Interviewer:  Okay what about if uh something happened uh about this time last year you'd say that it happened
505:  last year
Interviewer:  Or a year
505:  year before {X}
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} now if you go outside and look up at the sky you might say well I don't think I like the looks of those dark
505:  Clouds
Interviewer:  Or if you look up at the sky and there aren't clouds around you might say well I think it's going to be a
505:  A pretty day
Interviewer:  But if it's not a pretty day and the sun is not shining you might say well
505:  {X}
Interviewer:  But what about if the clouds are getting bigger and thicker and darker and you think you might be going to have some rains you say the weather is going to be what
505:  {X}
Interviewer:  But what about if it's been cloudy and the clouds start to go away you know and the sun starts shining through
505:  Well it's a little of the sun won't come back out
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm what about if you get a heavy rain in just a short time say about an inch of rain in just an hour you'd say you have a regular
505:  We'd have a very {X}
Interviewer:  You ever heard of people say anything besides flood or
505:  Gully washer
Interviewer:  Gully washer?
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Maybe downpours
505:  Yeah downpours we've got a gully washer that don't seem like it'd be {X} As hard as I ever seen in my life And one day the storm is there and there's a big spot {X} {NS} {X} {NS} And the sun was shining I ain't never seen that before. {NS}
Interviewer:  Sun shining when it was raining
505:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  You know what I've heard have you ever heard that called anything?
505:  Devil beating his wife Yes He sure beats #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
505:  Because he it's going to rain now {X} People got that back to the house and we've got it wait for him to get to the house
Interviewer:  Yeah
505:  {D: whenever} {D: And nobody would come up just the fact is} Shower and then all that pours It's raining above my head {NS}
Interviewer:  What about uh if you have a lot of light that went along with the wind and the rain you say you have a what
505:  Uh Have a a a a lightning storm
Interviewer:  Is that the same thing as thunderstorm? or what about uh oh if it's raining but it's not raining very hard just a few drops you know? {X}
505:  {X}
Interviewer:  {X}
505:  {D: Tell me when I get by around sitting here} {X} {D: they know where to cook} {X} on that side even far side {X} {D: they're in the morning} Sometimes you've missed them {X} Don't feed them enough {X}
Interviewer:  What about if you went out on the porch and one morning you couldn't even see across the road because the low hanging clouds you know say you've got a lot of what outside?
505:  Fog?
Interviewer:  What kind of day would that be?
505:  foggy day
Interviewer:  Okay and what if it hasn't rained for a long time you have a
505:  Drought {NS}
Interviewer:  What about if the wind is being very very soft you know in general but it's gradually getting stronger you'd say the wind is doing what?
505:  {X}
Interviewer:  or if it's the other way around if they wind is really strong it's gradually getting more general and so the wind is doing what?
505:  No I don't know
Interviewer:  Well it it let's say if it's been real hard
505:  Oh you said been been the {X}
Interviewer:  Well what about if you went outdoors in the morning and it was you know it was cold but you know not disagreeably cold you'd say it's time to
505:  Wear a coat.
Interviewer:  Or if you go outside and there's a kind of white white coating on the ground you know?
505:  Mm-hmm I suppose.
Interviewer:  There's some worse than others
505:  Snow
Interviewer:  They have a severe cause too
505:  Oh yeah we have {X} Last uh {NS} {D: it snowed up} {D: turns out it was out in that over that} {X} The snow {X}
Interviewer:  You might say in cold weather that uh
505:  Or you mean it must be warm.
Interviewer:  It is s-stays pretty warm sometimes we have some pretty cold winters so.
505:  Yeah but we have a {X} against it Then that's {X} {X} But I've been going now {D: going} {X} {X} somewhere about thirteen or fourteen. We have some of them that look like indigo we have trees in our yards grows and Spit out just like Just like {X}
Interviewer:  {X}
505:  Yeah cedar trees go down in the ground {X} Not only {X} right here. And so I wouldn't I wouldn't think and then uh it's uh It been cold in there since 1917 That's {X} I've been keeping and I know Very well that it was {X} Peach trees and things just {X} {X} So would I {X}
Interviewer:  Have you ever you might say during the winter that uh it was so cold last night the lake
505:  Froze over
Interviewer:  Or you might say if it gets much colder tonight the pond might
505:  Freeze Have you ever {X}?
Interviewer:  I don't think I've ever seen a an entire pond that was frozen over at one time
505:  Well you can you go to a lake Which is kind of like you know in {X}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm
505:  And then the lake freeze and you can catch a whole fish will come in you can catch {D: between} {X} {D: was the first to do that and I didn't freeze}
Interviewer:  Is that right?
505:  {X} like winter And used to go over there quite a bit Didn't catch {X} If you go the water won't be so deep And when they cut that up Whole that you catch and they already cut it {X} I didn't even know I {X} Sometimes you have to do {X} {D: just eat that thing}
Interviewer:  {NS}
505:  {X} {NS}
Interviewer:  If you don't mind would you count for me from one to twenty slowly?
505:  One Two Three Four Five Six Seven {NS} Eight {NS} Nine {NS} Ten {NS} Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen {NS} Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Twenty
Interviewer:  Okay the number after twenty-six is?
505:  Twenty-seven
Interviewer:  And after twenty-nine?
505:  Thirty
Interviewer:  And after thirty-nine is?
505:  Forty
Interviewer:  And after sixty-nine?
505:  Seventy
Interviewer:  And after ninety-nine?
505:  One hundred
Interviewer:  And after nine hundred ninety-nine?
505:  What did you say?
Interviewer:  Nine hundred ninety-nine?
505:  Nine hundred ninety-nine Thousand
Interviewer:  And ten times one hundred thousand you've got one
505:  Million {NS}
Interviewer:  The day of the month that the bills are due is usually the
505:  First
Interviewer:  And after the first you've got the
505:  New bill
Interviewer:  Okay First of the month then the next day will be the
505:  It will be the
Interviewer:  What would you call it you called it the first and {X} It would be the
505:  Second
Interviewer:  Okay then the
505:  Third
Interviewer:  Then the
505:  Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth
Interviewer:  Okay you've probably heard of the expression that sometimes you feel that your good luck comes just a little bit at a time but it seems like your bad luck comes
505:  All at once.
Interviewer:  Is that true?
505:  It happens to me {NW} That's true
Interviewer:  What about if a man got uh twenty bushels to the acre last year but this year he got forty bushels so he would say that this year's plot crop was
505:  Double
Interviewer:  Or is good in terms of being as good as the last one it was
505:  Last one
Interviewer:  Okay the first month of the year is?
505:  January
Interviewer:  And that's followed by?
505:  February March April May June July August September October November December
Interviewer:  Okay today is
505:  June {D: seventh}
Interviewer:  And the day is
505:  Thursday {X}
Interviewer:  Tomorrow is
505:  Friday
Interviewer:  Then there's
505:  Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Interviewer:  Okay have you ever heard people call Sunday by any other name?
505:  Yeah They call it um What do they call Sunday? Sabbath Day.
Interviewer:  Sabbath day? alright at this point I'm running out of questions {NW}
505:  Well I just about am run out of talking {NW}
Interviewer:  {X} {NW}
505:  Well now gee I enjoyed
Interviewer:  Well thank you
505:  {X} Somewhere I ain't ever did this before in my life.
Interviewer:  Is that wrong?
505:  Now I know {NS}
Interviewer:  Well I'm sorry I took up so much of your time today
505:  {NW} I ain't I won't do nothing else here Because I've been sitting in the back
Interviewer:  Uh-huh
505:  I don't do nothing nowhere I've been kind of Excited about it I don't do nothing nowhere but sit around Feed the chicken and the hogs and {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah
505:  So I enjoyed this {X}
Interviewer:  Well thank you.
505:  {X} {NS}
Interviewer:  Sure are
505:  {X} {NS}
Interviewer:  I guess that's true.
505:  Yeah I know it's true.
Interviewer:  Just going to think about that.
505:  Yeah your mother and father {X} {NS} If you don't get another chance though just remember {NS}