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| Posted by: Steven Sible Fri January 30, 2015 | Aunt Lorraine, you will forever be in my memories, I will never forget my time with you during my visits to the old farm. The Gates and the Hatfield's were always Mom's family and my family. I know you and Mom and everyone are having a great time reminiscing and always watching over us. |
| Posted by: Steven Sible Fri January 30, 2015 | Memories of Aunt Lorraine
I don’t have any photos of me with Aunt Lorraine but I have my memories. I remember being back on the farm’s when I was a little guy. And I remember spending time in the barn with Uncle Loren and Aunt Doris and milking the cows and I just had to have some of that milk and asking why the black cows didn’t have chocolate milk. When we all sat down to fresh fried chicken dinner I remember spitting that milk out cause it was warm and asking why the cows didn’t have refrigerator’s in them because our milk at home was ice cold. I remember that bird dog that Uncle Loren had and how it bit me in the ass and I had to have a tetanus shot. I remember Uncle Willard and Aunt Lorraine did not have plumbing and I had to take a bath in a metal tub on the back porch and going into that three seater out house and thinking it was cool that there was a hole for each size but being scared of the spiders and the wasps. I remember riding the tractor with Uncle Willard and the cows coming up to me, I thought they were trying to bite me and the dog, I think it was a collie, kept chasing the cows away from me and Uncle Willard just laughing. In High School one winter I made a trip back to the farm with Mom and we got iced in and I remember going out towards the barn to sneak a cigarette and there was just enough of a slope that I had to crawl back to the door on my hands and knees because of all the ice. But my most favorite memory of Aunt Lorraine was a summer I spent on the farm with my cousins Terri, Mike, and Rick. I know they have a lot more memories than I do but this is the only big one I have. I am sure as young teenagers we were bored and drove Aunt Lorraine crazy but I know she loved us and having us around. I remember swimming in a pond on the farm every day and I remember playing in an old Junk car with Mike and Rick and getting stung in the ass by wasps and Aunt Lorraine making me drop my pants in the kitchen in front of everyone and putting lighter fluid on the bites saying it would take the sting away. I remember the terrible rain and rolling lightning and thunder storms in the middle of the night lighting up the room and the noise and praying Mike would not hear me shaking and crying and call me a sissy. I remember playing “In The Year 2525” over and over again on the stereo. And I remember Aunt Lorraine driving us back to Kansas City at the end of the week and stopping along the way at a truck stop diner for us all to eat. She told us we could all have Chicken Fried Steak and that was it and I though Eww… that sounds nasty…. Now one of my favorite meals. I wish I could go back now and relive all those times and remember more of them and time spent with my Mother and my family and cousins. I would document those times like John Boy on the Walton’s. Steven Sible – Phoenix AZ |