My Life
At first I thought that I would start whith the one room shack, small wood stove, kerosene lantern and out house. But, after seem an
episode of "Roseanne",
in which her and her sister talked about the "strap", I decided it would bring back to many memories.  So, I think that this will be my
"catch all" page and maybe start writing my book "what's A "B" Man."
Plus the fact that no one is going to believe my story about abuse , (including  being perpetrated by my teacher), insane parents, being
poor and a unwanted child and STUTTERING!
The Well:
This is a story about wells and water, part 1
I forgot to mention the "hand pump".   When we first lived there, we took a post hole digger and dug a well.  Water, at that time was about 5-6 feet down.  As more people
moved in and dug wells, the water table would drop.  My father then bought a centrifuge pump and a small (Brigs & Straten) engine to power the pump via a fan belt.
As they say in court, I have opened the "door", so for the rest of my story, I will write on separate pages assessable by links.
Well folks, I succumbed and saw the (Da) Da Vinci Code.  (When I was in Eastern Europe a few days ago, I think that some of countries (citys) posted "Da" instead of "the").  It was very hot
yesterday and I had drank  a picture of beer and was tired of drinking and did not feel like going home to a hot house, yes of have air, so I decided to go and see the movie  being of last
resort.  I knew that it had something to do about sex, but unlike most uneducated people, I'm NOT obsessed whith sex.  Well it was about the so-called "holy Grail".  I never heard of this until
Marty pylon came out whith his stupid movie.  (My parents made us children to "read" the bible.  Nothing important, just read.  My mother bought the whole bible recorded on records at 16
RPM.  (I remember that for a time I had moved back home and was working nites.  I would get to bed about 4:o'clock in the morning.  But, as she only thought about herself, she thought that
about 9:30 I should be getting up.  She would put one of the records on, low volume, then kept turning it up until I could not sleep anymore. (So and so begot so and so and so forth). By the
way, in the movie, they used one of Marty's clips whith the stupid "pass words".  It turns out that Mr. Christ had a wife and at least one kid, which seems reasonable to me.  I can see how it
would upset the "Jesus" freaks and "Bible" thumpers.  After all people have been brainwashed ,still, that "God" took some mud and said "let there be man and so forth.  I have been reluctant
to voice my opinion on the matter for obvious reasons, but now I think that it is time to speak out.  You see, the church loves it because it's their "gravy train" and the Government loves it to
keep the masses in control, even/especialy the J.E.W.'s.   (Die for "God" and country).
 So, on my "God" page, I will outline my thoughts.
(Story from "index" page.)  Next, I have to clear off the old TV.  So I got a pan,
filled in half full whith water and dish soap, proceeded to pick up items, wipe off
whith wet cloth all kinds of items.  Did you know that after many years there
was about one-eight 1/8 inch of dust?  I then picked up the old TV, it had
gained weight, and put on top of the papers that were stacked on top of a new
microwave oven that had been sitting there since I bought it several years ago.
Turned the box somewhat upside down, not too much room in house (junk), it
too had gained weight (took two people to carry it in) so I said "come on
woody, you can do it", as a tough strong (retired) longshoreman, used to pick
up a hundred  pounds whith ease, besides I could not let any one see the
mess, I
(for the first time bent my knees, use to just reaching down)
squatted down,picked it up and made way to consul, wasn't too bad, did not
stumble on all the mess, and set it down.  Now, hook it up,  Shouldn't be too
difficult, no time to read instructions,  pluged it in, hooked up my OLD antenna
and wahla, nice picture.  Okay, now time to hook up "cable".
Doesn't work.  Time for instructions,  Oh, go to page 10.  Ok, still don't work,
maybe a call to Magnavox, oh no, modern phone, talk to a voice, after about a
dozen, "is it this or that?", I call "comcast"- forgot to put new TV whith it's
remote on channel four (4).
Testing this.  Is anyone out there?
If this don't work, try my address on the
Index
page.
I was lookin for your newe address and came opon this.  Yes I
read it as fast as I would have in correct.  You might notice in
some of my writings, I mispell words.  Sometimes it is on
perpose, especialy "whith (with).   I do that to darw attention to
the common practice of everyone ending whith with,  (take two
asperians water with).  When and if I get poperly, I'm sure that
some "educated pansy ass" will say, "you can't even spell!".  
However, I love the speel check as I can write at a constance
flow and type like a word sounds and usaly the write word will be
on the spell check.  You mother would not write to Grandma
because of her spelling, so Grandma said "don't worry about the
spelling, just write whnat you think."  Love, Woody,

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Frogs & Toads
There was a play at the Stockton’s Civic Theater called fogs and toads.  
This was from some kid story that was pretty stupid for adults.  Anyhow,
it got me thinking about my childhood.  I was raised out in the sticks
(country) that was below sea level, (Sunny Road).  In a wet winter, a lake
would form in back of our, and the adjoining properties.  Now the
parcels were divvied up into acres, starting form 1, up to four.  We had
4 acres.  The lots were rectangle, whith approx. 80 feet wide and
hundreds of feet long, per acre.  (I guess that I could figure it out, or go
back out there and measure).  My parents had four acres not because
they had money, but because the were nuts.  (My father had a steady
job working for the Navy on Rough and Ready Island, but we were
always poor.  I never new know what my father did whith his money, as
we lived in a shack and wore clothes from the thrift shops,  wood stove,
hand pump, No electricity, etc., but that is another story).
You see, they wanted to live out side of society.  Talk about “bible
thumpers”, they were the max.  (So don’t ever speak to me about “God”
or Jesus, as I have heard it all.  You know, I thought that they were the
exception, rather than the rule, but, unfortunately, I’m finding out that
they are, were, not alone.  They erected a used chicken shack right
dead smack in the center of these four acres.)
Now about Toads, like I said, there would be a rather long lake
especially in the 1955-56 flood, (oh oh), telling my age, who cares?, the
young ladies don’t want me any more, anyway), out of no ware would
appear Toads, thousands and thousands of croaking toads.  Sub
conscience, I wondered from were they came.  I surmise, since I heard
about toads in Africa that bury Themselves in mud, during droughts,
that indeed these toads would bury down deep into the adobe, that
would be about five feet deep, *(top soil), and hibernate until it rained.
It seems that frogs and toads are about the same except that toads
have ugly skin and sorter legs and I have never heard of anyone eating
toads.
FROGS:  Before highway 99 was made into a highway, whith the building
of an overpass on Weber Road, now called Arch, there was a short road
that ran from Weber rd. to Sunny Rd. by the name of Kinglesy, named
after “old man KIngsely” who owned the land west of the road.   Halfway
between Weber and Sunny there was/is a bridge over Little John
Creek.  Back then there was a lot of wildlife, before the corrupt local
officials contaminated the creek whith a dump on Austin Road, such as
several types of fishes, Blue Gill, perch, catfish and carp, to name a
few, plus Bull Frogs.  People would fish for fish and catch frogs either
by hook or “gig”.
I did not like to “stab” the frogs, so I would catch them via hook.   (It
was said that they would jump at red, but I found out that they would
jump on a shinny hook at dusk).  I took some home alive and put them
into a little drainage ditch that we had from the kitchen sink.  (No
plumbing at the shack).  Every day, as I crossed over the ditch to feed
and water some of the animals, (on that side) I would stop a look at the
frogs.  First they laid eggs, and then little dark specks appeared and
grew into tad pools/”pollywogs”.  Then they would “hatch” and swim
around like fish.  They would grow/ develop two front legs, and then
two back legs.  Then one morning, they had droped their tails and had
crawled out onto the ground, becoming frogs, whith proves the theory
(fact) of evolution.