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Brother-in-laws and grandparents
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| One More Time - comment and observration By: Joe Lee, III |
October 07, 2008 |
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It worked. My brother-in-law told me he was going to Gainesville with the winning game plan.
He takes personal responsibility for Ole Miss's victory over the Florida Gators. The good news is that he is going to attend the Ole Miss - Auburn game. If we can only win one more game this year, let it be Auburn.
The B.I.L. has assured me he will personally show the UM coaches and team how to accomplish this tiger taming task.
Grandparents
The Australian government has just released a study reinforcing what we Southern folks have known for generations: grandparents are crucial to the physical, learning, cognitive, social, and emotional development of youngsters.
To this day I can remember my granddaddy taking me to an old sugarcane mill and letting me ride on his steam engine and blow the whistle.
The mill featured an old horse or mule slowly walking around in a circle on the end of a long pole. In the middle was a grinder, and the men around the circle kept feeding new sugarcane to the old, rusty mechanism. It must have been 60 years ago. I remember it like it was yesterday.
Fond memories
That same day we "mounted to the cabin," to steal a phrase from the Casey Jones musical lament. We mounted to the cabin of what my recent research has discovered was a Baldwin Locomotive Works 0-6-0 switch engine destroyed in 1956. In the mid-forties the proud machine was Atlantic Coastline Engine Number 1158, and I once blew the whistle.
Grandparents and memories
Granddaddy always made me feel welcome, although I know there must have been times that he wished I'd stayed home. I hope a half century from now my Beauregard Critter looks back and thinks of me the same way I remember my granddad ... I'm sure most every other granddad and potential granddad has the same hope.
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