Paul You are so funny. You just missed your "calling." You should have been a comedian. All the school talk.......When I was in first grade in Wise Co. VA our reader was a Baby Ray Primer. Did you have that book also? Lois -----Original Message----- From: paul Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 9:23 PM To: vafloyd@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] not genealogy--repair men Kay and Mizz Kat... I also keep all the operating manuals of my appliances and other electronic gear or anything else that mey need repair or replacement.. When I was younger, (about 1950) I took a course on small appliance repair thru the mail..that was B.C. (before computers)...needless to say, ALL that info is far outdated today, and I am a real dummy on this new stuff, as well as tne newer cars, too...you used to be able to take a tin can and a piece of wire and fix those older cars..nowadays you cant even get your hands in the engine area...I trained as a mechanic in the military, but all that is passe now, too... I bought a Jenn-Aire range and it is still so complicated that I can hardly use it and I have had it for 5 years now..it is all push-button controlled with a memory built in....I am now going to go to the screw-in fluorescent light bulbs as they are longer-lasting but 5 times as expensive......PHEW!!!!! .... Sorta' like the old saying,...... I bought a wooden whistle, but it wooden whistle,..I bought a steel whistle but it steel wouldn't whistle..I bought a lead whistle but momma wouldn't lead me whistle, ..I bought a tin whistle and now I tin whistle......Ole Paul keep the mail comin' to Ole Paul ********************************** Note from List Administrator!!! The Second Sunday in each month will set aside for a "Brick Wall" Roll Call. Please always put the surname you seek in the subject and tell us something about your Brick Wall person. To contact Listowner: Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com ********************************** Search this list's archived messages! http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message