Seventy five plus 79

Do you wanna hear about Buck`s brother Ezra, and his family? Gosh, it is quiet, so I guess that means yes. Nobody ever called him Ezra. He was always called "Skeet". He had a lot of the same characteristics as Buck, but he did own a home, have a wife and a son "Little Skeet". Now Skeet the dad was never called Big Skeet or Ole Skeet, he was always Skeet. But little Skeet was always called "Little Skeet". Skeet`s wife was Jewell, well named. CW enthusiasts like the Timmerer remember the song "I Like My Women Just a Little on the Trashy Side" as popularized by the Chattanooga group, Confederate Railroad. Jewell was a couple of decades too early for her time in the small town of Eldred. She bleached her hair, sinful, sinful sinful? And she smoked, more sin. And her clothes were a little snug in some places.

Skeet was supposedly a carpenter. I never knew anywhere he ever drove a nail or sawed a board or knew who he worked for. But like Buck, he had no car because even back then, driving under the influence could eventually lead you to not having a drivers license. But neither one of these brothers ever worried about breaking the law.

Then there was Little Skeet. I think he quit school at about age twenty still trying to get out of the eight grade. I think he was in UW`s class for a while, but for about a ten year period he was in about everybody`s class that went to ECS. Like his Dad, he had to walk everyplace he wanted to go. He would almost never talk, and when he did his teeth were tightly clenched so conversation with Little Skeet was limited to long periods of silence with a little grunt now and then.

After Little Skeet quit school, he bumbed around for a while, and then he joined the Army. It was the best thing that ever happened to him. Eldred was no longer a place of residence for me, but AR has told me that Lille Skeet married after getting out of the Army and lived a rather respectable life. I do not know at this time if he is dead or alive.

So there are more Mcbride stories, the dad, Sherm, and another son, Sherm (Pop nicknamed him Boob McNutt) and a sister Mabel. Are you really ready for them?