- Jun 15, 2009
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I grew up in the suburbs as did most of my cousins. One summer when I was about 8 and my cousin David was 6 we traveled to our great grandmothers house in Kentucky. She had a garden and chickens and an outhouse. David had never seen live chickens before and gr-grma also had a big white husky. My aunt had been telling him about the chickens and about the garden, etc. As the car drove closer to grma's house Snowball the big white husky was eagerly waiting in the front yard and my cousin yells out "That's the biggest chicken I ever seen!!" Our family laughed about that for years. sigh..I wish now I was able to learn more from my great grandma we called mamaw Benton. Her water came from the well, her garden was an acre, the food she canned she stored literally in the side of the hill with a wooden door to enter and the outhouse she was still using til 1980. Oddly I want to live like that. Simple , happy and healthy. She was a widow for years, lived like that til she was 90 and died with a peaceful smile on her face...Snowball the husky chicken!!