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My grandmother marveled everytime an airplane flew over. She lived 1908-1990.
I still remember her saying, "look,an airplane!". I said, "yeah", nonchalantly. She said, "well, I remember when there weren't any!" Good one. I remember when there weren't any as well. Right after the 9/11 terror attacks. The skies were eerily quiet.  My goofiest sister in law stuck in Houston... Too bad that had to end
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Threads like this remind us why that old show "The Waltons" was so popular.
We all want to live in simpler times. They always appeared rather opulent to me for a depression era family. I think people in the country did better during the depression. My father talked about hunting deer outside the legal season for food. Mom started out life in Williamson county Tx in a sharecroppers shack. Said there were no deer in their area. They had all been shot. She didn’t see her first deer until she was an adult. Said that her dad might get a rabbit or a squirrel if lucky. But the mainstay of their meat diet was the chickens they raised. They had it better than most. Dad had it better. Same type two room batt & board shack. But in the blackjacks of Atascosa county. Lots of deer. And they ate em year round. They had to haul water from Galvan creek in the wagon for the garden. No well. Hand watered everything. Grandpaw would hitch hike to San Antonio for work. Many times he took several dozen home made tamales that grandmaw made and he would sell them for a dime a dozen. When he was on the road crew building bridges out around Sonora and Ozona he ended up with a small wood stove for their tent and grandmaw started baking pies and selling them. That was around 1926. She was still baking pies and selling them to cafes in San Antonio 2 years before she died. She dies in 1999 I'm old enough to have had several family members who lived through the depression. They didn't waste anything, esp food. We'd visit the grandparents and could eat as much as we wanted, but God help you if you didn't clean your plate off. Now that I'm older I find that I am the same way. with my grand kids. In some respects, the effects of the depression are still felt 100 yrs later. Oh yes!!! 100%. Oh heck, I can't send a plate to the sink without wiping it up with a piece of bread.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Newspapers, not paper towels to drain food on. And brown paper bags. Which I still use for my bacon.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Newspapers, not paper towels to drain food on. And brown paper bags. Which I still use for my bacon. We always get the frozen items placed in brown bags.
I am MAGA.
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Pay toilets, and not a penny to my name. My buddy's dad, Ace (God bless the character he was) used to joke about being poor. "If it cost a nickel to schiedt.....................I'd have to throw up"
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Newspapers, not paper towels to drain food on. And brown paper bags. Which I still use for my bacon. & mushroom storage !!
Paul.
"Kids who grow up hunting, fishing & trapping, do not mug little old Ladies"
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folks under 40 have no concept of what life was like before we all had computers and smart phones
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When it was safe to pick up hitch hikers.
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"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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When it was safe to pick up hitch hikers. Wabigoon calls those his “Hand job years.” He been praying ever since. LOL
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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folks under 40 have no concept of what life was like before we all had computers and smart phones I’d wager you ain’t started a lot of tractors with a hand crank. LOL
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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folks under 40 have no concept of what life was like before we all had computers and smart phones I’d wager you ain’t started a lot of tractors with a hand crank. LOL We had a John Deer A,B,and H that you had to spin the flywheel to start them!
Well we're Green and we're Gold, and we play better when it's cold. All us Cheese heads have our favorite superstar. We love Brett Favre.
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Mom's family were like the Waltons in that they were quite well off, but there was very little cash available for extras. My father in law said that they never went hungry, but cash even for repairs was hard to come by. During the depression, my grandparents lost a farm just for that reason. They had good crops but it was all barter. There was no cash available. When the $200 mortgage came due, they couldn't sell their crops for enough cash to pay it. The banks weren't reasonable. They caused it all in the 1st place. It was also the reason that criminals like Bonnie and Clyde had lots of sympathy and help. They were hitting the banks that were causing people the misery. If they hadn't had a habit of killing cops, they would have had a lot more sympathy and quite possibly would have never got caught.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Mom's family were like the Waltons in that they were quite well off, but there was very little cash available for extras. My father in law said that they never went hungry, but cash even for repairs was hard to come by. During the depression, my grandparents lost a farm just for that reason. They had good crops but it was all barter. There was no cash available. When the $200 mortgage came due, they couldn't sell their crops for enough cash to pay it. The banks weren't reasonable. They caused it all in the 1st place. That’s called being dead broke.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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folks under 40 have no concept of what life was like before we all had computers and smart phones I’d wager you ain’t started a lot of tractors with a hand crank. LOL We had a John Deer A,B,and H that you had to spin the flywheel to start them! Beat me to it!!
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folks under 40 have no concept of what life was like before we all had computers and smart phones I’d wager you ain’t started a lot of tractors with a hand crank. LOL We had a John Deer A,B,and H that you had to spin the flywheel to start them! Yup, had the same. An "A" & "H". Spinning tool looked like a steering wheel. The "H" is still in the family. My sister & BIL have it. BIL restored it.
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Before drones were used to climb trees with cameras too get the picture
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Who remembers multiplication tables?
Encyclopedia salesmen?
Seltzer delivery, like milk delivery.
Homemade egg cream sodas.
When the family insurance guy came to the house to update the policies?
Buckles on galoshes?
Pegs that slipped through a loop to hold your winter jacket closed? (easy to use with mittens on)
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Fortran 4 punch cards circa 1980. More than once I spelled something wrong early on, my name included, just to have them kicked back and hours of rerun.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Well good folks, I was born late in 1943!
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