WELL, I NEVER...! -- Just a Minute Radio for Wednesday 12-23-09

            Great day here as we begin the “official” Winter… apparently the “official” snow blower that blew in all the way from the West Coast last week hadn’t read the Almanac… or has decided this winter he’s playing ‘catch-up’ on the snow fall.

 

            We understand there’s another snow dumper following a similar track – although down here in the non-mountains we were spared from the slick stuff for the most part.  I did see more trees down than I expected… although I didn’t really go looking for them.

 

            I’m pretty sure it was the wind, icy snow and weakened root systems that accompanied our maiden snowfall last week that properly (or improperly) inaugurated the snowing season – and gave all the merchants chilblains for fear of putting a big ding in late season sales – one they could hardly afford.

 

            My feeling is we’ve got a long hard slog (I think that’s the most fitting word) ahead of us to climb out of this fiscal hole we find ourselves in.  Probably our most difficult problem – lacking the political footing we usually have largely due to a general breakdown in fiscal character among our elected officials – particularly on the national scene.  Reminds me of the days when our Virginia family visited relatives down here in South Carolina during the summer. If you had to negotiate a freshly scraped red clay road in those days (and all of the secondary roads were red clay) you’d better be adept at driving on the “slick stuff” and I don’t mean snow or ice.

 

            A freshly-scraped red-clay hill could put you in one of the two ever present, and usually deep ditches before you could pronounce “Jack-Robinson.”  I’ll bet some of you ‘seniors’ are chuckling and remembering how hard it was to wash the red clay stains out of cotton cloth.  You can remind the New Englanders among us nowadays, we probably had more experience in learning to control a skid – at least in summer – than they did. 

 

            You could also see another car coming toward you on a dry day much further than on a wet one… the red dust cloud that kicked up behind Model A’s and Model T’s was much more visible at a distance – especially when hurrying to church. – Now you more seasoned driving veterans can regale your grandchildren with the stories your family is bound to have collected back in “those days.”

 

            Frankly, I find it more enlightening to discuss dirt roads than the kinds of shenanigans going on “up on the Hill” in Washington these days. It’s not encouraging… but we’ll just have to tough it out.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

 

            Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

WELL I NEVER…!

MizP: Just a Minute --  Nobody, gonna put words in *my* mouth…

Homer: Whasamatter Miz Pearl?

MizP: Them no good, pussy-footin’,  scallywaggin’….

Jack: Hold it… it’s Christmas and, and…

BB: Yeah,,, you got a head a steam on …

Jack: Did somebody swipe your Christmas presents?

MizP: Ah’m jist tarrd of hit – thass awl…  Mekin’ kids take off their little crosses …

BB: Ah know… thangs like at’ they jist make ya blow yer stack…

MizP: An then sum scum-bag comes a-long an steels their presents

               out’n  frum under th’ Chris-mus tree. –

Homer: Rite Miz Pear – mekin’ kids take th’ Chris-chile out’n th’ manger an awl.

Jack: But don’t you see folks… the Devil’s just stolen your Christmas…

BB:  Yeah…. (beat) Yeah -- I reckon ‘at’s rite -- haint hit.

MizP:  Oh -- I nevuh thot a‘ bout  tha-ut…

Jack: You remember what Jesus said when they were putting  him on th’ cross?

MizP: (Pause) He said “Father forgive them --  they know not whut they do.”

Jack: Right,  Miz Pearl.

Homer: An tha-ut ain’t easy when people’s a-hammerin’ on ya.

BB:  Even when I hammer jist a fanger … it *hurts*!

MizP: Hit hurts an you git angry… like ‘bout stealin’ kid’s presents.

Jack: …Or their future.

BB:  You mean ‘bout over-th’-top spendin’…

Homer: An them Senators a joslin’ one another ta' git more money…

MizP: (Hot again) Jist bein’ sefish… at’s whut hit is -- jist sefish….

Jack:  Uh… Miz  Pearl… temperature’s rising again.

MizP:  Oh… oh… thank’ee Mr. Jack – 

Jack:  See… Jesus came  -- and we celebrate His birth, because  he offers us -- by his

               Sacrifice – to take our punishment himself…

MizP:  He’s a-givin’ us th’ perfek gif at Christmas…

Homer: An he’s always with us… not jist tellin’ us ta' be good.

Jack: But living in our hearts and the Holy Spirit giving us the power…

MizP: Th’ power ta' be quite when we needs to…

BB: An forgive… others…

Jack: That’s really why Jesus came.  –  that’s what Christians mean when they

               wish you “Merry Christmas…”  We’ll be right here with you

                Christmas day… Come join us…I’m Jack Buttram.

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