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AND, She ain't wearin' NO CLOTHES...............

and welcome lisa

Illinois here but I am in Mo a lot glad to help keep the thread going

welcome, glad to see a new face

Happy to try and help my neighbors across this fine state. I'm in KC. New to the site. New to all this, actually. So, Hello All.

welcome to ya hun hope you enjoy it!

How and why was the bootheel of Missouri formed?
The southeast corner of Missouri extends like a boot heel into northern Arkansas. This projection is approximately fifty miles long and thirty miles wide. It contains approximately 2,000 square miles and three million acres. All of Pemiscot and portions of Dunklin and New Madrid counties are in this area.

It was this section that was most affected by the earthquake of 1811 - 1812. According to local traditions, prior to the earthquake the area was fertile and promising -- after the earthquakes, wet and swampy. Many people left the area following the tremors, but one who did not was John Hardeman Walker whose family had settled in the vicinity of Caruthersville in 1810, just before the earthquakes. By 1818, when he was twenty-five years of age, he reportedly owned several thousands of acres and a large number of cattle, all in the area between the Mississippi and the St. Francis River to the west.

At that time the territory of Missouri applied to the U. S. government for admission as a state. When the proposed boundary for the new state was drawn it established the southern line at a parallel of 36 degrees and 30 minutes north latitude, an extension of the boundary of that served to separate Kentucky and Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina. But such a boundary would leave

the people of the Caruthersville area and all of J. H. Walker's property in the Territory of Arkansas, which was, at the time, les organized than Missouri. Consequently, Walker and other residents of the area brought all of the political pressure they could muster to move the boundary to the south, creating the Missouri "bootheel."

The details of exactly how and why this effort succeeded is one of the great stories of early Missouri, shrouded in legend, folklore, and mystery.

Ok, now for the really tough question. What kind of sock should the bootheel wear?

On November 22, 1818, the territorial legislature adopted a memorial to the United States Congress for the admission of Missouri to the Union. The new memorial described a more extensive boundary than that proposed in the earlier petitions, fixing the boundaries to include the Little Prairie area as follows:

"Beginning at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi River at the 36 th degree of north latitude and running in a direct line to the mouth of the Black river, a branch of the White river; thence in the middle of the main channel of the White river to where the parallel of 36 degrees and 30 minutes north latitude crosses the same; thence with that parallel of latitude due west..."

The boundary outlined in this memorial was not adopted, but if it had been, the State of Missouri would have been much larger, including parts of southern Iowa, eastern Kansas, and northeastern Arkansas. The United States Congress amended the memorial boundaries, but agreed to include the area known as the "Bootheel" within the new state.

On March 6, 1820, when the Territory of Missouri requested admission to the Union with the modified boundary in the southeast corner, the request was granted. The Missouri Enabling Act describes the southern boundary as follows:

".Beginning in the middle of the Mississippi river, on the parallel of thirty-six degrees of north latitude; thence west, along that parallel of latitude, to the St. Francois river; thence up, and following the course of that river, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the parallel of latitude of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes; thence west, along the same, to a point where the said parallel is intersected by a meridian line passing through the middle of the mouth of the Kansas river ."

This acquisition increased the total area of Missouri by some 980 square miles (627,000 acres).


Sources:
Houck, Louis. History of Missouri: From the Earliest Explorations and Settlements Until the Admission of the State into the Union. Volume I. Chicago: R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company, 1908.

March, David. History of Missouri. Volume I. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1967.

Missouri: Day by Day. Volume I. Edited by Floyd C. Shoemaker. Columbia [ Mo. ]: State Historical Society of Missouri, 1942.

Hmmm, so actually some of these Missourians are actually Arkies.

HEY EVERYONE THIS LADY LIVES IN ARKANSAS AND IF YOU NEED TO KEEP THIS ALIVE WELL I GUESS I HAVE MY WORK CUT OUT FOR ME....



SO LETS BRING IT ON

GOOD MORNING HOW IS EVERYONE THIS FINE MORNING????

love is special

Grow old along with me!

The best is yet to be,

The last of life, for which the first Robert Browning

was made.

Our times are in his hand.

The Eskimo has fifty-two

names for snow because it is Atwood

important to him; there ought

to be as many for love.

Joy is the net of love by which

you can catch souls. Mother Teresa

Love is like a violin. The

music may stop now and then,

but the strings remain forever. Bacher

There is only one happiness

in life, to love and br loved. George Sand

The best and most beautiful

things in the world cannot be

seen or even touched. They

must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller

Age does not protect you from

love, but love, to some extent,

protects you from age. Moreau

Today as the sun rises for me,

everything lives, everything is

animated, everything seems to

speak to me of my passion,

everything invites me to

cherish it. Anne De Lenclos

We often tahe for granted the

very things that most deserve

our gratitude. Ozick

When you have been

wronged a poor memory is

your best response.

Who being loved, is poor? Oscar Wilde

Treasure the love you recieve

above all. It will survive long

after your gold and good health

have vanished. Mandino

You will find as you look

back upon your life that the

moments when you have really

lived are the moments when

you have done things in the

spirit of love. Henry Drummand

Charm is deceptive, and

beauty is fleeting; but a woman

who fears the Lord is to

be praised. Proverbs

Lord grant that I may seek to

comfort rather then be

comforted; to love rather than

be loved. Mother Teresa

Treasure each other in the

recognition that we do not

know how long we shall have

each other. Joshua L. Liebman

Loneliness is the first thing

which God's eye named

not good. John Milton

If, instead of a gem, or even a

flower, we should cast the gife of

a loving thought onto the heart

of a friend, that would be giving

as the angels give. George Mac Donald

Love is a little blind; when we

love someone dearly we

unconsciously overlook

many faults. Beatrice Saunders

Life is to be fortified by many

friendships. To love and be

loved is the greatest happiness

of existence. Sydney Smith

Love without ceasing,

Give without Measure-------

Who can exhaust God's

limitless treasure? Malcolm Schloss

Love never reasons, but

profusely gives; gives, like a

thoughtless prodigal, its all, and

trembles then lest it has done

too little. Hannah More

A look of love will at times,

have a better effect than all the

prescriptions of a physican on

one that ails.

How shall I continue the love I

have inspired? How shall I

preserve the heart I have won?

Be lovely still, be gentle still.

The soul needs friendship, the

heart needs love. Ed Habib

Music is love in search of a word. Sidney Lanier

If you would be loved,

love and be lovable. Benjamin Franklin

Friendship is love with

understanding. Ancient Proverb

The sea has its pearls,

The heaven its stars----

But my heart, my heart,

My heart has its love!!!! Heinrich Heine

Love shortens time,

charms the hours. Love is

invincible. Many waters

cannot quench it, nor the floods

drown. The supreme

happiness of life is the

conviction that we are loved.

Love, indeed, lends a precious

seeing to the eye, and hearing

to the ear; all sights and sounds

are glorified by the light of its

presence. Frederick Saunders

Know my love, that I should

like to call you a thief, because

you have stolen my heart. Margaret of Nassau

Love comforteth like sunshine

after rain. William Shakespeare

Love is sweetest seasoned

with respect. George Clifford

Love----what a volume in a

word, an ocean in a tear.

A seventh heaven in a glance,

a whirwind in a sigh.

The lightning in a touch, a

millenium in a moment. M.F. Tupper

To enlarge or illustrate the

power and effect of love is to set

a candle in the sun. Robert Burton

Every good gift and every

perfect gift is from above, and

comeh from the Father

of lights...... James 1:17

There is no fear in love; but

perfect love casteth out fear... Saint John

Love does not consist in gazing

at each other, but in looking

togther iin the same direction. Antoine de Saint

Love is not a possession, but a

growth. The heart is a lamp

with just oil enough to burn for

an hour, and if there be no oil to

put in again its light will go out.

God's grace is the oil that fills

the lamp of love. Henry Ward Beecher

It is astonishing how little one

feels poverty when one loves. John Bulwer

Love isn't like a reservoir.

You'll never drain it dry.

It's much like a natural

spring. The longer and

farther it flows, the stronger

and deeper and the clearer

it becomes. Eddie Cantor

We are shaped and fashioned by

what we love. Johann Wolfgang

The deepest truth blooms only

from the deepest love. Heinrich Heine

When I have learnt to love

God better than my earthly

dearest, I shall love my earthly

dearest better than I do now. C.S Lewis

They that love are but one

step from heaven. James Russell Lowell

When love and skill work

togther, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin

There are three principal

postures of love. It gives with joy,

recieves with appreciation and

rebukes with humility and hope. Albert M. Wells Jr.

How do I love thee?

Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and

breadth and height.

My soul can reach,when

feeling out of sight

For the ends of being and

ideal Grace. Elizabeth B. Browning

I love thee wth a love

I seemed to lose

With my lost saints---

I love thee with the breath,

Smiles, tears, of all my life----

and, if God choose,

I shall but love thee better

after death. Elizabeth B. Browning

Thy love is such I can no

way repay;

the heavens reward thee

manifold I pray.

Then while we live, in love let's

so persevere,

That when we live no more, we

may live ever. Anne Bradstreet

Till a'the seas gang dry,

my dear,

And the rocks melt wi'the sun,

I will luve thee still, my dear,

While the sands o'life

shall run. Robert Burns

Love was to his impassioned

soul, not a mere part of its

existence, but the whole, the

very life-breath of his heart. Moore

Love is never lost. If not

reciprocated it will flow back and

soften and purify the heart. Washington Irving

The desire to be beloved is ever

restless and unsatisfied; but the

love that flows out upon others

is a perpetual well-spring from

on high. L.M. Child

No cord or cable can draw so

forcible, or so fast, as love

can do with a single thread. Burton

Love is to the moral nature

what the sun is to the earth. Balzac

Love...is like a beautiful slower

which I may not touch, but

whose fragrance makes the

garden a place of delight just

the same. Helen Keller

True love...The silver link, the

silver tie, which heart to heart,

and mind to mind, in body and

in soul can bind. Walter Scott

Love is an image of God, and

not a lifeless image, but the

living essence of the devine

nature which beams full of all

goodness. Luther

But every house where love abides

And friendship is a quest,

Is surely home,and home,

sweet home. Henry Van Dyke

The power to love truly and

devotedly is the noblest gift

with thich a human being can

be endowed. Miss Jewsbury

Love gives itself;it is not bought. Henry W. Longfellow

Love reckons hours for

months, and days for years;

and every little absence is

an age. Dryden

....Love is that sun against whose

melting beams the winter

cannot stand. Tupper

The love of a man and a woman

gains immeasurably in power

when placed under divine

restraint. James Hammond

You're in my thoughts so

often------

and in my heart always!!!

Love looks not with the eyes,

but with the mind;

And therefore is winged Cupid

painted blind. William Shakespeare

LOVE: It makes a sour heart

sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor

heart rich, a dull heart wise, a

timid heart bold, a weak heart

stronge, a blind heart seeing, a cold

heart burning. Beruiah

I prize thy love more than

whole mines of gold,

Of all the riches that the East

doth hold.

My love is such that rivers

cannot quench,

Nor ought but love from thee

give recompense. Anne Bradstreet

I love you not only for what you

are making of yourself, but for

what you are making of me. I

love you for that part of me that

you bring out.

Love is a tender plant; when

properly nourished, it becomes

sturdy and enduring...... Hugh B. Brown

Wherever a person turns he

can find someone who needs him.

Even if it is a little thing...do

something for which there is no

pay---but for the priviledge of just

doing it.

Be assured that when you see a tear

on a cheek, a heart is touched.

There's nothing half so sweet

in life as love's young dream. Thomas Moore

Little deeds of kindness,little

words of love,

help to make earth happy,

like the heaven above. Julia A.F. Carney

Good morning, Dakota. Just heard on the radio that it might rain this Saturday. Funny how in the beginning of the year we had an abundance of rain but now there is a need for rain. If anybody wants to join in on a rain dance you don't worry about wearing dancing shoes.

Hey ya Hey ya Hey ya. Hey ya. Rain dag nam it.

YEAH BUDDY AND MAN IT HAS BEEN SO HOT HERE I THOUGHT THE DEVIL HIMSELF WAS HERE VISITING IF IT RAINS HERE I AM GOING TO GO RIGHT OUTSIDE AND PLAY IN IT TILL I CAN'T TAKE IT NO MORE.....

Oh, I still love playing in the rain. I still have fond memories of my mom saying, "That kid doesn't have enough sense to get out of the rain." Must be a self fulfilling prophecy.

Playing in the rain ?? count me in I may be getting older but that doesnt mean I want to grow up

Oh, wow. Another Toy R Us kid. Nice to meet you.

Central MO here....c'mon where are all the Missourians?

>WORDS TO LIVE BY
>Accept that some days you're the pigeon,
>and some days you're the statue.
>Always keep your words soft and sweet,
>just in case you have to eat them.
>
>Always read stuff that will make you look
>good if you die in the middle of it.
>
>Drive carefully. It's not only cars that
>can be recalled by their maker.
>
>Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing
>worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.
>
>If you can't be kind, at least have the
>decency to be vague.
>
>If you lend someone $20, and never see
>that person again, it was probably worth it.
>
>It may be that your sole purpose in life
>is simply to serve as a warning to others.
>
>Never buy a car you can't push.
>
>Never put both feet in your mouth at the
>same time, because then you don't
>have a leg to stand on.
>
>Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
>Just get up and dance.
>
>The early worm gets eaten by the bird,
>so sleep late.
>
>When everything's coming your way,
>you're in the wrong lane.
>
>Birthdays are good for you; the more
>you have, the longer you live.
>
>
>
>You may be only one person in the world,
>but you may also be the world to one person.
>
>
>
>Some mistakes are too much fun
>to only make once.
>
>Don't cry because it's over;
>smile because it happened.
>
>We could learn a lot from crayons:
>some are sharp, some are pretty, some
>are dull, some have weird names, and
>all are different colors but they all
>have to learn to live in the same box.
>
>A truly happy person is one who can
>enjoy the scenery on a detour.
>
>Happiness comes through doors you
>didn't even know you left open.
>
>Have an awesome day, and know that
>someone has thought about you today....