8-29-08...PEACHES AND CREAM
Auntie, Will you make us some whipped cream so we can have some peaches and cream? Now Clydene you know I need this cream to make butter today, and I told you those peaches are not ripe enough to eat yet. Just wait till they are ripe and I'll make sure you girls get all the peaches and cream you want. We were 6 and waiting was not in our vocabularly yet. NOPE Didn't like to wait. Now girls I'm going to walk out and milk the other cow, slop the hogs, feed the chickens, and gather the eggs, you two go on down to Lucille's (my Mama) and behave yourselves. OK. We started down the lane and went by the fruit orchard. Those peaches looked so good hanging there. We didn't like the limbs but we sure likes the fruit. Now I dont know who decided that those peaches were indeed ripe but I suspect it was me! Anyway we scooted under the barb wire frnce and picked a few. YEP! SURE NUFF DID! Brenda Auntie is in the barn, lets go back to the house and peel these. OK. As we went in the back door there on the wash stand was the gallon jar of fresh milk with the yellow cream rising.. UMMMM! I can taste it now. Thick and creamy!! We went on by but we both still wanted whipped cream. We thought alike and could almost read one anothers mind. Not a word was said. Brenda got a big mixing bowl, I got the egg beater and a big spoon, and here we went. We took the cloth off the jar. Brenda hold the bowl and I'll dip some cream out. OK. Well folks if you know anything about cream you know it was thick and hard to dip. Wait Brenda, set the bowl on the floor and help me pick up this jar and we will pour it in the bowl. That'll work RIGHT? WRONG!! We couldn't hold on to the jar good and we were kinda doing a little jig with it. Cant you hear Turkey in the straw playin' on a fiddle? Kinda the tune we were jigging to. We got some in our bowl though and didn't spill as much as you might think. We put the jar back on the shelf and bent to pick up the bowl. Our hands were slick by now with the cream so we did another jig right on into the kitchen. Well our feet were slick too and when we jigged in on that slick floor down we went. We were wallering in milk and cream. Boy we sure better get this cleaned up Brenda said. We got time, lets make our whipped cream first. We took turns with the egg beater but nothing was happening. Brenda lets put it in the freezer and it'll get ready while we oeel the peaches. We got knives (which was a great big NO NO!!) and them durn things were hard as a rock. Don't matter we said we'll eat em' anyhow. Poured some of the cream out of the bowl, sprinkled on some sugar and got us a spoon. Sat right down there in the floor and ate every last one of them peaches and cream. I kinda remember they tasted awful but we ate em' anyway. Heck fire wadnt gonna go to all that trouble and not enjoy it now was we! HECK NO! Well Auntie had finished her chores and walked down to give my Mama some eggs. I guess you know we were not there. I think my Auntie figured it out as soon as she saw we weren't there. Mama had the boys but My Auntie did a jig of her own right back to the house and walked in on us just finishing up them peaches and cream. Auntie was angry! I mean was she ever angry! With good reason. She came charging in to that room with blood in her eyes and we knew we were IN TROUBLE. Make that DOUBLE TROUBLE!!! Auntie started across the floor after us and remember the floor was slick, Turkey In The Straw all over again. Slipin' and slidin'. We got tickled. GIGGLE GIGGLE GIGGLE! SHUT UP RIGHT NOW. WOOOPPPS! Down she came. Well I couldn't have stopped giggling then if it meant my life(which it almost did I think). GIGGLE GIGGLE GIGGLE!!! We folks I figure we just looked adorable sittin' there on the floor looking down at Auntie, cause she got tickled to. When Mama and the boys got there I guess she thought she would have to have us all hauled away to the loony bin. She looked startled for a minute then she got tickled, the boys were giggling too. Don't know how long that went on before our Mama's came to their senses and saw the situation clearly, but I suspect not long. Auntie said nothing was hurt but her pride. But let me tell you that was not all that was hurt on us. Nope, our backsides were striped. But later on that night was when we really got our punishment. We were both sooo' sick. OH MY GOSH GREEN SLIME SICK. OOOOHHH! I can still feel the queasiness right now. UGGG' Guys our Parents had fun with us, and I know now that when they said it hurt them more than it did us to have to spank us. THEY MEANT THAT YEP SURE DID!!!
