We were just easing off into those dern palmettos with Dad a hollering, “Bring her on boys, I’m fixing to rope her!”
We bailed on in them, and went to stomping around and hollering as loud as we could, hoping all the time she wasn’t going to turn and come back out our way. Every ounce of our will power was just a shoving her out towards Dad.
Why did we want her to go out his way and not ours? Simple. There was only three of us, and besides…he had the rope!
Well sure enough she come busting out the front side of them palmettos like a late freight, and we heard Dad yell, here she comes now, followed immediately by…I got her! Then total silence, for about two seconds!
All of a sudden, it sounded as if two big bull gators had squared off and went to fighting, then, just a couple seconds later it began to sound as if one of them ole gators had gone to whipping up on the other one pretty good like!
It also began to sound as if the one getting whipped was speaking some form of English in between grunts of getting the air knocked out of him! We all began to have thoughts that if that ole cow had done gone and whipped Dad, it would be mighty ugly of us to keep on chasing her around, and around this dern place, her with a hurt foot and all!
On top of that, if she’d done whipped Dad, him being as tough as he was and her hurt to boot, well the three of us didn’t see any need in our getting our butts kicked too!
More...
‘Ridin Out The Recession With Dub and Deb in “Miz Judi’s Kitchen’!
Note to Readers: There are a few things that Dub doesn’t know but one thing he does know is that the word ‘Riding’ (as in Riding Out the Recession) is spelled with a ‘g’ at the end. But Dub not only walks the walk, but speaks like he is: down home, true blue, and plain speakin’ country folk.
Dub and Deb are both native Floridians, live in Central Florida, and run a small business as well. They have five children, and seven grandchildren.
Both love to cook, love to laugh, grow a garden, and generally try to “aggravate” most anyone around them basically…all in good fun, of course!
