This talk of tobacco farms/barns makes me want to go find some of Aubrey Bodine's prints...
-- John W Reames jream...@verizon.net Home: +14106646986 Mobile: +14437915905 On Mar 10, 2013, at 21:18, "Gerry Archer" <arche...@embarqmail.com> wrote: > Father grew up on a farm that raised and cured tobacco as well as other > crops. "Putting up" the tobacco leaves on the sticks that were hung all the > way up to the top of the barn was not his favorite job as a kid. > Gerry > > From: "WILTON" <wilt...@nc.rr.com> >> Congratulations for having 50 good years with her. I mourn your loss. >> BTW, 'read it at 8:55 PM. >> 'Been 57 years since I've had to get up at 3 or 4 AM to "take out" a barn >> full of cured tobacco. >> 'Been 32 years or so since I've had to get up that early for a B-52 mission >> (they don't seem to tae off very well in daylight for some reason) - it was >> almost always "O dark 30." Yep, that's a term we used well over 50 years >> ago to mean EARLY - TOO DAMNED EARLY. >> >> Wilton >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerry Archer" <arche...@embarqmail.com> >> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 8:36 PM >> Subject: [MBZ] How my marriage began >> >> >>> Here's a true tale. Wilton can save it to read when he gets up with the >>> chickens in the morning: [:o) >>> Gerry >>> >>> As a young 20-something, when I went to work as the night lab tech at the >>> old Tampa Municipal Hospital, I was in hog heaven; working amongst a >>> gaggle of young, single nurses. One pretty blackhaired nurse caught my >>> eye. I would talk to her at every opportunity and sometimes tease her, but >>> she was so "cool" and concentrated on caring for wards full of poor >>> patients, my male pride prevented me from asking her out because I thought >>> she would probably refuse. >>> >>> Finally one slow night I changed my voice, called her, told her I was the >>> engineer, and ask her to drop a piece of toilet paper out of a particular >>> ward window so I could see which way the wind was blowing since I wanted to >>> blow out the smoke stack. >>> >>> On her way to the window with the toilet paper she knocked a bedpan off of >>> a bedside table and woke up the whole ward which undid her hard work of >>> getting the patients to sleep. Finding that she couldn't open the window, >>> which >>> probably hadn't been opened since the hospital was built, she went back to >>> the nursing station and called the engineer. >>> >>> "I couldn't get the window open to drop the toilet paper so you can blow >>> out the smoke stack.", she said. >>> >>> "What in the world are you talking about?", the engineer said. "Drop >>> toilet paper? Blow out the smokestack? I didn't call you." >>> >>> It didn't take long for her to figure out who called her and the lab phone >>> was soon ringing. She "let me have it" but I was laughing so hard she >>> started laughing too and that's when I asked for a date and she agreed. >>> >>> We married the following summer and it lasted 50 years until her death 6 >>> years ago.. >>> >>> Gerry >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2012.0.2240 / Virus Database: 2641/5663 - Release Date: 03/10/13 > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
