Monday the Forest Service sent a crew to Loss Creek to start replacing the old wooden bridge. The foreman told me that they were putting an iron-bar gate across the road on both sides of the creek -- so looks like things will be messy around the place for a few weeks. They have given me a key to the gate, so as long as it's crossable I can still get to the cabin.
As it turns out, the foreman of the crew was a teen-ager when I pastored my first church in Tellico Plains. He is the one who taught me to take off my shoes and slip up on a squirrell; how to tell the difference between a male squirrell's bark and a female squirrell's bark; and led me around on his Dad's farm near the community of Rafter. What a pleasure to have Chub O'dell and his two sons (William and Wesley) come down to the cabin and join Eddie and me for lunch. Also working with them was another man who was a youngster when we were at Tellico Plains: Kenneth Woods. Frances had sent a huge bowl of chicken & rice and garbonzo bean soup, plus I had two cans of store-bought biscuits with half a jar of molasses, so there was enough to share with everyone. We had a very FUN day.
Pictures next time.
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Fred & His Truck at the Cabin
About Me
- Fred Alton
- I am Fred Alton Brannen, the son of Louis A. Brannen (deceased) and Bonnie Jones Brannen, Louis was an Ordained Bishop with the Church of God. Bonnie is an Ordained Licensed Minister and at 89 years of age is still actively engaged in speaking and singing engagements. I am married to the former Frances Hildreth. We celebrated 53 years of marriage this past June and we are the parents of 3, grand-parents of 10, and great-grandparents of 10. I pastored in Tennessee for 24 years and served the Church in some capacity in missions for over 23 years. I retired from full-time ministry in August of 2008 but remain active, speaking and singing and teaching whenever opportunity affords itself. In January of 2010 I received a letter of commendation for having been credentialed as a minister in the Church of God for 50 years! My family is very important to me. Our get togethers are always noisy affairs and most times will include family sing-alongs. The children love their Mom's cooking so we have the privilege of seeing them regularly! WE LOVE having them over.
2 comments:
Sounds like you did have a good time at the cabin. I really enjoying seeing someone whom I have a special memory of & catching up on their current life. And, the gate may be a good thing - if they don't have a key - you won't have any unannounced visitors. :-) I'm looking forward to a family gathering at the cabin soon! :-)
This is a very cool blog post. It is absolutely "toxic hillbilly", complete with molasses and funny nicknames. Love it.
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