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Posted on 4/14/14 at 9:52 pm to semotruman
Posted on 4/14/14 at 9:52 pm to semotruman
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I ate as many berries as I put in my bucket!
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made the best blackberry cobbler I've ever eaten.
I bet that shite was awesome. That generation just had a special touch (my grandmother makes the best biscuits and we have all tried (with her help) to replicate them but can't. Dies with her).
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Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:01 pm to Garfield
That's so true Garfield. My MaMa didn't really have recipes, she cooked by taste. I pretty much cook that way too, but I don't have her touch. I wish I'd been a little older (she passed when I was 9) so I could have learned more from her. Her biscuits, pie crusts, homemade dressing/stuffing...I wish I could make that stuff.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:05 pm to semotruman
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I wish I could make that stuff.
Me too (though I would probably be 400 lbs because I don't move as much as she did (I think she was still for 30 minutes in the afternoon and an hour at night).
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:13 pm to Garfield
That's the truth too. That lady got up with the sun and stayed busy all day. Every day except Sunday. There just aren't people like that anymore. That I know of, anyway.
Oh, and during baseball season? She NEVER missed a Cardinals game. Ever.
Oh, and during baseball season? She NEVER missed a Cardinals game. Ever.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:23 pm to semotruman
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Oh, and during baseball season? She NEVER missed a Cardinals game. Ever.
Same for mine (Braves though). Watched every game with a frick'n bowl of ice milk.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:29 pm to Garfield
If the game was on during the day, she would shell nuts or beans or whatever was in season while it was on. At night, it had her complete attention. And before she got cable? If it wasn't on TV, she had the radio on.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 10:44 pm to semotruman
I had a Great Aunt who had been blind since she was 5. I suppose she was born around 1900 or so, she was in her 80's, in the 80's.
She never missed a Cardinals game on the radio, if I had to guess I'd say she listened to games for 60 years at least. When I was a kid she would regale me with stories of Dizzy Dean, Daffy Dean, Ducky Medwick, and the entire Gashouse Gang. Slaughter's Mad Dash, a young Stan The Man, and Ol' Red. In her mind she had seen them all, even though she had never seen an inning of baseball in her life, she could describe it like it all happened right in front of her.
I always loved picking her brain, and at the time I never once considered the fact that I was learning about the Cardinals from someone who had never actually seen a game, either live or on TV. I just lived for those stories.
I wish she had been around for 2011. She would have loved it.
She never missed a Cardinals game on the radio, if I had to guess I'd say she listened to games for 60 years at least. When I was a kid she would regale me with stories of Dizzy Dean, Daffy Dean, Ducky Medwick, and the entire Gashouse Gang. Slaughter's Mad Dash, a young Stan The Man, and Ol' Red. In her mind she had seen them all, even though she had never seen an inning of baseball in her life, she could describe it like it all happened right in front of her.
I always loved picking her brain, and at the time I never once considered the fact that I was learning about the Cardinals from someone who had never actually seen a game, either live or on TV. I just lived for those stories.
I wish she had been around for 2011. She would have loved it.
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Posted on 4/15/14 at 2:01 pm to mizzoukills
Memorable: The births of my daughters, my wedding day, and my brother's hilarious wedding.
Forgettable: My FIL having to spend three months in the ICU in Birmingham for acute necrotizing pancreatitis.
Forgettable: My FIL having to spend three months in the ICU in Birmingham for acute necrotizing pancreatitis.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 7:36 am to mizzoukills
Memorable, the evening of February 17th 1997, the wife and I drove all the way from KC to Chicago, arrived around 6PM, walked up the steps of a home and looked through a window and saw the foster mother holding the baby girl that would become the most important responsibility and love of our lives, next was Dec 22nd 1990 at the bedside of my mother, she was in a coma and was dying from liver failure due to hepatitis B, my mother was a nurse and contracted the disease before they new much about it, anyway several of us were in the room and she had not spoke for 36 hrs, we were all hoping for a miracle and she spoke her last words and said "Let me die!".
Most forgettable, hmmm, probably hearing of some 12 year boy nearly ripping their junk off.
Most forgettable, hmmm, probably hearing of some 12 year boy nearly ripping their junk off.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 11:03 am to JoeMoTiger
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Most forgettable, hmmm, probably hearing of some 12 year boy nearly ripping their junk off.
My scars are a constant reminder
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