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RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/1/2007 12:16:18 PM    EndlesDreamer   Posts: 97 Joined: 6/13/2007 From: Blasdell,NY Status: offline Buster Last night I found some Garretts wine bottles. Did some researching and found out that scuppernongs were used for his wines. Thought I share some good old history. Starting from a small North 120 Carolina winery that went back to Sidney Weller in the 1830s,  Paul Garrett (1863—1940) eventually became the most successful of eastern winegrowers before Prohibition. His Virginia Dare wine, based on the native Scuppernong grape of the South, became  the most popular of American wines (in reply to logueb) Post #: 81

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/1/2007 2:45:46 PM    ktbi Posts: 180 Joined: 6/7/2007 From: California, Vacaville Status: offline Hey Buster...Really enjoyed the pictures and story.  I used to live in Pensacola back in the early seventies and traveled a lot through the south.  Went to my first pig roast there.  Never in my life have I met such warm, friendly people - at least once you got past the stranger tag. It's been 30+ years and I still maintain contact with friends in the area.  Thanks for the pics...Ron (in reply to EndlesDreamer) Post #: 82

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/4/2007 3:17:04 PM    logueb   Posts: 1380 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Thank all of you for the responses.  If you're  enjoying, I continue as long as Admin. lets me.  Got to find something every now and then, so it's a legit post. Georgia Peach, from what I have read the Mimosa trees don't like change, moving etc.  There is also a Mimosa plant.  I'll try to have to locate some of these.  Anyway, we had some of these plants when I was a kid.  When you stroke the leaves, they will close up because they are so sensetive to damage. Lisa,  Ok here's how to make sweetened ice tea.  There are probably countless varations.  Take two family size tea bags,  put them in a pot (boiler) with about a quart of water and boil.  After the recomended boiling time (on the box), set to the side and let the tea steep, (to sit awhile). Then pour the liquid into a gallon pitcher place two cups of sugar (real sugar not artifical sweetner) and stir until sugar disolves.  Finish filling pitcher with water .  Fill glass with ice and pour in tea and enjoy.  Or you can make it in the microwave, same as above but use a microwave safe container.  I guess you could use artifical sweetner, but pure refined cane sugar is what I like. Rhona,  I used to lose a lot of post before I began to copy each one before posting.  Just can't get over that dump with all those great milks.  Keep up the good work. Ron,  Down here we call it a pig pulling.  Grap a plate and pull off some bar-b-cued meat.  Like the one here from a Fire department Supper a while back.  Hope the pic comes out.  Is this what you remember? Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to ktbi) Post #: 83

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/4/2007 3:19:14 PM    logueb   Posts: 1380 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Better grap a plate and get in line, these firemen are lined up and ready to eat. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 84

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/4/2007 3:26:16 PM    logueb   Posts: 1380 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Saw the cotton blooming the other day and thought that some of you may not have seen a cotton bloom or cotton bolls.  The plant blooms and then the boll forms after the bloom.  In the sections of the boll the cotton fibers form.  Late in the growing season the bolls will open revealing those white cotton bolls.  I'll try to get some pics later on when the fields are white.  Anyway, the cotton plant in bloom. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 85

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/4/2007 3:27:34 PM    logueb   Posts: 1380 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Here's a pic of the field. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 86

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/12/2007 12:19:17 PM    logueb   Posts: 1380 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline I try to keep the camera handy, and I'm glad that I have it at times.  I had to back up the truck and take a second look at this one.  Never seen this technique used in a landscape  before .  So do you call it a "rose bed" or  "a bed of roses".  Wish that the roses had been in bloom. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 87

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/12/2007 12:22:22 PM    logueb   Posts: 1380 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline How often do you see Llamas grazing by the roadside.  Had to snap a photo for you folks. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 88

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/12/2007 2:44:22 PM    capsoda Posts: 7510 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Hey Bruce, I know a whole lot more than I ever wanted to about cotton. Those bolls wil cut you to shreads after they dry so you use boll gloves for hand pickin. I know what a 100lb pickin sack is too. I tought the wife what the difference is between short cotton and tall cotton and where the saying came from. "Your in tall cotton now". She is a city girl but she caught on. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to logueb) Post #: 89

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/12/2007 4:51:05 PM    logueb   Posts: 1380 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline So Cap, You know about the burlap bag with a shoulder strap(also made of burlap), hot autum days , long endless rows, fingers bleeding from those dried cotton boll burrs, weighing cotton on a pea scale, working all day under a hot sky for a few dollars of spending money? A jar of ice water on your cotton sheet under a shade tree. But can't drink it all at one time, because it's going to be a long hot day. Were those the good old days ?  Or merely a period of time embedded in our memory that we would not want to return to?  Everybody knows what a pea scale is , right? _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 90

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/12/2007 10:49:11 PM    capsoda Posts: 7510 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline A cocolar and thick ham samich for lunch and a 30 min nap. Man, you could make 5 bucks a day if you hussled.  Them was the good ole days cause we didn't know better and merely a period of time embedded in our memory that we would not want to return to. But I wouldn't trade the memories, calouses and blisters for anything. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to logueb) Post #: 91

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/12/2007 11:26:45 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1665 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin, S.C. Status: offline Jeezus how old are yall two wait I just rembered where yall live. I'm proud to say "I never picked cotten,but my mother and my father did. No he didn't die young in a coal mine"rember that song. When I was born in 59 they went and got my grandmother who was picking cotten at the time. Them sacks you were talking about had other uses....like breaking corn,God I hated that job. I begged my daddy to get a corn picker then he bought a used one. Know how many times we used it? One time. Then it was Soy Beans and pulling weeds,I begged him to buy Treflan then.Pulling Red Root,Coffe Bean then grabbing a Pig Weed having your hands punched full of holes,Cokelburs all over ya and if there was any room begger lice. Lest we not forget those square bales of hay. Let me put Paula to bed hang on. (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 92

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/12/2007 11:39:49 PM    capsoda Posts: 7510 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Hey Pat, Picking cotton was part of summer camp and how I paid for summer camp. The camp leader dudes mom fed us. Boy could she cook. I did pick cotton for a man near home along with melons of all types and sizes, greens, peas and beans. Picking up Coke bottles didn't always pay enough. I was done with all that kinda stuff by the time I was 12. I could make alot more throwing papers. < Message edited by capsoda -- 9/12/2007 11:44:34 PM > _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 93

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/13/2007 12:01:15 AM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1665 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin, S.C. Status: offline I guess it's a regional thing to. I don't really remember seeing cotten grow till I was 12 or so. I think it died out here in the 50s. My grandaddy planted 100 acres one time I guess around 1950 and my daddy ran away from home and joined the army so he wouldn't have to pick it,didn't hear from him till he was on his way to Korea,but before he went he bought a Rocket 88 [or when he got back] let his brother use it and,well you know it was a Rocket 88 key word being WAS. Picking watermelons is probably the hardest job there is I think it was worse than baleing hay. You ever notice those hay fields in my post?  Thats just a small part of the fields we used to have. We used to bale close to a thousand gross acres a year. That was tough and we never had water or what we had didn't last long. Ya know I hadn't thought of that in years. (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 94

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/14/2007 12:33:15 PM    logueb   Posts: 1380 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Growing up in rural Georgia was an experience full of memories that will last forever. Sometimes I look back and wonder if I would  trade the modern wonders of today to return to those carefree days of summer and autums of years gone but. After the store was stocked, the yards raked/swept (we didn't have grass), the garden picked and put in the freezer, and all the other chores done, then we could go work (for pay) for other folks.  I've picked cotton by the pound  picked peas and butterbeans by the bushel, pulled corn, stacked hay and much more for spending money.  But the worst job I ever agreed to do was pick Velvet Beans for my Uncle.  My cousin talked me into it.  He told me to wear a long sleeve shirt and never, never, never scratch, no matter how bad I began to itch.( I had to stop and scratch just typing this...memory is a powerful thing). Well after about two crocker sacks full of dried velvet beans I began to itch, I began to scratch, my cousin began to scratch.  We lit out for the swimming hole in a nearby creek.  Went swimming the rest of the day.  Uncle was not happy.  Velvet beans are worst than fiberglas. Cap and Pat, when was the last time you saw a yard swept with a gallberry broom? _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 95

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/14/2007 12:59:28 PM    capsoda Posts: 7510 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Used to help Grandma Netty do that. John "Catfish" Netty would give me a nickle. Big bucks back then. When I got older I helped him cut the pigs and feed up. It paid 50 cent. He told me and my little brother to go dump a wash tub full of squeezins and we fed it to the sow. She broke out and ran off but we found her an hour or so later. We though she was dead but she had passed out. took 6 grown men and me and my bro to get her up in the pick up.  He never ask use to dump the squeezins again. Wish I knew where all his grand daddies jugs got of to. He was in his seventies when I was 12. < Message edited by capsoda -- 9/14/2007 1:02:24 PM > _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to logueb) Post #: 96

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/14/2007 5:01:42 PM    logueb   Posts: 1380 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Friend of mine brought me a sack full of these today.  Now surely Grandma Netty would have one of these bushes growing in that swept yard.  I wish that I could find a yard that was still being swept with a gallberry broom.  Anyway, what's this fruit Cap and Pat.  It was used for medicinal purposes, mouth ulcers, diarehea, even was supposed to help with bed-wetting. < Message edited by logueb -- 9/14/2007 5:07:40 PM > _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 97

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/14/2007 5:06:40 PM    logueb   Posts: 1380 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Sorry about that , wrong picture.  Try this one. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 98

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/14/2007 5:08:38 PM    logueb   Posts: 1380 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Let me cut open one of these so we can see the inside. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 99

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/14/2007 6:24:46 PM    capsoda Posts: 7510 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Pomegranates. Everybody had a pomegranate bush in there yard. Right along side the dwarf Japanese Persimmon tree. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to logueb) Post #: 100

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