I'm so old I Remember when:

[R2elk]

Could vertically challenged people get on an Ostrich?

Jockeys whether for horses or ostriches are vertically challenged.

 

[R2elk]

Haven't you watched the ostrich races?

 

[chrissynemetz]

After watching that I think I'd stick with horses

 

[Nomadicus]

With all the things that have been recorded here on almost 300 pages I wonder what the next generation will think? Will they appreciate more the things the have that generations past didn't. Will they instill some history on the next generation and more to come? They can't say the posters here have not tried. I must thank all for your contributions. I've learn a lot from history here. Keep it going as long as the world turns.

 

[Ponypoor]

Are there others?
Please relieve me of my ignorance.

My blacksmith has/had chickens and we would discuss their silliness and how much fun and drama they can have.

She told me one day ‘it’s a good thing they aren’t 6’ tall, they would be a real danger to people!’

So true! I tell everyone, don’t fall down in the barn they will be on you in a flash and peck your eyes out!



I remember my grandmother telling me about the animals they kept when she was young, cows and hens. And how she and her sisters would go up in the meadow with quilts, fill them with the dried hay, and carry it back to the shed where the cow was kept, the hay was for the winter. In Newfoundland it was very common to run cattle, goats, sheep and horses freely - they went everywhere. In the 90s though the municipalities cracked down of free roaming livestock due to dangers of vehicle collisions and also animal / people interactions - visitors/holiday-ers would try to pet them and get kicked, butted, etc.

My earliest memories of being down in Newfoundland was seeing a herd of horse running free towards me when I was out playing - at 7 yrs old it was terrifying! But amazing also - and started my love of horses I bet

I remember fish being dried on ‘flakes’, heat big slabs of cod fish salted down and drying in the sun. When the weather was bad the fishermen would gather all the fish up and bring it into a shed and hang it for drying.

Then in the early 90s the cod fishery collapsed, the fish that were so plentiful were gone. The govt closed all in-shore fishing, a society lost their livelihood, and drying fish by the tonnes was no more.

These days Newfoundlanders are allowed to catch a certain amount for person use, and instead of flakes to dry fish, they now hang the fish on clothes lines

My memories are strong for my culture and a way of life gone forever

But - we still know how to party !

 

[Ponypoor]

After watching that I think I'd stick with horses

Well not sure about that! But yep I will stick with horses!

 

[Ponypoor]

With all the things that have been recorded here on almost 300 pages I wonder what the next generation will think? Will they appreciate more the things the have that generations past didn't. Will they instill some history on the next generation and more to come? They can't say the posters here have not tried. I must thank all for your contributions. I've learn a lot from history here. Keep it going as long as the world turns.

Every generation has something to contribute to all societies, good or bad, everything is a learning opportunity for those who wish to learn, the problem are those who don’t wish to learn from the past.

I remember as a youngster thinking I knew everything, now I know I don’t know anything.

 

[Evadig]

THE U.S.A.

So we march into the present And it's always rather pleasant
To speculate on what the years ahead of us will see,
For our words and thoughts and attitudes,
All our novelties and platitudes,
Will be Rather Ancient History in the 21st century
Will they find us wise - or silly?
Looking backwards, willy-nilly,
At our queer old-fashioned costumes and our quaint old-fashioned ways?
When our doings face the ages, Printed down on textbook pages,
Will they cry, "That savage Era"? Will they sigh "Those were the days!"?
I don't know - you may be wiser.
Time's a curious capsizer
Of a lot of reputations that seemed certain to endure,
While he'll sometimes make his heroes Out of people, once thought zeros,
for the most well-grounded reasons, by the solemnly cocksure.
So instead of prophesying
(Which is fun, but rather trying)
Who they'll pick to be our great ones when the books are on the shelves, Here's the marching panorama
Of out past and present drama
And we shan't know all the answers till we're history, ourselves.

- Rosemay & Stephen Vincent Benet

 

[troyer]

But - we still know how to party !

This knowledge seems to be natural, bridging generation after generation.

 

[NanaK]

Anyone remember Bobby Bare?
How about Marie Laveau?