Tag: pn
member name: Chuck L.
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December 20, 2009 11:55 AM EST --
Christmas shopping was organized chaos in our household. The Old Man worked a six-day week at the Standard Slag Sand and Gravel Company. The sand and gravel mine was the next road south, a mile behind . . .
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December 18, 2009 10:38 AM EST --
The summer I turned eight, we moved. The Old Man and my Mother had decided that their children should know the joys and labors of growing up on a farm. So-o-o-o-o… they bought a farm – . . .
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December 12, 2009 10:54 AM EST --
But-but-but-but, Chuck... does that mean my opinion doesn't matter in the "Climate Change," "Global Warming," "Swifthack" debate? Does it mean my opinion doesn't matter in the "Evolution," "Creationism," . . .
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December 13, 2009 04:18 PM EST --
This post will be a little different from most of the Old Man and Me series. I want something from you. I want a copy of a Norman Rockwell painting of The Old Man. I suspect the original . . .
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December 19, 2009 11:45 AM EST --
I remained in 4-H until I was 18 (once I turned 14 it was mostly about the girls who owned horses… not that they paid me a blind bit of attention). Once the last of the hens had been delivered . . .
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December 19, 2009 01:34 PM EST --
While we were chopping weeds, hauling manure, planting seeds, and generally turning the half-acre of black bottom land assigned to each of us into prize-winning, eatable, can-able and freeze-able vegetables, . . .
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December 02, 2009 08:16 AM EST --
That was me at 0400 yesterday morning. The kidney stone wouldn't move, I couldn't pee. My kidney felt as if someone had sunk an axe in it and was yanking it up and down, and I'd've bet significant . . .
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December 02, 2009 06:00 PM EST --
Little Sister came up to Michigan from Ohio to help me care for th' Luvly Laura, who fell down the stairs and broke things (the stairs are OK... thanx for asking). Things were so frantic that a . . .
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December 15, 2009 12:15 PM EST --
As I told you earlier, from the time I was three until I was almost eight, we lived in a little, red, two-story house by the side of an Ohio country road, named for its most locally known feature, . . .
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December 15, 2009 06:53 PM EST --
The year I turned six was a momentous year. I started school (no Kindergarten for us - bung ‘em straight into a full school day in first grade), and promptly got my hands whacked with . . .
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December 11, 2009 08:24 AM EST --
Lloyd C. Proud Democrat shared a post entitled: “ Oh please, dear God, I think I've killed him. Please Father in heaven. Please Father in heaven. Oh my God, ma'am. … I'm so sorry ."” . . .
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December 05, 2009 10:12 PM EST --
This site is the damnedest hotbed of conspiracies I've ever seen. Wish some of 'em would post their best (and weirdest) to a group I created especially for them ( Conspiracies "R" Us ), but... . . .
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November 21, 2009 03:25 PM EST --
A fellow-Gatherer produced a post on a website calling itself “ Conservapedia .” She entitled her post “The Trustworthy Encyclopedia.” I couldn’t let that slide… . . .
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November 25, 2009 07:13 PM EST --
Here's a link to the Univ. of East Anglia response to the CRU Hack. I've been wondering when this would show up, but if it has, I've missed it.
But I have a problem with this response. . . .
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May 16, 2009 02:06 PM EDT --
I thought it only fair that Luvly Dotter have a poem from Daddy too.
“Daddy, won’t you sing me just only one more song?”
She looked up and smiled from not quite asleep.
And . . .
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June 29, 2009 05:55 PM EDT --
Remember this 'guy?' Rescued from our power plant?
Well, 'she's' back.
Hey! Watch it there! Back off!
She's a good bit bigger, now... . . .
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June 30, 2009 08:55 PM EDT --
I NEVER buy new cars.
About a month ago, my Son-in-Law found me a car. He works for a dealer, and they had a '95 Cirrus with 110,000 miles on it. I was driving a '98 Dodge Stratus (essentially . . .
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July 06, 2009 01:11 PM EDT --
Let me be clear - I am NOT anti-gun. I own two shotguns, an odd multi-barrel derringer, and two rifles. No 'real' handguns 'cause I couldn't hit the ground from waist high with one. . . .
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July 06, 2009 03:39 PM EDT --
On a post by Rob Port, entitled: " If You Want To See How Obama’s Economic Policies Will Work Out, Look At California " I found THIS little gem: " Nationalized health care has resulted . . .
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July 18, 2009 05:01 PM EDT --
I hate gardening... of ANY description. I hate it in ways you can't imagine.
When I was a boy, beginning at the age of eight, my mother would have a one-acre plot plowed, disced and harrowed. . . .
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