Company¶s Coming
During our youth, we always had a lot of company, and frequentlyvisited in other people¶s homes. Our birthday parties were big deals, oftenwith more than twenty kids. Frequently, Mom filled up our inflatableswimming pool in the back yard, and we invited several kids to come for aswim. It wasn¶t a very large pool, but it was often crammed full of playfulchildren. My sister and I always had to wear bathing caps, even in suchshallow water. Our halter-clad mothers, watched from the white lawn chairs,sipping on iced tea, as they visited. We played in the pool, on our swing set,or played badminton in the yard.
There were four or five families, which we visited with all of thetime. We went on vacations together, and frequently visited in each others¶homes. Such a closeness and familiarity existed among our families, it felt asthough we were relatives. Even today, their grown children refer to my momand deceased father, as ³Aunt Betty and Uncle Russ.´ I still call RubyHaynes and her deceased husband, ³Aunt Ruby and Uncle Austin.´ Most of these families had children my sister¶s age, three years older than I. A fewfamilies had kids, who were a little younger than my sister and me. We weretheir role models and idols.In the fifties, the Haynes family traveled with us, to the CincinnatiZoo. They didn¶t own a vehicle back then, so we all went in our black Buick.Ruby and Austin had three children: Bobby, who was a few years older thanmy sister, and Sharon and Mary, who were close to my sister¶s age. As wewere en route to the zoo, the luggage, which was strapped to the top of thecar, flew off, and scattered all over the highway. We must have looked likecircus clowns, each time all nine of us emptied out of the car.Another tale, which I have heard of numerous times, happened beforeI was in grade school. Mom and Aunt Ruby had driven us five kids, out to afriend¶s house. Since it was crowded in the car, I was sitting on a cake pan,in the floor of the backseat. Everyone got out of the car, but I was left sitting
on the pan. The car rolled over a steep embankment, with me in it.Since they didn¶t have a television at that time, the Haynes girlsfrequently came to our house, to watch The Big Top, on Saturday mornings.We ate together during many Sunday lunches, which were usually bigspreads of fried chicken or pork chops. Sundays were usually lazyafternoons, since we weren¶t allowed to go swimming or bike riding on theSabbath. On Sunday nights, no one was ever very hungry, so our mothersmade gravy and served us gravy on toast for supper. The Haynes¶s home waswithin a block from our church, so all of us walked over from their house, toSunday night worship service.Each week, before every evening service, all of us children
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