Wow! Sounds like my aunt's house in Appomattox. I loved it. It was a fine old home on a huge lot with humungous old trees. I can't remember the porch exactly but it had high ceilings and hardwood floors, a screened in porch, a sitting room or parlor just off the foyer and a big living room off the foyer the other way. I suppose it is modest compared to what you are talking about, but me in my little girl's mind found many things to fantasize about it. I always thought Appomattox would be a lovely place to grow up. Everybody knows everybody there.Marine Mom said:Beesy, I was bracing myself but it didn't happen.
HeartofTexas, Mead/Westvaco is the heart and soal of Covington. If it ever went under, the town would shrivel up. We say there's 10,000 people, but that's stretching it. Huge, lovely old homes with high ceilings, humongus rooms, oversized wrap around porches...millionaires and average folks live in the same neighborhoods. Very few people "put on airs." And the view!
Aren't there a lot of coal mines in VA too?HeartofTexas said:
Hi, new mom. I love your signature. I remember those days. hahahahahah.NewMom2003 said:
You've heard me talk of my friend who was killed by her husband and they were never able to pin it on him? Well, get this......about a year or so after the murder, I needed a ride to work so I called down there and one of the guys said he would said someone over to pick me up. (There was snow on the ground and Goody doesn't drive in snow.) Anyway, guess who they sent? I couldn't believe it. And when I got out there to meet him, guess what he was driving. It was his wife's car that he had just gotten back from police impound. The car that had been parked in the hotel parking lot with her body stuffed in the trunk for 10 days. I was terrified but I didn't want him to know, so I made myself sit in the passenger seat. I just knew she was going to pop in the back seat and start screaming that he did it. (By then I knew he had) I sat rigid all the way to work, and when I got there as soon as I could I took the fellow, who had sent him, aside and chewed his butt out. I swear if anything had happened on that ride to the shop, my face would have cracked. That is how tense I was. I couldn't believe he was driving that car around like nothing had happened. <shudder>Jeana (DP) said:
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Well, nobody is perfect!HeartofTexas said:
Sounds wonderful. But hate snow and ice worse than chocolate covered liver balls! O, where has my beautiful California gone???? I just hate it that they let inflation eat it up like that. Keeps the likes of Goody out. grrrrrrrrr....HeartofTexas said:
O, she was a wonderful girl. A lot like Laci, I think, except she was blonde. Only 27 when she died. A warm, friendly girl who went home that day to tell her cheating husband (she had only caught him 5 times with the same woman and that didn't even count all the others) that she wanted a divorce. They say he hit her straight in the nose with his fist, knocked her unconscious, then laid her down where she choked to death on her own blood. They said he had sat her up instead, it would not have killed her because it was really just a minor injury. They never could place her at the house though so they couldn't prove she ever made it home that night from work. He said she hadn't. It was very sad.Jules said:
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