[Lilred]

Fabs...there are alot of folks who do deserve 10%...but most don't. I wont start goin off on that..I'll be typin all day..lol
But I aint givin 10% off to every person who comes in mad cause all the handicapped spaces were full in the parkin lot. Yes, that is a true story.

Val, the baby is fine, she talks alot now, or attempts to. She loves books, and Mama tryin to teach her words aint exactly smart. She says "flower" like I do, which is more like "flare". She knows eyes, nose, ears and mouth..which she says "mouf"...lol
Her favorite thing is Elmo..which I say as "ail-mo". She says it that way too, and it's real cute. She says "ail-muh".
She runs around grabbin everything off the table that she can, I have padlocked and chained everything down like a earthquake is comin..lol She LOVES outside...she pays close attention to everythin, like the birds singin, and she loves the flowers, grass and leaves. She is truly a blessin to our family..even tho she causes as much trouble as a fox in a chicken house..lol

Billy, thanks fer the kind werds..my Pop always told me never to beat arouund the bush at nuthin. My Pop was stern, and strong as an ox. I miss him very much, but everybody on here dun heard that fore. Growin up in the late 70's, I was cobbin corn by hand w/ them old corn grinders...Gawd I hated that. We hunted, fished, trapped on the river fer a week at a time. We raised acres of everythin, mostly bacccer..chickens & hogs too. Cut wood all year long fer the winter. Iffin anything good comes out of me, it was surley because of him. He was very "Southern" and right from wrong was a daily preachin. So was manners, and respect. Doin things on yer own w/o askin fer help was another big preachin..along w/ bein ladylike and doin "womanly" things like cleanin & cookin. He was 72 when he died in 1989 ...after sufferin fer 4 years on counta a stroke. He was paralyzed on his right side from his neck down. Fer 3 of them 4 years, he/we still planted and cut wood. He was tireless even tho half of his body didn't work. it ran out tho, he became bedridden, and a year later he died of pnuemonia.
Which is just another reason why I dont feel nary an ounce of sympathy fer any dam convict nor them fools who risk their life to come over here illegally, and then expect no punishment other than a lower payin job.

If a Virginia man w/ half of a body can raise everythin from mater plants in the spring, baccer and food crop all summer, greens in the winter, cut wood and take care of his family..then them there fools can git out on that chain gang and do some werk.