One day Kim and Lauren came over to visit. Lauren and Anthony were playing in the front yard sliding on their kiddy slide, Kim and I were standing around talking, and the pigeon was walking around on the ground. We were watching the kids take turns sliding down the slide when all of a sudden, the pigeon got behind Anthony and in front of Lauren, hopped up the two stairs of the slide and slid down the slide. We all started laughing and the kids said, “Did you see that?!! Did you see the pigeon side down our slide?!!!” This went on several times before ending, it lasted long enough I got some of it on video tape, talk about funny.
My favorite story was when Anthony told Timmy about the big rat in the house. Timmy was asleep in our bedroom one day and Anthony came in the room yelling, “Dad wake up because there is a big rat in the house!!!” Timmy said, “Boy leave me alone there is no big rat in the house. Go play.” Then Timmy rolled over. Anthony again said, “Dad wake up there is a big rat in the house and it is behind your dresser!!!” Timmy opened his eyes to look at the dresser and sure enough he could see a very long tail sticking out from behind the dresser. Timmy got up and walked over to the dresser. Whatever the animal was this tail belonged to was in our dresser drawer. Timmy opened the dresser drawer to find a baby opossum looking at him. He told Anthony to go get the broom and he shooed the opossum outside. Once the opossum was outside, Anthony looked up at Timmy and said, “See I told you there was a big rat in the house.”
One day I was in the kitchen cooking super when Tyler and Anthony came busting in the front door. Anthony was holding his head and blood was running through his fingers and down his arm. I asked him what happened and he moved his hand from his head. His head had a very big gash in it and was bleeding pretty good. I asked the boys what happened and here is what Anthony told me, “Mom, Tyler and I were running through the woods. Tyler picked up a huge stick and started running towards me. I was running towards him also. When we got close to each other, the stick went in my head and now it is bleeding.” I looked at the gash again and realized Anthony needed stitches but we had no insurance and with six people in our family and only one income, we couldn’t afford a hospital bill. Realizing we couldn’t pay for stitches, I leaned Anthony over the kitchen sink and pinched the wound together and told him to stand there and hold the wound together until I told him he could let go. Once I saw the bleeding had stopped and thought it would be okay for him to let go, I told him he could go play. Believe it or not, that worked and until the day he died, he had this huge long scar on the top of his head. If you look close on the right side of his graduation picture, you will see the scar.
Timmy was a construction worker and the reason he was transferred to Tupelo was because there were new bridges that needed to be built and old ones that needed to be blown up. One day Timmy told me around 7:00 p.m. they were going to blow up a bridge about four miles up the road from our house. We may be able to feel the explosion so not to panic if the trailer shook. I didn’t think anything else about it and sure enough around 7:00 p.m. there was an explosion so big it shook the trailer.
The next thing I knew Anthony was running down the hall with his pants around his ankles yelling, “Did you feel that???!!! Did you feel that???!!!” He was on the toilet at the time of the explosion. I started laughing so hard I was crying. He said, “Mom that wasn’t funny!!!” I said, “Yes it was I forgot to tell you your father was blowing up a bridge tonight and you might feel the explosion.” After he realized we were fine, he started laughing too.
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