planet WV

[shade2u2]

Hillbilly,
You've crossed a line now with your Buckeye slander.
But I will give WVU credit for it's medical school & the new Medical Dictionary that institution just released.
Here are some exerpts from it:
ARTERY: the study of fine paintings
BARIUM: what you should do when CPR fails
BENIGN: what you are after you be eight
CESAREAN SECTION: a district in Rome
COLIC: a sheep dog
CONGENITAL: friendly
DILATE: to live long
G.I. SERIES: baseball games between teams of soldiers
HANGNAIL: a coathook
MEDICAL STAFF: a doctor's cane
MINOR OPERATION: coal digging
MORBID: a higher offer
NITRATE: lower than day rate
NODE: was aware of
ORGANIC: church musician
OUTPATIENT: a person who has fainted
POST OPERATIVE: a letter carrier
PROTEIN: in favor of young people
SECRETION: hiding anything
TABLET: a small table
TUMOR: an extra pair
URINE: opposite of you're out
VARICOSE VEINS: veins which are very close together

 

[TerryinMD]

Incoming.... run for cover.... /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Terry

 

[Hillbilly]

Hey it works for me,
I have always wondered what those words meant.Now I know.
Thanks
xoxoxo

 

[shade2u2]

Anytime... lol
The truth is I really like WV -> beautiful country. Actually, I now only live 45 minutes from "God's Country".

 

[Hillbilly]

West Virginia is a beautiful state,still a struggling state. The jokes,I just take them with a grain of salt. I really do not get hung up on issues of poking fun. I am glad I live on my little farm and lead a laid back life style. I like to go up in Ohio and look around.Which reminds me,I am going to start a thread about a neat place in Ohio.

 

[rmorgan]

Hillbilly--Are you a native (one leg shorter than the other/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif)? I'm attaching a link to a website from the central-WVa coal camp where my family lived until a month before I was born, and where my siblings all grew up. The folks who put the website together did a great job. The "scenes" page has scads of photos showing WVa coal-camp life from the 1930s to present; at the bottom is a picture of the tiny Prenter Catholic Church, which my father built when the first couple of Catholic families moved into the valley in the late 40s or early 50s. The mine still operates, but Prenter is not really a whole town anymore; that church is a UMW hall, the school is now the mining company office, and what was the company store barely stocks anything at all. An interesting glimpse into Mountain State history. http://www.prenter.net

Rick

 

[Hillbilly]

Wonderful page,
I was raised close to the Ohio River so I guess you might say I have a little (flat land ) in me.I always liked to go to the mountains and admire the views.Cass, Canaan Valley,Dolly Sods,Monogahelia National forest,Richwood,Cranberry Wilderness,New River just to name a few.I have never been to Logan that I can recall.

A neat little web page, : www.hurherald.com

 

[DrDan]

That was really neat Morgan,

I lived in Harrisville (Stewart's Run) in early 70's. It was different then. Got a 110 acre farm for $8000 then. It was tough in them days. Had to go through 4 creeks and traverse a horrible road to get home. I rebuilt all the old barns and house. Too far in to get electric or phone and just relied on a poor oil well for free gas. We had gas lights and refrigerator.

It was extremely tough in the winter when it got cold and gas pressure went off. I guess I wish I was tough enough to live like that again. Life was simpler. Got up early and went to bed when the sun went down - spent the whole day growing food and making places to store it. Aaaah it was wonderful.

It took an hour to get into town (about 5 miles). The road was that bad and since ya just crawled down it, everyone came out and wanted ya to stop and "jaw" for awhile. Biggest treat in them days was a candy bar and another can of Top rolling tobacco when ya went in for groceries.

I got married by a Hanging Judge who forgot the dang lines half way through (Judge Farr). Me and my bride had to go back and cut a cord of firewood and load it in the truck to take up to them Maryland rich people to get enough money to get rings. We thought the inlaws would give us some $$$ for a present. They shunned the marriage so we got nothing. My folds sent us $100 so we went and bought longjohns to get through the rest of the winter.

Used to pet bells on the cows so I could find em at the end of the day. Stacked all our hay. Milked at evening with kerosene lamp. It was warm and romantic being up in the barn milking on those cold winter nights.

Never did deer hunt. Too lazy to haul em down. We had them city boys who wanted to hunt so we let them haul a couple down. LOL DipChits

Raised a couple beef and a nice hog pen with 3 or 4 always around. We had a great big metal tank under the tree with a pipe sticking out of the bottom about 15'. Filled it with water and built a fire over the pipe. In about 4 hours we had hot water to scald and scrape the hog. Took about 3 days to butcher one when you consider making scrapple and head cheese. Built a smoke house out of an old refrigerator with the input pipe buried in the ground and hooked to a barrel about 20 feet away. Hung the bacons and hams in it and kept cherry chips smoldering for about 3 or 4 days. It was the best bacon I ever tasted.

Enough... thanks for jogging my memory

Dr Dan

 

[Bird]

DrDan, you're younger days sure sound a lot like mine, and while there was a great deal good about those days, I don't miss milking that cow by the light of those kerosene lanterns (never had electricity in the barn). And I never slept in a house that had any kind of heat on at night, and never had any air-conditioning until I was 19 and left home. We sure didn't waste any time getting dressed on cold mornings.

<font color=blue>Top rolling tobacco</font color=blue>

Don't remember that one, but only had to pick up 3 coke bottles along the road to get a sack of Bull Durham for $.06. Ever try to roll a cigarette on a moving horse (like the cowboys did in the movies)? We spilled more than we got in the paper./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif And one of my horse riding buddies liked chewing tobacco; can't remember the brand, but a square plug cost $.11, so I figured if he was that extravagant, it must be good stuff. I bit off a small piece and spit it out; thought I'd never get rid of that taste, and haven't tried it since, either./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Bird

 

[DrDan]

Bird

I started with a log burner, got fancy and got a pot belly coal stove (last all night) and then got really modern with an oil burning space heater (Coleman). Dang thing had a thermostat - wow was I excited. The thing we liked best when we moved to a 50's 10 X 50 trailer on a dairy farm in Iowa was a dang thermostat on the wall. We were in Seventh Heaven and learned that all those modern conveniences cost $$$$$$ Been paying ever since. One of the best things about WV was taking a bath. Had to pump water with pitcher pump into 10 gallon copper boiler and get it up on the stove. Heat it to boiling and then dump it in the tub. Add cold to just barely tolerable. Now for the best part. It was so dang much work getting the outbuilding heated and the water heated, etc. that the gals always wanted to jump in too. Shared many a bath. It gave ya a little ambition to get it all together.

Ya we had tunes... Had a cassette player with radio outa a car and had to swap batteries when they ran down with the one in the truck. Major work so we got used to picken at the guitar even though I never was very good. Oh well it was noise in an otherwise silent night.

Guess that's why we went to bed so early. Nothing to do if ya don't have electric. I still have lots of my old aladdin kero lamps. With the mantle they really put out some nice light compared to a regular wick. See we had to use kero lots to conserve gas (rotton well) for cooking and heating water.

Yup it was the early 70's but where I chose to live it might as well have been 1920's. It was nice to have lived and learned to survive without. Could do it again if need be.

Dr Dan