DAD, Randy and Todd

Dad was talking today about Todd and Randy and how proud he was about their work ethic.  Said they were not lazy boys and were good workers.   Joey believed in hard work and that it was important and helped to build strong character.  He was proud that Todd, Randy  and even Angie never gave up and worked hard even as a teenager to earn money by selling candy bars door to door and doing other odd jobs.   Randy and Todd both helped dad in his shed a lot doing elevator switches that Charlie Brantley would give to dad to fix and dad would let the boys earn their own money by helping him .

Dad said boys were good at wanting to learn and grow and make money.  Dad said at one time Todd had made a thousand dollars, he bought a water bed and also bought some gold coins. Wasn't sure what he ever did with the coins....maybe cashed them in.  Will  add more to this story, dad is very proud of all our  kids and how they have turned out. 👍😊

Bump and I

 Thinking back I remember that  Bump and I spent a  lot of t me together. Will put down some of my memories of this time together. 

We decided one day to move out of our house and the two of us would live in a old trailer our dad had out back. We worked on cleaning it up and making it livable and even stayed in it a couple nights and then  we got scared one night and that ended that adventure.

Bump and I walked downtown many time to go to the movies and always took this short cut  down this path that had a big hump on the trail . We always said a body was buried there and often we ran fast over that hump when we came to it.

Bump and I loved to dance, we thought we were pretty good and actually we were quite good so as they say we often stole the show at sock hops. 

On weekends we went to the roller rink a lot . Nothing much to do in a small town but boy did we love to skate.  I could dance on skates believe it or or not and many of  the older guys wanted to skate with  me. That was one thing I felt I was really good at and made me feel special.

My brother Roscoe's first wife Lillie did a lot for us kids, she made sure we had good stuff to eat , fun stuff which we never got much and took us to drive inn movies and Bump and I would hang out at there house  a lot cause it was fun out there, Roscoe would let us wrestle and  blow a whistle when got to be too much, so fun.  They lived in what was called t he Hollow. It set down off a hill and it had grape vines we could swing on, such fun. 

Lillie was the person that taught me to  drive, she was such a big part of Bump and my lives. The story of their divorce is another story and very sad.  

TIME AFTER TIME