Tuesday... Snakes and snails or Sugar and spice?

 Picture of the day

 My sister Shirley Maxine

 BUT for now:

I may have been stunted in my growth as a boy. From child, I remember boys are made from: Snakes and snails and puppy dog tails.  Of course my sister, like you girls was made from: Sugar and spice and everything nice.

My sister? Ha! I knew that was a story (lie).  Mama would not allow me to say some one was lying, but I could say they are telling a story.  You girls could be devious I want you to know.  Examples: Carrying water from the spring to the house, Shirley said it was easier for me to carry two buckets of water, so I did and she walked with nothing.

Yeah, and carrying firewood to the kitchen.  She said ‘hold your arms out and I can load you up and you can carry much more,’ well, of course she was right, but I never realized she wasn’t carrying a thing.

But really, she wasn’t all bad.  She did teach me to play hop-scotch, hide and seek and to ride a bicycle.  She drew a school bus out in the dirt.  She was the driver and opened the door for me to get in, but then I had to go the back seat as she drove it.  She hit a lot of bumps,

Prayer?  She was mean.  She interrupted my prayers to correct my English.  Mama said once  that I called her into our room and said, “If Shirley interrupts me again while I am praying, I’m gonna knock her down!”

I was about 14 or 15 (late bloomer) when I met Margaret, I was older than she was, I then realized Girls might have really been made from Sugar and spice and everything nice!  Then, a little later, I met this older girl, Sherry Lucille, who taught me that it was REALLY TRUE!!! Shucks, she was a senior in High School and ‘knowed’ stuff!  She was even a member of the beta club.  At the time I thought that meant ‘Better club.’

Just the thoughts (and memories) from the mind of an OLD MAN. Y’all come back, ya hear?

 

Nite Shipslog

PS. 

Thanks for stopping by the Shipslog.   LOL WE have been married over 69 years now, Sherry Lucille and I, and yep she is made from Sugar and spice!

Here I was caught in San Antonio at the River Walk trying to get more sugar in public. She is laughing....  LOL