Spending the week with

Oh, there is so much I want to mention, and I want to hear what everybody else has to say, too...I can't even get back to Ed's food, and my mind is going in fifteen different directions.

Who did you spend time with? All of the New Orleans crew came home, alternating Christmases and Easters and then some in the summer. Ed and Pat came at least twice on the train, and had to be picked up in Grenada. There was a drugstore there (food!) that serves real fountain cokes, and we would get one after we got Ed and Pat. Once I think we picked them up at night.

We would stay at Nita's it seemed like every summer. We would go to a store and buy presents to take home.

We stayed with Jack and Jo where ever they were living. I don't really remember Starkville. Did they live there? And in Amory. There was a concrete porch under the carport and a big house on the hill at the end of the road. And in one of those places, an old fashion dairy (more food!). Becky and I went one summer and I burned her with grease, making her the cornbread cooking. And one of the girls got mad because she wanted to wear her Sunday shoes, and she started walking to the Kroger store where her mom and dad were. Also in one of those places they had a picnic table at the bottom of the hill they lived on. We loved to watch the girls walk in a row like ducks, up the hill. They were afraid of the dark, and had to have the curtains closed all the way, no cracks. A woman lived across the street who was really large, and she went on a diet and got dizzy. The doctor told her she cut back too sharply on cokes. Sometimes several families went to spend the week-end, so we were there for the lipstick wars. Also the boys peered out the window, and slumbered in their beds and, all of the time, their epidermis was showing.

I don't remember weeks in the country, probably because we were there many, many week-ends.

I think I went to spend a little time in Memphis with Lady and Yogi, but with Granny Vowell, I think. Gayle went many places with Granny and with Marjorie and Charles, after an inauspicious visiting start. When she was small she and maybe Cindy tried to come and stay in Cleveland and Ruleville. They were fine during the day, but at night they wanted to go home. I believe Imogene and Franklin returned her to our house in the middle of the night, and on the third day we meet her parents at the PIG STAND in Belzoni. After they got there, she wanted to go home with us, but everybody said NO.

We didn't go on our own to the N.O. bunch, but visited as family units. oh...to be continued...(Lake Ponchatrain?, and more)