Well my Daddy worked his way up from absoutely nothin'. Like he was stealing apples off the apple truck during the depression to stay alive.

I was born in Alexandria Va after my dad had worked his way up to home ownership by building a house out of scrap lumber. He had a bunch of hunting dogs and liked to hunt rabbits up around Winchester.

We lived just over the Alexandria city line on Edsall road in FF county. We would go buck swimming in the creek down by the railroad tracks. We had apple trees, grew corn, veggies and grapes and made our own wine.

I remember the time me and my mom went to the dump and picked up a bunch of bicycles. We took them home and made bikes for me and my brother from the parts.

Not very exciting but we had food and the basic stuff we needed to get by. I saw a plane skywriting "buy a Muntz TV" in the sky and wondered what a TV was.