Life in Cayuga

 Last year about this time, I wrote about being in Tylertown, MS for a barbecue contest and receiving a call from my son about tornadoes in Rolling Fork, MS where he was working.  Sadly, over the weekend, Tylertown itself was hit by not one, but two tornadoes back to back in the span of an hour.    Four people lost their lives in Tylertown and at least three others in other towns along the path of thia storm.  The storm was on the ground for at least 60 miles, leaving a path of total destruction in its wake. Another line of storms hit the Mississippi Delta, very near to the path of the Rolling Fork storm.   Mississippi is hurting today.  We need thoughts and prayers, but we need physical help too. If you can, please donate to whatever relief organization you choose.  Red Cross, Salvation Army, church relief organizations.  People need help here.  Thank you.  

 At my cousin Roy’s funeral a few weeks ago, I was talking with one of his co-workers and he said something about how Roy could fix anything.  He was amazed. “Like how did he know all this stuff?”  I explained that it was almost a way of life in our family.  I mentioned in my earlier post about the tractor shed, how my father taught me so many things.  Roy’s dad, my Uncle Jerry was the same way.  It was a great gift.   Uncle Jerry was an appliance dealer. He sold and repaired Whirlpool appliances for over 50 years. Naturally, all our appliances came from him.  But, like Daddy, he expected me to fix things myself whenever I had a problem.  He would sell me the part and talk me through the repair over the phone and if I still couldn’t fix it, then I could bring it in or he’d send one of his guys to check it out.  But he was teaching me how to do things for myself. I tell people all the time that the greatest gift my father gave me was to t...