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19582. anomie - 6/3/2006 11:23:45 AM What a vivid character your shopkeeper is Arky. For some reason it got me thinking of the older folks back then and their snuff cans next to the couch. My grandmother used to have "spells". Lots of near-fainting, the preacher called, laying on hands and a lot of murmered praying. A good way of being the center of attention.
As to riding on the cotton, man that stuff was piled high. Seemed like we were two stories up. Us kids held on to wooden rails placed in the truck to increase capacity. At the gin we lined up at the big vacumm tube behind other trucks and waited our turn...much talk about whether we had enough for a bale. After the vacumm emptied the truck, we waited for another eternity for the pay off. As I remember, the gin cut a check there and then. Meanwhile we picked up a few blocks of cheese. I guess that was a distro point. Do I remember some preacher doing a fire and brimstone sermon to the waiting sharecroppers? I think so. That may have been somewhere else. I remember thinking it seemed out of place. 19583. arkymalarky - 6/3/2006 4:36:59 PM A good way of being the center of attention.
Hahaha. Better than a lot of the current methods.
This lady's been dead for a while. Her son finally put her in a nursing home and sold her store. Someone made a house of sorts out of it. I'd have gutted it before considering using the brick shell for human habitation. Which maybe they did. I don't know.
As I remember, the gin cut a check there and then. Meanwhile we picked up a few blocks of cheese. I guess that was a distro point. Do I remember some preacher doing a fire and brimstone sermon to the waiting sharecroppers? I think so. That may have been somewhere else. I remember thinking it seemed out of place.
That's why Southern American literature is so great. I've posted on it before, but I love what Flannery O'Connor had to say about an enthusiastic professor who'd written her in frustration that his students didn't seem to be getting the significance of the Grandmother in her great story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," and how his Southern students in particular couldn't accept the notion the Grandmother was a symbol of evil in the story. She informed him that it was because they all had grandmothers and great-aunts at home just like her.
19584. Magoseph - 6/5/2006 12:27:48 AM Hello, perfect day, no clouds, 70 degrees, we had fun!
Great read in Mote fiction from our NuPlanetOne, waiting with trepidation for what follows! 19585. PelleNilsson - 6/5/2006 5:37:37 PM Belated congratulations, iiibbb! I've been away, forest-managing. 19586. Macnas - 6/6/2006 2:36:16 PM You wood be, woodn't you. 19587. PelleNilsson - 6/6/2006 4:02:55 PM Groan 19588. robertjayb - 6/6/2006 4:59:09 PM Lest we forget: This is D-Day. 19589. PelleNilsson - 6/6/2006 5:19:32 PM A small part of the American war cemetery in Normandie:
 19590. Ulgine Barrows - 6/7/2006 7:13:32 AM mmm.
totally digging the perspective of the shot, and that awesome trained evergreen cone on the left. 19591. SnowOwl - 6/8/2006 10:58:55 AM Congratulations, iiibbb. Your wedding sounds like fun, which weddings should be.
19592. SnowOwl - 6/8/2006 10:59:41 AM Pelle, do you have my email address? I'm getting things ready for our trip and I realise that I no longer have your contact details. 19593. PelleNilsson - 6/8/2006 2:37:35 PM I have lost yours too. Please email me here. 19594. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 6/8/2006 7:19:53 PM http://community-2.webtv.net/Velpics/HUM/ 19595. wonkers2 - 6/8/2006 7:32:11 PM Congratulations, iiibbb! And hang in there with your mother-in-law. I could tell quite a few similar stories about mine. For 30-odd years until her death she tried unsuccessfully to teach me what she thought were correct manners. (I felt her efforts were quite impolite.) 19596. Magoseph - 6/9/2006 1:07:34 PM Hello, everyone! 19597. Ulgine Barrows - 6/10/2006 2:33:06 AM hulloo, magoo, hoo are yoo
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19578. judithathome
well - my beloved aunt sent a Faulkner trilogy as a birthday gift. What possessed her, we'll never know. I suspect she always meant to read it, herself.
I'll try reading every other chapter and lay off my penchant for lyrics, okeydoke? 19598. arkymalarky - 6/11/2006 2:19:23 AM I posted this in Arts and Culture, too: new band 19599. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 6/11/2006 4:12:40 PM Don't pass up this extraordinary series of photos of Hummingbird Chicks–the last photo is a revelation. (Click on "Next Page" in the lower right.)
19600. jexster - 6/12/2006 2:48:05 AM Congrats to Arky for showing her true colors..a good daughter of the Confederacy! 19601. Ulgine Barrows - 6/12/2006 5:26:52 AM 19599. TheWizardOfWhimsy, thank you for that.
The hummingbirds are lovely.
The newly-hatched on "Next Page" look like rabbit entrails, but what do I know.
And I know I'm slow on the uptake, but there's a whole 'nother world out there called WoW. Some war game, but WoW always meant Wizard of Whimsy to me.
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