Aug. 6, 2004

Aunt Jane wrote:
An experience I remember: Back in the 1930s, before the "new" Hwy. 61 was built, we had a flood from the Bayou Pierre, and Daddy had to go down on the Bayou and drive the cattle off of a "high" place that they were standing on to get out of the flood, and get them away from the river. I got on Pretty Girl, and went to help. I can just see my Daddy with a little new born calf straddling the neck of his horse and carrying that little one to safety, with the mother of the calf swimming right behind him, and the rest of the cattle right behind them. Pretty Girl was over her head in water, and had to swim, too. We rescued all of the cattle and little calves.

JM


8/7/04
A Memory from childhood;

While we were sitting on the Front Porch this afternoon, I was looking through a cookbook, and came across the recipe for Gingerbread. We used to ride the school bus and we would get off the bus at the bottom of the hill, and walk up to the house. Easter always cooked supper for us and some days she would make Gingerbread. We could smell the bread cooking all the way up the hill, and that's when we started running, so we could get a piece of that hot gingerbread. It was sooooo good.

jm

Martha Harpole wrote:
Mom

Your email brought back my memories of coming home and Easter, Gran, or you always had us a snack when we came in.

8/8/04
memory: When I first started to school we didn't have school busses, but rode in a car. There were too many people in the car and we had to sit on the laps of the big children. (There was no such thing as a seat belt.) Everyone would fight over who would hold me because I was the smallest one in the car, so I was the most popular one in the car.

I would no longer be able to hold that classification.

jm

8/9/04
An Instance: All of you know Easter by now. She was our cook, and she only made a Jelly Cake. She didn't make anything else in the form of a dessert. One day she made a Jelly Cake and it fell. Malcolm teased her about it, and it hurt her feelings and she never made another dessert again.

JM