Oneighty, your book rocks! Sharing a couple of passages.

[madfloridian]

It just came today. It has been a rather sentimental week for us here for several reasons, and I just sat there and got teary as I read.

It is the kind of book that makes one say Oh, I remember things like that too....and Oh, that is just what I think about old schoolhouses....and Oh, that is how I remember the peanut butter from a long time ago, not the smooth kind today.

About old schoolhouses:
"I would kind of like living in an old school house. In the quiet of a lonely night one might hear the happy voices of the little children, smell their peanut butter banana lunches. Some of those voices could be grandpa or grandma or might even be mom and dad."

From sitting and vegetating:
"I swear if I had some of those funny mushrooms I would smoke some or eat them or whatever and when I come back to earth the grass will be green the flowers blooming, peace will be here and we will have a new and better president."

[1monster]

1. What book is this? And where can I get a copy?

[madfloridian]

2. I sent him a message so maybe he will post.

It is little book of memories and random thoughts. I am not sure how he will work it, as he only had a few published. It is a charming book.

I am writing sort of the same thing for my kids, so the way things were are not forgotten. Just things randomly that give a flavor of other decades.

I started it when I realized they did not know I remembered WWII, though very young then. I think people should do this.

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. yes but if he tells you a story

about a "snow snake" do not believe it ---right Ed?

I love the Vicky Mary and Kazuko stories best!!

[madfloridian]

5. Just getting started on the Vicky Mary voyages.

I am very moved by what I have read while skimming, as I said it just came today.

This is a very well-done book. Almost poetic in one sense.

Tell me about the snow snakes. :evilgrin:

[oneighty]

4. I am pleased madfloridian

Thank you for liking my stories. You are very kind.

Ed.

[madfloridian]

6. I really do.

It looks like a very pleasant read. Nice picture of you on the back launching the crab pot. Just as I pictured you.

Many of my long ago ancestors lived by the Santee when they came to America.

[oneighty]

8. Wow!

They lived by the Santee? I need to hear more about that. The Vicky Mary worked the Santee Delta clam/oyster grounds. I ran crab traps there as well.

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[madfloridian]

10. Now Ed, no way do I believe grits and sardines.

Nor do I believe grits with catsup. No way..

I know grits, and I especially order mine from Columbia,SC...the coarse kind the real kind.

All we can get in Florida are the fine ground that look like mush.

Never would I believe them with sardines, shrimp, or catsup or even the molasses.

[JitterbugPerfume]

7. oh , he just fed gullible me

a story about the fearsome poisonous Arctic Snow Snake when I told him I liked the mud snake story

Ed loves to tease, It is part of his charm but as you can tell by reading his stories he is never mean about his teasing

he is writing another book one of these days

[madfloridian]

9. Is the mud snake story in the book?

I would believe that but not the arctic snow snake.