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Your post and the recent acquisition of the photo below caused me to wish I could ask my grandpop what it was like to grow up in an orphanage and to be a diesel mechanic making repairs on broken-down rigs in the mountains of western North Carolina. He was a reserved, taciturn man whom I only saw a few times in my life, having grown up in various places in the North. He's been gone 43 years. In this photo of us, he was the age I am now.

Beautiful!

y tierna ... {#Hearteyes}

oldviolin

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Location: esse quam videri
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Posted: Feb 13, 2009 - 12:13am
I like celery, but not in my salad. There. The secret is out.

maryte

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Location: Blinding You With Library Science!
Gender: Female

Posted: Feb 4, 2009 - 10:49am
I'm actually enjoying the leftover kasha I'm having for lunch.

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Posted: Feb 4, 2009 - 10:24am
I am totally having a second chicken sandwich because the first one was that good.

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Location: Auckland, New Zealand (former Boston native and Atlanta transplant)
Gender: Male

Posted: Feb 3, 2009 - 7:40pm
smokinsean wrote: ...I like farting on my hand and then laying in wait for a Phineas to want to shake it... He likes that, too.

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Posted: Feb 3, 2009 - 6:14pm

Inamorato wrote:

Adorable!

Sean-E-Sean

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Location: Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc

Posted: Feb 2, 2009 - 6:38pm
...I like farting on my hand and then laying in wait for a Phineas to want to shake it...

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Posted: Feb 2, 2009 - 6:34pm

oldviolin wrote:

Me either. It's just a little thing I think about when I remember the Montgomery County of my youth. I was more likely to see a field of tobacco. There used to be a lot of peaches down there too, but not as much now...You know, nothing stays the same. Sometimes that's good; sometimes that's bad.
I knew the song too, of course, but I didn't dance to it; especially with my ol' Grandaddy. {#Lol}

He was fairly surly, and didn't take to frivolity
as far as was my experience. He most likely would be happy watching his N.Y.Yankees or hunting squirrels, hence the remembrance.
Pawpaw...get it? {#Wink}

P.S. Nice mug. {#Lol}

Surly, huh? Mine was stoic and reverent, served on a WWII battleship, read the Bible aloud each night to the family, and loved coffee and NFL games. He never would've danced with me either. My dad was absent, so I was grateful for my stand-in, whom I called PawPaw! He was awesomely present in the moment and always kind to me and my sister, the lost little girls.

Montgomery County? Wow, deep in the boonies. I spent many happy hours fishing nearby on the beautiful Lake Tillery.

I nabbed the av from a product that Phin posted. She looks like I would if I still indulged in frying my brain.

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Posted: Feb 2, 2009 - 6:19pm

Inamorato wrote:

Way cool, man. That is a priceless shot for sure. {#Good-vibes}

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Location: Savannah, Georgia
Gender: Female

Posted: Feb 2, 2009 - 6:02pm

Oh, I prolly should post a true confession...

Waaaaayyyyy back in another life - just before starting high school. Our little group of neighborhood friends started building a treehouse (yea, my woodworking skilz go way back) and we would get materials from wherever we could find them. One of the group was old enough to drive and had a truck... yea you know where this is going... One night we stole most of the 2x 12 benches from the high school breezeways. My older brother, who went to the school, said it was really hard to keep a straight face when his classmates had nowhere to sit at break time.

We didn't stop there but that's another True Confession...

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Location: Savannah, Georgia
Gender: Female

Posted: Feb 2, 2009 - 5:52pm

Inamorato wrote:

Oh man! : ) that photo just feels GOOD! I'm sure you cherish it : )

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Location: O-town
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Posted: Feb 2, 2009 - 5:52pm
I find watching women apply makeup so mesmerizing I've watched videos of it on youtube to pass the time.

Inamorato

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Location: Twin Cities
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Posted: Feb 2, 2009 - 5:27pm

oldviolin wrote:

I can't think about my old Grandaddy, gone these last 33 years, without remembering his house way down yonder in the pawpaw patch...and his back porch with rabbits and squirrels and various and sundry other critters all skinned and waiting their turn in the cook-pot...My Grandfather was a brick and stone mason, and worked in DC in the 30's, building in the Capital Mall.
I wish he was here so I could ask him a few relevant questions about squirrels and such...

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Posted: Feb 2, 2009 - 1:34pm

zipper wrote:

I used to sing that song and dance with my stand-in grandfather, but I never saw a pawpaw patch or even a solitary pawpaw.

P.S. Nice mug. {#Lol}

zipper

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Posted: Feb 2, 2009 - 10:27am

oldviolin wrote:

I used to sing that song and dance with my stand-in grandfather, but I never saw a pawpaw patch or even a solitary pawpaw.

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Location: Back Home Again in Indiana
Gender: Male

Posted: Feb 1, 2009 - 10:17am
samiyam wrote: No... but I really pissed my parents off when I let the raccoons go from the traps my daddy set. Close enough.

samiyam

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Location: Moving North

Posted: Feb 1, 2009 - 10:14am
Prodigal_SOB wrote: Did you ever actually steal any cats? No... but I really pissed my parents off when I let the raccoons go from the traps my daddy set.

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Location: Back Home Again in Indiana
Gender: Male

Posted: Feb 1, 2009 - 10:12am
samiyam wrote: I used to pretend to be a cat burglar and hide in the branches of the trees in the back yard. Did you ever actually steal any cats?

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