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Heaven Is A Lot Like Kentucky
'chores' back then, for worms that came out in I wonder how many
DEADFALL
TRIGGERS
"Mrs. Robert Shanklin
was out milking the
cows when one of the
Indians 'fired a gun.
She had milked seven or
eight cows and when the
shooting commenced,
she cleared a high fence
in the yard with both
buckets of milk without
spilling a drop,"
Benjamin Guthrie,
Draper Manuscripts,
Volume 11CC page 219.
The snow kept me in
for the greater part of the
weekend, dear reader,
though I did manage to
watch a great men's high
school basketball game
between Fleming and
Bath County on Friday
night. The game went
right down to the wire
with Fleming prevailing
by a very narrow three
points. I'm a Fleming
native, but I have to
say the Bath County
boys didn't get too many
breaks from the striped
shirts Friday night.
Both teams exhibit
incredible athleticism
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and passionate
coaching.
But, that's the way it
crumbles when you go
on the road.
It's always been
that way, even back in
pioneer times. The early
Kentucky pioneers,
whose family members
would later settle our
areas, were "on the road"
so to speak. The snow
kept me largely off the
road this weekend, but I
did organize some of my
historical notes and was
amazed once again by
the words of Benjamin
Guthrie regarding Mrs.
Shanklin's incredible
leap over the split rail
fence without dropping
any milk.
I milked a cow or two
by hand in my early days
along Fleming Creek in
the small community of
Martha Mills.
We called such things
"chores" back then.
They didn't have little
apps on an Iphone for
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you younger folks. If
we had a phone it was
mounted to the kitchen
wall and was part of a
"party line" system of
communication.
My sister and I had
vivid imaginations and
we had different ways of
entertaining ourselves.
We caught lightning
bugs at night every
summer as very young
children.
Seems like my sister
and I had lighting
bug competitions,
each armed with an
empty pickle jar, or
mayonnaise jar, which
had holes poked through
the lids for proper insect
ventilation, whoe~}er
caught the most
lightning bugs attained
measurable status for
such a noteworthy feat;
with our mother acting
as impartial judge and
teaching us to count in
the process.
As my father's
youngest son, I was
primarily a child of the
woods.
I caught crawdads,
grasshoppers and red
worms, and after a rain,
the bigger, night-crawler
search of mates were
easy pickin's right there
in the ancient and fertile
Fleming Creek bottoms.
Great fishing bait.
I found arrowheads
while tending to the
garden and tobacco crop.
I had to distract myself
with something because
the mind-numbing field
work would wear down
the hardiest of young
souls, though I've often
prayed for the return
of those toils in later
life and the privilege
of experiencing such
tribulations.
For the first 12
years of my life I was
convinced my name was
"Get Wood."
We used a wood stove
in the winter, so there
was always plenty of
fun in the woods and not
just for cutting firewood,
but also cutting locust
and cedar posts, which
required hooking a log
chain around the posts,
dragging them along a
trail to unhook later and
then hand-load them on
the wagon.
And when ,I said "the
wagon" I de mean, "the
one and only" wagon.
gazillions of times I
"hooked up the wagon"
or "unhooked the
wagon", or had to "load
and unload the wagon"
or "get down off the
wagon" or 'get up on the
wagon" or grab a chock
block pretty quick to
"stop the wagon"
One of my personal
favorites will always be,
"push the wagon."
I knew every board
and every bolt and every
nail on that wagon.
And now the wagon,
the farm, my father;
well, in one form or
another, in one regard
or another, they are all
gone.
If memory serves me
correctly, I was pretty
good "at getting gates
too and have "fetched" a
fair share of buckets of
water from the well.
There's a trick to
moving the rope a
certain way .to flip the
bucket at the right angle
to dip and completely
submerge in the well
water.
My late father would
take broken tobacco
sticks, a hacksaw, his
skinning knife arid an old
file and after securing
the broken stick in a
vise, mounted on one
end of the stripping
room of the barn, he
would cut, shave and
file them into two-piece
deadfall triggers.
They were primitive
and ingenious tools used
to suspend a large stone
with one end and a piece
of bait on another end of
the figure-four design. A
raccoon or mink would
crawl under the stone,
grab the bait, which
would trip the trigger
and cause the stone to
fall.
Mr. Raccoon or Mr.
Mink would be waiting
on us in the morning.
The same deadfall
trigger designs were
used by Native American
and pioneer forefathers.
As winter lingers on
I can't help but think
back to the winter's
of my youth and how
some of the experiences
paralleled those of
children hundreds,
perhaps thousands ot
years ago.
I can't think back
without knowing how
incredibly lucky I was.
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