Topic: Anybody else raised in the country?
jellybean1021's photo
Thu 01/31/08 11:47 PM
I worked my ass off in a tobacco field every summer from the time I was old enough to walk behind a harvester, until I was 20 years old and found out I was pregnant! I can string a stick of tobacco,(none of the new fangled stuff they have now) a grown man would have trouble carrying, and back then could hang it in the barn, cause I had what it took to straddle a tier pole! I have pulled the tushes from baby piglets, and helped my father when he"cut" the male hogs. I can milk a cow, and lay by the corn. I know what velvet beans are, and have dug many sweet potatoes. I have been snipe hunting, and skinny dipping in the river. I like to fish, and can bait my on hook, I know what catava worms are and how to use them. I hate okra with a passion, but I love me some cracklin bread. I have used an outhouse with Sears Roebuck toilet paper. I have rode on a truck standing on the running board, and on the tailgate with my bare feet dangling. Been all summer long and never put on a pair of shoes. Picked up pecans to have money to go to the fair with in the fall. Gone to Vacation Bible School, sang in the choir. Lived in South Georgia without air conditioning, and swam in the cow trough. Took a bath on the porch in a number three washtub, put my pea hulls in a foot tub. Only eat the hearts out of the watermelons and throw the rest over the fence to the cows. Helped give a horse an enema. I know that you shell peas and butter beans, and you shuck the corn. I love a "mater sandwich" so long as the "maters" are peeled. I have played in the hayloft, and rode a crazy horse. I have butchered a chicken and been to a hog killing, I have eaten blood pudding and know what souse meat is made of. I had to say yes and no mamm and sir, and I still do. I worshiped my Grandparents and my parents are the Greatest.
Ya'll can believe this or not but is all true. I would not trade any of these memories, but have one more thing to say
THANK GOD FOR AIR CONDITIONING & INDOOR PLUMBING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

jellybean1021's photo
Fri 02/01/08 12:12 AM
Nobody else was raised in the country?

thumper95's photo
Fri 02/01/08 12:13 AM
a bacca worm is the best bass bait

jellybean1021's photo
Fri 02/01/08 12:16 AM
A catava worm you have to turn him wrong side in, then you put him on your hook.

thumper95's photo
Fri 02/01/08 12:17 AM
and if a snake crawls through your garden it will be a good harvest, nah i know nothing about being country