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Shelagh
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Abe F. March
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|  Subject: Re: What Are Some of our Writing Activities?  Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:11 pm | |
| You have a beautiful voice Shelagh.
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Dick Stodghill
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| | Subject: Re: What Are Some of our Writing Activities? Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:37 pm | |
| Not quite the same falls, Shelagh, but a bit like the big falls of the Cuyahoga. Believe it not, within the city limits of Cuyahoga Falls the river drops a greater distance than the Niagra does at Niagra Falls. Here it does it in several stages, though.
So you see, Brenda, I was not wrong.
Here are two of the smaller falls before the river widens out. They are at the bottom of a hundred foot gorge. A great place to hike, but one slip and you're dead.
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Malcolm
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| | Subject: Re: What Are Some of our Writing Activities? Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:55 pm | |
| Great card, Shelagh!
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Brenda Hill
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| | Subject: Re: What Are Some of our Writing Activities? Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:54 am | |
| Remember the old song from the eighties? "Oh Lord, it's hard to be
humble . . ." but after viewing that photo, Dick, I'll humbly admit you
might have a point. Not willing to go further about Ohio, but I just
might admit there might be a foot or two that isn't so bad.
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rainbow689
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| | Subject: Re: What Are Some of our Writing Activities? Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:20 am | |
| | Forest Elf wrote: | | Sue Sunshine wrote: | I know
that feeling. Well, almost. I can remember trying to get a 6'13"
trailer under a 6'9" under a bridge in Trenton, New Jersey. It just
doesn't work no matter how many police you have directing traffic. I
wasn't doing the driving but it was just as nerve-wracking. Then the
police had to go ahead of us, after we backed out of there, to ask
residents to move their cars off a one-way street so that our load
could get through. Boy, did they make the streets narrow 'in the old
days'.
Oh, ya, I dated drivers before hubby and I worked for the
safety dept. for Swift Transportation. I hired and tried not to fire
drivers. So I know pretty much what you go through. My sympathies
always were with the drivers. That is why I quit my job. Or at least it
is one of the reasons. Guess we have more in common than writing.
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Heh!!!!
I
think almost every company driver out there has worked for Swift at
some point in their driving career ... but most won't admit it!!! 
I admit I worked for them for seven months.
Back when SWIFT means S-sure W-wish I-i had a F-faster T-truck !!! |
Not me I worked for Werner or We Employ Rednecks No Experience Required!
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Sue Sunshine
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| | Subject: Re: What Are Some of our Writing Activities? Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:32 am | |
| Well, I changed my inches and feet on my last post. Sorry for that. I was working on being up for 22 hours straight with only 3 hours of sleep before that.
I worked for Paul Yates, Shaeffer and was a dispatcher for RoadRunner too. All out of Arizona where I was living before being sequestered here in the Midwest.
I love the pics everyone is posting. I love your card, Shelagh. I think that is a wonderful title for a book, Karina.
As for Ohio, well... I was actually born there but I don't claim it as I was about a year old when my mom moved me to Arizona where I lived my developing years. So I claim Arizona as my home state. I still have a dad and step-mom and cousins there. Ashland about 60 miles south of Cleveland. I guess because my mom always felt that Ohio was not a ... ummm ... prestigious state, I have always thought of it as being in the sticks. It does have some beautiful country though. Pennsylvania has some beautiful parts too!
Now back to the writing activities. Right now I am working on the workbook. *sigh* (We need a sigh smiley here.) And working on my consultanting website. I have also been working on Susan's Chance, thanks to all the help I have received here it has inspired me!
Shutting up for now!
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zadaconnaway
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| | Subject: Re: What Are Some of our Writing Activities? Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:06 am | |
| Shelagh, you did a terrific job on the video. And the singer is also grand. I still have it playing in the background. Probably will listen to it until I sign off!
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Dick Stodghill
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| | Subject: Re: What Are Some of our Writing Activities? Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:08 pm | |
| Ohio not prestigious? Shame on you, Sue. Count the number of presidents from various states and see where Ohio stands. Unfortunately both of those from my area, James Garfield and William McKinley, were assassinated. They are well remembered around here.
Ashland is only a few miles up the road from Mansfield, where I lived in 1934 and '35. That would have been before you were around.
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Sue Sunshine
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| | Subject: Re: What Are Some of our Writing Activities? Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:48 pm | |
| I didn't say it wasn't prestigious, Dick. My mom did.  Her and I have never agreed, and I mean never. But her impression of Ohio has infiltrated my sensibility of the State to some degree. When I am there visiting my real Dad I feel as though I am on a different planet. The 'feel' is just different for me, that is all. I have met some really wonderful people from there. If you really stop and think about it, I really am a Buckeye even if I was only there for a year.
Perhaps my mom's perception is because they were dirt poor and she had
to pull mustard from a field in order to get new shoes for Easter.
That might cause her spin on things to be colored.
I have been blessed to live in so many places growing up and in my adult years that my writing activities, if I ever get to them, have a proliferation of topics to choose from and the stories I can tell.
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Dick Stodghill
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| | Subject: Re: What Are Some of our Writing Activities? Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:07 pm | |
| Right, Sue, once a Buckeye always a Buckeye.
I was born in Indiana and once a Hoosier, always a Hoosier.
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Forest Elf
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| | Subject: Re: What Are Some of our Writing Activities? Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:43 am | |
| Okay .... I have been through Indiana (and Ohio) more times than I know.
WHAT IS A HOOSIER?????
Where in Indiana are you from??? My family comes from there!
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zadaconnaway
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| | Subject: Re: What Are Some of our Writing Activities? Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:37 am | |
| Wikipedia does not know the answer but has some colorful possibliities on where the term 'hoosier' comes from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoosier
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Dick Stodghill
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| | Subject: Re: What Are Some of our Writing Activities? Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:10 pm | |
| I was born in Muncie and now and then spent time there with relatives, but my first home actually was in Indianapolis. By pure chance I got a job with the Muncie Evening Press in 1970 and was there for 20 years aside from two in Cooperstown, NY.
There are many versions of how the name Hoosier came into being. Some are ridiculous. To me the logical one is that a couple of hundred years ago a man named Hoosier had a great many employees at a place in Southeast Indiana. That is a historical fact. His employees were often referred to as Hoosiers, especially when they crossed into Ohio.
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