The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[DigMyChicks]

Good morning all!

 

[N F C]

DMC, that dresser in your above post is beautiful! You do very nice work.

 

[DigMyChicks]

DMC, that dresser in your above post is beautiful! You do very nice work.

Thank you Debby!I love the old stuff.

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning all!

Good morning DMC

DMC, that dresser in your above post is beautiful! You do very nice work.

X2 You do exceptionally nice work.

 

[sharron]

Morning everyone!

It was interesting to read the old family stories. I don't know of any family stories going back as far as the Civil War...guess my family was too busy being poor in Europe to participate.

morning debby
all i know about momma's side is they lived in nc and kept moving toward ala and texas, i have records of that and who ancestors were on her side, daddy didn't talk much about his side but momma did say a little of what she knew about them, daddy did tell me that gp worked at deadheading(pulling logs from the river bottoms), momma said he didn't do much of anything that she could remember, which went over like a lead balloon , if looks could kill momma would have been a goner i do know that on ancestors.com they spell daddys name wrong, i tried to straighten it out but couldn't, his name was jacen allen smith and they think it was jason oh well, daddy doesn't care now, been gone since 82

 

[sharron]

Good morning all!

morning dyc

 

[sharron]

Thanks IMIt’s a lot of work and I don’t know that I’d love doing it for a living. My friend told me she’d pay top dollar to do some for her and I said no. This desk would have been in a dumpster if I hadn’t taken it home. I sent a picture of it finished to the lady I got it from and she asked if I put new handles on it. I told her no, I cleaned them. The white makes them stand out also.

Thank you Debby! Our wind is still gusting. I had to hang tightly to the steering wheel when I came home last night.

Thanks Sharron! I would love to see it! I love old furniture. This same person that gave me the desk gave me an old singer sewing machine and it’s cabinet. I want to redo that also but I need to check it out first. It ran but I have to get it cleaned up and see if it will sew. Hubby put a new cord on it or he said I would have been electrocuted.

That’s what gives it character. I’d love to see your bedroom set too.
I redid this beaten up dresser a few years ago.
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I would love to see that too!!

Nice memory Debby.

Very cool!


Pictures??

if i ever get my camera to work again i will take some pictures of everything and post

 

[sharron]

Thank you Debby!I love the old stuff.

x3

 

[N F C]

morning debby
all i know about momma's side is they lived in nc and kept moving toward ala and texas, i have records of that and who ancestors were on her side, daddy didn't talk much about his side but momma did say a little of what she knew about them, daddy did tell me that gp worked at deadheading(pulling logs from the river bottoms), momma said he didn't do much of anything that she could remember, which went over like a lead balloon , if looks could kill momma would have been a goner i do know that on ancestors.com they spell daddys name wrong, i tried to straighten it out but couldn't, his name was jacen allen smith and they think it was jason oh well, daddy doesn't care now, been gone since 82

I didn't find out until a few years ago that my g-dad changed the spelling of his last name. He thought MacDonald was too long so he took out an 'a' and changed it to McDonald. I wonder if he knew that's how the Irish spell it and the Scottish did the whole "Mac" version (he was Scottish). Maybe he was impersonating an Irishman...he did do a spell of bootlegging.

That's my g-pa, he was always working at making things easier

 

[sharron]

I didn't find out until a few years ago that my g-dad changed the spelling of his last name. He thought MacDonald was too long so he took out an 'a' and changed it to McDonald. I wonder if he knew that's how the Irish spell it and the Scottish did the whole "Mac" version (he was Scottish). Maybe he was impersonating an Irishman...he did do a spell of bootlegging.

That's my g-pa, he was always working at making things easier

i think they all did a little bootlegging, my daddy did, also drank alot of it