Saturday, March 3, 2007

A childhood memory!

My favorite childhood memory, goes back many years ago. I was four years old, and we were visiting my grandparents in Elizabeth town, Illinois. They lived in a two bedroom house on 8 acres. On this 8 acres they had what you would call a mini farm. They had a horse, 2 cows, 5 rabbits, pigs, and a lot of chickens.
On the second morning of our visit, I remember waking up before anyone else to go outside to see all the animals. I was fascinated with country life. I came from a big city in California. I went outside, across the pasture, under the wooden fence to where the rabbits were. I was putting my fingers in the cage and one of the rabbits bit me. I was angry at this rabbit and did what any child my age would do I bit the rabbit back! After this incident the rabbits were no fun anymore. I walked over to where the pigs were, and some how managed to get myself in the pig pen. I remember there had to be at least 3 mama pigs each having baby pigs. It was fun in the pig pen. I loved playing in mud, but then I began to think that the pigs did not smell very good. I had a thought, so I went back to the house, and very quietly snuck inside the bathroom and got some air freshener. At this time, I went back outside across the pasture, under the wooden fence, and back into the pig pen. I began spraying the freshener around the pigs hoping the smell would go away. I used the whole can but the smell was still there. "Jill" my dad yelled very loudly with a frantic voice. "Get out of the pig pen right now". I got out wondering why my dad sounded so scared. What did I do wrong? "I was just trying to make it smell better for the animals," I said.
My dad carried me back under the wooden fence, across the pasture, into the house. After getting a bath, all the adults sat down with me and explained, how dangerous it was for me to be in that pig pen with the mama's and their babies spraying air freshener. After that day I never went down to see the animals alone again.

2 comments:

rhea said...

Your writing is really good on this one, and your story was funny.

Daniel said...

That was a very funny story! The logic of children never ceases to amaze me. I guess you were lucky too. Nice post.