Walmart and my town...

[DrDan]

Hey Hillbilly

Never met any finer people in my life. I just love to tease a little. I still work the emergency clinic in Parkersburg partime on weekends. Just love talking about the old times with the folks who come in.

Wish I'd a never left. How bout them ears? Yahhhhoooo

Used to live so far back in the hollers in Harrisville I had to lay on my back at high noon just to see the sun. Busted my back fallin outa a tree deer hunting and will never forget them ambulance guys huffing and puffing to get me outa them hills. It was a mile and a half hike all up hill. Damn near bought the farm down there but oh well I was in the cradle of God. Love them hills.

DrDan

 

[Hillbilly]

You just go right ahead and pour it on me I love it...........Like I said I would not feel right without some harrasment. Harrisville cool little laid back town,downtown Marietta is really nice all of the store windows etc not like a mall.I particulary like the old Hardware store in Harrisville,like a turn of the century thing. Like you say you have to lay on your back to look at the sun,or they have to pipe the sunlight in.
Heck Ohio must not be too bad that is where my wife is from,so I went far too avoid those family reunion wives./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[CVHoss]

Scruffy,
I think we're talking about two different things. I wasn't making reference to an initial stocking each day when the delivery is first made. I agree, that's a normal part of the standard procedure. What I'm talking about is that as the product sells during the day, the individual companies have to send someone back to Wal Mart to re-stock their product on the shelves.

Hoss

 

[DrDan]

Hillbilly,

I bet ya had to wear ya shoes after ya crossed the bridge, hey?

Ya Stouts Hardware store. Talk about a hardware store having everything. I went in one day and bought a cream seperator. We used to have a few cows when we lived in Harrisville and sold butter. Folks paid us more than what they could buy it for in the store but we used nice butter molds and it was purty. Miss that Jersey milk (cream) on my cereal.

We suffered for years subsistence farming and then I finally went to college and got vet degree. Never made it back, but I drive down all the time to unwind. Harrisville is getting kinda fancy now, but still has the old flavor.

Stouts Hardware should be a national monument! I thought it was gonna slide down the hill 30 years ago. Gotta have them WV legs (one shorter than the other) to shop comfortably in there.

Later

DrD

 

[Hillbilly]

Shoes,
Whats that? I never seen any until my wife got me some for Christmas.......Not to bad an ole country boy marry a Marietta College grad girl,talk up moving up,shes been barefoot and pregnant every since......../w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
Stouts is laid back,I go up there about once a year just to browse and see if there is anything new.

 

[Bird]

DrDan, ya'll must've been rich folks. We had a Jersey milkcow, churned our own butter, and even sold a little, but sure couldn't afford one of those cream separators; just had to set the milk in the refrigerator in a big crock, then skim off the cream later with a cup.

Of course, I've operated a cream separator. Had an uncle who milked a dozen or so cows, sold the cream and fed the blue john to the hogs. Now they sell that blue john in the grocery stores (call it 1/2 of 1%); still don't know how anyone can drink it.

Bird

 

[DrDan]

Bird

Them hogs just loved that skim milk. I had a big bucket I dumped it in and it ran down a pipe to their trough. I swear them hogs was smiling when they saw me coming.

I bought my seperator in an old hardware store in West Union, WV for $65 brand new. It had set on a shelf for probably 40 years and nowbody ever bought it. They were glad I took it off their hands. I needed something when I had three Jerseys all freshen. Not enough refrigerator space, course we kept milk in the root celler too when we ran outa room. Boy that seperator was nice though. Got lots more fat off the milk than skimming. I still have my skimming ladle hanging on the kitchen wall. Comes in handy once in awhile. Still have my butter molds and a few butter pats also that I whittled. Heck in those times I could take a piece of walnut and whittle on it for a day with no hard feelings. Plenty of time to make what ya needed.

We had a claw foot tub we found laying in a creek. Used our outbuilding (the canning kitchen) to make a bathhouse for the tub and milk processing since it had a pump in it and heat and stove. Gheesh I bet that tub worth something now.

I don't know what happened in WV, but somewhere around the late 40's lots of people just up and left. Since I had plenty of time on my hands I wandered any little cow tracks I could find. Lots of times I found abandoned homesteads way back in the hills. Many of the houses were falling in, but it was very eery. Lots of them had all the old furniture still sitting in them and clothes in closets and bureaus. It was just like one day they up and walked away from it and never came back. The dumps (everyone had one) were fantastic - I found all kinds of treasures in the dumps by digging at em a little. One time I found a shack way back in and right next to it was a lean-to garage all falling in. Sunk in the mud nearly to the hubs was an old wooden wheeled touring car. I think it was a Studebaker. I went back five years later and it was gone. Used to find all kinds of late 40's and early 50's cars abandoned.

Yes West Virginia is quite a state. They build new roads and the old ones just get cut off and forgotten leaving the farms behind.

In light of all the tumultuous events in this modern-day world it is heartening to know that there is still plenty of land out there that was just forgotten years ago and ya can't get the SUV to it without scratching it all up. Thank god! That probably keep the Muslems out too. Least ya could get a bead on em when they come up the road. LOL

Hillbilly, you ever do any wandering back in the hollers and find homesteads like that? I'm sure they are still there. Just hidden by the years.

Dr Dan

 

[Hillbilly]

<font color=blue>That probably keep the Muslems out too</font color=blue>
Dr. Dan in all due repect to you and everyone else we need to keep everything in perspective,the Muslims are not the problem anymore than me,you or anyone else(no offense to you and we definitely do not want to offend anyone else either). Terroists are the problems not a specific religion or race wherever they are at and whoever they might be.
To answer your question,yes I love to go out on a back road and drive and see what I can find or where I might end up. I particulary love the little small winding roads which are in no short supply around here. What strikes me is how small the population is in WVa compared to all of the other states in this part of the country.If I remember right the last census the population of WVa was a little under 2,000,000.which is not much for this part of the country.
There are a couple countys that the population is well under the 10,000 mark.
There has been a lot of people to leave over the years and there are lots of places that have gone back to the brush and trees that were once well maintained farms.

 

[DrDan]

Census?

LOL One more Hillbilly...

Nobody would answer the census form in WV so they finally flew over and counted the outhouses and multiplied by five to get the final figure. May be off a little.

Yah hooooo Limpin away with that short leg....

Dr Dan

 

[RobertN]

I am for a global economy, where we can get quality items from all over the world. But...

I was in Buffalo Missouri a few months ago, and in my local Wal Mart in Folsdom, Calif. In both, it took me a long time to find anything that said "Made in USA" on it. Here is this great American company, who sells primarily import items, many of which do not appear to be of great quality.

Wal Mart worked hard to make it to the top; I admire that. But, by selling cheap import stuff? I think they are getting to un-American for thier britches!

RobertN in Shingle Springs Calif