What will you be up to this coming year?

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Mon Dec 30, 2013 3:29 pm

I ask this because a couple of years ago I was determined after the "mines experience" that I would obtain as many tickets and lisences as I could.

have you ever done something or planned something that if someone had of suggested same 20 years prior you would have laughed at them or called them daft?

this is what I went for in 2012.......

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and you all know about my trip north in 2013......

Not sure what I'll be up to this year...still thinking.

It will be good though .

So what adventures do you people have planned?

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Mon Dec 30, 2013 5:30 pm

Is that you in that picture, Fuzz? Gave me the shivers, I know someone who could almost be your twin. Weird. You look like a nice person. If that's not you, she looks like a nice person. Of course, looks Can be deceiving!

My adventures will be preparing for my son's wedding, don't even know when it is yet. I seriously (I hope) want the usual things of being healthy, feeling healthy, having peace of mind (I meditate) & getting a great mother of the groom dress with shoes that won't kill me. Oh! I also would love to stop, or seriously curtail, my habits that are not good for me. I'd like to go into the City (Manhattan) way more than I do. I'd like to clean up my apartment, it is truly overloaded. Oh NO! Now I'm Overwhelmed!

Post by **Betty Boop** » Mon Dec 30, 2013 5:35 pm

Get a gang to go camping again this summer.

Hopefully save up to go somewhere abroad.

I also want to just have a great year, no crap this year thanks, had enough of that now!

Wandrin · Post by **Wandrin** » Mon Dec 30, 2013 6:32 pm

I expect to do a lot of wandrin. I'm hoping the weather will cooperate so I can wander farther northward. There is much of Canada that I have not yet explored.

Post by **Chloe_88** » Tue Dec 31, 2013 1:23 pm

Mine will be:

- Winning the lottery tonight (like that will ever happen :wah: ).

- Concentrate on getting my health back in order, hopefully the GP will help me this time round.

- We're thinking of MAYBE adopting another cat in 2014. MAYBE!

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Tue Dec 31, 2013 2:03 pm

AnneBoleyn;1443556 wrote: Is that you in that picture, Fuzz? Gave me the shivers, I know someone who could almost be your twin. Weird. You look like a nice person. If that's not you, she looks like a nice person. Of course, looks Can be deceiving!

My adventures will be preparing for my son's wedding, don't even know when it is yet. I seriously (I hope) want the usual things of being healthy, feeling healthy, having peace of mind (I meditate) & getting a great mother of the groom dress with shoes that won't kill me. Oh! I also would love to stop, or seriously curtail, my habits that are not good for me. I'd like to go into the City (Manhattan) way more than I do. I'd like to clean up my apartment, it is truly overloaded. Oh NO! Now I'm Overwhelmed!

yeah that's me with my truckin atti-tude lol lol There's a pic of me in my profile.

It was decided last night I'm off to New Zealand and Tasmania. Don't know exactly when but that's the plan.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 4:59 pm

Retiring!

Once that's achieved then I can make some real plans :-6

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Sun Jan 12, 2014 2:02 pm

Well someone in our local area is about to have an interesting year. lol They just won 1.4 million.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Sun Jan 12, 2014 2:44 pm

fuzzywuzzy;1444313 wrote: Well someone in our local area is about to have an interesting year. lol They just won 1.4 million.

You mean you were out when they 'phoned?

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 3:42 pm

In a few months this is where I will be.

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fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 4:01 pm

Bryn Mawr;1444325 wrote: You mean you were out when they 'phoned?

I wish lol

Post by **Betty Boop** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 4:17 pm

Looks like I will be performing secretarial duties for the spiritualist church.

And maybe loosing some weight come the summer.

Post by **LarsMac** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:35 pm

Hope6;1444395 wrote: In a few months this is where I will be.

In the Tobacco fields?

If I never set foot in another Tobacco field, it will be too soon.

The one thing I hated about summers at Grampa's was working his Tobacco field.

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 12:26 pm

LarsMac;1444407 wrote: In the Tobacco fields?

If I never set foot in another Tobacco field, it will be too soon.

The one thing I hated about summers at Grampa's was working his Tobacco field.

She and her family own a tobacco plantation Lars.

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 12:30 pm

Well, I just spent 6 fun-filled weeks in Florida and am now doing some work on my house.

In Oct. I'll be spending time in the Catskills Mountains in NY with my family from Buffalo, NY, and next year plan to visit Florida again and also Ireland if everything works out for me.

Post by **LarsMac** » Wed Jan 15, 2014 10:58 am

Kathy Ellen;1444416 wrote: She and her family own a tobacco plantation Lars.

That's nice.

I guess what Grampa had was not what you'd call a plantation. He had 40 acres, but only grew Tobacco on 10. I think it was as much a hobby with him.

When I was little I got to weed the field. When I got tall enough, I learned how to top the plants, and later, I even learned to cut and hang the plants.

Grampa always did the sorting, with Chester, his hand, but I learned how to tie the hands and pack the palates. He even took me to the auction with him a couple of times.

By the time I started high school, I was sure that I could come back to the farm if I needed to , but that agriculture was not really my cup of tea.

I do get a warm feeling inside when driving by a field of Tobacco. It's a pretty sight in the summer sun.

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:59 pm

Lars we do it completely different now. We don't cut the whole plant anymore, we pull off a few leaves at a time. We through it into the barn by the armful in something called racks. It's a lot easier than it used to be and a lot faster.

This is a picture of the green tobacco going into the barn in the racks and the second picture is what it looks like when it comes out. That thing that my little boy is standing in front of is called a packer. We just throw it in there by the armful until there's enough to make a pile of the right weight.

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Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 9:03 pm

Kathy Ellen!!! (((((((HUGS))))))))