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Lensman
I'll make myself a note....story for Lensman about my little paradise under the trees, complete with "fairy" dishes (acorns), and a stream full of crawdads for dinner and fresh mud for pies (to which I always added special ingredients, of course), and many hidden shelves and compartments....well, I'll just have to tell you the tale. Tomorrow I see the ortho and find out about this dang shoulder so I can quit whining...I did finally realize I must have injured it when I murdered my car in the wreck last March! Later.....
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Krisles
on October 26, 2005 at 9:43 PM
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Krisles
No, it's only me...haha....Not really.
Dang (see, I'm picking stuff up from you, too) I forgot to mention Elysian Fields. What a great name for a town. It's got "story" written all over it. And I'd love to read about your tree-root house. That's the kind of stuff I like.
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Lensman
on October 26, 2005 at 9:33 PM
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Lensman
Are all Canadians so charming? Thank you...and they were great days....I have many wonderful memories from my days in Elysian Fields....a most appropriate name, eh? (see, I'm picking something up from you!)...I'll have to post about my "house" made from tree roots in our backyard. I saw things there that most people my age didn't see...it was such a hidden away community....people still drove wagons, etc....
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Krisles
on October 26, 2005 at 9:23 PM
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Krisles
Well, I've seen your pictures when you were about that age, so who can blame Tom Boy?
Bless his heart for speaking up like a man and admitting, "Because I love her." And good for your dad for his kind-hearted response. I really enjoyed this glimpse back, Krisles. Great days.
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Lensman
on October 26, 2005 at 9:10 PM
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Masky
Tom Boy was a rough and tumble all the way...but he just decided he was my boyfriend and would do whatever that meant! It's so funny because I was just watching the little boy my daughter keeps...he's 5 and is absolutely the same way about my 4yo granddaughter....I'll have to post a photo...he is completely wrapped around her finger! Those are such sweet, sweet memories....and we had such good times on his parents' farm..
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Krisles
on October 26, 2005 at 8:50 PM
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Hemlocker
I think maybe it was the times....or maybe Southern boys of the times....but there were several boys then that always had girlfriends....and I always had a boyfriend. And my 4yo granddaughter does! I guess you didn't see my 4yo self in my journal post...remember I told you I would be standing next to you in my ruffles and Buster Browns, reciting the Pledge? Well, I put a photo up...probably pretty much like the girls in your classes looked like...the curls and ruffles and all....and I would have taken you for a romantic!
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Krisles
on October 26, 2005 at 8:47 PM
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Krisles
Poor Tom Boy...though I must say this was a beautiful reccollection that you shared! What a gentleman he was for playing daddy...
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Masky
on October 26, 2005 at 10:18 AM
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Krisles--
Thanks for a nostalgic and bittersweet look back in time. I'll bet Tom Boy Hill grew up to be a good man--unless he was bitter for the rest of his life over losing you. Wow, a six year-old boy saying "I love her". You must have been a heartthrob from the beginning.
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Hemlocker
on October 26, 2005 at 9:50 AM
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