Ava routinely instructs us on what music to play while in the car. Some of her request would raise eye brows and her latest is no different. I made a CD about 10 years ago with a couple of Hank Williams Jr. songs on it. Like other CDs we burned off Napster, they were unlabeled and got mixed together with the other favorites. The CD with Hank got moved into the car and arbitrarily played. Now, about 50% of the time we get a request for “Jr.” Char and I wonder if she thinks Jr. is the same Junior on Veggie Tales. Needless to say we have been listening to Country boy can Survive fairly frequently. Considering the subject of the song and the context of our world today (Stock market down, etc.) got Char and I talking. You know, if the world really started falling apart, it would be the country boys that survived not the intellectual, politician, stock broker, sports star, college professor, actor, singer, music writer, or celebrity. Don’t you find it funny that the majority of the people the county admires are so dependent and would be the first to starve if civilization failed. My grandparents and parents for that matter all had gardens at one point or another. My grandfather had a great relationship with 3 or 4 of his neighbors. Each planted a garden and each focused on a group of vegetables. My grandfathers was corn, green beans, squash and Potatoes. The 3 to 4 would get together 4 times a year around the seasonal harvest times and trade / share. Everyone ended up having a nice variety of produce for the year. Don’t you find it interesting that many look down on country folks and think of them as backwards when in all actuality they are the only people that are self sufficient in this country.
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Uncle Richard // January 18, 2009 at 2:05 pm |
Amen . . . Nephew
sarah // January 20, 2009 at 12:43 pm |
So true. Very wise.
asmalltowndad // January 20, 2009 at 3:30 pm |
I can’t believe this! Myself and a few other workers were just talking about this morning how our mutual funds have been cut in half, and how during the depression only the very rich were jumping out of windows. Because my Grandfathers grew or raised almost everything they ate, Chickens, Veggies, some pigs and trapped or hunted everything else. They worked hard for it, but because they knew how to survive, their only worry was weather not politicians running their lives. I’ll take my chances with nature any day!
Because this Country boy can survive!