Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Just a thought on my mantra & Day 224 Cookie Jar Sweet Memories

 
Trinity!
 
Faith! = Truth!
Family! = Love!
Freedom! = Honor!
 
 
Plus:
 
 
 
 
Day 224
 
About six months after the copperhead in the basement,
Beth finds a baby bird and makes a nest in the retaining
wall by the driveway. She and a friend eat lunch and go
to check on the baby bird only to find it has been eaten
by a copperhead.
 
 
Wild! & Wooly! Yeah! I reckon that’s true enough! Rebel! Rascal! Rogue! Rapscallion!
City-bred and born? Sure enough! But, only until I learned to fly; then, no holds barred!
I just needed some wide-open spaces to stretch my horizons; Boy! I sure enough found ‘em.
Our first house that I constructed set on 10 acres overlooking the Mississippi River bottom.
We added a swimming pool and horse barn; quite a nice spread for a Ne’r-do-well!?
I traveled, occasionally. On one such outing, Candy found a copperhead in the back room of the basement; her dad killed the serpent and they searched everywhere for its mate as they travel in pairs. They took everything out of the storage room---but…no mate! We found it---later!
In the spring of the next year, Beth had a friend over for a play-day; they found a baby bird.
I had utilized railroad ties for a retaining wall and the little girls made a nest for their “find” where they housed the tiny creature while they went inside for lunch (probably Spaghetti-O’s at the little table in front of the T.V.?) They got a real surprise when they came out.
Instead of their rescued “Feathered-friend”, they found a 30” copperhead with a “bulge”!
That serpent had eaten their little pet! I killed the vermin but could not save the fledgling.
We surmised that the serpent was the mate of our previous unwanted basement guest. Hmm!
Anyway, all’s-well-that-ends-well! I sure enough reckon that’s true!
 
Ah! Cookie Jar Sweet “dead-serpent” Memories!

 


 


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