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01/29/09 04:16 PM #610    

Kathy Phillips (McBride)

Kay, I used to love to hike and backpack. I am whipping myself back into shape to do it again. I am sorry to hear about your friend.

Thanks for the info!

01/30/09 10:41 AM #611    

Sandy Smith (Dockery)

I use to do the hiking thing too. Would love to again.
Kathy, what is your secret in whipping yourself into shape? The only action my treadmill gets is an occasional dusting.

01/30/09 10:52 AM #612    

Susan DeLozier

I want to know about that whipping back into shape thing too! Maybe we can get a class or support group? As Diane said, As we age or as life progresses.....and medication does destroy skinny cells as I have found out...it makes them explode and rise like yeast, somethng to do with the heat/power surges, I'm just saying....

01/30/09 12:35 PM #613    

Kathy Hall (Orcutt)

Thank you, Kay, for your kind words. And, Susan,I truly appreciate your getting the word out there to our classmates on how they can help support our deployed troops.

If any of you have a son or daughter that's in Afghanistan, Iraq or Kuwait, please let me know and we'll add them to the support list.

If you are a teacher at a school or church and would like to get your kids/students involved, we need WELCOME HOME signs for the 1,500 single soldiers who'll be returning to their empty barracks at Fort Campbell. Just contact me and I'll give you the details. Deadline is Feb. 20th.

Thanks everyone!

01/31/09 03:03 AM #614    

Kay Cooper (Carpenter)

I am dying to get back on the hiking trail. I was working such long hours before that I haven't hiked in a couple years. I haven't done any good sixteen milers in about five years, and that is what I like. The bear activity was terrible this year, and I was about afraid to get on the trail alone. As plump as I am, I am sure that I would be good bear bait. LOL There has been one female awake all winter, and she has kept one campsite closed until this past week. In reality, that is not a funny joke compared to the things I learn from park headquarters that never hits the local news.

01/31/09 09:32 PM #615    

Sandy Smith (Dockery)

Kay, 2 wild hogs were on our property. Good excuse not to walk. lol

01/31/09 09:41 PM #616    

 

Diane Welch (Welch)

Bear, skunk, a couple of more reasons I can think

02/02/09 12:21 PM #617    

Kay Cooper (Carpenter)

Hey Sandy S
You know my little cousin that is missing? Michael Hearon. He raised over two hundred wild hogs in Fla, and turned them loose around Chilhowee Lake. Of course, you can have plenty of wild ones, bear, deer, etc where you are. Wild hogs swim across the lake from the Monroe county side. Have you eaten any? Gotta shoot them in the brain. Gotta get them on the first shot, or the meat is strong. I can remember one time when Pam Sparks' granny had a hog (not wild) that weighed over 1000 lbs. I had some bacon from it too.

Diane, whatever you do, if you meet a bear, do not lie on the trail and curl up like the experts tell us to do. We have too many food smells about us to do that.
Later Kay

02/02/09 12:22 PM #618    

Kay Cooper (Carpenter)

Sandy S.
I forgot to ask you, do you have wild turkey? You should. I have always wanted to try some.
Kay

02/02/09 02:41 PM #619    

Gary Marshall

Kay, Sandy, & Diane,

What we are having more and more of around Ocala are coyotes. Years ago you only heard of them out in the Ocala National Forest, but now we see them just about everyhwere, including some of our large retirement communities. They seem to really like dogs & cats, & if hunting in a pack they have been known to kill deer and small horses. 'Just wondering if these beasts are in East Tennessee?

02/02/09 04:15 PM #620    

Kathy Phillips (McBride)

Kay, dem bears (and coyotes too!) are serious stuff. Okay, when I get myself in hiking shape, we should do a class hike. Even if we don't do an overnighter, we could hit the trail for a good long walk. But I have a way to go first!


02/02/09 04:16 PM #621    

Kathy Phillips (McBride)

And Gary, yes there are coyotes in TN. I have a friend whose dog was attacked recently. Luckily, Roxy survived and is okay now, but she was nearly a coyote snack.

02/02/09 05:44 PM #622    

Sandy Smith (Dockery)

oh Kay, I didn't know that is your cousin. I'm so sorry he is missing.
we live off 129, off Brewer. the "holler" on our property runs into what use to be the lumber co. property and into Railroad Bed Rd. just about where the shooting range is.
i have not eaten any of the wild boar. i remember once in grade school (good ole Chilhowee View) i spent the night with Vicki Boling and her dad's dog was laying by the stove with its belly all stitched up from a wild boar.
we have been known to eat a wild turkey before. i don't personally care for anything wild. it's probably all in my head instead of the tastebuds.

Gary, we had a baby calf born over the weekend and there was a coyote hanging around. scared the creepers out of me. it ran away before my husband got down to where it was.

shh! don't tell the hunters about the deer, turkey and great blue herron on our property.
please tell them about the hogs and coyotes!

02/02/09 06:26 PM #623    

Kay Cooper (Carpenter)

Sandy, all those hunters down your way know all that stuff. Harvy Garland kills all those things too, but for food. He is the white house, where you turn to come up Brewer. If you will remember, when Ben was in about 5th or 6th grade, Harvey and Kathy had a big pot belly down by the spring. That is the spring water that goes into their house. Harvy is the sawmill guy. You gotta know him.

Gary, we have much coyotes here. I was sitting in my recliner the other day, and thought I saw Dakota, my daughter's huskey in the back yard. I notice the ears were standing up differently. It was a coyote. I was at the back of my property a couple of days ago, and saw where a coyote had eaten a small black dog back there.

When I lived in Happy Valley, we had a big problem when the park service turned loose the wolves. We couldn't keep a new calf, but they got cows too.

You can't image how bad I want to get back on the trail. But like I said--- I am terribly overweight. I spend so much time in the summer in the yard and garden that I don't make time for hiking, but I sooooo want to. Let's get Diane Welch on the hiking trail. She is in the med field, and can help us if the bears try to get our snickers bar. LOL

02/02/09 06:49 PM #624    

 

Diane Welch (Welch)

Okay while I love to hike your out of luck if you think a medical transcriptionist, I am not a nurse or even pretend to be. You better leave you chocolate at home just to be safe. I like the idea of a class hike, how about April, how about Cucumber Gap.... Let me know maybe I will be in shape by then too.

02/03/09 08:23 AM #625    

Debbie Pickel (Harper)

Hey guys - I hope everyone is enjoying our little snow!! At least it's pretty! One of my daughter's friends lost her mother yesterday...she would be around our age, and I knew her when I was a teen-ager....but I don't really recall how I knew her. I 'think' she went to Maryville, and her name was Connie...don't remember her maiden name. Her married name is Overholt. It was completely unexpected....maybe a heart attack, not sure. Please remember her family in your prayers. The obituary will likely be in the Maryville Times today.

02/03/09 02:35 PM #626    

Kay Cooper (Carpenter)

I love cumcumber gap in the spring. The flowers are great on that trail. Diane, you would know so much more about medicine than I. I really shouldn't even take chewing gum on the trails, but I do. Bears love the apple pectin that is in all gums.

Debbie, I am sorry about your daughter's friend loosing her mom. But, didn't Connie Overholt go to school with us? I haven't read the obit yet. Debbie, are you going to hike with us in the spring? Hope you do. All are invited.
Kay

02/03/09 04:09 PM #627    

Roger McCown

Kay: What a small world. I coached Michael's son, Matt, in little league. I remember him as a great kid. Michael was very proud of him. That is sure a strange thing about his disappearance.
Connie (Brown) Overholt went to Porter. My son played baseball with her nephew, Barry Cunningham, for the Knoxville Thunder when they were in high school. Connie didn't feel well Sunday morning and Lonas went to church without her. When he returned home he found her and she had passed away. I also work with her brother Allan Brown. This was a big shock.

02/03/09 07:04 PM #628    

Sandy Smith (Dockery)

I was going to ask if that was Lonas's wife then read Rogers note. She worked at Ingram, Overholt and Bean. I saw her just a few months ago. I am so sorry for their loss. People, we never know when it is our time or how we will pass!
Of course kay, we know good ole Harvey and Kathy. Harvey drove the bus when my step son was in high school.
we also have spring water which taste great. we FINALLY have access to "city" water. it will be expensive to tap on and bring the pipes down our .2 mi.driveway, then adapt it to our 38 year old plumbing...but it will be worth it.
Anyone have a nice lot or small acreage in County on South West side of town (with Mountain View?)

02/03/09 09:01 PM #629    

Jonathan Denton

Connie Overholt has a younger sister Pam, who is married to Kenny Talbot EHS class of 72

02/06/09 11:05 AM #630    

Kay Cooper (Carpenter)

Sandy S.
Harold and I owned the bus (3) when Ben went to Lanier, and William Blount. I remember that you almost always took Ben to Lanier, and he may have rode the bus more when he was in high school. I wouldn't let Rebekah go to Lanier and ride Harvey's bus. I took her to Montvale. I could drive to Montvale in about 15 minutes, but it took at least 45 minutes to drive to Lanier. So, when Harvey wanted to sell bus 3, we bought it, and Harold drove it. Rebekah rode the bus then. We already owned a tour bus, and a big dump truck. Oh, how I miss him, and those days.

02/06/09 11:12 PM #631    

Sandy Smith (Dockery)

Ben did ride the bus in high school until his jr./sr. year then he thought he had to drive. A couple of mom's and I would meet at that little Methodist Bakers-something-Church and walk after taking the children to school. 4 miles ea. week day cold or hot. we had it down to 1 hr and 5 min. never could shave that 5 min. off.
there's the exercise thing again. makes me out of breath just to think about it.

02/12/09 05:05 AM #632    

Roger McCown

Hope everyone is ok after the storm yesterday. Man, that was a dilly! I thought my house was going to blow over for a couple of minutes. Have a good day!

02/12/09 08:20 AM #633    

 

Diane Welch (Welch)

Okay on this end. Was scary though. I am all excited, my little Lydia is coming in tomorrow (of course with her mom and dad) and I am keeping her all next week. It has been a long time since I have cared for a baby 24 hours a day. Wish me luck.... We need to get together in a couple of weeks and say good bye to this crazy winter of 2008/2009.

02/12/09 05:59 PM #634    

Roger McCown

Diane: Good luck with Lydia. I bet you have a wonderful time. Can't wait until I have grand babies! Their parents will hardly see them cause I am going to keep them all the time!

I'm up for a supper somewhere. Let me know a few days in advance.

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