they got a bad guy over there

we wuz listenin to the newss this mornin an they kep taliing bout this guy they blew up over there i thought they kep sayin his name was fukari or somethin like that hes got a whole lot of names anyway they seem happy thet they blu thet sucker up from the looks o them pichurs they got more than jus him hell of a big hole there

why caint they find thet other feller the ben ladin guy i wonder

i kep herein his name and thought of theem fukari indians we had in oklahoma they wuz alaways walking round and some times the old chief wuld look round and say to his tribe where the fukari thet wuz where they got their name i i guess old bush theree is gettin a lot of mileage out of this thing its on both our stations an even on the radio we only get the am not sure bout the fm

seems like a good plan though blo up all the buindlings they is trying to tell us how bad this fukari guy was he wers his watch on his right arm wonder if he was left handed

sum guy sent me an email the other day and wondered about where we live well we got to talkin bout it well we got a post office at the store henny broman has been doin the mail there as long as i can remember he also owns the store an does a lot of the work there we alays just call it here or there down at the store never worried bout a name for it till we went to school and on thet building it always said corning so we figured that we wuz named thet the ol school had tu doors one for boys and one for girls dont see thet anymore

store and ol henny has gas tu n some clothing stuff and course groceries n other sstuff ol curly mapes had the hardware sstore he had everthing we ever needed and ifn he didn't have it he got it for us sometimes took a while to get it lot of the stuff he ordered got delivered by the old greyhound bus it cfame to town one time a day round noon i still remember the day someone got off ol bage cotterman joined up in the army an they let him come home one time to say hi to his folks then he got on the bus a week later and we never saw him again no one never herd from him

there is still a poolhall with tu tables n a pop machine old george mann has a barber shop we all go to an mert kalmer has a buty shop i never been in there even when i pick essie up i wait outside lot of scary stuff goes on in there n they do a lot of talkin

just a small town with a small school at the futball games on friday nite out marching band is so small thet they only form a period on thet futball field

love you all from justin n essie an theer kids

lof a fuss goin on

well it is wednesdaay here in southeastern ohia the sun is out nice an not too cold we was talkin this mornin about all this stuff about where are ships park and so forth and i guess none of us understood what was happening we kno them politicians dont so who duz well izzie yonders when he was in the war members that when he was in nu york that them folks there run the port an he thought the same think about long beech in california them cities made there money offn them what happened anyway

one of them demo congress guys sed well maybe one of them aem guys runnin some port culd have a cusin who had a frend who had a neighbor who new a guy in the alcaida thing and would tell him somethin old heiny jordan sed hey them terror guys seem to be able to find out anythin anyway

but then ol covey who has a tv in his trailer he hurd a funny thing he said yu dont hire old michel jackson as a baby sitter u dont let your cute daughter do any baby sittin for old bill clinton and it aint a good idea to let guys you dont know and was one tiem an enemy to run out ports it aint a good idea aint we got anybody in the us of a that culd do it we got all them folks out of work ... a lot of companies going out of business and them smart suits drivin cabs then culd run it i dont kno we just aint smart people that aem place gave money to nu olrealns to help well that shows ssomethin not shur what where are them teamster guys what du they tink o that situation i thought tehy run them ports where is the mafia let them run it they is forners too from itly or somers id rather see them there i thought they was anyway i gotta go the goverment guy is here he brings us a check ever once in a while they paze us to not grow tobacco and stuff we get a lot more now then when we had to plow and plant and all that sugg we wuz goin broke doin that now they gives us over a hunert thousand a yer after we pay off the motor home and the house n some other stuff we has got i am gonna get a nu typin thing later

food from the church

good week for us the church will being out there truk filled with food for us i dont kno wher they get it all but it usually has some surprizes one time we got 7 jars of sometin called antipasto or somethin like that we just opened the one it was bad the dog wudndt eat it we been usin the other 6 as decorations on the fireplace the labels was really purty the one we opened we finally buried out back and it looks like the hackbush that was near it is gonna do reely well we talked about opened them others and usen them in the garden this summer dont know about that smell though we alas get a lot of rice and powdered milk and them powder potatoes an corn syrup lots of corn syrup we got so much of that we started storin it out in the back of the barn we tried to tell them folks we got some cows so we got milk and effie does taters every summer and we keep them down in the potato cellar thats nice and cool so we got plenty of good old mashed taters all the time but they still keep bringin all thet stuff out sweet taters too i think we got over 200 cans o them
the one that is reely a problem is tha tuna stuff they been bringin cases of thet stuff out now for over 7 years we dont know what it is we opened a can a long time ago and we had over 75 cats come to the house they was everwherre effie finally buried that stuff deep in the field out back them cats hung round her to where she culd hardly dig she finally got it done and them cats hung around for a long time we just been storin them cans out in the back of the orchard we just aint got room anywhere else.. ezra parkinson sed the cans was luminum or somethin and that they would be ok outside i guess we will get more this week to put out there
sumdtimes too they bring some reely good stuff that some folks gives them over type stuff one time we got a load of pears from somebody who had too many too guys a harry and a david i think it was them was reely big pears i think the lady from the church sed they was somethin like a queen anne or something good and big and juicy but they musta had a lot cuse they kept bringing them out ever week effie put up about a hunnert jars of stuff preeservs jam jelly we had pear pie and effie can do a number on pie but i gotta admit we finally got reely tired of pears we still got a lot of the stuff in the fruit cellar
they meen well though and we do preciate what they do it helps out feedin everyone and i guess it helps the goverment get rid of a lot of stuff they got they must have a lot of cheese stored up somewhere cause well i mean they bring out cheese all the time dont get me wrong its good cheese well yu see all our neighbors are in the same shape we are in no jobs with the mines closed they tried to put in a place to make stuff nearby somethin for a honda or some jap car well that didnt work out bout the time it was goin well they decided to make the part someplace else nice building the county has been holdin dances there and they has some offices too old howdy bell the stension guy has a reely nice office there toomy banks duz too he has somethin to do with veterans or somethin only problem there aint no veterans around here everyone has been kept out of the service cause they always needed the coal from the mines so toomy really dont do anything but hez got a really nice office got a big glass box with funny lookin fish swimmin in it even got a lite bulb in it dont know why it do hurt the fish
gotta go for now here comes the church truck the kids always has fun when it comes round sometimes they take all them paper labels off and just guess whats in them cans not that tuna though goes rite to the back of the orchard

doogies

i went to the libary with three who is my oldest and she showed me the computer there and even this thing dooley is dooin --- wow dogies it was fancy- now he sez he wansts me to do another one sometime-

few yers ago we got a tv at the goodwill store and it weems to wurk good- we dont get meny stations but it seels like if you got a good one then one is all you need- well the shows aint too good we we all anjoy them ad things that there are som many of- almost like they just do them shows to put somethin in between them ads-

we been watchin them ads from them lawyers- mercy they got guys that reely do just one thing i guess- one guy sez that if you took this pill durin these years he can get you money- course we was interested in them guys who wanted to get us money for workin in the mines cause we all god black lung stuff- they got mad at me cause i dodnt have non for them to get me money for-

they just got all sorts of reasons for you to call and get money- essie and me was talkin about it- they must be a whole lot of folks who just does nuthin but get all there money out of them court guys- and then that old wentworth guy will be all your money for you at one time- essie wondered it they leanerd you that in school now about suing and all that stuff- seems like a lot of folks make their livin that way-

an if that dont work there is some folks lookin for sick folks to dtake care of and to study-

last night we had the tv on and watchin them guys play baseball and all they was doing was tryin to lose the ball over that fence -- well that dint make sense to me but they seemed to be havin fun doinn it- one guy would hit it and lose it over the fence and they would all hoop and hollar just cause he lost a ball- heck i coudl tickle them to death by losin stuff in these hills down here-

bugt then while these guys was losin ball they would go to some news guy who would tell us about some army folks gettin shot and then sed see that kerry fella and his friend from the south tellin us how they is gonna save us and then in the very next thing they tells us abougt how them guys from arabia wants to kill us all- and then essie changed the dial thing and we saw some folks seein who culd eat the most worms and jump off high places-

essie sed it was more like havin bad dreams at night than watchin the tv- we got the government folks who come around and try to take care of us- ever time we hear some one say hey im from the guvernment and i want to take care of you well we run and hide anymore-

like well one of them guy s got me a brand new john deer 487 shrunk plow with ever thing oni t got air conditioning and a radio and a phone and --- well -- we aint got any land to farm but another fellow got us a shed built to park the tractor in- well that lady miss estelle -- well she worked some stuff out for us and we get a check each month for not growin tobacco- seems like tiff corby who has the land next to us said we could use it sometime and he dont donuthin with it so that lady estelle figured we had it -- we aint figured out what to do with them letters we get yet- wel they want us to use up about well 50 hundred dollars a month and if we do that then we dondt get to go top the church food thing them fireman bring nice toys for the kids and a whold basket of food every christmas- i love to use them baskets to store stuff in- the one last year was a double slatted one with 12 gauge wire handles that went clear around the basket and double walled in the sides- doggies it was nice i would really miss gettin one each year so you can see why we aint sure about that money comin in --- none of us even smokes so why would we grow tobacci - them government people - i got a feelin too that the congresswoman had somethin to di with it- she has what she calls a slush fund and thought we could put some of that money in to slop up some of that slush -- we figured ----

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.

About Justin .... by an admirer

Justin O. Smith .... well, let me tell you how he got his name. Justin was the last child in a family of 14 brothers and sisters. When his father asked the doctor whether it was a boy or girl, he said ... "It was just another Smith" thus his name, Justin Other Smith.

And his live has been the same ... last in line, no breaks, but he has a good attitude on life, sometimes some interesting things to say .... a typewriter ... but the shift key does not work, well ..... you'll see ......

Justin and his wife and family now live in Southeastern Ohio, in a coal mining town, but, coal is not mined there anymore. There is no work, few people .... we'll go from there .......

One more thing .... Justin writes like he thinks, says what is on his mind, and has a common sense point of view .....