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. I know farmers who trace their lineage back to Germany-- Blood pudding and sausage, wurst und sauerkraut-- all the good old things to eat that today would probably put a cardiologist into orbit-- but hard work, and a sense of being good neighbors to boot, kept them hale and hearty for years-- Fuchs
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"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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I stand corrected, Suh. My farmer friend also has a late 1940's "A" with a 6 volt battery starter- foot pedal- but both his old B and the later A have "Armstrong" power steering-- Lotsa iron in thos old 2-lungers- He also has a 1936 Ford flatbed truck with the V-8-- still runs great-- RWTF
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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That reminds me Fox, of a thing my Father used to say. At primary school (the only school he did) one day the teacher said that "hard work never killed anyone" One of the boys shot his hand into the air & when the teacher asked him what it was he wanted to say the boy drawled "that may be so sir, but it sure ruined a lot". O.M
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I had all the comforts of mid 20th Century American life when I was growing up. At 21 I entered into a period of self-imposed (self-inflicted) situational poverty. I learned an awful lot in those 12 years.
Knowing how my ancestors made it helped me make it as well.
Alan
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Hmmm, I got nothing.
If they weren't dead already, my grandparents were going quickly by the time I arrived. So zero in the heart warming grampa story file. And my father grew up in a wealthy family (although he likes to pretend he didn't but as he's in his nineties I don't argue with him anymore), as did his father. They all had indoor plumbing and electricity.
My paternal grandfather had a car before WWI. Was a lawyer. His wife, my grandmother, graduated from university around 1909. He was a Major, fought at Passchendaele, was shot several times and blown up once. Survived but was pretty frail by the time I came along in the late 1950's. He got into the car business after the war. More interesting than lawyering. His father, knighted by King Edward VII, was a provincial premier (like your governors) and his son was a provincial premier.
I did know my maternal grandmother until I was 10 and she was awesome. Lived for her grandkids and would get up to all kinds of mischief with us. Jumped on the trampoline, rode with me on the back of my mini bike. When I think of what a grandmother should be, she's who I see. Her husband died in 1931, less than a year after the birth of my mother. We are Scots with a bit of Irish and German in us while using a French surname.
I read your stories and miss that I didn't have an person like your grandfathers in my life. Luck of the draw.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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My Grandmother was born in a half dugout on a hardscrabble homestead on the Llano Estacado and she said they would have starved out if not for Jack rabbits and green tumble weeds,
She passed away two years ago at 102 years of age in her own home with me, my wife and her great grand daughter looking after her.
She was spry until about 6 weeks before she died. She ate a half rack of pork ribs 6 weeks before she died and a bate of cornbread dressing 2 weeks before she passed. I can't think of a better way to go out of this world than she did.
We will not see the likes of people like her again.
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Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear.
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And then there is my Daddy's people from West Tennessee, they were colorful, and unreconstructed Southrons.
Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear.
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And then there is my Daddy's people from West Tennessee, they were colorful, and unreconstructed Southrons. Sounds like good folks to me. Did any of them perchance leave you a Dance Revolver?
Miller/TN I Didn't Say Everything I Said, Yogi Berra
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I wish, but them Dance Six shooters were made in Texas, if I recall correctly.
And some of my Texas forebearers were out of Missouri, who were Partisian Rangers who often wintered over in North Texas, and relocated there. They were real bad to hold a grudge.
Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear.
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