Dust !!!!!!!!

[katandron1]

Since John has been teasing me so mercilessly on there being too much dust around me, I thought I would post this in here. I received it in an email today and it really kinda sets the world right. And great timing on me getting it.
Your a great friend John, Don't ever change.

Do you remember the dirt roads with all the dust flying? If I was in a hurry and speeding before the dust settled, someone had called Dad and Mom to tell them I was driving too fast. God Bless.



This will bring smiles to all who have ever lived where there were dirt roads.....and maybe to our children who have heard us talk about the "good ole days".....Enjoy!




Click here: Dirt Roads (http://famguardian.org/Subjects/FamilyIssues/Articles/DirtRoads/DirtRoads.htm)

[unclejunk1]

Reminds me of my grandparents old place in Bear Creek, NC.. That old dirt road was two miles long and it was the driveway. Had one neighbor along the way but ended at the back yard. The old road that passed out front had been gone for many years. The original kitchen had been moved about 75 feet back to become Grandpa's work shed. You see back when the place was built you did not want an attached kitchen because of the chance of fire. I carried water when Grandma wanted it from the hand dug spring down the hill. Of course you strained it through a fine wire mesh to make sure there was nothing there you did not want. Grandpa used to pull what he called a sled behind the tractor for me to ride on when we went to get the mail - was not much more than what now looks like a shipping pallet. We would ride through the woods for about 3 miles to get to the road the mailbox was on. He only had 65 acres and was retired by the time I was old enough to go spend the summers. But tobacco was still primed by hand and laid in a sled pulled by an old mule. The ladies would tie it to a stick by hand so it could be placed in the barn for curing. Working the tobacco was a social event. Yep all the neighbors around for miles would pitch in and help get it done.

Nobody but grandma could milk that mean old cow, she was every bit of four foot ten inches and swung a mean slab. The one thing you had better not do was get into the smokehouse and carve you off a piece of country ham and be caught. I got caught once but not again. We survived without car seats, airbags or helmets back then. Had to be tough, learned early and did not sass your elders, well not if you like living. Crime was what happened in the big cities. The tobacco is all but gone and that is ok by me. The fields are now full of trees and only memories remain. Edwards hill holds most of my elders but not me yet. I think I want my ashes scattered over a waterfall to enrich the valleys below and make the laurel grow.

[katandron1]

Rick, I should have been born then instead of in the 70's. You see, I'm 36(be 37 this month), and what I wouldn't give to go to those days. No we wouldn't have computers, and yes it would take us all day to get to town and back. But just the serenity and the calmness would be worth it all. Just yesterday I was telling a guy at the c-store as we were putting gas in our vehicles, that we should go back to horse and buggy. I would live on horseback if I thought I could get away with it. That life was ALOT of hardwork yes, but well worth it at the end of the day.

[unclejunk1]

Kathy I am too old to go back to that, but everyone should know what it is not to see TV but one night a week. Grow a crop, cut cross ties the old way and hunt for what you eat, eat what you kill and know the best way to cook it. Kids today don't even want to know, my son had no interest. Bought him a youth rifle that never was shot. I gave it to him but doubt he has it now.

Food was better then - no joke it really was better for you. Todays food is so full of chemicals and the land is so depleted with only chemical fertilizer. You need to cleans the body just to rid it of the bad things we take in. Are we really better off? They tell us we live longer but my grandparents lived much longer than my parents. I have had more health problems than several of my aunts and uncles put together. You don't get to choose when you are born but you can choose how you live and eat. The old ways and remedies are better most of the time. If you look at todays medicine, most of it is derived from folk remedies. The drug companies change it so it can be patented. The problem with that is that it is no longer natural so now you get side effects that the old methods did not have. Learn what you can from the old folks, you will live better and longer. Took me to long to learn that. I was hard headed.

Kathy learn the old ways and adapt them when you can to your life today. Eat natural, use natural products and stay away from the so called miracle drugs - they will kill you. That was a hard lesson for me to learn after my heart bypass. I followed the doctors orders to the letter and got worse not better. Now I am much better without their help and will not take them at their word anymore. They only know what the drug companies tell them - the drug companies want to sell drugs! I go when I have to but no more than I have to and then look for a natural method of healing when given a prescription. I don't always find one but do most of the time.

Only the best to you!

Rick