Today I was traveling the back country and came upon part of an old hard road not be confused with a gravel road such as the Nortonville gravel or an oiled road a asphalt road or a field road or when I used to work for Pa at the ripe age of 12 and had to take the long handle to clean the culverts out on the motor fuel road which had something to do with where he got the tax money to pay for the oil as road commisioner. we would oil and chip roads every summer and Pa took good care of your road unless you were a Republican then you might have a better chance of getting to town on a field road. I was born into a mixed family--Democrats on one side and Republicans on the other..I once saw my uncle cement the cities sewer line closed where it crossed his property and saw Pa dig a moat around my uncles lumber yard over a boundary dispute--as road commissioner he had a dozer and grader and trucks and I must say when you dig a moat and haul the dirt away its a lot harder to change then a fence. Although they are all gone now my last Democrat Uncle lived long enough to have to make a choice between a black man and a Republican and I think it was more than he could take. As for me I have been down a lot of roads and I still have that long handle shovel and the pocket knife that Pa cleaned it with before he set it in a bucket of oil. I almost forgot about the people that had their lanes oiled those were the Democrats a Republican was a person that never got their lanes oiled. thats how you told them apart back then.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 05:46:08 +0000
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