Nice meeting you too Mike, thanks for sharing some of your stories! Was a lovely read.
Bruja-del-Sol
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That Smell....
by new hope and happiness inwhiskey bottles and brand new cars..... one little problem that confronts you.
got a monkey on your back.
just one more fix, lord might do the trick.
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That Smell....
by new hope and happiness inwhiskey bottles and brand new cars..... one little problem that confronts you.
got a monkey on your back.
just one more fix, lord might do the trick.
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Bruja-del-Sol
Haha, doesn't surprise me. I don't like Gary very much either. He's the one with the least charisma of the whole Skynyrd-troup. One concert I had a huge banner (white sheet with a nice text on it) made for Hughie, showing it during a Skynyrd gig. Hughie seemed to be shy, sort of hiding behind Johnny. Then Ricky saw the banner and touched Hughie, while playing, with his elbow... winking my way with his head, like he was saying 'look over there!'... so Hughie looked and saw the banner and gave me a great smile . The rest of the show we constantly had eye contact, me, Ricky and Hughie... that was really great!
And Johnny does a great job as lead singer. I've also got the Van Zant album 'Brother to brother', by Johnny and Donnie Van Zant. Those Van Zant boys... can't help but like them
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Humbled Valentine's chicks pics ;)
by Bruja-del-Sol inhere's a few pictures of the little chicks saved from the snow and hatched by mom goldie.
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Hahaha Syme sorry for misleading you These were the chicks that were hatched on Valentine's day that 'humbled/Maeve' told us about. And she named them after some JWN-posters...
And Clarity, I would also really love to have some chickens in our garden. We've got the space for it, there's even a henhouse (we're renting the place), but we don't know anybody to take care of them when we're away for a couple of days. So I'll wait patiently to have my own chickens one day...
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Humbled Valentine's chicks pics ;)
by Bruja-del-Sol inhere's a few pictures of the little chicks saved from the snow and hatched by mom goldie.
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I forgot to mention in the O.P. itsself that I posted these pictures on behalf of humbled/Maeve. Just saying.
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Valentine's Day:" At least someone got a chick today!"
by humbled inthat's what my oldest son said when i texted that our little red hen, goldie, against all odds, hatched herself a chick tonight.
nearly midnight now and i checked--there's another one breaking out to join the first one--.
--i put the egg to my ear and heard it cheeping!.
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Bruja-del-Sol
Pictures are posted => Click HERE or here to see them or go to http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/274442/1/Humbled-Valentines-chicks-pics-3b
If you've got more, Maeve, they can easily be added to the album. You know where to find me, only an email away
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Humbled Valentine's chicks pics ;)
by Bruja-del-Sol inhere's a few pictures of the little chicks saved from the snow and hatched by mom goldie.
(click on them to see larger pics).
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Here's a few pictures of the little chicks saved from the snow and hatched by mom Goldie. (Click on them to see larger pics)
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That Smell....
by new hope and happiness inwhiskey bottles and brand new cars..... one little problem that confronts you.
got a monkey on your back.
just one more fix, lord might do the trick.
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You're absolutely right that life has to be lived and being too cautious can make that you miss out on fun things. Carpe Diem, seize the day!
And about Hughie and Ricky... they were awesome with Skynyrd. I stopped following Skynyrd after Billy Powell died. Just saw they've got a new album out, so I might check it... Nice stories from Mike Estes. I know he played on the 'Endangered species' unplugged album. And 'White dove', yeah I knew it was Ricky singing. Didn't know his dad wrote it, but it's a great song, very melodic and gentle.
And fyi I'm a Skynyrd woman hahaha. Play guitar myself and everybody around me knows me for always playing and singing Sweet home Alabama
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That Smell....
by new hope and happiness inwhiskey bottles and brand new cars..... one little problem that confronts you.
got a monkey on your back.
just one more fix, lord might do the trick.
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Bruja-del-Sol
Bless good ol' Lynyrd Skynyrd! Even temporary member (mr. Outlaws) Hughie Thomasson, has passed away (I am so glad I've had the chance to see him perform live several times, with Lynyrd Skynyrd and just months before he died I saw him play with the Outlaws).
I think they're just waiting for Gary to come and join the greatest Eternal Southern Rock Band that ever appeared in heaven (but the 'number isn't full' yet without Charlie Daniels)... oooo that smell...
Btw it's Ronnie Van Zant
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HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY MR & MRS SMIDDY
by smiddy in53 years ago we got married in a kh by a bro.
about 20 years ago my wife and i, and two children left the cult , and have never been happier .. wifey was happy with the flowers i gave her and this evening we will go for a quiet dinner at a restuarant with a bottle or two of champers and if i`m lucky i may even get desserts , or not.. smiddy.
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Bruja-del-Sol
Happy Anniversary to both of you. Enjoy your dinner, but most of all: enjoy each other!
53 Years... well done!
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Tainted Love: Your JW wedding
by Julia Orwell inmine was actually great because my non-jw parents decided to pay for the reception, limo, cake, dress, honeymoon, and more.
i can thank my non-jw parents for what a totally fun day it was.. but, half or more of the guests were jws, jws who don't speak to me anymore.
some have even slandered and abused me.
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Pfffff... some subject you trigger. My JW-wedding wasn't very special, although at the time I thouht it was awesome (being 18 and getting all that attention, which I never had).
The wedding was cheap, I bought a dress from another sister (that day someone came up to me and asked "isn't that *sister's name* dress?" ), my mother didn't like the dress and never said anything nice about it, not even on the wedding day. She also didn't like the groom very much. In fact my parents told me weeks before the wedding that they were not going to give permission (not being 21 yet both my parents had to sign that they allowed me to marry), so I told them I would write a letter to the queen to get HER permission. In the end they were probably afraid what other people might say about them, so they gave in and signed.
We had a talk in the KH. Nothing very special. We asked an elder-friend of ours, but he wasn't a very good speaker... Usually there would be some illustration in the form of a gift. I've had seen lots of special gifts for couples and hoped we would get something special too... but we got a bouquet of thistles with one rose in the middle... I was supposed to be that one rose. But okay, I didn't show my disappointment of course.
Before the talk we spent a while in my parent's house with my family, then we drove 25 kilometers to my husband's parents to meet with his family, then we drove 13 kilometers to see my uncle and aunt (he was my witness beside my parents... in Holland both need at least one witness to sign, like a 'best man'), since my aunt gave birth to my niece the day before so she couldn't be at the wedding. Then we drove back to my inlaws again and from there we drove to the KH for the talk, also about 15 kilometers away. (Nice relaxed wedding day huh? NOT! )
After the talk we drove in 'procession' to a restaurant fairly close to the hall. There we had just a reception, no party, no dancing. We didn't have money for a party. But because my groom was son of an elder who gave talks everywhere he knew LOADS of JW's, and I came from a city where they switched and changed congregations regularly, so I knew a lot of JW's too... so we sent invitations to about 7 congregations! So we've been standing nearly all evening, just shaking hands from all the people that were literally standing in a row for half an hour (the row went on til outside!!) that wanted to congratulate us. My jaws and cheeks hurt from the smile I had to keep on my face (which wasn't sincere anymore after an hour or so, it felt like a mask) and I was asking myself why in heaven's name we invited all those people that I didn't even know!!! Over 350 people, including family, came to our wedding.
Of course most of them brought a present, so the day after the wedding we were busy unwrapping everything (and counting money haha, which was almost enough to pay for the reception) and we had our empty house full with stuff...
I would have wanted a weddingcake, as a little girl I always dreamed of a beautifully decorated wedding cake... So my parents said they were willing to pay for it, but only if we paid for a dinner for all our family members. That would've been a dinner for over 25 people! We couldn't afford that! So we refused to have a dinner, therefore my parents refused to buy a wedding cake. So there was no wedding cake, just ordinary pie from the restaurant.
On the wedding pictures were of course mostly JW's, but since we've been divorced since 12 years now I never look at them anymore. In fact, I don't have them. I think my daughter confiscated the album (which I made myself, the pictures were taken by a brother and that was his gift to us). The last time I saw those pictures (after I was DF'd) it felt awkward seeing all those people. Lots of them I didn't even know who they were, most of our 'friends' were already out of our lives, JW friendships aren't usually very strong and we had moved to another town. But some of them were long time friends and they have dumped me immediately when they heard I was no longer a JW.My second wedding with absolutely no JW's around was amazing, it was a fairytale wedding, I felt like Cinderella, and I finally had my wedding cake with marzipan roses and silver coloured pearls And I had the husband that I originally had wanted for the first wedding!
