The Old Folks Home

[Alaskan]

I am not sure if her mother... The wife ... rode astride or side saddle

 

[Beer can]

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.

Dang diva, you just took me on a google search, I knew I heard that name before, dude looks familiar, Smiley Burnett, then it took a thousand pictures on our computer to find the one my mother sent me a bunch of yrs ago, she called him Froggy I think? Just found the pic, not the message, my grandma, mothers side, at the same county fair we just went to, 1948 with Smiley Burnett. Lol! she looks pretty stiff, not sure if she is uncomfortable with his arm around her or it's just a 1948 version of a teenage pose, selfie. Lol!

 

[ronott1]

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.

There is a new series called Wynonna Earp--kind of a western ghost story. Also, West World will be back as a new series on HBO. We just finished watching Jane Got a Gun--Westerns are around again!

 

[Beer can]

Going over pics, don't think I posted this even though I planned to, sometimes I repeat myself....and I ain't old yet...
The day we went out picking blackberries on state forest land and visited that old grave yard, thank you to who posted the link for old cemetaries, I checked it out, this one was there, but no names and not better pics than I had, way too late they were, was some I didn't know in our town, all the names, great pics, recorded, all in need of restoration, but not as crappy as that one.
Anyway, drove by my gramma's old house that day, dads side, don't usually go that way, been yrs, stopped to get a pic of the garage that's caving in, house is a huge ole farmhouse, ten bedrooms, two story, lived there myself for awhile after high school by myself (had HUGE parties), gram lived with a elderly gentlemen elsewhere...Lol! Happy I was there taking care of the place. She stopped by often, one day she asked me to go down to the gas station and get some boxes....'What?' she was a big ole farm girl, six foot, big boned woman with a LOUD voice, "GO DOWN TO THE GAS STATION AN GET ME SOME BOXES!!" dang gram, don't you have any boxes around here? (she was a hoarder sorta) gas station in town was a couple miles away. "YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN DOWN TO THE GARAGE!!", no I didn't but OK, yes mam....yup, some empty boxes down there.
Grams gas station and store, way way long time ago, 40's-50's maybe?;

and now that no one cared to take care of it;


house is still in good shape.

 

[Beer can]

What were you doing on 9 11 ? I'll never forget.

 

[Kusanar]

Deb, the leaning into pressure thing is instinct. If a wolf latches onto a horses flank, pulling away will help the wolf gut the horse, moving into the wolf gives the horse a chance to stomp the wolf and takes the pressure off of the bite.

As for 9-11, I was 13 years old and didn't even know the world trade center existed, mom and I were at the doctors office for something, we were leaving and every tv in the waiting room was trained on the towers, the 2nd plane had just hit and people were jumping.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Me - hubby and I had to give a round bale to the horses.

I came in from outside and there was a special newscast and there was a picture of a smoldering building.
I thought maybe it was something to do with our government buildings in Ottawa.
I got our little boy, and I sat down on the couch to see what was happening while he played on the floor.
Right after I sat down the first plane hit. I sat there for most of the day watching in stunned silence.
I think I cried some too.

It was happening in your country but all of Canada watched and mourned with you.
So terrible. There are no words. It's still overwhelming to think about it and see footage.

What were you doing Beer can?

 

[drumstick diva]

I was shopping in a small grocery store. I thought I heard the butchers talking about an airplane that hit a tower. When I got home I put the TV on and my father and I watched - I think the tv was on 24/7 for a few days - we could NOT stop watching. Could NOT grasp what we were seeing till the news reported some of the debris falling from the towers were humans who jumped out windows rather than burn too death. Just impossible to comprehend all that. Just a nightmare that wouldn't end.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I was home alone and saw it then the call came a day or so later they where
calling for dogs to help find people it all was a nightmare from there I never wish to
relive

 

[bruceha2000]

My sense of time is so warped....

Blows me away that it happened 14 years ago.

Um, 14???? Let me get my calculator out
2016-2001 = 15.

I was at work. Guy across the hall said he wife just called to say a plane had hit the WTC. I'm thinking some idiot in a small private plane got too close "sightseeing". How wrong I was.