Yuck!!!
Winter's still here, but spring's getting closer!
Such fond memories...cough syrup- boiled onions,lemons and honey- yum.....not!!!
LOL Remembering 'the good old days!" I loved reading everyones stories, too! I sure don't do that to my kids because I still remember all too well how bad ALL that stuff was! LOL And the vicks inhalers, horrible! HA HA HA
My mother was a great believer in Milk of Magnesia. She thought it would cure cancer. I had to be really, really sick before I let her know because I knew what the cure would be. I rarely, if ever, missed school. hhhhmmmm. Method to her madness?
OH that stuff is REALLY nasty!
It sure seems all those did cure everything we had. Which I do believe most of it was in our heads. Trying to think we could get out of school or some chore. It never worked. Mom was to smart for us, HA, just like we are now with our own.
Kind of like when my mother told me a little bird told her! I never knew what she meant for the longest time, then I had kids of my own! HA HA HA
How true!!
Darn that little bird anyway, couldn't get by with a thing! LOL
Well, we've talked about plants, pics, food (one of my favorite subjects), medicinal remedies and fond memories, there is still one thing I want to know. Is it spring yet?
I WISH!
Well I for one had my hopes up, it was all sunny, stuck in my earphones and headed out for my 2 mile walk, felt GREAT, sun shining on my head, and about halfway home, the clouds came, the wind whipped up and I darn near ran the rest of the way home! LOL So my answer would be, nope, not spring yet. :~)
At least you didn't get wet! :)
I hate brown and that's all I see. I hate cold and that is all it is outside. I hate too many clouds when we need the sun to warm up. I hate winter can you tell?
DITTO to all of that, Robin!
Dh just woke up and is getting hungry, He worked the midnight shift last night. So I'm going to go fix him dinner, calves liver with onion gravy, mashed potatoes and corn. I know, not good, but I only get something like this once a year if I'm lucky and I'm going to eat like a pig tonight.
Spring,there talking snow Thurs. and Friday!!!!
Man after reading the things you guys went thru as kids,my life now seemed like a walk in the park!!!LOL
But them I was always at work in the farms,hardly ever home,went to school came home right back out to work,until time for bed,excpt when I was out running where I wasn't supposed to be!!!LOL
Sometimes I went astray due to the 2 W's!!!OL
I would love to hear a few of those stories. Bet you were an ornery little devil.
Man set a aplate for me!!!!Thats what we call eating in Hog heaven,even if it is cow!!!LOL
Never once got caught jipping school,sisters got caught every time!!!
One time my sister was at Sears,coming down the escalator,and came eye to eye with my dad as he was going up!!!
What I'd give to have seen that!!!!!LOL
She told me years later she almost peed her pants!!!!LOL
She didn't sit down for a while!!!!LOL
She was junior in High school too!
More stories Don! LOL
Robin, Shaun says he will take a plate of that, too! But NOT me! LOL I told him to be sure and let me know when he wants to fix it because I will be out shopping or something that day! HA HA HA
Fix a plate for me too, Robyn. Lotsa onions! Yummy!
You betcha gang, It was mightly good. Lots and Lots of onion and gravy. OOOO put that over a heaping spoonful of fluffy, buttery, creamy mashed taters, a side of corn with lots of butter. Then a big ol' slice of tender juicy liver, To die for. And I ate everybit on my plate. I am so stuffed.
I wouldn't have wanted to be your sister. Did your dad make her get her own switch, we always had too.
OH I remember my mother making my sisters and my brother get their own switch! POOR POOR things! And they even got a bradded belt used on them, OUCH! That is where me and my other sis got lucky and had a different father, because my Dad would NOT let her touch her and I with that belt!
Well, I'll put my two cents worth in. When I was a kid, and we had a bad cold, we got applejack! Homemade. My grandparents had an orchard, and grandpa made applejack. Now mind you, my grandma didn't hold with no drinkin. She was a good church woman, the organist in fact. So grandpa had to have his applejack out in the barn
where he had his woodworking shop. But every year, he sent a bottle home with my dad for medicinal purposes. Man...that stuff was GOOD!! And it worked too. It would kill a cold faster than anything!
As far as getting your own switch, we had two weeping willow trees in our big front yard. (We lived out in the country) When mom told us to do something and we didn't, or we sassed her, she went and got a willow switch, fresh from the tree. Let me tell you, those little whips would put welts on your bottom big time!! And hurt...woweeee!!! We always ran...but she would chase us down. I think today that would be called child abuse....lol!
Tman...Panko works just as well, if not better than crackers/breadcrumbs. Much lighter. it's what the Japanese use for their Tempura batter.
Well there is miss Marcy! :) Yes, today any of that would be considered child abuse! That reminds me of when my ex tried to turn me in for child abuse when we were going through our divorce. He told her that I used a silver ladle on the boys! So, I told her if I had a silver ladle I sure as heck wouldn't be using it on them! LOL Wouldn't you know that it all went in my favor! HA HA HA
Mom wouldn't chase us, she just said take it now or get it when your dad gets home. We took it from mom. Dad always used his belt and it was thin and leather and hurt like all get out. Besides mom was smaller than us so it didn't hurt as bad. It still smarted when she missed and hit the legs. ouch!
Hey Sister, we posted at the exact same time! LOL My Dad whooped me one time and I deserved it! But man, did it ever hurt!!!! And it was with his leather belt. I was running saying NO DADDY NO, didn't work! LOL Taught me right then and there not to storm out of his shop and slam the door!
We learned early not to run. They knew we had to come back sometime and when we did it was worse on our butts. Plus if we ran we got grounded double time.
I remember something about them telling me if I ran it would be worse when they finally caught me, so I stood there and took it!
Well, other than when my Daddy was after me with that belt! LOL
Hey Don, do you happen to be growing any Asparagus Fern outside where you are? I got tired of the prickly little thing, and I needed the pot, so I threw mine out into a small flower bed that is between the walls of the garage and the wood shop and it is still kicking! I didn't even plant it, just threw it out there! I know, someone is going to holler at me because I threw out a plant! LOL
HOLLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
See, told ya someone would! LOL
HOLLER 2!!!!!
Ha ha ha you gonna git a whoopin!!!
;0)
Tucking my tail and running REALLY fast! LOL
LOL!!! Can't run from me. I live in the same state!! :~p
Yes, but you are several hours away, I can have a BIG head start! HE HE HE
Although, I was running so fast I tripped and fell, so easier to catch as I have fallen and can't get up! HA HA HA What a smarty pants I am! LOL
LOL! That's pretty bad you can't run far without tripping over yourself!!