Football Sept 4 2010

Today is the first day of college football....honey has 2 tvs on and the radio will be on in a few hours. His favorite college team is of course ALABAMA...ROLL TIDE!!!!

I remember one time in Shiloh Alabama,  January1964, Windy was 3 1/2, Vann was 1 1/2 and Jeff was just born in December 1963. It was depressing time in Shiloh, winter cold, dark, mother  had left to go home after hurting herself helping honey get our dryer fixed.

We had 3 babies with a washer but no dryer. She had given us one but it didn't work   and she decided ( you don't know my mother)  to help honey to take it out of the house and into the trunk of our old Plymouth! Let me tell you that was not easy!!!! Like I said it was cold, rainy, wet dark, dreary and if I could find another adjective I would use it also, and they were trying to put the dryer in the car. Her knee went one way and the dryer the other...she screamed held her knee then  honey helping her inside. She cried for a few minutes and decided to go to the Dr.... Well, when they got there (honey and mother) Dr. Hutchinson was an old fashion Dr who at one time made house calls , decided that her leg needed straightening! MOTHER IS BOW LEGGED!!!! Finally after a few minutes honey quietly said " Doc, she is bowlegged" and smiled...Dr Hutchinson just straightened up and said "Well"  He said her knee was probably messed up and the tibia was fractured...she said that she would wait until she got home and let her Dr look at it. Mother suffered all of her life with that knee and I would not hesitate to say that was one of the reasons that lead to her being in the nursing home and eventually death. She really suffered with that knee and leg. I have felt so bad for her , nothing could I do to help her.

Back to the story...when she had arrived for Jeff's birth the people that brought her up to Alabama, their children  broke out with chicken pox!!! Oh boy, here I was stuck in this old house, with 3 babies. You know the rest of the story, Windy and Vann broke out with the pox but as far as I know Jeff didn't break out , he could have had some pox as Dr Hutchinson said  but we would never know. Jeff was only 5 days old and I was not happy!!!!  The children did well , Vann had one scar on his forehead for which he was lucky as he was only 1 and that is not an easy time for a child. You had to watch them to keep them from scratching them and removing the scab... it was tough but I did it!!!!

Well, 2 weeks later she went home very much in pain and I was left with a houseful of people! It was the end of the season for football, the radio was blaring every Saturday with Alabama Football, and Alabama went to the Orange Bowl! I remember listening to that game that day, with the children down for naps, honey and I sat on the couch and listened as Alabama lost  at the last few minutes of the game. I looked at honey and cried and cried! Honey was so mad , he didn't cry but just got up and went to the church!  There I was left  by myself to cry. It was a low time for me. Children getting over the chicken pox, cold, dreary,...oh well you get the picture.! lol.

When the boys were young honey signed them up for football, they played in their grade school years and Jeff played in his hight school. Jeff was a center  and a nose guard for the Davidson High School in Mobile Alabama. It was an exciting time at Davidson, toward the last of the season we had scheduled a revival at the church not realizing that Jeff would be playing football and they would be going to the finals...well we asked the evangelist if he could kind of hurry through and then go to the game! He did and all of us piled into the car and went to the best football game of the season...the evangelist talked later on in years about what a wonderful time they had and it was one of  the highlight of the life...I was so glad they were understanding and cooperated with our family...YEAH!!!  They also talked about the chocolate milkshakes I made them every night after the services....we had some good times with them... the Beattys..we  had a wonderful revival that week.

Today honey is so excited along with his children who are the biggest Alabama fans (guess where they got that from!) awaiting for the game to start tonight...and he cannot watch the game as it is on PPV and we don't have the $40 to watch. So we will listen on the radio as we did in the olden days! Thats ok...we won't suffer....next week it will be on TV.! I made him some potato salad, he has chicken thighs marinating and will grill later. So we are not suffering!

Football season brings excitement awaiting for the best to unfold.  Life brings excitement if we let it,,,awaiting for the best to unfold.  I need to be reminded often of those words. Lord help me...

Well we shall see if Alabama can continue with their #1 season!!! ROLL TIDE!!!!

Thank you grandpa for listening , I love you J