Remember the little gal in pig tails that played the banjo?

My mother's family's home place is down in Sylacauga. My mother had 10 brothers and sisters. Each one of them had a litter of about 3 kids each, so I have a bunch of cousins. Anyway... In the summers all of us cousins were sent back down to the farm in various shifts for a couple of weeks at a time to help Paw Paw on the farm with all the chores. So there was always a few cousins down on the farm at any given time during the summer school break.

Of course everyone had to get up early to get all the chores done in the mornings and you can guess what was on TV at 5:00 am every damn morning. And to a long haired hippy kid in the early 1970's Country Boy Eddie was about as bad as television could get.

I miss those times now and I wish I would have appreciated them more when I was going through them. You never know what you've got 'till it's gone.

[quote=Vernon Tull]You young fellows are lucky you don't have to get out there at 5:00 and milk cows on these bitter cold mornings like I had to do when I was young. Y'all don't know how good you've got it. When I was your age . . . .

Haven't had to milk cows on these cold mornings at daylight, but I've been having to hip-lift a dang heifer all week long in this weather. Why couldn't she had went down a month ago, or not at all