When I was in high school, Mom worked various jobs; I remember once, she even worked in the lettuce fields, cleaning lettuce. The thing is; I know the only reason Mom worked at all was so we could have all the things we couldn’t have afforded otherwise. You know, letter sweaters, class rings, year books; stuff like that. And then she has the nerve to say she doesn’t think she was that good of a mom. HA! Read the rest of this entry »
Posts Tagged mildred’s cafe
I Gotta Say It Again!
November 2, 2013 at 7:29 am · Filed under Family, Good stuff, Mostly true, Poems, the good old days ·Tagged A special day above all others, author, buckeye Valley bank, Charles L. Mashburn, children, God, good old days, happy mothers day, hope, joy, laughter, love, mildred's cafe, mildred's pies, mom's cooking, mom's the best, mother's day, my blog is dedicated to my mom on mother's day, story, writer, you're the best mom
Pee Wee And Dizzy
June 3, 2011 at 12:23 pm · Filed under Family, Mostly true, Stories, the good old days ·Tagged author, baseball hall of famers, Buckeye Arizona, Charles L. Mashburn, cleaning dove, Dizzy Dean, Dove hunting, family, good old days, mildred's cafe, Pee Wee Reese, story, writer
In my story, We Saw It All, Mom, I talked about my mom working at Mildred’s Café in Buckeye, Arizona when we were kids. Mildred’s was a great little café, and it was the place everybody gathered for breakfast and lunch to shoot the breeze about what was going on in the little dessert farming town.
It was also the place where former baseball stars Pee Wee Reese and Dizzy Dean came for their meals when they were in the Buckeye Valley to hunt dove. Read the rest of this entry »
Yep, You Got That Right
May 10, 2011 at 7:00 pm · Filed under Crazy stuff, Family, Mostly true, Stories, the good old days ·Tagged A special day above all others, an old Internatinal pickup, author, Buckeye Arizona, buckeye Valley bank, Charles L. Mashburn, children, cotton farmers, Dickie Morris, don't forget to latch the hood, God, good old days, happy mothers day, harvesting cotton, hope, i had my own tractor, Jewel Turner, joy, laughter, love, mangy halfcoyote half something else dog, mildred's cafe, mildred's pies, mom's cooking, mom's the best, mother's day, my blog is dedicated to my mom on mother’s day, my next career opportunity, pulling trailers to the cotton gin, story, the job came with a house, writer, you're the best mom
Here’s another good one about my days in the cotton farming industry; I wasn’t working for Dickie Morris—see Barrelin’ Down the Dirt Road, and Barrelin’ Down the Dirt Road (part2)—any longer, but I was still doing the same job. I’d moved up in the world though; this was a fulltime job, living and working on one of the biggest farms in the Buckeye Valley. The owner’s name was Jewel Turner. Read the rest of this entry »
Barrelin’ Down the Dirt Road (part 2)
May 10, 2011 at 12:28 pm · Filed under Family, Mostly true, Stories, the good old days ·Tagged A special day above all others, an old Internatinal pickup, author, Buckeye Arizona, buckeye Valley bank, Charles L. Mashburn, children, cotton farmers, Dickie Morris, don't forget to latch the hood, God, good old days, happy mothers day, harvesting cotton, hope, joy, laughter, love, mildred's cafe, mildred's pies, mom's cooking, mom's the best, mother's day, my blog is dedicated to my mom on mother’s day, pulling trailers to the cotton gin, story, writer, you're the best mom
When I got to the gin, I forgot to check the oil; remembering at the last minute. I bailed out and checked it as fast I could, and the guy running the big suction tube was yelling at me to get to get my dang truck out of the way, as I jumped back into the driver’s seat. During harvest time, there could be a lot of trailers lined up waiting to unload, and time was money. Read the rest of this entry »
Barrelin’ Down the Dirt Road
May 10, 2011 at 11:30 am · Filed under Family, Mostly true, the good old days ·Tagged A special day above all others, an old Internatinal pickup, author, Buckeye Arizona, buckeye Valley bank, Charles L. Mashburn, children, cotton farmers, Dickie Morris, don't forget to latch the hood, God, good old days, happy mothers day, harvesting cotton, hope, joy, laughter, love, mildred's cafe, mildred's pies, mom's cooking, mom's the best, mother's day, my blog is dedicated to my mom on mother’s day, pulling trailers to the cotton gin, story, writer, you're the best mom
This is another tale about yours truly, and the stunts he pulled back in the day. I had a wild streak, knew everything, and needed no instruction from the adult world. (Was anybody else like that when they were a teenager?) Well, anyway, check this out. Read the rest of this entry »
She Raised Me Up
May 9, 2011 at 3:34 pm · Filed under Family, Good stuff, Mostly true, Stories, the good old days ·Tagged A special day above all others, author, buckeye Valley bank, celtic woman, celtic woman's you raised me up, Charles L. Mashburn, children, God, good old days, happy mothers day, hope, joy, laughter, love, mildred's cafe, mildred's pies, mom's cooking, mom's the best, mother's day, my blog is dedicated to my mom on mother’s day, she raised me up, story, to be more than I could be, writer, you raise me up, you're the best mom
If any of you followed my tribute to Mom yesterday, and missed this last post, you need to read it. If you can, click on the song( You Raise Me Up ) and listen to it while you read. If it doesn’t bring a tear to your eyes, you’re a statue! (or something like that. Was I too harsh… jeez… ya just never know how people are gonna react to… oh, whatever; y’all know what I mean!) Read the rest of this entry »
The Bible in the Picture
May 8, 2011 at 3:00 pm · Filed under Family, Good stuff, Stories, the good old days ·Tagged A special day above all others, author, Be Still, be still's cover, Be Still.... and know that I am God, Bible, buckeye Valley bank, Charles L. Mashburn, children, God, good old days, happy mothers day, hope, joy, laughter, love, luther benjamin stringer, mildred's cafe, mildred's pies, mom's cooking, mom's the best, mother's day, my blog is dedicated to my mom on mother’s day, Pa's Bible, Pa's brithday, Pennies From Heaven, story, the Bible on the cover, writer, you're the best mom
As most of you know, I published a book of daily devotionals—I prefer to call them daily encouragements—recently, and my Mom’s picture is on the cover. I published Be Still…. and know that I am God primarily as a tribute to, and a gift for, my Mother. She is one of the main reasons I write encouragements and share them with friends and family, not to mention, her prayers—all my life—have held me within shouting distance of the path God would have me walk. I firmly believe that to be true. Read the rest of this entry »
We Saw it All, Mom
May 8, 2011 at 10:00 am · Filed under Family, Good stuff, Mostly true, Poems, the good old days ·Tagged A special day above all others, author, buckeye Valley bank, Charles L. Mashburn, children, God, good old days, happy mothers day, hope, joy, laughter, love, mildred's cafe, mildred's pies, mom's cooking, mom's the best, mother's day, mother’s day, my blog is dedicated to my mom on mother’s day, story, writer, you're the best mom
When I was in high school, Mom worked various jobs; I remember once, she even worked in the lettuce fields, cleaning lettuce. The thing is; I know the only reason Mom worked at all was so we could have all the things we couldn’t have afforded otherwise. You know, letter sweaters, class rings, year books; stuff like that. And then she has the nerve to say she doesn’t think she was that good of a mom. HA! Read the rest of this entry »
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