farming

less than nothing, and all the cow droppings you'd ever want.

tuck it

i'm now 52 years old and it seems i can no longer tuck in my shirt and appear normal,"i really should take this opportunity to apologize to my mother,wife, and friends for not being better looking," it could be that at this age i simply don't care,"that would be a lie," i blame my weight gain on the lack of cigarettes, i smoked for quite a few years and i quit, knowing of the health risks and ridiculously high price of cigarettes but i didn't realize that i would know longer be able to tuck my shirt in. you absolutely never look at a magazine or really see anyone," other than someone with a big gut," with an untucked shirt. maybe it is my age, or my constitution but i really do miss it. so i started smoking again, and i haven't smoked in nearly 3 years, food definitely tasted better not smoking, maybe that was the problem? at any rate at the funeral home after i die from some tobacco related illness they'll be able to have an open casket viewing because hopefully i'll have lost the extra gut weight and i'll be able to tuck my shirt in, although i am 52 i think my dream of becoming a male model have faded, lets eat.

reunion

we were planning on a family reunion since all my brothers and sisters would be in town. my mother had quite abit of the summertime favorites, but none of mine,i was hoping for beans. my cousin's also attended the reunion, it's always nice to see them, i'd practically forgotten that they use to tease me about my uni-brow. after dinner we played croquet, my father use to tell my brothers,"now let your brother win, you know how he gets when he doesn't win," this time,since dad died," my brothers didn't let me win, so i took the croquet mallet and disciplined my brothers then i shot my mother and cousins, next time maybe they'll remember the beans. all i needed, and wanted was beans preferably baked, and served hot, maybe a variety of beans, with pork or bacon, i can taste them now, even now with my family all around me, of course they're not quite so active, and the teasings have stopped.