July 17, 2001 - Msg 1228: test...test

July 17, 2001 - Msg 1229: tset...tset
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1230: Good Morning Porch! What a glorious day, and someone has swept the porch while we were asleep!
~Mrs. Wiley
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1231: Hey Folks.....just turning off the green. Be careful using the font stuff of you can mess up the porch.
--Floyd
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1232: Hmmmmm... Guess somebody left the red on too.....
--Floyd
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1233: If you use a HTML tag to set colors or other text features (BOLD, Italics, etc) please remember that you have to turn them off as well as on.
--Floyd
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1234: I'm not trying any font, or anything else for that matter. I stick with the same one-- Good morning all! Aunt Bee-e
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1235: How is this color?

July 17, 2001 - Msg 1236: .
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1237: How is this?
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1238: If you do not know how to use fonts...please just don't use them. I'm begining to think Newton Monroe is posting messages here what with the way the porch is being painted.
--Floyd
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1239: I'm trying to kill the color.

July 17, 2001 - Msg 1240: Got it.......
-Floyd
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1241: Hey grovely barch, be careful using Font colors and stuff. You keep leaving them on.
--Floyd
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1242: I didn't think I did that! thought I was halucinatin'.
~Mrs. Wiley
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1243: Mercy All this color stuff is making me spots... and rovers and lassies and...
Asa
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1244: Well the porch is certainly COLORFUL today. Good thing I am just into black and white. That I can handle. The humiliation is way up today - it is like walking in a sauna. YUCK
Good morning Floyd, Asa, Mrs. Wiley, and Aunt Bee-e. . .I am so glad that the porch was cleaned up while I slept. It is so pleasant sipping some sweet tea and watching the automatic work.
Have a wonderful day!
homemaker

July 17, 2001 - Msg 1245: Am I on another planet?
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1246: does anyone know what the make of the squad car is? it looks like a galaxie but we're not sure.
if anyone knows, please email me at tbrown234@yahoo.com
thanks
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1247: Hey Homemaker....did you mean Humidity or humiliation is way up?
--Floyd
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1248: humiliation is to weather as compelshun is to psychology.
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1249: as in: dang, the humiliation is up! I got a compelshun to go swimmin'. ~Mrs. Wiley
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1250: I believe it's a '62 Galaxie 500.
Hey to the Porch!
~De§~
(And them fonts is turned OFF :-)
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1251: Hey to the porch! Does any one remember who played the lawyer for Bill Bixby when he was the spoiled brat who got a ticket for speeding? And what was Bill Bixby's charecter's name on that episode? Hot and sticky here on the porch.

"My husband always complains about the weather, but never does anything about it." I think Mrs Grover Cleveland said that. Is that right ladies?

July 17, 2001 - Msg 1252: Hey to Des, Floyd, and how are you Missus Wiiilyyy. Sure quiet out here today. Hope it aint the bomb.
"Mayor, if you'd let me run my department like I know how Jess wouldn't be up that tree, and you wouldn't be up there with him with your clothes all ripped up, and I wouldn't have a bear in the back seat of the squad car. You beat everything, you know that?"

Asa
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1253: Looks like we had BOLD stuck on as well.

Hey Asa, Des and Mrs. Wiley!!
--Floyd
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1254: I just now found all you nice people...How do you do? How pleasant and peaceful it is. How about a nice glass of lemonade? Here you are,Andy,...with plenty of ice...just how you like it! And how about some pecan pie?... or lemon meringue? Oh, it's no trouble, no trouble at'aall. And if anyone is still hungry, I have some nice pork roast leftover and, I think,maybe, some of my special dill pickles. Andy, you know how you love my dill pickles! Well, I confess, there is a secret to my special pickles...I got it from Clara, don't tell!!
(New Chatter...Aunt Berta)
Oh, come now, you can eat more than that! Let me tell you all about my flight lesson in that cute little Cessna!...
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1255: Wow, seems like you guys had some fun with colors today. I'm not responsible for forgetting to turn the colors off, because I don't even know how to turn them on! Here at the porch there are 2 rules: Rule # 1: Obey all rules. Rule # 2: No using colors and bolds, etc as it is very hard to correct the board when you forget to turn them off. See. I turned them off. - Hazel
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1256: Thank you Mrs. Wiley for understanding "humiliation" -
I saw in the local paper the coroner riding in the Mayberry squad car during the Fourth of July parade. I don't know if it is the "original" but it was nice to Mayberry in the paper.
Have a good evening.
homemaker
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1257: Evening folks. It is a nice night here in Mayberry. I sat on the porch and could here the little league team a mile away. I saw the wild rabbit and squirrels eating in my bad yard as well as the cardinal singing at me and the cicadas added to the tune. The fire flies lit up the sky after dark. Oh, how peaceful and what a comfortable night. I came in to hear the news and now it is bedtime.
Homemaker I understand "humiliation" too, except my Mama calls Hu-mid-dity. We have all kinds of weird names for stuff. I'm so thankful to have a wonderful Mama.
Well, goodnight my friends.
Miss Ellie
PS. the colorful porch was cute for a change.
I thought I had drank too much mulberry squeezings.
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1258: Hear not here the little league.
Miss Ellie
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1259: Looks like Christmas around here today what with all the colors! as for the humiliation or the humidity they are both the same Floyd like 'maters & to-mah-toes you know, they're the same too! LOL
canned 23 quarts of beans & had to quit cause I ran out of kerosene. Sorry about your hairy feet Asa maybe Floyd can call that little lady nail tech he had for a while, they do feet don't they?
*Mavis
Hey Barn, say something like Santie Claus
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1260: Hey Homemaker I thought it was great to see that humiliation thing, my dad says that all the time too! He also says "peckerwood instead of woodpecker, do you do that? :-)
Hey to De§, Miss Ellie, Hazel, Floyd, Asa And Welcome to Aunt Berta I'll have a piece of that pecan pie you got there!
*Mavis
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1261: I'm gonna hush up now & go to bed, gotta go groom some more puppy feet tomorrow, sorry Asa but until your feet start looking like poodle feet, yer on yer own!
*Mavis
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1262: ithinkwevehearjustaboutenoughaboutthemfeet!!!
July 17, 2001 - Msg 1263: Welcome Aunt Bertha. It's right nice to have a someone join us on the porch. Don't worry, we do not always sit around talking about puppy feet.
Asa, just keep your shoes on, ya hear?

Little Opie is growing as fast as he is eating. We tried on some clothes, kinda preparing for school to start in a few weeks and durned if he hasn't about outgrowed all his shirts from last year. Guess I'll have to run over to Walker's Dept. Store and pick him up some more. If I run into Barney on a stake out, I'll give him the reguards of the porch.

"Little old ladies ought never to clank!"

Fun Girl
July 18, 2001 - Msg 1264: Fun Girl how old is yer little Opie? must be bout the same age as my young 'un the growth rate sounds like it is. You know it's bad when your young 'un gives YOU hand me downs!! Makes me buy him Levi's & Wranglers instead of them 'wild' britches that both of us can fit in! LOL
Gotta get to work!
*Mavis
That boy must have sandpaper on his knees!
July 18, 2001 - Msg 1265: Good Morning Everyone.
- Hazel
July 18, 2001 - Msg 1266: Mornin Mavis. Mornin Hazel. Another great day on tap, I hope. I think it might rain today. That would be good. Ya'll take care.
"Best of luck to you and yours".

Asa
July 18, 2001 - Msg 1267: Good Morning!!! Just thought I'd add a little color down here on the page.
--Floyd
July 18, 2001 - Msg 1268: Morning Floyd, Asa, homemaker, and welcome Aunt Berta! Yes, I understand humiliation well, growing up in Atlanta. They have some rite nasty pollen in the springtime too! Must be alot of folks there have their own flower makin' machines. Well, off to work! All the best to you and yours, say hey to Goober for me!
~Mrs. Wiley
July 18, 2001 - Msg 1269: With all these bulletin boards about "The Andy Griffith Show" I've been thinking about creating the town of Mayberry with bulletin boards. This is what I have in mind; have a web page, maybe call it Main Street, with the links to all the bulletin boards on it. Each bulletin board picks a location of Mayberry as there logo, for instance, I've changed my bulletin board to the "Mayberry Courthouse", "Miss Crump's" bulletin board could be the schoolhouse and Goober's place would be "Wally's Fillin' Station", etc...
Let me know if you are interested in being part of this. If so, simply reply to this post and include your web site address and logo. Please choose a logo based on a Mayberry structure or like Viola's "Mayberry Gossip Club", not something like, "Barney's Bullet" or "Opie's Toothbrush".
It will take a while to complete, but please send your requests as soon as you can, so I can be better prepared for this project. Also, the longer you wait the more likely someone is to use your logo!
With this set up, when someone wants to get a bottle of pop, head over to Goober's bulletin board, when someone wants to gossip, "The Mayberry Gossip Club" is for you, and so on. It will help make our bulletin boards more realistic and gives a feeling of everyone working together, in instead of each bulletin board being on it's own little island.
Let me know what you think.

Opie Taylor

July 18, 2001 - Msg 1270: Good morning to the porch! In response to post #1251, Bill Bixby's character was Ronald Bailey. The lawyer was Mr. Harrington, played by John Graham. Have a great day y'all!
July 18, 2001 - Msg 1271: Yik! This a horrible color!How about this?

Charlene D. Hollister
July 18, 2001 - Msg 1272: Did I drink to much elixir or what. . . them colors are just tooo wild for me!
Mavis, my famly makes up all kinds of words - we have family "rebellions" instead of reunions and we say "bas$-ackwards" for the other word that's unprintable.
My husband just usually shakes his head when we are all together. My dad really has some unique stories.

Channel 58 in Louisville has the best Mayberry commercial - it is called the "Songs of Mayberry" and the show clips of Gomer, Rafe, The Barbershop Quartet being available on CD. It is cute but it is only available by watching TAGS. Real cute!

Fun Girl - my four year old will be going to a Christian school this fall (early for him because he won't turn 5 until October) and I am doing the uniform search. Trying to find inexpensive clothes because he will be out of them before I can turn around. He is taller than his cousins so the hand-me-downs aren't there anymore.

Well. .I need to go work on my goats - right now, goats are my life! (I may have to change my name).
TTFN
homemaker


July 18, 2001 - Msg 1273: sorry I was so long winded ya'll - homemaker
July 18, 2001 - Msg 1274: That's OK homemaker (or will it be "goatmaker"?) I wish I had some animals to raise, it's real rewarding. I used to raise mice to sell to pet shops. Yes, those young'uns grow so fast! I have 2 girls 10 and 12. They're heavily into fashion - I wish I could get them into hand-me-downs.

No Time for Seargents was on last night, one of my fav's..."PBBTTHHHTT.....He-LOW?" and "P.L.O." are part of my vocabulary.
~Mrs. Wiley

July 18, 2001 - Msg 1275: Howdy porch sitters! It's gonna be hot, dang hot here in the hoosier state today. Oh well, just another day in paradise. Mavis, Little Opie (Kyle)
is eleven and growin' like a weed. He will be in the 5th grade this year. He will go to a christian school when he gets into middle school.
I work at the school now and I feel like I know what's going on there, but once they get to middle school, it's a little harder, plus with all the violence and guns and stuff. Well that boy is too precious to take chances with. He is a precious gift from God. Little Opie isn't picky. He wears second hand clothes and as long as he is comfortable for recess, he doesn't care too much.
I asked him last Christmas if he would like some clothes from "Old Navy" while I was there buying something for his cousin. He said "No Mom, I like the clothes I have, which are all nice, but none of them were bought new for him. I am lucky to have a boy. I have a feeling that if I had a girl, things would be different.

Have a good one.
Fun Girl
July 18, 2001 - Msg 1276: You got a good one there Fun Girl! I felt the same way as a kid. Mom got me clothes that were donated to Church (she was a Folding Lady) and I loved them. But I wouldn't trade the girls in for anything!!
~Mrs. Wiley
July 18, 2001 - Msg 1277: not even for a pair of roller skates!
July 18, 2001 - Msg 1278: Mrs. Wiley, having girls is a horse of a different color all together. I have two nephews and a niece and we never knew what a difference there was until little Raegen was born and Lord, what a prissy little thing. You won't see her skeet shooting though you might find her trying to whip Opie. She is full of fire that one, but how she loves to dress up and look purty. She is very picky about what she wears. She wears hand me downs from the other side of the family, but they pay 100-200 dollars for an outfit. I am the lady that goes through the closet at school where we keep the clothes in case someone wets themself or spills their milk at lunch. So a couple times a year, the secretaries ask me to clean the closet. (That's kinda like sweeping the porch for you Floyd.) Anyway, what we don't use they give to a local mission, but they tell me to take anything that will fit Kyle. So far he doesn't mind a bit. There are very nice clothes in the closet, like Nike t-shirts, etc. I just hope no one ever comes up to him and say "Hey that shirt used to be mine." I am one of those people who hate to see anything go to waste. Especially if I can use it (Ha ha)

I know how you feel about your girls, even though Raegen is a sassy little priss, I love her to pieces.

Hey Homemaker, how's the goat tending going?
Fun Girl
July 18, 2001 - Msg 1279: hi yall this heres howard of the rainbow chapter, im here 2 tell u about the experince i had up at myers lake above hollywood, its the same place i know it now. its swell i love it there, my chapters defunct in the islands, but im in hollywood gettin work. u r the sweetes bunch,... u r the cats, truly. i hope u r all well, and maybe sometime i can get thru to sarahs again, best to you all. howard
July 18, 2001 - Msg 1280: All the best to you Howard! How's your mother? ~Mrs. Wiley
July 18, 2001 - Msg 1281: Evening Porch! Glad to see everyone doin so good & that we stillgot young 'uns that don't WANT everything! homemaker we got all kinds of them words floatin around here too, we say 'destructions' for 'instructions' cause that's what it usually ends up being! LOL I like the family rebellion one!
*Mavis
it's time we get this place 'lectronilized!
July 18, 2001 - Msg 1282: Hey Mavis. I've got me one of them minature weener dogs [ I have to call him that cause I don't know how to spell minature Dachshund] and he loves to sing when TAGS comes on. It is a hoot. when the whistlin starts he sticks his nose up in the air and howls to high heaven. Just thought I would share that with you, seeings how you play with dogs feet all day.
Barney: You know what I'm gonna do when that interloper gets here?
Andy: What?
Barney: The big freeze.

Asa
July 18, 2001 - Msg 1283: Andy: "Oh my Barney. Oh my Barney. Had a jail and couldn't lock it. Had one bullet for his pistol, had to keep it in his pocket.

Fun Girl
July 18, 2001 - Msg 1284: Hi All.Will it look like no rain for about a week or two here, and is making everyone not feeting to good.
The kids here have to have white short and black pant and the girl two that way no one will say thing about the clotre taht have.
FRAGILE BEAUTY.
Snow is falling large, quiet flakes-
from a heavily clouded sky...
I catch a flake on mittened hand,
and hold it near my eye.
The love of God so clearly seen,
in intricate design!
I wiah that i could hold it close,
and somehow make it mine.
But soon it melts, and it is gone,
and i wish that i could see...
God's face as I look ui and say,
'Thanks for Your gift to me!"

July 19, 2001 - Msg 1285: Morning Porch. Msg 1284 sounded like something TOM would say. Is that you, Tom? Haven't heard from you for awhile. Have a good day everyone. Let's get under there with them spiders and start working! - Hazel
July 19, 2001 - Msg 1286: "look-a-there, SPIDER BITE!" ~Mrs. Wiley
July 19, 2001 - Msg 1287: Goodmorning everyone. It is cloudy here but cooler. Gonna have some rain probably later but we need it.
TOM, I hope that is you. Lovely poem. My niece could dress herself when she was about 3 years old and she would change clothes several times a day but always matched everything perfectly. She is in someways at 11 years old wise beyond her years, wiser than a lot of adults she is around, yet the other day she showed me an innocent side of her.
Hope everyone has a wonderful day.
Miss Ellie
"Why don't you go down to the old folks home and wax the steps."
July 19, 2001 - Msg 1288: Good Afternoon to Everyone. . .the goats are just fine Fun Girl. We will be working on making baby goats next month. That way any little boys born in January will be the right age to sell for 4-H goats. The little girls we keep and hopefully, there will be a show goat or two in the bunch. We are taking 3 to open class at the State Fair. It is a new adventure for us. My oldest is really excited and wanting to show them.
We had more rain last night. We probably averaged at least four inches yesterday. A neighbor got hit by lightening while working in his silo - he's alright but a little shook up. I would be too.
We have a lot of "humility" today but a lot of cloud cover too.
I sure am glad that I have my friends on the proch to converse with.
TTFN
homemaker
July 19, 2001 - Msg 1289: There just ain't nothing quite like a fair. Our county fair starts on Saturday. We love it. When we go we see so many friends. Last year we saw 30 people that we knew in one night at the fair. And the food, well let me just say that I am not built like Big Maude for nothing. Ice Cream, Funnel Cake, Ribeye Sandwiches, Elephant Ears, Corn on the Cob, and doughnuts, don't forget about the doughnuts.

Making myself hungry.
Fun Girl
July 19, 2001 - Msg 1290: Just so folks that drop in will know. There seems to be a problem over on the "Mayberry.com" servers. My California is having blackouts again?
--Allan
July 19, 2001 - Msg 1291: Asa I got 2 of them miniature 'weinie' dogs, great little companions. They don't sing the TAGS them, but the bird does! Trying to get him to say 'nip it' but so far no luck, all he does is whistle & say what a pretty bird he is.
*Mavis
Wynkyn will tell Bkynkyn, Blynkyn will tell Nod & Nod will tell Barney
July 19, 2001 - Msg 1292: *Mavis, you are a bird in this world! MMmmmm donuts! ~Mrs. Wiley
good night porch!
July 19, 2001 - Msg 1293: Whats up porch!? I'm on the road and missing the andy show!!! Dang, I think I'm about as close to mayberry as you can get...I'm in an area at the corner of ne, sd, and Iowa...yeeehaaawww!
July 19, 2001 - Msg 1294: "He's headin' for Canada!"
July 19, 2001 - Msg 1295: watch out for Checkpoint Chickee #1293 if you see a moving bush you better slow down.
*Mavis
five 40 they'll do 45...
July 19, 2001 - Msg 1296: dadgum it, got my quote all messed up & now it just ain't the same! LOL
that should be give em 40, and they'll do 45
July 20, 2001 - Msg 1297: Good morning to the Porch! It's been awhile since I've been able to drop by, and I gotta say, you folks have been BUSY! This post is gonna be a little long, 'cause I got so much to catch up on. Bear with me, please? I 'preciate it.

Hey to my bud Idelle! I owe you an email, don't I (don't I ALWAYS? LOL!!!)? I'll get one together for you soon, bud. It's nice to see you.

Hey Hazel and Homemaker and *Mavis and anybody else that's into gardening, I found a FOOL-PROOF way to tell a weed from a good plant. All you gotta do is grasp the plant near the bottom and pull lightly. If it comes out of the ground easy-like, it was a good plant. Hope this helps! :-)

Hey to Msg 1251. Bill Bixby's character name in Bailey's Bad Boy was Ronald Bailey. The feller who played his daddy's lawyer, Arthur Harrington, was an actor named John Graham. (I see that my beloveded Charlene already answered this'n for ya, but I didn't know if you'd be able to read her handwritin', so here it is again.) :-)

LOL @*Mavis! Don't ya just hate it when that happens? Perfectly good quote, plumb WASTED. We've all been there, bud. Don't go punishin' yourself inside or anything. Just remember, the sun will shine in your back door someday!

I'll see ya.
*Rafe Hollister
Come, fish, come.
Come, fish, come.
Sam's at the gate with a frosted cake.
Come, fish, come.

Mmmmmmmmm... cake...

July 20, 2001 - Msg 1298: Good Morning Rafe and everyone. My, aren't you chipper this morning Rafe. Thanks for the gardening tip - I believe that one might work. I hope we have good luck today after your fish quote. Did you remember to rub the head of a red-headed boy? I don't work if you don't do that. - Hazel
July 20, 2001 - Msg 1299: Oops, I meant "it don't work if you don't do that". Brother. Mavis - you jinxed me! Hazel
July 20, 2001 - Msg 1300: If you ask me the whole porch is got bat eggs in there hair. Good to see ya Rafe Mavis, Hazel, Miss Ellie, and anyone else I'm missing. My corn is about a week away from picking so ya all plan on coming over for a corn bust. Trying a new type this year called Bodacious. Supposed to be sweeeeet. I even planted a dedicated plot just for you Rafe. I know how you like your corn. I'm off to work so have a good one.

Asa
" We'll take an ax and POW POW POW."
July 20, 2001 - Msg 1301: Morning Porch!
*Rafe where you been there bud?? Thought you took off to Raliegh or something & decided to stay! Good to see ya, & thanks for that gardenin tip, I tried it & ya know, it does work! ;-) Asa I don't think I got bat eggs in my hair, but I'm gonna go look. We planted some of that there 'Peaches & Cream' ain't tried it, but so far we got a coon that likes it REAL good!
Hazel didn't mean to jinx ya, ain't you got your rabbit's foot or at least a penny that was run over by a train?
*Mavis
7 3/8 Oh Ange, he pulled out the hat size
July 20, 2001 - Msg 1302: Hey De§ Jimmy Buffett is on the Today show this mornin, hope yer watchin/
*Mavis
July 20, 2001 - Msg 1303: Any old tramps down there???
July 20, 2001 - Msg 1304: (Okay, I hope this font looks okay.)

Good morning to the porch. Hope everyone has a great day and a great weekend! As for the Hollisters, Rafe and I are gonna hang around the homestead with the youngins, relax around the pool, just take it easy. Too dang hot to do much these days! Talk at y'all later!

Charlene D. Hollister

Barney: Yeah, that's the plan. Go home, take a nap, then head over to Thelma Lou's for a little T.V.


July 20, 2001 - Msg 1305: Charlene - I like the red font. It goes well with gray.

It has been a hair-raising morning here - you know how it goes when a gallon of tea gets spilled all over the kitchen floor. YIKES - just another day in paradise.

And Fun Girl, we'll be working with the goats today - teaching them lead and all of that good fun. They all get a bath tonight!

TTFN
homemaker
July 20, 2001 - Msg 1306: homemaker I can just see ya'll now giving those goats a bath. Bet you get one right along with them. LOL Charlene it been hot, dang hot here too, but today has turned out real pretty! Better go, let us know how the goat washing goes.
*Mavis
you know what's gonna happen if that goat butts up against you with all that alcohol in ya don't ya???
July 20, 2001 - Msg 1307: Almost forgot, I updated my website some today, ya'll are welcome to go see the new stuff. *Mavis' Place no goats on there tho, sorry. LOL
*Mavis
July 20, 2001 - Msg 1308: Let me know what time to show up for the bodacious corn dinner. What did you want me to bring? How about the mulberry squeezins? - Hazel
July 20, 2001 - Msg 1309: That last question was for Asa. Forgot to say that. I'm really getting absent minded lately. Must be the fallout. It's effected our water. Hazel
July 20, 2001 - Msg 1310: it's affected the milk too.
July 20, 2001 - Msg 1311: "Otis! He spiked the spring water!"
- Hazel
July 20, 2001 - Msg 1312: Could everyone please send your ICQ numbers to me? I had to download ICQ all over again. Also, where's Otis/Rick??? I really need to get in touch with you; lost your email address. Got some questions, so gird your loins, buster! lol!
~De§~
July 20, 2001 - Msg 1313: I did see Mr. Boufay, *Mavis! Thank you for remembering. Yer a fine human bean, y'are. :-)
~De§~
P.S. Fonts is OFF!
July 20, 2001 - Msg 1314: I don't even know what an ICQ number is. And I don't believe I'll sign my name to this message, because that would display my ignorance!
You're not talking to a jerk, you know.

July 20, 2001 - Msg 1315: Hey, #1314 remember at one time we ALL didn't know what ICQ was, it's a neat little instant message type system. I gotta get mine on here again.
Nite porch
*Mavis
July 20, 2001 - Msg 1316: almost forgot, De§ I wouldn't forget that about you how could I?? I haven't heard from Rick in a long time, reckon he's AWOL?
I'll hush now & go to bed!
*Mavis
July 21, 2001 - Msg 1317: Good mornin' to the Porch! And a FINE day it is, too, 'cause it's our favorite Deputy's birthday!!! So I wanna say a gret-big

Happy Birthday to
DON KNOTTS!!!
(Bless his heart...)

Hey to Hazel. Did you have good luck yesterday? I didn't rub the head of a red-headed boy or have a buckeye in my pocket or anything, so I don't know how good my fish chant worked. Hope it didn't do any harm, anyway.

Hey Asa, I appreciate you thinkin' of me when you planted your corn. That Bodacious brand sounds REAL good to me, and I cain't wait to sink my choppers into it! I don't think it'd be good for distillin', tho, 'cause for that you need a little higher acidity level in your corn in order for the mash to... ummm... that is... I don't know WHAT I'm talking about... Did somebody say something about moonshining? I sure didn't! No, I was just talkin' about corn with my good friend Asa, honest, Deputy. No moonshinin' talk goin' on here! (I'll talk with you later, Asa. Tick-a-lock!) :-)

Hey to my bud *Mavis! No, I didn't move to Raleigh, or take a trip to Charlottesville and get run over by a taxicab or ANYTHING. I just been busy-busy-busy around here lately, and I've been puttin' off my regular visits to the Porch. I'm gonna hafta quit that for sure, 'cause this place shorely is therapetic.

And speakin' of therapetic, loungin' around the pool with my beloveded Charlene and the young 'uns this weekend sure sounds good to me! Watching children at play is one of the fine things in life we too often take for granted. Ahhhh, I can feel them waves flowin' over me now, coolin' me off and revitalizin' me at the same time. Ain't many things better than than on a hot Summer day.

Hey ~De§~, I'll send you my ICQ number as soon as I can. It's on my other machine. Hope you're doin' well, bud. I ain't chatted with you in awhile!

Ever'body else have a great weekend, and take care of each other. My, aren't we lucky to be livin' in such a friendly town?

I'll see ya.
*Rafe Hollister
"I'll take the Mister Potato set."

July 21, 2001 - Msg 1318: Charlene Darling was a strange hillbillie. She didn't walk around barefoot! She should have it would have given her a much cruder,earthier, and more rural feel. Wonder if attractive Maggie Peterson had ugly or scaly feet or something and that's why she didn't walk around barefoot on TAGS.
July 21, 2001 - Msg 1319: Charlene Darling was a strange hillbillie. She didn't walk around barefoot! She should have it would have given her a much cruder,earthier, and more rural feel. Wonder if attractive Maggie Peterson had ugly or scaly feet or something and that's why she didn't walk around barefoot on TAGS.
July 21, 2001 - Msg 1320: Just wanted to say howdy to everyone. Been away for awhile-guess I must stepped in a closet or something. Never would have found my way out if Barn hadn't gimme a push! Used to visit here as Otis 49! Hope you all are doing well.
Otis52
July 21, 2001 - Msg 1321: I didn't give you no push!
Morning, porch - Hazel
July 21, 2001 - Msg 1322: Are you going to weed again today, Asa? I guess I'll have to again. Durn things growed back again. Think I'll weed for a while, maybe clean the house a bit, then go over to Rafe's and Charlenes and lounge around the pool. I understand he's got some real good moonshin- ... I mean lemonade that I might like to try. - Hazel
July 21, 2001 - Msg 1323: Hazel I'll brang some good old BEANS Lord knows I got enuf of 'em & we'll all just to to the Hollister Homestead & lounge around the pool & eat! Mornin' to all the porch sitters this mornin'
*Mavis
yep, that's the plan, go to the Hollister's, lounge around the pool, eat....yep believe that's what I'll do, go to the Hollister's,lounge... Oh for crying out loud go girl just go!!
July 21, 2001 - Msg 1324: Mornin Hazel. Sounds like we think alike. My weeds grow like..... well weeds. I think I'll leave the house cleaning for my better half though. She is much more talented at that than I am. I really like your plan for going over to Rafe and Charlene's place. That pool lounging sounds real good later on. And seeing how it's Don Knotts birthday we can partake of some of Rafe's fine elixer. That is after all a special occasion, right?
By the way HAPPY BIRTDAY DON KNOTTS. Hope you enjoy many more.
And hey to Otis 52. What does 52 stand for?
"AND QUIT HOLLERIN AT YOUSELF IN THAT LOOKIN GLASS"

Asa
July 21, 2001 - Msg 1325: Mavis, ya snuck in there on me. Mornin to ya. I took a look at your web page. Looks great. If you all are goin to Rafe's to, bring your husband and his guitar and sing Summertime Dream for us.
"I GOTTA GIRL, ANDY'S GOTTA GIRL, ALL GODS CHILDREN GOTTA GIRL.

Asa
July 21, 2001 - Msg 1326: Hey all,
Long time, no see. I didn't realize it was my birthday. I've been away and I must have lost track of time. Let's not hash out ancient history.
And I'm not going to stand around here and talk about trivial trivialities.
Have a great day all.
P.S.- I like the front porch green, but I can't find my green paint.
Fifer
July 21, 2001 - Msg 1327: Hey all,
Long time, no see. I didn't realize it was my birthday. I've been away and I must have lost track of time. Let's not hash out ancient history.
And I'm not going to stand around here and talk about trivial trivialities.
Have a great day all.
P.S.- I like the front porch green, but I can't find my green paint.
Fifer