Today is my sister, Lucy’s birthday. Happy birthday Lucy Redboots!
Lucy is small in stature, yes, but she’s really and truly an Amazon woman.
I kid you not.
Lucy can lift a house with her tiny little arms.
Maybe that’s an exaggeration but not much of one. Perhaps it was her training in college. Lucy was always a Wonder Woman. She was head cheerleader at Arkansas Tech University. Thankfully, most of us didn’t go to one of those cult colleges that David Brooks admires so much.
Although Lucy is only three years younger than me she still gets carded when ever she orders a drink. When we were kids we always shared a room and she had the top bunk. She had this tendency to hang slinkies down by my side of the bed in the middle of the night to scare me. We sang harmony together, played together and sometimes dreamed the same dreams. We had lots of pets in our little acre wood we called home. Even though Lucy was the smallest of all of us she managed to rule over us most of the time through the force of her personality.
Lucy was always a pretty good sport even when under arrest.
I always thought Lucy looked like the angel on top of the Christmas tree. (except when she hid dead spiders in pill bottles under my pillow)
Lucy’s an excellent cook, gardener, artist, art teacher, Mother, wife, sister, daughter, friend (this is in random order) and she’s really STRONG. Lucy knows how to prepare and cook deer, turkey, rabbit, etc… hunted and killed by her husband and she always has Live Maine lobster races in her kitchen before she cooks them.
Lucy’s a Sarah Palin fan and wasn’t at all shocked to see Sarah pardon a turkey and conduct an interview while behind her some other unlucky turkeys were on their way to some families’ Thanksgiving table.
Ann Althouse wasn’t all verklempt over the deal either.
I was five years old when I saw my first chicken dinner killed. My great grandfather wrung the neck of one of our chickens and then my mother prepared the chicken dinner.
Happy Birthday Lucy! I hope you come over next Wednesday and help me prepare my turkey.
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November 21st, 2008 | #
Okay, no rabbit. Well, I guess Mr. Norman has topped you there. Was the cedar wood good or not?
November 21st, 2008 | #
Yes it was great. I've seen cedar planks used to cook fish ...on the grill. Put the fish on the cedar planks and put it right on the grill. I've seen Bobby Flay do it, so I thought it might be good. It was fun too. A reason to hang around the campfire to keep putting new coals into the webber grill. I smelled pretty smokey by the end of the day.
I hate to be picky but the head cheerleader gig was at UAFS. At tech I was just a cheerleader/wondergirl.
November 21st, 2008 | #
My bad. But weren't you and Kara co-heads?
November 21st, 2008 | #
No....I drove her head crazy! We pulled a few good pranks on her.
November 21st, 2008 | #
Kara and her husband Brook are still local to Fort Smith. After teaching and coaching baseball at Alma High School he moved to Fort Smith Southside. I think Kara still teaches at Alma.
November 21st, 2008 | #
Does Brook coach baseball at Southside now?
November 21st, 2008 | #
Nope, I don't think so.
November 22nd, 2008 | #
I want some of your cedar wood smoked pork and while we're talking food, I love your turkey pie.
November 22nd, 2008 | #
loving the post & comments...makes me miss my sis.
November 22nd, 2008 | #
[...] Lucy, my sister is a special favorite of Sabby’s (a story which needs to be told) and he’s spent a lot of time on her lap this Christmas season. The cats seemed to know from Thanksgiving on that special days were approaching. Like Sissy Willis’ Babe, they have been high with expectancy, and scampering around the house like kittens. [...]
December 26th, 2008 | #