Close to Nowhere
When I retired several years ago I was kinda sad. My column was a a big part of my life, but I can say that I enjoyed not having a deadline.
So when Barbara Taylor texted me and asked would I be interested in writing my column again, boy did I jump at the chance.
Let me catch you up on life in the sticks – I now have three great-grandchildren – Shepard, who is almost seven and in the second grade, Ruby June, she’s five and just started kindergarten. Both of them go to school in Littleton, Colorado. My granddaughter Merideth and her husband Tim quite literally snuck off and moved to Colorado. I didn’t have a clue until they’d been there a couple of weeks. Might have had something to do with the fact I kept telling them they couldn’t move off until I died So they tried to kill me by taking my babies off. I have reconciled myself to this mostly because Mere lets them FaceTime me a couple times a week.
My youngest grandson turned one on the 17th of this month. A friend of Remy’s said he was now one finger old. Remy and her husband Mitch, live in Oxford with the happiest baby I’ve ever seen. Our little ray of sunshine has been laughing almost since he was born.
Lincoln Doyle Wolverton Young is the only baby I know named after a video game – The Legend of Zelda, a long running series.
Link is the hero. Doyle is after my husband and her beloved Pop. Wolverton is Mitch’s mom’s maiden name and of course Young is their name.
His mama went into labor with him the day we buried my youngest brother, Danny Duke. Some of you might remember him. He lived and worked in Holly Springs for a couple of years.
I won’t mention the broken well, the broken washing machine or the various and sundry catastrophes .
I’ll end on a happy note. Mitch and Remy have begun pig farming out back. We have a daddy pig, two mama pigs and umpteen baby pigs.
Mitch spends all off his off time working on the “farm,” which now apparently belongs to baby Link. We have birthing houses, pig runs, catch pens and heaven only know what else. The second bunch of baby pigs was just born, so it won’t be long now until I’m eating all the bacon I can hold.