tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240067140694289750.post8289433896062704146..comments2024-03-16T10:37:09.839-04:00Comments on Life in Mathews: Looking Forward to the PastChesapeake Bay Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187804072769932131noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240067140694289750.post-62795536318147926002010-02-23T15:30:31.089-05:002010-02-23T15:30:31.089-05:00great snaps. cant wait for more. I'm playing b...great snaps. cant wait for more. I'm playing blog catch up.<br /><><Noe Noe Girl...A Queen of all Trades.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08886045805509904850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240067140694289750.post-4705072465740018352010-02-22T10:03:04.767-05:002010-02-22T10:03:04.767-05:00Busy busy weekend - ToonMan had a client/friend ov...Busy busy weekend - ToonMan had a client/friend over to work and so I exited .. I am sure Mathews Mark missed me muchly.Darylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08241795455748298624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240067140694289750.post-8057628161557561782010-02-21T18:17:26.073-05:002010-02-21T18:17:26.073-05:00Country Girl, what a beautiful house! I'd neve...Country Girl, what a beautiful house! I'd never make it up there...heights on a slant...nope..can't do...I'd never make a skier either I guess!ghostlesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09228763363770107748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240067140694289750.post-53657805227397952282010-02-21T17:41:45.560-05:002010-02-21T17:41:45.560-05:00Where are the pictures?? You tease!
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If I coul...Where are the pictures?? You tease!<br />:)<br /><br />If I could have any meal with someone from my past, present or future it would be my mother who I lost when I was 5. I just turned 54 last week and it gets harder every year. <br /><br />Anywho, love house. And the colors of the outhouse also.maria from njnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240067140694289750.post-85674910793360076052010-02-21T09:49:51.907-05:002010-02-21T09:49:51.907-05:00we have an uncle who built a new modern house that...we have an uncle who built a new modern house that has a widows peak but there is no way to get to it from the inside or outside its just for show and name!!! but it is right on the water!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240067140694289750.post-1161566014393338532010-02-21T09:42:36.933-05:002010-02-21T09:42:36.933-05:00MM, if I could have lunch with anyone it would be ...MM, if I could have lunch with anyone it would be Annie Leibovitz. I just think she's really interesting and a fantastic photographer.Country Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14432335393660130255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240067140694289750.post-5325923876975099162010-02-21T09:37:08.654-05:002010-02-21T09:37:08.654-05:00Ghostless, we have a widow's walk on our house...Ghostless, we have a widow's walk on our house (we are the caretakers of this home): http://katespictureaday.blogspot.com/2009/02/skywatch-friday-sunrise.html<br />The house is situated approx. 8 miles from a river that is a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay. In the old days when the trees weren't in the way, there was a clear view from our house on the hill.<br />CBW, I look forward to your posts this week. I love this sort of thing.Country Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14432335393660130255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240067140694289750.post-81003277616178731102010-02-21T09:25:05.276-05:002010-02-21T09:25:05.276-05:00Oh I can't wait for pictures from the inside o...Oh I can't wait for pictures from the inside of this historical building. I also can't wait to meet MM and his brother and mother at blog fest, and hear all their stories.<br /><br />I would love to spend time with my paternal grandmother back in her home town in Ireland. I've been there, but it was years after her death.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16036374022323687122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240067140694289750.post-71866916538062892432010-02-21T09:24:25.981-05:002010-02-21T09:24:25.981-05:00opps here is the link from the first post.
http:/...opps here is the link from the first post. <br />http://thewatermanswife.blogspot.com/2007/09/deadly-dinner-party.htmlAnn Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18106387742803005341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240067140694289750.post-84427019744622633042010-02-21T09:23:24.714-05:002010-02-21T09:23:24.714-05:00Can we PLEASE not discuss Widow Watch's .. tha...Can we PLEASE not discuss Widow Watch's .. thank you.. 'preciate it. <br /><br />MM you are right they did not like to build their houses directly on the water. I am the closest to the water as they come in my family. None of the older generation built on the water exactly, Grandaddy Owens was up off the road from Sandbank not by much but enough that the property is not considered waterfront. Papa Lem was up off the water as well, enough that again not water front, same with Pop who built beside Papa Lem and Bubba (who is Everett by the way) who built beside Grandaddy Owens. Me I am on it enough that the flooding affects me. My dream is to one day have a full on view of the Bay or the Ocean. They were close enough to get to their boats if needed during a storm but not close enough that a storm was going to take out their homes. <br /><br />Lunch who would I go with well.. some time ago I posted this on my old blog. <br /><br />But I think you mean something else by your question. I still would have a list and can't just pick one, that would be unfair wouldn't it. <br /><br />I would invite my grandparents, great grandparents, and my great great grandparents on both sides, my Aunt Rita, Pansy Boy, Roro and Mel Moo. I would also invite CBW to interview and take pictures. Where would we go, here of course and I would fix oysters and spot and friend chicken and baked ziti and homemade potato rolls and catone I could keep going here with the recipes that were handed down to me from these people but I won't. <br /><br />I have taking too much real estate today.. peace out.Ann Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18106387742803005341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240067140694289750.post-46757927830999888182010-02-21T08:39:53.342-05:002010-02-21T08:39:53.342-05:00ghostless & Jamie - I've heard of both the...ghostless & Jamie - I've heard of both the widow's walk and widow's watch used for precisely what you say, ghostless. <br /><br />MM-It was so good to meander around the two houses and visit with your mother. Back in high school I called her my adopted grandmother (whether she wanted teh title or not). She's a remarkable lady, and it's easy to see where your story telling ability comes from--your mountain brother's too.<br /><br />The answer to the question: I'd want to go with my maternal grandmother to her old house and eat some of her fried chicken and mashed potatoes. I'd hate for her to have to do the work, but that's the only way to get that fried chicken. Otherwise, I"ll take Thomas Jefferson, and we would go to the buffet at Golden Corral.<br /><br />Mrs. F. - There's so much information and photography to share it's overwhelming. <br /><br />Soup - You never know, there may have been a widows rung on the ladder of a silo. <br /><br />It's going to be sunny and warm today, perfect weather for cleaning a wet basement.Chesapeake Bay Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07187804072769932131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240067140694289750.post-28006535098458739342010-02-21T08:34:24.639-05:002010-02-21T08:34:24.639-05:00Ghostless, the version I've heard is with a ho...Ghostless, the version I've heard is with a home with the railing on the top - that's called a widow's walk, for the same reason as you mentioned. I've not heard that about top floor windows... but where I grew up, there were no seafaring husbands... only farmers and a few truckers.<br /><br />Love the house and can't wait to hear the stories!Meg McCormickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01226110990838922422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240067140694289750.post-70299129662746155762010-02-21T07:57:53.983-05:002010-02-21T07:57:53.983-05:00*bouncing on seat*
I can't WAIT, I can't ...*bouncing on seat*<br /><br />I can't WAIT, I can't WAIT!Mrs F with 4https://www.blogger.com/profile/02251591675774310188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240067140694289750.post-12671996796254248342010-02-21T07:57:11.016-05:002010-02-21T07:57:11.016-05:00Todays question; If you could have lunch with anyo...Todays question; If you could have lunch with anyone, past, present or future, who would it be and were would you go for lunch? I no enough with the questions LOL MMMathews Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04881091426588301627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240067140694289750.post-34341022059292485122010-02-21T07:54:08.701-05:002010-02-21T07:54:08.701-05:00CBW thank you for allowing me to document some of ...CBW thank you for allowing me to document some of my family's past as Meg commented yesterday, we need to document as much as possible for or youth. I notice your (young adults) seemed to enjoy exploring the old homes. As you saw, some of the modern day contractor's would marvel over the construction of this old home. My question; How did they build a house like that with out the modern day tools? Thanks again CBW my Mom has fallin in love with you all over again. Ghostless: I have heard this term. but a little known fact (according to my grandady) back in his life time a lot of Watermen did not like to build there home's on the water. the reason vary's: flooding, to much wind in the winter, bad storms the same problem we have today. I will ask this question at the next 505 meeting for you,they will know. MMMathews Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04881091426588301627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240067140694289750.post-6678686086804843102010-02-21T07:49:38.934-05:002010-02-21T07:49:38.934-05:00Ghostless- I've heard that term also along wit...Ghostless- I've heard that term also along with a widow's walk which is a balcony used for the same purpose.<br /><br />CBW Great pictures! I love all the old farmhouse and out buildings throughout that whole area (Mathews and Middlesex Counties, etc).Jamiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541283009059071005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2240067140694289750.post-45112046546820203392010-02-21T05:29:53.726-05:002010-02-21T05:29:53.726-05:00I always heard that the top floor single windows l...I always heard that the top floor single windows like that, if they viewed the water, were called "widow's watch"? It was were a wife would look out to sea and wait for her husband, a fisherman or sea captain, to return. Has anyone else ever heard that term/story?ghostlesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09228763363770107748noreply@blogger.com