lazarus
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Thu Dec-31-09 07:50 PM
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What I miss about Alabama |
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I moved away 7 years ago, to San Diego. San Diego is paradise, but there are a few things I miss about home.
Slaw dogs with western sauce at the Andalusia Dairy Queen Dreamland (the original in Tuscaloosa) Boiled peanuts (nobody hear has even heard of them) Watermelon (yeah, we get 'em, but they just don't taste right) Peaches from Chilton County (the peaches here are dry) Going to Bryant-Denny to scream my fool head off Christmas Eve at my Grandmother's house
And everything Claire Lynch sings about in the song Alabama State of Mind
Y'all have a Happy New Year.
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Fri Jan-01-10 02:21 AM
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1. You have a happy new year, too. |
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I decamped to follow a job north in 1997, but I'm on the way to good ol' Fairhope in the morning for a week... just hoping the WEAR blackout of The Game won't happen.
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Fri Jan-01-10 02:22 AM
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2. is that a possibility? |
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I can't imagine a station in Bama blacking out that Game.
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Fri Jan-01-10 11:09 AM
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4. WEAR (ABC) is in Pensacola. |
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They're feuding with their cable carrier, but they vow the game will be seen via the regular airwaves. Doesn't look like it. I may end up taking my 90-year-old mom (big Tide fan) to a sports bar!
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Fri Jan-01-10 06:26 AM
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3. I like all those things |
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Except, I don't know who Clarie Lynch is. All the other stuff sounds good.
Happy New Year!
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lazarus
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Fri Jan-01-10 10:14 PM
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is a bluegrass singer/songwriter from Tuscaloosa. She also formed the Front Porch String Band with fellow Bama students.
Here are the lyrics. It's a great song:
There's a lasting impression forever in my mind a mental picture of a place that I call home and whenever this big city starts to move too fast I can kick off these shoes and flip it on.
I see a white farm house and a flat bed truck and an old barn filled with winter hay and the barge out in the channel takes its own sweet time by tonight he'll be a hundred miles away
I can float across the river wade on up the creek walk on down a country road just killing time no matter where I go I'll always be in an Alabama state of mind
well I can still smell the dirt of a new plowed field or watch the sun set on the river 'til it's gone and all god's creatures come alive on a moonlit night and make a joyful noise all of their own.
and on a laid back summer Sunday, after church kinfolk come around and visit for awhile and I can almost taste what's on my plate Sunday dinner cooked up Southern style
I can float across the river wade on up the creek walk on down a country road just killing time no matter where I go I'll always be in an Alabama state of mind
If you catch me in a day dream you will know that I;m in an Alabama state of mind
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Sat Jan-02-10 03:16 PM
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6. What about affordable housing? When my cousin |
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moved from Maine to San Diego she was in shock over the cost of housing.
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lazarus
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Sun Jan-03-10 06:53 PM
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8. it's stunning out here |
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we're in a fairly decent small (900 square feet) 2 bedroom with a decent yard. We pay $1,500. Every month.
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Tue Feb-09-10 11:24 PM
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9. I was born in Andalusia |
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and moved near Santa Cruz, CA, 7 years ago! But I lived in Massachusetts for a few years and in Maryland for a lot of years after I left Alabama.
The area I am in is very beautiful and the climate is moderate, but it is exorbitantly expensive.
I miss turnip greens and peach cobbler and the little town I grew up in.
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Tue Feb-09-10 11:37 PM
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small world. My first job was with Jimmy Faulkner at the DQ. I graduated from Pleasant Home in '83.
Did you know a recent winner of Survivor is from Samson?
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Wed Feb-10-10 11:28 AM
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11. Happy to meet you, Lazarus! |
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I was born just before Pearl Harbor. My parents were living in Linden at the time, but there was no hospital there. My mother went to stay with her sister and her husband, Frances and Kyle Parks, who lived in Andalusia, so I could be born in the hospital there.
When I was six months old, we moved to Bay Minette and lived there until the end of World War II. My father was the assistant county agent for Baldwin County. He tried to enlist in the Army both in Baldwin County and Mobile County, but P.O. Davis, the state head of the agriculture department and his boss, vetoed his enlistment saying my father was needed in Baldwin County to help with the production of potatoes. A few years ago, I was doing some research on that time of my life. My father had died, but Auburn University sent me a copy of one of my father's annual reports. In it, my father praised the high school boys who came from other counties to Baldwin County to help harvest potatoes because so many of the men who usually worked in the fields were in the Service.
I was only four years old when we moved to Clarke County, but I remember my mother saying that when we lived in Bay Minette I used to play with a Faulkner boy who lived on our street! I'm pretty sure that she said his father ran for Governor.
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Wed Feb-10-10 03:34 PM
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there are at least two people posting here from Andalusia/Covington County, but I can't recall who they are just now.
small world, indeed.
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Wed Feb-10-10 09:50 PM
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13. It's funny but I always check out the Alabama site |
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before I go to the California site. California is such a large state geographically and it has such a huge population that it feels more like a country than a state to me.
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Sat Feb-13-10 01:05 PM
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14. Thanks for my valentine |
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I don't know how to start a new thread, but this seems like a good place to thank whoever gave me a Valentine.
Happy Valentine's Day, everyone.
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