[MountainMomma]

Just wondered what part of West Virginia you live in. I grew up near Morgantown. Lived there most of my life until I met DH and moved to Iowa to be with him.

Of course I am still a Mountaineer fan at heart!


ETA: Nevermind! I just noticed that it says Beckley. Sorry......I had a brain fart for a minute!

[Vicki...]

I live in Ravencliff Wv, which is near Beckley, it's a beautiful place, but we live in such a rural area, so it takes me like 45+ minutes to get to the nearest wal mart, and there is not allot of selection of infertility doctors, there is one in beckley, one in bluefield, and a couple in Morgantown actually. My sil is a huge Mountaineer fan.

[MountainMomma]

I'm somewhat familiar with the area. My ex husband worked for an ambulance company in Clarksburg that was based out of Beckley. Have you heard of JanCare? We went to Beckley a few times for classes he had to take for work there.

[Vicki...]

Yep I have heard of them, I usually see at least one go speeding by my house daily, anytime my grandma needed to go to the hospital we called them, they were so nice, the main boss for pineville is a great guy, Butch, he would always be so gentle with gramma, she was 100 when she died. Wow so cool that we know some of the same places, considering how small wv is.

[MountainMomma]

I miss it. Especially the mountains. Iowa is nice, but it's soooo flat compared to back home. I told DH that the first thing we are doing when we go home to visit next summer is heading to Seneca Rocks and going to the top. Just so I can be off flat ground again! lol

I want to take him to Blackwater Falls too. And of course the lake where I grew up. Have you ever been to the Tygart Lake? It's in Grafton, about 45 minutes south of Morgantown. We'll be renting a cabin there when we go home. I grew up about 2 miles from the lake, and growing up I spent every single day of the summer there.

[Vicki...]

I know what you mean, we both missed it here when we lived in NC, but now that we live here, we miss living there, go figure, but it is very country where we currently live, the governor decided that we needed coyotes here to control deer population, and now the coyotes has greatly multiplied and become quite dangerous to small animals, cats/small dogs, so there is a 50 dollar bounty on them so people will kill them, and there is a bear and it's cub coming way to close to the house, which scares me to death. I have never been to tygart lake, we want to go, have the pamplet, but every weekend that we have planned to go something comes up, we usually go to bluestone river, sandstone river, or stevens lake, and occasionally we go to gauley bridge. Hope you have a great time when you come visit.

[MountainMomma]

I know what you mean about the coyotes. A few years ago when I was living on my farm between Grafton and Morgantown they were bad then. If I was walking the fence lines on the farm or even just out feeding cattle or going for a walk with just me and the kids I carried my pistol because of them. We lived there for about a year and I think we killed 15 or 20 just right in the yard alone! They'd come right up on the porch to eat the dogs food. Luckily we never lost any pets to them, but I sure didn't like being out after dark much either.

[Vicki...]

We lost a cat, and just about lost one of our pups, she escaped, but she literally had infection set up from the bite marks, I gave her antibiotic, and she is healed but scarred, i want to move near the city again, I get pretty scared here, we moved back here because we thought it would be safer, go figure. So what religion are you if you don't mind me asking, I am church of god.

[MountainMomma]

We go to an Assembly of God church. I grew up in a Baptist church, and started attending the Assembly when I met DH. He's actually just starting into the ministry. He isn't ordained yet. just getting started and filling in from time to time. He actually just filled in for the first time on Sunday evening.