I want to wish each and everyone of you here at the message board a most blessed Holiday Season! You all play such an important part in bringing Mayberry to me. I used to feel so alone out there always wishing there was really a Mayberry and so much wanting to step back in time and live there. This past year, I found the message board and found all of you. All of you are so awesome! So kind and always helpful. Just like Mayberry. Allen, thank you to you and your family for the wonderful Christmas card. I looked back over the others you sent out over the years and they are all awesome. Some even brought tears to my eyes. As far as the latex glove story goes. All the talk about Snails & Worms lately reminded me of a funny memory. Me and my children had conquered the fear of putting a worm on a hook, but not the fear of touching the fish to take it off the hook if we did catch one. So, one beautiful summer day we wanted to go fishing, but we had this dilema...my husband was at work, so we had no one to to handle the caught fish for us. Finally, my son Josh, now 20, then 12 or 13, says "I can take the fish off the hook if you can figure out a way for me not to have to touch it." I turned on my thinking cap and thought of those yellow, platex gloves I use to do dishes. I was out of them, so my two boys went to the store and bought a pack of two, so off we went to the lake. There were several others there fishing as well, so we found our spot and started to bait hooks and get them in the water. We usually didn't have much luck catching anything, but of course today was quite the opposite. It's like the fish were under the water watching us fools and wanted to have some fun with us. It's like they were jumping on our hooks. Every time one of us caught a fish, we'd yell for Josh to "Get the Gloves!" He couldn't get them on fast enough, soon there was another fish, and then another, and then yet another. It never failed, he'd just take them off and we were yelling for the gloves again. We all got laughing so hard that our stomachs just hurt. The other people around the lake had quite a show that day, as we could hear others laughing at us. It was a wonderful day for all of us that day and we still share many laughs over it yet today. All it takes is someone saying "Josh, get the gloves!" Ben, this is the first time I seen the Night Before Christmas in Mayberry Poem. It was very well done, thank you for that. Well, I had better let someone else get a word in, I just wanted to share. Bea in Iowa ~ Lisa _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
