1. I smoked about 8 of my Dad's cigarettes when I was about 10, I think. I couldn't understand why my mother didn't feel sorry for me when I got so sick. After all, I rinsed my mouth out to take away the smell! By the way, I don't smoke.
2. I supervised the birthing of some kittens. I was Roy Rogers and I watched the cats and announced when a new one came, calling out the color to anyone who was interested.
3. My mom "let" me carry a dead bullsnake down to the canal to dump it after she found it full of eggs from the cellar and killed it. I carried it on the end of a long sturdy stick.
4. A mouse ran up my sister's pant leg and I almost died of laughter. She didn't.
5. I gave a sick baby kitten a bath and it died.
6. I was still riding stick horses when I was 12.
7. I didn't like my nephew's Boston bull terrier but when a kid passing by threw a rock at him and hit him in the eye (he barked at the kids), I chased them about 3 blocks while waving a stick at them.
8. I was looking for my mother's drain hose for her washing machine and found it on the porch. However, when I started to pick it up, it revealed itself to be a big bullsnake (a different one.) I think I screamed.
9. I loved sleeping at my sister-in-law's house because the sheets smelled so good and she made a cherry cake.
10. I didn't know what chiggers were until a cousin told me how soft their Oklahoma grass was to roll on.
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Made me laugh, made me cry, made me smile. I give it two thumbs up!
It's good to know about your life. I wish I knew more about my dad's and mom's lives. I think they told things, but I wasn't good to ask questions. Now I would be.
QOTW, I try to get as much info from my sister D. when I can, because she remembers things I was too young to even be involved with. On one situation, my two sisters and myself had three different answers. :) Thanks Julie. With the kitten thing, I stood outside in the sun for a long time trying to make it well. D. says it was already sick.
Neat post! It's fun to learn about you. The snake stories - augh I would have suffered huge consequences - I may have learned to fly or at least leaped as high as the roof and everyone around me would have needed to repair the damage to their eardrums.
Fun post ~ I really hate chiggers. ew! Itchy..ow..yuck!
Mouse up the pant leg? Mice don't really scare me but that would be a nightmare come true. The chiggers, that was really funny. Been there, done that.
never had chiggers. I just won't roll in the grass if I'm ever in OK.
Like the stories. I think I knew them already though. Tell me some new ones.
Sure, Kay. I'll tell you some more. Like the time you ate a dried up cricket. Crunch crunch!
What fun stories. You must have been a great kid when you were young.
Smiles.
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