Well is sure is a blessing to see how Percy and Curdy have taken to computers. When I made this here blog thing for them, I didn’t know iffens they or anyone else would ever use it. To be absolutely honest, there ain’t probably a half dozen computers between any of us. I heard Bucky got one for his business but didn’t know he could use it. Hey Bucky, don’t you go an make Aunt Curdle mad at you or you’ll be shut down just like you was over Easter holiday.

I been playing with some pictures I thought I might share. The first being a map of Bothered Pines. This map was made by Leonard Pepper back in 1977 when he and Percy’s Momma run the park. They had just cleared out the center of the estates of some old trailers and brought in some doublewides. It ain’t changed much since then but get older. They say that Guthrie the Gator was just a pup then and there was a lot of aunts and uncles in the pond with him. Poor old Guthrie ain’t had an honest visitor since Muriel Ledbetter was foolish enough to go skinny dipping with her boyfriend in 1988 and give up a leg whilst trying to get away from one or both of them. (Don’t fret about Muriel, she married her boyfriend, now the Reverend Dandy, and got an artificial limb what she uses to keep her kids in line!)



The second is a copy of a map what was in this building when I bought it in 1985 and opened the hardware store. Folks tell me that this used to be the front office for the sawmill what was run by some yankee company out of Minnesota. But now, no one knows for sure what happened to them because one day, they was just up and gone. They went off and left the mill and a few trucks and a whole lot of saw dust just sit wherever it was. The map don’t show it but Bothered Pines is just at the tip end of Old Poll Road, about a half mile from the RR tracks.