Mama Carol

I have a very sweet, lovely memory of those stairs. My first visit to the Pcom office when it was on the Square in Dallas I open the door and start up the stairs. At the top of the stairs is a very awesome man, smiling broadly, who said "you must be Starr and Dru's Nana". I said I was. He said "pleased to meet you. I'm Johnny Jacobs". I loved my time working with Johnny. He was an incredible man. It's rare that I cry when someone dies unless they are family. I cried about Johnny. Miss that man to this day. Pubby, I don't envy you the move. It's been, what four years since y

In Florida we are required to take a firearms safety course, which includes range time, in order to get a concealed carry permit. A course such as this, which usually is a half day or 6 hour course depending on where you take it, should be mandatory EVERYWHERE in the US. In no way does it infringe on your right to carry a firearm but it does help one learn how to safely carry and store a firearm. Many people these days did not grow up with loaded firearms in the home or grow up shooting them. They don't think twice about leaving a firearm where anyone can get to it. And like the lady who

We have cast iron pumpkins that we have used for probably 15 years. We light them only on October 31.

The savings on one item that we used about two a month was going to be about $4 per item, so $8 a month. Another one was going to be about $4 a month saving. That's just two items I priced. Definitely worth it for me. I've bought those items at Walmart, Kmart, all the dollar stores and Jet beats them all hands down. Going to price a few more things, maybe things I only buy a few times a year, like razors or shaving cream, and see if it would be worth it to order those items, too. It's a bit difficult for me to get coupons as our paper only has one coupon section in Saturday's paper. I d

Has anyone tried ordering anything yet from Jet.com? I jotted down some prices on everyday items at the grocery store and they sure seem to be able to beat all of them. Free delivert on orders of $35 or more and I'd definitely order $35 or more. This could replace my monthly trip to Walmart! I'm good with that since I abhor Wally World. It appears to be free to join, so I'm trying to figure out a reason I shouldn't join. Anyone have a reason for me not to join? Or a reason TO join?

Our daughter wouldn't even put her girls in public school in Austell. She home schooled both girls until they moved here in early 2014. The older one is in second grade now and the younger one is in kindergarten. My daughter and son in law would like to move to a bigger house but they have no plans to change school districts. Primary, elementary, middle and high school are all National Schools of Excellence, year after year. Where they lived in Austell, the girls would have gone to Austell Elementary, Garrett Middle and South Cobb High. No wonder they didn't want the girls in those scho

Yup. If our daughter hadn't been set to graduate in 1999, we would have moved before she graduated just to get her to a better area. And then we stuck around until 2013.

I know!! I was born at Kennestone and lived in Smyrna until I got married. My mom still lived there when she passed away 10 years ago. Not at all what it was like when I was growing up. It's amazing how many people we meet here in the Pensacola area who are from Smyrna, Marietta, Douglasville and metro Atlanta in general. I worked with a woman who had lived for about 20 years in Winder. She wasn't from there originally but moved from there to here. I met a woman at the hospital the other day who was a substitute teacher at Wills High, during the time I went there. Simply amazing h

Powder Springs has gone to hell in a handbasket. I called it home for 34 years but so glad now I can say I USED to live there.

FB has many advantages over Pcom, too. If I don't want to see someone's posts, I can block them. Not just their posts but THEM. If don't want to see a friends posts, I can elect not to see them. This is a very handy tool for the ones I want to be friends with but don't want to see their anti-PP posts, their anti-Monsanto posts, an invitation to the three dozen games they play, their soccer posts or their political posts. I do miss Pcom of old.

Only if it doesn't interfere with a football game, homecoming, arts festival, etc.

Yeah, I had those moments the morning of my wedding, too. Got to church and soon-to-be mother in law informed me that I would need to take my husband to the hospital as soon as we finished the ceremony. Then I was told my soon-to-be husband forgot the ring. And the marriage license. His brother went to get the ring but nobody thought about the marriage license until after my brother in law left to get the ring and there was no way to contact him (long before cell phones). Thankfully the preacher agreed to let the best man bring the marriage license back, while we were at the hospital gett

I had a friend who got married at the courthouse a few years ago. Seems like it was a Friday afternoon but I can't remember for certain about the day. I just remember they had a specific day they had to go. Hubby and I got married in Cobb back in the dark ages. I think our marriage license was on a stone tablet. When we got our marriage license they asked if we wanted to go ahead and get married as they were going to be conducting weddings in about a half hour. We very quickly talked about it but had already dismissed that idea. Considering we got married 20 days after he proposed,

I would think so. One of my daughters got married at the courthouse in Cedartown and another got married at the courthouse in Atlanta.

Probably wouldn't be unpopular with me. I'm confused about how certain states, and CVS in particular, can circumvent the FDA and DEA. I'm all for doing whatever it takes to stem the tide of drug addiction but........... like Texture said, my opinion about that would probably be wildly unpopular.

If he's still in practice, Dr. Gary Kaplan is who I would recommend. But definitely ask your primary care who he/she recommends. You may need a referral.

Ferguson was great. I usually couldn't stay up that late though. It was really nice to see someone crazier than I am.

Leno was just marginally OK but the others, no thanks. David Letterman made my skin crawl. Literally. Late night TV has declined since Johnny Carson retired. Yeah, I'm old.

there's a difference?

http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2013/jul/24/american-postal-workers-union/postal-service-claim-not-fully-target/ Before 1971, the Postal Service received annual appropriations from the federal government. Since then, it has operated independently, with revenues generated through the sales of postage stamps and services. But Congress does give the Postal Service $100 million a year to compensate the agency for revenue loss by providing, at congressional direction, free mailing privileges to blind people and overseas voters, a congressional report noted. The $100 million is

For real! Ours is just an under $10 mailbox on a post. It wobbled pretty bad until my husband dug around it and put concrete down. In this sand, that's what it takes to keep one up. In our house up there we had a very nice looking mailbox post but an inexpensive mailbox.

Dude! You have a fancy mailbox. Seriously!

Isn't destruction of a mail box a federal offense?

Love it!!

I just don't understand why people buy into that hard luck story. If my car were out of gas (or nearly out of gas), I wouldn't be in Michael's or Hobby Lobby soliciting money to get gas. Reminds me of the woman my husband and I saw in Evergreen, AL in 2013. She was going around asking people for money to buy gas. Nobody gave her any. She walked over to the car sitting at the gas pump, got in with the other two occupants and they drove away. Got on the interstate. The next exit was quite a way, 10 miles I guess since that was exit 93 and the next one is 83. Guess they had enough to