MS keeps her table set with placemats and napkins, ready for >> the next meal. Not at my house I don't. My poor table is always so piled >> high with stuff I'm doing good to keep my placemat clear so I can see it. >> When you have that blackberry cobbler, be sure to let me know and I'll be >> there Johnny-on-the-spot. >> Emma >> >> > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:31:22 +0000 >> > From: freckletoes@comcast.net >> > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com >> > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits >> > >> > Seems like those old memories are the best of all. I sure miss those >> > days....everything made sense and if not I sure didn't know! Gramma >> > always had a couple of biscuits and cornbread and cobbler or pie and >> > sausage and bacon ..... on the table covered so the flies couldn't get >> > at it. Just had to come in and peep under the tablecloth to find a >> > goody. Dirty face, dirty feet, dirty hands....grab somethin' and run >> > back out the door. No gettin' scrubbed down with alcohol for fear of >> > some unknown virus or bacteria! >> > >> > paula in sw fla usa.....thinkin' about blackberry cobbler.... slurp >> > slurp slobber >> > xoxoxo >> > >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > > ------------------------------- > 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