This is the first Sunday evening of the month. Ever since Daddy died, his family has tried to get together at Mama’s for the evening on the first Sunday night of the month. The group was small tonight, but we still had a wonderful time. Mark and Polly were in VA. The only ones of their family who were there were Jeremy and Cheryl. Clint and Frieda were there from their family. Jess and Chris and Deborah and Rach were there along with Daniel and I from ours. Bert’s family had Josh and Elmer and Edie as well as Bert and Sarah. And from Alma and Jerrel’s family, the two of them and Gabe. Liz joined us, and that was the extent of our crowd.
When we got there, Certain Man decided that he wanted to see the bird feeder that Mama had bought at Lowe’s a few weeks ago that she needed put up. He loves this kind of thing, and when he saw it, he asked her where she wanted it. He looked at the pole that was already in place, and determined that it wasn’t in the ground straight. So he hunted around in the garage for a shovel and proceeded to dig up around it to see if he could get it straight.
About that time, Mama rolled open the kitchen window, looked at him digging on the Lord’s day and said, “I’m gonna’ tell the BISHOP!!!”
“Go right ahead,” he responded, and kept on digging. He worked pretty hard until he had the pole straight, then he eyeballed it.
“The top of this post isn’t level!” Was his next pronouncement. So he dug around in the garage until he found an old saw of Daddy’s and went to work at sawing off the top of the post. This was accomplished with much good humor, and finally, he was ready to screw the bird feeder onto the board that he had nailed on top of the post that he had leveled and straightened. (This man has a phobia about level and straight!)
And as he was bringing the big beautiful bird feeder around to put it on top of the board, IT HAPPENED! A Purple Martin, flying by in his last flight before bedtime, went directly over Certain Man, and dropped an unsightly deposit down on his Sunday shirt.
“Oh, NO!!!” he sputtered. “That isn’t very nice! Here I am, trying to do a good deed, and a bird does his business on me!”
“Well,” said one unsympathetic soul, “That is what you get for working on Sunday!”
Certain Man (with the evidence on his right shoulder) standing beside the birdhouse which he installed tonight after straightening the pole, leveling the top, nailing on a board and being insulted by an innocent Purple Martin!
Clint and Frieda. Clint has gotten comfortable and Frieda is telling an amusing story.
Our Cheryl-girl, the preggo student nurse with only a week and a half left until she’s done with classes.
We’re so proud of you and so excited for you and Jeremy!
Delaware Grammy 
hee hee…you know what they say…”no good deed goes unpunished.” Apparently that’s true…=D
ha….ha…….ha……..ha! This might make some people say,”see I told you so.” Not me, I think it is very funny!!! Thanks for giving me a laugh. I love Suzyquekau’s quote. Matter of fact we discussed this very quote at lunch last week with Darlene and Friends. You certainly have a caring family I envy you folks,what a comfort to each other you must be.
I’m glad you all had a good evening together. Glad to hear your mother’s good humor emerging. And do love the appearance of her choice in bird feeders! Enjoyed the pictures, too. Will I see you this week? Though I suspect you are busy getting ready for Lem and company. Blessings.
Your poor CM! After all that hard work on the Sabbath, and he gets bombed! CM was apparently not too worried about the Bishop! I think that is such a good idea, getting together every month as a family. It really gives your sweet Mama something to look forward to. Have a good week!!
What a tale and told so well! You are one of my favorite stops in Xanga Land!
that is so funny!! thanks for the comment.
ryc: maybe I should have used to the word “Protective” of Yvonne’s hubby rather than “possessive”…….not a good choice of words was it? We were teasing him and she may have felt she needed to protect him LOL She speaks so highly of him and with such respect I think all of us look at him with great respect and fondness because he is so good to her,
Grandma is soo funny! and i have to admitt, that man of yours is a pretty awesome uncle! 🙂 you have such a way with words aunt mary!! thanks for bringing a smile to my day!
May The Lord Bless your time with Youngest Son and your houseful of young people.
BEG, I hope you have a wonderful time with your son and team members. I think you will find Jeremy and Sarah to be wonderful people. We look forward to ahving them come home! I’ll be praying for your week and also for a vehicle. Is YS doing ok?
Funny story! I enjoy your sight when I visit it; you have a gift for writing. Last week I was loading a keyboard into my van to take to church to use in the kids program. I left the tailgate up and went into the house to get another item and when I got back to the van, there was a robin inside, running around on the dash and making deposits everywhere! It even made a deposit on the keyboard! So after some mopping up, I finally was on my way. As our pastor would say, “praise the Lord anyhow!”
hey! just poppin’ to say “hi”…and make sure you enjoy your boy while he’s there…give ‘im a hug for me : )…if he’s still there…i don’t really know