The Story of Ice

This is Ice. Yes, his name is Ice. He is a Border Collie and he has one blue eye and one brown eye. Daddy calls him Cheif Lift-a-Leg because he "goes" on everything. Ice doesn't have good eyesight, and one day, he was trying to jump up into the back of the truck, and he tried to get in on the side. We had let down the tailgate and everything. He hit the side, fell down, and then did the same thing again. Ice loves to sit in the swing and hang out in his barrel, as depicted in this photo taken last March, the day after we got him. He also likes to ride the golf cart.

I Love Chicken Fingers

Okay, I know, but it's so cute!! They just happened to turn that way all at the same time, and it's just adorable, isn't it? Well, I think it is. I took the picture last summer because I was really bored. I took them out of the chicken houses and let them hang out in some concrete blocks. By now, they're chicken fingers, but at the moment, they were adorable little chicks. I don't play with them when they're bigger, because when their feathers turn white, they become nasty and squishy and they make odd little noises. But as chicks, they are great! They pretty much just peep, eat, sleep, and use the bathroom all their life, and they are spoiled rotten until the day the chicken catchers come and take them to be turned into chicken fingers and sold at fast-food restaurants nationwide.

My First Story At The Dinner Theatre

I have performed at the annual Dinner Theatre every year since fourth grade, and that's when this picture was taken. My speech was about a local legend, "The Dancing Ghost of Grancer Harrison". In the process of that story, I had to learn a lot about the history of Kinston, Alabama. Most of this came from a direct descendant of Grancer Harrison, Mrs. Patterson. And I enjoyed that speech a lot. It wasn't one of my best performances, though. I used note cards!!!!! It was actually my worst performance. Of course, it would win any contest, it just doesn't fit my standards for perfection. Luckily, I've been invited back to the Dinner Theatre every year since then. This year, my performance was in the newspapers, Enterprise Ledger and Elba Clipper. Great!!