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  1. sheeplady

    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    ... when you tell a neighbor you're looking for a house to rent and get five landlords calling you that night. ... when you can't drive anywhere in town because the cars are stopped in the road chatting to people on the street or to another car coming the opposite direction . ... when cars...
  2. sheeplady

    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    ...all your parades are agriculturally themed: the dairy parade, the maple parade, the corn parade and the highlight of any parade are the tractors and your village's two firetrucks.
  3. sheeplady

    Lost art of proper relaxation

    I have too many hobbies. The ones I enjoy are sewing, wood burning, crocheting, baking, and spinning. I also like to cook. I probably like sewing the most. I write as part of my job. I enjoy it (and I wouldn't do the type of work I'd do if I didn't) but it is strictly work.
  4. sheeplady

    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    ...other people know your business before you do.
  5. sheeplady

    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    If a business colleague pulled out a chair for me, or called me ma'am or miss, I'm not precisely sure how I'd feel, but likely at least unsettled. Male colleagues regularly open the door for me. A colleague pulling out a chair though seems... un-business like. Students call me ma'am all the...
  7. sheeplady

    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    ... when your kid does something bad, you hear about it before they get home and meet them at the front door.
  8. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Did you run a Bed and Breakfast or intend to? Three bathrooms (while having kids) is my absolute limit. I'd prefer two (one for us, one for them they stay out of my things) but more than 3 is awful to clean. The only thing is I do like a bathroom on each "living floor" so you don't have to do...
  9. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That's fascinating. The term Lemko is familiar to me, but I'm not sure how. I know just about as much as I can about my ancestry from what was possible to get from my family. My great-grandfather was from Liszna (according to Ellis Island), which is apparently in the Lemko region (it is right on...
  10. sheeplady

    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    I shot skeet in college. When we first started dating I relayed that a shot gun can remove a limb at 25 feet. He stays on my good side.
  11. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yes, I think that's it, and thanks for the info on the Rus! My "Polish" grandfather doesn't look particularly... Polish. I cannot find where my grandfather's parents are from in Poland; I know they came through Ellis Island but I haven't invested the 50 hours it would take to track them down...
  13. sheeplady

    Annoying modern trends...

    I can reassure you, if you said the n-word in Cortland county to a person of color or about a person of color, particularlt in public, you'd be considered racist.
  14. sheeplady

    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    That's hilarious. my husband knows better than to expect to ever be able to barbeque or use my fire pit. That is strictly my territory. I told him that if he builds me a fantastic outdoor kitchen, fire pit, and oven; perhaps I may allow him to use it. Perhaps. (Likely not, as in never.)
  15. sheeplady

    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    It was *very* cool. I believe I still have my clothes. They had to be hand sewn (not machine- and were inspected before you could start, although there were loaner clothes). I did the volunteering every Sunday from 1pm to 4pm, March to October from 12 to 16. We would have 100 visitors to this...
  16. sheeplady

    Annoying modern trends...

    A college friend has her daughter in the local Jewish School in daycare (she is age 4). They've had two bomb threats since the new year. The local Jewish skilled care facility has also gotten threatening calls and so has the community center. A nursing home! When people are threatening little...
  17. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    If you look closely at the wrapper, it will usually have something on it that indicates "new flavor!" The skitties one was the typical red package. If you looked closely enough, the skittles colors were "off" and one looked like a blue speckled egg, one was a pink, the green was lighter, etc...
  19. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Both tramp and hobo mean someone who lives on the street in the US, but tramp is more deragatory. Buy I haven't heard either for present homeless in a while. Tramp also refers to a loose woman, although honestly I haven't heard tramp used like that in a while. It seems to have been replaced...
  20. sheeplady

    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    No. When I was a kid my family volunteered at a 1774 historical house. We had the historical dress and I normally did hearth cooking. As a result, I can fire a flint lock (load one too), cook over an open fire, play chicks and hens (can't remember if that's the right name or not, the hoop game...
  21. sheeplady

    Annoying modern trends...

    At least they had a rock. ;)
  22. sheeplady

    Annoying modern trends...

    My husband is originally from one of them, he currently works in another, and I worked in yet another of those for a year (of your list of "real" racial experience places: St. Louis, Detroit, and Baltimore). I might be a country bumpkin, but I'm a relatively well shod one. I also work out of...
  23. sheeplady

    Annoying modern trends...

    Even in all white towns there can be racism. I've seen some towns where Italians, Poles, and the Irish all get their fair share of slurs and hate shown at them; much of it echoing what met these people's ancestors coming into Ellis Island.

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