The year
has been a bummer for me personally and there seems to be no let up to it…LOL.
But in the scheme of things memories have will have to suffice to raise me up
and keep me going.
Yesterday
I thought about having a Derby Party like we used to have in Eaton. When I
first moved here I became acquainted with my neighbors who were wonderful
people who enjoyed Soring and each other’s company…we would plan get-togethers
and my favorite was “Derby Day”!
Pauline
Brown would clean the fresh fish Mike and Emily Curtis would fish for (Bullhead
and such)… then we would do chicken and salads with Nellie Wooten’s
unbelievable Pecan Pie to finish… the Pecan Pie of which we all went into sugar
shock over, and my specialty was….Mint Julep’s… both alcoholic and
non-alcoholic. Spring had sprung!
We also
had Party Mutual tickets for $1… that was our wager of the day on whatever
horse we would like the name of. Sometimes
my craft friends would come from Syracuse.
One year Grandpa Black won on a ticket picked for him by someone else… He
laughed and laughed.
Grandpa
Black was blind and had been a postman who climbed Hamilton Hill on his route…on
snowshoes sometimes in the winter. He
said he and the Hamilton postman would meet at the top of the hill. Our personal joke was I would ask him what
color ashtray he wanted…he would say “Green”… and I would hand him a different
color and someone would say…”That’s not green!”...He would answer...”They are
all green to me!”… And we would laugh!
One time
Pauline got into the Juleps before getting the chicken ready…I can still see
Judy Cramphin coming out of the kitchen accusing me of getting her mother
drunk.
One time
Nellie who never drank brought “Hard Sauce” for the Pecan Pie…It was so “Hard”
I decided to investigate the whiskey she had used… She turned the old bottle
over to me, when I looked in the back of it… the phone number of the liquor
store had only 4 or 5 digits…yikes…aged for real!
Many
times people showed up with hats on…cowboy or bonnet…but always ready to eat,
smile, and enjoy each other’s company for a while after a long cold winter and
usually…. a cold April.
As I look
at my Facebook friends today I still see a number of familiar young faces that
have replaced the many older faces that have passed over the threshold…I miss
them all… and our many “Good Times”!
Happy Spring to all…
Here is one of the kids that came back for a visit...this day to "Jack Ass Hill!"
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