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VOL iii Issue 004

JUNE/July 2013

Eufaula Cove, Eufaula, OK

July 4, 2013

HUGO OK.
JULY 4, 2013 July 3, 2013 Talihina, OK.

SALLISAW, OK
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IDABEL OK
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POTEAU OK.
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MENA, AR
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HONOBIA OK
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OCTAVIA, OK
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Big FootPRINT
Mary Lee Williams

BIG FOOT PRINT

By Mary Lee Williams Well, there are some mail in suggestions for this column that is so complimentary to the proposed candidate it makes it quite easy to select the one for the month. But I must say when this one came in I had to pause and re-read the reason for suggesting this one. Not because of the person but the reason used, This is what the writer said. One of the reasons Randy should be named Big Foot Print is because in his younger days he left a Big Foot Print when he drove away. Why, they even suggested that everyone knew he had a Heavy Foot in his Younger Years. The truth of the matter is, he retained the heavy foot but has put it to excellent use for all the surrounding communities by helping his son host the local Speedway. He has exhibited to the youngsters and their parents its O.K. to enjoy putting your foot into the gas pedal of a Fast Car if its done in a legal environment. Randy Lancaster, along with his son Cole, have been instrumental in bringing more racing competition into the local area and everyone is having an enjoyable and safe time.

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Every Saturday night youll find Randy at the race track, with his Heavy Foot helping with whatever needs done, off the track and on. Lets face it, racing is a form of competitive entertainment and some people are born entertainers, kinda like its told about Randy. On top of all that hes a great fellow to have around, as the people of Southern LeFlore County have found out. They really appreciate the road maintenance done by the county crew that Randy is a part of. Thank you Randy for all your work in the County but most of all, thank you for having a place for some good and safe family entertainment for all youngsters- young & old .

Gathering Intel
Darryl Williams

Giants in America
Stewart Taylor

Lifes Sacred Flame

Jeff Duff

Area Events Its Happening this FALL Strange Experience

Meme Strange

T & O Whistle Stops

Logan Williams
Mary Lou Brainerd

The Fall Chucks Adventure 11

Cover Photo: There will be several places you can choose from to see a pretty fireworks display the week of the 4th of July. These are just a few. You can call or go on line to find the particulars of each event. We at the Honobia Big Foot PRINT hope you have a safe and wonderful summer and enjoy one of the fireworks displays around the 4th of July..
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Editor Mary Lee Williams 580-244-7323 HonobiaBigFootPrint@live.com www.HonobiaBigFootPrint.com Design & Layout: Mary Lee Williams & Logan Williams Web Master: Logan Williams Contributing Writers: Darryl Williams,Mary Lou Brainerd, Meme Strange, Jeff Duff, Stewart Taylor and Logan Williams. The Honobia Big Foot Print is a free publication printed every month POLICY: The publisher reserves the right to reject or cancel any advertisement at any time. All articles on events or happenings, are intended to promote interest in the surrounding area. All stories and comments by contributing writers are for entertainment purposes and not intended to reflect the views of the publisher. All property rights including any copyright interest in any advertisement produced by Honobia Big Foot Print, become property of Honobia Big Foot Print To advertise or send letters to the Editor in this publication call: 580-244-7323 or email HonobiaBigFootPrint@live.com A one year subscription may be obtained by sending your name and address and check or M/O for $35. To: Honobia Big Foot Print H.C. 15 Box 10 Honobia, Ok. 74549\ Or go to www.HonobiaBigFootPRINT.com and sign up under Get The PRINT

Throughout the paper you will see a new feature. Big Foot has gone digital. He got out his smart phone and started surfing the web for some of our advertisers. When you find the code on one of the ads, simply scan it with your smart phones QR reader app to be taken to the advertisers page. This one leads you to our web site.

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GATHERING INTEL
By: Darryl Williams or My Dad says. I have found this to be true. While research and investigations continue in the Sasquatch situation, and the DNA testing and other Recently I talked with one man who pulled us aside so no one else could hear and told us about a white scientific processes fail to give all conclusive hairy creature he saw in the woods in Push Co., he answers, the Big Foot Phenomenon continues to thought was a Great Pyrenees Dog till it stood up. grow. There are many who still ask the question Another man in McCurtain Co. told me about Do you believe in Big Foot? It appears that the creating fake footprints on Dump Ground Road, to amount of conversational continuum allowed hinges on what one believes. Allow me to explain. give people something to talk about. There were Back in the early 1970s America had an obsession pictures in the newspapers and it was all fun and games till a BFRO investigator produced a plaster for what was called muscle cars. The Challenge cast of a foot print in the area bigger than the fake was not limited to how much horse power was one he and his buddies had made. His comment was under the hood, but can you put that power on the you cant rule out every possibility, there may be ground. Tires that left a Big Foot Print were things you dont know about. crucial. Our local Highway Patrol said He A few hundred years ago a man named Galileo believed Ricky Briggs and I had been drag racing talked about believing the earth was constantly on Black Fork Bridge because he recognized the rotating in its orbit around the Sun. But, the whole foot prints left by the tires on our cars. Nobody wanted to talk about it!!! Forty years later when us world knew that the Earth was the center of the Universe and the Church threatened to burn him at old timers get together, guess what the the stake for heresy. In the 1990s the Vatican stated conversations get around to. they were offering an apology to Galileo. Thom Powell had taught science in Hills Dale In 1492 Columbus sailed the Ocean blue, looking for Oregon, nearly thirty years. One of his former students said Everyone has a story to tell from Mr. a new world rich in treasures to claim for his Powells class. Thom introduced Sasquatch to his financial backers. Upon his return he talked about a classroom in the early 1990s as a pseudo or phony place where his compass and all other navigational devices failed. Nobody wanted to talk about it much. science. He said the study of Sasquatch wasnt Today theres an area called the Bermuda Triangle. valid science it was fanciful. It was baloney. But in 2003 he published a book called the Locals. It Lets not even mention Area 51. The real phenomenon lies in the human endeavor of is on contemporary investigation of the Big leadership into unexplored arenas. Until science can Foot/Sasquatch Phenomenon, and has almost prove conclusively that something or someone does become Sacred Writings among many people not or is not, humanity will continue to engage in who talk about Big Foot. His newest book published in 2011 is called Shady Neighbors, and conversation about the possibilities. Some call this Gathering Intel. As Thom Powell says You have is fiction based on stories told by someone about to leave everything on the table. some experience with the phenomenon. Thom says most people may laugh and joke at first, but eventually most people will end up saying You know my Uncle has a story

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BY: Throughout world history and legends, there are documented accounts of ordinary men coming in contact with humanoid giants of various sorts. The Titans, Ogres and Trolls are just a few of many widely used examples. There are also similar records contained within various religious documentation. For one, the Christian Bible clearly relates how giants came to be among men in its very first book, Genesis, chapter 6. In todays world, a vast majority of folks give this subject little serious consideration or thought. They quickly discount this particular information as merely just fables or fairy tales. Most consider it on the same level as a Mother Goose tale and other stories for young children to dream on at bedtime. Regardless of these commonly held opinions, it doesnt change what has occurred closer to home. In North America, Native American history and legends have contained information on giants for hundreds of years, some of which are clearly recorded in ancient cave paintings or masks and totem figures.

STEWART TAYLOR local Indian population as being an evil dangerous place. Here in America, there are presently dozens of organized groups dedicated to investigating and documenting reports of giants. It is information coming from everyday people seeing or hearing something very unusual in the wooded areas of America. An appreciable number of these witnesses are respected folks like doctors, nurses, active military, police and firemen, all having no reason to lie or receive any personal gain for telling their story. Some would have been better off never telling their story for the rejection and ridicule they received. All for doing nothing more than telling the complete truth of what happened to them. It is an ignorantly cast prejudice that has stifled numerous personal accounts, some of which may never be told to another! The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (B.F.R.O.) was formed in 1995. Since that time, they have investigated and published over 4600 credible and verified witness accounts believed to be directly associated with the Bigfoot/Sasquatch phenomenon. Most of them occurring right here in North America! The total number of submitted reports is actually much higher than this published figure, but if a reasonable level of certainty cannot be verified or established, it is not listed on their Internet website. Like most other folks, I never gave this phenomenon much serious consideration. As a young adolescent back in the mid 1960s, I was intrigued by the first release of the Patterson-Gimlin film on the local news channel. I spent a short time pondering all the possibilities, but it was quickly gone, soon replaced by other youthful adventures and interests. I was raised up along the west coast, hunting, fishing, camping and hiking in areas of reported Bigfoot activity. Not once do I ever recall hearing or seeing anything close to making me believe this elusive giant could really exist. It was years later after several decades of mature adult life and moving to the southwest U.S., that I had my first What in the world was that!? moment. My son and I were night fishing along a remote, heavily wooded creek bank in North Texas. We parked there shortly before sundown and had fished well past midnight by the light of the Coleman lantern placed on my pickups tailgate behind us. CONTINUE on page 10

Many Native American tribes have names for these subjects. A few examples in the English translation are: The Stone Giants are used by the Cherokee and Iroquois people. The Lakota term is Big Elder Brother and the Taos call them Big Person. The list of names is very extensive and other than a limited few terms like Demon, Devil or Cannibal Giants, none lists or compares these subjects to an animal. A close study of American news accounts also reveal numerous stories of humanoid giants being seen. It starts along the east coast in the 1700s then moves with the westward push into the 18 and 1900s. In Daniel Boones memoirs, he wrote of shooting a ten foot Yahoo in 1782. It was located in Kentucky somewhere along what is now the Montgomery-Powell County line. In another account, Teddy Roosevelt, our 26th president, wrote a book in the late 1800s, titled Wilderness Hunter. It has one chapter about two young hunters/trappers encountering a large hairy giant in what was then the remote Montana territory. They entered it in a remote valley that was shunned by the

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Lifes Sacred Flame

By: Jeff Duff Once in a while, LIFE allows an individual to have an experience that can radically change one's outlook on the "big picture" of life. During the first weekend of June of this year, my son Josh and I went on an outing with ten other individuals from all over the nation led by Cody Lundin, master survivalist and minimalist, and can be seen on Discovery Channel's "Dual Survival". Our "tribe of twelve" participated in "the Nothing Course" in which we went into the Arizona high desert with the clothes on our back, a garbage bag and a water bottle. We were instructed to use them to the best of our knowledge. We were going back in time to learn how primitive man used Mother Earth to provide him with resources to survive. We made cutting tools from rocks, and secured water from a stagnant creek. We were blessed by our gracious Creator in that our tribe was able to make fire by friction, and had a bone-warming flame in a hand dug fire-pit during the cold night. Our tribe huddled around most of the night in order to secure warmth and keep our sacred flame going. As twilight was seen, there was a sigh of relief knowing that we had survived the night. Growing weary from the Arizona heat and no food, we were shown how to make "ashcake", which in any other setting, society would turn their nose up at, but at that point in time was a delicacy to consume. After extinguishing our flame, we hand dug the carbon remnants left from resources Mother Earth provided, blessing us with comfort of the flame. We then returned them to the earth from which they came, a most sacred moment, when you stop and realize the importance of the situation. We learned the true wealth in the making of cordage, in order to construct shelter, and obtained knowledge in the use of certain plants and trees in survival scenarios. As I look back on the experience, I just want to share with whoever may read this, the importance of absolute respect for this globe we humans all inhabit and keep an open mind when dealing with things we have not been allowed to experience yet. I will never again take clean water, food, shelter and the warmth of the sacred flame for granted. My utmost thanks to Cody Lundin for revealing the truly important things in this journey called "LIFE".
Editors Note: Welcome Dr Jeff Duff and his writing abilities to the Big Foot PRINT. His experiences prove to be interesting articles. Jeff spoke at the April Big Foot Festival and will speak at the October Big Foot Conference & Festival 2013. His information on the abilities the human eye has to see certain objects is fascinating. Couple that with his studies of Big Foot you have a fascinating conference session. Dont miss this one.

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Once again Tin Top Ranch will be the setting for the Sanctioned Arkansas Chuckwagon Race.

June 22-23, 2013.

Gates open Wednesday. Friday nightmeet the racers!! BBQ dinner & Pasture Pickin (special Guest Bubbba Slaten & Friends.) Saturday morningTrail Ride. Races start noonish Sat. & Sun. Hour after races Chuckwagon style. Saturday night Lanny Richmond Band will be playing for the Country Western Dance. Sunday Morning Cowboy Church. Sunday Races at Noon and awards to follow

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Admission is $20. Per day or $30. For event pass. Kids under 12 are free. Ages 12-16 is Half Price. For more information call Scott Welch 479-207-1087 or K.J. 479-207-2938 S.A. 1800-436-8199 Camping & Trail ridesfun for the whole family!! www.tintop/sawalls.net//about.html

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Acoustical Picking & Singing for your Enjoyment
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Music Starts at 6:00 PM at the Wildlife Heritage Center 610 SW D St. Antlers, OK

FREE ADMISSION Donations will be accepted Refreshments will be available donations for refreshments will benefit the Passport to the Future mentoring Organization

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Honobia Big Foot Conference & Festival October 4,&5, 2013

LUDLOW ROCK SCHOOL HOUSE . Hiway 144 Check out web site www.HonobiaBigFootPRINT.com for reservations & MAP
A new event on Friday and Saturday nights , called Jammin the Night Away will keep the music lovers up way into the night. This will be hosted by the Big Foot Coffee Shelter with good ol jamming, under the direction of Logan Williams. So if you sing, or play a guitar or string instrument, bring it on over. Whoever names a song the jammers will Its happenin this Fall. October 4 & 5, 2013 to be attempt to play it for you. This is so much fun and exact. Musicians are tuning their voices and you begin to learn new songs in the process. This is instruments, Karaoke singers are practicing their newest songs, conference speakers are readying their not a Be Shy event. Everyone is in the same boat of bewilderment, so be ready to enjoy. The speeches, promoters are cleaning the camp grounds, Coffee Shelter has the bottomless coffee pot and tea and young ones and old are calling various places around making their camping reservations so they are pot for your evening enjoyment. Theres no tellin what fanciful snacks might be available, so be assured of a camp spot, or motel room. Whats prepared to enjoy the food and music and good ole happening??? The Honobia Big Foot Conference & fellowship at Jammin the Night Away. Festival at the Ludlow Rock School house on HWY 144. Can you believe it, the idea of getting away for the Its even possible Big Foots everywhere are secretly week-end brings out wisdom and talents we didnt making their plans to be at the gathering, hiding in the bushes, or behind the trees to get a glimpse at all realize we possessed. Just because of that you will have the opportunity to either gain more wisdom or the hoop la surrounding the Big Foot Festival. show your wisdom around the story telling campfire each night after (9:00 pm) and share more Big Foot The new campgrounds have really proven to be an stories or ask questions until the embers go low at excellent gathering place for festival goers and Wisdom After Dark. This session will be directed campers alike. by the session speakers, (2 different ones each night). Im told they break out the Smores at these The conference hall will be in the Rock School sessions and some campfire popcorn. So come for House.This rock building was constructed in the your evening snack and enjoy, Wisdom After 1940s by most of the Great-Grandpas of local Dark. residents. The school was built through the WPA

ITS HAPPENIN THIS FALL

application. Camping on the Festival Grounds is RESERVATIONS ONLY. You must have a reservation receipt to stay on the Festival grounds. There will be day parking available for $10 a carload. No parking on the hiway or surrounding properties will be permitted. There are no fees to get into the festival or conference. For those who like to walk trails, the campgrounds will have some trails opened up for your walking pleasure. There will be more updates so watch each month for new information in the Big Foot PRINT or go to the web site for weekly updates. Make you plans now to be a part of this annual festival. Contact Wind Walker Sound at 580-2443013 or Honobia Big Foot PRINT 580-244-7323 for more information. .

program in order to have a school building for the local children to attend. This building is now used as a community center and still maintains a solid foundation to learn on. Therefore, most of the sessions will be held in the two school rooms, the Big Room and the Little Room. MUSIC will be provided by artist like Gatling & Hoffpauir, Country Touch, and Doug Russell, to name a few. The special guest will be 2012 Big Foot Music Idol, Maddie Ray from Tennessee. After her performance the Karaoke Contest will begin for you to choose the 2013 Big Foot Music Idol.

At the April Festival Logan had a session where he showed how to cast a foot print if you find an unusually large one. The participation was great so, there will be an art contest of anyones foot print cast. It can be your own or something unusual. Decorate it, frame it, or display it your own original artistic way, and bring it to the festival to be judged. A trophy will be awarded for the most artistic display. Go to the web site for more information. The grounds have been opened up for more camping and the spaces are filling up. Go to www.HonobiaBigFootPRINT.com and click on festival, then camping and download your camping

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Sometimes I think I should just go ahead and declare myself an expert qualified researcher into the Human Phenomenon. But then, Ive always heard that He who tooteth his own horn, shall soon run his battery down. Anyways, Im totally fascinated with how interconnected my kind really is with the ongoing human reality. Im Me-Me, Meme Strange. You could Google me to find out more about what I really am, but sometimes its best to just allow me to jump around in your imagination. So imagine one of my kind from the hills of southeast Oklahoma, getting acquainted with that platinum haired Yeti chick Ive been talking about. Bigger yet, Imagine if I told you about meeting her family. Bigger yet, Her Dad!!! Well at that last gathering, wed been knocking on trees, chunking rocks in the river, whooping and hollering and basically having a Big ole time. But then, things started to heat up. Id had my eye on her the last couple of days and I guess it was getting more obvious then I thought, cause two of her brothers and three of her cousins started to harass

me. It was nothing real serious, just snide remarks, like Hey Skunk Ape, why dont you try dating in your own Race. Honestly, I wasnt trying to be a smart alec when I responded with, why dont you try dating your own species. Boy, that really set em off. I decided Id best be making tracks back to our camp. They were hot on my tail when I got there and yelled for my good friend Hey-Hey and Cousin Solo. Hey-Hey stood up to his full stature and growled, Yall best get back to yalls area before we start leaving our bigfoot prints all over yalls back yards. Then Uncle Chuey took control of the situation. Boys, Boys, Boys, well not have any of that. Bullying is a human activity that shows one is insecure with who one is. Now you uns sit down here and lets talk this over. Her big brother just shrugged his shoulders as he turned too walked away. Not so fast uncle Chuey snapped. Lets all go over and talk to yalls parents. We cant have this getting out of hand.

Thats when I met Yang-Yang, the biggest whitest hairiest Yeti I have ever seen. Uncle Chuey looked at him eye ball to eye ball and said We need to talk. Just then, my Dad showed up. Whats happening Chuey, he asked. I got your message that Id better get over here. Now I never heard or saw ol unck send that message, I guess theyre telepathic or something. The adults sat us down and listened carefully to the whole incident and convinced us not to do that anymore. Things were starting to look much better, so I thought it would be fitting to ask his permission to date his daughter. He rubbed his chin, thought for a minute and said, Ill send you a --Blurrrrrup. Evidently, something he had eaten was not agreeing with him. Wed better be going my Dad said as he stood up and shook hands with Mr. Yeti. There was silence all the way back to camp. When we got there, I asked why Mr. Yeti was not allowed to finish his statement. Oh! He was finished Uncle Chuey reassured me. That shows his Human DNA. His Human DNA?? I questioned. Yeah, Do Not Answer. Solo chimed in. See, he meant to say Blurb and thats what humans say when they do not have the understanding of syntax or control of language to give a proper answer. They do it on the Internet all the time. Ill send you a Blurp. The whole camp started laughing like a bunch of Hyenas. Another Human phenomenon, Strange, Very strange.

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T And O Express Whistle Stops By: Logan Williams

Hello I'm Logan Williams of "Logan Williams' T and O Express." Throughout the month I have the opportunity to travel all over our beautiful state playing music and working for the Honobia Big Foot Print. It is always an experience to visit the many interesting businesses along the way. Please take a ride along with me, as the T & O express makes its monthly "Whistle Stops".

Singing has always been my primary musical ability; therefore, I have developed a deep love for it over the years. To stay in shape (vocally speaking), I like to frequent local karaoke events. A particular favorite one of mine happens every Tuesday and Thursday night at Trophys Grill located inside the Choctaw Casino in McAlester Oklahoma. They start around 8:30 pm and you never know who might be there to sing. Maybe, Superstar, a young lady who would make Ms. Joplin proud with the way she sings Me and Bobby McGee. Then theres Josh singing his rendition of Family Traditions, or Buck giving you chills with his soulful performance of The Ride. Then theres the other entertaining singers with their unique abilities to pull off a rap song or the trio who sings while sitting down, all there to have a good time. Adam, our Redneck DJ keeps the show flowing and the music playing all evening. The casino holds a contest for cash prizes at the first of the evening then its open mic. If yall want to come hang out with us and sing then show up around 8:00 pm to register for the contest, order some real good food and something to drink, kick back and party the way we do it in Oklahoma.

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Giants in America continued from page 4

At some point, I became aware of subtle movements in the brush north of us. A swish of a branch here, a crackle of leaves there, I first noticed it about 100150 yards away and it seemed to be slowly getting closer to us. There was a side slough running perpendicular into the creek beside us. It was about 20 feet wide and separated us from the thick brush where the noises were coming from. I wasnt at all concerned since many night animals such as armadillo, raccoon, coyotes etc., often forage through the night and are no serious threat. It was then I felt the very distinct feeling of being watched and then a loud close snap of a fairly large twig being stepped on. Not something any light four legged animal would do. My level of alertness perked up several notches and I began to discreetly scan our entire perimeter, not wanting to concern my then 15 year old son. Nothing was there, so I then focused on the thick brush line. I got up and strolled over to the truck cab retrieving a bright spotlight and began to scan in that direction. I cant precisely relate what I momentarily saw flash by the roving circle of light, but it looked like a mans face recessed back in the brush. It was there one split second and gone the next. I jerked the light back to the spot, but then saw nothing. Noticing my sudden movement out of the corner of his eye, my son asked What are you doing Dad?? Oh nothing.just looking I replied, not wanting to sound a bit concerned to him, but was now not at total peace with this subtle activity. I put the light up and sat back down and continued fishing. Not more than 10 minutes, not less than 5, a huge cinder block sized object came hurtling out of the brush line, crashing into the water less than 10 feet from us. It produced a splash about like a 50 pound child doing a cannon ball off the high dive. We both instinctively fell back in our folding chairs

away from the splash as huge drops of water rained down on us. WHAT WAS THAT!?...WHAT WAS THAT!? my son screamed out lunging to me and tightly clutching my side as his terrified eyes wildly darted about. To Be Continued

Editors Note: Welcome to the Big Foot PRINT, Stewart Taylor. whose had quite a number of Big Foot experiences. After wowing the April Big Foot Conference & Festival crowd, he is slated as one of the speakers for the 2013 Honobia Big Foot Conference & Festival in October. This story will certainly hold your attentionit has mine. His articles will appear in each issue through October. You wont want to miss any of them. Look for the continuation of Giants in America, in the JUL-Aug issue.

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to call 911. As soon as I had the ambulance on its way, I took a lantern and went back to the barn. I opened the doors to let in some light and fresh air then sat down beside her to wait. It didnt take them long to get there. As they put her on the stretcher she moaned and hollered a lot. By Mary Lou Brainerd I think her shoulder is broken and she has a bad I need to earn some money this summer, I said knot on her head. It looks like she may have been here since last night, the paramedic said. to myself. Look here at this ankle, it sure is swollen, the At only fifteen its hard to find a job. Anyway, I other man said. Well get her right to the hospital. cant drive a car to get to work and Mom and Pop are Are you her grandson? already busy. If I couldnt walk or ride Lightening, it No, I said. She doesnt have any kin around would be a big problem. here. When Pop was a kid, from the time he was Well need her I.D. and insurance cards. Do thirteen until he gradated from high-school, he you know where she keeps that stuff? hauled hay all summer. He said he made enough Yes, I think so, I said. I didnt really want to money to buy his first truck and to get all the other give them her purse with her being out of it and all so things he needed during those years. Now-a-days though, everybody puts up those big round bales and I said. You go ahead and Ill call my mom. Shell be right down and help me find it and bring it to the they dont need a bunch of guys out there loading hospital right away. and unloading the bales. Okay, son. But hurry on up there, they wont be Id have to come up with something. able to do much until they get those cards. It was such a pretty day and Id finished with my They took off and I ran to the house and called chores at home, so I decided to take a ride down and Mom. I found Mrs. Pickens purse where Id seen visit Mrs. Pickens. I hadnt seen her in a couple of her keep it before. I put it and her keys on the front weeks. We took our time going down the road and when porch swing, then shut up the house and unsaddled Lightening and turned him loose in the barnyard. we got there it was nearly eleven oclock. I figured Just as Id finished closing up the barn Mom pulled shed be in the house by then. I tied up old Lightening, walked up on the porch and knocked on into the drive. On the way to the hospital I said, As soon as we the door. There was no answer. get her settled, Ill have to come back and feed her I walked around the house and sure enough, her pickup was parked under the shed where she always chickens, gather the eggs and feed her other animals. Then I can ride Lightening back home. I sure hope kept it. I called out to her, but didnt hear a thing. shes alright. Well, she must have gone off with someone else, I Shell be okay, Mom said. Shes a tough old thought, and started to go back around the house. Then I noticed the back door was standing open with bird. Yeah, but Mom, she couldnt even talk, I said. just the screen door shut. She wouldnt go off Dont worry son, she said, and patted my leaving it like that. shoulder. I decided to look around a little before I left. I It was nearly an hour before we could see her. checked the chicken house, she wasnt there, but the She had tubes up her nose, in her arms and probably chickens acted hungry. She usually fed them early. Maybe they were just greedy today. I headed to the a few other places we didnt see, but she was awake. God bless you Chuck, she whispered. It barn. When I stepped in from the bright sun, it might be a while before I get back home. Can you seemed awful dark and all I could see was dust motes take care of the animals and the yard and garden for floating in the shafts of light coming through the cracks between the boards. Then, I thought I heard a me? Id be glad to pay you. Ill be happy to take care of everything and you sound over by the loft ladder. dont need to worry about any pay after all youve Mrs. Pickens, I said, are you in here? done for me. You just get well. I heard a little moan and by then my eyes were They say I have a mild concussion, my getting accustomed to the dark. I could see a bundle collarbone is broken, and left ankle is sprained and of something at the foot of the ladder. I rushed over my left hip is broken. Thats why I couldnt move. to find Mrs. Pickens lying in a heap. She couldnt One of those top boards gave way with me on the move and was not able to tell me what happened. ladder. Maybe you can fix that too. I guess I laid There was an old horse blanket hanging over a board and I placed that over her and ran to the house there all night. I just kept praying that youd find

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me. I didnt think anyone else would look for me, but I knew you would. Some people in hospital uniforms came in and said they would be taking her down for more x-rays and MRIs and wed have to leave. We told her goodbye and left the room. At the front desk we left our telephone number to call if they needed anything and said wed be back tonight. Mom drove me to Mrs. Pickens place and when she dropped me off she said, You have no idea how proud I am of you son. This will be a summer youll never forget. Youll have a great time taking care of Mrs. Pickens and her place. I sure will. Problem solved! There would be no extra time on my hands this summer.

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