cookies are sweet

I posted a long (yes, I know most of mine are long) thing about how someone called the fire marshal on my dad, but I mashed the wrong button and it went poof. Ever since my dad built our house in Smyrna in '62, we had an area we burned stuff in, leaves, sticks, etc. After health reasons forced him to stop working, in the early 90's, he enjoyed walking the yard everyday and picking up small sticks and trash and such. He would pile them in the burn area and burn them a few times a week. It got him out of the house and gave him a sense of contributing to the upkeep. Some new person in the ne

I forgot about the water, another thing you could knock over by playing ball in the house. I bet your grandmother said something like this, either to your grandfather or you. "(name) you keep putting that coal in there and you are going to burn the whole house down around our ears." "If you grandfather doesn't stop putting so much coal in the stove, he is going to burn the whole house down around our ears." No matter how she worded it, I bet she said the "whole house" and "down around our ears", didn't she?

My kind of folks. (as long as the wife does all the chores, I'm good with it) But I bet the apartments up until the 50's had a coal heater in the basement and a coal chute.

I know some of you can answer, "me", to some if not all of these questions. How many have put coal in stove like this one? A stove, where that and a fireplace was the only heat in the house? And how many have grabbed the door handle, usually only once, and were left with rings burned into your fingers? How many have been horse playing and have bumped into the stove, not only resulting in a burn, but either a tongue lashing or worse? I guess you know my answers are "me" to all the above questions.

Sad.

Sorry for the bites, but glad it all worked out in the end.

One reason the clothes in the old west and even up to the 1940's, were colorful, is they showed dirt less than a white shirt would.

I sing just like Lou Rawls. No ifs, ands or buts baby! (at least in my mind I do)

Your feet stink and you walk crooked.

Give me a million bucks and we will find out.

I blame women, liberals and Hollywood. No, I do not have good, logical reasons, I just like blaming women, liberals and Hollywood. Ohhhh, don't forget the illegal immigration and Obama. Ahhhhh, what the heck, just for fun, let's throw the Tea Party people in there also. Seriously, I think the fact that we interact more by e-mail, text, phone and computer, rather than face to face, has something to due with it.

I caught my dad watching Jerry Springer one time. Both of us pretended it never happened and never mentioned it. That show was sooooooo far out of my dad's TV viewing range, it still shocks me. But I guess we all have that one show that we know lowers our IQ points but we just can't help but watch.

Meetings start at 8pm in the church basement. You are responsible for the cookies this week.

Soooo, in effect they don't want to have to answer for their actions. Yep, let's blame the citizens for wanting to ask about their actions.

I had a DR appointment in Marietta yesterday afternoon, so after the appointment the wife and I stopped by and picked up some pies. The pot roast was real good, I had a couple of bites from the chicken, but it didn't seem as good, but that may have been because I was full. I will finish the chicken today. Paul was very nice.

What a great singer, musician and entertainer! Thanks.

Rooney's Andy Hardy movies were HUGE money makers for MGM. In fact, those movies helped keep MGM going as the studio had made several big budget pictures that bombed at the box office. Mickey Rooney and his Andy Hardy pictures saved MGM.

Both....now GET OFF MY LAWN!!

I am an old movie (and movie star) buff. Love me some old movies.

This song was released when Rudolph Valentino died, but I think is applies to Mickey as well.

Hmmmm, is this why I keep getting the "How to enlarge your....." ads? The wife has been researching?

I use the little dot thing to the left of the thread title, that takes me to the first unread post in that thread. Example: Click on the dot or circle to the left of the thread title "Old Wall Cabinets", and it takes me to my first unread post in that thread. Old Wall Cabinets in Wanted: Goods and Services Started by Dallas Bigfoot, 31 Mar 2014 For Workshop

Very true. Sometimes the "right" thing is to "bail them out", sometimes the "right" thing is to "not bail them out". But either way, the love for that family member is not more or less.

Soooooo, you guys are responsible, huh.

Gilbert Gottfried