Memories

[mruffruff]

Sirrahned, you must have been at our house! We had the pump in the kitchen too. But we picked blueberries and strawberries and blackberries and choke cherries and Thimbleberries from the woods and fields. Mom didn't make biscuits often; not a Northern thing.

I remember the night Dad slaughtered a bear on the dining room table. Best steak I ever ate.

Mary

[sirrahned]

Originally posted by mruffruff
Sirrahned, you must have been at our house! We had the pump in the kitchen too. But we picked blueberries and strawberries and blackberries and choke cherries and Thimbleberries from the woods and fields. Mom didn't make biscuits often; not a Northern thing.

I remember the night Dad slaughtered a bear on the dining room table. Best steak I ever ate.

Mary

Do you remember how the boiling berries smelled up the kitchen??? We didn't slaughter a bear on table but my uncles did butcher one of our hogs when I was about six years old. They hung it in the tree in our side yard. I watched them gut it ....Fatback is not steak but it sure good on a cool South Carolina morning.

[mruffruff]

The whole house smelled devine!

As good as the memories are, I sure don't want to go back.

(Are we giving away our age? You have to be younger than I am. Everybody is).

Mary

[sirrahned]

Originally posted by mruffruff
As good as the memories are, I sure don't want to go back.

(Are we giving away our age? You have to be younger than I am. Everybody is).

Mary

I think a port-a-john in an emergency is about as back as I want to go. I now live in air conditioned, humidified, electified, conditions. I get uncomfortable when my house gets up to 72 degrees.

I am 53... ...My daughter thinks I am ancient....

[DJFyrewolf36]

Originally posted by mruffruff

I remember the night Dad slaughtered a bear on the dining room table. Best steak I ever ate.
Mary

This is a lot closer than I wanted to get to anything being slaughtered...

I went over to a friends house one day and found a deer skined and gutted hanging from the shower curtain rod *I held it until I got home lol, I was scared to pee in the bathroom for weeks afterward*...another time I saw sheep legs in the sink *they had a sheep, I guess it got too rowdy*

After that I NEVER ate meat at thier house!!

I guess thats what happens when you hang out with Mountain Man recreation group people...

[sirrahved]

Who remembers listening in on the party line? We had an old spinster that lived down the road that shared our line with us. I used to *love* hearing her conversations, even if she had nothing interesting to say! There was a 1950's display at The Henry Ford Museum where you could listen in on the party line... I did it in the nineties! Of course, our party line was one of the very last in Michigan... so we were just behind on the times!

[sirrahbed]

Does anyone one know what "goodnight John-boy" means?
Is there anyone here who has never *dialed* a phone number?

[DJFyrewolf36]

Debbie, I don't dial phone numbers, I have voice dailing

Siriously though, we had our old rotary phone until I turned 13...dad was too lazy to go get one of them "Fancy push button talk boxes" lol

We had a CD player before we had a touchtone phone

[lbaker]

When I first learned to type it was on one of those old manual typewriters with the "ding" at the end of each row to let you know when to push the return carraige bar for another line. Those stupid little eraser pencils always ripped the sheet of paper (that was even before white-out!). When you put "cc" at the end of a memo or letter it didn't just mean "copy to someone else" it stood for carbon copy. We didn't use xerox machines or computers of course so we had real carbon paper to type two copies at once

[sirrahned]

Originally posted by lbaker
When I first learned to type it was on one of those old manual typewriters with the "ding" at the end of each row to let you know when to push the return carraige bar for another line.

It's amazing how we want to hold on to things past...Even the first homeuse computer keyboards kept that little "ding" for a while. Those first computer electronic word processors..were SOOO Fancy. The word processor program on my old Commodore 64 computer even had a picture of a typewriter and an electronic "ding" to simulate it's old manual typewriter cousin.

[sirrahned]

Originally posted by DJFyrewolf36


I went over to a friends house one day and found a deer skined and gutted hanging from the shower curtain rod *I held it until I got home lol, I was scared to pee in the bathroom for weeks afterward*...another time I saw sheep legs in the sink *they had a sheep, I guess it got too rowdy*

I guess thats what happens when you hang out with Mountain Man recreation group people...

These folks sound like my kind of people.

[DJFyrewolf36]

So far as I know, they still do that kind of thing Dennis...

I had the little Comodore 64 word processor thingy. Of course we didnt have the printer but...we could save to disk though! Oooo Disks lol.

[sirrahbed]

Originally posted by DJFyrewolf36

I guess thats what happens when you hang out with Mountain Man recreation group people...

oh NO! Don't get him started! Would this "group" be black powder folks? Hubby likes the mountain man stuff He has his clothes and everything - homemade leather hat and things to wear around his waist to hold black powder stuff - possibles bags I think? Sometimes he drags me to things called Rendezvous Meets and everyone there is dressed like a mountain man or an Indian and they cook like old timers and sell their stuff, have hatchet throwing, shooting and all that. When he goes out to target practice - his targets are not round circles - they are BUFFALO
Well, he IS a history teacher and likes to go back in time as well sooooo don't get him started!!

[DJFyrewolf36]

Sorry Debbie!! Trust me, I don't get it either...I've been to a few events and the only thing fun I thought was throwing axes...

This is a black powder group except the ones out here shoot deer. There arent any buffalo close enough lol.

Something about bathing in an ice cold river and wearing leather in 90 degree heat seems...well uncomfortable

I'll just watch and buy some of the neat craft stuff, Dennis lol

[sirrahned]

Originally posted by sirrahbed
oh NO! Don't get him started!

Did I tell you about how I used to hunt ten miles barefoot in the snow?