505
{D: What might I tell 'em?}
If the light is on I said who is that?
If I didn't know who they were.
the lights on, what would you do?
I saw yeah you had you left your lights on go out and turn 'em off.
{D: Oh excuse me that's wrong}
The light that's on the car?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
I would say is that i-is that's y'all's car y'all left the lights
on?
Yeah.
Well uh there's uh uh someone definitely liable to know what they
{X}
{X}
{X}
{X}
You went to party?
And was uh
Frank at the party?
Who all was at the party?
Yeah.
I would ask as uh who was this to?
What was he preaching about?
Yeah.
Mm.
If no one else
{X} {C: noise}
what you mean uh {C: noise}
it was like someone was sick or something? {C: noise}
{NS}
I'll do the best I can I'll do what I can for them.
Yeah
they uh.
And then, if nobody else will care for them now they'll do the best they can for theirself.
Excuse me here.
{NS}
{X}
I'm still sitting there I can't say nothing cause that's what's there.
Every night
{D: you been sitting there lemonade a cold.}
And I ain't been sitting in there one minute
and I saw your yeah I don't know you's been
{X}
my sister in law she can go out there and come back in
why don't you do that I said get
{X}
{X}
{NW}
{X}
{D: Uh um that's good for for your your your your storm- and uh} {C: rooster crowing}
and you're
{X}
it
see that's good for you.
Pulling this gig.
That's what Diamond told me. Used to tell me
all day
I said that to you on
{X}
{D: so I can play it up on they said it ain't good for you.}
I really don't
{X}
{D: I said}
{X}
{D: you wanna sitting here this silly thing just.}
you need me ready
{D: I wasn't getting all sweaty and nippy and after I got up in age I went to sweating so bad.}
{X}
{D: Sure did.}
Yeah it does it that sweat the thing that cools you off
{D: and um being in front I always could shop fast.}
I get out and get them with a
{D: There's a nippy allowance to come up with jean doing now}
{X}
She could be there one of those people kind like at in the Bible
{D: that's not.}
both teams gonna need a piece of game.
{X}
{D: I need people.}
{X}
{X}
{D: You ain't done nothing this time I been I beat you}
{X}
I said Mama one day I would have theorized if I'm being one to you I'm gonna beat you
{D: I said I ain't gonna let you beat me if I have to tear my papers up.}
She didn't take it up you know.
She said
Baby it, you ain't cut out to do everything
said you riding a horse in your driveway and saw you cutting wood
you do everything the boys said you can't do everything or I'm gonna beat you one of these things you got
She said well I ain't got another child here to beat.
Said one day there would be a
be a bunch of trips at night.
{X}
{X}
{D: Now Jordan about to leave us}
some kind of
{X}
like
I fixed it in our church and I said I
needs to be kinda as oh I am so sleepy
{D: she said oh maybe today's a good day for you to beat me to pick me}
{X}
I said well
I guess so.
I went back in the house I had some little ol' plates that I put them
{D: plants on}
{X}
{D: I said well get your date night}
I hadn't got a hundred
{D: and eighty-nine and nine looking like I couldn't get two hundred to save my life.}
{D: She Mama filled trying the day to day}
{D: And that day, do you know what I repeat that day?}
Two hundred and thirty-two pounds tackle
{NS} {C:whistle}
Sure did.
{D: She said I knew I knew the greenage to just wait and see you can p-}
{D: so you pick a while and then you go ahead and you roll them play and see}
{D: and that that means that I beat you}
{NW} {C: laughter}
{D: She said now that I beat you I'll get another baby}
{D: and hydrate or pick which three are going}
Oh Mama.
{X}
{D: Who's there is the back in the back yawning I know that them.}
{X}
{X}
{NW}
{D: Until I think these
{X}
{D: always have been selling.}
She got two hundred two three things
{D: my bed kinda creaking man too.}
{X}
If you got in very back of the house yeah I might not back in my bed see
you get so much
{D: trouble.}
{D: They've authorized Ms. Kennedy Jacqueline's too}
{D: and I was trying that children's like this and sitting on the back you know}
taking him in the house.
And we hit a hole
and we stacked him in a tree
{X}
we got a heaving and he was hollering at us
{D: one of his feet caught his toe caught his in the cup of his pants}
{D: and now he's bringing two hundred and I'm gonna be his nothing then.}
{X}
{D: He's turning that chair when I turn that chair and sweeping up the kids}
here before he does heart
and I pulled a muscle in my back.
And when I hollered son and Mama's eating
suddenly he jumped up and
{X}
let the man out.
Mama said come here let's get her
and Daddy done fell and she done caught him.
And then he got to the tree he said Nita said I hope you
{X}
{X}
{X}
{X}
By the way there were two hundred.
{X}
And I
{X}
{X}
{X}
And then he knocks and he just kind of snatch me
buy me a kitchen buy me bowling you know
the chairs was coming with him I didn't try to catch the chair I just
caught him keeping you know from hitting her hard.
{D: And I hit him head on and someone got that}
he said you're hurting?
he said you wanna go to the doctor?
{X}
Got a different stuff than on my back
and he kept on getting in trouble he said doctor doctor
you know how he say that
she's got a pulled muscle infected
she got that
between
{X}
{D: and the older she gets it must be as now in my back get me something.}
{X}
Every time I cough in my throat and my head here
so and something some kind of color
{X}
I missed your back
{X}
{X}
{NS}
Hisself.
Oh yes well I know about
{D: this is bread, bread.}
Cornbread.
Flapjacks that's bread.
And uh
wheat bread
that's light bread true enough that's wheat bread
{D: that's about the biggest types I know.}
Yes, some folk call them things pancakes.
Yeah.
Yeah pancakes that's uh
I see 'em make them oh
I never did like none of that poppy seed like little.
{X}
Mm-hmm.
{X}
But I never did like it when they put it
you know you can plop 'em over that grease it
{X}
{D: go on top of it but}
that's too much grease for me
Yeah but he he liked them like that you get that
solid molasses you know used to raise?
And he could just
take that fork and
cut that bread like it
{X}
Uh-huh.
{D: And they was crazy about.}
{X}
Ash cake.
Mm-hmm.
I saw it.
Another famous and my grandma grandmother said that too.
{X}
Have a stove and things
{D: to fish and cook on.}
{D: She uh said you}
{X}
You're brewing sweeping mashing
{X}
and you take that make that bread up
hot water bread up
you make it up with hot water
and uh
some people put a little grease in the mound I always see grandmother
{X}
{X}
put it down in
and take them ashes
then they seal them ashes between put them ash on top of there
don't you know that's some good bread.
{X}
That uh the mash to make that bread taste so good
and then they get it and it get done good and brown
they take it out and get in some film
nice clean
rag and wrap that them ashes on.
And you you ain't never eaten that have?
Uh-huh.
I don't believe it's ever taste good to me.
{X}
I'm surprised that nobody imagined it to do for your bread.
Nu-uh I did I thought it too.
But it got the best taste.
And uh one day uh she sitting there talking about it
I said
{X}
{X}
She said Imma learn you make sure you know how to make them let you make them
And uh my daddy ever stated.
{X}
And then that's why daddy.
{X}
{NW}
{D: He came in just about time my grandmother got this bread.}
{X}
{NW}
He said she said I wanna learn everything I know so when she get grown she know what to do.
And when you jet out it's always good.
And she told me what it means
and right here where my house is now
{D: this is where she get in for the cabin crossing}
{D: this is why I got my spot over in their hairs so}
{X}
{D: I never did get nowhere.}
{X}
{D: She was sitting there and she said}
{X}
{X}
she had a little strip right back to her house
there's a ditch between then
{D: my son now he may come in behind and}
{D: Lord he just}
{X}
and she and this troop of
{X}
{D: and she'd be throwing that cat in the knife.}
{X}
{D: She said God bless you}
{X}
{X}
{X}
you know what people saying?
I find with somebody there
see she make me feel her.
{X}
Paula said she said
{X}
I'm gonna get you in the dead of night.
She said now what you gonna do with the rest of your month
I said uh I'm gonna
buy them my man
she said good.
What'd you say?
I said I'm gonna buy with with Mama
{X}
Mama and who?
I said Papa and Bill's uh.
She said what you gonna get there? I
{D: said I'm gonna give them a half a bed and I'm gonna take the other bed.}
She said
{NW}
{D: So they read you won hadn't you?}
Usually uh
{X}
{X}
I said now I put more money in the bank and I said when
they need somebody to share it with
she said I didn't think he'd even miss it.
{NW}
{D: And instead she}
{D: she told Paula}
she said, you know what?
As long as I'm gonna be old, Lord,
{D: and then she said I know because you're ready}
{D: and she said she's gonna come over to your house.}
Said she gonna wear everything.
{D: Right to the T.}
But I did her dress and I couldn't have sewed anything she
{X}
shoot
{X}
and then they paying not that deal
she could cook that mess and pudding
she'd make 'em put it in a painting
when it get done it be ready at.
{X}
{D: They kept talking about doing that and I never put the}
{X}
Some of 'em called it a sorghum molasses some of 'em call it syrup.
{X}
Uh-huh.
{D: And then the a- all you buy now is different kind of circular some of 'em sent invitations some of them.}
And some sets uh
without I have never
seen someone that'll vote it tasted just like real like sorghum molasses
they have invitation now that is.
{X}
They have the sorghum mirror
{D: pure gold thing now.}
Or they're.
{X}
{X}
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
oh
{D: yes I've seen}
{X}
{X}
Fish sticks though.
Mm-hmm.
Now some of them
{D: someone did some of 'em came in a ball}
And I got a little over a.
{NS}
{NS}
{NS}
{NS}
Uh-huh.
Eh?
Now that's what you can cook.
{NW}
{X}
Oh you hadn't.
{NS}
{D: And and many a people been trying to buy up the rest of this antique stuff.}
And I'll use this stuff to better pack
{D: that old mission in this safe here and you then use these jars in another safe}
{D: Uh-huh.}
No it could
{X}
anything like they like you talking about them
{D: long.}
{D: And throwing and everything in.}
{X}
And you can just cook
{D: straight out corn bread in here I cooked some now}
the corn sticks in here.
Uh-huh just like I got
{X}
some time
I got greens or something like that.
I could sit there I could sit in here.
So one day a man asks me he said
ain't you gonna break that bar shed I said mm-mm.
He said I'm about to have that kitchen grill by my side
{D: but I was tricking you but I'm not giving it up.}
{NW}
No?
See him?
{X} {C: dog barking in background}
{X} {C: dog barking in background}
{NS} {C: dog barking}
{NS}
Let me see uh
{NS}
{X}
I missed somebody come in
just then I feel I had never.
{NS}
My mother had all kind of
{X}
{D: I had many}
{X}
one of them.
{X}
{NS}
And my Mama
{X}
{X}
I won't come and everything.
I'll go go somewhere and eat.
Get so much trouble.
{X}
{X}
{X}
A man came on here
been back.
Mm-hmm he'd been about a month ago now that
and I had this man he stood me up
{D: tell you the truth}
{X}
{NW}
and he you know he give me three
{X}
three pieces.
{X}
{D: he said he tried his best}
{X}
and he certainly won't.
He said if you had just let me have
{D: that had a little thing no more.}
{D: He called me to him and}
{D: and he said if you'd just let me have}
{X}
{D: I'd give you ten dollars for it.}
{X}
And he said now do you go ahead and do you
{D: and I goes}
I said mm-hmm.
{NW} {C: laughter}
{D: He said using messages said}
I said if you want it that badly.
Here's a thing that looks just like
it had another hole in it
can of
{X}
just like that
and it did now.
{X}
just to the middle of that.
But he could carry three glasses on.
{X}
And he liked it.
And he can reach
{X}
He said he ain't never seen nothing like it before.
{X}
He said what are you gonna do I said
{X}
well now you know.
Cornbread?
No I have seen cush made like that.
It's made like corn bread
with onions and um
banana
sometimes you can put that um
sage in it
and black pepper.
Now yes I've seen cush made like that before.
Uh-huh.
Now that's made out of
that's made out of sorghum molasses now that's
{D: what Mrs. Norm called it.}
we called it corn bread pudding.
Have you ever eaten any of that?
Well now I've tried everything but that's one thing I've never tried to cook.
{D: That old lady was named Mo Smith Stevis.}
{X}
my daddy used to eat
{X}
out of the woods and he died.
She cooked
she cooked this corn bread pudding and I'm telling you she would give us
if you hadn't got a piece of it you'd be mowing some hope.
And my mother would cook it
but I have never tried and she said that's the only thing that she know that I seen
Peter cook that I didn't look like I could make it
{X}
I tried one and it wouldn't even come out right and I throwed it in the slop.
{NW} {C:laughter}
Well you see you're in a bit of a mess now.
Said you didn't make it right like your Mama told you see you put too much shortening in.
But mine didn't taste like hers and I never did try no more.
But she could make the best corn bread pudding with sorghum molasses.
She put so much sorghum molasses and she put no sugar in it.
{X}
And she put eggs in it.
And she put the shortening.
It just smelled like a cake but
But there's sorghum molasses in that corn bread you don't know how good that taste.
No.
{X}
What is that?
Mm-hmm.
That's I imagine
that's about the same thing as something like a muffin like
{X}
in that I imagine so.
Oh yeah.
{X}
{X}
One day.
{X}
{D: But you couldn't hear what.}
{X}
{D: It's a flour bread}
{D: you know I don't want no cornbread}
{X}
I said
{X}
{D: I said what I did tonight?}
{D: He said nah you too.}
{X}
{NW} {C: laughter}
Light bread and what?
Mm-hmm.
Oh I know it
{X}
are you talking about uh donuts?
No I haven't I tell you what I'll be frank with you I haven't saw
{X}
donuts cooked in my life.
{D: But if you're gonna give me the recipe then I promise you that I was gonna cook it.}
But I've never tried it but I believe I can.
Uh-huh.
Well I tell you what I got a I got a niece that need a
{X}
{D: in a bakery now she looked at me she make.}
She made a batch of 'em
when she come here
and she said to me
{X}
{D: did you ever make me a}
{D: seminole cake?}
{D: And I said I poured so much food in all that stuff}
But she said I know you can cook in any kind of kitchen you want
but I want you to cook this.
I said no you're gonna have to show me
how you cook it.
Now tell me how you cook it.
I said damn near tried.
She said you want me to bring you on?
I said.
{X}
{X}
And she cooked it.
And uh she called me the other day and she says have you tried that cake I said no I haven't.
{D: Since I got up in my seventies see if I cook a whole cake for myself}
{D: if the kids ain't out of school they'll come by here with
{X}
children and eat it up.
It's just a waste, and I don't do that.
{D: You know just like I}
{X}
something like that like.
Or the family that'll come for the funeral.
{X}
This knee by myself
{D: and I hardly ever bake a cake.}
{D: I cooked that boy}
{D: that boy what I told you}
{X}
and he uh
{X}
and he said.
What did you put in this pie?
I same thing I guess you put in yours mm-hmm.
He said that's the best pie 'cause all you can cook.
I said you said that because.
{X}
Until you get back.
{NW}
I I used to love to cook but since after my mom's husband.
{X}
{D: It makes a difference.}
{X}
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Well if you've got straight flour
you put your pinch of soda and baking powder and salt.
And if you just got self-rising flour you
put your shortening and your shortening in it.
{X}
No, no more than baking powder and soda.
Oh you use yeast when you're making light bread.
My mother used to make light bread all the time.
That's one thing I hadn't tried.
And the yolk.
The the the yolk is the white and then the
the yellow.
Oh you can poach eggs.
You can scramble 'em.
You can uh flip 'em.
{D: And then uh even if you want to poach 'em in water.}
{X}
{X}
Then turn it over.
{X}
{X}
{X}
You can have the fat off the shoulder or the fat off the head.
Uh th-that ham was the one that.
{X}
{X}
Bacon?
You can there buy your whole self a whole slab.
Well it's smoked bacon they smoke uh
{X}
{D: middling meat.}
Now you can you can you can smoke your ham.
That George and Billie used to smoke uh.
{X}
Now I just use the
{X}
salt because.
{X}
But um uh that come with something like that.
{NW} {C: cough}
Oh it done got strong.
And then got rancid,
{D: something's eating the meat.}
Rancid now rancid and strong's the same thing.
No it's not strong, it just done got old
and here if you hang it up
and my meat I've got mine in deep freeze.
Nah there ain't no spoiling it's.
{X}
{X}
We had him cut some and I take mine down boil the knife.
Mm-hmm.
Now now now I could've uh
let me see I coulda showed him
{D: what's he gonna show let me see.}
{D: Oh you can make souse salad}
you can take the head and the ears
and the feet and make souse.
Take that meat and cook it all to pieces and take it
{D: you don't want to grind but it's not that you take a hand and work in it.}
But when you grind it it's just falls to mush you know when you cook it
{X}
{X}
Your sage and your black pepper
if you like a little red like it hot you can put red pepper in it.
Cayenne pepper.
And put it
squeeze it up real good then you put it in a con- in a container
{D: I get it thick as you want it as thin as you want it.}
And let it sit there until it.
{X}
{X}
{X}
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
No.
I begged pardon, I asked you, what did you say?
No.
Or.
Yes I did. I take that back.
Some people would make
{X}
{X}
we called it.
We put onions
and
{D: vinegar}
and
peppers and whatnot.
Take that vinegar and put it in there and they call it uh
what they call that stuff?
{X}
Was ready to come back from uh.
{X}
{X}
{D: But I laughed.}
I said
{X}
I said I like beef.
{X}
{X}
{X}
She said I likes the way you cook it.
She said I haven't been able to eat here tonight that you cook.
I says that I just used fried egg and Crisco
I said I made a gravy too and and put some onions in it.
She says I I watched you and how you cooked that I says
yeah-huh that's that's the way my mother taught me to cook it
and she got this other one cooked all to pieces.
{X}
And uh now how she worked it up cause I
{X}
{D: come back up.}
I imagined she had went
{D: and still not gonna give you the sides.}
But she put
all these ingredients in there
{D: and I ain't gonna tell you no story.}
{X}
Onions
and she put sage in there.
Black pepper and garlic they're in there too.
{D: Now she}
she was fixing to.
{X}
Mm-hmm.
I have heard talk of it but I've never seen it.
Well wha- what could it be?
And oh me neither but they tell me
{D: they'll keep that hog blood in for something like that.}
{X}
{X}
It's rancid.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
They said
{X}
{X}
{X}
Uh
we called it
{X}
You
{X}
just like that butter.
And uh most of that
if you ain't.
{X}
Mm-hmm.
Thick sour milk?
Oh you can make gravy out of it if it's not too sour.
If it's too sour then your
{D: bread is still soggy.}
{D: You can take it round}
{D: take it right out of there.}
And make uh
make a bread
you can take sour bread that's kind of milk kind of sour
and if you use a good kind of
{D: good biscuit making}
put your
{D: you season that right you got some good fluffy biscuits.}
Yeah.
That's when they
{X}
the cream from the top.
and the clabber is at the bottom.
{D: I reckon it's just something.}
{X}
Don't go talking about that
{X}
{NW} {C: laughter}
Yes.
Out of uh-huh.
{D: You use uh}
{X}
It's some kind of
{X}
get in there and get them things.
I really done forgotten everything about how we made it.
But uh we made that in the home
{X}
You want some more?
{X}
Well
just like if you milked your milk
Uh-uh when you're
well when you milk your milk.
{X}
In the in the beginning
{X}
keep your.
{X}
And on occasion
{D: make your cows so happy.}
{X}
And you should have a pile that you use to start
{D: if there was some kind of}
{X}
{D: that you thought was}
{X}
you know it's really light this time of year.
Let go until you milk and uh
sometime they may becomes a.
{X}
{NW}
But you keep to that
{X}
to your cows.
And then if you find milk.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
{D: Yeah you could say that.}
I know
you using that to dairy
I forget what it's called.
{X}
{X}
But anyway they
if any germ in there they're supposed to pour it through that thing in the kitchen.
And uh if they're milking right they're gonna use it.
They got a thing like some momma they.
{D: They'll have had their strain and}
{X}
{D: strain their milk.}
{X}
What you mean uh
what you call them things?
That uh
I was talking with you about that the other day
{D: the one that}
{X}
you mean made out of fruit?
Uh.
Yeah you call them a.
{NW}
{X}
{X}
What do you call them thing?
You slice it
{D: real slices though.}
Is this what you're talking about?
What you talking about like when you're out here making a
it's like.
Uh-huh
Well I mean when you go to eat it do you have to dip it out or do you slice it?
Oh you must be talking about something like a peach pie or something aren't you?
A pie?
Yes or there might be a pie,
something like that
that's uh
that's what you're talking about here.
{D: You put a crust on.}
Oh
That's a blackberry pie,
{D: a paying pie.}
And got juice in there.
Mm-hmm
{D: I don't know}
{D: that crust just on top and here.}
Yeah closer there yeah go on through there when you make a cobbler
and when you make a pie you get uh
{D: what is it at button is on top}
and the juice and uh
and then uh wherever
fruit in there is in between there but you sweeten it and put your flavor and the butter in now
and uh put the sugar in there and then you
cause the top of it
it's gonna get in there and brown and then
you cut down through that.
{X}
{X}
{D: You like blackberry pie?}
{D: Yeah?}
I like some
{X}
myself.
I made a cute one the other day.
{X}
{X}
{D: I said I know where I'm gonna do with mines.}
{X}
{NW}
{NW}
{NW}
What kind of berry?
Huckleberry.
Uh-uh.
{NW} {C: coughing}
Are they large?
They're little old bitty things ain't they?
And they're black.
I saw 'em at
{X}
but I didn't know what they were.
{NW} {C: coughing}
And
{X}
the backyard.
Uh and it was a kind of
slope you know out back a house
and then some of them there they
{D: reached that.}
And they would go down and pick 'em and make pies but I didn't know what it was too little.
But may I ask you this?
Now you saw
a berry when they get
ripe it's white
What kind of berry is that?
I have picked it.
My cousin when I was three seemed like my mother
good for a.
{X}
And he handed me his garden but I never seen them since and before neither.
When they get
when they get uh
uh they but just about color they
take and you got when they get ripe.
And do you know they want a green berry?
I oh I I I I couldn't sit over here and name them but
he had 'em in his garden.
And there was a good bit.
I don't know
I ain't seen none of 'em before and since neither.
It was at his house and he was a doctor and he had them berries.
But she used to
{X}
and she was a colored
woman and and she's dating.
{X}
Just like
{X}
{D: their mother and cook for it.}
{D: And he said my nightmare is this.}
His food.
Yeah I sure do.
[NW} {C: laughter}
You sure telling the truth everybody in here uses that yeah.
Yeah they sure do.
{X}
Oh uh sometime you can make uh
ambrosia.
To
pour a little of that.
And then sometimes you can make a syrup.
Like when my mother used to cook us a.
{X}
{X}
{D: She would go down to cook that and then she'd have a syrup.}
That she would take uh
she would take milk and eggs and maybe
stir it up.
And uh put sugar in it and
flavoring
you're talking about good that's good.
And I imagine that's just about what they use
{D: with all that.}
Yeah.
Snack.
Serve yourself or I'm gonna serve you
{X}
style.
And sit down and eat.
I thank you.
I would tell them thank you because I'll go ahead and have it.
{D: Or if you ain't got to take it you ain't got that}
just keep it if you don't want it.
And sometime now if you ask
{D: and just like you offered me something I have}
I said well I already got this but uh if you'll give it to me I'll appreciate it.
Leftovers.
Reheated.
Reheat.
Yeah warmed.
{X}
Chew?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
{NW}
Uh uh it uh
Says it was made out of corn?
And it's not hominy, is it?
Whole grain.
I don't know it.
Unless, I know we got a
{D: peas},
and they got grits.
They got grits, now grits is uh
they tell me another
{X}
but I don't know what it is I got a
uh.
Mm-hmm.
Then there are l-lots of people like that but I
I used to I used to have to eat 'em when I was in the hospital.
But uh
{D: I never did.}
{X}
Oh yes certainly there's some kind of.
{X}
And be careful called now
{D: bring us tea.}
Something like that would be good.
Now if you want a really good
{X}
{D: you'd get you some uh}
cook that ham just
on that pocket over that grease in there good
cooked good in it
and pour the most of the grease
outta there and pour you a little water in there and make that brown gravy you know.
{D: And then stir in them eggs like that.}
And get you some good kitchen syrup you got a little.
{X}
Fried chicken.
{X}
I still junk like that I don't I don't hardly eat.
{X}
{D: I have wasted for people.}
Mm-hmm.
{X}
Now that's one
{D:thing}
I I used to love.
Real hide.
Genuine
leather?
{D: Simple syrup, wouldn't the type?}
Jell-o.
{X}
{X}
{D: I have taken grapes on there like that}
Wednesday night.
I mixed Jell-o and.
{X}
{X}
I don't care for him.
Further
down the road.
This way.
I have 'em uh uh in a cluster's too close together.
If you got 'em running at ends at least from one to the other
but they shouldn't be so close they
touch each other they should have
a distance.
Mm-hmm.
Now my son, say my grandmother used to help feed him.
And he was so close to getting him to
{X}
{D: you're getting trees croaching in}
{D: most too close together like uh pencils.}
{D: And she'd come}
{D: and when she was sitting in the house he was small.}
{D: And she didn't give him distance growing up from under that.}
{X}
{X}
{X}
{D: Daddy come near home and told us that most of this tree}
{D: has been uh}
{X}
{D: by the others so bad I'm gonna cut it down she said no.}
{X}
And the yard in the back yard front yard.
{X}
{D: It's full.}
{X}
I got me a.
{X}
Rich.
All we have are apples.
Peaches.
And uh
plums.
Some of 'em have a
{D: well you mean peach trees have been built then are sun too they just pass one and they die.}
And the figs
and uh
pears.
And uh we raise them
so there are
{D:tame Greek around the church barrel.}
{X}
Uh-huh.
And.
Yes sir the cherry tree right there.
The part of
{D:a cherry hurts?}
Mm-mm.
Mm-hmm.
That's the core.
That's a core.
Mm-hmm that's the.
{X}
{X}
That's freestone.
Core.
That's why you, that's why it's like the seeds in there you can plant that core.
And uh
sometime
the tree will come up and then most time you just plant
that whole apple here
and that apple'd rot away and we'd
come back and we'd, if that.
{X}
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm dried peaches.
Mm-hmm.
We used to dry apples.
Really.
When we were little children we lived out
{X}
this way.
We all
{D: would stand in a big orchard.}
Love we'd get them
apples and we'd peel 'em and just slice 'em kind of thin
We'd get up on the shed and
spread some down on there and put 'em on that tin in that
and them apples dried just like it by myself
You can dry peaches like that.
Mm-hmm.
Uh look kind uh
kind of clean and kind of
blunt at the end?
That's a peanut isn't it?
{D: Prune nut isn't it?}
Almonds is that's kinda
kinda round.
{X}
Mm-hmm.
{X}
Oranges and
they tell me I I I don't know I had a friend that went there
a neighbor went.
{X}
He went there and then they were breaking that sugarcane.
And he said uh he's sitting there talking and he said uh
{X}
He said you oughta been down there in Florida to see them wild snakes.
I said what you say?
{NW}
He said you would have been down there and just see them rattlesnake
said God we
{D: the other day they had uh}
{X}
sugarcane did right.
{D: They had lost some of 'em.}
{X}
{X}
{D: Deers and things different kind of animal.}
{X}
{D: To the woods I don't know.}
{X}
And he
{X}
and the leaves and flowers see now then they came with some thickness.
Just transfer from one place to another.
{X}
Yeah I guess some of 'em garden that.
{X}
{D: But when.}
{X}
Uh-huh.
{X}
Oh uh
{NW}
I don't get.
{X}
{NW}
You talking about uh shallots.
You're talking about shallots are you?
{D: Yes ma'am.}
My grandmother used to have a bed
{D: oh half-wide as my bed and longer.}
{X}
{X}
I don't like I like it but it don't like me.
{D: I was standing}
{X}
{D: you remember you'd buy me some of the.}
{X}
And cook me some ham.
{X}
When I come back I got that buttermilk
in that big ol' crock.
{X}
{D: It's real.}
{D: I used to be able could eat it.}
{D: I think I've}
{X}
and uh I got that
{X}
shallots you hear me?
{X}
That's so good.
Fried there good
you know what I got that ham and those shallots and then mix together
and I bet you in a half hour time.
{X}
{D: In my life.}
{D: Before I run my horse}
{X}
{D: and then you know}
{D: suddenly tell you that I'm in.}
{X}
{D: We had a horse}
{D: and they was.}
{X}
Uh uh everyb-
{D: e-everybody sitting in there and then their racetrack ain't no farther no}
and that's what I used to drive old track.
And uh they told me
{X}
{X}
{X}
{X}
{D: the man's telephone was of his soul}
{D: I knew we didn't call him Doctor}
{X}
{X}
and the doctor begin that.
{D: And uh}
my
{D: now my beauty}
{D: high my}
{NW}
my grandmother had these old high beams you know that
{D: you heard 'em talking about me haven't you?}
{X}
{D: And she had}
{D: you didn't you had to get them.}
{X}
{NW}
{NW}
You have not
{D: I'm not I'm not}
{D: baby I'm}
telling the truth.
Yeah.
Yeah. Most time now she most time she
{D: just simple building when she put a pit on that railing you know.}
{D: And but now she brought the egg on.}
{D: Probably told Mom we'd use it.}
{X}
{D: You'd get all the basics.}
{X}
And uh
doctor got that.
{D: He says she's a sick child}
{D: at the moment he said say I don't know what to say.}
{D: He got that rubber running through my nose.}
{X}
{D: Round my nose and.}
Mostly didn't understand our
{X}
And then put 'em there.
{D: And said let me.}
{D: She just wanted to try this}
{D: said just went in from one}
{X}
and just
{X}
{D: in between the beds really.}
{D: They've got big}
{D: houses big black sour houses on there}
{X}
{D: behind it all.}
{X}
And I got to throw that stuff outta me and went from one bed to the other
he said she had a.
{X}
Obviously your
{X}
{X}
she'll be alright.
And I was just.
{X}
{X}
{X}
{D: He said his money has had gold through my sister.}
{X}
He was sitting there with me about two hours.
{D: And I know everything}
{X}
And when I come to myself I said.
{X}
{D: And then he said.}
{X}
{D: He got up and got some stuff and it's just like.}
{D: milk when you pitch it in water.}
{D: Now he puts his normal water}
{X}
{D: slipped 'em in.}
In a few minutes them guys
well that guy.
{X}
It's just like a stinging
{D: it felt hot that I burned it just like}
{X}
{D: that's where you fit it.}
{X}
{D: I had done sweated some.}
After then I had
{D: fever and I had a weird idea.}
{D: And I had a fever}
{D: you know the fever would take me right here.}
{D: I had done.}
{X}
{X}
{D: He said boy}
{X}
another
{X}
{D: and my hair you just.}
{X}
{D: And I said we had been waiting about a half hour.}
{D: He told mother}
{D: check the junk drawer.}
{X}
{X}
{D: From the changing the bed but}
{D: part of you is.}
{X}
{NW}
{X}
{D: No I didn't think one bit of it that's what she wants}
{D: I said Mama you know you came to give me the day you want me?}
{D: She has a kid she don't know about.}
{X}
She's been eating more and said her
{X}
and I said
more I did.
{D: I was peacefully}
{X}
{D: but I didn't need too much to me I had never}
{X}
much of me.
{X}
{X}
Oh yeah
you get your butter beans
if you like okra in there okra is good in there if you like it in there
and you can put peas in your collards
and tomatoes
I got some made.
{X}
I had made a boy a pea soup the other day
I
I
{X}
But just it's really good
you put your tomato peel your tomatoes and
chop 'em all up in there and chop all that up in there good.
{X}
Squish.
You can just squish
Mm-hmm.
Just squish it up.
Cabbage?
{D: What?}
The stalk is growing out on the
{D: street and then the}
{D: curves and the leaves}
{X}
{D: back up again.}
{D: And then they would fall and saw here again.}
I got some in my garden now that.
{X}
{X}
Bring me a head of lettuce.
And then.
{X}
{X}
I'd say he had a whole lots of 'em.
{NW}
{NS}
Yeah.
{D: He had a whole crew of 'em}
{X}
{NW}
Fourteen is just about a crew.
Yeah.
Well he just about could have a passel because there's.
{X}
But I'd
{D: I'd tell him to}
{D: move them here to.}
{X}
Sh-sh- shuck.
Mm-hmm.
Tassel.
Pumpkins.
Mm-hmm.
Oh yes you can have uh
you have a grape melon
and then the yellow melon
and then you have the red melon
and then they have the what you call that little one
melons they make pickle out of.
{X}
Cause yeah that's all I feel comfortable
{X}
{X}
We didn't shake them and make up.
{D: Because uh.}
{X}
{X}
It looked just like a walnut.
{X}
Uh-huh.
And it looks just like a watermelon so.
{X}
{X}
{D: He said that uh}
{X}
{X}
{D: right here annoying.}
{D: Then you know what I'll sit at your feet.}
I.
{NW} {C: laughter}
{D: I done for you}
{D: wanted to have fun}
{D: I went back in the house and got this suit.}
He said.
{X}
He said I was being
{X}
I said yes it is.
You're tough to ignore.
Robert.
{D: Who's there I wanna tell you I}
{X}
I said honey.
He said I can't
said he doesn't take no
{X}
{NW}
{D: no one say}
{D: no boy I say}
{X}
I only got
{X}
{D: says she poured it out}
{X}
{D: my mom said she know to use now.}
But we
{X}
see you become a
{D: volunteer in the field.}
{D: And I didn't know if it was out there or not}
{D: as I walk around the}
{X}
I said what is this?
And he wouldn't tell me and he laughed at me.
I said is this what we playing?
He laughed he said oh that's in the morning
said there's more back up here said them things are
{D: all the way up here}
{D: and now you don't know the difference.}
{X}
{X}
You shouldn't do me like that.
{X}
{D: Got him to wear a big}
{X}
{D: and he said nah you gonna get you're getting right now.}
{D: Yeah we used to raise}
{X}
Let's see what could that be.
S-
I don't know maybe I haven't been uh
I haven't seen that many.
Well I don't know.
Now them mushrooms over here they're uh
they're not big go out in the woods somewhere there be big mushrooms out there but we are
and maybe I just called 'em toadstools.
{D: You know I hear that people eat them.}
But uh, they don't grow around here
but uh a farm was in
{X}
like they come around
{X}
because they didn't use to eat 'em because it grows out big large and they
{D: you know they never sent it but I}
I have never eaten it.
Huh?
Well that's what I'm saying you
{D: see the thing is that your mama fix you you never}
{D: fix in your life you don't know what you eat.}
Let's just say you haven't never eaten any of those I haven't.
A boy
came here from over
{X}
and uh I know their their mayor, there you know and he's talking
{X}
{D: finally he gave the talk just like you and I talking now.}
And he said to me one day
{X}
I said you have to tell me plain I don't know.
You need a hillbilly to read your mouth just looking at you.
He said
did
{B}
and showed me how to
and I said what'd you do with it?
{NW}
{X}
And he would tell us about different things they would eat over there.
But we didn't know what it was.
Look over here and seen it
and he said oh you could take a
{X}
I don't know that.
{D: I'm gonna tell you the truth I really}
{X}
{X} {C: a rooster crows in the background}
and I didn't know what he was talking about.
{D: He said it}
{X}
And I said sure do.
{NW}
{X}
{X} {C: a rooster crows in the background}
{NS} {C: coughing}
At least tell me how you make that
{D: good soup out of the}
{X}
Now if you take a lot of cumin
{D: you get that hide off.}
{D: Scrape it.}
{NS} {C: rooster crowing}