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I wouldn't sell them BJ but I thought of putting them on a website with some of his letters to children who want to dance but aren't good enough or just weren't born with the right bone structure or feet.

When I come back I want to be a Mountain - friendly to Hikers - Skiers and Bears - My snow will melt into clear water and fill the creeks with nourishment for the trout and find its way to the Sea. Tall sheep will tickle my funnybone and I will have millions of pictures
taken of my majestic slopes and the forest below. - and millions of wildflowers will awaken each Spring to greet my friends,

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How poetical you are, Mory! Very pretty!

There would be a change in my life..I think I would not marry. My husband would like to have been born in the mid 1800s...and since I would not care to be there, we have a problem!

Oh No, those were tough times, and BDS before Dial Soap... and people only lived to 50 if lucky. I want to go to Mars and open a Subway Franchise.

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I remember when you could buy one for twenty-five thousand!

That's what Ive Heard - hard to believe they have now gone national and are going inside all new Mobil Stations

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Not just mobile stations here!

Mory -
Let me know if you want to do the website ... I'll donate my time scanning/designing. My mother always dreamed of being a dancer. She went out dancing at least once a week until about 9 months before her death. She was quite the swing dancer in her day

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BJ, that must be where you got your love of music!

Mory, I wanted to be a dancer all my childhood. I asked my aunt from LosAngeles to take me back with her when I was 12, but she didn't. I still get goosebumps when I see a group of dancers. I wouln't have been good for long with my rotten feet. Maybe next time........

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Mg, were you enrolled in any kind of dancing? i had about 12 years of ballet and 4 of tap. Never was very good, but it was good for me!

Mory - aren't you glad you use dial? Don't you wish everyone did?

Mrs. M - Yes, although strangely enough, we never had music in the house. Well, not after I was about 5 ... my mother said my father said something nasty to her about her piano skills and she never played after that, nor did she play the radio or watch the variety shows. My mother was the typical taurus - once you said the wrong thing to her she never forgot!

Tap - the one dance I have never been able to find the rhythm for! I can watch it and tell that it 'fits' the song, but I just don't hear that beat

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No, there was nothing here. I was really into fast dancing like in Dirty Dancing. Ohhhh, what I would do to be able to be one of those dancers. I married a rock and roller who played bass in a popular band. I danced and he played for 10 years after I met him. Then he retired and now I don't get to dance at all He won't. My dad is swiss and he taught me to polka by standing on his feet.

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If I ever come back I want to be a duck on Mory's mountain swimming in one of those creeks.
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Thanks BJ you never know: - I better stop shredding..
Harvey used to write letters and when he came to a certain word he would draw a picture. Like I'm eating an Apple. The word Apple would be a drawing. (what's the word for that Mrs M?) I wish I had the letters to his daughter for her first three years. I'd publish them. A book for young girls who have seen the Red Shoes and want to be dancers...with lots of crazy fold outs - he did that in letters...

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There is a big glacial lake at the bottom Jake you will really enjoy...

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I have to pick up the tools from the furnace repair and then recline a few hours - thanks for the good visit everyone - goodnight..

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MG - ...taught me to polka.... I have visions of blonde pig-tails flying while Myron Floren plays his accordion on Lawrence Welk

I'm also partial to 'dirty' dancing ... I try to catch all the ballroom dancing shows on PBS - there are some fantastic salsa/tango dancers out there! Have you seen 'Strictly Ballroom'? The woman who plays the lead (Tara Morice) looks exactly like my mother at that age. It's uncanny! I grew up in the disco era ... a little salsa, a lot of swing, and then there's the 'shake your booty' part Even more fun when you get a bunch of friends together and arrange a few short numbers - even simple steps look amazing when you've got a group doing them

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Nite Mory. Let me know if you want to do the website ... I think people would enjoy it.

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MG: That's the heartbeat of every dancer - the longing to dance. You could have done it - i'm sure.

I watched Cotton Club 20 times - I could see my brother in Gregory Hines - he was incredible...The steps were like music - privately passed along/ down to friends..
Harvey spent years dancing in Harlem getting steps. He would say, This I got from Gregory and then do it and then this I got from Charlie and do it - He was always ready if a role came along.

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I'll be a wolf leading a pack across Mory's mountainside. I can't promise to avoid the duck reserve on hunting trips, but I'll do my best!

SS

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Bj...Yep! Blond pigtails flying! You got that right We were fast too! Mom says dad wanted to go out dancing every weekend. *sigh* Wish my hubby was like that. You'd think a musician would be a wonderful dancer. Of all the band memebers thru the years with him tho, only one of them could/would dance. And he was a total jerk!

Mory, thanks, I know I could have been good for a while. Unfortunatley I have osteoarthritis in my feet/ankles and they aren't much good for anything.They don't even like to garden. I do ask Santa for new feet every year, but nothing yet. I was a good dancer for a few years tho.....oh, the good old days I should get some of those movies and get goosebumps!! Maybe in my next life......

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Bj, so sad that your Mother turned the music off! We always had music and we taught to appreciate all types. I can't carry a tune, but I sing to my grandchildren and we listen to everything from classical to jazz to ...well not to rap!

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When I come back my kitty is coming with me. If you come for a visit welcome, if your coming to snack, beware.

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It's hard to go to sleep when your having fun.. Well, I got all the tools put away and Armand called to ask if the furnace was working OK last night I said fine, warm as toasty in here - the furnace rumbles a little maybe breaking in the new pump. No, he said turn it off I'll be right over to re-adjust the intake air sleeve - It's not getting enough fresh air so there is an incomplete burn and the plenum shudders., gasping for air. So he's on the way
back to do some fine tuning. I'm giving him my two Stihl Chain saws today - My wood cutting days are over and he will have them purring again in no time.
Going to make a deal with him - The saws and my chain sharpener if he will remove my
motorhome from the 2nd floor of the barn so it can be sold. I haven't even started it for 8 years. I drove it in but its at an angle and I would surely collapse the barn getting it out. I have the big batteries all charged ready to go. so he will apply some Marvel Mystery Oil and have the big Dodge Humming again soon.
It's like you all said you Got it or you don't and Armonds's got it - Hi's wife's a pisser she had 8 kids - were great friends.
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I sing to my grandchildren and we listen to everything from classical to jazz to ...well not to rap!

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My rule is: No rap, no twangy country (unless it's Dolly) and preferably no acid rock.

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Yes, no acid rock!! Some country I like such as Patsy Cline. I leave that to them. Even though there are lots I don't like, I don't object. I don't find it damaging to them. ( Don't think they listen to whiney, twangy types ) Since each of them, including my children were tiny, they were subjected to all kinds. I believe what you see...what you hear.. daily, becomes the norm.

If you can teach your children to be able to interact with people at any level..that is talk corn bread and beans or talk steak, they'll be a sucess in life!

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If you can teach your children to be able to interact with people at any level..that is talk corn bread and beans or talk steak, they'll be a sucess in life!

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Personally I prefer johnny cakes to corn bread ...

Don't forget teaching them to be good listeners too. Nothing makes someone feel important more than another person listening to them. Of course, it (as you pointed out) really helps knowing what to say when they stop talking

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Bj, yes, you are right and nothing more annoying than trying to say something and no one listens, but talks over you! If what someone is saying wasn't important to them, they wouldn't say it. Being able to listen is an art in itself. We are such self-centered creatures!

I've wondered what corn bread is like since I read "Misty of Chincoteague" as a child and was entranced by the descriptions of the yearly feast they have there, involving what seemed to me very exotic foods - oyster pie, pumpkin pie and corn bread. I also remember some sort of chicken dish.

The photos you posted for me didn't appear, Mrs M. What were they of?

SS

"Run, Squeaky, Run!"

Mornin all. Looks like another warm but cloudy day here. I need sunshine!! I must be emotionally exausted because I feel like I could go right back to bed! I think I'll try to get some seeds started and pick up around here. What a mess!!!

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MG: Sun was here Yesterday and today a light warm drizzle so the snow is going fast - Only former big piles are around.But today the crocus & Daffs are pushing up the topsoil in my big driveway planters. by tomorrow they will stick their noses up and welcome Spring. I can Hardley wait.
Every year I say I am going to devide them but they are so spectacular I just heavily fertilize and watch the explosion

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BJ: I am trying to remember: is a Johnny cake a corn meal skillet bread?

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Mory,
Johnny Cakes

1/2 cup flour
1 cup cornmeal
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 cup hot water or milk
1 tablespoon shortening
Mix the dry ingredients, then stir in the rest. Drop or pour on the hot, greased griddle or iron skillet and fry to a golden brown on both sides. Serve with butter as a bread or with molasses as pancakes.

As you can see, I am back from delivering my truck to the gentleman at the airport. Traffic was terrible as was Lexie!! Bob kept waundering off. I am glad to be home!

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BJ: I am trying to remember: is a Johnny cake a corn meal skillet bread?

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There's only one difference (according to my southern relatives) between cornbread and johnny cakes .... sugar. Johnny cakes has it, corn bread doesn't. And they always make it in a cast iron skillet I like *most* southern cooking ... but you can have the pig feet, chitlins and grits

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Mrs. M ... not enough sugar!!! I use 1/4 cup! Mmmmmm.... tasty! Uh-oh ... all this talk about cornbread and now I want some hush-puppies! Durn! No Long John Silvers up here

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