"Pumpkin"

[jimmoore]

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SCRUFFY, the was a post some where here the other day about how people used different terms down south. Mom also used to make chocolate gravy. I have walked to a one room country school and carried my lunch in a 4 pound lard bucket. Sometimes I would only have a sandwich made of fried potatoes put between a split open biscuit. Tell me about "the good ole days". /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif jim

 

[Bird]

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Dang, Jim, you must have grown up further out in the sticks than I did./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif Our school had 12 rooms; one for each grade, and I usually had either scrambled egg or sausage in the biscuits I carried for lunch. I usually carried a pint of milk to go with it, but since the school didn't have a refrigerator, sometimes my milk soured before lunch, so I'd just shake the jar walking home that evening and by the time I got home, I'd have a small pat of butter.

Bird

 

[gordon]

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I just want to thank you guys and gals for doing one thing---making me hungry!!! I had a bowl of RaisinBran for breakfast this morning, yea that sure hit the spot compared to some homemade bisciuts and gravy---NOT!!!

The wife when she is in the mood can make some great homemade bisicuts and sausage gravy its the simple things in life that sometimes are the best. There is an art to good bisicuts and I just don't know that art but I've never really tried. So RaisinBran was the meal of the morning for me.

Now on a different note homemade stuffing for the turkey--nothing better. Take some bread put some mayo and pepper on it then a layer of giblet stuffing then a layer of turkey then a layer of cranberry sauce and oh my what a sandwich. Nothing better than leftover turkey. Once again thanks alot guys and gals you've got me thinking about food!!!
Gordon

 

[gordon]

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I can't say about the bisciuts never had that kind. But I will say this---sure do have a pretty tractor./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif I'd love to have that backhoe. Good luck with your new pumpkin and stay safe.
Gordon

 

[JimBinMI]

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Pat,

Congrats from a "lower Mich" resident! Nice looking unit.
As you probably know, orange is not my favorite color, but at least you should be able to find it after a heavy snow! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

JimBinMI

 

[jimmoore]

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Bird, sometimes when Mom didn't have enough sour cream to fill up the big churn, she would put what she had in a gallon jar and I would have to set and shake it until the butter seperated. Can't beat that kind of butter! Talking about living in the sticks, we lived so far out in the boonies that we had to put undearwear on the chickens to keep the hoot owls from breeding them! <font color=blue>/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif[blue/]

 

[scruffy]

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We used to have two types of butter churns, one (two gallon)had a crank, and the ol' 5 gallon one had a plunger that you had to pull up/push down, never saw store bought butter until in my teens. School was a three mile walk to a 3 room plus gym/lunch room/etc room, one bathroom on the backside of the principals office...intimidating. My older kids went to a country school (never counted the rooms) but it was kindergarten thru grade 12, with the largest student body ever being a whopping 82 students. Biggest graduating class was 7 students.
All I can say around our place is the animals were non-breed specific when it came to reproduction activities.
Many a times, it would just cause you to shake your head.
Remember telling my Dad that we needed to get rid of the whole bunch and start all over with a fresh batch of critters around there.

 

[Bird]

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Heck, we never had one of those fancy crank type churns; just the up and down plunger./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif And the first time I saw "margarine" was when visiting my maternal grandparents in Oklahoma City and it was white with a little red pellet that you broke and mixed in the color. Maybe our livestock was a step up; we had a genuine Jersey milk cow (not registered though), and I raised registered Berkshire hogs in the 4-H club. Dad preferred White Leghorn chickens, but what we raised was usually whatever the Post Office was selling that Spring. How many of you remember when the U.S. Post Office delivered baby chicks? And if they couldn't get them delivered within a certain time, the postmaster sold them cheap. It's amazing what the Post Office used to deliver. In the early 60s when I worked for the Dallas Post Office, Sears still sold honey bees and sent them in cardboard boxes with ventilation holes covered by screen wire through the mail. I told my boss if one of those boxes got busted, he could punch me out on the time clock because I'd already be gone. I had all I wanted of bees when I had to help Dad work the 7 hives we had when I was a kid./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Hmmm, did I get to ramblin' and off topic again?/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Bird

 

[scruffy]

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Bird, did you ever see a Rhode Island Red with a top notch?
We had some banty's given to us by a neighbor that had top notches, but down the road, we had Rhode Island Reds with topnotches too!?! Not sure who did what. Our Jerseys were ok, but we had one horse that wasn't particular. Pigs? never raised them. Ducks? Started off with the traditional white farmyard ducks, but had a brother who was interprising and set up a trotline down in the bottom pasture, baited with corn, and the barbs filed off the hooks. Caught 20 or 30 Mallards and 5 or 6 pintails that way. Ducks wound up being ????. Still ate good though. Stupid Billy goat would chase the female lab around, course that goat was retarded anyway. Between it and a goose, you kept a sharp eye out whenever you went out back to the outhouse! Neither one had any compunctions about lining up and butting or biting a backside. We either had some awfull big rats around the barn, or some darn small cats, never was sure of that deal. Traps were always full.

 

[Bird]

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Scruffy, we had some Rhode Island Reds, but don't recall every seeing or hearing of any with a top notch. We also had one bantam rooster and two hens for awhile that someone gave us; never had any ducks, geese, turkeys, or guineas. I had 3 horses over the years, but only one at a time. I started raising an orphan billy goat once, but he froze in a cold spell, so then I raised one nanny and had her quite awhile. Of course, where I am now, I had 9 goats for awhile; kind of like raising goats if it weren't for putting up with one of those danged billies./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif They can be a real nuisance. I finally got in the habit of carrying an ax handle when I went in the goat pen, and succeeded in getting his attention that way./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Bird

 

[scruffy]

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Bird, those top notch reds came from the bantys with the topnotch! Ain't sure who did what, but they were strange looking! That particular billy was on my Dad's pooh list from the 3rd day (age that is), he ate dad's newspaper, and later on in life, developed a habit of butting the back door, knocking it open if the latch wasn't secure. Dad chased him out of the house with a hatchet when he woke up to cold nose in the face at 2 or 3 in the morning. Billy's can be a royal pain, we had a couple nannies also as we had one cousin that was alergic to dairy products, but could drink goats milk, and eat goat butter.
When I was a youngster, we always kept 4-6 stock horses around, as Dad had 980 some odd acres, and another 1000 in BLM lease. Both brothers still keep horses and milk cows, but I think they're nuts. The horses cost to much to maintain for anything other than work, and milk cows are just a pain any way you look at it. Besides, for family use, they are not cost effective.
P.S. the billy we had was a free-roaming, curse causing, hind end thumper from way back....right up to the day Dad shot him in the rear with rock salt! He was awful wary after that.

 

[Thomas]

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Bird,
I can remember when my grandfather chicken would come in Sears Robucks.

Our Post Office wouldn't deliver mail once rut season started on the dirt roads. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

Yep life was easier but yet harder. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[uppermich]

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The Post Office still delivers baby chicks... but they don't like it if I don't come down and get them right away. The "cheeping" drives 'em crazy. Had to quit raising chickens this year as I've had bobcats wipe me out the last two years in a row and an owl once before. Have to build an "Alcatraz" chicken coop before I raise birds again. Used to raise goats once upon a time too, but no billies. Sometimes I made cheese from the milk and would make small quantities of butter from fresh cow's milk using a blender. This store bought stuff that lasts for weeks or months makes me wonder what all is put into it.

Traded in the glass slippers for Sorels (felt pack boots) this last week. We're getting hit hard with snow today - tonite or tomorrow will be the first time using pumpkin for snow removal. The backhoe never saw dirt and probably won't till spring /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif cause I spent so much time brush hogging till snow hit. Put the rear blade on this weekend and am ready for what winter has to dish out. It's so windy thru my place that I had a negative snow fall last night - i.e. even though it snowed like crazy, it blew away whatever came down and whatever was already there right down to the ground. Believe me, the heated cab will be appreciated!

For all you with kids at home - you can't even imagine how rich you feel when you're not supporting kids any more!

Pat (Techno-Tractor Mom)

 

[scruffy]

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Pat, I can appreciate your viewpoint on kids. When our youngest girl was 15.5 years of age, the wife and I were talking about "Gee, two more years or so, and we'll be able to take off and travel some".....well two months later, she made the "Guess what" comment! We now have a 12 year old at home, 7 grand-daughters, and Lord only knows how many more years!! Wouldn't trade him in though. He's definately a keeper.

 

[ERNIEB]

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Scruffy, And I can appreciate your viewpoint. I have a daughter that graduates from college next year, and twins (boy-girl) in kindergarden.
ErnieB

 

[scruffy]

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ErnieB, I can see you have a similar spread in ages. Our oldest is 31, and they trickle down 30,29,28, and 12. We've never put one of them with a baby sitter, but it sure would be something different to try! Maybe someday.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

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Yes,life is full of surprises.We have two daughters that have blessed us with 7 grandchildren,and we have a 5 year old son in Kindergarden.Our first grandson is older than our son.Everybody will be here today for dinner,there will be 8 little ones,the oldest being 6,running around most of the day...Happy Thanksgiving to everyone,and enjoy the time with your families.