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Posted: Jun 3rd, 2006 06:59 pm |
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Well I'll be DToney.... I am country born and bred and I have never heard the term cooter (in reference to a turtle) before!
Learn something new everyday!
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Posted: Jun 3rd, 2006 08:14 pm |
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The playground at the Summerfield park is going in! The small play set for toddlers was just finished and now they are working on the larger set for the older children. Ladies from the community came with hot dogs, chips, baked beans and home made banana pudd'n for lunch...yummy! It's so exciting to see everyone working together with BIG smiles.
Tomorrow, Sunday, will be another volunteer work day ... come if you can!
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Posted: Jun 3rd, 2006 09:25 pm |
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Cracker Jax wrote:
Well I'll be DToney.... I am country born and bred and I have never heard the term cooter (in reference to a turtle) before!
Learn something new everyday!
Cracker, I've never heard that before either! Looky here......
from good ole http://www.wikipedia.com
Pseudemys is a genus of pond turtles also known as Cooter Turtles, especially in the state of Florida. (The word "cooter" may be used to refer to snapping turtles of the Chelydridae family elsewhere in the southeastern United States.) Cooter stems from kuta, the word for turtle in the Bambara and Malinké languages, brought to America by African slaves.
Thanks for teachin' us something new DToney! 
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Cracker Jax
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Posted: Jun 4th, 2006 01:03 am |
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Well. I feel dumb. We have two plastic turtles who have lived with us since Wheat Thin was a toddler and she used to watch Gullah Gullah Island and they called turtles kuta's and so both of our plastic turtles are named kuta..... I never looked it up though so I always thought it was spelled cuda.
She'd kill me for telling this, but she is still attached to cuda and kuta.
Thanks Kris for researching that for me!
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Posted: Jun 4th, 2006 05:40 am |
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| We are originally from the upstate of SC where they make "cooter-stew"... don't know the recipe... nor have I had any! But there are some that cook one now and then - especially when it is cold outside. They even visit the river banks to do some "cooter-grabbin" where they wade next to a high bank and reach under and peel them from underneath! Crazy....
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FatPappy
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Posted: Jun 4th, 2006 01:55 pm |
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Pappy's granny always told Little Pappy to stay away from them snappin' turtles. Once they bit onto you, they wouldn't let go till it thundered. Another water hazard she warned us young'uns about, besides the quicksand that got the mules that time, was water moccasins. You could tell water moccasins were around if you saw a snake doctor (dragonfly).
Pappy's grandpappy also had a list of dangers young'uns needed to know about. There was things he called red eyes out in the cornfield that would gitcha if you went in too far. Also if you saw a dog walkin' in a straight line, it meant he was mad.
Of all the dangers o' childhood to be encountered, Little Pappy never ran so fast in his life as the time he thought he saw red eyes in the cornfield!
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DToney
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Posted: Jun 4th, 2006 02:32 pm |
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aaaahhhhh the good ol' days! and them good ol' wives tales! I have a few I still use myself.... the best one my granny taught me was that weeping willow tea kills poision ivy or oak on the skin! (it works too!) You boil willow leaves until it turns like a weak tea.. cool it down and dab in on any afflicted area of the skin... when I asked my granny how did she know that worked.. her reply...
"Why, honey! You ain't never seen no ivy growin' on no willer tree, now have ya?"
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Cracker Jax
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Posted: Jun 4th, 2006 02:34 pm |
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Good Mornin'!
Be-oootiful day isn't it??
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Posted: Jun 4th, 2006 03:24 pm |
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It is a wonderful day. Been out working in the garden listening to the birds sing.
Dtoney, have you heard that the global warming is making poison ivy more poisonous? Maybe we should all plant Willow trees. I have never heard that cure for poison ivy. Wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that aspirin is made from Willow trees? Actually if I think about it not much does ever grow around a Willow tree. I will keep that in mind if I get poison ivy this summer.
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Posted: Jun 4th, 2006 05:07 pm |
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It really works... momma used it on us when we were growing up. Granny had lots of "old wives tales" I just wish I could remember ALL of them!
Some of them are...
Don't clip your nails on Sunday or you'll be ruled by the devil all week!
Don't plant anything on Sunday or it won't grow.
If you laugh before you eat breakfast, you will sure cry before supper.
And one I bet a lot of folks have heard... if you lay down with the dogs... you will get up with the fleas!!! 
Last edited on Jun 4th, 2006 05:09 pm by DToney
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FatPappy
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Posted: Jun 4th, 2006 08:09 pm |
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| Hey, Crackah! You over the sickness yet?
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Posted: Jun 4th, 2006 08:17 pm |
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DToney wrote:
Don't clip your nails on Sunday or you'll be ruled by the devil all week!
Ol' devil will just hafta find somebody besides Pappy to rule. Mammy already has that job. Hee hee!
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Cracker Jax
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Posted: Jun 4th, 2006 08:17 pm |
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No siree Dr. Pappy.
The Laryngitis(sp? macca?) set in yesterday mornin' and the family is enjoyin' my temporary silence.
At least I can typalk.
How's things in your neck of the woods??
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Posted: Jun 4th, 2006 08:23 pm |
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| Pappy's been outside in the sunshine contemplatin' the goodness o' vitamin D.
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Posted: Jun 5th, 2006 12:28 am |
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Pappy's calendar says June, so without thinkin' what day it was I got out the chainsaw an' gave my toenails their yearly prunin'. Uh-oh! Not supposed to do that on Sunday! I reckon Mammy an' the devil will be fightin' over my fate this week.
Pappy's gonna call it a day. I'm plumb tuckered out.
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