I feel horrible... but what the heck... i feel with my fingers too...
Did I ever tell you folks I worked as a propman for a circus... Yepp tigers, bears, and elephants... some doggies and horseys...lots of interesting people live and travel with the circus...
Learned a lot about life workin with this circus.. it was just a small three ringer.. traveled all over the eastern part of the U.S.
I thought you sold Kirbys vaccum cleaners... fatman.
shut up bobbin.. dang..
Oh yeah the circus... i got paid a whole whoppin 90.00 dollars a week, and got to see the U.S.A. started off in Kansas...Witchamacallit... nope I can't spell it lol... but I was there...my job was to change the props during the show...
We had three rings and they had to be set up just so so... the center ring was also the tiger ring.. had this wire net inside the ring that we pulled up for the tiger act..
This had to be tied off just right or them tigers be runnin amuck with the rest of the folks that come to see them ....
Oh yeah had a carasel wat ever... for the bear act... that was the center ring too... since the bears and tigers and elephants were all owned by the same fellow...
i learned a lot about people during the nine months I traveled with the circus... OH yeah I learned I wasn't interested in it as a career move... so at the end of the season... I quit... yepp
I got a real job... delivering beauty products all over Texas.... I liked it... got to drive a new chevy pickem up truck... I got the out of town deliverys cause I was a fast driver lol... Zoom zoom ... that chevy cruise down the road just floatin lol... but I got the job done... and i did it well.... till my mom ask me to help her move to Arkansas... they fired me ... cause i asked for time off to help her. they said now i said watch this.... he said ifins you go ya fired... I'm fired.. yeah okay... like I cared a flyin flippp.... who gonna go get ya beer lol... kiss this.... So I'm off to Arkansas...
Hillbilly heaven... Ozark National Forest... yepp folks live back in them woods, and by golly it's kinda spooky...all kind of critters runnin loose in them hills.... bears... bears... big cats... bears... turkeys... big turkey...(aka me) Yepp... I'd just wonder around in the woods on my days off... workin at a say mill.. three whole dollars an hour... aint life grand... i was always packin... shotgun or 22 automatic... my mini machine gun lol... if ya squeazed the triger... it's spit out eleven shots just like that... so ya had to pull it quik to save the ammo.... still shoot five or six rouns... like ya might hit someting lol.... well I did hit a turkey... lots of squirrels... oh yeah cotton tails... yummy....
When in the hills do as the hills doo.... hunt to eat... love to hunt...
I gave a kid his first huntin lession... it was about gun safety... see there was this wood pile and we was gonna flush out a couple of cotton tails for supper... now this boys daddy is watchin.. he's an retired game warden...hehehehe... okay so we was drinkin beer and pickin the guitars and howling at the sky just before supper time..
Mom says hey we aint got no food... guess it gonna be biscuits and gravy huh...
So me and this kid trying to flush out a rabbit or two cause they go real good with biscuits and gravy... and one jumps out and the kids starts shotin that pump off like a wild man. I'm jumpin around tryin to make sure I aint between the wabbit and his shotin iron.. boom, clik boom, clik boom, cli... boys daddy done fell off the porch laughin at my crazy ask... i grab the shotgun from the kid...he's like 14 lol.. and I explain to him with my foot about goin wild with a shotgun...
told him you dance on the wood pile I'll do the shootin..
boys dad still rollin on the grass laughin...
hope he gets a belly ache..
so we had biscuits gravy and fried rabbit... mom makes me fry the wabbit, says it taste better than hers... I'm thinkin no way mom... but I am good... lets eat...
Wabbits..? U sound like elmer...
shut up bobbin... clik...
later Russ