Pert near every day or so...

Just a few yard blooms

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I had a feeling there would be a few that would have never heard the expression. I am not that old but I have used it for many years. I once ran across a poem by S Omar Barker called "Pert Near Perkins" that " pert near done most anything that he had ever tried. " 40 years later and it's still in my head.
 
I had a feeling there would be a few that would have never heard the expression. I am not that old but I have used it for many years. I once ran across a poem by S Omar Barker called "Pert Near Perkins" that " pert near done most anything that he had ever tried. " 40 years later and it's still in my head.

I had never heard that. just read it and it is funny.

"Looks like I purt near
Got here just in time," ol' Perkins said,
"To see them nesters hang you!"
Tom's face got kinder red.
"You purt near did!" he purt near grinned.
"They purt near had me strung!
You're lookin' at a cowboy
That has pert near just been hung!
And also one that's changed his mind
For no word ever said,
Can sound as sweet as 'purt near',
When a man's been purt near dead!"
 
One of the benefits of having a saw mill is being able to use by products. Sometimes just firewood and sometimes fences are created from the outside slabs cut off of logs.

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piperbarb

Senior Member
It doesn't seem like there is much left of anything else in that area, either. :) We have places just as abandoned-looking around here, too. Interesting shot.
 

Michael J.

Senior Member
Do you know what I love about you Dave? According to your Avatar you're not a teeny anymore and when I look to your pics I try to imagine how you took those pics, how you bended your knees, how you looked on your cam-display and so on.

You become so a nice person in my mind whom I would give a big hug.
 
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