Chatter Box II (Branson, Northwoods, Holland: relocate, clothing, market)

[Northwoods Voyager]

Any news from your area, STL? Hope all ok there. Haven't heard.

[Lake Junkie]

Originally Posted by Northwoods Voyager

And of course, every times we get gully washers, the newest crop of geological wonders show themselves by peeking out of the soil. Makes for some interesting landscaping at times. Now, don't misunderstand me, I am a rock hound. Really! Everytime we showed one of our sons property (being Realtors), in some eastern MO counties, I would gleefully load up the trunk of whatever vehicle I was driving with some fine specimens.

Now I display these one of a kind ancient wonders all around in chosen spots. I'm sure it makes the natives jealous!!! Uhhhhh, native rocks that is.

Every once in a while I think I'll hire a fire engine to hose the thin layer of dirt off my yard and just have a rock garden.

Jdslady...we can't forget you!

I liked yesterday's temps better...

[Northwoods Voyager]

Originally Posted by Lake Junkie

Every once in a while I think I'll hire a fire engine to hose the thin layer of dirt off my yard and just have a rock garden.

Now why didn't I think of that???? A few years ago a family lived not too far from us and just about every day you would see the wife out in her front yard picking up rocks and throwing them onto the road. Once in awhile we would pick some of them up, they were too big to drive over!!! Yep, god old Missouri rock gardens.

Hope all going great for you, LJ. .

[Hillman]

Things are so hard as far as the Job Market around here.Month ago my wife was working two Jobs.Well one place closed down,thats ok still have this other Job.Then last week,the other place shut down Ok no problem will make more on Unemplyment.She goes up files for Unemployment.Can't get any for at least four weeks because they are so backed up

Well yesterday she calls Job Service they said they will call back in the afternoon.They call back there is an opening where my wife use to work.Little better pay and benifits.

Prayer is good and our Hevenly Father once again is looking over us.

hillman

[Northwoods Voyager]

Hillman....Now that is great news. Bless you and your family. If only so many others would be able to experience this positive outcome. Take care.

[Nu2pomona]

It's fun to read all the "rock" comments. Wish that was all I was finding. When we bought this place it never occured to us to ask what it had been before. It was, after all, a development with the word "estates" in the title.

When we got around to cutting our three acres the bones started to show up. Some I recognized - deer were plentiful back in Wisconsin but some were huge! Dinosaurs? Well, no, just bovine of some ilk - huge jaw bones, big femurs, enormous teeth. The remains were all over the place. Then the bits of corrugated metal and strands of barbed wire started working themselves out of the soil. Oh, my gosh.

Only really good thing about buying a house in an "estates" that was used to graze cattle for 30 years is that there's a fairly decent level of top soil., rich with humus, on top of the clay.

This will be our second spring and summer here. I'm sure hoping most of the debris has worked itself to the surface and the winter grass we sowed last fall is going to take root.

[Future Trooper]

Good Evening Everyone

[STLCardsBlues1989]

We're fine here. A little thunder, lightning, and wind. The worst of it went by us.

[jdslady]

Morning everyone. Hope this dreary day finds everyone fit as a fiddle. Finally got the wireless card to load the page.... have a guy coming out this morning to see if we get a better signal with broadband. Snow hasn't hit here yet about 10 miles north of Branson. Northwoods, Lake Junkie, thank you for the kind words. Know what you mean about the job market. I was lucky enough to find a job downtown in a quilt shop. Love having to work only part time and love the job !!!!!!! Sure beats dispatching that's for sure.

[Future Trooper]

Good Evening Everyone