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Hi
Again to all the Classmates,
I just want to take
this time to wish all the Mom's in the Cathedral Class and anyone else
that is a Mom a Happy Mothers day.
Mothers day is very
special here in the states, but not so much over seas. Everyone
only has only one real Mom.
Most all are very
great Moms, Unfornately some are not as great. But all of us who have a
real good Mom should thank them if they are still alive for carrying us
for the 9 months.
And for the
diapers they changed and the food and nurturing they gave us when we
were to small to take care of ourselves.
Non of us could have
taken care of ourselves at that tender young age.
Also on this Mothers
day, My heart goes out to all those Cancer survivors on our list this
year. Some of you may have known about them and some of you may not.
My sister Carol
Amundson from Crookston, finally this week was declared a Cancer
Survivor with a clean bill of health.
Hopefully also Jane
Theadaman out in Calif is or will soon be a Cancer Survivor and
free of that dreaded disease.
Also Russell
Laplante out on the East Coast is now declared a cancer survivor.
If there is anyone
that I missed my heart goes out to you for having had to go through the
recovery period.
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Because our next
Class Reunion is getting closer and closer, I thought it would be
appropriate to publish this short Lesson that was sent to me
by Cecilia Plant from Crookston.
She was my Second
Grade teacher, at the Kripple Creek School, by
our Farm where I used to live near Gentilly, Minnesota.
My thanks to her for
this real piece of artwork.
THINGS I LEARNED
LIVING IN THE SOUTH
An Opossum
is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.
There are 5000 types of snake and 4,988 of them live in the South.
There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in the
South, plus a couple no one's seen before.
If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.
Onced and Twiced are words.
It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy !
Jawl-P? means, Did you all go to the bathroom ?
People actually grow, eat and like Okra.
Fixinto
is one word. It means I'm going to do that.
There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and there's
supper.
Iced
tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when yur're
two. We do like a little tea with our sugar. It is referred to as the
Wine of the South.
Backwards and forwards means I know everything about you.
The
word jeet is actually a question meaning, "Did you eat?"
You don't have to wear a watch, because it doesn't matter what
time it is, you work until you are done or it's too dark to see.
You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH em.
Ya'll
is singular. All ya'll is plural.
All the festivals across the stat are named after a fruit, vegetable,
grain, insect or an animal.
You carry jumper cables in your car - for your OWN car.
You only own five spices: Salt, Pepper, Mustard, Tabasco and
Ketchup.
The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but
require 6 pages for local high school sports, and motor sport and
gossip.
Everyone you meet is a Honey, Sugar, Miss(first name) or Mr.(first name)
You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
You know what a hissy
fit is.
Fried Catfish is the other white meat.
We don't need no dang Drivers's Ed. If our mama says we can drive, we
can drive !!!
If You understand these jokes and forward them to your Southern friends
and those who just wish they were from the SOUTH
YA'all understand that now?
My
Thanks again to Cis for sending this to me.
Hope you had a good laugh!
Best Regards,
Roland
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