"you May Be Country If"

[LeoinPA]

Originally Posted by PAPPY

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I remember almost all of them, and I was born and raised in the big city

Thanks
Leo

[DonnaM]

Originally Posted by migolddigger

Norris, They open the Ryman Auditorium during the winter months in Nashville for shows and tours. Peggy and Myself were there on Saturday 02/10/07. I recommend if anyone goes there to have dinner at Deimos Stake house on third street before the show. It's just down 1 block from the Ryman. I had the best stake I've ever eaten there, and the price is half what we pay here in Michigan for a bad one. They served Fresh hot bred and the service is what you would get in any 5 star restaurant. Don't miss the desert, ho-made cheese cake. The food alone is worth the trip. I will be back soon. I forgot to mention the late 1800's park there next to Vanderbroke college. I kicked myself for not bringing the Minelab Explorer II on the trip. I don't think I would have had time to do any tectin anyway. Bottom line is, great time ,great people, great food.

Tom

Hello Tom. I work here in downtown Nashville. I LOVE Demo's!! Have lunch there often. Eat too many of those rolls. I didn't know there was a late 1800's park near Vanderbilt. It's a pretty populated area. Do you mind sharing info?

[bloodyknees]

I recall many summers spent with my grandpa and grandma. On the outside wall of the screened in porch there hung a long heavy steel wire with a hook on one end. This was gandma's "chicken catcher". Sunday morning she would step outside, get the "catcher", then she would throw out a little feed and all the chickens would come running. After selecting the perfect canidate to joint us for Sunday dinner, she would hook it by the leg and drag it in. One thing you learned real quick was......you did not mess with granny's "chicken catcher".
Later...Al

[gordiesgirl]

Originally Posted by DonnaM

Hello Tom. I work here in downtown Nashville. I LOVE Demo's!! Have lunch there often. Eat too many of those rolls. I didn't know there was a late 1800's park near Vanderbilt. It's a pretty populated area. Do you mind sharing info?

Donna I don't really know how big Clarkville is but I have a cousin That lives there name of CUTLER do you happen to know any cutlers If so let me know thanks

[DonnaM]

Nope I don't know any of them. I'm not from Clarksville really. Just married into it

[gordiesgirl]

Donna just thought I would see thanks

[The TINMAN]

You might be country if you have to borrow grandma's chewin tabacky cuz you gave the last of yours to your little sister.

The TINMAN

[Toadie]

Might be country if'n all your life you called it an icebox only to get married and find out it is called a refrigerator. Also if you and yours go to milk the cows or goat and end up with some of the awfullest tasting milk you ever had cause they got into the bitterweed. Or if you know what sassafras tea is and make homemade rootbeer with sassafras for flavoring. Or, all the aunts and the uncles gathered on Friday evening at your house for music and dancing while you and your cousins caught lightening bugs to put in a jar and June Bugs to throw on the city cousins. Or if you remember what a screened in sleeping porch is and had one. Or had one of those big ole "swamp" coolers in the window and green algae growing on some of the walls in the house... or if you got your hot water from a spicket on the kitchen stove..

Or if'n you ever knocked down a wasp nest for the grubs to use as fish bait and got stung so bad you couldn't hold your pole. .. Or if you and your older sister were out running trout lines and she gets a fish hook plumb thru her finger and cant get it out so you head home and grandpa cuts the shank with the fence pliers and pulls it out and then pours kerosene over it.. Or if you ever had to drink kerosene to get rid of them old worms...

I seen where Norris said he was from North East Texas a long time ago... Been wondering what part. I know East Texas well, fished on Fork Creek before it was Lake Fork, eat my fair share of Pittsburg Hotlinks, and know about all the International Paper Hunting Leases in Cass County and know where the original site of Kelly Plowworks is.. Might say I was raised all along Boggy Creek and thereabouts and remember first hand accounts of the Boggy Creek Monster..

Remember watermelons, watermelon wine and watermelon salsa?? Or eating watermelons and homemade peach icecream and fighting off the yeller jackets?? Or drinking grandma's muscudine wine and her friendship cake starter?? How many know what a "thumper and worm" are? heh heh??

Or do any of you remember the old icehouses that used ammonia to make the ice?? Or have you ever worked at the feedmill or Farmer's Coop shoveling corn out of boxcars?

Or the old Tent Revivals that used to be so common place every weekend in June?? Or getting the chickens feet after their neck was wrung and chasing your city kin with them.. Later that night, sneak in and slip in their shoes and on their pillows??? The bobwhite quail's eerie call in the evening and catching grasshoppers and tearing off their hind legs and putting them on the big red harvester ant mounds?? Or snag fishing for shad at the dam to use their gizzards for bait?? Or for that matter, cottonseed meal cakes and barrel nets?? "There ya are."

Yeah, I guess I can say I was raised country..

Good to be back!

[Toadie]

I think I was raised in the wrong time or something.. Here are a few more....

Rose Maddox, Arkie Shibley and his Mountain Dew Boys, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Rosemary to name a few...

And ....remember them blocks of Government cheese that someone always brought to you one time or another???

And who hasn't had chow-chow with pinto beans, a big slice of onion and sliced maters, turnip greens cooked with salt pork and a big old hot piece of cornbread with a thick slab of butter sliding around on top, or, fried boloany (bologna) and cream gravy? Tater soup?? How many ever had a Sugar Tit or et Chocolate Gravy??

That makes fer good eating right there.

[creekrat]

toadie ,i agree about the pintos and cornbread and the catheads,gravy.but around here bill monroe,ralf stanley are looked up to more than the president of the u s a.... hehe