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19912. RickNelson - 7/31/2006 2:21:35 PM You're right Mac, fortunately all I did was hook up the low voltage a/c. That has no way of causing fire or other porblems. So, yeah, I'm happy 'nuf, but my fees being waved because of neighborliness isn't the way I do things. I did it for those kids. 19913. arkymalarky - 7/31/2006 3:52:24 PM It is difficult living next to struggling people with small kids. You can't not help, somehow, but it really can put you in a bind. Bob's mother was in that situation and Bob was concerned for her safety, especially from the two boys, who stole and vandalized around the neighborhood until the sheriff threatened to take them from the home. The mother and husband (not father) finally split, went into bankruptcy, and Bob's nephew bought the tiny lot so there won't be problems in the future, but those two boys are likely doomed. I'm sure none of us will ever know unless they make the news.
Good luck to you and her, Rick. You have a great heart. 19914. judithathome - 8/1/2006 2:36:37 AM Our weekend was great...great hosts, company, food, and weather. Fabulous...and I am still feeling it. Meaning, it wore me out...ha!
What contributed to the tiredness was the strain when one of our tires started splitting and we were worried about the car all the way until we got to a larger town on the way...we got the tires roatated and carried on and then the same problem happened but at least we knew which tire...and finally Keoni took MsNo's suggestion and used the spare.
He's getting new tires Wednesday.
I wish now his daughter was getting married in December instead of in 5 days. Maybe I'll feel more lively in the next few... 19915. arkymalarky - 8/1/2006 4:07:21 AM I can relate! I took a nap this afternoon and I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things tomorrow.
I hope y'all have a great time next weekend as well, and that the weather is as moderate as it was here this weekend. If it had stayed what it was when we got home from CO (110F), the weekend would have been very different--not nearly as much porch time. 19916. arkymalarky - 8/1/2006 4:09:30 AM And, btw, I'm still enjoying the benefits of having Judith and Keoni and MsNo for company, and will for some time, I imagine. I told Judith that whenever they come visit I always feel like I'm the guest! 19917. Magoseph - 8/1/2006 1:01:30 PM Hello, everyone,
Being the guest in my house was a feeling I enjoyed when the boys were small and the grandparents visited for a week around each holiday. Grandpa took over the boys and Grandma the kitchen. It was heavenly to be waited on and to go out in the evening without the kids. I was never able to trust any babysitters and therefore could not enjoy any outing if we had to get one. 19918. Jenerator - 8/1/2006 2:02:10 PM I can't believe that it's going to be 99 degrees in Hartford, CT today. That's so uncharasterically warm.
I spent a summer in the East coast when I was a teenager, also during a heatwave, and it was hotter than I could imagine. No air-conditioning in my uncle's home, either. 19919. arkymalarky - 8/1/2006 3:46:30 PM I don't know how people survived in AR without air conditioning. Of course a lot of people didn't. The infant mortality rate, especially, was very high.
Too buggy to walk to it (and several unmarked wells that are just holes in the ground now), but we drove by a homeplace (no evidence of it exists, except a cemetery you have to walk through woods to see) with a two-story log house, where a couple lost all but one of their thirteen children. Only one lived to adulthood. Most of the older people around here have lost siblings or children and rarely mention them.
So I guess we think we're less hardy than our forbears, but maybe we're not--we'd just be the dead ones if we lived back then. 19920. Jenerator - 8/1/2006 3:52:19 PM I have thought about that often, Arky.
Imagine you and I being pioneer women doing all of the manual labor in a corset and long dress in this heat! Ugh. 19921. arkymalarky - 8/1/2006 4:01:13 PM Hahaha!
Of course people made other adjustments in the way they built houses, etc, but there's no escaping the humidity without ac. And out here they didn't get electricity until after WWII, so they didn't even have electric fans until then. 19922. Jenerator - 8/1/2006 4:14:44 PM I wouldn't have lasted. Well, maybe I would have. I have some deep Southern roots on my mom's mom's side. My cousins live out in the boonies of Tennessee and do not have air-conditioning. I spent several summers in Mississippi and would always have to stay in TN, too. We would sleep on the linoleum floors with fans or the windows open. 19923. arkymalarky - 8/1/2006 4:35:36 PM I'm all Southern on all sides, but I don't think I'd have made it. For one thing I was a small baby--not premature, but barely over 5lbs. We didn't have ac when we lived in Lubbock, but it was so dry a "cooler" worked just fine. And it got cold almost every night. 19924. Jenerator - 8/1/2006 4:46:43 PM I wouldn't have had kids if I lived 150 years ago. Medicine has come a loooooooooooooooong way! 19925. judithathome - 8/1/2006 7:22:22 PM Go over to News and Current Events to see why Bush is the way he is... 19926. Ulgine Barrows - 8/2/2006 7:16:07 AM Duh, whatever it might cost? Macnas I expected better advice from you.
Hello. She's asking any villian to check her wiring.
Rick. Tell her that whackazoid is setting her up for a fire, and get the shit beat out of yourself after she mentions it to him.
Honestly, I'd say your job is done when you get the kids out of the fire. You are a neighbor, that's what neighbors do is save kids, cuz the adults have chosen their own path.
I don't feel tardy. 19927. Ulgine Barrows - 8/2/2006 7:36:37 AM 19924. Jenerator - 8/1/2006 4:46:43 PM
I wouldn't have had kids if I lived 150 years ago. Medicine has come a loooooooooooooooong way!
you might want to reconsider your phrasing.
such as, I'm glad I didn't die giving birth 150 years ago and I'm so glad there are so many more nets to help a woman in childbirth.
heh, yeah, you wouldn't have had kids.
You wouldn't have had a choice.
I am SO glad I did. 19928. Ulgine Barrows - 8/2/2006 8:18:13 AM sorry.....gotta post this
Gonna buy a fast car
Put on my lead boots
And take a long, long drive
I may end up spending all my money
But I'll still be alive 19929. Magoseph - 8/2/2006 1:48:59 PM Hello, everybody!
19930. Jenerator - 8/2/2006 2:07:32 PM Ulgine,
If phrasing it your way makes more sense to you, that's fine. The bottom line is I am glad to be alive today rather than 150 years ago.
Imagine having your period back then.(hence the phrase 'on the rag')
Or a cavity back then.
NO thanks!
19931. judithathome - 8/2/2006 3:16:20 PM But since you'd have no comparison, you'd probably have done just fine. Sure, knowing the ease we have now in living, I'd not want to return to the past but if I didn't know life could be like it is today, I'd have been fine with it back then.
The slow paced life when even hearing from people took days, not seconds...the freshly grown food and unpolluted air...the little things that brought happiness and the beauty of undeveloped land.
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