mishawakian
Jr. Member
I am a Rebel living in Yankee territory.
I was born in Arlington,Texas.I have had family that lived in Abbeyville,Bakerhill,Eufala area.
When I was younger I would spend my summers staying with my grandpa.We would travel to Alabama to visit my great grandmother and great aunt.
We would go target practice shooting at an old Bauxite mine/hole.
Oh those were the days.I sure do miss them all since they all have passed on.
I remember eating peanuts,pecans,figs,black and purple eyed peas, butter beans (here they call em Lima beans) grits,homemade chicken and dumplings, and cornbread, not actually cornbread but that's what we called it then,PEACHES!I cannot eat another one to this day.
It was there in Alabama my grandpa took me to a Kmart in Eufala to buy my first BB gun.My first kill was a huge long black snake (a racer?).I was 8 or 9 at the time.He would let me drive sometimes on the back roads while listening to ConwayTwitty on his 8 track.
He was my best friend and I do miss him so.He died in 1996.
My mother had a dream about him the other night and emailed me about it.She did a search of the cemetery where all my kin is buried and more than likely I'll be buried.The cemetery page posted head stones of most of my family that is buried there.Cool I thought.
Well I did a aerial search too,of my greatgrandma and greataunts property.I remember across the road was a storage shed of sorts that my mother told me it was a general store at one time,when she was a little girl.She told me of how they would pitch pennies across the floor and they would fall through the cracks.When grandpa died and I went to his funeral that shed was long gone.Grandpa also had a nanny when he was growing up and she lived in a shack near the bauxite mine.When we would go shooting,we would walk past her shell of a home.I remember me and my brother would play there.We found old bottles and such, but ended up using them for targets.I did an aerial/birdseye view and can make out where the "shed" was.Over growth and maybe kudzu covering the nanny homestead.
Now I am 39.A laid off carpenter stuck here in the Northern part of the U.S.
I want to pass through and hit the homesites.I'm thinking road trip.
My question is does bauxite have any effect on metal detectors?What about the red clay?Is it hard to dig?
I was born in Arlington,Texas.I have had family that lived in Abbeyville,Bakerhill,Eufala area.
When I was younger I would spend my summers staying with my grandpa.We would travel to Alabama to visit my great grandmother and great aunt.
We would go target practice shooting at an old Bauxite mine/hole.
Oh those were the days.I sure do miss them all since they all have passed on.
I remember eating peanuts,pecans,figs,black and purple eyed peas, butter beans (here they call em Lima beans) grits,homemade chicken and dumplings, and cornbread, not actually cornbread but that's what we called it then,PEACHES!I cannot eat another one to this day.
It was there in Alabama my grandpa took me to a Kmart in Eufala to buy my first BB gun.My first kill was a huge long black snake (a racer?).I was 8 or 9 at the time.He would let me drive sometimes on the back roads while listening to ConwayTwitty on his 8 track.
He was my best friend and I do miss him so.He died in 1996.
My mother had a dream about him the other night and emailed me about it.She did a search of the cemetery where all my kin is buried and more than likely I'll be buried.The cemetery page posted head stones of most of my family that is buried there.Cool I thought.
Well I did a aerial search too,of my greatgrandma and greataunts property.I remember across the road was a storage shed of sorts that my mother told me it was a general store at one time,when she was a little girl.She told me of how they would pitch pennies across the floor and they would fall through the cracks.When grandpa died and I went to his funeral that shed was long gone.Grandpa also had a nanny when he was growing up and she lived in a shack near the bauxite mine.When we would go shooting,we would walk past her shell of a home.I remember me and my brother would play there.We found old bottles and such, but ended up using them for targets.I did an aerial/birdseye view and can make out where the "shed" was.Over growth and maybe kudzu covering the nanny homestead.
Now I am 39.A laid off carpenter stuck here in the Northern part of the U.S.
I want to pass through and hit the homesites.I'm thinking road trip.
My question is does bauxite have any effect on metal detectors?What about the red clay?Is it hard to dig?
