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[HennyPennies2007]

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Welcome home Sweet Pea, glad you are hanging in there..have been thinking about you and praying for you. Glad everything went well....

 

[RonnieAtkeson]

TJ's Na Na was that you and kendra I saw in Wal-mart around 2pm today? If so sorry I didnt get to say hi but would of felt dumb if it wasnt you two. I think you had your head burried in the sausage/bacon section of the lunch meat wall.

 

[Stimpy]

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See? That's what I mean. I don't have time to read a book. Between keeping up with this board and several others as well as all the midget porn I try to keep up with, I just don't have time for books. SO, a friend of my daughter's, gave me the audio books on a USB drive. Now I can do all that stuff at once

-Stimp-

 

[Buster52]

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Yeah, I've been to the site in Utah. I thought you were saying there was another one in Arkansas.

-Stimp-

Amazingly, I've only been to the Utah site once, and that was recently. There are several and various monuments there to it, as you probably know. In Arkansas there are several roadside historical markers and a museum of sorts. Interesting you have been there. Most people I talk to had never even heard of it. Are you kin to someone in the party, too?

There was a movie of it a couple of years ago that did a decent portrayal of events but that didn't do very well at the box office.

 

[TheBarnSwallow]

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I am a history buff and love reading things like this so I researched a lil bit here on your family and WOW just reading the accounts from Sara Francis Baker just made my tear up inside... What a horrible horrible tragedy no matter how long ago it was..

 

[Buster52]

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I am a history buff and love reading things like this so I researched a lil bit here on your family and WOW just reading the accounts from Sara Francis Baker just made my tear up inside... What a horrible horrible tragedy no matter how long ago it was..

Yes, indeed. I found out about it through family research. Nobody knew anything about it in my family, and my mother was fascinated with old west and wagon trains and such. Her mother never said a word about it, yet took her to family reunions for that side of her family several times.

So, here I was, tracing the Fancher family through the country in the 1800s. I found both brothers in the 1850 census in Sand Diego California enumerated with their wives and children. This was a stop off point on their first cattle drive to central California. The would drive their herds along with a wagon train down to San Diego, then up the coast through Monterey, then over across to the San Joaquin valley. You get to know people when you do that sort of research. You sit and stare at the names on the census, their ages, place of birth. Think about what they are like. Captain Fancher's twin daughters had just been born, apparently on the road out. I thought about how hard that must have been.

Next census in 1860 I could only find John Fancher, my gr gr grandfather, and his family. I couldn't find Alexander anywhere. Then I stumbled on the Mountain Meadows Massacre. I was stunned. And yes, I teared up, too. Only two of Captain Fancher's children survived the massacre because they were so young at the time. The twins did not survive. They were 7 years old.

 

[Buster52]

OU press publishes the best book ever written on the subject. Blood of the Prophets , by Will Bagley.

 

[OldTownChickens]

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Atwoods will be putting their 3 quart heated dog water bowls on sale soon watch for the sale paper they were $10.00 each the last few years

or you can use the black rubber water bowls the ice will come right out then just put in fresh water a few times a day


Allen

 

[artsyrobin]

yep, grew up in San Diego, and the average there was 80 quakes a day that we never were aware of, and then there were those that were real strong and afterwords went way out of our way not to drive under the bridges!

at least with tornadoes we get some warning... my brother worked downtown San Francisco when the one hit there during the ball game, he held his briefcase over his head to shelter from the glass falling, those quakes are always amazing

Cammie, i am so sorry, for you guys and the driver, always heartbreaking

on the rooster saga, i am really torn about this guy, and am now carrying a flyswatter to get his attention next time he tries it, then spent alot of time holding him tonite, hoping to straighten him out- decided the flyswatter is like riding horses as a kid with a quirt- doesn't sound so mean that way- but he really needs an attitude adjustment- my father in law said he can take care of him real quick, he had chickens as a kid and figures he would be some good eating...sigh...actually i am hoping the brahma cockerel becomes alpha roo... i am totally amazed at those LB's Al....

here is the roo, he really is a beautiful guy

and for your amusement, this guinea we named Thick... always a bit behind the others, but he loves to sing-

when they first started flying he launched with the others off the roof, the other three did a beautiful take off and landed safely near the house, poor little thick launched straight into a tree trunk, was limping a few days...

Teach!

 

[MAllen]

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See? That's what I mean. I don't have time to read a book. Between keeping up with this board and several others as well as all the midget porn I try to keep up with, I just don't have time for books. SO, a friend of my daughter's, gave me the audio books on a USB drive. Now I can do all that stuff at once

-Stimp-

Midget porn while listening to audio books & reading forums, now that's what I call multi-tasking