September song.....

“It’s a long, long time from May to December ’n the days grow short when you reach September….”

Some days it’s easy to say a bunch of nuthin’…sort’a let my fingers do the talking…surprise m’self sometimes with what comes out….for example, yesti’day afternoon whilst we wuz on our 2nd S&P tour of the day, we passed what my neighbor calls a ‘flowr’ing quince’….ain’t nuthin’ but a crabapple bush that never has apples on it….but, right in the middle of the bush, wuz a big ol crabapple which I just had to pick…’n since I didn’t have anyone to throw it at, I stuck it in my pocket ’n brought it home…can’t eat it ’n it’s bound to end up in the garbage pretty soon but in the meantime, it’s sitting on the file cabinet next to the computer…

When I wuz a boy going to school at South Portsmouth, we use’ta have crabapple fights in what passed for a school playground back then…

Last time I looked, it wuz a rather small, not quite rectangular field in the hollow behind the school house but in my mem’ry, it wuz a whole lot bigger….we did a lot more than throw crabapples at each other, we use’ta play football…well, our form of football anyways, more like Rugby, I guess, than actual football…we kind’a lacked most of the necessary equipment for what most people here think of as football…well, except for the football itself…we had a reg’lar football…I don’t recall exactly how we chose up sides but they wuz almost always pretty near equal ’n we fought up ’n down the field ’til our lunchtime wuz over…I don’t remember anyone getting seriously hurt in our rough ’n tumble game…well, except for Roger Kilgore (Happy Birthday to you Roger)…he wuz at the bottom of the pile one day ’n came out with a broke leg…but  nobody got killed which sometimes happens t’day even tho’ kids t’day got all sorts of equpment, helmets ’n pads ’n knee pants ’n the whole nine yards but it seems t’be a much more dangerous game t’day with little kids risking life ’n limb ’n parents calling for an outright ban on football ’n other such barbaric games that little boys so dote on…..

I don’t really believe that children t’day are all that much different that what we were back in that long ago era that pre-dated video ’n computers ’n cell phones but, that could be, in my dotage, just living in an old man’s  reverie…..