50/50Farms
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Grandparents are a parent's best reprieve. If it weren't for 'em, me and my wife wouldn't never get to do nothing as just the two of us.
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greybeard
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And good parents really really do deserve (and need) some 'us time'.
Grandparents understand that, because they've been there, done that themselves.
And it's a lucky lucky couple that can have 'em babysit both the kids and cattle for a few days!!
Rafter S
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It was before my time, but I remember my father talking about a local couple who had nine daughters. The last two were named Ada and Nina. He'd tell people that after seven they ran out of names and started numbering them.
Named'em Tamed'em
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40 years ago I was good buddies with an 80 yo mule skinner, his siblings were: Ada, Eva, Ida, Oda and he's Uda the youngest twins were Ray and Roy!!
Side note, he once had 987 pigs!!
Side note, he once had 987 pigs!!
chaded
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My neighbor came to me the other day asking if I wanted to buy his place and I said yeah. I told my in-laws to sell their place that is a half hour away and take this one. I was already thinking about the kids and cattle thing.
greybeard
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Texas once had a Governor named Jim Hogg. (1890s) He had one daughter, which he named Ima. Not, Imogene..just Ima, with no middle name. Born 1882, and died in 1975, never married. She was very much a philanthropist and did lots of good things for Texas and it's citizens.
(The rumor that she had a sister named Ura is exactly that. It's false)
Son of Butch
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Local family named their twin boys Hunter and Chase.
Son of Butch
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USA has 13 'belts' some well known others... are you kidding me?
1. Bible belt
2. Rust belt
3. Corn belt
4. The Sun belt - southern usa from coast to coast
5. Wheat belt runs north to south
6. Frost belt - obviously northern states
7. Snow belt
8. Cotton belt - about 9 and 1/2 southern states
9. Black belt - southern states with high black population and were rooted in slavery
10. Rice belt - a stretch of counties in Arkansas (the hub) Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri
11. The Jell-O Belt - aka the Morman Corridor, Utah and parts of surrounding states. Named for eating twice the amount of Jell-O
as eaten nationally.
12. The Stoke Belt - 11 states in southeastern usa with highest rates of strokes.
13. The Unchurched Belt - opposite of the bible belt in the southeast it's in the northwest, 4 states with lowest church attendance, Alaska, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.
There have been other belts over the years, for example I remember when Stearns County Mn was called the Silver Buckle of the
Dairy Belt, but that faded away.
1. Bible belt
2. Rust belt
3. Corn belt
4. The Sun belt - southern usa from coast to coast
5. Wheat belt runs north to south
6. Frost belt - obviously northern states
7. Snow belt
8. Cotton belt - about 9 and 1/2 southern states
9. Black belt - southern states with high black population and were rooted in slavery
10. Rice belt - a stretch of counties in Arkansas (the hub) Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri
11. The Jell-O Belt - aka the Morman Corridor, Utah and parts of surrounding states. Named for eating twice the amount of Jell-O
as eaten nationally.
12. The Stoke Belt - 11 states in southeastern usa with highest rates of strokes.
13. The Unchurched Belt - opposite of the bible belt in the southeast it's in the northwest, 4 states with lowest church attendance, Alaska, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.
There have been other belts over the years, for example I remember when Stearns County Mn was called the Silver Buckle of the
Dairy Belt, but that faded away.
Ouachita
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I live in the beer belt
50/50Farms
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The term Black Belt is used to denote the soil type (in Alabama usage of the word) much more so than it has any reference to black populations.
Son of Butch
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Correct, that was how it was originally defined and because it covered an area in the south dominated by slave owning plantations
it mutated nationally into being a reference to Afro-American heavy populations still living there.
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50/50Farms
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Yessir. Killed my first buck there, popped a niner with a broken rack through both lungs with my old Model 7, before I even had a scope on it. I was eight years old.
Rafter S
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Is Kansas in the Jell-O belt? I'm asking because about 25 years ago I spent the night there on the way to North Dakota. The restaurant near the hotel offered three options for your appetizer; soup, salad, or Jello-O. That seemed odd to me, because I'd always thought of it as more of a dessert.
Named'em Tamed'em
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I had to loosen my beer belt!!
Dave
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There is the little belt and Big Belt mountains in Montana.
Son of Butch
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miscellaneous trivia
The umbrella was originally invented for women to use for shade 4,000 years ago.
It wasn't until the 1700s that it was socially acceptable for a man to use an umbrella in the rain.
The umbrella was originally invented for women to use for shade 4,000 years ago.
It wasn't until the 1700s that it was socially acceptable for a man to use an umbrella in the rain.
50/50Farms
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There's a Little Hump and Big Hump set of mountains in the Roan Highlands.
Son of Butch
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In 2019
Harvard admitted 4.7% of applicants
Wal-Mart hired 3% of job applicants
Harvard admitted 4.7% of applicants
Wal-Mart hired 3% of job applicants
50/50Farms
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Scale. Scale and starting qualifications.
Son of Butch
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I don't understand what you are saying.
Wal-Mart starting qualifications are stricter than Harvard?
or
Wal-Mart receives 97% more applications than job openings?
33.3 applications per hire for Wal-Mart vs 21 student applications per student accepted at Harvard.
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