Sunday, August 10, 2003

Cousin Micheal had the real cowboy hat, and a snow suit with leather boots. We dragged a saddle around the barn to put on "Hud", the big male horse. The problem was that we were only 3 feet off the ground and 4 years old. Grass would grow thin and tall at the first sunburn of spring. The three storied house needed fresh red paint. The driveway was a long and unpaved dirt road surrounded by forestation. I once caught a worm in my mouth by mistake when playing throw the worm in the winter snow with my brother and two sisters. I swallowed in an instant 'cause that was my first reaction. Later in 7th grade I got money to eat a live guppy that a friend of mine would carry around as a pet at school. The story has since been enlarged to me eating a "big gold fish". Either way I drank chocolate milk from one of those little cubular cardboard boxes and took one swallow of the fish. I needed money. It was entertainment.