CAROLINA ON MY MIND
NORTH CAROLINA ROAD TRIP
KATHLENE AND I KEPT TH ROAD HOT IN NC FOR A WEEK. WE VISITED TH WHIRLY GIG KING, VOLLIS SIMPSON IN LUCAMA NC. HIS ENVIRONMENT IS AWESOME...TH GIGS R MONSTEROUS IN SIZE BUT SO SWEET TO LOOK AT AS THEY TURN SO EASILY IN TH BREEZE. VOLLIS IS QUITE A CHARACTER HIMSELF...86 YEARS YOUNG HE DOESNT LOOK A DAY PAST 70...THE SAD THING IS THAT TEENAGERS KEEP VANDALIZING HIS GIGS N SHOP--BUT VOLLIS IS A GO GETTER AND HE BOOBYTRAPS HIS SHOP...HES SOMETHING NOW....HE HAD JUST PUT UP A NEW GIG ACROSS THE STREET FROM HIS HOUSE-VOLLIS CROSSROADS-HE HAD TO PUT A CHAIN LIKE FENCE AROUND IT TO KEEP TH KIDS OFF IT....I SAY THESE KIDS NEED A BOARD ON THEIR BUTT AND I'LL BET VOLLIS WOULD LIKE TO DO IT.....ANYWHO, I DONT UNDERSTAND VANDALIZING AND IT MAKES ME SAD/MAD......NEXT WE ROLLED ON DOWN TH ROAD TO HUNTERSVILLE NC FOR A SHO AT MADDIS GALLERY....IT WAS FUN A ND A PRETTY GOOD SHOW....ITS IN A SWANK AREA AND LOTS OF PEOPLE DIDNT KNO WHAT FOLK ART WAS SO WE HAD TO TELL EM ALL ABOUT IT....AFTER TH SHOW WE HEADED TOWARD MONCUR NC FOR A VISIT WITH OUR FRIEND TH LILYMAN...WE HAD SEEN HIS GARDEN NUMEROUS TIMES IN FEBUARY BUT NEVER IN BLOOM--WHAT A SIGHT...EYE CANDY....AND HE GAVE US SOME TO BRING HOME---MINE R NOW PLANTED IN TH JAWJA SOIL AND R DOIN GOOD...MY FAV ONE WAS RED HOT POKER.....WHAT A SHOW IT PUT ON.....CHECK OUT TH LILYMAN AT HOLLYHILL DAYLILY AND CRINUM FARM...JUST GOOGLE IT AND IT WILL COME UP---NEXT WE HEADED TO BYNUM,NC TO SEE CLYDE JONES WHO WAS JUST RETURNING FROM A SHOW HIMSELF....HE HAD PUT UP A CHAIN LINK FENCE TO PUT HIS CRITTERS IN....GUESS HE HAS SOME VANDALS TOO......WE WERE GOING TO SEE SAM TH DOT MAN BUT DECIDED TO HEAD HOME..ALL ALONG TH WAY WE HAD PEOPLE HONKIN AND TAKIN PICS OF TH TRAILER.....THIS WAS HER MAIDEN VOYAGE AS A NEW FUNKED UP GIRL.....WE HEADED ON TO ALABAMA AND DID SOME JUNKIN FOR A FEW DAZE THEN I HEADED HOME---WHAT WAS TO BE A 4 HOUR TRIP TURNED INTO AN 8--HAD A FLAT BUT IT WASNT TOO BAD---AN OFFICER CAME AND STAYED WITH ME ON TH SIDE OF TH INTERSTATE-HE WAS MY ANGEL FOR TH DAY.....MY SON MADE TH JUMP TO COME AND CHANGE MOMS TIRE AND THEN WE WENT HOME--TIREDDDDDDD.......NEXT WEEK WE GONNA MAKE TH JUMP TO PC,FL AND VISIT TH TRIBE.....I AM LOOKIN FORWARD TO SEEIN ALL OF THEM.....OH YEAH, KATHLEEN N I WENT ON TH 502 MILE YARD SALE FROM MERIDIAN, MISS TO BRISTOL, VA....WHAT A RIDE...WE FOUND SOME STUFF 2....I FOUND A TERRAPLANE HUBCAP---U KNO ROBT. JOHNSON SANG TERRAPLANE BLUES-----TERRAPLANES WERE BUILT BY HUDSON FROM 1933-38 ONLY SO I WAS EXSTATIC TO FIND ONE--OF COURSE I CAME RIGHT HOME AND DID A RJ PIECE AND ATTACHED TH HUBCAP...IF SOMEONE WANTS IT THEY GONE HAVE TO PAY CAUSE I REALLY LIKE IT.....LATER GATER....
