The Dinner Table,

The Long Table was always covered with bowls and Platters.. full of good country food,as a small child it was my job to stand in a chair and swing this branch back and forth to be sure to keep the flies from landing on food. my Grandmother hated those flies,but there was no way keeping them out house when the screened doors were being opened every second from all cousins running in and out.
How hungery I would get looking at that platter of fried Chicken,so many pieces of chicken ,stacked so high that you could not get another piece on it without it falling off, and that big bowl of corn, potatoes, greenbeans, gravy,fried apples,and Oh,those big fluffy biscuits my grannie would make.
How my mind would wonder ,standing on that long bench waving that branch back and forth...I learned a lot about life, moral values,running a household,taking care of what you have, and most of all, respect for others, especially any older person.
The older members ,[men in family] would eat first, then women and finally the children, we were lucky if we got a piece of chicken,and if we did it was always the back or a wing,thats why to this day I will not eat that part of chicken.
There were many meals around that dinner table, we knew when Sunday came,first we went to church and after that to Grandma's house for dinner where we would get to play with all our cousins ..not realizing the wonderful memories we were making that would be with us for a life time. and all it takes to get the memories going is a long dinner table with long bench on back side.