The Old Folks Home

[chickisoup]

 

[Bunnylady]

Poignant, significant, but wow, talk about a buzz kill.

 

[microchick]

But a necessary one, unfortunately.

 

[drumstick diva]

YES

 

[Alaskan]

My sense of time is so warped....

Blows me away that it happened 14 years ago.

 

[chickisoup]

My sense of time is so warped....

Blows me away that it happened 14 years ago.

me too.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Me three

 

[drumstick diva]

I remember it every day.

In the beginning of the aftermath, it seemed like our area had police on every corner. I felt safer but, not safe.

Everyone was putting American flags in their windows and attached to cars. When I walked I'd find many that popped off cars ( probably when they forgot and rolled windows up or down. I would hustle to get them off the street, shake off any dirt and put them above ground so maybe their owners could find them. I knew since childhood, the flag is not supposed to touch the ground. What some people do to it, raises my blood pressure. But I do, what I DO!

- the end -

 

[drumstick diva]

Still thinking about cowboy stuff since Hugh O'Brien just passed away - I remember" Wyatt Earp",

Just realized Smiley Burnett was the character John Sheldon I adored on early TV. Probably because my older sister picked Roy Rogers and the bully next door picked Gene Autry, so I had to have somebody - he was the only one I could think of. Since nobody else seemed to know him at all, my choice was safely MINE.

I always wanted to be a cowboy because in all the tv shows, the women stood around doing nothing while the men had all kinds of adventures and horses. Women if they did ride, had to be prim and proper and ride side saddle - give me a break - ugh! What a great way to fall off.

 

[Alaskan]

My great-grandmother never rode side saddle... Her father wouldn't let her, he thought it was too unsafe for his daughters, and so had them all ride astride.



That was out in dry West Texas, about 1880 to 1900 I guess.