Marijuana and SJS

[Patze]

Sounds like a plan to me Harlin! 


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[Bernice]

We were once again promised snow, but it passed us up. to be honest I am so very glad, I got things to do! I however feel for you guys that's knee deep!

[baileybugster]

I can actually relate to these hillbilly stories and comments.  Both of my parents are from Kentucky and so all of my family is still there.  I love going back home  to visit.  The people are so friendly and it is just such a beautiful place.

I have friends who still don't understand some of the things that I try to say or how I say it.  I guess we are just different folks.  lol

[Bernice]

I was born and raised in TN. left at age of 19 came back for visits, but was in my 30s when I moved back home. Growing up here friends used to always teased me about the way I talked, when I was away only once people found out where I was from did they comment on my "accent" now I'm back home and people still comment on the way I talk. Someone just the other day asked where I was from. I told her here, where are you from? she said she was from Philly, so I then told her my husband was from there as well. She tells me she would have never thought I was from TN. your husband must have rubbed off on you! Well I really didn't know how to take that. so I told her Yeah! I know I have a very strange voice, it trips alot of people up.

My voice really don't fit any one place, it's not a southern one for sure, I think the way I sometime laugh or express things when I talk confuses most,  Don't know! There are some from my home state and other southern states that I honestly can not understand, I have to take time to put it together! It's all good though, I love it all, makes life more exciting!

[Patze]

Same with me Bernice, I quit explaining and just smile now a days (the joys of growing up everywhere).  


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[Cally57]

This is for Bernice and anyone else who is interested...OT<sorta>...lol.....<short version>The name hillbilly CAME from Ireland.....because of King William.  People from the "hills" of Ireland who came to U.S. were "known" to support King William (or Billy) so they just called most of the Northern Irish, HILLBILLYS...so NO ONE would forget where they came from..whoever heard of Irish bickerig and quarreling? (snicker)..And that is our lesson today on hillbillys  Isn't that cool? To know where it came from? My kids love that story.

[Bernice]

Cally57,

Yeah, well you can just bet the Hillbillies of of America today sure put a different twist on the meaning.
I bet if you even asked 29 out of 30 who the heck this King  William was their answer would be "Who dat?" And as far as Ireland goes they would swear you were a revenuer coming trying to steal  or stake claims on some of their land, Coming around talkin bout Our- land! If he ain't BillyBob, somebody's cousin or brother from over younder next doe, ain't no need in all that talk bout no King William TODAY!

Thanks for the edumacation, I sure didn't know none of that!

[Cally57]

Yes it was a long time ago ...we have a lotta oral history some tarn ne'r a storie most likes...mostly ya orn't ta git sumthin to et for dem chilldrens And if you haint from a holler or hill-yee go'nt git buckshot in dem britches .... LOL....I love goin home too...especially W.Va where ya gotta look up to see the sun shining   My uncle still lives in Cow Path, W.Va.... Daddy always called me "Baby Doll" even when I wasn't a baby or a doll anymore...LOL...Great Granddaddy had 27 children, he married four times and each wife was a little younger than the one before (I got pictures).  He was 70 they say when the last was born...ahem.  Who knows, I got records sayin it is true....so that is cool....but the the GOOD stories are gone now-just dont talk bout sech thangs.

My BEST two pics are of the "shanty" house with no curtains and a iron post bed can be seen in the winder.  outside a quilt hand made with special names and dates adorned the side of the house, hung upside down   That was grandma's sister.  I love my family history.

who started this? I am thinkin it was hairball....he be quiet now!! LOL....all have a nice night.

[Cally57]

p.s. Including today.....if I gotta have my back watched, I prefer a hilllbilly

[Bernice]

You got that right! I love my history too. Everytime we get toghether we retell stories after stories that have been handed down of the old people, man were they a hoot, but most of my people moved up north leaving alot of the land that was owned by their parents. I hardly have anyone here besides my immediate family, my mom came back here to live in the 50s, thank God she came to the city, she's alot like me scared of EVERYTHING that creeps and crawls. I had a greatuncle and grandmother that lived in the country but they all are dead now. Loved them with all my heart, they were proper backwood people. Yall know we got some Hillbillies here in TN. Salt of the earth kind of people!

I have always lived in the city, don't know if I could have survived living out in the country like my grands.

[Cally57]

There you are hairball...I figured you maybe got stuck in a snow pile   I am in a very rural area of MN now.  What would daddy say  bout that!!  Up north w/the heathens!! lol....

It's in your DNA...what you dont remember you would learn, not complain..and just do what needs doin.

Yeah hillbillys are always short an to the point, cept when a tellin a story <big smile>.  I belong to a state tribe in NE Alabama...very close to TN line.  Chickamagua's

Glad you survived the snow.  TN, eh? Beautiful country. Good people down there.  Take Care, hugs.

[Bernice]

Cally,

I see where you said you belong to a tribe, my grandmother was Cherokee Indian, but she moved from her people and we have lost all contact. Often wonder about this!

[Patze]

Hey Cally,

Oh boy, Cow Path!  I've been there a time or two - well, through it anyway!  I've spent time in towns that barely had a name, and you'd never find them on any "official" map that is.  


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