Crucifixion

Huh.  Well here are some shots of our living room.  I messed up when I turned this thing on.  I was talking about my early childhood and I mentioned some things about Yoakum when I lived there.  I remember one big event.  We went to the stations of the cross during Lent and I guess I was taken aback by the stations of the cross and when we got home, I got 2 two by fours and nailed them together and made a cross.  My idea was to lay Charlie down on the cross and I was going to crucify him and our neighbor across the street – I think he was about 91 or 92, he was a retired Chiropractor – he watched Charlie and I play and when he saw me put Charlie on that cross and pick up the hammer and I was going to crucify him, that old man came off his porch and crossed the street before the hammer came down on Charlie’s hand.  What he didn’t know was, I had put a nail in the wood so Charlie’s fingers were in between the nail.  The nail wasn’t on his hand so the only thing that would have kind of hurt Charlie was if I had missed the nail and hit his hand with the hammer, which I probably would have done accidentally.  But anyway that was kind of an exciting time for that old Chiropractor and for Charlie and I.  It was a little much for us to do.  When my mother found out what I was doing she was not a happy camper about that.  She kind of got upset with me, but I think that actually she was chuckling inside.  That’s one of the really stupid things I did as a kid.