A REAL LIVE REDNECK! COOL!

One day I had been working outside, and mowing the grass, running the weed eater and such. Well, I ran out of gas and decided to run on and get some so I could finish. I had on just a pair of bib overalls and no shirt, but that was fine, I was not cleaning up just to run maybe 3/4 of a mile to get gas. So, I put the tank on the back and jumped into my pickup and off I went. While I was pumping gas, a fancy car from New York pulled in beside me. A cute little girl jumped out and was so excited (and loud).. she said "LOOK MOMMY, A REAL LIVE REDNECK!" Well, the lady came over all red faced after she had scolded her daughter and apologized... I told her "no problem, I've been called a lot worse!"

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HA, by the way, this is NOT MY PICTURE! HA!

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Now that the weather is breaking, I have began getting out a little more. Last week I was helping a friend of mine named Bill. Two of my sons helped me a couple of days thankfully, it sure made things a lot easier. I guess since we have worked together since they were old enough to help. And we should finish up at Bills tomorrow. I have enjoyed being out, and helping and talking with Bill and his wife, and I always enjoy working with any or all of my three grown sons, they are all good hard workers, and are fun to work with. I am blessed.Once the danger of frost has passed we hope to plant some tomatoes and onions, hopefully some peppers and a few things. We have clay soil, so we can't do as much as we would like to. we have to use 'raised beds' in order to have anything. But we surely enjoy whatever we grow. We do have some rhubarb! Hopefully I will get a rhubarb pie this year.And I have a few projects I want to get done at our house this year. But like most people, you just have to wait until you have the time and materials to do with. We'll see.........................

Anyway, I hope you got a little laugh out of one of my experiences. I thought it was right cute, and I didn't feel the least bit insulted by that sweet little girl, and her excitement.

HAVE A GOOD DAY.

MEET THE WOLFE'S.. A PICTURE FROM 1949-1950

MEET COYD AND ANNIE WOLFE

THIS IS MY LATE GRANDPARENTS..

They raised three daughters and two sons, and a granddaughter.

MY GRANDDAD DIED AROUND 1953 AND GRANNY DIED 1974

THEY FARMED FOR A LIVING, AND GRANDDAD PEDDLED HIS FARM GOODS.

THEY WERE LIVING UP RICHPATCH WHEN THEY BOTH PASSED AWAY. (well, Granny had went in a nursing home shortly before she died, in WAYNESBORO)

I was only a little over 7 when Granddad died, we had went to town that day for candy for trick or treater's (on Halloween) and when we got back home he had died, cutting wood.. (it was his heart) He worked hard on the farm, from sunup to sundown, and plowed with a horse named Topsy, and he had a lot to plow. They also had an orchard and raised apples, peaches, pears, and plums. Granny worked just as hard in the house, and doing her chores and laundry, she canned everything she could. She raised chickens too, and they had milk cows and raised hogs.

One thing I remember about Granddad was that he was real superstitious. He believed things like if you can in one door, you had to leave the same way when you left. If you didn't eat while you were there, you brought trouble to the house. I remember one time I killed a frog, and he 'lit into me' , believing that it made his cow go dry. Breakfast, I remember that he always finished his meal by opening his biscuit on his plate, and pouring coffee on it and eating it. Sometimes he would pour himself a glass of milk, open a raw egg up and put it into his milk and drink it, he said it had something to do with his stomach. The main thing I think of about Granddad was HOW HARD AND CONSTANT HE WORKED.

Granny cooked three meals everyday they were at home. She read her Bible at night, and sometimes read to us. Granny disciplined us more than Granddad did. She too was a very hard worker, and they have both been gone for many, many years.. but memories remain.