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• Memories of Benjamin's Old Garbage Can Chicken Rabbit
  on Dec 16, 2016 in childhood memories Facebook Plush Memories Lost Toy Search Service
  Our main focus on the internet for many years has been to help people find cherished plush lovies. We sell soft toys on our own Dirty Butter Plush Animal Shoppe and run our free Plush Memories Lost Toy Search Service Facebook Group.We have read thous...
• Fond Memories of Our Jockey Cycle
  on Aug 5, 2016 in 1940's bicycle collectibles Donalson eBay Family Memories Jockey Cycle rare tricycle velocipede vintage
  We will never forget our Jockey-Cycle, which we sold some years ago, so we thought it would be fun to get out the old photos and share our memories of it.Made sometime during the 1930's or 1940's, this is a very rare collectible sought after by bicyc...
• Dirty Politics Backfire?
  on Feb 17, 2016 in advertising Democrat elections politics Republican television voting
  Back in 2012 I wrote a post about how boring the television coverage of the Republican and Democratic Conventions had become, compared to what I remember from my childhood.Well, one thing's for sure, the TV coverage of the Republican and Democratic D...
• Going Green in the Good Ole Days
  on Feb 12, 2014 in 1940's 1950's 1960's 1970's environment Green Living recycling
  Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in m...
• Breathes there the man with soul so dead...
  on Jul 3, 2012 in Independence Day military Lay of the Last Minstrel patriotism Sir Walter Scott
  As I think about America's Independence Day celebration this week for the 4th of July, my thoughts turn toward this excerpt of Sir Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel: Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, Th...
• Clean Water Memories
  on Apr 1, 2012 in Coosa River Keepers habitat Coosa River clean water childhood memories pollution
  When our children were little I used to walk with them down to Pump House, to the overflow of the spring that provides our town with drinking water. We'd take the dog along, and I'd let them wade around in the cold spring water to their hearts conten...
• What's Wrong with a Brokered Convention??
  on Feb 18, 2012 in delegates Republican Democracy elections political party Convention TV Democrat politics
  I find it amusing how little history most people seem to know. Hubby and I have been amazed when we hear commentators making the possibility of a brokered Republican convention sound like the most horrible thing that could ever happen to the Republic...
• Just Me, Myself, and I
  on Nov 14, 2011
  Ok, before I go on a rant, I acknowledge that English is a living language that is constantly evolving. Now, with that said, I'm constantly irritated by the way Americans, including myself, consistently misuse the words me, myself, and I. "I" is to...
• Where Have All the Manners Gone?
  on Oct 10, 2011 in women elderly politeness manners handicapped
  I'm an elderly Southern lady who has some difficulty walking. Sometimes I use a cane, and there are times when I use a walker. So I fit in the categories of being Female, Elderly, and Handicapped. When we're out in public I am appalled to find that...
• Sept. 11th - 10 Years Ago
  on Sep 7, 2011 in Norma Khan memorial Imran Khan September 11th grief 9/11
  It's hard to believe it's been ten years now since 9/11. The images and tributes shown on TV still bring up the most terrible hurting for me and I'm sure for most Americans. There's a lot that has changed in our country during those ten years becaus...

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