Southern Livin' 101
My first impression of ...22 total reviews
Comment from barbara.wilkey
Thank you for sharing this peaceful life as a contest entry. I think life was better back then and I am pretty sure we need to get back to it. I enjoyed reading and want to wish you luck with the contest.
reply by the author on 09-Mar-2024
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Thank you for sharing this peaceful life as a contest entry. I think life was better back then and I am pretty sure we need to get back to it. I enjoyed reading and want to wish you luck with the contest.
Comment Written 09-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 09-Mar-2024
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Thank you and don;t forget to move your clock back or is that forward.
Comment from Douglas Goff
This makes me want to move to the south. Your ability to paint a picture with words is really quite fantastic, Tom.
And the prose here was superb:
Every awn on every lawn, pasture, and prairie
wave mutually to each other just as country folk do
You, Sir, are a talent.
D
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2023
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This makes me want to move to the south. Your ability to paint a picture with words is really quite fantastic, Tom.
And the prose here was superb:
Every awn on every lawn, pasture, and prairie
wave mutually to each other just as country folk do
You, Sir, are a talent.
D
Comment Written 31-Aug-2023
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2023
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A hidden jewel.like tanzanite? And talents hidden are like synthetic diamonds, showy but priceless.
Thank you.
Comment from papa55mike
That's pretty much the way it happens in Tennessee also. It was so hot last week the only thing stirring was flies. What a wonderfully written story.
Good luck in the contest!
Have a great day, and God bless.
mike
reply by the author on 30-Aug-2023
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That's pretty much the way it happens in Tennessee also. It was so hot last week the only thing stirring was flies. What a wonderfully written story.
Good luck in the contest!
Have a great day, and God bless.
mike
Comment Written 30-Aug-2023
reply by the author on 30-Aug-2023
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Thanks Papa Mike. They were the best of days. Life was simpler and joyful. It's been hot in Western NC but not much different than the past, despite what fear mongerers say.
Comment from Ginda Simpson
You give something for each of our senses, and it was a joy to read your story. Great sense of time and place throughout the piece, wonderfully written.
reply by the author on 30-Aug-2023
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You give something for each of our senses, and it was a joy to read your story. Great sense of time and place throughout the piece, wonderfully written.
Comment Written 30-Aug-2023
reply by the author on 30-Aug-2023
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... and thank you for your review. It's nice to be read, and even nicer to hear compliments for the pennings I write day to day.
Comment from Wayne Fowler
You paint a pretty laid back scene. Nicely done. But my bet is that there was plenty of hard, sweaty work goin' on from time to time.
Every awn - every (one)?
Good luck in the contest.
reply by the author on 30-Aug-2023
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You paint a pretty laid back scene. Nicely done. But my bet is that there was plenty of hard, sweaty work goin' on from time to time.
Every awn - every (one)?
Good luck in the contest.
Comment Written 30-Aug-2023
reply by the author on 30-Aug-2023
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awn - appendages collectively, as those forming the beard of wheat, barley, etc. (The top of grasses)
Thanks for the time and review. Always yours, Tom H
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awn - appendages collectively, as those forming the beard of wheat, barley, etc. (The top of grasses)
Thanks for the time and review. Always yours, Tom H
Comment from Wendy G
This is beautifully done, Tom, and you capture the by-gone times very well in this reflective piece, which is vividly portrayed. Excellent presentation also. Best wishes for the contest.
Wendy
reply by the author on 30-Aug-2023
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This is beautifully done, Tom, and you capture the by-gone times very well in this reflective piece, which is vividly portrayed. Excellent presentation also. Best wishes for the contest.
Wendy
Comment Written 30-Aug-2023
reply by the author on 30-Aug-2023
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Thanks for the time and review. Always yours
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Thanks for the time and review. Always yours
Comment from Ric Myworld
You've outdone yourself with your last few posts. Stories that bring an old country boy back to happy times when he worked from dawn 'til dark and was often too tired to enjoy it. Wish I had a six. LOL. Thanks for sharing.
reply by the author on 28-Aug-2023
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You've outdone yourself with your last few posts. Stories that bring an old country boy back to happy times when he worked from dawn 'til dark and was often too tired to enjoy it. Wish I had a six. LOL. Thanks for sharing.
Comment Written 28-Aug-2023
reply by the author on 28-Aug-2023
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Where did you grow up?
I was from Philly, hated Country music, and even had a made-up dance group of boys for every sock hop from Asbury Park to Chez Vous in Philadelphia.
My father-in-law was and remains at ninety a dark to dark farmer.
I envy him in many ways.
Thanks for your review.
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I'm guessing a Philly boy leaned toward hip-hop over the railroad tracks. LOL. Yes, I envy and would surely like your father-in-law. I grew up in Bluegrass thoroughbred country of Central Kentucky. But at 15, I left home and hitchhiked to California afraid I was missing something. And boy was I. LOL. But I never got back to farm life, other than here and there visiting and helping out when my dad got sick with cancer. I told everyone I loved the concrete big city jungles. It's only now I realize what I missed. :-)
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Hip hop wasn?t even I thought in the sixties.
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Sure it was, but not the hip hop of today. All those guys used to stand around and harmonize on the street corners. We used to put together a quartet and Christmas carol downtown and at the mall when we got the first one. It's started with pretending to be the Beach Boys, but us R and B people who liked Sam Cooke, Nat King Cole, and the up and coming Motown crew, starting adding more gospel sounds. LOL. Way before Boyz 2 men, and the real hip hop sounds.
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I always thought ?our guys? as do-wop not hip-hop and I never participated in voice but with mmy feet
As for The Beach Boys there were none better in harmonizing
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Now you've been eating smart pills, rabbit pellets. Do- wop is where hip-hop came from, strange as it might sound. Just like rap came from the original Blow Fly. The x-rated rapper who used to sell his vulgar and disgusting eight-track tapes in truck stops. Songs that went like: "if you wanna get off, you've got to f _ _ _ the boss" or "I swam the ocean on the head of my d _ _ _, ate nine tons of cat s_ _ _ _, and ain't never got sick. So, now you know why we hate rap music.
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Amazed at what you know says E. C. Tom
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Amazed at what you know says E. C. Tom
Comment from Pam Lonsdale
Tom, this is absolutely exceptional. I live in the south and this is old south. The story is sensational, as is your photography.
"Coniferous loblolly pines undulating" is a language of the south I don't know but sure appreciate.
Good stuff!
Pam
reply by the author on 28-Aug-2023
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Tom, this is absolutely exceptional. I live in the south and this is old south. The story is sensational, as is your photography.
"Coniferous loblolly pines undulating" is a language of the south I don't know but sure appreciate.
Good stuff!
Pam
Comment Written 28-Aug-2023
reply by the author on 28-Aug-2023
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Thanks Pam our place is in the foothills of NC between Tryon NC and Spartanburg SC
Great place to be
Comment from karenina
I've never had the pleasure of visiting down south. This is likely the closest I'll ever get to it, and I'm blessed to read your incredibly well-rounded description! The imagery you word-painted is as peaceful as it gets, I think. I'm guessing heaven might be a little bit like this, Tom.
Great writing!
Karenina
reply by the author on 28-Aug-2023
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I've never had the pleasure of visiting down south. This is likely the closest I'll ever get to it, and I'm blessed to read your incredibly well-rounded description! The imagery you word-painted is as peaceful as it gets, I think. I'm guessing heaven might be a little bit like this, Tom.
Great writing!
Karenina
Comment Written 28-Aug-2023
reply by the author on 28-Aug-2023
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If heaven is anything close to this, do me a favor a reserve a room at the Heavenly INn for me. Thanks.
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Hmmmm. I will... And I hope it is JUST like this!
Comment from Teri7
Tom, This is a very nice and well written true story you have penned about your life on the farm with your wife. You used great descriptive words. I can totally agree with living in the south. I was born and raised here. Our son lives where he has more acreage and more in the country. I love going there and seeing Molly the chicken and Gus the dog! Thanks for sharing. Best wishes in the contest. Teri
reply by the author on 28-Aug-2023
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Tom, This is a very nice and well written true story you have penned about your life on the farm with your wife. You used great descriptive words. I can totally agree with living in the south. I was born and raised here. Our son lives where he has more acreage and more in the country. I love going there and seeing Molly the chicken and Gus the dog! Thanks for sharing. Best wishes in the contest. Teri
Comment Written 28-Aug-2023
reply by the author on 28-Aug-2023
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Being from Philadelphia and thriiving as a sock-hop dancin' fool no one ever would have thought I'd give up Motown in exchange for the HIghwaymen and Hank Ketchum, but I did, though when a sixty hit plays on the radio my feet move as they once did. Sadly, the rest of me sits in the chair.
