Tony Joe White: Polk Salad Annie.

[Heidi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRF24LY5pvw

Please REPRESENT, my homegirls and homeboys. Remind me what it's like to be home, y'all. I've had a sh!tty week. :(

[The Midway Rebel]

1. Chomp. Chomp. Chomp.

I have many fond memories of summer tanned-long-legged-barefoot, long-blonde-haired, hip huggered, tube topped, powder blue eye linered, bangled and sweaty, teenage Southern girls swaying and dancing to this song in the living room.

They were my baby sitters, Suzy and Linda, from down the street. I still have a crush on Linda. If you see her, tell her I am still crazy after all these years.

Also, + 1 for two named dudes like, Tony Joe, Joe Jeff, Willy Ray, Robert Anthony etc.

How about an Ode to Billy Jo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc&feature=related

[Heidi]

2. That's what I'm talkin' about.

You'n'me must be round the same age. But I was the dorky, red-haired, freckled one who was only allowed to wear cherry Chapstick. :)

[The Midway Rebel]

4. I'm a freckle-faced fair skinned-four-eyed -funky -Southern-boy myself.

Did ya'll play Mystery Date on the screen-porch?


Did you ever get a good buzz on grape fruit juice, sugar and bourbon?


Did your mama sock it to the Harper Vally P.T.A.?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZPBUu7Fro&feature=related

[Heidi]

6. Goodness gracious, no!

I was raised Southern Baptist. There was no dating and no alcohol until I went away to college. Then, though, there was plenty of both. :rofl:

[eyepaddle]

3. Hi Heidi!

I don't have much to say--just wanted to let you know that I still occasionally pop in and see what's going on! :hi:

[Heidi]

5. OH!!!!!

How the heck have you been, eyepaddle? I asked CMW the other day if he'd seen you 'round. Miss you, sweets, and hope all is well with you, the (semi-new) wife, and family! :hug:

[eyepaddle]

7. Thanks for wondering!

Things have been pretty good--we did a fair bit of roaming around this summer (including my first trip to NYC!) and well, you know, you just get caught up in life. Plus my parents are getting older and I have to help them out more, gut as of now, everything is good. :)

[Z_I_Peevey]

8. Woke up at 1 a.m. last night to the sound

of a tornado warning bulletin on the teevee. Seems there was rotation about three miles northeast of my place. Went outside and checked the clouds. Not enough to worry about. Went back to sleep.

Remind you of old times?

...everybody said it was a shay-me, cause her momma was working on a chain gang...uh huh huh

[Heidi]

9. WAY too familiar!

My little mama could flip a three-person sofa upside down and shove all three of us under it in fewer than 10 seconds during tornado weather. :rofl:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. I like poke with little red potatoes-

:9

[Heidi]

12. I haven't had it since I was five years old.

But I remember my granny going in the woods to pick it. :)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. you know, I would think it is really a delicacy ...

kind of a rare thing, actually.

[Heidi]

15. Except for the fact that it's poison if it's not cooked right.

Fancy-pants restaurants=wusses, annit? :rofl:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. meh.

more for me :)

[Redstone]

11. It's "poke" salad, not "polk." The Southerners are going to

whoop yo' butt for spelling it wrong.

Just joking. How have you been?

Redstone

[Heidi]

13. REDSTONE!!!!

Osiyo, bro! :hug:

I agree in principle on the polk v. poke thang, but the editor in me cannot misspell the copyrighted title of a song. :rofl:

How YOU been?

[Redstone]

17. No shit, that's how it spelled? (By the way, you can't copyright a title.)

Just the song itself. As a writer, I know about this stuff. In fact, I purloined one of my favorite Perelman titles (Shut Up, He Explained) for one of my newspaper columns, legally.

I'm doing better. A year of health struggles, but I'm out of the woods now. Thanks for asking.

Redstone

[Heidi]

18. Glad about your health.

It's a good day (for me, anyway) when kindred like you come back home. :hug:

[Inchworm]

19. Bwahaha - that was my first thought

:rofl:

I still love Heidi though :*

:hi:

[nolabear]

21. LOL Redstone! In fact, it's "Poke Salet". I used to eat it as a kid.

My grandfather, who was known to drag home all manner of things off the side of the road and from anywhere something caught his fancy (a trait that I'm convinced made a poet of me) was a poke salet afficianado. Part of the thrill of eating it was that it grew on the berm and either parts of it, or badly prepared versions of it, could make you really sick. But we ate it scrambled with eggs and it was excellent, as was the sugar cane we chewed, the coffee can tamales that were sold off of various trucks, and the barbecued goat that came from god-knows-where.

[Redstone]

23. Coffee-can tamales! I used to eat those in Mississippi. They were great.

Redstone

[nolabear]

26. Yep, Mississippi it was. The coast. We used to tell my sisters they were made of stray cats.

I think they could have been and they'd still have eaten them, they're so good.

[Inchworm]

20. The breezes are getting cooler in the evening

Time to toss a shirt with sleeves in the back of the truck just in case you get to wandering to long into the day.

The birds and squirrels are going hard to the feeders.

Peach wine will hit soon, apples next. Time to collect good brandys for that occasional cough ;)

The Fall is a favorite season of mine.

Here is a song for ya. Hope next week is better. :hug:

Lynyrd Skynyrd-All i can do is write about it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGQvKU8Iaz4

Well this life that I live has took me everywhere
There ain't no place I ain't never gone
But its kind of like the saying that you heard so many times
Well there just ain't no plae like home

Did you ever see a she-gator protect her young
Or a fish in a river swimming free
Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of Carolina
Or the sweetness of the grass in Tennessee
And Lord I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes

Do you like to see a mountain stream a-flowin'
Do you like to see a youngun with his dog
Did you ever stop to think about, well, the air your breathin'
Well you better listen to my song
And Lord I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes

I'm not tryin' to put down no big cities
But the things they write about us is just a bore
Well you can take a boy out of ol' Dixieland
But you'll never take ol' Dixie from a boy
And Lord I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes
'Cause I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes

:*

[Heidi]

22. Next week is already better 'cause

you love me, cuz. :loveya:

:smooch:

[Inchworm]

24. Hey wait!

I loved you last week too!!! ;)

:loveya:

[Heidi]

25. :-*

Same here. :hug:

:loveya: