Becca wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
>>
>> I had an uncle only three years older than me. When he married his
>> wife was younger than me. She was from Johnsonville, TX and claimed
>> she had never owned a pair of shoes until she married. She wanted the
>> head and the tail left on squirrels we brought in for the pot. I
>> couldn't watch her eat the heads and crack them open for the brains.
>> After he died of heart disease in 1971 we lost track of her and their
>> kids as she evidently remarried about four more times and we lost
>> track of what her surname was. I hope she's not still eating squirrel
>> brains.
>>
>> I always did well in military survival schools because I would eat
>> anything that walked, crawled, flew, swam, or slithered, made no
>> difference, when you're young and hungry everything becomes burgoo.
>> Eating monkey in Panama was sort of disconcerting but it was somewhat
>> tasty in the stew pot.
>>
>> It's all about what you get used to and how hungry you are.
>
> We grew up eating squirrel, but I do not recall eating squirrel brains.
> Uncle Leon was the oldest of 4 children, my mother was the youngest.
> She was over 30 when I was born, so Uncle Leon was quite a bit older
> than us kids.
>
> He had a low IQ, I believe it was about 65-70. Still, he went to work
> every day, he owned a home, had a dog, tended to his garden, took care
> of his lawn. As a child, I did not realize he had a low IQ until I was
> about 10 yrs old. He was my uncle, a joy to be with and I loved him.
>
> Becca

There are numbers of people in this old world just like your Uncle Leon.
It doesn't take brillance to be a good, loving person and to be able to
function at the level he lived in, it takes a good heart and a loving
family. We all can probably remember someone just like your Uncle who
made an impression on us when we were young. You were blessed Becca.