So, That's the way it was
So, that is the way it was!!!
Pulling weeds in the garden
Swimming in Bythe’s pond
Fishing for catfish in the pond south of Sand Ridge road
Wearing overalls
The smell of all the un-bathed bodies when the stove got it
real warm in Mineral
Point School
Fear of going to school in town
Fear of riding the school bus the first time
Shooting the old 12 gauge shotgun
Making hominy
Milking cows by hand
Eating cold watermelon in the hot summertime
Butchering chickens
Plowing the garden with a horse and double shovel
Picking strawberries at McClure’s
Making homemade soap
Wrecking the Willys Jeep Stationwagon
Trapping rabbits and selling them to Lee Knight
Cutting wood with a crosscut saw
Picking blackberries and getting chiggers and ticks
Carrying water from the well on wash day
Feeding the hogs
Smoking Chesterfield
Running down the gravel road barefoot
Eating cracklins
Driving the old ’36 Chevrolet with Braxton on the bicycle
hanging to the door handle and him asking “how fast are we going?”; and me
saying, 10 mph, when we were really going 25mph.
Throwing homemade lye
soap in bathe water
Sleeping outside on the wagon in the hot summer nights
Smoking Lucky Strike cigarettes
Catching June Bugs and tying a string on to their leg
Herding cows
Castrating pigs
Hauling wood in the back of the ’36 Chevy
Turning over the outhouses at Mineral Point
School
Up-righting the outhouses at Mineral Point
School
Drinking Carnation Soda Pop……especially the cream soda
flavor
Drinking sassafras tea
Playing on the ice of the frozen pond
Blackberry cobbler
Pestering the “parkers” in Sand Ridge Road
Throwing the steer head down the toilet hole
Getting the steer head out of the toilet hole
Falling through the ice while crossing the creek
Beans cornbread and fried potatoes
Joining the Army
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