, Frito corn chips & a 6 oz. bottle of CokeMemories From Teresa
Daddys favorite treats growing up: Moonpies, Frito corn chips & a 6 oz. bottle of Coke
Daddys favorite quote: Ill
be John Brown.
Mom was always known for her good cooking.
Her specialty was pinto beans, stewed potatoes, and cornbread.
And, she made the best pimento cheese around.
While driving for Thurston Motor Lines, Daddy took great pride in
the fact that he could drive in such a way that he could drive home from
Nashville by not having to use his brakes very much. He brags that his truck got 100,000 miles out of one pair of
brake shoes.
Mama used to take us to town every Saturday.
Everyone gathered on the courthouse lawn for a drawing.
I dont remember how tickets were obtained, but merchants in town
donated merchandise to be given away. It
was always a big event. One
Saturday, as we were getting ready to go, I was standing in front of the heater
trying to get warm. For some
reason, I backed into the heater and burned the back of my leg.
I wore the imprint of that heater grid on the back of my leg for quite
some time.
Nancy and I didnt get to wear pants until my senior year of
high school. Mama Climer never let
Mama wear pants or shorts because she thought it was wrong.
When Mama played basketball in grade school, she had to wear a skirt over
her basketball suit. Mama didnt start wearing pants until she started helping
Daddy at the feed mill. Daddy told
her she was either going to have to start wearing pants or wear longer dresses.
One Sunday Mama was fixing dinner for the preacher.
In preparation for this event, Nancy had cleaned the sliding glass door.
That night Mama and Daddy went to the grocery store to get last minute
things. When they got back, Daddy
came in, and Mama thought that Daddy was being nice and had left the door open
for her. She ran into the glass
door pretty hard. The door was so
clean she thought it was open. Luckily,
she didnt break anything. It
gave Daddy a good laugh. He cant
help himself -- he always laughs
when people do funny things after he sees that they are not hurt.
In working at the feed mill, Mama has caught several hard falls.
And, the first thing Daddy would say was, Well, why dont you watch
what youre doing? This would
make Mama so mad. And, as usual,
after Mama was up and going again, Daddy would laugh.
When Nancy and I were growing up, Grand Daddy use to give us baby
chicks. We had two pet chickens,
Pinky and Penny. One day we were
sitting on the front porch steps, and I decided to see what would happen if I
sat on Penny. When I finally got
up, that chickens beak and comb was purple.
I almost killed that chicken! She got up, staggered around, and then
walked off. I dont know how old I was, but I know I was old enough to know
better because I can remember doing it.
Memories from Aunt Betty: One
time when Naomi was very pregnant with Edward, kin folks from out of state came
to visit Grandmother. (It was Mrs. Ora Sharp and her daughter, Nellie Ann.)
Willard took everyone for a ride to show them around.
Naomi put the pressure cooker on with meat in it for dinner, forgot about
it and went riding with the rest of them. The
pressure cooker blew up, got meat and grease all over the ceiling, windows,
cabinets, and floor. She said she
was so big, she couldnt get down in the floor to clean up the mess.
This wasnt really funny to her, but it was an incident remembered from
the past.
Mama caught Edward smoking in the woods back behind our house
when he was about 10 years old. She
threatened to take a switch to him, but he begged and begged her not to and
promised he never would smoke again. But,
today he smokes like a freight train!
When Nancy and Rickey were building their house, they lived with
Mama and Daddy for a while. Rickey
and Edward stayed up to watch a movie after everyone else went to bed.
Edward decided to go to bed and left Rickey up to finish the movie.
When Rickey got ready to go to bed, the kitchen door was locked. Everyone was asleep and he couldnt wake them, so he spent
the night sleeping in a recliner in the den.
He got so thirsty that he had to go outside and get some snow to eat. He
always thought Edward locked that
door on purpose.