[Rhodes22-list] why City folk Shouldn't move to the Country

[elle]

Hi, Caesar,

Thanks for your kind comments...I probably overstated quite a bit that I was 'emotionally scarred' watching her wring those necks...more like freaked out.........Actually, growing up Italian will do that to you as everyone in the family had a say about the kids...and they didn't always agree!...talk about multiple personalities!  Probably a real good preparation for life...teaching high school....hahaha

elle




We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can adjust our sails.

1992 Rhodes 22   Recyc '06  "WaterMusic"   (Lady in Red)


--- On Tue, 11/18/08, Caesar Paul <caesarpaul01 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Caesar Paul <caesarpaul01 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] why City folk Shouldn't move to the Country
> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 2:06 PM
> Elle, 
>  
> Your grandfather sounds like he was a responsible,
> resourceful and innovative man. He reminds me of my father
> who had us help him raise chickens and turkeys for meat and
> eggs, tend to pigs that he would butcher and sell to our
> neighbors in the village.  He also had us boys start and
> maintain a garden mostly of corn and pigeon peas.
>  
> I find it interesting that you were emotionally scared by
> witnessing the process of getting protein on the table. 
> Growing up it was my job every week to catch, kill, pluck
> and sometimes gut the biggest chicken in the yard.  It was
> sometimes exhausting, but always a bloody business.  I
> think I am emotionally well adjusted today for having that
> experience.
>  
> It is said that one man's tonic is another man's
> poison.  Anyway thanks for sharing, and I really like that
> tit-bit about your grandpa.
>  
> Now, I might be opening a hornet's nest by paying you
> this compliment, but hear goes; You may have been
> emotionally scared then, but today you sound like one the
> more emotionally sound persons on this list, and I am sure
> that there are others who would attest to that, not that you
> need it.
>  
> It's fun enjoying your pictures, and benefiting from
> you contributions.
>  
> Caesar  
> 
> --- On Tue, 11/18/08, elle <watermusic38 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> From: elle <watermusic38 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] why City folk Shouldn't
> move to the Country
> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List"
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 8:27 AM
> 
> My maternal grandfather settled in the coal regions of PA
> several years after
> entering the US in the Great Migration at the turn of the
> century.
> 
> He hunted (for sustenance, not sport) deer and various
> other animals that
> eventually found their way onto the dinner table.
> 
> I remember seeing Nono (Italian for 'grandfather')
> come into the car
> shed (calling it a garage would upgrade it) wirh a string
> of prey..rabbits &
> I could swear that at one time I saw snakes...but
> couldn't swear to it...
> 
> Anyhow, at the dinner table , we would be exhorted to eat
> the 'pot
> roast' or 'chicken'. Somehow the events in the
> garage never
> connected to the wingless 'chicken' with many legs
> that was on the
> dinner platter.
> 
> Someday I'll tell you how I was emotionally scarred by
> watching my
> grandmother wring the necks of pigeons that again magically
> transformed
> themselves into chicken for the table.
> 
> No wonder my Nonny was such a fantastic cook...she took
> whatever they had and
> made it into something that today people pay big $$$
> for....
> 
> Polenta (cornmeal) was often the only thing they
> had....we'd eat it sitting
> around the big wooden board...some tomato sauce on top...a
> feast. They called it
> peasant food...nowadays it is on the menu of very chi-chi
> Italian restaurants.
> 
> 
> elle
> 
> 
> 
> We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can
> adjust our sails.
> 
> 1992 Rhodes 22   Recyc '06  "WaterMusic"  
> (Lady in Red)
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 11/18/08, Joe Babb <joe.babb at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Joe Babb <joe.babb at comcast.net>
> > Subject: [Rhodes22-list]  why City folk Shouldn't
> move to the Country
> > To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> > Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 8:34 AM
> > Hi Caesar,
> > Cool.  It's interesting to know the name of
> animals
> > like the possum in 
> > other languages.
> > A racoon is tanuki in Japanese (hopefully I got the
> > spelling right).
> > 
> > We never ate possum.  I think my Mom probably looked
> upon
> > them as 
> > 'dirty'.  They caused us
> > problems in East Tennessee because they would sneak
> into
> > the chicken 
> > house at night and eat eggs
> > or even a chicken if they could get away with it.  We
> had
> > to remember to 
> > close up the hen house
> > every night.
> > 
> > My wife, Sharon, grew up in Vermont.  She tells a
> story
> > about a New York 
> > hunter who brought
> > in a small cow to the weigh station one time bragging
> about
> > the "deer" 
> > he had shot.  The judge
> > was not pleased and told him he was not welcome to
> hunt in
> > Vermont 
> > anymore.  Yet another
> > reason why City folk should not move to the country. 
> > *grin*
> > 
> > Joe
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