my Daddy built the building that our shop is in almost 50 years ago.. when I was a little girl I remember my Daddy sitting on his 3 legged milking stool in the doorway of this building, just sitting. My Daddy was a thinker, an inventor, said he was lazy and if he could invent something to make a job easier it was worth the extra work. He would sit on that 3 legged stool for days, just sitting there thinking and thinking and then he would get up and get busy building whatever it was he thought of. He would go to the scrap yard and you would hear him in the shop hammering, welding, banging, cussing up a storm and then in about 3 or 4 days he would come out with a new what-ever it was to do the job that needed to be done.

He built an auger that was powered by the PTO on our tractor so he didn't have to dig post holes. He built a pecan shaker also powered by the tractor so he didn't have use a flailing pole on the trees. He built a pecan separator so he didn't have to do it by hand and I could go on and on.

My Dad was a lot of things and honestly I don't really know what kind of man he was. I have some really bad memories of him being horribly mean (to my brother) and cold to all of us, but, I do have some good memories of him and I will just choose to let them remain just that... good memories.

I was just thinking of him as I was sitting out in the yard a while ago staring at my project-in-the-making trying what to decide to do next... just sitting and staring and thinking.....