Childhood

We were country girls during the summer when school was out.

We visited farms and had picnics with home-made ice cream.

We went fishing and had fish fries with hushpuppies and coleslaw.

Grandfather was the gardener and grandmother was the canner.

Fresh home grown vegetables were a dinner staple.

We swam in our grandfather’s lake which was made into the local swimming hole with a dock as slick as snot.

We wore clothes our grandmother made for us, and some times I wore hand-me-downs since I was the youngest.

We sat on the big covered front porch of our grandparents farmhouse and told ghost stories.

Fireflies lit up the night and my grandfather once gifted me with a firefly ring.

The picture above is of me, my sister, and one of our cousins.

Our grandmother can be seen behind us.

On this particular day the black hen laid an egg in my sister’s lap!