Hi Just a note to say hi and hope all is o.k. with you. Had quite an experience today----My sister Ann called me. One of my Dad.s younger brothers had called her. She gave me his number and I called him back. What,s so special about that you ask. Well. I haven't heard from him in years, he's 93 We lived with my grandparents for awhile when my Dad was going to Pharmacy school and he once rescued me from a runaway horse.I used to ride horseback to school on the back of the saddle of one of my Dad's two younger brother's horses. I was about 6. On this particular day I was on the younger brother Bill,s horse and it got spooked from something. It reared up and the next thing I knew it was a runaway with me hanging on to the back of the saddle dangling like a shoe string of an untied shoe lace from the horse . Uncle Bill was trying to get the horse under control and had no time for me but the other uncle was a little behind and saw what was happening and like a hero from a western movie galloped up beside the runaway horse slipped his left arm between me and the horse and pulled me up onto his saddle. Also at my Granny's house they had a piano and Snoots played it by ear. He was amazing---would put Jerry Lee Lewis to shame ---all from just listening To the music. People were so amazing then. We had no electric in the house or indoor plumbing. Granny Marr pumped her water outside and brought it in to do her astonishing three meals a day for 6 sons and a husband and send them off to the fields while she did whatever it was wives had to do for the family which has not changes since Eve---only the method of doing it. She did laundry in a black pot in the backyard with a scrubboard and hung it an a clothesline in the backyard where it was sundried. I can still see the blue overall and long johns hanging and flapping in the breeze. I have been thinking a lot about my two grandmothers and my mother lately and what amazing women they were and the impact of just watching them as a child had on my life, They were truly pioneer women---tough and capable, strong and determined. Back to my Uncle-----I told him I really wanted to see him and could I bring a tape recorder---He said sure just don't bring any cameras. So Hopefully Ann and I will take a trip to Mineral wells soon for a visit. He was very mentally sharp today and I want to get this stuff on paper before my memory goes, More later----Love you very much MOMXO
