Took the Long Way Home Today

[OsiaBoyce]

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.

 

[logueb]

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.

 

[capsoda]

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.

 

[marjorie040]

I can't help myself....I have to ask...
What are "squeezins"

 

[capsoda]

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.[]

 

[marjorie040]

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]

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!)

 

[capsoda]

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.[]

 

[logueb]

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.

 

[logueb]

closeup of the bloom.