i got nothin to say

old dooley wanted me to write sumthin here for him to put in some thin he call a blog ... we got a lot of blogs out in the field but we dont call them thet ... we call em cow pies-

ol dooley sed to say somtthin about the family and what i think bout some things- i got this type thing up in corning afew years ago- we went to some sales they had there and i just loved this typin thing- you hit a key and pow it printed in on the paper- well i never cul srite too good only lerned to print not the cursed or whatever that was they tried to get us to do- but then i only went to the thurd grade- it was kinde weerd thouhg we had all of my brothers and sisters in school at one time at the schoolhouse in boone- it was only wun room and old rebecca hatcher was the teecher- and she tried to teech all of us all that different stuff- well by the time i got the grade three there was my sister edna -- she was purty slow with stuff -- and my bruther norris -- he was the one that got kicked in the hed by our mule we called dutch .. he never did good after that- well anyway there was three smiths in the thurd grade alone and ms hatcher was tryin to get the old ones gradiated and it was jus too much for her- well she sent seven of us home and we never went back-
but she gradiated tu of my borhters and one sisteter and they did good after that- james arthur well let me say this first- we had some guverment people comin round a lot trying to help us out with welfare and all sorts of programs they had to help us- they mkent well and it seemd like they had so much they wanted to give us-
one time a guy comess down in a big black subourbon well we though he was a shiner at first -- then he splained that a subourbon was not to drink but that was what his car was- anyway he had tui hundred and fifty thousand dollars for us to put a big dam and a pond on out place- he had looked at somethin wrong cuse there was only a half acre and it didnteven belong to us- but anyway someone wanted james arthur to go to college and got him in an army college up north and james arthur went do did reel good and become a kurnel in the army and we think dthat he may become a genral even-

course maude amy went to college at ahia state and went on i9n the guvernment and became a senator in washington- they got her some sort of a scolarship thing and well maude was always feel fast and could jump and they got her on some sorta group of folds that i guess also liked to run and jump and they payed for her to go to school up there just to run and jump or sumthin like that- it got reel confusin cause she come home one time and gold us hbow she run around in a horseshew so you can see how we confused it-

albert grover well we dont talk bout him at all- somehow he unded up in california and got in with a wrong crowd well we dont even know what all he did out there but he got caught doin it- at first we thought he was doin somethun in music -- well we heard sing sing and didn't know what that ment-

i never did get back to school after that just them three that they worked with- the rest of us stayed home and helped out with cleaning and farming- daddy rented some land from josh bowers and we farmed thet and did good with food and stuff for us- we even went in to town sometimes and sold some of it to folks ther to get some money for us-

im married now and have tu boys and a girl- essie mae is my wife and we just named the kids one two and three it just seemed easier than comin up with names- thats a little somethin bout me- gonan get this off to old dooley and see what he does with it.