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Alabama

wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
My wife and I just got back to Kansas from 8 days of visiting our son in Huntsville. This was a near perfect vacation. There were minimal delays at the airports and very few hassles from security. We got to do all the touristy things, such as the space center and the botanical garden etc. My son works on Redstone arsenal in missle defence and you would be surprised how many guntoting rednecks the government has working for them. We got to go shooting about every day. We didn't make a dent in his ammo.

On the fourth of July we went to one of his friends for a pig roast and home made fireworks. One of his co-workers makes his own black powder and constructs his own fireworks. Very impressive! He had some aerial bombs that still go BOOM!

We had lots of good food and all the people we met were like family.

I also got to spend about an hour in Larry's Gun Shop fondling guns. He has about the nicest selection I have seen.

Good company, good food, lots of shooting, friendly natives, lots to see how much better could it be? Thanks Alabamaians!

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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Watched them in concert this evening at Cheyenne frontier Days. They put on a really good show.
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Kicking bootie and taking names [:I]
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    just saw Miss Alabama on the news
    do you grow all of em' that pretty?
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sounds like fun especially the pig roast we used to have one every year,for several years.Everyone just lost interest,as for the home made fire works that had to be great,and probably the only USA made fireworks released on the fourth.


    Best!!

    Rugster
  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Friendly people, hot, humid, Sounds a lot like Kansas Wounded. When is the pig roast?
  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey man when your here you are family.Bama is great.Thats why I will never leave.

    Eric S. Williams
  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    Huntsville is about only 10 miles from my hometown of Athens.
    Yep! Alabama has a lot of good things going for it.
    Had to leave for the north many years ago-hated to go....sigh!
  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    Huntsville is about only 10 miles from my hometown of Athens.
    Yep! Alabama has a lot of good things going for it.
    Had to leave for the north many years ago-hated to go....sigh!




    Drinkin' was forbidden in my Christian country home
    I learned to play the flattop on them good ol' Gospel songs
    Then I heard about the barrooms just across the Georgia line
    Where a boy could make a livin' playin' guitar late at night

    Had to learn about the ladies, too young to understand
    Why the young girls fall in love with the boys in the band
    When the boys turn to music, the girls just turn away
    To some other guitar picker in some other late night place

    Yeah, held on to my music, I let the ladies walk away
    Took my songs and dreams to Nashville then I moved on to L.A.
    Up to New York City all across the USA
    I lost so much of me but there's enough of me to say that my

    Home's in Alabama, no matter where I lay my head
    My home's in Alabama, Southern born and Southern bred

    What keeps me goin' I don't really know
    Can't be the money Lord knows I'm always broke
    Could it be the satisfaction of bein' understood
    When the people really love ya and let you know when it's good

    Oh I'll speak my Southern English just as natural as I please
    I'm in the heart of Dixie, Dixie's in the heart of me
    And someday when I make it, when love finds a way
    Somewhere high on Lookout Mountain I'll just smile with pride and say that my

    Home's in Alabama, no matter where I lay my head
    My home's in Alabama, Southern born and Southern bred
    Southern born and Southern bred
  • Bushy ARBushy AR Member Posts: 564 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah Wundudnee...I am one of those G.D. Yankees...been here since 1978 and cannot imagine ever going back "up north".Here in S.E. AL the heat and humidity can be rough sometimes,but the other things make up for it.Glad to have landed a job at Ft.Rucker on the helicopter maintainence contract.The Gulf is only 90 miles away if I want to go,and the bass fishing here is some of the best in the world.The gun laws are sensible,the housing costs are low,and the people really make it great.Come on back and if you get down around here,I will take you to the range I shoot at.Y'all come back now,heah?

    Little people talk about people,regular people talk about things,and big people talk about ideas.
  • PelicanPelican Member Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks a heap fer the kind words.

    The Almighty Himself Entrusted the Future of All Living Creatures to a Wooden Boat.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -"Audemus jura nostra defendere"
  • airborneairborne Member Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not a real fan of Alabama, even though our Home Office is in Birmingham. Dread going to Birmingham in the summer because of humidity and mosquitos.

    Great people, great deer, quail, and pig hunting, not to mention beautiful women. For the last three years have been able to get to Birmingham during the Talladega races, wild and crazy fans. After careful reconsideration, maybe I do like Alabama.

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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I know a heck of a girl who lives in Opelika, AL. I haven't heard from her in about a year, but I'm afraid she's probably married by now.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
  • thesoundguy1thesoundguy1 Member Posts: 680
    edited November -1
    airborne-Anywhere but B'ham!B'hamians don't think they're in Alabama!
    Come down to Mobile Bay area!A couple of good shooting ranges,LOT'S
    of great fishing,lots of attractive girls on the beach,good music in the night clubs,and friendly folks!Good place to get away and "do nothin'"!

    www.waveformwear.com
    fighting censorship...with an attitude
  • airborneairborne Member Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    thesoundguy1,

    Never been to Mobile, is it anything thing like Biloxi? Had to go to Biloxi a couple of months ago, was pleasantly surprized.

    B - BreatheR - RelaxA - AimS - SightS - Squeeze
  • The LawThe Law Member Posts: 2,287 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    LeeMosquitoBoy...you are wrong...you are offensive...and the chances of you knowing any "REAL" girls is slim...

    "Don't take my honesty for weakness...If I think your phony...I'll flame you in a heartbeat"...
  • PelicanPelican Member Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Airborn
    Biloxi has casinos. Mobile don't. Too many preachers.

    The Almighty Himself Entrusted the Future of All Living Creatures to a Wooden Boat.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -"Audemus jura nostra defendere"
  • thesoundguy1thesoundguy1 Member Posts: 680
    edited November -1
    Pelican is right,but Biloxi is only an hour away!

    www.waveformwear.com
    fighting censorship...with an attitude
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