14tokihorn
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maybe its this sinister drought, I am not sure, but I find myself missing the 'ol timers'... mostly from my moms side of the family: Texas born and bread, the generation brought up during the '30s, small farming and ranching at the upper end of the Balcones Fault. They've all passed.
By the time I was elementary age, Walls 'Coveralls' were the fishin clothes. I spent an entire summer with an Aunt and Uncle Rady, never believing that the sun, most everyday, would recede far enough into the west so I could get in that '47 Ford pickup and git to the stock tank. The bass were just waiting for me.
Saturday, I casually interjected as 2 Texas Natives solemnly and briefly asked each other about rain. This was in N. Austin, and one of them informed me that the area they were referring to was his land near Salado, not the N. Aus. location that I assumed....
Then he shook his head and said
"I'm gonna have to talk to the preacher, maybe he's not turning in the collection plate".
and that is the specifics of what I miss: the colloquialisms, (if you will) all those tongue in cheek and/or common sense sayings or humorisms from whom I will always know as the salt of the earth.
I laughed so hard I cried.
One other that I recall, after much pondering;
" Handy as a pocket in a shirt"
Got any that you remember? I'd really like to here 'em... of course, DKR wrote the book.
By the time I was elementary age, Walls 'Coveralls' were the fishin clothes. I spent an entire summer with an Aunt and Uncle Rady, never believing that the sun, most everyday, would recede far enough into the west so I could get in that '47 Ford pickup and git to the stock tank. The bass were just waiting for me.
Saturday, I casually interjected as 2 Texas Natives solemnly and briefly asked each other about rain. This was in N. Austin, and one of them informed me that the area they were referring to was his land near Salado, not the N. Aus. location that I assumed....
Then he shook his head and said
"I'm gonna have to talk to the preacher, maybe he's not turning in the collection plate".
and that is the specifics of what I miss: the colloquialisms, (if you will) all those tongue in cheek and/or common sense sayings or humorisms from whom I will always know as the salt of the earth.
I laughed so hard I cried.
One other that I recall, after much pondering;
" Handy as a pocket in a shirt"
Got any that you remember? I'd really like to here 'em... of course, DKR wrote the book.
