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Weathered! During Winter Grandma would have us kids go around and stuff torn up cotton sacks into the cracks in the walls to keep out the freezing wind, rain and ice.
Indeed, I was born with a silver spoon stuck in my butt, nothing but riches growing up.
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you did a great job with the vette, but i think i'd lose my license with it - can't keep them slowed down.
people aren't real people unless they know both the farmhouse and the mansion. people who earned their money are usually nice, the ones born into it are snobs who can't do anything for themselves. i learned to work on cars cuz all i used to have was junk and they needed work almost all the time. i love my toys and love working on them. won't sell them cuz they bring back too many memories and i can't ever replace them for what i have in them.
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A cousin and me at a birthday party for some rich kid over in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. They were so rich they even had a car with bald tires and over two-hundred-thousand miles on it.
We enjoyed a home baked cakes and water that day! What a treat.
Ride 'em cowboy! Now you know my affection for cowboys and cowgirls. Only wish I had a cowgirl outfit like that. My dress is borrowed from a cousin so I will look "nice" at the rich folks birthday party.
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You will notice, in my last picture, even as a young girl I have an ornery look on my face. No telling what I was thinking of doing, about then.
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"'lectric solenoids to open the headers..."
Later this Summer my husband will be adding fuel injected flame throwers to the side pipes.
Should shoot out orange flames ten to twenty feet.
I cannot wait.
When teenage rice rocket boys pull up next to me, rev up the engine, want to race, I flip a switch and blast them with open headers. Usually causes those little impotent rice rockets to roll over several times.
With the flame throwers coming out the sides, just front of the rear wheels, I will be able to fry them while rolling their rice rockets over; stir fried rice rocket.
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i know this is a little off your normal path PG but: last week? on HWY 82 somewehere between Magnolia and Crosset ARK i saw junkyard with quite few late 50's chevy's in fair condtion... of course i didn't stop, but this area is somewhat poverty stricken and the junkyard may be a treasure trove... on the other hand? it may be owned by one of the wood or oil barons in the area and just look like a bargain hunters paradise...
in any case? they had at least a 1/2 acre of real old Chevrolet hardware....
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me has a rice burner.....would you fry me? me got problems enough without a renagade whale burning me timbers....shuddering now going into the bends next...
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Almost forgot. His shirt is homemade. I recognize my Grandmother's sewing style. For the boys, all their shirts were sewn by hand on an old treadle action Singer sewing machine.
Grandma kept rattlers from rattle snakes on top of her sewing machine to scare away us kids. First time I played with her sewing machine, I pumped the foot treadle and promptly ran the needle clean through my right index finger.
I did not tell anyone knowing I would receive a butt switching. Boy, did that ever hurt. I ran out behind the milking shed so none would catch me crying, which would lead to another butt switching of thousands.
quote:Originally posted by Purl Gurl: Alright, alright, I confess. That is actually Tex up there in my picture. We grew up in the same town.
Taha
Notice: no affected, low-slung "gunslinger" BS re holster, either. No, sir--that baby's ready for action. . . red wasps, bald-faced hornets, tarantulas...neighborhood bullies: all fair game
quote:Originally posted by Dustoff 1: San Berinadino Mountains east,of LA.
Fires good break along hundreds of miles..
Very dangerous situation, Santa Anna's start blowing? Watch out California!
Whale and family are probably very buisness at current time...These fires can move very fast...
Conditions are bad because of growth on fuel source because of recent rain..
I am very concerned..
------------------------------------------------- These fires when moving this fast are very hard to get away from, 'specially in the Mountains..
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quote:Originally posted by T e x: ya, we "get it" about fire...mountains add altitude, heat rises, etc...
------------------------------------------------ Santa Anna's pull dry hot air out of the desert from the East...High pressure air seeks low pressure...These Santa Anna's can hit 100 knots coming " down" The San Bernadino's..
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Key "words" create there own weather...Thats what is happening now...They can turn on firefighters in a flash...Traffic in the mountains jams and people get cought between fires, this is an out of control fire..Other fires could and probably will ignite in other area's.
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the riverside san bernadino geographic variability really is awesome...
a short drive to the cold snowy mountains or the high desert-- cajone pass with a fault line running right thru it... and one of the most interesting train runs you could ever see.....
if you can stand traffic? the ocean is driveable too..but the traffic that way is unbearable to some..
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