Alien Rednecks

I kin heah Jeb comin’ from a million miles away - or at least I kin heah his ATV.  I’m standin’ jus’ in from the road when he come out from the cornstalks agrinnin’ ‘n awavin’ like a fool with his dawg, Gopher, runnin’ behind.  He pulls up in fronna me and gits hisself off real stiff ‘n slow ‘n you kin tell he’s really feelin’ the arthritis today - maybe cuz it’s bin a li’l cooler’n usual these past few days.  It ain’t like the ol’ days when we was doin’ this - way back in the fifties.  We was teenagers then but now we’re in what they call the autumn years.  Er sunset years.  Er whatever years.

Read the rest of this entry »