"Sometimes you station in life is your own fault. . ."
My grandma, raised in the Ozarks in southeastern Missouri (Lebanon- not too far from Old), and worked hard all her life, had another way of putting it- "Poor people has poor ways, and that's why they're poor." I just thought it was a nonsensical saying when I was a kid, but I often now think how perceptive she was.
She had another saying, about a woman who made a poor choice of a mate- "She sure drove her ducks to a poor puddle."
She lived on our place from about 1959 to 1963, in an old single wide trailer, and "babysat" us kids in the summer. I remember watching the 1960 national political conventions, while we all did needlepoint.
She was about as wide as she was tall, and if she fell, she couldn't get up. We tried to keep her out of the garden, but she'd go anyhow- loved to be involved. Would go out with a pitchfork, and watch for mole activity- each time they moved, she'd get closer- they'd stop, she'd stop- but each time getting into a better position. Finally, she'd skewer the mole with the pitchfork and flip him out of the burrow. If she fell, no problem, she'd just roll/crawl over to the shade and wait for someone to come and help.
After she left our place, she went to a nursing home, where she lived to the age of 91. She remained sharp until she died, and we all loved her stories.
She used to tell about climbing up in the persimmon tree on their farm, and eating them. Her dad would come by, and say, gruffly, "Who's up there stealin' my 'simmons?", and she'd laugh and laugh. I went to the national FFA convention in Kansas City in 1965, and took an extra week to go to Lebanon to see the relatives. They took me to the old home place, and the persimmon tree was still there. I picked some, and took them home. Took them to her at the rest home, told her "I brought you some persimmons," and she was appreciative and started eating them. Then I told her they were from "the tree"- I'll never forget her, sitting there eating those persimmons, and crying like a baby. And I'm kind of doing the same, right now.
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