NOTHIN'S HAPPNIN' YOU SAY? - Just a Minute Radio for Wednesday 08-12-09

Hello from right in the middle of August –

The heat waves off the concrete and black-top in mid-summer are indeed discouraging. You can tell air-conditioning is a big factor in the more tolerable living during July and August below the Mason-Dixon Line. If you didn’t grow up during the pre-air-conditioning days, you don’t know how much fun it was to go to the ice house to get a big block of ice to take home – put it in the smokehouse where a trunk sized box had a place scooped out of sawdust – and it kept for days, maybe even more than a week if it was big enough and the weather wasn’t too hot. It was deliciously cool in a movie theater – about the only other cool place in town.

You enjoyed being sent by grandma out to the smoke house, ice-pick in one hand, and wash-basin in the other to chip off a chunk of ice to bring back in the house for cooling the iced tea – or an even more adventurous trip when grandpa was getting ready to crank a freezer full of peach ice cream. That was yummy-yummy time and as one of the kids you got to use a spoon to help clean off the dasher – the interior paddle of the ice cream freezer. No electric “churn” here… just hand crankin’.

One set of my grandparents illuminated the South Carolina farm house with kerosene lamps: the other over in rural north Alabama lived close enough to the Tennessee Valley Authorities electrification program to have a single light suspended on an electric line from the ceiling – and if you set the light a-swinging, the shadows really danced around the room. Mosquitoes at night… and flies during the daytime – especially on the farm. They contributed to the considerable discomfort of late summer.

Mondays were wash days… and getting water from the rain barrel – was a childhood chore… or sometimes it had to be hauled up from a well, or pumped up by hand. If you had no electricity on the farm, you had no washing machine or kitchen range to ‘turn on’ – it was indeed a different day. But a pleasant one to *remember* -- as long as you didn’t have to re-live it.

Oh well… if I keep on I might work up a sweat. Have a great day, remembering that cheerfulness is a choice.

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack

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“JUST A MINUTE”

NOTHIN’S HAPP’NIN YOU SAY?

Homer: Jist a Minute -- Mr. Jack – th’ dawg days of summer ended last Tuesday…

Jack: Right – Congress has gone home…

MizP: An th’ Blue Dogs and Miz Pelozie is a- gettin’ wawked on this week.

Homer: Th’ Prezdint ain’t had no more run-ins with th’ Havaard perfesser…

BB: An Revrind Jerrimia has bin quite fer sum time now…

Jack: So, we can take the rest of the summer off?

MizP: Tha-ut souns like a good ideea – Ah’m tarrd of heering all ‘bout health care …

Homer: But we sho don’t wanna be ‘sleepin’ at th’ switch –

BB: Jist what do you thank we kin do about hit Homer?

Homer: We kin be nice ta' one another fer one thang … tha-ut’s bin too easily fergottin.

Jack: You’re right about that Homer. Did you have anyone in mind…

Homer: Well, Ah admire of th’ folks at works hard fer th’ Special Olympics –

they ain’t a competin’ jist now… but hit takes a lot of faithful people ta' make at work.

Jack: You know Miz Eunice Shriver was the big push for getting that under way…

MizP: Ah ‘members tha-ut. Hit’s easy ta' fergit those thangs when all th’ argumints get a goin’ –

BB: Well Ah woun’t be s’flustered about hit if’n both sides played by th’ same rules.

Jack: You think there’s uneven-ness?

BB: Ah thank th’ big-time mediums has been in th’ pockets of th’ politicos…

Homer: An we don’t like tha-ut..

Jack: What can be done about it.

MizP: Well, fer one thang we kin blow th’ whistle on unfairness or….

BB: Steppin’ over th’ line. Shoutin’ an inneruptin’ people – at gits my dander up.

Homer: Me too Mr. Bill. If’n your gonna con-flick… con-flick fair an square. ..

MizP: At’s whut ah thanks to. I got so angered when I seen ‘em Union guys a-beatin’ up on

tha-ut black feller who was a-givin away his ‘Merican flags and buttons & such.

Jack: I saw that too, Miz Pearl – that’s certainly not what’s right about America.

BB: We awl needs ta' Kam down an pull t’gether ta' git usn’s outn’ tha ditch..

Jack: And on that note, we’ll say good by till next week – I’m Jack Buttram.

(END)

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