I can remember things like seeing Momma make biscuits, and the expression on her face when she was happy or pleased about something. We learned to gear our behavior by the looks on her face. If we'd get up in the morning and her eyebrows were pushed up toward the edge of her hair, that meant tread lightly - be real careful all day long. If her eyebrows were down in a normal position, things would go along fairly smoothly. If she had a slight crinkle to her eyes, it meant that we could get away with quite a bit that day. So, that's how we geared our behavior most of the time.
When I was a very small child, we lived on a farm out in the country. My Dad was a sharecropper. I can remember going to the field with him and riding the horses, and later on a tractor. Wherever he went, it seemed that I always wanted to go and usually wound up being there. I would stay in the field with him all day and come home with him at night just covered in dirt and dust and feeling like I was really special cause I got to stay out in that hot sun, and the dust and dirt all day and to be with Daddy. He'd take me with him to water the stock, and he'd let me ride the horse down into the pond when it drank.
Edna (Doodle) Miller Jones (1985 Rogersville, Alabama)
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