A note from Norma to visitors here: Pine Creek which meanders through the hilly area between Polo and Oregon, Illinois, and through the White Pines State Park, was created from small, natural springs. There is a Pine Creek Township in Ogle County and people who live in that area are called Pine Creekers. My grandparents raised their large family there in the 1920s and 1930s. For some midwesterners of that region who were transplants from Tennessee, a Creek is a Crick, as in "Lord willing and the crick don't rise."
Another note, this one from Bob C.: "You drive west out of Mt. Morris, Norma, not east." I've always been directionally challenged and have to look at my wedding ring to figure out left from right, so I didn't even notice the problem!
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Looks like someone got there already...check out the guy/gal in the red shirt and black shorts...way to go...
The east-west confusion came from me. Not Norma...I don't know east from left,right to left or up from down-I admit it! Kids if you remember I was never the brights blub in the box...nothing has changed.I'm a dumb hobknocker and darn proud of it.
Kids?
raTo me they will always be the "Kids" I went through school with-Got a problem with that? Kids, Gang,chums,buddies pals,friends,classmates. It is a way of speaking-you must have been feeling terribly old when you wrote that. For those of us who remain young at heart would find no problems with the endearing term of "kids" when speaking of our 70 something friends. Why is there always someone, somewhere that is a critic. I give up. I will comment no more ever on this site and let you cynics do the comments,hereforth. and I repeat I was never the brightest of the bunch surely you can cut the dumb-butt some slack.
I'm with you. My friends are still called girls by me. My dad said when he was a kid everyone over 25 was old. But you should see the stuff I clean off--most makes no sense at all. Seems to happen more at this blog although we don't have the spam and sock puppets that most sites get. Relax. It's the internet--you know, diversity, global, digital, etc.
Murray sez:
Hey kids, quit fussing over nuttin!
You're older, so I suppose we'll have to listen to you.
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