Three More Penn Laird Stories

ICED TEA PARTY

At least one person in attendance at the Penn Laird is not at all happy that the meeting was adjourned early. Curtis Keyser is a member of the growing political movement known as the "Iced Tead Party" and he had hoped for a lively discussion of his proposal that Penn Laird secede from Rockingham County.

NEW RECORD STORE

When Doris Almarode learned that there was a new "record store" opening adjacent to the former Simmons Service Center in Penn Laird she couldn't wait to pick up some vinyl albums for her grandmother, Agnes Cash. Agnes refuses to listen to "her music" on anything but vinyl records (no ipods, MP3s or CDs for her; at 66 years of age she knows what she likes...and what she doesn't!).

THE WATER GARDEN

Joyce Erbaugh well remembers her husband Larry's words, "You decorate the inside of the house, so I will decorate the outside!" That was in May of 2009, and this is how their back yard has looked ever since. One day it will be the finest water garden in all of Penn Laird, Virginia. Sure. Yep. We believe that.
Joyce says, “Larry's excuse is that the fish keep drinking the water. He dug the hole at the wrong place, anyway. I'm tired of falling in there at night when I pass by there on the way to our outdoor john.”

Another Great Idea Not Appreciated by Our Parents

This was our solution to a problem: our friend Phil Schroeder had fallen in Cub Run and he and his clothes were totally soaked. We were not supposed to be in the creek, so we couldn't just go home and get him clean clothes. We almost got away with it, but Mrs. Albertson saw him from her side porch and called my Mom. Mrs. Albertson hardly ever used her side porch. Sigh.



Phil's Mom was kind of a drama queen, so she made him hang there until she could go home and get her Brownie camera to take this photo.