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BookIIRoadtrash · 04-23-2009, 01:26 AM

Tumble Weed Wisdom
Of Smith Center, Kansas

* Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight
and bull-strong.

* Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

* A bumble bee is considerably faster than a
John Deere tractor.

* Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.

* Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.

* Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.

* Do not corner something that you know is meaner
than you.

* It don't take a very big person to carry a
grudge.

* You cannot unsay a cruel word.

* Every path has a few puddles.

* When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

* The best sermons are lived, not preached.

* Most of the stuff people worry about ain't
never gonna happen anyway.

* Don't judge folks by their relatives.

* Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

* Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get
older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.

* Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't botherin' you none.

* Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a
rain dance.

* If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.

* Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

* The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever
have to deal with watches you from the mirror every mornin'.

* Always drink upstream from the herd.

* Good judgment comes from experience, and a
lotta that comes from bad judgment.

* Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot
easier than puttin' it back in.

* If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some

influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.

* Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply.
Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

MonacoMama · 04-23-2009, 01:42 AM

I have promised that this thread will not be moved.

ChiefJohn · 04-23-2009, 05:56 AM

Thanks "Mama" -- words that many of us would do well to follow!

Money Bags · 04-23-2009, 11:04 AM

I love the simplicity of this wisdom and when I was in Smith Center I think this sums the whole area. These values are one of the main reasons I purchased an Excel, the folks that work there grew up with the same values that I did. I just hope this thread doesn’t bring back these feelings or these!

ChiefJohn · 04-23-2009, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Money Bags

I love the simplicity of this wisdom and when I was in Smith Center I think this sums the whole area. These values are one of the main reasons I purchased an Excel, the folks that work there grew up with the same values that I did. I just hope this thread doesn’t bring back these feelings or these!

Old "Money Bags", you kind of lost me on your included thread examples?

I'm sorry buddy, I didn't see anything derogatory or in anyway negative in those threads.

Smith Center is a great example of life in a small mid-western town -- I'm sure it's not without it's problems, but the pace and quality of life are somethings we loose in the large urban areas. When the nearest WalMart is approximately 75 miles away and the only (national) fast food is Pizza Hut. I've told Marilyn several times that I could home-base in a town like Smith Center

MakinSmoke · 04-23-2009, 05:06 PM

Doesn't that picture look like RockheadTommie?

It is slow around there, so slow I'll bet they know what Cow Tippin is I guess when RockheadTommie is in town and into the Oak, Poop, they could go Elk tippin.

LarryGodby · 04-23-2009, 05:07 PM

Chief,

Then you would definitely have one of those Gussied Up Grey Coaches.

Still Working "NOT" · 04-23-2009, 08:53 PM

When ole SKIA gets back online, I'll invite him to an Cow tippin evening. Then also show him what Elk tippin is or maybe I'll do it the other way around. I'd thought he would have known what Cow tippin is, living in KC for a while, but he had his head buried in the the OP back in them days more then he should have and didn't pay attention.

Money Bags · 04-24-2009, 04:39 PM

Seeing old Tumble Weeds holding that Mason jar reminds me when the jelly jars where saved for juice glasses.

Jim & Bona · 04-24-2009, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Money Bags

Seeing old Tumble Weeds holding that Mason jar reminds me when the jelly jars where saved for juice glasses.

I gotta hunch ole Tumble Weeds Mason jar is fulla corn, not juice. Just my guess on the basis of years spent in western NC.

Rocky, how about it? Oak stuff maybe?

ChiefJohn · 04-25-2009, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim & Bona

I gotta hunch ole Tumble Weeds Mason jar is fulla corn, not juice. Just my guess on the basis of years spent in western NC.

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Jim, I'm originally from Hickory and we have the good stuff out in the surrounding country areas-- gave our son my last mason jar of corn back in February -- stuff had been sitting in my bar for several years. Too potent for me -- can't handle the hard-stuff anymore!