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[Sally8]

I wish my grandmother were still here to question her, but I did ask my mother. Here in NY where I live, we didn't have any apples and very little other fruit. One orchard that we pick at was closed for the whole season and the other that we pick at had a very small selection. The corn has been horrible, in our garden as well as the neighboring farmers. I don't remember seeing acorns in the woods where we cut wood this fall but I wasn't looking either. My question was, have we ever had a year when foods weren't plentiful AND had a very long hard winter? She didn't think so, to an extreme. I'm glad to hear that it isn't this way everywhere. Sorry about the diversion in conversation. (We have seen, more than usual, the predator type animals running around, even in the daytime)

 

[galanie]

  I'm so glad!  Time takes care of a lot of things, I have found.  What is that saying?  "Time wounds all heels..."    No, that's not it...that's the advice I give to my broken-hearted friends.  Time heals all wounds..yeah, that's it!  My memory is an elusive thing sometimes..... 

 

HAHA "Time wounds all heals" is the way mother used to say it. Also she often said "No good deed ever goes unpunished" - sounds like a pessimist but we would always chuckle at those.

 

[siroiszoo]

HAHA that was me! When I had it in the garage I tied off the legs of old panty hose and slipped the "panty" over the top. Works great.

Aha! It is a great tip. And, I just noticed we're neighbors! Hi Neighbor!

 

[Beekissed]

Auntie Em, Auntie Em.........

 

[siroiszoo]

I personally VOTE FOR BEE'S new business venture.

I will throw in a tour of NYC if this is something that intrests you,

(Took this from Ellis Island last Sunday. The New Freedom Tower going up)

OR

I can just show you wonderful Dutchess County, NY which I find more interesting at this stage of my life!




Thanks again Bee!

Bee, I'd vote for just the Dutchess County, NY tour!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Definitely can sympathize on that one!!! Big ol' BYC group hug!!!!


Was it one of these days??

My kids are in their 40's but I can sure remember those days. Wish I could do them over. Sending hugs!!! [oh and I was just a kid when I started having kids in case someone thinks I'm old]

 

[Beekissed]

I wish my grandmother were still here to question her, but I did ask my mother. Here in NY where I live, we didn't have any apples and very little other fruit. One orchard that we pick at was closed for the whole season and the other that we pick at had a very small selection. The corn has been horrible, in our garden as well as the neighboring farmers. I don't remember seeing acorns in the woods where we cut wood this fall but I wasn't looking either. My question was, have we ever had a year when foods weren't plentiful AND had a very long hard winter? She didn't think so, to an extreme. I'm glad to hear that it isn't this way everywhere. Sorry about the diversion in conversation. (We have seen, more than usual, the predator type animals running around, even in the daytime)

Down here the acorns are legion, the persimmons were loaded and huge and the apples were plentiful, cherry trees were bent over with fruit, as were the crab apples. These were all in the wild, so not sure if the domestic crops have much bearing on the woodland life.

We've had a larger and closer pack of coyotes here in this area....they are howling about 100 yds out from the homestead every other night. Would love to see one in real life...never have. We never had coyotes anywhere near this region when I was young, so the increasing coyote scourge has really put the hurts on any small game in the woods. Even ate our cat and would probably eat any other cat we would obtain, so we are abstaining from getting another. That cat was older and very savvy...but had a gimpy hip and so got eaten, not quite fast enough to avoid the fox or coyote.

 

[Mtn Laurel]

Bee, I see you're in "Beautiful By God" West Virginia. How do they think Sandy will impact you? I heard it was possible for some WV areas to get a good amount of snow. Fingers crossed that you're south of that squall line!

 

[Beekissed]

Bee, I'd vote for just the Dutchess County, NY!

Me too....have never had one inkling of a desire to see NYC. Ever. Would give me the skeevies to be that engulfed by humanity...not fear, just crowded up and pressed in.

Why, folks live stacked up in big boxes they call buildings! Like sardines in a can. I like my wide open spaces and clean air.

 

[galanie]

Find a critter sitter, and you and The Bat come stay in my guestroom suite...former chauffeur's quarters... in my over 100 year old carriage house. You can talk to Mr. Todd, my ghost, who built this place, as well as Rockerfeller Center in NY., too !

Mr. Todd alweays brought his chickens down from NY to spend the winter. I have their footprints immortalized in the concrete of his old chicken run. Is that neat, or what?

I'm jealous! When I was a kid, the people down the street had what they called the "maids quarters" over the old carriage house but it was the chauffers quarters originally too. They simply had their maids living in it at the time. And now that I think, it's odd to me that the house itself wasn't bigger. The carriage house was almost as big as the house.