Selah7 Posted May 15, 2022 Group: Royal Member Followers: 11 Topic Count: 56 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 2,610 Content Per Day: 2.41 Reputation: 3,182 Days Won: 11 Joined: 05/25/2021 Status: Offline Share Posted May 15, 2022 Hiya …. I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. I loved the bay and the beaches and the sun and the seagulls. Ah, but I left Corpus when I was 24 years old and met a southern boy from Louisiana in a radiologic technology seminar in Houston. That’s all she wrote, folks. And here I am still, enjoying the forever southern hospitality, magnolia trees and sweet tea. selah … 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marathoner Posted May 15, 2022 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 72 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 10,291 Content Per Day: 7.10 Reputation: 13,315 Days Won: 99 Joined: 05/24/2020 Status: Offline Share Posted May 15, 2022 🐁 are a perfect example. Deer mice live in hordes throughout the desert and high desert areas of the American Southwest. Yes, I do mean hordes of them. I didn't have enough traps to deal with those times of year when deer mice invade in force. It was surreal! I would place a trap and while I was setting another one, SNAP! The trap I just set down caught a deer mouse. One night, I trapped 23 deer mice over two hours... I didn't have enough traps! You have to keep them under control. They spread disease. Rats were a problem, too. Every year, we heard reports of someone being infected with the bubonic plague in our area. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ani Tefillah Posted May 15, 2022 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 7 Topic Count: 340 Topics Per Day: 0.41 Content Count: 2,099 Content Per Day: 2.54 Reputation: 1,592 Days Won: 5 Joined: 02/06/2022 Status: Offline Author Share Posted May 15, 2022 33 minutes ago, Marathoner said: You're right about 🌵 flowers, @MonicaWife. The blooms are beautiful! Even those nasty cholla trees sport delicate, colorful flowers. Cacti retain a great deal of water and this probably explains why they aren't big on flavor. But they're very juicy. Cacti are very tough and thrive even in drought. A gift from the Lord in the hard places. There's more life in the desert than folks who have never spent time there suspect. I have had a few different indoor plants during the years, but seldom a cactus 🌵, as I can't make them to survive somehow. I don't know if the reason is too little water 💦 or too much, though. 😅 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayin jade Posted May 15, 2022 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 44 Topic Count: 6,178 Topics Per Day: 0.87 Content Count: 43,798 Content Per Day: 6.20 Reputation: 11,244 Days Won: 58 Joined: 01/03/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted May 15, 2022 1 hour ago, Marathoner said: 🐁 are a perfect example. Deer mice live in hordes throughout the desert and high desert areas of the American Southwest. Yes, I do mean hordes of them. I didn't have enough traps to deal with those times of year when deer mice invade in force. It was surreal! I would place a trap and while I was setting another one, SNAP! The trap I just set down caught a deer mouse. One night, I trapped 23 deer mice over two hours... I didn't have enough traps! You have to keep them under control. They spread disease. Rats were a problem, too. Every year, we heard reports of someone being infected with the bubonic plague in our area. When I worked in an Indian health hospital I saw many cases of bubonic plague. I was also near ground zero of hantavirus when it was first identified in the us. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sower Posted May 15, 2022 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 14 Topic Count: 32 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,269 Content Per Day: 0.97 Reputation: 5,891 Days Won: 1 Joined: 07/09/2009 Status: Offline Share Posted May 15, 2022 1 hour ago, Selah7 said: Hiya …. I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. I loved the bay and the beaches and the sun and the seagulls. Ah, but I left Corpus when I was 24 years old and met a southern boy from Louisiana in a radiologic technology seminar in Houston. That’s all she wrote, folks. And here I am still, enjoying the forever southern hospitality, magnolia trees and sweet tea. selah … (Our children were also born there, Selah) Body of Christ, Corpus Christi. The Sparkling city by the Sea. My wife and I eloped and were married there in 71. Stayed at the Sun N Surf on Ocean drive, the honeymoon suite at $25 bucks a day with private pier. The owner, an elderly lady took our wedding pictures for us. Our kids were born there and they were really upset when we moved inland to the land I inherited. We literally spent most family time combing the beach and fishing up and down Padre Island, finding the coolest stuff washing up on the beaches from all over the world. We go back often every year, or Rock port down the road, with our large family now. Driving back there for a holiday, getting close and smiling when smelling the sea salt breeze, stinking shrimp and seaweed, and say ah, we're back home. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marathoner Posted May 15, 2022 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 72 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 10,291 Content Per Day: 7.10 Reputation: 13,315 Days Won: 99 Joined: 05/24/2020 Status: Offline Share Posted May 15, 2022 1 hour ago, ayin jade said: When I worked in an Indian health hospital I saw many cases of bubonic plague. I was also near ground zero of hantavirus when it was first identified in the us. Fortunately, the bubonic plague can be treated successfully these days. Prognosis is good. The hantavirus was an issue on the Navajo reservation in NM, which also stretches into AZ (I think most Navajo are concentrated in Arizona). No hantavirus where we were. Just the plague. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluedragon Posted May 15, 2022 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 26 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 289 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 131 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/20/2022 Status: Offline Share Posted May 15, 2022 (edited) Born in Laredo, Tx. Moved to Tokyo, Japan Moved to Honolulu, Hawaii. Moved to Clovis, NM Moved to Langley, Va Moved to Edwards AFB, CA Moved to Tokyo, Japan graduated High School. Caught a cargo flight and flew to Seattle then Birmingham, AL Went to Auburn University. Moved to Syracuse, NY Moved to Cheyenne, WY Moved to Clearwater, FL Moved to Birmingham, AL I've been to every state except Rhode Island. I was a Regional Sales Manager whose territory included Canada. I've been to every Province in Canada. Edited May 15, 2022 by Bluedragon 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bropro Posted May 16, 2022 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 16 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 212 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 314 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/29/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted May 16, 2022 On 5/14/2022 at 11:25 AM, MonicaWife said: Shalom! I guess a similar thread has been started before in here, even if I haven't seen one, but I start one anyway. Please don't answer my question if you are not comfortable with it.... My question is, where are you from, what country (or state if you want)? I'm just curious, as I think there's many nationalities in here. ☺️ I'm from Norway 🇳🇴, by the way. I was born in Longview Washington, but I have lived in Kansas City Missouri most of my life. Gary 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray12614 Posted May 16, 2022 Group: Senior Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 667 Content Per Day: 0.43 Reputation: 750 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/22/2020 Status: Offline Share Posted May 16, 2022 If you move to Michigan the prettiest is the north west side of the lower peninsula in my opinion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluedragon Posted May 16, 2022 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 26 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 289 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 131 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/20/2022 Status: Offline Share Posted May 16, 2022 22 hours ago, Golds and Blues said: Totally a propane salesman. I've a good friend from the little town of Laredo. Ole Gallardo. I was a military brat. Interesting, my Sister in Law and I were talking one evening, when commented that she envied me. Because of the places I had lived and the things I had seen. I countered, "I envy you. You went to first grade with a group of kids, went through school with the same group and graduated with some if not all of them. Want to know what the last thing I always saw of my friends? The shrinking out the back of my father's station wagon. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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