Grandpa 2

Aunt Moz. continues--One of Dad's favorite memories was when he was breaking a team of horses to pull a plow or wagon.He hitched them to a wagon and Marie (my Mom) wanted to go with him. She was about 2 yrs.old. She was sitting beside Dad and something spooked the horses. They jumped & began to run (its called a runaway) . It threw Marie backwards and she rolled nearly to the back of the wagon. Dad finally got the horses stopped and Marie jumped up & said "Shoot'em
again Daddy shoot'em again". Every farmer around wanted him to stack their bundle feed in the fall because he could put up a neat -tight & strong stack that had staying power.Another memory is that one summer Dad did some fencing for Cecil Ray Epleys dad. Cecil Ray took up with him right away.Cecil had a pony that he rode bareback. One day Cecil came where he was working and he had been running the horse & it had rubbed a sore on his bottom. He wanted Dad to look & see what was hurting ( Cecil was just a little kid) when dad told him it had rubbed a sore & the skin was off - Cecil wanted to know where the skin went. Dad said " Oh it just slid down your leg. He looked around & Cecil was coming out of his pants- dad asked him what he was doing & Cecil said 'I'm hunting that piece of skin so that they could paste it back on"