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I couldn't see the original post, so I just decided to start a new one.

Her's another Kemp story or maybe two.

Kemp wasn't real ambitious(sp). He had a feller who was building a building for him. Kemp walked out to see how ther feller was gettin' along. The feller happened to be up on top of the building so he handed a board down to Kemp and told him to cut it off, where he had marked it. Kemp set it down and looked around and picked up an axe and raised it over his head, to cut the board off. The other feller hollered at him and told him, if he was going to cut it off with an axe instead of a saw, he was going to wquit. Kemp told him to cut his own board then as he walked away he said, "I quit before you did."

Kemp had a threshing crew at his place and his wife had to go to town, so she left a chicken in the oven for him, with instructions for him to go in about mid morning and check on it and maybe put a little water on it.

By the time Kemp remembered to go check, the poor ol' chicken had cooked a bit too much, so he pulled it out of the oven and set it in the sink and started to pour cold water over it! It exploded!

He came over and got Mom and she picked up another neighbor lady on the way, so they could clean up the mess and make some food for the crew. She said that the house stunk so bad and that they had to clean bits of chicken off from all the walls and the ceiling.

When Kemp brought the crew in, he told them, "Smells like these wimmen must have cooked up a skunk for us to eat."

Kemp brought a coon over for mom to cook one time. She told him that she had no idea how to cook a coon. He told her in his slow ol' southern drawl, "Why just pawboil and bake it."

Kemp and May came over to visit the folks one time, and caught mom working in the garden. Now remember, this was in a time when a well respected lady wouldn't hardly lewt her ankles show. Especially one as southern and gracious as May was. She had evedently been working in the garden also as when mom apoligized for the mess she was in from working in the garden, Kemp said, "Oh thats alright. May, pull up your skirt and show her your old rusty knees."

Kemp died about the time I was born and I think maybe I got part of his spirit. :wink:
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