Todays question Tuesday 3-04-08 (housing, how much, school, home)

[Blueberry]

I never needed to run away because I just knew my parents, the king and queen of some country, were going to reclaim my any day from the peasants they had sent me to live with since birth. I just knew I'd soon be rescued from the squalid hut in which I lived and from the poor peasants (the woman was kind, but the man was a beast) and their nasty daughters!

Until yesterday, I thought I'd run away to Jackson Hole, but after looking at Tet Freek's and Karla's pictures of the underwater world, I think I might run away to Florida or a Caribbean island so I can learn to scuba dive. However, the probity of my heart and mind will keep me home until my daughter goes to college, and I'll have to invite dh to run away with me. A nice long vacation might be the next best thing to running away!

I'll try to find a GI to hug, but I think I'll be busy hugging a bunch of dogs before too long!

[marmac]

on a more sober note------my dad's brother got in an arguement with my grandfather when he was 17. He packed a few belongings and set out up the rairoad tracks just before dark in rural Minnesota.

He was never seen or heard from since.

I know this isn't what this thread is about, but just wanted to share about a "missing limb" in our family tree.

[mystree]

Yep I ran away,I went in our back yard which had a few trees like a mini,mini,mini forest and hid.I think it was maybe an hour or two and got cold and ran back home....lol

[RuralCoastalGuy]

Originally Posted by Karla with a K

Good morning everyone
I have to hurry because it is "dirt day" at school in the "butterfly class" and since my part is garden dirt I have to go dig some up from my garden. lol ...everyday is dirt day for me out in the yard.
When you were little did you every "run away" ...I ran away just once. I was 6 years old and I ran all the way up the street (about 100 feet) to the dentist's office. When he came out and said "you're next"...I ran back home! Little did I know that my Mom called the dentist cause she could see me from the front porch

Extra credit: If you were to "run away" today where would you go ?..I guess to the furthest place that Auntie Batz, our cat and I could go...Kona!

Today in history:

March 4, 1792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii, they liked it so much they stayed and hung out with the pineapples...thus became orange pineapple juice, huh?

March 4, 1809 Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes rofl see they had the "red carpet fashion gurus" even back then ..Is that why they named a big street in NYC after him???

probity \PRO-buh-tee\, noun:
Complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness. thanks Karla

National Hug A GI Day...we deserve all the hugs we can get l
National Pound Cake Day...Lose the pound cake
and
National Dance the Waltz Day

...to the theme from The Godfather.

See ya later Karla and company, got to go out and start storm proofing the exterior as a real doozy of a storm is a headin our way

[aiangel_writer]

I ran away when we lived in Michigan. We lived with my dad's cousin and his wife and she was mean to me. So I hopped on my big bad tricycle and hit the sidewalk. I guess I was around 3 at the time. It didn't occur to me at the time that I was riding in circles around the block! She finally found me and sat me on the stair till my parents came home. Ya know, we moved back South shortly after that...hmmm..


IF I could run away today where would it be???? This past summer I ran away quite a few times to the Coast just to escape the hubba over Toyota moving in. SInce then, that has all died down, and ya know, I live in a home that embraces me and in a community that has finally settled back down to 'normal' so...naaa if I could run away I would go back to Hawaii for Spring break next week making my son happy that we made the trip with his baseball team after all. Oh well, dreams are nice.

[agreatlife]

Oh h*ll no. Miss my parents cooking? Miss my parents doing everything for me? Not a chance!

[Karla with a K]

Originally Posted by jeannie216

humm...well this is coming from my mother. When I was 3 years old I put on my mother's high heels and completely naked snuck out of the house and walked down the main street in our town, high heels and stark naked. My Dad was a policeman and one of his fellow officers brought me home in the police car.

folks we have a winner !!!!

rofl how often does this story come out at family gatherings

this would of been the type of story that someone in my family would of shared with everyone guy I dated


Karla

[poconoproud]

I never did run away, but if I were to today - it would sure be somewhere with a beach!

[motormaker]

Sure, ran away lots of times. didn't get far, just around the block because I wasn't allowed to cross the street without permission.

[cottonwood2420]

Originally Posted by Karla with a K

Good morning everyone
I have to hurry because it is "dirt day" at school in the "butterfly class" and since my part is garden dirt I have to go dig some up from my garden. lol

So with out further delay here is

Todays question:

When you were little did you every "run away"

Extra credit: If you were to "run away" today where would you go ?

Today in history:

March 4, 1792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii, they liked it so much they stayed and hung out with the pineapples

March 4, 1809 Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes rofl see they had the "red carpet fashion gurus" even back then

Word of the day:

probity \PRO-buh-tee\, noun:
Complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness.


Today is :

National Hug A GI Day
National Pound Cake Day
and
National Dance the Waltz Day

I never did run away when I was younger. The only one in my family that ran way was my uncle. He ran away when he was 10 or 11 and made it down the street to the gas station and wanted to come back.