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Subject: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Bobert Date: 10 Oct 12 - 07:16 PM Well, well, well... It is finally here... 6 days and about a million things to do during them including: 1000 miles of driving (Minimum) Reunion with old friends in Richmond, Va. for me Lunch at Joe's Inn (my old hangout) in Richmond Picking up 100 or so potted azaleas Performing at the Coffee Bean Reunion with some of my family Seein' my ol' D-18 for the 1st time in 4 years Auctioneer for azalea auction The P-Vine's high school reunion Going to Paugh's Orchard for our annual apple buy (for applesauce) Going to Grandma's Pantry for bulk foods (Mennonite) 2 meetings in Luray, Va. Show old hotel I still own to perspective buyer Home... Whew... I'm tired... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Charley Noble Date: 10 Oct 12 - 08:48 PM Bobert- Sorry to miss you "Performing at the Coffee Bean." We had to vacate what was left of Richmond, VA, last Sunday. Now we're up in NYC, limping back to Maine, hoping that the State's not completely covered with snow. Cheerily, Charley Noble, Brooklyn |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Little Hawk Date: 10 Oct 12 - 08:51 PM What??? It's been snowing in Old Virginny? |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Bobert Date: 10 Oct 12 - 09:05 PM Better not snow... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Janie Date: 10 Oct 12 - 09:35 PM sounds like the lazy life of a retired person to me. (I'll get me hat....) |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Bobert Date: 10 Oct 12 - 09:37 PM LOL, janie... I'd like to get me hat and just stay drunk for a week... But I gotta do responsible adult... I know... Why??? B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Janie Date: 10 Oct 12 - 09:58 PM Because that is what you choose - and ultimately you have decided the benefits outweigh the costs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Bobert Date: 10 Oct 12 - 10:02 PM Yeah... It's amazing what a man will do for a woman... I am guilty... Hey... But I do have a couple things on my plate... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Rapparee Date: 10 Oct 12 - 10:16 PM Oh, poor Bobert! He had a whole week between Getaway and these things he "has" to do. He could have come to Getaway and enjoyed some pre-stuff Now you should have MY schedule! Just in the next THREE DAYS I have to start getting the lawn in shape for a party here a week from this coming Sunday, go shoot some cowboys, straighten up my office and the adjacent areas, get the mail, and attend a Natalie McMasters concert fifty miles away!! And nap! Did I mention napping? And driving? We drove 2,400 miles in August in Wyoming alone!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Janie Date: 10 Oct 12 - 10:27 PM How about 4 crazy months in my windshield? Night blind as a person can be, (not true, the night blindness continues to progress) even with the special coating on the eye glasses. 80 mile round trip commute to and from work on two lane country roads with deer leaping out into the road the whole way, and 4 months of driving the route in the dark both ways. Add a little rain and.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Bobert Date: 11 Oct 12 - 07:47 AM I'm with ya' on that one, Janie... I hate night driving anymore... Every light has a big halo around it... Takes a lpot of concentration to aim between halos and the ditch... Well, we're about 80% packed and I'm just taking a minute or two for email, etc... Today's drive shouldn't be too bad... It's about 5 1/2 hours to Richmond... Then tonight get to spend some time with some of my an hippie friend and her daughter and perhaps grand-daughter... I've never seen the grand-daughter... Looking forward to that... I'll check in from time to time here in the cat box... Times up... Gotta go... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 11 Oct 12 - 08:36 AM enjoy your trip & Getaway |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Charley Noble Date: 11 Oct 12 - 09:01 AM Send us updates! Charley Noble, on the road back to Maine! |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 11 Oct 12 - 11:28 AM It sounds pretty good, when you get right down to it. I hope the hotel sells. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: gnu Date: 12 Oct 12 - 01:52 PM Rap... Natalie McMaster. I shall await your review. I doubt she will disappoint. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Bobert Date: 12 Oct 12 - 08:02 PM Day 2: Made Richmond yesterday, visited with friends last night,luch with them again today, headed north, stopped in Warrenton, Va this after noon and picked up a trailer load of azaleas from another friend, made our way to Leesburg, Va to the P-Vine's siter's house/base camp for the next 3 days while doin other stuff... Playing music at the coffee shop where I met the P-Vine 15 years ago tomorrow morning and hooking up with my great newphew and niece and going to see my old D-18 Martin for the 1st time since I gave it to them 4 years ago... Tired but happy... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Charley Noble Date: 12 Oct 12 - 08:26 PM Bobert- Sounds good to me. Richmond is fading fast in my brain: our walk down to Brown Island, the Fine Arts Museum, the Grotto on Cary Street, the Black Swan Book Shop, the Patrick Henry speech at St. John Unitarian Church, the Urban Farm House for lunch, and our reunion with my old housemate Karrie in Chesterfield. Wish I had known about some of the live music places. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Rapparee Date: 13 Oct 12 - 10:02 AM Well, you guys got to Richmond a lot faster than the Union Army did. Never did understand that stuff. You take Valley Forge: here's this starving, rag-wearin' army and King of Prussia Shopping Center is just down the road! They coulda gotten Aeropostale and all sorts of clothes and the food court is pretty big, too. And that Richmond thing, heck, just get on I-95 and follow the signs! |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Pete Jennings Date: 13 Oct 12 - 12:55 PM 100 pot plants sounds interesting...you think we believe you that they're azaleas? A likely story! Enjoy the Martin and drive safely. Pete. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Janie Date: 13 Oct 12 - 02:56 PM Sounds like a good trip so far, Bobert. Worth the effort! |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: gnu Date: 13 Oct 12 - 03:07 PM I can just imagine a road trip with Bobert. Hmmmm... no, I can't. Drive safely. Pull over to rest stops as I believe smoking while driving is dangerous. If a seed pops? Well, tou could burn a hole in the upholstery! Better to have a draw while outside the weehicle and then continue on. Safety first, I always say. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Bobert Date: 14 Oct 12 - 09:50 AM Well, well, well... Survived yet another day... Played a little (very little) yesterday befoes decising I'd rather just walk around town (Leesburg, that is) and discovered an unuswual art galery/studio and it's unusual artist owner... Noticed he has a number of manicans (sp-no spell check here) and he told me about an out of the way shop that sold old dispaly stuff... So I went there and bought a nice left arm with hand and a right hand... I'll usw them as kinda a sculpture thing in the garden as if someone was buried and trying to get out... The guy didn't have any heads so it will be tricky... Off to be the "auctioneer" today for tha annual ASA (Azalea Society of America) at the Marrifielf Garden Center in Gainsville, Va... This will be my 9th or 10th consecutive... Fortunat olfely, with all the plants that people have said they are bring for us there won't be much room left in the trailer for too many additional purchases... Plus, being the auctioneer I can convientiently not see the P-Vine trying to bid... hehehe... Tomorrow is my one day off from the entire trip where I don't have anything planned... Guess that means getting a 12-pack and lay around my sister-in-laws watching old "I Love Lucy" reruns... B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Ebbie Date: 14 Oct 12 - 02:17 PM "So I went there and bought a nice left arm with hand and a right hand... I'll usw them as kinda a sculpture thing in the garden as if someone was buried and trying to get out.." lol Poor P-Vine. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Bobert Date: 15 Oct 12 - 09:04 AM Well, I ain't buring the P-Vine, Eb... lol... The auction went well yesterday... Raised over $3000 for the Azalea Society but, as per usual, they put more plants on me to sell than I'd like... Took two hours and wore me out... Today is my only ***free day*** of the entire trip... Hooray, because tomorrow is the slobber-knocker day followed by another slobber knocker... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Pete Jennings Date: 15 Oct 12 - 10:39 AM That arm sticking outta the ground reminds me of the closing scene of the film Carrie. Scary! |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Rapparee Date: 15 Oct 12 - 11:14 AM Kwitcherbitchin. At least you've GOT a windshield. Back when I was learning to drive we had to use a 4x8 sheet of plywood to break the wind, and no holes in it neither. We'd just prop my littlest brother up and he'd tell the driver where to go. It might have been tough on him in the winter on long trips on the Interstate at 70 mph, but when we'd ask he'd just kinda say, "Mmf! Mm!" which we figgered meant, "I'm okay and really enjoying the wind in my face." |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Bobert Date: 15 Oct 12 - 07:50 PM Sure, Rap.... There weren't no interstates when you were a kid... People rode on dinousaurs... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Ebbie Date: 16 Oct 12 - 02:58 AM Ha, I say. I remember Rap's boyhood trips well. Rastus, his tiny brother, wasn't "propped up"- he was in a box. Open box. On the roof. We always felt sorry for the little guy. He looked so cold. And terrified. But those days were a different time and we wouldn't have felt comfortable telling. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Rapparee Date: 16 Oct 12 - 09:49 AM Yeah, poor kid. One day he was leaning on the board, squashing a bird, and he kinda froze that way. Something about the "wind chill," whatever THAT is. We missed him then and we miss him now, but not very much either time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: GUEST,olddude Date: 16 Oct 12 - 10:13 AM You folks had a car!!! wow you were rich. I had just one roller skate. We couldn't afford two of them ... Putting winter tires on it was a real bitch |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Ebbie Date: 16 Oct 12 - 12:29 PM You are right, Rap. Actually, he was a mean little kid. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Rapparee Date: 16 Oct 12 - 02:16 PM We had a car much, much later, about the time I turned 23. It did not have a starter motor, doors, seats, a steering wheel (we used a pair of stolen vise-grip pliers), gasoline acquired by legal means, a muffler, a tail pipe, three of the normal six cylinders, an ignition coil, two U-joints, bumpers, any evidence of a body behind where the back seat should have been, or a full set of lug nuts. The body was held together by string, rust, and dirt (we grew flowers on the floor of the back seat area during the summer). But we were happy to get it because it meant that Grandma didn't have to use her wheelchair to travel the seven miles each way to Church every morning during the blizzards of winter (in summer she'd pinch veggies from gardens along the way back home). |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Ebbie Date: 16 Oct 12 - 07:54 PM Ah yes, Grandma Rap was a resourceful sort. Too bad she didn't raise, shall we say, law-abiding kids. As neighbors, my family had to steal over there in the dark of the moon just to get our own tools back. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Bobert Date: 16 Oct 12 - 07:56 PM Today went as designed... Yes, it was the slobber-knocker I thought it would be but everything went according to schedule... The car and trailer have never been so packed... It is downright embarrassing... While I was showing my old hotel the P-Vine was rifling thru the materials that we left behind and pulling them out and stuffing them in every conceivable place in the car... I mean, a couple of unopened boxes with bathroom exhaust fans, some plumbing fixtures... Glad the guy I was showing the hotel to didn't see her doing it... I asked her what she was going to do with the stuff and she informed me that I was going to return it to Lowes for a credit??? Never mind... Got a bushel of apples at our favorite orchard (Paugh's) to make apple sauce... Got coffee filter and a years worth of "medium" rice and all the Mennonite "bulk" food materials for the next year... Throw in the 100 or so azaleas in the trailer we look like the Beverly Hillbillies... Be home tomorrow night... B~ in Staunton, Va. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Rapparee Date: 16 Oct 12 - 10:04 PM Ebbie, my Grandma used to say, "Now you kids always remember, it's not illegal unless you get caught." She also used to say, "Plead 'Not Guilty' and throw yourselves on the mercy of the court, you little gutter-sniping urchins. And who took my purse this time?" About that time Grandpa would say something like, "BUUUURRRRRP! Gimme another beer, Mayzie, it's been a long hot day!" and Grandma would respond with, "Get it yourself, you lazy slob! You're sitting right next to the ice box! And my name's not Mayzie -- what have you been up to now?" Then we would learn some new words and increase our vocabularies. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Ebbie Date: 17 Oct 12 - 12:11 AM (Hey! I know Staunton, Bobert! My family lived between Staunton and Waynesboro) Grandma Rap took it to heart when she read that good girls don't make history. Actually, that is what she was told; I'm not sure she could read. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Bobert Date: 17 Oct 12 - 05:50 PM Well, well, well, Eb... I know that area, too... Fishersville, right??? We have been going to the Red Barn Nursery there for years... Drove right thru there this morning headed over the mountain to Rt. 29... BTW, the 6 crazy days are now in the rear view mirror... Took an hour to unload everything and will take half a day to make sense of any of it... The azaleas are now being watered and happy to be out of that covered trailer... Believe I've had enough to last me for a while... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Ebbie Date: 17 Oct 12 - 06:52 PM My best friend lived in Fishersville. On one of those hilly/gully farms that are gone now since the highway went in. We first lived in Stuarts Draft and then later just outside Waynesboro. Get some sleep, Beaubear. Ya done good. |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Bobert Date: 17 Oct 12 - 07:04 PM Stuarts Draft??? I bet you know of the "Cheese Shop" that is run by the Mennonites... They have a shelf at the door with new bibles with a sign the reads, "Free, take one"... I'm too tired to sleep... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Bobert Date: 17 Oct 12 - 07:13 PM BTW, we have been going to "Paugh's Orchard" pronounced "Pa" every year for years for apples to make applesauce... We always spend time with "Ma 'n Pa" Paugh... Pa Paugh got down off his tractor last month and blew out his knee and is still limping... But he was happy to see us... Seems that we have become real close with these folks and look forward to seeing them every Fall... Hope Pa Paugh will avoid surgery... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Ebbie Date: 17 Oct 12 - 07:37 PM No. When we lived there, it was long before the Amish/Mennonites figured out to how to make some money from anything other than carpentry and preaching. :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Bobert Date: 17 Oct 12 - 07:45 PM You'd love to see how far they have come, Eb... They have become quite good at capitalism... The Mennonite Market, Grandma's Pantry, in Harrisonburg is a 40,000 sq. ft. mall that sells everything from saddles, to kitchen stuff, to furniture, to art work to, to, to.... And they have fun doing it... Yesterday, we were at one end and realized that we should have gotten a shopping cart so I told the P-Vine I'd go back front to get one and this 80 year old Mennonite woman not only volunteered to go get one but challenged me to a foot race to it... Well, I had been in the car for a couple hours and feet and legs weren't into no foot race with granny so I let her get it but she had to rub it in... Grrrrrrr... lol... B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: olddude Date: 18 Oct 12 - 01:37 PM That's your story Bobster, in reality she kicked your butt ... when ya coming home, old spiro is a waiting fer ya |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Charley Noble Date: 18 Oct 12 - 05:16 PM Bobert- I remember visiting Staunton back in the 1970s, tracking down the Fletcher Collins family who ran the Oak Grove Theatre on their family farm and the Theatre Wagon up and down the Blue Ridge Skyway. They were old family friends of my parents who taught with them in Arthurdale, West Virginia, in the 1930s. We showed up about 9 pm in the dark, knocked on the door and muttered several magic words, and were invited in for a late supper, some music, and a fine guest room. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: 6 Crazy Days in My Windshield... From: Bobert Date: 18 Oct 12 - 05:41 PM Wished I had stayed at their house, Charlie, rather than the Roach-tel we stayed at... lol... Nah, Ol'ster... I technically didn't loose to granny 'cause I didn't race her... But next time I'm up there I'll wear track shoes and take her on... B~ |
