{"id":4429,"date":"2015-05-18T20:22:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T20:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2015-05-19T16:10:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T16:10:28","slug":"marjories-almanac-and-opie-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=4429","title":{"rendered":"Marjorie’s Almanac and Opie Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, May.\u00a0 The time when flowers are fairly bursting into bloom.\u00a0 When gentle breezes and sudden showers make the world green and glorious.\u00a0 I came across this little book a good while back.\u00a0\u00a0 These books came in the mail back in the sixties and one would be sent to you every so often as long as you subscribed.\u00a0 I didn’t get very many of them, but this one was a favorite and had some favorite poetry called Marjorie’s Almanac.<\/p>\n

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There was a poem for every season.\u00a0 This one was my favorite and I memorized it and can say it even now.<\/p>\n

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I do think Maytime is pleasanter than March although I do like March too.\u00a0\u00a0 One of the poems for\u00a0Autumn is very politically incorrect in this day and age of speech control, but at the time it was innocent and did not demean anyone, but it would certainly be looked at differently today.\u00a0 I will not show it here, but I have it memorized also.<\/p>\n

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Green things are growing everywhere you pass.\u00a0 Even Molly Marshmallow likes it so much she does this……<\/p>\n

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Picks one of my biggest and brightest irises and brings it up to the back deck for me.\u00a0 Such a thoughtful puppy!<\/p>\n

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Glad I got a picture of them before they became Molly munchies.<\/p>\n

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See how proud she is of herself for picking my flowers?<\/p>\n

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I’m thinking she belongs in jail.\u00a0 She looks good behind\u00a0bars.\u00a0 Don’t you think?<\/p>\n

She has brought up dead birds, moles, broken toys, pieces of board and other things to share with me.\u00a0 She will soon be one year old and I am hoping that this chewing and destroying will come to an end sometime.<\/p>\n

This past Sunday after church, we headed to Danville, Indiana where they were celebrating Mayberry Days.\u00a0 If you don’t know what that is, I will explain.\u00a0\u00a0 Back in the sixties there was a television show called The Andy Griffith Show.\u00a0 It starred Andy Griffith, of course, and was a bout a sheriff in a small southern town called Mayberry.\u00a0 The town had a\u00a0lot of quirky, funny people.\u00a0 People like Gomer, Goober, Earnest T. Bass,\u00a0Aunt Bee, who was Andy’s aunt in the show, Opie, Andy’s red headed son, Floyd the barber,\u00a0 Howard Sprake,\u00a0 Barney Fife, Andy’s deputy sheriff and Ellie May,(correction. Thelma Lou was Barney’s girl friend. Ellie\u00a0May was a Clampett.) There were lots of others, but these were the main characters.\u00a0 Anyway, Danville has a Mayberry caf\u00e9 in town and every year they have a Mayberry day.\u00a0 The only reason I knew about it was that this year our grandson was entered in the Opie Taylor look alike contest.<\/p>\n

Several boys and I guess a man or two entered the contest and they had to go and be in a parade on Saturday and be judged.\u00a0 Sunday they announced the winner.<\/p>\n

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This man played Barney Fife, and if you ever watched the show, you would not believe how much he looked like and acted like Barney.\u00a0 He was kind of the master of ceremonies at the event.\u00a0 Here he is getting ready to announce the Opie look alike winner.\u00a0 We all sat there on pins and needles. (We adults already knew who had won because the parents had been called the night before to be sure the winner would be here.)\u00a0\u00a0 Barney took forever to announce the name.\u00a0 My grandson sat there in suspense.\u00a0 Then, suddenly Barney said, “And the winner of the Opie Taylor look alike contest is…….. Adler Grey Craig!”\u00a0 Well, we all screamed as Adler went up on stage to get his prizes.<\/p>\n

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Here he is talking to Barney Fife.\u00a0 It was almost surreal to see those two together.<\/p>\n

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Adler received a really nice gold trophy, one hundred dollars and free meals at the Mayberry caf\u00e9 for one whole year.\u00a0 That was pretty nice, I’d say, for a boy.<\/p>\n

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He became kind of a celebrity as he had his picture taken with several people.\u00a0 Here he is with Aunt Bee.<\/p>\n

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This little boy was also in the running and they got a picture together.<\/p>\n

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Here are the actors who played Gomer Pyle and the mayor of Mayberry.<\/p>\n

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Gomer and Goober did an act.<\/p>\n

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Floyd the barber and Barney.<\/p>\n

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There was a Mayberry band and they played a couple of original songs.\u00a0 One was about a rooster which got me laughing so hard tears were running down my cheeks and my stomach hurt and one of the guys on stage said I was shaking like a bowl of Jello and another guy offered me his red handkerchief, but I was laughing so hard I just wanted them to ignore me.\u00a0 You had to hear the song.<\/p>\n

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Danville has a really nice museum and we got to look through it a bit although we really went there to see Aunt Bee.<\/p>\n

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There she is in her kitchen.<\/p>\n

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Her famous pickles were on the counter. If you were a fan of the Andy Griffith show, you will remember when Aunt Bee was making pickles for the county fair and how many Barney and Andy had to eat.\u00a0 One of the more memorable shows.<\/p>\n

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Barney was handing out tickets and David got this one for walking too fast on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n

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We learned that all the characters who were there that day came from all over the United States.\u00a0 Only two were local people.<\/p>\n

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Nostalgia was everywhere.\u00a0 I even saw an old Farmall\u00a0 tractor like my daddy use to drive on the farm.\u00a0 All in all it was a fun day and I am so glad we went.\u00a0 If you are near Danville Indiana this time next year, you really ought to stop on by and visit the Mayberry festival.\u00a0 There is a Mayberry caf\u00e9 that serves really good food and all the televisions around the caf\u00e9 show the Andy Griffith show continuously.\u00a0 It is open year round.<\/p>\n

Here’s to good times and good memories. Bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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