Hi Beryl, Who is the Bond family that you are referring to in your response? Thank you, Catherine "Beryl M." <hikepax@yahoo.com> wrote:I can remember many times, as a child, going to catch crawdads so we could go fishing. We would have been up the night before with a couple of coffee cans with some dirt in them, into which we put the night crawlers which were reckless enough to be out in the open. We did a lot of "yuck" and "ooohh", particularly the girls, while our brothers and male cousins spen their time trying to creep us out. Back in the house, we would all have a pallet on the floor, maybe eight to twenty of us, and grandad would stay up late with us, telling us Rawhead and Bloody Bones stories. Then he'd wish us a yawning good night and go off to sleep, while our wide open eye lay there and comtemplated the monsters waiting in the dark. Jesus help you if you had to go to the bathroom, which was outside and around the hill. Next morning we'd go crawdadding early. There would be bait buckets and some plastic pails and a piece of old sheet or pillowcase. Granddad and the one good seine and some of us with the sheet would be downstream. The rest of us would be upstream. We'd carefully turn over rocks, dreading snakes and hoping for crawdads. We'd do this aways down the stream, until the bait bucket was full, and grandad was tired of the splashing and accidental falling in. Back home, we'd gather our cane poles, which grandad had made, our "bobbets", sinkers and a fish stringer, and the sandwiches grandma had made and go off to a deep spot in the river, near the limestone quarry, and fish. If we were really lucky, grandma would send a plastic jug of Koolaid with us. It seldom lasted until we got to our fishing hole. We always caught something. Chigger bites, mosquito bites, sunburn, a million laughs and enough good memories to last a lifetime. Granddad pasted away many years ago, but we all, first cousins, remember him as the greatest man and our fishing trips as the greatest moments in our lives. And, Mr. Wilson, my Granddad was a cousin of the Bond's you knew. They were all good people. My granddaddy Otis, was the best. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com