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[kla37]

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I LOVE knitting!!! Before I had chickens I was a victim of yarn math. Now I have both syndromes.....

 

[Miss Lydia]

Can you believe it I actually found out how to do it on my own BC. Now if I can just learn how to show pictures here and on the forum. Maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks:

................oh by the way that looks like my husband not me, haha

 

[Bat Cave Silkies]

If I can learn how to post pics~~you can too!! We're gonna have to get together one day and have a "picture lesson"...lol Might be like the blind leading the blind

 

[Junkmanme]

HiYa Bat Cave and Miss Lydia !

I've still got the needles and such stuff here for knitting. My late wife, Dottie, would do some knitting occasionally.

Since I don't LIVE in North Carolina ( but have a Tarheel Ancestry )...I'm kinda "out-of-touch" with some of the old tales and knowings of Ghosts, Haints, and such. But here is a copy of an e-mail that I just sent some of my "Bubba" buddies. Maybe you Tarheels can tell me what's going on with this...

Here's the e-mail:

Bubbas,

The radio or the CD player is almost always ON here at home with a large variety of music being played.

NONE of it has any effect at all on my dog, "Davey Crockett"

...except the tune "De Guello" which the Mexican Troops of Santa Ana reportedly played before attacking the Alamo.
(as you all know, the Alamo is where Davy Crockett died.)

whenever (every time) I play "De Guello".......my dog "Crockett" begins howling and "singing" and occasionally will bark.

kinda STRANGE ...ain't it ? He doesn't do that with any other music.

"Junkyard Bubba" Bruce
P.S. Do ya reckon there be a "Haint" lurkin' amongst these walls hyar at "Dottie's Farm" ???



Whatta ya think? Are we "haunted" out here ???

-Junkmanme-

 

[CoyoteMagic]

I'd say your haint is one of Santa Anna's troops that went down during the battle or Davey Crockett incarnate!

Carolina is full of haints, haunts, boogies. Folks here, especially folks who have been born and raised for generations, are very much accepting of such things. Yes we are in the "Bible Belt", but for many folks the teachings in the Bible is just one of the lessons they learn. The mixing of many cultures, slaves from all over, whites from all over, not to mention First Nations people from different nations, all mix togethered. Though folks in the big city of Charlotte might think that handling serpents is whacko, some folks in the mountain have done it since they could walk. "Sitting up with the dead" is another "odd" tradition that I have learned since being here. That Ray Stevens song is TRUE!!!

 

[Junkmanme]

Yep, CoyoteMagic.

I've been around some o' thet thar stuff amongst my Carolina family...Some of it jest ain't at all explainable. ('ceptin' if ya lay hit off to them "Boogers".)

I dunno.

-Junkmanme-

 

[BookWorm243]

I LOVE knitting!!! Before I had chickens I was a victim of yarn math. Now I have both syndromes.....


I Learned to knit and then went 3 years before I started back up. I have been knitting now for a little over a year and still cant manage to watch tv and knit without looking at my hands

I am still working on getting past easy+ patterns

I have been snowed in for 4 days now so its a great time to knit

 

[HenThymes]

I only wish I could knit or crochet or sew for that matter. I have a sewing machine that my DH bought me five years ago for Christmas and it has not even seen the light of day out of the box.

Now ask me about canning, that I can do.

Oh yeah and I'm good at gathering hatching eggs from the girls to sell.

 

[BookWorm243]

I have tried to crochet and have failed time and time again.

 

[nczookeeper]

Good Mornin' NC Peeps!

Since we're supposed to have snow/sleet or freezing rain at least 4 of the next 10 days, last night we constructed the foul weather roof for our fowl

. When the weather is dry, just lift the two boards on each end & leave the lower 'roof' shade fabric - on a liftable rack for easy access to the run for cleaning - in place.

the two snowless lines on the new roof is where we laid boards to hold it down while we screwed the roof material to the long boards. . .it was late, very cold and dark, so when we finished, we just took the drill driver and went inside. I removed the weigh-down boards this morning.