Summer is summer wherever you are...

The place "uptown" was cooler than the desert, or so it seemed. The wind blew in through the tent flaps so we were more comfortable. Our latest "good" thing was the ice man and the little bits of ice we were able to enjoy.Our glasses were Just tin cans mother had saved or picked up somewhere but the koolaid we had in them was the coldest ever!!

We were not there too long before mother had to go on a little walk around. She left early in the morning and Daddy had to keep us kids under control which wasn't hard because we were always ready to be good for him. Mother came back that evening late and we had some supper.

Daddy had made biscuits and mother pitched in and made gravy to go with some kind of really salty meat. But we didn't complain about that because we had koolaid to wash it down with. Besides Daddy said it was really good and who in their right mind would dispute his word, as Mother put it.

Daddy asked mom how her trip went and she said her friends were moving to California. She said she didn't have to walk all the way home because someone named Bonnie and Clyde came along in a big car and let her ride on the fender part of the way home. She told Daddy they gave her a cigarette and it almost made her sick. We didn't have cigarettes at home because no one uused them. Daddy always had his snuff and that kept him happy.

The other tenters began to move out, to where no one knew I'm sure, but it wasn't long till we were the only ones there.

One day our lot began to fill up with big trucks and all kind of equipment . We were amazed at the things being unloaded!!! There were horses and all kind of little animals!! We all, except Mother and the baby, walked over the lot to see what was going on. The man said it was going to be a carnival!! We were jumping up and down with excitement. Daddy asked the man if her could help put it together. "Yep," the man said. He would pay Dad a small amount and us kids could all have a free pass to ride the things. But he said all us girls had to stay at the tent out of the way. Boy, did that bust our bubble.

Buddy and Daddy worked all day and into the night getting it ready to go. It took all the next day to get it all put together. Then all the people started coming.

Daddy took us kids over to it and Mother came, too, carrying the baby. She saw all of it she wanted to. She said she wasn't about to get on those crazy things and break her neck. Try as he would, Daddy couldn't get her to ride anything.

Daddy took all of us around with our passes and by then everyone knew Daddy and they let us ride on all we could. then he took us and Mother back to the tent. Mom was ready to go by then. She said they were kicking up too much dust. Mickey got sick on the merry go round. I guess we all had a ball, or so it seemed to us.

Daddy told mom to keep us in the tent and not to come out because there were too many strange men around. Mother promptly told him she was not afraid of any of them!! But we stayed in the tent.

Buddy and Daddy worked with them as long as the carnival was there. Then we had meat to put in the ice tub. It seemed like we never ran out of potatoes. Much to our dismay, the carnival only lasted so long but we talked about it for what seemed to be forever; It gave our fertile minds something to work on for the longest. Of course we had to take turns being the "barker".And that came to an end when mom got enough of it.

Not too long after that Mother mentioned to Daddy about wanting to go to California. She said there was work there to be had.

I have run out of the subject for this writing so it's off to fix dinner for the man of the house.

Till then---I'm prattling on...