. Youâre a funny man. No disrepect intended ( donât pull a good fellas on me) and your wife has a sense of humor too. Thatâs good. Thatâs theyâre job ( besides putting g up with us)âŚkeep us hard guys just soft enough to still enjoy the lighter end of things.
And for the record if you remind me of my step father thatâs a compliment.
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Sometimes you donât always think about what you say, and there are times you donât always say what you are thinking. And then there are those times that you didnât think or say what you thought you thought or said, simply because you couldnât remember if you had already said that which you had forgotten. Late in life you realize that the barker you ordered for your dog when he lost is barking ability didnât arrive, and you finally figured out why Santa didnât leave that Tonka dump truck under the christmas tree located on top of the singer sewing machine, the one with the peddle your mom pressed with her automatic foot, which was right before she pulled your arm out of the ringer of the washine machine that sat on the cement side porch along with the wash tub and scrubbing board. Yes, that was the same wash tub that held your bath water that was heated by the sun all day so you wouldnât freeze to death as you washed that night. Who would have ever dreamed back then that one day the sun would be housed in a metal container called a hot water heater? Just being alive enables you to eat a three dipped cone of vanile ice cream from Mr. Sandy Godwins country store right across the road from the cotton gin that probably ginned the cotton from which that shirt you are wearing was made.
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There have been times in my life that I washed clothes in five gallon bucket of water filled with water from the churches water spigot, flushed the toilet with the water left over and have soaped up my body so I could jump in to the river and rinse off.(40 degree weather) not fun and not by choice. My parentâs made alot of bad decisions lol. I didnt mind this much as a kid and it makes you greatful for the small things everyone takes for granted. I think the simpler times in your storey were the better times. When everyone wasnt so full of themselves and worried about real problems instead of what the latest trend or fad is.
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Hard times make you tough. These ramblings are my dadâs though from an autobiography he is writing
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Quote from my dad
Do what you can until you canât. Use what you have until it is gone. Remember what you can until you donât know you didnât think you knew .
Then just rock until the chair falls off the porch. Then go to sleep
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@JAtkinson send me an address and Iâll send you a copy of dadâs book
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Why are you reviving a 5+ year old thread full of nonsense? 
Those are stories from my Dadâs autobiography
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I gathered, was just messing with you
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