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Subject: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Bobert Date: 15 Apr 05 - 08:42 PM Well, well, well... Life takes some purdy strange twists and, ahhhh, this ol' hillbilly gonna leavin' this Wes Ginny mountian fir a bigger mountain down south of Luray, Ginny (sans the "Wes")... Yep, me and the P-Vine have bought a moderate house on 18 acres of land buttin' up to the National Forest on the west side of the Blue Ridge and leaving the Wes Ginny west side of, ahhhh, the Blue Ridge... Fir those thinkin', "But. Bobert, how could you leave yer gardens?" not to worry... We're takin' most of it with us... I been digging plants all week and we took out first load down today... Gonna be fun plus with 18 acres, hey, maybe next years Getaway can be at our place??? Ahhhhh, anyone know anything about goats??? (No, not that, Martin... disgsting...). You know like what they are good for... My closet neighbor raises them and out long drive way (1/4 mile) goes right by his goat field and they all come up to the fence to check us out and, sniff, well, they are real cute (No, Martin, not in that way, you pervert...). So Mudders, looks like yetr gonna loose a Wes Ginny hillbilly and get a Ginny hillbilly... Bobert p.s. Of course the Wes Ginny Slide Rule is going with us!!! That's not even negotiatable... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: CarolC Date: 15 Apr 05 - 08:51 PM What county will you be in, Bobert? Goats are great. Very smart and a lot of fun. But keep a careful eye on your garden if you have some in the neighborhood. You might need to put a big fence all around those 18 acres. Good luck with the move! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Leadfingers Date: 15 Apr 05 - 08:53 PM A mate of mine has kept goats in Darkest West London for years mate !! Eat ANYTHING , so watch what you wave at them !! And goats milk cheese is ALL RIGHT !!! Have fun with the move and I hope nothing nice gets broken !! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Bobert Date: 15 Apr 05 - 09:08 PM Ahhhh, I'm gonna be in Page County, CarolC... The property is in an area called Pine Grove which is 5 miles south of Luray, then another 5 miles east... It is a holler and the road to out place enda about a half mile past where we turn into out driveway... As fir the goats, I know all about them... Back in the 70's I was down in King George (actually up at the time since I was still livin' in Richmond) at a college friend's farm... I had driven my '63 VW with a sunroof...Well, next mornin', Sage, my buddies goat was in the back seat of the VeeDub... He had eaten almost all of the ol' padding off the drivers an' appassenegr seats, had chewed up all the knobs on the dash baord and the gear shift knob as well, an' had eaten 'bout half the back seat... I coulda strangled that goat... But, sniff, I like goats... I reckon I'll get one 'er two with a big fence fir 'um so when the Catters show up for the '06 Getaway we can have a "goat-music" workshop... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 15 Apr 05 - 09:09 PM Bobert, why don't you climb over the fence and take those little fellers a bucket of milk?!! (Hubby suckered me into doing that one time!) About the only thing I remember about raising goats is that fences are irrelevant. If they stay on one side, it's because they want too! If you have any unwanted plants, I can give them a good home. Good luck and have fun. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Bobert Date: 15 Apr 05 - 09:18 PM Funny thing about our gardens... As uch as we're taking (over 300) we're lookin' at what we're leavin' and whoever buys this place is still gonna have one heck of a nice garden... But now ya got me worried about them goats my neighbor has... We took up about 30 plants today an' sprayed them with "Liquid Fence" which is like real nasty and the deer won't go near it and I'm wonderin' if one of them goats was to climb over the fence and walk a 1/4 mile up the mountain to our place and found our plants, would he eat 'um anyway? Hmmmmmmmm? I better check with the folks that make "Liquid Fence"... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Peace Date: 15 Apr 05 - 09:19 PM "Goats are great. Very smart and a lot of fun." I have NO comment about the above quote from Carol Bobert, this is wonderful news I know you and the good lookin' person in your marriage will be happy there. You are still gonna post here, right? Like, this ain't g'bye is it? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 15 Apr 05 - 09:21 PM Also, the goat owners may have some insight. I guess you know about wild cherry clippings and yew clippings. I've seen cattle drop dead (real fast) when suburbanites throw those over the fence. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: number 6 Date: 15 Apr 05 - 09:34 PM Goats do require care. Ensure they have a warm environement in the winter. You have to keep their nails clipped. You sometimes have to assist the does when they birth their kids. Keep them penned in, as mentioned in previous threads they can destroy a garden in no time. They do eat anything and that includes many things that aren't good for them. They are intelligent and can become very attached to you. What their good for, well, the does for their milk and bucks for their goat meat. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: number 6 Date: 15 Apr 05 - 09:42 PM ... and have a good move! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: catspaw49 Date: 15 Apr 05 - 09:54 PM Ya' know Paw and Cletus got tossed out of those caverns they got down there in Luray. Seems that they were rippin' a few to see who could knock off the most stalactites in the Grotto room. Paw was ahead when the rangers came in with gas masks and helmets. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: CarolC Date: 15 Apr 05 - 09:57 PM ...and I have no comment about your non-comment, brucie. ;-) I had three goats for a little while a couple of decades ago, Bobert. One of them was a retired dairy goat. I had to take her if I wanted to also have the angora goat that was her retirement companion. I wanted the angora because I was a weaver at the time. And I had a young dairy goat, but they all had to go to new homes before the young dairy goat was mature enough to breed because I moved into town from the farm I was living on (which was a mile from the nearest neighbor). The goats used to hop the fence (it wasn't very high, maybe three or four feet) and stand around on my porch dropping little goat berries all over the place. I don't remember if they had much interest in what I had in my garden at the time, but if they did, my Newfoundland dog would chase them out of it. Maybe you need a big old Newfoundland dog. The dog used to love to harrass the goats, and would even get inside their pen to torment them. One day (inside the pen), the angora had about as much of that as she could take, and she reared up on her hind legs, pointed her head downwards, and gave that dog such a crack on the head with her horns. I bet the neighbors a mile away heard the yelp he gave out. In the evenings during warm weather, I used to go for a walk down the road we lived on with all of the animals following me. Since we didn't have any neighbors and cars seldom came up our road, this was perfectly safe for the critters. So it would be me, with my toddler son walking next to me, holding my hand, then the Newfoundland dog, the three goats, and at least one cat, all strolling down the dirt road among the corn fields as the sun gently sunk down below the horizon. Those were some great walks. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Rapparee Date: 15 Apr 05 - 10:05 PM Ah, the incipient capitalist slumlord moves his garden to his new feudal barony! From his hovel he will undoubtedly watch the children laboring in his coal mines, their tiny bodies racked with consumption and black lung, while he discusses his golf game with his cronies Karl Rove and Tom De Lay, sips his ancient brandy, and smokes his fat cigars. There is a Revolution coming, Oppressor Of The People! The Tides Of History will sweep you away! I'll try to get over and look you up when I'm in DC the next time; maybe have lunch, huh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 15 Apr 05 - 10:15 PM Aw'ight! Party's at Bob's new place! Goat barbecue! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 15 Apr 05 - 10:18 PM Okay. Before anybody gets their knickers in a wad over the "goat barbecue" comment, the goats are the ones doing the barbecuing. They're cooking BocaBurgers, veggie burgers and Portabello mushrooms. Purty smart goats, huh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: open mike Date: 15 Apr 05 - 10:20 PM WELL THE GOAT BERRIES ARE GREAT FOR THE GARDEN even if the goats aren't...thier manure is not so hot it burns plants, it breaks down easily and is easy to scoop, and is in its own little time-delay capsules like that other fancy fert- ilizer with the little pellets . Goats are browsers...they prefer bushes and brush to grass (not grazers) they esp. like roses and grapes....but they will eat grass if that is the only thing...they can help to clear land of vegetation (which can be a good or bad thing) Welcome to East Virginny! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Padre Date: 15 Apr 05 - 10:29 PM Bobert, Welcome to East Virginia. I'm down in Botetourt County, about 2 hours SW of you. Us ridgerunners (I'm a Kanawha County native) who migrated east are slowly but surely surrounding the cavaliers. would love to have you stop by if you get the chance. You can PM me for further info. Padre |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: jaze Date: 15 Apr 05 - 10:35 PM Welcome back to Virginia, Bobert! And Padre, for some reason, I thought you were in NJ. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Peace Date: 15 Apr 05 - 10:43 PM The entrance to his washroom. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Bobert Date: 15 Apr 05 - 10:59 PM Well, well, well.. First of all, thanks to Mary in Kentuck fir the advice on how to poison thr goats... Yeah, I got "yews"... Not that I want ro mess wid 'um yet but I'll keep that knowledge in my backup plan... Ahhhhh, CarolC... a big "sniff"... I can piccure you and yer "kids" walkin' down a country road... Were you playin the accordiam to 'um? Rap, my pal, my buddy, my friend, I hate to tell ya this but, sniff, I think yer gettin' closer and closer to a little quiet time at the Betty Ford Clinic...sniff... Yo Beezer, every year down in Como, Ms, at the old homesteard of Otha Turner (Mr. Otherz) they roast up a goat fir the annnual "goat roast" 'an play some fife and drum and hill stomp... I ain't made it yet to one but one day I will... sho nuff will... Okay, michelle (open Mike) I'll check in to down and dirty about goat poop... Yeah, Padre, I know about Botetout County... At one time it extended to the Pacific Ocean and was the largest county in the colonies... I got a friend that lives somewhere down round there in Independence, Va, by the name o' Claude Simpson... Heard o' him? Well, Iz really lookin' forward to getting moved down there... Actaually, since the Shanendoah River runs north we're movin' down... yet up the valley??? Hurts my head!!! Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: freda underhill Date: 15 Apr 05 - 11:11 PM the entrance to his garden |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 15 Apr 05 - 11:27 PM Yeah, Bob, I heard about Mr. Othar's goat roast whut his fambly an' friends is keepin' alive. An' there's that other goat "roast" over in Pelahatchie, Mississippi whut khing |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Padre Date: 15 Apr 05 - 11:37 PM Bobert, Independence is in Grayson County, near Galax - that's about 3 hours south of here. Don't know Claude Simpson, sorry. Jaze - I've sung in New Jersey, but never lived there. Padre |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: CarolC Date: 15 Apr 05 - 11:39 PM Were you playin the accordiam to 'um? No, Bobert. That was before I went over to the Dark Side. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: wysiwyg Date: 15 Apr 05 - 11:40 PM Got enough pots? Need any help? What can we do? ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Mark Cohen Date: 16 Apr 05 - 12:44 AM Yo, Bobert, your first post said something about a closet neighbor. Care to elaborate? Or is it, don't ask, don't tell? Aloha, Mark Mazel tov, and gey gezint. (You could look it up...) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: GUEST,Auggie Date: 16 Apr 05 - 01:21 AM Best of luck to you. We all know that it takes a fair amount of balls to pull up stakes at your (ok, our) advanced age. From what I've seen, it looks like your new surroundings were well described by the anonymous Southern civil war prisoner who, when asked to compare the area aroung Gettysburg to his home said, "it's a right pretty valley, but it don't even begin to compare to the Shenandoah". 'Course, his neighbors probably didn't have any goats. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 16 Apr 05 - 02:54 AM I think my cousin lives *relatively* close to where you'll be. Isn't Staunton, Virginia pretty close-by? It's off of I-95, and Luray is up one of the side valleys from there, isn't it? I'll have to get the map out tomorrow. But I remember seeing the signs when I was on my way through there to see her many years ago. SRS *"relative" as in you'll be a lot closer in Luray than I am in Fort Worth! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Joe Offer Date: 16 Apr 05 - 03:16 AM I was in Luray last fall, after the Getaway. It's a nice town. Staunton isn't far away, and I really liked Staunton. The Shenandoah Valley is pretty, no doubt about it. I hope you enjoy your new home, Bobert. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 16 Apr 05 - 03:57 AM Enjoy your new home Bobert, I hope the plants make it safely and like the environment. I can probably get you a good recipe for goat curry if you want?! Seriously, a sturdy fence over 5ft, or a dense hedge planted around a chain link fence. The links stop the critters getting through and they will keep the one side of it nicely cropped if it's not one of the poisonous kinds like rhoddodendron, laburnum or fir. They love Jerusalem Artichokes so be careful if you grow that! I used to live in a house that had a goat in the back garden. It was old and not particularly fit, but even she managed to get up on top of the shed one day, so be careful your fence doesn't have any handy, goat sized stepping stones in the form of rocks, bales of straw, or outbuildings near it. I'm sure your neighbour will let you take the goat poop away for fertiliser (it's vegetable so pretty good, doesn't burn and breaks down quickly) in exchange for some prunings or extra veggies (they like curly kale cabbage) but be warned, the uncastrated males stink.. and I mean STINK. So if you do smell anything funny, don't be blaming Cletus and the boys or Spaw too soon..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Bobert Date: 16 Apr 05 - 08:23 AM Well, first of all, Mark, I ain't met my neighbor as yet so I mighta spoke too soon 'bout his closetness 'er unclosetness... I'll have tyo get back to you on that one... But now as fir them goats. They is couple hunner yars down the hill and goy their own fenced in area... My neighbor breeds 'um (leave it alone, Mark...) and sells 'um to folks... I still ain't figured why folks would want 'um other than to chain up and eat up a big honeysuckle bush but once they did that and bush was gone whad is you gonna do with the thing? I reckon find someone with another big honeyseckle bush that needs eatin' and sell the goat to him??? I don't know and the Wes Ginny Slide Rule ain't, ahhhhh, ever seen a goat so ut ain't no help at all... As fir the plants, we got a lady friemd who owns a nursery and she also has a crew of folks who are "installers" (plant stuff fir customers) and they bring back the pots so she is letting us have as many pots as we want... A lot of our stuff is large 'nuff to warrent 10 gallon pots and a couple are gonna have to be burlapped (fig tree and unbrella pine and I'm gonna have to hire a couple teenagers to help me with them... The wierd thing about the new place is that the house is not in shade, whereas our place here in Wes Ginny has a lot of shade and semi shade... But we do have a nice woods 'bout 70 feet from the house so that's where a lot of out stuff is going to go live... But now we can grow stuff gthat like full sun. That oughta expand our gardening interests... Yeah, WYSusan, we need you to come on down and keep the P-Vine calm... I usually do a purdy good job of it but with all this shovel work, I ain't doin' so hot... Seems every danged thing I dig up I either didn't get enough root ball 'er too much... Well, well, well... Is it Saturday morning? Good... Going to DC to play some blues and take my mind off all this... BTW, anyone know much about solar energy???? Farmer Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: wysiwyg Date: 16 Apr 05 - 08:35 AM When is the move, Bobert? Can I bring the bell? ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Bobert Date: 16 Apr 05 - 08:51 AM Well, ain't too sure yet, WYSusan about the date... I gotta build out an addition on the house down (up) there first... I close on the new one May 30th and I reckon it's gonna take a couple months to get the new one ready... And I also gotta get this house ready to sell and, and, and... So my best guessimate is 'round August before I'll be in the house down there but... depending on when this house sells we might have to hole up in a 2nd floor apartment in downtown Luray that I'm buying as part of a 1031 exchange... As fir the bell... Keep bell-sittin' it until we're ready and by then we should have either my old Spartanette trailer livable or, horrors, the double decker bus down there fir you to stay in... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 16 Apr 05 - 09:55 AM Just ask your questions about solar and I'll pass them on to my electrical engineer friend who is putting in a solar system at the house he's building. He's in West Texas at a high elevation desert and you're in distinctly moist arborial area, so milage may vary on some of the equipment. It shouldn't take too long before you discover someone in the area who is doing this stuff. You can aim to get off the grid and sell your extra power back to the Electric Company. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: GUEST,Tinker Date: 16 Apr 05 - 10:55 AM Okay, I've got a question ... First off do you get to stay the " Wes Ginny Slide Rule" ??? Do we move to Ol' Ginny Slide Rule ???? But youse a youngster, so that's not quite right.... Hows' it gonna work? Oh and the Solomon's Seal I brought home from Getaway.... I had just about sniffled over it not making it through the Jersey winter, when this very mornin I noticed a little red sprout (kinda like a peony) breaking ground in just about the right spot.... Is it really gonna make it??? If so it joins the bell flower in the last to breakground each spring club. Good luck and great joy in planning and replanning all those new garden beds... Now if I can just finish cleaning out the ones I have... Tinker |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Ebbie Date: 16 Apr 05 - 03:03 PM Bobert, how far is your new place from your "new" hotel? I used to know an old man in the Oregon hills who had 600 plus acres. He was a character in his own right- had 20 plus dogs, all indoors - he never married and whenever his shack got too messy he built another one close by, and burnt what he couldn't use of the old one. His floor was sawdust and shavings; he kept a bucket of sand by his stove to guard against an unseemly event. His land looked like a park- large trees and manicured grassland - he had 30 some wild ponies running all over the place, all inbred and some with some alarming anomolies, and more than a hundred goats. Someone should write a book about old Red Snyder. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: DougR Date: 16 Apr 05 - 08:00 PM You're taking the Still with you too, right? Might be a great market for WV moonshine down around Luray. Are you going to be anywhere neare Orkney Springs? DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Bobert Date: 16 Apr 05 - 08:03 PM Well, Tinker, that sho nuff is Solomon's Seal and it's gonna be just fine and it's gonna make babies and them babies is gonna make mo babies and next thing ya' know yer gonna have a nice stand of it... I can't rememebr if I brought down the verigated or not but one thing fir sure is that it ain't "false" Solomon's Seal but the real deal... Ahhhh, this Red Snyder sounds like my kinda guy, Eb, but I don't think I can talk the P-Vine into living like a pioneer... The house is exactly 10 miles from town... But back to the look of a park... Thats what a lot of folks say baout out land now so I reckon in a couple years I'll have the new place spiffied up purdy good... Actually, if I turned the large barn into something there would be 'nuff room fir a Getaway up there, fir sure... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: wysiwyg Date: 16 Apr 05 - 09:40 PM Oh, and uh Bobert-- goats and fences... is usually a topic to laugh about. Especially among the goats. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Tinker Date: 16 Apr 05 - 09:41 PM Well, Bobert I sure am happy to hear it made it, and it's well shaded by the Goddess statue so I hope it'll be happy. There's room there for it to spread and it seems appropriate for her to be grounded in wisdom... even if it looks up on the back view of my naked Aphrodite. tinker |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Rapparee Date: 16 Apr 05 - 09:55 PM Hot Damn I Just Thought Of Something! NSSA! Yeah! Ol' Bobert's place will be just the ticket fer ma favorite NSSA event! Daggone, this is workin' up somethin' nice, and Good Ol' Bobert won't mind a bit! Thanks fer buyin' this place! Music an' NSSA! Ol' Bobert thinks of everything! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Bobert Date: 16 Apr 05 - 10:47 PM Well, Rap, I wasn't exactly thinking on artillery matches when I first day the joint but, ahhhh, what the heck.... Hope it don't scare the nrighbor's goats too bad.... Ahhhhh, whad ya tryin' to day, Wizzie? Like a bunch o' ol' hillbillies is gonna jump the goat fence to, ahhhhhh, get hooked up wid some goats???? Hahahahahaha 'n ha.... The P-Vine looks mighty fine fir that kinda activities, thank you so you don't have to do no swerious worryin' 'bout me slippin' out fir a little goat... "er nuthin' else fir that matter... Bobert p.s. Getaway '06... Stanley, Va???? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: CarolC Date: 17 Apr 05 - 01:43 AM Have you been up to Highland County (northwest of Staunton), Bobert? I've got family there (both dead as well as alive - the family burial ground is there and that is where my Canadian grandfather, my Bermudan grandmother, and my mother are buried). It's some of the most beautiful country I've ever seen. Definitely well worth a trip up around there if you haven't been yet. I especially recommend the area around Doe Hill. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Rapparee Date: 17 Apr 05 - 09:25 AM Kin I bring a cannon? Jist to wake everybody up with the morning? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: wysiwyg Date: 17 Apr 05 - 11:40 AM Wal, Bobber... now that you mention it... ya know? that's a mighty innerestin' angle.... I'm sure you can increase th' number of 'speckted Catter-visitors with 'at approach.... beats cow-tippin' up here in PA-- all to hell.... an' every visitor (after they all done playin' music acourse), kin hep you plant all 'em new bushes? to replace the ones all the goats et up at YORE place? Cuz once th' goats find out you harborin' fresh meat jes' for 'em, they surely will be anxious to come rightchon over, an' browse 'em a lil snack while they's at it! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Good Bye, Wes Ginny..... From: Bobert Date: 17 Apr 05 - 07:09 PM Ahhhh, yeah, Rap, but just one cannon... Will It fire 7 miles? If so we could set up a big target on the Massanutten Mountain on the other sied of the valley, kick back wid a few Iron City's and have some fun... And heck, if ya gotr bored with that then ya could go down and visit the goats (wink, wink).... Yo be da man... Bobert |
