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BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe...
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Bobert Date: 11 Oct 10 - 09:32 PM As luck (fate) would have it we found the perfect house today outside of Concord, NC and just 1/2 hour to Charlotte and about that far to grand-youngins on on either side of town... A couple acres with lots of woods... Maybe even a spot for my Spartanette (music studio) trailer... But definately room and uses for my Kubota tractor... Very secluded and at the end of a road... We'll see??? B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Bobert Date: 04 Sep 10 - 09:27 AM Thanks, Chance... Yeah, we're only looking in Gaston and Lincoln Counties (west and north/northwest)... Ain't ya'll in Raliegh, 'er am I confused... Someone saud ya'll had moved to NC??? B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Fortunato Date: 04 Sep 10 - 09:04 AM I should have told you that page county was a good place to have roots, but live there? NC can be better, but choose carefully. You might want to look west. Tell P-V i said hello. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Bobert Date: 03 Sep 10 - 05:28 PM Been going over numbers fir the last few days and looks as if the only way to pull this off responsibly will be: "Farm for Sale"... So be it... Hey, we ain't gettin' no younger so I reckon that if we're gonna do it then it would be alot simpler to just sell the sumabich... "The Boys" who bought the spec house I built on 7 acres I subdivided are going to be real disappointed 'cause I spend at least a half an hour watering their plants and keepin' everything tidy there but, hey... They'll get over it... One is a realtor so maybe he'll sell it to one of their rich freinds in DC for a weekender... Also: Bobert's Kabuto 3650 tractor for Sale... Sniff... I'm gonna miss her but the P-Vine says that I can get a newer one that is a tad smaller when we get to NC but... ...me and that tractor been real close... No, not that way, gol danged it!!! B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Bobert Date: 02 Sep 10 - 06:27 PM Well, folks... The P-Vine jus' don't wnata live here no more... The people is real redneckie and not too smart neither... I mean, ya can't have an intellegent conversation with none of 'um 'cause they ain't got any intellegence... Well, okay, there is this little clicke of educated people but, hey, it's real little... I'd like to figure a way to keep the farm and pay to have it mowed and weedeated and come up maybe fir a week every couple months and rent it out fir a weekender. weekly... Page County is the "Cabin Capital" of the state and there's lots to do here if yer only stayin' fir a feew days... We allready talked with the guy who runs "Allstar Lodging" who manages over 1 100 cabins and houses and he thinks maybe we can get 'nuff outta it to make a mortgage payment on somethin' in NC... No matter, yeah... Lotta plants will be going with us but the P-Vine is allready propagating from cuttings all her favorites and has a hundred of them up and growing in the barn (under lights)... Ain't exactly what I had in mind but, hey, if mama ain't happy then nobody happy... That's why the apartment is out... Plus, I've lived in private areas most of the last 30 years and I don't wnat no stenkin' apartment either... Gonna have to find some acerage and some privacy... All, this, of course is dependent on selling one of two commerical properties to pull off, one being the hotel... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: open mike Date: 02 Sep 10 - 05:16 PM iknow whatyou mean.. a bank promised that they were in the business of making construction loans...and when i showed up with bluprints and a bid from a contractor they said they didn't have room for any more... they would probably have jumped at it if i wqs buildkng a mall or....?? so here i sit in the motor home--pissed off and dejected... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Genie Date: 02 Sep 10 - 03:18 PM Hey, Bobertz, if'n yez fo'ks moves ta Charlotte, I jes' mights git ta see yez when I comes ta visit mah kin in Raleigh or Greensboro. Ennyhoo, I'm sure ya can find moosikan folkies ta play with. Dunno if they's many (bod)hranz 'round them there parts, tho. (Y'all'll prolly think that's good news!) Genie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Rapparee Date: 02 Sep 10 - 01:49 PM Yeah, and it'd be cheaper, too. But then we couldn't |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Ebbie Date: 02 Sep 10 - 01:01 PM I recognize that you and the P-Vine will make up your own minds as to what is best for you both but I think Sage's idea is a great one. How far are you from Charlotte? Five hours? An apartment waiting at the other end of the drive would be an adventure in its own right and you could make that drive every other month if you wished to. Or you could take a room at a residential hotel in Charlotte and not have to do any housework. How about that! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: John MacKenzie Date: 02 Sep 10 - 01:00 PM Bits of me been going south for years. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Rapparee Date: 02 Sep 10 - 11:04 AM You can take the hillbilly out of the hills, but you can't take hills out of the the hillbilly. One day when the rugrats are peeing in his guitar he'll say to himself, "Lawzy! For this I left the quietude of the Virginny hills!" So...if you move can we use your place for Getaway? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 02 Sep 10 - 10:48 AM Bobert, does this mean you're going to dig up thousands of azaleas and various other shrubs and starts and roots and such? You'd better start digging now. Wouldn't it be easier to rent a small apartment in the town near the grandkids and go visit every so often? A lot easier on the back. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Bobert Date: 02 Sep 10 - 08:04 AM Well, sad to say, the ol' hotel is still there and I still own it... I've repaired all the structural, I've run about two miles of new wiring, replumbed the entire building and drywalled and painted 5 of the 8 apartments in it... That's when the bank, who promised to be there fir me until the end of the project, decided it didn't want to lend any money out to "small businesses" (me)... I've been to two other banks and what we are hearing about banks not lending to small businesses is 100% true... So the project is in limbo and I'm trying to sell it... Sniff... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: open mike Date: 02 Sep 10 - 04:05 AM whatever happened to the old hotel type place you wuz re-fur-bishin' I remember seeing fotos early on with talk about big project... then what? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: GUEST,MarkS(on the road) Date: 01 Sep 10 - 11:43 PM Bobert - if you don't want to take your moonshine still, consider putting it up on auction here at Mudcat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Donuel Date: 01 Sep 10 - 08:11 PM NC??? It suited James Taylor nicely. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Bobert Date: 01 Sep 10 - 07:44 PM Yeah, Eb... Stickin' 2 ol' houses together still only gets ya... ...an ol' house and ol' houses ain't all that easy to keep cool 'cept... If they built outta bigass timbers, well caulked and not lotta windows... I was amazed a few years back down in Mississippi when I was taken to this ol' plantation where Mr. Sherman lives... He's got a "tater house" with 12 inchlog walls and not lotta windows in it... He got it fixed real nice in there... So it was in the 90s the day I was there and we went in that tater house it it was like in the high 60s... WITHOUT air conditioning!!! But like takin' a Revolutuionary War house and matin' it with yer average Civil War house ain't gonna be none too cool and gonna be a snake pit, to boot... Wait a minute... Gonna be real cool come winter time... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Ebbie Date: 01 Sep 10 - 06:56 PM Black snakes didn't bother my sister none either. They were glad for them. I suspect that air conditioning in that house would have been a lost cause, though. Did I mention that it was old? One lightning bolt came in through a wire that was attached to a tree outside nearby and blew all the light bulbs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Bobert Date: 01 Sep 10 - 06:03 PM Two words, Eb: air conditioning!!! Gets mighty hoomid hefre, too... Right now it's 10 degrees hotter here in the Virginia mountain than it is down in Charlotte... 94 here, 86 in downtown Charlotte... And that's in the city!!! Heck, heat don't bother me none... Black snakes don't either... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Ebbie Date: 01 Sep 10 - 05:52 PM My sis and her family rented a house outside Hickory for some years that was most interesting: two houses had been moved together and united, one from the Revolutionary period and one from Civil (which it wasn't:) War times, brick and clapboard respectively. The thresholds of the Civil War times house were Carolina pine, two feet wide and worn down in the middle from countless feet. In the hall of the Revolutionary War times house was a gun mount(?) rack(?) that had the two rests farther apart than modern rifles are long. And the fireplace interiors were tall enough that I could stand inside just by bending my neck a bit. In the attics lived black snakes that kept the varmints down; they climbed up there by way of the ivy-covered trellises. There was a very old Osage Orange hedge around the front yard of the house. Gotta warn you though, Bobert, that their books got mouldy in the bookcases. It do get hoomid there. The house later came up for sale and they had wanted it but in the meantime they had built a new house, just outside Newton. Hickory, not far away, is the county seat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Rapparee Date: 01 Sep 10 - 03:30 PM From ginny redneck to carolina tarheel.... Lemme tell ya somethin' Bobert. I been in that country and they got them flash floods and more revenoors than you ever seen. An' ghosts, too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Bobert Date: 01 Sep 10 - 03:00 PM Well, Hickory seems to be a place where I'd more than likely find some places to perform... I mean, Charlotte is so big and so much traffic... Just ain't me on a regular basis... The P-Vine can go down there... More her kinda city... Me??? I don't like Charlotte all that much... Never been to Hickory but from the picures I've seen it looks cozier... We'll see... Gotta get some pesos before anything is gonna happen but, hey, ya' never know... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: VirginiaTam Date: 01 Sep 10 - 02:03 PM How anyone could move away from the Luray area of Virginia, I don't know. It is gorgeous there. However, Hickory North Carolina looks quite nice. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Micca Date: 01 Sep 10 - 01:44 PM Bobert, Old Buddy, I do believe that Chance and Suzette are in the vicinity too (well I hope they are, I am supposed to fly back to Boston from there after the Getaway!!) Someplace Called Hanlon Mountain? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: kendall Date: 01 Sep 10 - 01:32 PM The original rednecks were decent folks. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Wesley S Date: 01 Sep 10 - 12:36 PM You need to visit Forsyth County Georgia before you write that in stone. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Bobert Date: 01 Sep 10 - 12:24 PM Nuthin' redder than the necks 'round this here Page County, Virginny, Rap... I mean, really... It can't be any redder in Lincoln County, NC... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Rapparee Date: 01 Sep 10 - 10:41 AM Lordy. From redneck to redderneck. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Bobert Date: 01 Sep 10 - 08:48 AM Well, we know the Charlotte area well 'nuff to know we don't wanta be south, 'cause that's South Carolina, east or west so that leaves Lincoln County or northern Gaston county... In other words, that area between Charlotte and Hickory... Seems like there are affordable houses with 2-5 acreas, some with streams or lakes yet still close 'nuff tyo Charlotte fir me to get into town to play a little music... I am alittle concerned about the NASCAR thang... Ya' see, the only reason I ever quit racing was the fact I was movin' from Richmond, where there was a round-e-round track to Wes Ginny where the car had to go both right and left (Summit Point) and my car didn't know how to go right (you know, kinda like me...) and it would have been too much work to make it go right so I sold it but now, hmmmmmmm???? Back to the round-e-round territory???? Nah... Betty Ford is alot cheaper... And safer... Anyway, right now I gotta get somethin' liquir-dated so we'll have some pesos for the move... Gonna try to keep the farm if possible and takes our good furniture off with uis, equip it with some less expensive stuff and rent it out as a weekly/weekend retreat... That way, we can come back and enjoy the fruits of our labor and also have a our own storage facility just 7 hours up the road in out "farrowing barn" (100 feet X 35 feet) where we can lock up all the stuff we don't want to take but might need one day... We'll be down from Oct. 10 to 17th... sniffin' 'round... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: jacqui.c Date: 01 Sep 10 - 07:49 AM We could visit with you when we head down to visit with Dani and Janie! Sounds like a plan. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: kendall Date: 01 Sep 10 - 07:43 AM Good for you man! You can raise the collective IQ of both places at the same time. (Jist funnin) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Wesley S Date: 01 Sep 10 - 07:41 AM You'll be just up the road apiece from us Georgians.... I was going to say that if you move to NC from West Virginia that two states would have a jump in their overall IQ score. But then again - maybe not..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 01 Sep 10 - 06:06 AM not knowing anything about the area. but the way Janie paints it, it doesn't sound very Bobert. do they have 'shine there? sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: catspaw49 Date: 01 Sep 10 - 01:43 AM LMAO......Great......Charlotte.......Now you can be a NASCAR voter......LOLOL Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Janie Date: 31 Aug 10 - 10:42 PM Charlotte? Ugh! (That's not fair, I really don't know much about the Charlotte area other than it is very oriented toward business, bankers, and Republicans.) But you would at least be close enough to visit back and forth fairly reg'lar like, and when you was taking breaks from working in P-Vine's gardens you could come and work in mine:^) I will tell you, the climate ain't good. Think hot. Think humid. Think smog. The southern mountains, or at least some foothills with a bit more elevation, are within 2 hours northwest of Charlotte. If that is close enough to the P-Vine's youngin's and grandkids, think about that. I have heard vicious rumors that women from Charlotte wear make-up and insist on hot showers when they go camping. Worse than that, I've heard they wear "foundation garments,", pantyhose, high heels and rouge to work. The men wear wool suits and expensive ties to NASCAR races. Leastways, that is what is whispered. Now I don't know, I might be makin' some assumptions here, but I think you would be happier around Southern Baptist beer drinkers in biker t-shirts who vote Republican out of fear rather than greed. If I'm right, Bobear, look to those southern Mountains. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Ebbie Date: 31 Aug 10 - 10:41 PM Well, danged. Just as I get used to your being in Virginia you up and pull stakes... One thing about it: North Carolina has a lot of music. I have family in Hickory/Newton and they've taken me from pillar to post to mountain top, with music at every stop. (I can just see you clogging, now.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: GUEST,MarkS(on the road) Date: 31 Aug 10 - 10:25 PM West Virginia will never be the same! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Bobert Date: 31 Aug 10 - 09:52 PM Whatz a "Hranz", gn-uze??? That like a "blue heron"??? You know, them funny birds that tuck their entire head under their neck when they fly??? (No, Boberdz... Bad guess...) Sheet fire... "Hranz"??? I donno... I give up... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: gnu Date: 31 Aug 10 - 09:44 PM Don't be shootin no Hrans when ya get there. |
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Subject: BS: Ol' Hillbilly Movin' to NC??? Maybe... From: Bobert Date: 31 Aug 10 - 09:40 PM Sheet fire, ya'll... Yeah, the P-Vine done wore my poor ol' boney hillbilly butt out... She drag my butt down here to this ol' hog farm, pointed outside and said, "Tame it"... And so I did, but... ...now that it's beautiful and managable she wants to be around family??? "Well, gol danged, why'd we do all this???" Nevermind... So. looks as if we're gonna try to swing it over the next year... Charlotte is where the grand-younginz is so that means the Charlotte area.... Anyway... Any NC Catters, other than Janie and Dani, beware... I might become yer, ahhhhh, next door neighbor... Well, guess Janie and Dani oughtta be forwarned, too... Bobert |
