Dance Tunes That Kept Us in Shape

Faye Fox

Faye Fox

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Let's twist again like we did last summer. :ROFLMAO: No, let's twist again like we did yesteryear. :cool: I do the twist every morning in hopes of my love handles, showing less love. I thought I was looking good with my slow twist, but after reviewing this video, and comparing with how I looked in the mirror, my slow twist is a sad state of affairs. With leggings and snazzy sports bra donned this morning, I worked it on down, down so low, getting up was even slower and not pretty. :cautious: "You are gonna feel stronger and live a lot longer..." Alrighty then let's get to moving those hips, y'all! :sneaky:

What dances did you do that kept you fit? We lived in an era of beefcakes and babes where jukeboxes and live bands got us to moving.


Chubby is still at it, age 84, but with not the energy he once had.

 
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Faye Fox said:
Let's twist again like we did last summer. :ROFLMAO: No, let's twist again like we did yesteryear. :cool: I do the twist every morning in hopes of my love handles, showing less love. I thought I was looking good with my slow twist, but after reviewing this video, and comparing with how I looked in the mirror, my slow twist is a sad state of affairs. With leggings and snazzy sports bra donned this morning, I worked it on down, down so low, getting up was even slower and not pretty. :cautious: "You are gonna feel stronger and live a lot longer..." Alrighty then let's get to moving those hips, y'all! :sneaky:

What dances did you do that kept you fit? We lived in an era of beefcakes and babes where jukeboxes and live bands got us to moving.


Chubby is still at it, age 84, but with not the energy he once had.

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Faye, proceed with great caution on those ,down down down's, you may end up like me ,disabled for going on half a year.
 
Marie Mallory said:
Do you remember the 'chop tops and hip huggers'?
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I not only remember, but wore hip huggers so tight it was a dance to get them on and crop tops also so tight that I didn't need to wear a bra for support. That was my outfit for cutting and baling hay and other warm weather tractor work. I had the hip huggers without pockets or belt loops and they were bell bottoms so I could wear them over my boots. This was necessary to keep out dirt and other things. Add my flat brim straw hat and there you have it.

Such dressing, where the top doesn't meet the pants, was the reason I had painful surgery to remove some nasty skin cancer from my lower back.
 
@Faye Fox the 🙁 is for the skin cancer you ended up with😢 It’s a wonder all of us farm girls didn’t end up with worse than what we did in those days. Sunburn, rope burn. I had no idea I had anhidrosis, I just figured not sweating while baling hay was normal. The worst thing I saw was the tail end of a rattlesnake hanging out of a bale when the neighbor kid hollered “drop it NOW”. Thankfully it was just the tail end🤯🤯

As far as dance music goes—- I had a few of Richard Simmons videos🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️
 
Connie Bennett said:
@Faye Fox the 🙁 is for the skin cancer you ended up with😢 It’s a wonder all of us farm girls didn’t end up with worse than what we did in those days. Sunburn, rope burn. I had no idea I had anhidrosis, I just figured not sweating while baling hay was normal. The worst thing I saw was the tail end of a rattlesnake hanging out of a bale when the neighbor kid hollered “drop it NOW”. Thankfully it was just the tail end🤯🤯

As far as dance music goes—- I had a few of Richard Simmons videos🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️
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I watched Richard Simmons too.
 
My favorite one, since my cousin and I went to lots of concerts and I walked to the stage on the mens shoulders ,did I mention I had great balance from being part time country girl?


The original Sloopy girl now,

 
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Connie Bennett said:
@Faye Fox the 🙁 is for the skin cancer you ended up with😢 It’s a wonder all of us farm girls didn’t end up with worse than what we did in those days. Sunburn, rope burn. I had no idea I had anhidrosis, I just figured not sweating while baling hay was normal. The worst thing I saw was the tail end of a rattlesnake hanging out of a bale when the neighbor kid hollered “drop it NOW”. Thankfully it was just the tail end🤯🤯

As far as dance music goes—- I had a few of Richard Simmons videos🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️
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I have had to remove a few rattlesnakes from swather rakes after they got cut by the sickle bar. They would just wrap around instead of getting thrown up with the cut hay. It was an ugly business, but nothing as bizarre as a ground squirrel not coming out of a section of hard line, and getting his head with eyes bugging out, forced through the nozzle of a big gun. I had to do some surgery to remove the little varmint.

The main thing that made me dance on the ranch, was wasp, especially dirt dabbers.
 
Connie Bennett said:
@Faye Fox the 🙁 is for the skin cancer you ended up with😢 It’s a wonder all of us farm girls didn’t end up with worse than what we did in those days. Sunburn, rope burn. I had no idea I had anhidrosis, I just figured not sweating while baling hay was normal. The worst thing I saw was the tail end of a rattlesnake hanging out of a bale when the neighbor kid hollered “drop it NOW”. Thankfully it was just the tail end🤯🤯

As far as dance music goes—- I had a few of Richard Simmons videos🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️
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I know the rattlesnake compressed in the bale wasn't happy, but I must know, was it shaking its tail or dead? :sneaky:
 
Faye Fox said:
I know the rattlesnake compressed in the bale wasn't happy, but I must know, was it shaking its tail or dead? :sneaky:
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Stone Mountain Georgia was full of snakes, we ran across them all the time, mama got bit by a rattler of all places in the car, it was wrapped around the clutch and when she pushed in clutch it bit her. She almost lost her leg. Our lake was dull of moccasin's we swam with them all the time.
I wash washing wall rugs over a smooth rock in the creek, one was the Lords Last Supper, I was singing a song I just made up, 'stomp the bread but don't stomp the wine' mama said atop blaspheming about the time a huge Cotton mouth stood up in creek where the water ran over the smooth rock and looked me right in the face. Mama said, 'don't move' which I already knew that. When it ran out of water she shot it with her 38.
 
Faye Fox said:
I know the rattlesnake compressed in the bale wasn't happy, but I must know, was it shaking its tail or dead? :sneaky:
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Thankfully only the back half was in the bale; it had evidently been chopped with the mow bar — this was in the early mid-60’s when the small farmers were still using side bar cutters.

The look on the neighbor’s face when he said drop it NOW, I knew why.

My area had so many Mississauga Swamp Rattlers, there was a bounty on them for the venom. About 15 years ago I learned they are on the endangered list😳
 
Marie Mallory said:
Stone Mountain Georgia was full of snakes, we ran across them all the time, mama got bit by a rattler of all places in the car, it was wrapped around the clutch and when she pushed in clutch it bit her. She almost lost her leg. Our lake was dull of moccasin's we swam with them all the time.
I wash washing wall rugs over a smooth rock in the creek, one was the Lords Last Supper, I was singing a song I just made up, 'stomp the bread but don't stomp the wine' mama said atop blaspheming about the time a huge Cotton mouth stood up in creek where the water ran over the smooth rock and looked me right in the face. Mama said, 'don't move' which I already knew that. When it ran out of water she shot it with her 38.
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Oh my goodness! I have the shivers just reading that🤯

How scary the rattler was wrapped around the clutch.

I have a nightmare-ish vision of the cottonmouth rearing up in the water, mouth open. They are so aggressive. Good shot mom!💐💐
 
OK, y'all forced me to post this by introducing rattlesnakes on this dance thread. Due to my PTSD concerning cottonmouths, copperheads, and snapping turtles, please don't mention them or if you do please put a warning in the title. I haven't been around any of them for 60 years and the vivid pictures you ladies are painting, have me traumatized. I was 3 when I picked up a handful of baby copperheads. My mother was beside me and knocked them out of my hand. I was lucky. A week later, I woke up from a nap and looked out my bedroom window just to see a giant snake looking at me. I screamed and refused to sleep in that room of horror.

I was glad when we moved to west Texas on my grandpas ranch and my grandpa bought me a short stocked and barreled .22 for shooting rattlesnakes. I was 5 and had to have supervision, but many a rattlers met with their demise. I got even with cottonmouths, copperheads, and snapping turtles when I spend a couple of summer months with an east Texas great aunt. She had a pond and we spend many hours shooting cottonmouths and snapping turtles. We seemed to always find a few copperheads walking the mile down to her pond. I agree with Willie and Ray, "If they take me back to Texas, they won't take me back alive." :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

We have rattlesnakes here, but ranchers that live in infested areas, either shoot them or if riding a horse, use their reins to snap off the snakes head.
 
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