Just got word that my brother has his piece of florida floated back to the mainland and bolted back into place. Was even able to hook the water,sewerage,electric and gas back up.
Posted on Jan 4, 2006, 3:32 PM from IP address 72.236.251.33
As i told Jill we had our brother sister get together this year just before christmas. The reason for the timing this year is that the piece of land on which one of my brothers built his house on, a piece of land in florida that has since broke away during the last hurricanes and finally floated up here to virginia beach.Anyhow while he was arranging to have a tug boat tow it back to florida we decided to all get together.He should arrive back in florida in a couple of weeks and hook back up to florida once again. : )
Posted on Dec 30, 2005, 11:14 AM from IP address 72.236.251.108
A lot of the State got blown away this year. I keep looking for the bubble to burst again; the same as it has done several times in Florida's past history. But so far, insurance, real estate prices and taxes keep going up!
Posted on Dec 31, 2005, 6:17 AM from IP address 72.146.79.39
I would think Real Estate prices would drop like a lead baloon after one of the hurricanes!
Insurance on the other hand only knows one direction......up!
take care of yourself!
Posted on Dec 31, 2005, 10:04 AM from IP address 66.52.195.152
We to have survived another christmas.We met the half brother we have not seen in about 40 years and he fit into the mold as if he had never been seperated.In fact the brothers and sisters are going out to supper tonight while we are all together.All seven of us.Have a happy new year while you areat it Jill.
Posted on Dec 28, 2005, 11:29 AM from IP address 72.236.251.138
Well I am finally enrolled in medicares drug program. I think. The process was worse than joining the navy and going through boot camp. :+( Now tine will tell whether it is good or bad.
Posted on Dec 19, 2005, 1:40 PM from IP address 72.236.251.98
I just gonna put off that decision for a while. I'm just not in the mood for any serious research at this point in my life. As long as my Wife's job holds out I'm covered by her insurance.
Posted on Dec 20, 2005, 5:59 AM from IP address 68.18.41.203
I think most of those coverage programs are so confusing and filled with legal 'this & that', it becomes more of a hastle than it's worth.....then you ask....did I do the right thing.
Good luck with it!
John can be the resident expert if we have any questions....RIGHT?
Jill
Posted on Dec 20, 2005, 11:56 AM from IP address 66.52.195.65
but i got so frusterated with the whole deal that i finally got social services to fill out the medicare end of the paper work and let my daughter deal with the insurance company end.
Posted on Dec 20, 2005, 5:52 PM from IP address 72.236.251.42
Up until i was about 11 or 12 my brothers and sisters all called me bubba. Then i declaired war.Hense forth any referell to me as bubba would result in mayhem commited on their person and theirafter i was known as john except for a few slipups which was quickly rectified. In later years i became aware of the fact that bubber was a kiddy corruption of the word brother so i slowly forgave them.:+)
Posted on Dec 15, 2005, 11:39 AM from IP address 72.236.251.27
> Subject: from Santa
>
>
>
>
> I regret to inform you that, effective immediately, I will no longer
> serve the States of Georgia, Florida, Virginia, North and South
> Carolina,
> Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, and Arkansas and West Virginia on
> Christmas Eve.
>
> Due to the overwhelming current population of the earth, my contract was
> renegotiated by North American Fairies and Elves Local 209. As part of
> the new and better contract I also get longer breaks for milk and
> cookies
> so keep that in mind.
>
> However, I'm certain that your children will be in good hands with your
> local replacement, who happens to be my third cousin, Bubba Claus. His
> side of the family is from the South Pole. He shares my goal of
> delivering toys to all the good boys and girls; However, there are a few
> differences between us.
>
> Differences such as:
>
> 1. There is no danger of the Grinch stealing your presents from Bubba
> Claus. He has a gun rack on his sleigh! and a bumper sticker that reads:
> "These toys insured by Smith and Wesson."
>
> 2. Instead of milk and cookies, Bubba Claus prefers that children leave
> an RC Cola and pork rinds [or a moon pie] on the fireplace And Bubba
> doesn't smoke a pipe. He dips a little snuff though, so please have an
> empty spit can handy.
>
> 3. Bubba Claus' sleigh is pulled by floppy-eared, flyin' coon dogs
> instead of reindeer. I made the mistake of loaning him a couple of my
> reindeer one time, and Blitzen's head now overlooks Bubba's fireplace.
>
> 4. You won't hear "On Comet, on Cupid, on Donner and Blitzen." when
> Bubba
> Claus arrives. Instead, you'll hear, "On Earnhardt, on Andretti, on
> Elliott and Petty."
>
> 5. "Ho, Ho, Ho!" has been replaced by "Yee Haw!" And you also are likely
> to hear Bubba's elves respond, "I her'd dat!"
>
> 6. As required by Southern highway laws, Bubba Claus' sleigh does have a
> Yosemite Sam safety triangle on ! the back with the words "Back Off."
>
> 7. The usual Christmas mov ie classics such as "Miracle on 34th Street"
> and "It's a Wonderful Life" will not be shown in your negotiated viewing
> area. Instead, you'll see "Boss Hogg Saves Christmas" and "Smokey and
> the
> Bandit IV" featuring Burt Reynolds as Bubba Claus and dozens of state
> patrol cars crashing into each other. And Finally,
>
> 8. Bubba Claus doesn't wear a belt. If I were you, I'd make sure you,
> the
> wife, and the kids turn the other way when he bends over to put presents
> under the tree.
>
> Sincerely Yours, Santa Claus
>
> Member of North American Fairies and Elves, Union
Posted on Dec 7, 2005, 9:34 PM from IP address 66.52.195.163
You are a year late. Bubba Claus took over last Christmas. He forgot Louisiana. So Louisiana is now being taken care of by his cousin, twice removed on his papa's side, Boudreaux Claus. Instead of houn' dogs, he uses alleymagaters, and wants boudin and Jax beer on de mantles...
Posted on Dec 8, 2005, 7:07 AM from IP address 68.18.15.174
I didn't realize it has been over a month since I posted. I'm sorry. Since mid October I have gone on 4 or 5 trips. I decorated for the Christmas season the first part of Thanksgiving week and now have a total of 19 trees of various shapes, sizes, and desciptions as well as all the other decorations I have gathered over the years. I hosted the inlaws for Thanksgiving and 20+ came to dinner. Now it's time for more holiday gatherings. I love this time of the year! I have not forgot about you when I don't post...I am just making up for all that lost time when my heart failure did not allow me to enjoy life and make memories. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to ALL.
Posted on Dec 6, 2005, 7:23 PM from IP address 12.77.78.37
Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was only 30!!!
Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and ice tea hadn't been invented yet.
There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
Two out of every 10 U.S. adults couldn't read or write.
Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at the local corner drugstores.
Back then pharmacist said, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health." (Shocking!)
Eighteen percent of households in the U.S. had at least one full-time servant or domestic help.
There were about 230 reported murders in the entire U.S.
And I forwarded this from someone else without typing it myself, and sent it to you in a matter of seconds!
Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years.
It staggers the mind.
Posted on Dec 6, 2005, 5:26 PM from IP address 66.52.195.15
In that year my mother came into this world at home on a carolina farm weighing in at one and a half pounds. No hospital. And seven of us kids are here to proved that she survived.A good vintage yeari would say. : )
Posted on Dec 6, 2005, 7:26 PM from IP address 72.236.251.25
In the past i have seen over 2 feet of snow fall even here in Virginia Beach and this is suppost to be the sunny south and we are shielded by the gulf stream right at our doorsteap.
Posted on Dec 2, 2005, 2:20 PM from IP address 72.236.251.51
right out of bootcamp in the winter of 1952/53 I had a delux vacation package in Jacksonville Florida courtesey of the USN and spent it mess cooking for 9 weeks before starting the first of a couple of training schools. Any how the days we roasted and the nignts we froze.
Posted on Dec 3, 2005, 12:32 PM from IP address 72.236.251.252
The Fall of 1953 I started 1st grade so I really cannot say that I have a clear memory of it. <G> However, Florida is known for have 20-30 degree temperature changes. So you can "freeze to death" with 50-60 degree temperatures at night. That makes it easy to catch a cold or virus.
Posted on Dec 6, 2005, 8:47 AM from IP address 68.18.15.174
a drift in the ocean with a computer, can't be all that bad! (lol)
There seems to be always something going on around here and now it's that time of year to bake a few goodies. We are having a friend over for Thanksgiving .....just a small bird this year with lots of other tasty things to go with it.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! (have any plans?)
Posted on Nov 22, 2005, 9:22 AM from IP address 66.42.40.241
You are correct Jill. It is possible to visit almost anyplace via the Internet. I'm fixing a little turkey as well. 22 lbs. 8-> Hope you and Jack have a pleasant Thanksgiving.
John, hope you and your Family also have a great Holiday !
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Tom
Posted on Nov 23, 2005, 6:04 AM from IP address 68.157.17.169
Getting to old to get out in the woods and bagging a turkey so its the old supermarket kind again this year. Anyhow everything is getting ready to make his way into the oven possible.So have a happy thankgiving everybody.
Posted on Nov 23, 2005, 6:35 PM from IP address 72.236.251.215
that this year my nephew and his hunting buddys has bagged 4 deer on the 2 acres i sold him a couple of years ago. However some of my old friends up their are reporting that now a doe is running through the woods moaning and calling " bambi where are you, where are you bambi". : ) > : (
Posted on Nov 24, 2005, 12:11 PM from IP address 72.236.251.27
Around here everything went fine except i don't know which of us was more stuffed , me or the turkey and grandaughter the black olive fiend et them all up as well as grandson the green olive fiend did likewise with said green olives. In other words everybody had a great time except the turkey.
Posted on Nov 25, 2005, 9:01 AM from IP address 72.236.251.30
I started cooking last Monday. So by Thursday I only had to roast the turkey breast, bake the dressing, make gravy & brownies and heat up every thing else. I was through early and were were eating at 12:00 PM. Lot'sa stuff in the freezer.
I'm still full. Finished the brownies a little while ago. <G>
Posted on Nov 27, 2005, 4:27 PM from IP address 72.146.80.44
I wanted to hear that tonite.....I bought some candy & even had Mr. Jack-O-Lantern outside for the littel devils to show up.......not a one. Anyone need some candy?
Posted on Oct 31, 2005, 11:21 PM from IP address 66.52.195.12
Tom, could it havebeen that sign in your front yard.
by John
The one with the scull and cross bones stating "strangers and kids keep out" > : ). By the way when i first moved into my house by the beach i got sandblasted every time i mowed the sawgrass. I even had native catus growing their.
Posted on Nov 2, 2005, 8:47 AM from IP address 72.236.251.7
We were in the Keys until last Wednesday. I heeded the Mandatory Evacuation which was issued. We came through the Hurricane yesterday in good shape. We had some leakage under the front door which wound up in the utility room. Our electricity flickered a few times but we were fortunate. 80,000 in our county are part of the 6 million in the State who are without power.
We have ankle deep water in some parts of our yard. However, there are those that have waist high water in their homes as well as those that no longer have homes. Please keep our State in your prayers.
If you are able to give, I would recommend some organization other than the Red Cross. IE the Salvation Army or some organization which has LESS administrative expenses and whose leadership is less financially compensated.
Posted on Oct 25, 2005, 6:02 AM from IP address 216.8.14.11
Since i haven't heard any difference from my sisters i assume he came out of it ok.Glad you didn't go out to sea on the outgoing tide and our prayers certainly go out for all those caught up in this series of hurricanes.One of the things i like about living at the moutn of the chesapeake bay is the fishing, the scenic views and the fact that we have the outer banks of north carolina that usuall catches our hurricanes and takes most of the steam out of them before we get them.Unfortunately their are many people that haven't taken past experience on this and have built their.
Posted on Oct 30, 2005, 10:29 AM from IP address 72.236.251.11
great and now I am an official airshow glider assistant. I held the guide wires for the glider to fly under a ribbon with. We lived at the airport all week and then I left for 3 days of "chaparoning" our senior adults from church. I came home exhausted. Those folks put my energy level to shame.
Hope all of you are well.
Posted on Oct 24, 2005, 3:28 PM from IP address 12.77.78.131
on a regular basis. At the show, she rode in every kind of aircraft she could talk anyone into letting her climb aboard. She is building her time. She hopes when she finishes college in the spring with her marketing degree to attend an aviation college and get all of her pilot ratings and possibly get a job in that field.
Posted on Nov 12, 2005, 7:49 PM from IP address 12.77.78.103
Benign................What you be after you be eight.
Bacteria...............Back door to cafeteria.
Barium.................What you do with dead folks.
Cesarean Section.......A neighborhood in Rome.
Catscan................Searching for the cat.
Cauterize..........Made eye contact with her.
Colic...............A sheep dog.
Coma...............A punctuation mark.
D&C................Where Washington is.
Dilate.............To live longer than your kids do.
Enema.............Not a friend.
Fester............Quicker than someone else.
Fibula............A small lie.
G.I.Series.........World Series of military baseball.
Hangnail...........What you hang your coat on.
Impotent...........Distinguished, well known.
Labor Pain..........Getting hurt at work.
Morbid..............A higher offer than I bid.
Nitrates............Cheaper than day rates.
Medical Staff.......A Doctor's cane, sometimes shown with a snake.
Node....................I knew it.
Outpatient..............A person who has fainted.
Pap Smear................A fatherhood test.
Pelvis...................Second cousin to Elvis.
Post Operative...........A letter carrier.
Recovery Room....Place to do upholstery.
Secretion.......Hiding something
Tablet..........A small table to change babies on.
Seizure..........Roman emperor who lived in the Ceasarean Section.
Terminal Illness....Getting sick at the train station.
Tumor...............More than one.
Urine...............Opposite of mine.
Varicose............Near by
Hospital............The biggest building in town, other than Joe's
feed
warehouse or Franks lumber mill.
Posted on Oct 17, 2005, 10:43 AM from IP address 66.52.195.165
Some of the most potent corn squeezeings i ever got hold of(streight out of a mason jar no less) was when i visted some my brothers, inlaws, living outside of Sacremento Ca.Better than carolinas finest sad to say.And the local dive has some of the best sh.. kicking hillbilly music to boot.I often wondered why jed had a 39 ford coup with an indy offenhouser engine under the hood
Posted on Oct 18, 2005, 2:30 PM from IP address 69.18.71.6
To get the full effect, this should be read aloud. You will understand what
'tenjewberrymuds' means by the end of the conversation. This has been
nominated for the best email of 2005.
The following is a telephone exchange between a hotel guest and
room-service, at a hotel in Asia, which was recorded and published in the
Far East Economic Review:
Room Service (RS): "Morrin. Roon sirbees."
Guest (G): "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service."
RS: "Rye..Roon sirbees..morrin! Jewish to oddor sunteen??"
G: "Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs."
RS: "Ow July den?"
G: "What??"
RS: "Ow July den?...pryed, boyud, poochd?"
G : "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please."
RS: "Ow July dee baykem? Crease?"
G: "Crisp will be fine."
RS : "Hokay. An Sahn toes?"
G: "What?"
RS:"An toes. July Sahn toes?"
G: "I don't think so."
RS: "No? Judo wan sahn toes??"
G: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo wan sahn toes'
means."
RS: "Toes! toes!...Why jew don juan toes? Ow bow Anglish moppin we bodder?"
G: "English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.' Fine. Yes, an
English muffin will be fine."
RS: "We bodder?"
G: "No...just put the bodder on the side."
RS: "Wad?"
G: "I mean butter...just put it on the side."
RS: "Copy?"
G: "Excuse me?"
RS: "Copy...tea...meel?"
G: "Yes. Coffee, please, and that's all."
RS: "One Minnie. Scramah egg, crease baykem, Anglish moppin we bodder on
sigh and copy....rye??"
G: "Whatever you say."
RS: "Tenjewberrymuds."
G : "You're very welcome."
Posted on Oct 11, 2005, 8:02 PM from IP address 66.52.195.168
The other day I went up to a local Christian bookstore and saw a "honk
if you love Jesus" bumper sticker. I was feeling particularly sassy
that day because I had just come from a thrilling choir performance,
followed by a thunderous prayer meeting, so I bought the sticker and
put it on my bumper.
Boy, I'm glad I did. What an uplifting experience that followed. I was
stopped at a red light at a busy intersection, just lost in thought
about the Lord and how good He is ...and I didn't notice that the
light had changed. It is a good thing someone else loves Jesus because
if he hadn't honked, I'd never have noticed.
I found that lots of people love Jesus. Why, while I was sitting
there, the guy behind started honking like crazy, and then he leaned
out of his window and screamed, "For the love of God. Go. Go. Jesus
Christ, Go." What an exuberant cheerleader he was for Jesus. Everyone
started honking. I just leaned out of my window and started waving and
smiling at all these loving people. I even honked my horn a few times
to share in the love.
There must have been a man from Florida back there because I heard him
yelling something about a "sunny beach." I saw another guy waving in a
funny way with only his middle finger stuck up in the air. Then I
asked my teenage grandson in the back seat what that meant, he said
that it was probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something. Well,
I've never met anyone from Hawaii, so I leaned out the window and gave
him the good luck sign back. My grandson burst out laughing... why,
even he was enjoying this religious experience.
A couple of the people were so caught up in the joy of the moment that
they got out of their cars and started walking towards me. I bet they
wanted to pray or ask what church I attended, but this is when I
noticed the light had changed. So, I waved to all my sisters and
brothers grinning, and drove on through the intersection. I noticed I
was the only car that got through the intersection before the light
changed again and I felt kind of sad that I had to leave them after
all the love we had shared, so I slowed the car down, leaned out of
the window and gave them all the Hawaiian good luck sign one last time
as I drove away.
Praise the Lord for such wonderful folks.
Posted on Oct 11, 2005, 7:54 PM from IP address 69.18.71.55
