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Posted: Aug 15th, 2007 09:34 pm |
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| aaaaaaughh Thats better...hey that hickory smoke bacon brings me back every time, better than my nitro.....
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DOGGETTJA
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Posted: Aug 16th, 2007 11:39 am |
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Morning All!! I got busy reading the GSO paper and forgot to tell you all about the morning. IT IS STICKY outside this morning. Certainly seems to be the end of summer this week and the begining of the time for kids to go back to school. Sure do wish for some rain. Cracker what are you doing? Get out of that swimming pool and start dancing!!!
It is Thursday to day I think so Friday is not far away. Everybody have a good day.
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StewartM
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Posted: Aug 16th, 2007 11:51 am |
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| Its a sad day in Summerfield... JC Leggett died Tuesday...I can still see him driving his tractor down Summerfield Road....
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DOGGETTJA
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Posted: Aug 16th, 2007 12:04 pm |
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| Mr. Mike I was thinking the same thing when I read his obit this morning. He always had that nice garden next to the road and usually some sort of critters in his pasture. With the loss of Paul Neal and Jame Leggett we don't have anybody left but Carolyn Collin's Dad to watch garden on old Summerfield Rd. George Price, Paul Neal and James Legett were always in a race in the spring to see who could get their garden planted first. I have always enjoyed watching the competition.
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StewartM
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Posted: Aug 16th, 2007 12:40 pm |
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| JC could do anything with a tractor...he was a jack of all trades, I first met him over at a friends house when he was helping him put rings in a hogs nose, that old hog liked to made him part of the pen....he taught me how to hand hew logs to build tobacco barns....he would always help out all the widows in town with everything around the farm and house....he would fix it or know someone he would help fix it....yes a part of Summerfield is gone....
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Jim Flynt
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Posted: Aug 16th, 2007 02:12 pm |
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DOGGETTJA wrote: George Price, Paul Neal and James Legett were always in a race in the spring to see who could get their garden planted first. I have always enjoyed watching the competition.
StewartM wrote: yes a part of Summerfield is gone....
What touching memories and stories. And what sometimes gets lost in the shuffle, are that the real treasures of a community aren't the government edifices, or parks or newest developments or road systems, but the truly wonderful giving people who make a community what it really is. All of the fine folks that Jane mentioned indeed added to and made Summerfield what it is and continues to be today. And those folks cannot and will not ever be replaced.
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macca
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Posted: Aug 16th, 2007 02:35 pm |
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I hope these folks knew how well-liked and respected they were.
It's easy to get wrapped up in our day-to-day scrapes and travails and forget that we're all just doing the best we can, that we're all human and we all have feelings.
It would be nice if we let people know we appreciate them while we have the chance, even if we don't always agree.
I think there are ways to disagree with differing opinions and still show respect for the person holding those different opinions. Just because what I believe is right for me doesn't make me better or smarter than someone who doesn't hold those same beliefs.... and I have no right to belittle that person or talk down to that person simply because they don't think the same way I do.
I think we'd all do well to remember the GOLDEN RULE.
It sure sounds as though these folks did.
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FatPappy
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Posted: Aug 16th, 2007 05:33 pm |
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Good post, Macca.
Pappy's a little late gettin' started today. I went to get my hair cut an' they couldn't find it. It was last seen due north o' the frontal lobe, standin' tall an' proud like the last sentry of a deserted outpost out yonder in the Saharri.
Them aliens mighta got him. They're still mad at me fer that time my still blew an' damaged one o' their ships in orbit.
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Posted: Aug 16th, 2007 06:04 pm |
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Glad to have you in here out of the heat!
Pull up a chair and have a slice of ice cold watermelon.
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StewartM
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Posted: Aug 16th, 2007 07:46 pm |
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| COLD WATERMELON..............
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Posted: Aug 16th, 2007 10:16 pm |
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StewartM wrote: COLD WATERMELON..............
Yesssssssssssss !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted: Aug 16th, 2007 10:16 pm |
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FatPappy wrote: Good post, Macca.
Pappy's a little late gettin' started today. I went to get my hair cut an' they couldn't find it.
 Pappy, you make my day.
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DOGGETTJA
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Posted: Aug 17th, 2007 12:00 am |
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I have to tell you all my favorite Howard Ledbetter story. For you folks who weren't around then, Howard and Ollie had a little store on 140 in the curve just before Belford Rd. They sold a little of this and a little of that. Howard could fix anything with a motor on it. To me who didn't know Howard until I was in my early twenties he was this big tall, really gruff sort of mean seeming man. The store often times had a lot of silent farmer types who always quit talking the minute I walked in. My husband was always sending me up there to get things fixed. One day I was up the road at Elaine Kellams picking up some children. I had a Toyota station wagon that I just loved. When I went to get in the car and started it smoke boiled out of the gear shift column like the car was on fire. I rushed back into the house and called my husband who was clueless as to what could be the problem but he said to stop off at Ledbetters and get Howard to check it out. So that is what I did. Stopped off and Howard came out the door. I rolled the window down and told Howard what had happened. He preceded to walk around my car rapidly, kicking the tires and cursing about how those blankety bank japs had killed our boys and then he would kick another tire. I watched slightly fearful but pretty amazed. He finally stopped after a couple of times around the car, kicking the tires and cursing. I finally figured out what he was talking about . I said " Howard that war ended before I was born. I thought we had forgiven them?" Needless to say I did not mention my car problem agaom but quietly drove off. I never asked Howard to look at my car again. Writing this makes me laugh all over again, after all I grew up in the big city of Greensboro and wasn't sure what to make of this man. Howard Ledbetter would give you the shirt off his back if he liked you. He forgave me for driving a Japanese car and we became the best of friends.
You are right Jim the wonderful characters who made our communities unique are vanishing.
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Posted: Aug 17th, 2007 12:52 am |
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Jane, I was just a little tyke when I went to the old Summerfield School for a few years, where and when my Mother taught. One of the old timers over there who I remember, but did not know well, was 'Pop' Bowden and I still remember that he always smoke a pipe or cigar (can't remember which). He seemed like such a character who no doubt was full of interesting life stories.
I remember as well the old Halloween Festival they had there in the old rock gym and the old well attended 'negro minstrels' they once had in the old high school auditorium. I also remember old man Benny Waters giving some of the first 'band lessons' to music students in the Northwest those so many ages ago.
Of course, I also remember some wonderful teachers who guided me toward learning such as Ozelle Bailey and Ruby Smith and Mrs. Cox. And I'll never forget Margaret Metz whacking me across the wrists with her yardstick when I missed a note while taking piano lessons on Summerfield Road.
I never think of Oak Ridge without thinking of my old departed fishing, beer drinking, barbecue cooking friend, Leo Phelps, as well as my other wonderful OR friend. the legendary Buster Linville, who truly embodied all that Oak Ridge was and ever will be.
I also remember Howard and Ollie and still remember the very day and circumstances when Ollie (and another store keeper in Oak Ridge) were murdered. A crime which to this day remains unsolved.
All those memories and all this remembering makes me feel slightly old tonight.
Last edited on Aug 17th, 2007 01:02 am by Jim Flynt
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Posted: Aug 17th, 2007 10:21 am |
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Morning all!! Only 96 today! A virtual cold wave has hit!! It is pretty sticky out this morning. I have a new bantam rooster. Somebody brought him a couple of weeks ago. I told Hairbrust this morning I believed he was probably made in China by Matel. He is this tiny thing with this tiny squeaky cockadoodle do. So funny to hear the big rooster who has now gotten past the voice changing stage and sounds like a real rooster crow and then the sqeaky answer. So funny in the dark. The guneas are vanishing by the handfuls. Two more didn't show up yesterday afternoon. I hipe they are setting somewhere and something isn't getting them. Not that we can tell the difference really but it does seem like the three left might all be males.
Everybody have a good day after all it is Friday.
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