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"THANK GOODNESS IT'S FRIDAY!"
(Don Chandler)

No… that’s not a song title. I’m just pretending it is. The ones with “Friday” in the title are pretty slim pickins too. I know Gary declared himself the winner of our game, but… it ain’t over till it’s over. Saturday and Sunday have some great song titles!

Gary… I like your post on Obama. Very good! But I really do believe that the American people are beginning to see that there is a big difference between what he says and what he does. That “spending freeze” is a joke! And Jim… I agree with your assessment of Obama’s State of the Union speech, and his dog “Bo” too. I really do think that there is a serious question about his true citizenship. But the major media just won’t touch it.

Great to hear from you Kathy, even with the errors in your message. You know of course that spelling and grammar never count in e-mails or OCHS forum posts. Keep us posted on your recovery.

We love to make you laugh, Connie. Where are you, Diane?

By the way… Liz took a day trip with a friend yesterday down to Jeffersonville, Georgia in Twiggs County (just below Macon). They were attending the funeral for a friend’s mother. Last night Liz returned with one of my favorite southern delicacies… BOILED PEANUTS! (now there’s a song title!) She picked them up at a roadside stop on the way home. YUMMO! I love ‘em! I know it’s one of those things that you either love or hate, but I eat them like candy! You can take the boy out of the country, but...

Have great weekend everyone! Looks like it’s going to be a wet one to start. Stay dry and safe.

01/29/10 02:02 PM

#1210

We rarely think of the actual advantages of needing to slow down as we get older:

When I found I no longer had the stamina to work long hours clearing the fallen limbs in the woods around my house, I began to bring a lawn chair and a thermos with me. I still work in the woods, but stop frequently to sit and have a cup of tea. I’ve identified birds I didn’t know lived here and evidence that a bobcat shares the property. Since I’ve slowed down some, I see things I never saw before and find that quiet solitude is not lonely but nurturing, allowing my heart to open to the signs and lessons of nature that surround me.
– Sallirae Henderson

Later.

01/29/10 04:20 PM

#1211

I started writing a little while ago, but a friend called to say her dryer had just gone on the fritz, and could she come over and dry some laundry. She has eight children, (6 still at home), so I was delighted that I could provide that service. I am presently drying her three loads, and am so thankful for modern conveniences. I love hanging my cloths out in the summer, but not so much in Jan. It's 16 degrees right now. We didn't have a dryer at home until after I went to college, and I recall clothes freezing on the line when it got real cold down there.

Anyway, it's just been a zany week, schedule wise, and I have not checked in long enough to write. It's always fun to catch up, and see what you fellas are ranting and/or raving about. Whether politics or music, I enjoy your takes. Talk of old music brings back memories that are sweet. Political talk is stimulating, but it doesn't touch my heart, at least not in a good way. You all add many dimensions to my life, and I owe you.

Cathy, I've been thinking of you. Your letter was so funny, because I could picture you sitting there pecking away with your little hand in a cast. We were able to read every word, and we love you all the more for putting yourself through that to say "hi". We love you.

I'd better go. It's a busy weekend in store. I am trying to make a farm silo in my kitchen, and it's more time consuming that I thought. Just a typical crazy Diane project that I got myself into.

Gary, you are so right about what you notice when you just "slow down". I think it's awful how many wonders we often overlook just because we're caught up in the next moment, instead of living in the one at hand.

I love you all, from A to Z. Have a good, safe weekend.

01/30/10 12:40 PM

#1212

“SATURDAY IN THE PARK… I THINK IT WAS THE FOURTH OF JULY…”
(Chicago)

Actually a better song for today, or last night anyway, might be “Rainy Night in Georgia” by Brook Benton (1970). Remember it?... That was a great song! So I was going to do some work in the yard today, but it’s too wet and cold here in Cobb County. And Liz wants to put the vacuum cleaner in my hands, but here I am on the computer. I notice that our forum here is pretty slow on the weekends… not much participation. Wonder why? Are folks busier on the weekend than during the week? But Diane’s remembrance of clothes dried outside on a clothesline sent me on a trip down memory lane…so I think I’ll write about it…

Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone.

01/30/10 03:55 PM

#1213

Diane... did you say "farm silo" in your kitchen? ???

01/30/10 08:58 PM

#1214

Yes she did! And boy did she peak my curiosity! Maybe its and Ohio thing. Okay, Diane, you can't go around dropping these bombs and not explain. Why were you building a silo in your kitchen? Inquiring minds must know.
I'll be back for an explanation - Later.

01/30/10 09:02 PM

#1215

I almost forgot - one of my favorites: Come Saturday morning I'm goin' away with my friend We'll Saturday-spend till the end of the day-ay Just I and my friend We'll travel for miles in our Saturday smiles And then we'll move on But we will remember long after Saturday's gone Come Saturday Morning The Sandpipers Words by Dory Previn and Music by Fred Carlin Peak chart position # 17 in 1970 Featured on the soundtrack of the film "The Sterile Cuckoo" starring Liza Minnelli Later.

01/30/10 10:26 PM

#1216

OK, I am plumb wore out as they say, but will say "hey". You guys just don't know what I get myself into up here. We had one of our annual social events at church tonight, and without adding all the boring details, I did have to make a farm silo. The first one I made looked exactly like a giant tombstone, and would not do at all, so I had to regroup. The second one was three dimensional and I knew it was better, because everyone knew what it was. Of course it involved hauling food, and I hauled ham, scalloped potatoes, squash, green beans, caprese salad, peach cobbler and zucchini bread. I guess it was good, because it is all gone. Then again, maybe people were just starved. Now I have to get upstairs and pull my Sunday school lesson together. Listen, fellas, making a silo in my kitchen is one of my milder adventures. When I get old and senile, some of my stories are bound to slip out in my ramblings, but I'm hoping people will just smile and think, "bless her heart, she's really out of it".

Gary, you have me humming "come Saturday morning", and I feel 19 again. Never mind, I don't mean that, but it does take me back. There's always a sound track playing in the background when I remember being 18, 19, 20, ...... Give me a song and I can give you a memory.

Have a warm and happy Sunday, y'all.

01/31/10 01:46 PM

#1217

Jimmy Willis

H-E-L-L-0 FOLKS!
LISTEN, I DON'T KNOW BOUT YOU GUYS--BUT I WANT TO
JOIN DIANE'S CHURCH!!! EVERYTIME SHE WRITES SHE'S
COOKING HAM-CHICKEN OR SOMETHING!!! DICK SHOULD
WEIGH 500 POUNDS. AND I WAS STUMPED ALSO BOUT THAT
FARM SILO THING. AFTER TALKING ABOUT THE LADY WITH
THE KIDS AT HOME. I THOUGHT SHE HAD TOOK ON THE
JOB OF BUILDING SOME SORT OF SILO TO STORE ALL THE
GOODIES SHE WAS A FIXING!?#@*^! DIANE--- IT'S
GREAT THAT YOU HAVE WHAT SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT CHURCH
FAMILY.
ANYWAY, ITS TO WET TO PLAY GOLF THIS AFTERNOON. SO
I BEEN HIBERNATING IN MY RECLINER TIL A FEW MINUTES
AGO. POLO, MY LITTLE BUDDY, WOKE ME DANCING FROM ONE
FOOT TO THE OTHER--- NEEDING TO GO OUT AND DO HIS THING.
I THOUGHT I'D JUST SLIP OUT AND BACK IN BEFORE BETH
HEARD. BUT THAT WOMAN, BEING A TEACHER, COULD HEAR
A PIN DROP IN THE WOODS! SO NOW I GOT TO GO THE MILLEDGEVILLE
WITH HER TO BELKS AND THE SUPER WALMART.
I UNDERSTAND NOW WHY THEY BUILT THE MENTAL HOSPITAL
IN MILLEDGEVILLE.--- CAUSE IT WOULD BE IN A CENTRAL SPOT
OF GA. FOR ALL US HUSBANDS THAT HAVE TO GO TO THE
MILLEDGEVILLE'S SUPER WALMART! SO ITS LATER GUYS! I HOPE
YOU GUYS HAVE A GREAT SUNDAY AFTERNOON.---- AT LEAST
I CAN GET COFFEE AT STARBUCKS!!! MAN---I LOVE THEIR
COFFEE. I DON'T KNOW WHICH IS BETTER---HIBERNATING OR
G-O-O-D COFFEE!!!
AFTER-A-WHILE

01/31/10 02:52 PM

#1218

“GROOVIN’… ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON”… “really couldn’t get away too soon…”
(The Young Rascals, 1967)

Ok, Gary… I’ll admit your “Saturday” song was better than mine. “Come Saturday Morning” was a great choice. But “Groovin’” was a great “Sunday” song. Give it your best shot.

Diane… thanks for explaining the “farm silo.” I was beginning to think that perhaps you had been watching “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”… or maybe “Field of Dreams.”

Well, Liz finally got the vacuum cleaner in my hands yesterday, but now regrets it. I was doing a great job… until I got upstairs in our bedroom. I guess I got a little too close to one of my stray socks, and the vacuum cleaner sucked it up in one big gulp… and then died... choked to death. It was a tragic sight. May it rest in peace. Oh well, we needed a new vacuum cleaner anyway.

Sorry to hear that you have to go to Walmart there Jim. Life is tough. I had to do the same thing Friday night. And as Slick Willy used to say, "I feel your pain." By the way… I vote for hibernating.

Isn’t Sunday a great day! Someone should write a song about it.

01/31/10 09:42 PM

#1219

Jimmy, we do have a great church family. Everywhere we ever lived, the first thing we did was find a church. People in the churches through the years have adopted us as family when we were too far away from our own. They showed us kindness, love, and just did what good christian people should do, no matter where they are on the map. Anyway, I'm too far away to babysit my grandkids, or do things with and for our own families in Georgia, but I remember what it meant to us all those years ago to have people take us under their wing. Dick and I just try to "pay it forward". I spent many years working and trying to tend to growing boys and a busy husband, and I told Dick on the last day I worked back in '93, that if he ever heard me say I was "too busy to do something" he should just slap me, because those were the most hectic years of my life. He hasn't slapped me yet. My hat is off to so many of you who are working, and still make the time to be there whenever your kids, grandkids, or someone else needs you. Some of the busiest people I know hail from the class of '68.

Oh, "Sundays Will Never Be the Same" - 1967 Spanky and Our Gang

02/01/10 08:35 AM

#1220

Ah, Monday - but let me go back to Sunday a moment. I think it is my favorite day of the week. Love seeing so many friends at church and fellowshipping. And then (hopefully) kicking back and relaxing. Or in one of our trips down memory lane, going to see that special someone (who wore that little black dress to church). I met my bride at church and we dated all day and went to her church that night. No little black dress - it was a soft blue with flowers that fit "just right". I won't try to top the Sunday songs. The other entries are just too good to attempt to top - but my favorite Sunday (non-Sunday) song would have to be Little Brown Church - No spot is so dear to my childhood as the little brown church in the vale.
Diane you are so right about being adopted as you moved around. I think that is one of the true blessing of serving in the military and moving around. You get to be adopted by so many GREAT people. My kids had "grandparents" wherever we went. We were truly blessed by so many people over the years and 99% of them came from our church families.
Don has laid down another challenge, of sorts. So I'll jump on over to the User Forums and add to the trips down memory lane. I hope everyone has a blessed day and week. Later.

02/01/10 10:32 AM

#1221

Just a little something to brighten your Monday. Later.

******
A Jewish businessman in Chicago sent his son to Israel for a year to absorb the culture.

When the son returned, he said, "Papa, I had a great time in Israel. By the way, I converted to Christianity."

"Oy vey," said the father. "What have I done?"

He took his problem to his best friend. "Ike," he said, "I sent my son to Israel, and he came home a Christian. What can I do?"

"Funny you should ask," said Ike. "I too, sent my son to Israel, and he also came home a Christian. Perhaps we should go see the rabbi."

So they did, and they explained their problem to the rabbi.

"Funny you should ask," said the rabbi. "I, too, sent my son to Israel, and he also came home a Christian. What is happening to our young people?"

And so they all three prayed, telling the Lord about their sons.

As they finished their prayer, a voice came from the heavens:

"Funny you should ask," said the voice. "I, too, sent My Son to Israel ...."

02/01/10 08:54 PM

#1222

Connie Morgan (White)

I like all the old songs, but Don, "Grooving on a Sunday afternoon" brings back special memories of a Sunday afternoon in 1967.... ah, good memories.

I hope you all have a good week, dear friends.

02/02/10 07:21 AM

#1223

Okay Connie, sounds like a story there. Give it up girl. We wanna hear it. Later.

02/02/10 08:22 AM

#1224

Ditto

02/02/10 08:40 AM

#1225

ditto, too.

02/02/10 09:42 AM

#1226

Is this too close to home? Later.

02/02/10 01:08 PM

#1227

It's a gloomy Tuesday in Marietta, and I don't care if the groundhog saw his shadow.

02/02/10 05:34 PM

#1228

Jimmy Willis

YOU'RE RIGHT DON. IT IS A SLOW DAY! ANYBODY GOT ANY JUICY
RUMORS---ANY WE COULD START?--- NEW RECRUITS FOR THE FOOTBALL TEAM---ANYTHING? OH WELL GUESS I'LL JUST CROSS
THE CREEK THEN! HAVE A GOOD NITE MATES!!!
AFTER-A-WHILE

02/02/10 10:28 PM

#1229

Juicy rumors, eh? Let me sleep on it, and I'll get back with y'all. Don, it's not like you to let a rainy day get to you. If it makes you feel any better, remember that when you see the first little daffodil bloom in a few weeks, we STILL have 6 more weeks after that before we get to see any. Hope that put your happy spirit back in place :>)

Sleep well, all my gal and guy pals.

02/03/10 08:09 AM

#1230

Good morning!! Well here we are at Wednesday already, the sun is shining and guess what Diane? The daffodils haven't bloomed but they are popping up everywhere. Yes, that indeed is a good sign that spring can't be far away. I can't wait for those "spring showers" - what am I saying!?!?! I think we have had more rain than Noah and the weather guesser is calling for more this week! My yard is mush - but then I'm not having to cut grass! We still haven't heard from Dick. Will he appear with the spring thaw? No, she packed him in that silo to slip him out of the house!! OH NO!! (How's that for a rumor?) Just kidding (I hope). Hope everyone has a GREAT day. Later.

02/03/10 08:54 AM

#1231

Good Morning, World!

The sun is shining! It is glorious day! “Let us rejoice and be glad in it!” God is good! Life is good! I love my country!... and my family and friends! And I love all of you! And I love fried catfish! And I love high taxes, traffic jams, broiled liver and Democrats. Well, maybe I got carried away just a little.

Daffodils are beautiful, Diane. And I look forward to all the signs of spring… dogwoods and azaleas and hummingbirds… and the smell of a freshly mowed lawn. But for me, the REAL sign that spring is just around the corner is when Braves pitchers report for Spring Training (February 19th). O Happy Day!

Have a great one, folks!

02/03/10 09:08 AM

#1232

Read any good books lately? Funny I should ask. I am currently reading "Fart Proudly" a collection of essays by Ben Franklin. Less I think I'm kidding about the title, I've created a link for further investigation. Ole Ben was a bit of a bawdy one and this collection reveals a side not previously promoted. But it also contains several essays of wisdom that are VERY current. I would highly recommend picking up a copy - even if you have to request a plain brown wrapper to take it home. Later.

02/03/10 03:06 PM

#1233