Seems We Just Got Started

Now I don't know if many of you participate in "trunk or treat, whether you decorate your trunk or you go for the treats. Either way it's a lot of fun. Sammy and I would start buying candy a few weeks ahead of time. I remember the very first time we participated we ran out of candy and had to send someone to get more. We really didn't know what to expect and hadn't really put any thought into what we would dress up as until the last minute. I decided we (Sammy and I) would be old people. Woo hoo!  Really put some thought into that, didn't I? Well it must have worked 'cause I tried it out on an elderly neighbor.  I parked my car out of sight, walked up, and knocked on their door.  The neighbor comes to the door. Me: ( talking in a trembling voice) Heyyyyy can you tell me where I'm at? Neighbor: (fumbling around making sure her door is locked) Are you lost? Me: What ye say. Neighbor:  ARE YOU LOST???? Me: Yep, I reckon'. I was in a home and can...

Sometimes its hard for families, especially extended family, to get together on holidays, but when we do we have the best time. For a few years now we have all gotten together for Halloween. It's around 30-40 of us, we rent and decorate the youth center at the park. We bring food, play games, and have a costume contest with non family judges. We have so much fun!!! One year my crazy family wanted to be "Daddy's 5" or "Jack's 5" like in the Jackson 5.  Of course, Logan was "Mike" 'cause he had the moves.  Sammy was out of town (making a living) and Kinsley, Keith and Jerry wanted no part of this, so that left daddy, mama. Lisa, Logan, and me. Lisa and I went to the local thrift store and rounded up some flashy clothes.  The hair we borrowed.  Logan had his hair natural. While Lisa and mama went to the youth center to help decorate, my orders were to get Daddy ready, as in doing his make-up. Well I go to one end of the house and he g...

Gotta love this face. Y'all when we were growing up daddy loved dogs and he didn't mind us having one but Lord, mama did. If we got to have one it had to stay outside. Sometimes we would get a mutt by people dropping them off by our house. Daddy never really put any money on a dog, it was always a mutt. He never believed in taking them to the vet but then I can't remember us ever having a vet back then. I remember one time our mutt had babies, about 13. When they got to be about 6 weeks old, they started looking overly fat. Dr. Bryant, aka daddy, said they had "worms" and he was gonna, " fix 'em up". Seems like I was about 7 or 8 years old and I got to help him. Doc got the worming medicine and he did his magic. We waited a little while and then went back outside to check on our patients and they were all DEAD!  Daddy said, dad-gum-it! I've killed them. He gives me a few minutes to cry and then tells me, we gotta go bury them. He digs a big ...

Jay                      James Samuel Darwin III                                   Back in February of '85, I was going grocery shopping at Piggly Wiggly and when I got to the first aisle I started feeling sick. Oh, I wasn't about to throw up and I didn't have the runs.  Just sick when I looked at food, you know..... ladies. Well I ran out of that store to get me a pregnancy test and went home and peed on the stick (I know more information than you needed). I don't think these test had been invented back when I was expecting our other two 'cause this was a first time for me. Sammy was at the office in Burnsville (8 miles away).   I was so glad 'cause when I pulled up in the parking lot, I didn't remember how I got there, lol!  Now I hardly ever went to his office 'cause he was always busy and on the phone pretty much all ...