Where does your "posse" hang out?

MelissaW · #1 04/09/07, 08:05 AM

For lack of a better description!

I started thinking about this when are little spurt of good weather turned back into snow. Around here, the men and women seem to have their own little groups that congregate at certain places, and sometimes those places are kind of amusing! The men around here always tend to end up lingering at the junk yard and the auctions. Any woman who's husband annouces that he's going down to the junkyard to pick up a part can expect to hold dinner for at least an hour or two! For women, it's either around someones kitchen table in the morning drinking coffee (usually with the excuse of planning some school or community function), or on the porch after chores. With so much bad weather, everyone is chomping at the bit "run into" the guys/gals and catch up! Where does your posse hang out?

uncle Will in In. · #2 04/09/07, 09:24 AM

About a dozen over the hill farmers show up at the Old Mill at about 7:30 on weekdays to guzzle coffee and straighten out the world, but mostly each other. The Snow Birds are starting to straggle back from Florida now. They tell me the only people who go to Florida are either Newlyweds, or Nearlydeads. Count me out.

**fordson major** · #3 04/09/07, 09:32 AM

well theres this store called "princess auto" they are a tool/surplus store, all we gotta do is say road trip and the crew wants too come! (kids and wife included!) sat night we meet at a neighbours and watch movies on the big screen, when nice out we kick back round a bonfire! junkyard? hold up ! i'm coming!(gotta get the trailer hooked up!) don't go too auctions much any more though, mostly city folk come out not many neighbours!

MelissaW · #4 04/09/07, 10:39 AM

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well theres this store called "princess auto" they are a tool/surplus store, all we gotta do is say road trip and the crew wants too come! (kids and wife included!) sat night we meet at a neighbours and watch movies on the big screen, when nice out we kick back round a bonfire! junkyard? hold up ! i'm coming!(gotta get the trailer hooked up!) don't go too auctions much any more though, mostly city folk come out not many neighbours!

lol! You would love our neighborhood junk yard! I drive by it every day, and there are almost always a bunch of guys (usually including my husband) leaning over the hood of the tow truck talking. Some of them are holding car parts, but I think that's just an excuse to be there! Our auction yard is in the Amish neighborhood. Everybody from around here goes. The Amish don't get to call or e-mail, so it's the best way to run into Amish friends.

Wayne02 · #5 04/09/07, 11:12 AM

Women = living room, dinning room, or deck (wherever there is enough room to set-up their spinning wheels.

Men go to the men zone, otherwise known as the shop.

Wayne02 · #6 04/09/07, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by MelissaW

lol! Some of them are holding car parts, but I think that's just an excuse to be there!

Oh please, we are doing productive work there, you just can't tell with your untrained eyes...

MelissaW · #7 04/10/07, 08:16 AM

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Oh please, we are doing productive work there, you just can't tell with your untrained eyes...

I agree completely. It's very productive work! Why, when my husband comes home, he fills me in on every bit of news going on all over the county. It saves money over buying a newspaper, and the "articles" are much less depressing! :baby04:

Jenn · #8 04/10/07, 10:25 PM

Actually have some friends sorta here! The old homeowner buzzes over to work in his adjacent property daily or so and I step out or he drives up if I'm in the yard to chat every few days, asking help or just passing the time. DD6 always wants to go fishing with him but 90% the time he's working so she has to wait until he is actually sitting down with a pole to go join him.

The other neighbor is stretched thin- fulltime job fulltime mom night school. When I walk her DD home she sometimes comes out and we talk for half an hour or so in her garage while the kids run around some more. Or sometimes when we're on the phone arranging a playdate she'll talk my ear off about some issue in the neighborhood the school or whatever.

And that is about it. The officers' wives (group) is a resource if I ever had to have such a resource- ie disaster- but our kaffees etc are too heirarchical to be companionable.

My main posse? My dog and the two neighbor dogs who do duty here daily. Plus maybe the cats. Someday we'll show those mean dogs down the street who's boss. In my own yard anyway.