Shakesthegrounds Rumblings

[Lynne]

 

Do you know if Grandpa kept his job?

[Shakesthecoffecan]

So then my friend James has to tell a story too. He is Native American from northern California, and his Aent Mildred just died.

Mildred had a husband named Jimmy, who James described as a Mexican national with limited English, and perhaps intellect, who stood about 4 ft. tall. (yes I cleaned that up, can you tell?). Mildred had cancer, but her death I gather was unexpected. James said the call came somewhere between 1 and 3 in the morning, a voice on the phone asking him: "Are you related to Mrs. Mildred because she has been laying here dead for 40 minutes and no one is here with her and her wig has fallen off...."

They went down to the ER and found her behind a curtain, with a terribly distraught Jimmy standing beside her, kissing her hand, tears pouring down his face. Apparently he is so small he had escaped detection.

James did not know what became of him. He was certain relatives had probably put him on a bus. Literally or figuratively I do not know.

[Shakesthecoffecan]

I' have to ask her that, Lynne, I imagine he did, because they all worked in the mill and it was the kind of place where both would have been too embarrassed to let it get out. The people in the mill would have give them hell about it for 20 years.

The men in my fathers generation and older, hell they picked on one another unmercifully.

When my daddy named me after a Democrat President (as opposed to a Democratic one I reckon) the grocer in town would see us coming and ask how "Lill' Ike" was. Just to fret him. Ike being the Republican sucessor in office to the president I was named for.

When I was 3 my Mamma took me in that place. Monroe-esque guy with a cig hangin' out his mouth and a big old pot belly behind an apron said "Hi ya Lill" Ike"

And my Mamma says I started yelling:

That Damn Fool, That Damn Fool, That Damn Fool!

and she had to drag my ass out of there.

[Wayne]

"Lill' Ike"

   Poor thang!!!     

[Shakesthecoffecan]

This evening after celebrating the 71st natal anniversary of a friend, I rode back by the office to collect my lap top and I looked across street at the new museum, all finished and lit up, and thought yeah, I should go take a look and see if my memorial bricks are in place.

I am pleased to report that the love of Ennis and Jack is now memorialized for the forseeable future at the entrance of the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville, Virginia, on the spot I was born. I dedicate this to all my friends here, there and everywhere, the sentiment on this brick is for us all:

[David]

YEE HAA!

Looks Great!

[wulfar360]

loooks awsome  truman

[Katie77]

Thats really what they mean by "set in stone"......wonderful.

[Penthesilea]

This evening after celebrating the 71st natal anniversary of a friend, I rode back by the office to collect my lap top and I looked across street at the new museum, all finished and lit up, and thought yeah, I should go take a look and see if my memorial bricks are in place.

I am pleased to report that the love of Ennis and Jack is now memorialized for the forseeable future at the entrance of the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville, Virginia, on the spot I was born. I dedicate this to all my friends here, there and everywhere, the sentiment on this brick is for us all:

That's terrific Truman.  I remember you asking about it here on BM. I was the one who had never heard of anything like this and couldn't imagine what such a brick could be and how it would look like.

Yeah, it really got us good...

[Wayne]

     That's great Truman!!   Right along with that happy face and them pretty blue eyes!!     

So is it horizontal or vertical? A walkway or a wall?