Posted on 03/09/2004 12:03:04 AM PST by Mama_Bear
Hi, Temple - you have a lovely state!
Lori, I love the Amish carriage divider bar!
That's right and they are really terrific cooks and bakers.
NASIRIYA, Iraq -- Children from a local school select their backpacks donated by 380th Air Expeditionary Wing Airmen. More than 200 backpacks filled with school supplies and hygiene products were donated. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Bob Oldham)
Hi, Sistahs!
Another perfectly perfect and flawless cyber tour.
Thank you! I never know if it is "perfect" or not until Thin Man comes and gives his approval. LOL. Lucked out again. ;-)
Lori, I love the Amish carriage divider bar!
Yes, I found that on one of the Pennsylvania Dutch websites. I thought it was perfect for my presentation.
That's what I hear, but couldn't prove it by Thin Man's critique of Shoo-fly Pie. Of course, being that he is in Minnesota, he probably didn't have authentic Pennsylvania Dutch Shoo-fly Pie. ;-)
No problem, I am glad you've had a week off. The funny thing is though, my MIL has decided that Tuesdays are actually a better day (than Thursday) for me to take her to her appointments and taxi her around on her errands, but it isn't a problem. Most days it only amounts to a couple hours around noontime.
The thread has been a bit slow today. I wonder if it is because it is a Tuesday? Or, maybe people were out enjoying a nice spring day (it's been beautiful here!). Anyway, I have always appreciated quality over quantity and the posts today from our Pennsylvania FReepers have been great. :-)
Outta town today - and will be the next two days....
Back to typing, trying One More Time - -
You've never been to Pennsylvania? I think just visiting Valley Forge and Gettysburg would be worth taking a trip there. I went to Gettysburg when I was a kid, on a shool trip I think, but a kid really isn't able to appreciate the history of that area. I would like to go back. The Battle of Gettysburg Reenactment must really be something to see.
Don't ever apologize for not being able to be here. I know that you are here when you can be. :-)
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Don'tcha just hate it when that happens?
Have a pleasant evening. ((((((((((LadyX)))))))))
"The battle raged between July 1st and July 3rd, 1863. The North suffered an estimated 23,000 casualties during the battle (killed, wounded and captured) while the South suffered an estimated 31,000."
Ummm...comparing the 54,000 lives in 3 days with the 500 killed in the past year in Iraq, ya think the Dims are overreacting a bit?
And where is their memory of The Dim War in Nam, engineered by Kennedy and Johnson - huh, huh???!!!
They were not *OUTRAGED* when many days we lost hundreds in Southeast Asia.
Yep - have been through Pennsylvania several times, but I actually have roots there.
My father was born in Pittsburgh in 1899, although in 1910 his family moved to Orlando, Florida.
His father was a railroad engineer, having The Pride of The Track - the crack run between Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C. - they offered for every minute they were late, they would give passengers a whole dollar!
A fortune in those days...
Therein lies a true story. One winter day, flying along on schedule, his father was leaning out the open window, looking for broken rails or animals on the track ahead.
Suddenly, his upper false teeth flew out!
WHAT TO DO!!!
Quickly assessing his options, he yanked the Emergency Cord, grinding the train to a halt, while exclaiming to the fireman, "My God! I think I hit a MAN!!"
Leaping down to the ground and running back through snow, he found his teeth and returned, saying
"Musta been an animal, and it got away..."
(Yes - he made up the time...:))
In 1909, he was on the ground in front of his train when another one was wrongly switched backward, pinning him between them.
To ease the constant pain, they moved to Orlando, and he died in 1916.
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