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Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Swinging Bridges and grapevines
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 06:09:06 -0600


Ouch ! For some reason I didn't get into the grapevine swinging too
much...Think I was too little when we lived in that big log house at the
edge of the woods where they grew.....Brother Robert had a really good
one but wouldn't let us little ones use it because he could swing out
over a real deep 'ditch'...He made the mistake of talking about it at the
one room school we went to and some of the big boys followed us home to
see it. When Robert insisted on taking his turn swinging on it they
pushed him off and he fell so hard he lost his breath....When he got able
to come home he told Mom and Dad about it.....Did Daddy ever get mad ! He
took the chopping axe over there and cut it off so high up they couldn't
reach it any more....He tore up 'the playhouse', so to speak, but may
have saved a life....

I CAN remember shinnying up young hickory trees and bending them over
...When that got 'old' we rode them down off a steep bank into the
road....on Red Hill....For some reason there was a very steep hill near
the end of our driveway that was just as red as could be,. Mama said it
sure was hard to get that red clay out of our clothes......On the scrub
board with lye soap, of course......

We were sitting around talking about the old days one time after we had
grown up and Mother let slip that she used to climb the big pecan tree in
their front yard {It's still there but Mama died in 1984 }, climb off on
the roof of their big log house and into the upstairs window ! I was
shocked of course, and asked her why she fussed at us kids for doing
stuff like that if SHE had done it ! She got a loving look on her face
and said " I was afraid you would get hurt." Awwww.........Jeannie T
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On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:03:31 -0500 "Carol Hall" <> writes:
> Hi Jeannie, good to hear from you..
>
> I understand about the grape vines.. We had one near the swimming hole
and boy did we have fun dropping in the water...
>

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