Berries & Babies
I remeber pickin berries, and apples, and Gram always had canned cherries, she had a friend that lived over on the Flathead and she always brought Gram boxes of cherries from their cherry orchard. It was a special treat when she open a jar of them. I remember helping to roll out pie crust and peeling apples for hours, but there was always a frozen pie in the freezer to pop in the oven when company showed up - which was often- they knew everyone in town. She had a friend that grew little tiny watermelons and she always gave us one when I was there in the summer, and they were probably the best watermelons I ever ate. I think Gram lived down by her in Shelby when us 3 kids were there one time - that was the time me and Sherry took Rocky and the little red wagon to the top of the big hill they lived next to and Rocky got in we let him go, Dang near gave mom and Gram a heartfailure, but unfortunataly he lived and we got our hinneys warmed up good. I never did understand that - afterall he was 2 or 3 and insisted on riding down.
I remember when I was older one time and we were sitting at the table talkin about old times and she told the story about her friend Janet Peterson. Apparently Janet was a Big woman with a pacel of kids and not much money - Gram said that they had chickens that ran thro the house and a goat that would come in when he pleased and jump on the kitchen table. but the story I remember most is about my Uncle Bill. Apparently Janet and her family and Gram and Gramp got together quite often to play cards and visit , well one time - as the story was told to me - apparently Janet had a fairly new baby and she was playing cards or something and being a large woman she was greatly endowed. Anyhow it seems that the baby woke up and needed feeding so Janet just went and got that baby and laid it on the table and then laid her huge breast on the table and proceeded to nurse the baby and continue on with the card game. Well... my Uncle Bill was just a small fry then, and of course he had never seen a woman nurse a baby (my Gram was a very very modest person) so he kinda sidled up real quiet like and was watching this process with huge eyes and not saying a word when Janet saw him outta the corner of her eye. So she just casually popped that breast outta that babies mouth and looked down and Bill and said "would you like a taste" As the story goes he turned beet red and beat it outta there like someone had set fire to his britches. From what I heard for years Janet would tease him every time she saw him, and of course He avoided her with like the plague. But I remember Gram saying how they laughed and laughed about that.