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RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/14/2007 8:51:59 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3466 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline The other nite writing this brought back a lot of memories. I wouldn't want to do that kind of work again but,would love to spend time w/ my family esp. the departed ones. Picking penuts sucked too that took forever to pick a bushel. Now for cutting hogs. For my 15th birthday I got two gilts and made some money. My dear ole Pop seen that and the next thing you know we were raising hogs on a big time basis. Had about 30 brood sows to go along w/ a 100 brood cows and three chiken houses. Oh cutting hogs man that was tuff I never would and still want cut no pig I'll hold em you cut em. Did ya ever let them go too long fore ya cut em. Pigs squealing,sows having a fit hoping they want get out and try to kill ya. Never had any extra time to help others till I was 15 then went to work in the peach packing sheds. We raise a whole lot of peaches here I mean a whole lot something like 40% of nations total and 10% of nations chicken. Everybody worked the sheds when we were in school. Now they got nothing but Mexicans. Which makes me say "Support Osama hire a Mexican". I guess that's not PC. Wonder what kids do now for money. Nothing. (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 101

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/14/2007 9:34:55 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3466 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline For those that don't know what we mean by "cutting pigs" that is to castrate them. Male or boar hogs when not cut are inedible must be the testosterone. In defence of my porcine friends pigs are really smart. If they get out of the pen they'll come back at nite that's when you trap em off. They keep their eating area as clean as possible and if you don't have them in a brood house and they are in the woods they will build a nest to have little ones in. I've seen hog beds that were 16 ft. sq. and two ft. high you would find them when you started finding broken bushes. And never ever pick up a baby pig,mama hogs have no sence of humor when it comes to their young.New subject never seen a Gallberry broom I have seen used a broomstraw broom,my grandma used one. I've seen old people sweep there yards now that's something you don't see anymore. Oh I see a ride coming up. Hey Buster I was thinking along the same lines as you the other week when you aid something about stills,I used to know where some big ones where,but let's let it cool off more. (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 102

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/15/2007 1:09:49 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Pat and Cap,  Here's one for you guys.  Ever heard of living on the "Quarter".  Comes from back in the day when a lot of folks sharecropped.  Sharecropping was playing out when I was a youngster.  I remember seeing cotton pickers when they were first introduced in our neck of the woods.  It was mounted on a John deere tractor.  The tractor ran in reverse and had to have a special steering section added.  The farmers said it left too much cotton in the field, and would be about as short lived as the Edsiel automotible.  Well, they kept improving on those cotton pickers and the need for hand picking and field hands was soon gone forever. Most of the houses on those "quarters" are also gone.  Why they were painted red with white trim has always puzzled me.  Sometimes there were several houses , barns, sheds and even sometimes stores on these farms.  My Grandad on Mamma's side was an Overseer ever since the family lost the family farm during the great depression.  Seems like my greatgrandfather had borrowed money for a dowry against the farm and after the depression hit,  the bank foreclosed on the note and sold the land. He was the overseer for different farmers during his lifetime.  When you mentioned the peach shed, it brought back memories.  On one farm they had huge peach orchards and ran a packing shed.  Peach fuzz and hot weather under a peach packing shed don't mix.  So this all leads up to the question.  What is the difference in the two houses in the attached photos.  Look at that rain hitting on that tin roof.  Brings back memories of days gone by. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 103

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/15/2007 1:10:48 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Second house. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 104

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/15/2007 1:55:42 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3466 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline I think I know why they were painted red. If I remember correctly I read that because the reds primary pigment was ferric in nature hence it was the cheapest paint that there was. Economics on the farm even went to the cheapest paint and now for some reason red is the most expensive paint. Thats the reason for red houses and barns even though I've only seen one barn in my life painted red (in reply to logueb) Post #: 105

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/15/2007 2:03:53 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3466 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline This is what one of our pastures looks like from my bedroom deck and this is only about a quarter of this pasture. Imagine being 14 90 degrees out and seeing this place covered with bales of hay. Nowdays w/ the fireants you can't bale hay and pick it up the next day for they will build a nest under every bale The last time we bale square bales in 1990 thats the way it was. Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 106

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/15/2007 2:13:41 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3466 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline There's something I've noticd riding w/ you is the old houses. Well see mine burnt about 10 yr. and been building this one sense off and on not much in the past year or two just about burnt out on it, but I'm just about through. The way I did it was tear town OLD houses and barns and I'm out of houses and barns now don't know what happened to them in the past 30 yrs. What I'm hunting for is some 6 in. unpainted beaded board like this. Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 107

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/15/2007 2:16:42 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3466 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline Or some plank flooring like this Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 108

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/15/2007 2:17:56 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3466 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline Or this Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 109

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/15/2007 2:21:40 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3466 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline I don't need much Paula says it's about time to finnish and my Ma is on my case about it too,and I'm almost 50. This is my BR walls. This is what I want the beaded boar for. Run it vertical. Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 110

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/15/2007 2:35:06 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 3466 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin Falls, S.C. Status: offline I need floors and walls for my pool room here. Now it's a junk room. And walls for my wash room[no pics of that but small room]. I'm proud to say I have almost no sheetrock mostly wood,brick or stone. And one piece of black and white marble for my bath which is another story. So if you know of anyone who has a house or barn they want tore down or sell [as long as they don't think it's gold] I know I'm not that far from ya, what hour and a half. I'm not exactly sure where Lewisville is S. of Augusta I guess. I know I've heard Weather Bob mention it and I know we both have watched 12 and 6. And I stay right on 20. Let me know something. Attachment (1) (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 111

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/15/2007 4:02:15 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Pat, Let me do some checking around.  There were some houses scheduled to be torn down here.  They even pay through some type of grant monies  to get them torn down.  But there is the clause that all the building material  has to be removed from the lots after the demolition.  May be a little more than you will need to finish the job.  I know a guy that tears down old houses for the materials.  I'll see if I can locate him and see if he has what you're looking for at a resonable price. _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 112

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/16/2007 12:51:16 AM    capsoda Posts: 9823 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Yep, I remember folks who lived on the quarter and sometimes lived on the split with a brother. My great aunt Blance had a business on the line. She ran a red house and galley on the line, Zarragosa Street, Pensacola, Fl. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to logueb) Post #: 113

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/16/2007 12:44:24 PM    marjorie040 Posts: 658 Joined: 12/3/2006 Status: offline I can't help myself....I have to ask... What are "squeezins" _____________________________ marjorie040 McClellanville, sc (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 114

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/16/2007 1:06:37 PM    capsoda Posts: 9823 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Hey Marjorie, Most of use back wood dewellers know about squeezins. They are the leftover mash (corn mixture) from making white lightning. The lightining is also sometimes refered to Squeezins. Hey Pat, The house is lookin good.  You guys ever have middlins and bullits with catheads and sorgum for breakfest???   Geez, I aint had me no vittles for breakfest yet. Ponderin on gittin me some rat now. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to marjorie040) Post #: 115

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/17/2007 9:44:00 AM    marjorie040 Posts: 658 Joined: 12/3/2006 Status: offline Thanks Warren....!! I learn so much from this forum!! And I've really enjoyed the Long Way Home pictures and the dialogue. How much the world has changed!! Regards, _____________________________ marjorie040 McClellanville, sc (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 116

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/17/2007 9:46:02 AM    marjorie040 Posts: 658 Joined: 12/3/2006 Status: offline P.S. I wasn't born in the South.....but I got here as fast as I could! (hence my uneducation on matters such as squeezins!) _____________________________ marjorie040 McClellanville, sc (in reply to marjorie040) Post #: 117

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/17/2007 12:53:51 PM    capsoda Posts: 9823 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline That is great Marjorie. Outside the BIG cities, we don't expect much more than a wave and a "hey" and we don't get in to much of a hurry either. You can't always see a college education on us or tell much about us by the way we look or sound. In the south you will meet corporate presidents and millionares in blue jeans and tee shirts and farmers in cadillacs. it is always a surprise untill you get to the Gulf Coast. So many people have come down and tried to make it like back home that we now have kind of a mess. People rushing all around for nuttin and everybody rides in a vehicle by themselves. They look at you funny when you through up a wave and smile whit a "hey following. Not to friendly at all. Can make you sad if you are not a happy type person. The south is easy. It is family, friends, a smile and at a slow pace to boot. Wouldn't have it any other way. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to marjorie040) Post #: 118

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/18/2007 12:26:01 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Somebody gave my wife this plant, I don't have a clue as to what it's called.  The other day it was blooming, but before I could get a picture the bloom had fallen off after a rain.  Well, yesterday I happened to have the camera.  Does anybody know what type plant this is?  It has long stems, this one is about 5 feet tall. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 119

RE: Took the Long Way Home Today - 9/18/2007 12:27:04 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline closeup of the bloom. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 120

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