Posted by Mark - IN. on February 08, 2009 at 09:38:33 from (205.188.116.74):
In Reply to: Where's Your Son? posted by RBnSC on February 08, 2009 at 06:43:24:
Not that persay. But any of ya ever be drivin down the road, and there in the middle of nowhere will be a huge tree, only tree for miles and will have a makeshift roadside memorial by it? Seriously. I get to wonderin how in the world does that happen. No trees for miles before that tree, and none for miles after that tree, but where of all places does one spin out? That stupid big ol' tree apparently like its some kind of magnet or something. Now here's why I brought it up. When I was a kid growin up a couple of years before my Dad died, the hog pen was over by a fenced in apple orchard that we didn't use, and by that was a corral that we used to move the hogs into to load up and take to market. At that time me and my buddies came shoulder high to a hog, so I guess we were about that young. This particular day me and two friends, Rusty and Anthony had been fishing down at the pond and were on our way home about supper time. Now when we passed that area on the property we could've just as easy climbed the fence and cut through the old orchard, gone the other way and cut through the corn, or gone straight up the middle and climbed the corral fence and waded through them hogs, cranky sows and all, then climbed the other side and continued home just like it was some sort of magnet. So what did we do? Naturally we waded through the hogs that were as tall as us and out weighed us by 5, 6, 7 times and made it to the other side and climbed out where my Dad just happened to be and saw us climbing out. Holy cow, he nearly beat all three of us to death right there...out of love and fear. I'll bet them hogs were carrying on cause they must've figured when he got done with us that they were gonna get the good slop that they'd just missed out on. After all, they did eat Charlott, a runt that we took out of the pen and fed good and raised kind of like a dog until we figured she was big enough to put back in the pen and fend for herself. That wasn't a good idea, she didn't last until morning. They didn't take kindly to her. But back on that day, not one of us had considered what could've happened in there by them angry hogs that pretty much would eat anything before we waded through them. Lookin back on it, I guess Dad just didn't want to be the first person to put up a makeshift roadside memorial over at that corral near the back of the property where no one would see it to drive by it anyway.
Kind of make you wonder how we all made it this far without wearing helmets to ride bikes and sleds and stuff? Probably explains why Mom had gray hair by the time she was 30 and was always gonna drive me or my brother to the orphanage, where ever that was at...eveytime we'd make her cry. Hmm? Come to think of it, I sure do still owe Mom a lot of apologies for things I did as a kid that she still don't know about. When's Mothers Day? Is that comin up soon? I'd better take her out for a steak or something.
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