Monday 1981 Fair hot.
I washed. We mowed the yard. I went to the garden and sprayed. Was up to Jennings a minute.
Footnote: Jennings is her brother who lives nearby.
Happy Father's Day to all our cousins who are fathers. Most of us have lost our fathers already and I know I miss mine. Take a little time to think about some of the good things you remember about your father. I remember when all the family would gather at our house in Big Stone Gap, Daddy would go to Pet Dairy and get a big box of Brown Mules - remember them?? They were vanilla ice cream dipped in chocolate that got hard and it was on a stick. He would also bring popsicles - banana and orange were my favorite. He was a really hard worker - he would get up at 4:00am to get to Pet Dairy where he would work all day. He would come home about 4:00 PM and change clothes and get in his truck and drive the 9 miles to his farm in Lee County. He would work on the farm till it was dark. Sometimes he would eat his supper at 8 o'clock at night. He loved working on the farm with Uncle Jennings when he moved back to Lee county. My Daddy was a good man but he did have a short fuse when he thought someone was doing something wrong. One of the last times we took him out to eat - he loved to go out to eat - we went to Shoney's in Kingsport - Mother and Doug were with us. We ate and he wanted to pay - he got out a $20 dollar bill and Doug said "Daddy, it is $23.00". Daddy said "Well it was only worth $20.00". Doug had to pay the difference.
Even today, if I think something is not right or somebody does something stupid that affects me, I will have that same little fit that Daddy had = my kids can see it coming and they will say, Watch out, Roy is about to show up. Leah has a very tolerant personality until someone ruffles her feathers and she will cut loose. Roy shows up as often as is necessary and he will never be forgotten.
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