Harper Library

Some of y'all commented that not hardly nobody goes to the library for information no more. Well I do. We got a real nice little library in a room at Harper Lake Baptist Church. We don't get no government money to keep it up or nothing, so it's run on the honor system. You can take what you want to read and bring it back whenever you finish with it. And you can bring in any book you has read that warn't from the library too. This system have resulted in a growing library especially a week or so after Christmas. The books what I like to read are what I call information books. Ever now and then I will read a book of friction, but for the most part I like encyclopedias, almanacs, and old text books. When the library gets to be too full they put a bunch of the books on a table and encourage peoples to take some and don't bring 'em back. I reckon we got about the best library in the world.

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Today, Hollis told me we had the 5000th view of my little blog. I were real happy and when I told Dorothy she were excited. I could tell 'cause she couldn't stop giggling about it. She don't really like to read my blog 'cause of the way I telled Hollis to write it. Just like I talk. I think I told y'all Dorothy finished at Millsaps College. She uses real good English, but don't never correct me or nothing. She's always been good like that. I reckon I could try to talk better and I did go through grade seven and one-half in school so I was learned a lot of the rules of English and all. But when you go fishing and whittle and hang out with peoples what talk kinda like they want to, you kinda want to talk the same as them. Anyways I wanted to thank all y'all that viewed in over the last year. The only thing I can't figure out is why some of the comments come through and some don't. Some peoples around here tell me they make comments, but I don't see them. Anyhow, I would like to hear from more of y'all.

Yosemite

Another letter come from Leddie Sue and this time it were postmarked California. She sent a picture from what they call Yosemite National Park and it were of a big waterfall. Like always I went to the Harper Library and looked up Yosemite. I found out it were the third national park to be set up. Ever year millions of peoples come to see it. It has all kinds of things growing there, plant and animal. From what I read December are a good month to visit "cause the bears are hydrogenating. That means they is asleep for the whole winter. Leddie Sue wrote on the back of the picture: one of the prettiest places on the face of the earth.  She also wrote: The bigger they are the harder they fall. I reckon that were about her ex-husband 'cause he's about six feet four and weigh about three hundred pounds. He didn't weigh near bout that much when she shot at him. Otherwise she would probably have hit him

Snow Down South

Don't get excited. We ain't got no snow this year, but we did a year or so ago; and before Christmas too. That don't happen but once in a coon's age. This year it are sorta cool  (like in the high 50's during the day time and not a lot cooler at night.) That's what they call Fahrenheit. All y'all overseas will have to change it over to whatever y'all use.
I asked Dorothy what she wanted for Christmas and she told me nothing at all. She says we should find some poor family and give them stuff instead of adding things to our overcrowded house. She actually said overcrowded life, but I choose to change life to house cause it makes more sense to me.
The picture were taken in the woods by my house. It were shot a few feet from Harper Lake. I think it's kinda pretty. Merry Christmas to all y'all

Crater Lake

Looks like Leddie Sue may be in Oregon. Like I been telling y'all we ain't sure of her whereabouts 'cause she learnt computering in the state jail and may be faking it. Anyway we all interested in keeping up with her "travels." Crater Lake were formed when a volcano fell in on itself about 7,000 years ago. Now you can't prove that by me but I read it in a book in the library. The lake are real deep and has a little island close to one shore. The name of the island are Wizard Island. A group of Native Americans must have saw when the volcano caved in 'cause they have been passing down the story for hundreds of years and hold the lake and island as sacred. One thing what I find is funny about this lake is there warn't no fish in it until it were stocked in the early years of the last century. There was however a tree what bobbed up and down in the water for years. They said the cold water kept it from spoiling. Now they say it's just a stump. Take care Leddie Sue where ever you are.

Roswell, NM

We really wondering about what Leddie Sue are up to. Her letter home come with a picture from Roswell, NM. She ain't been gone too long from Chattanooga and we starting to doubt she all the places where she say she is. Especially since she told us things ain't always what they seems. Somebody was telling me the other day about this football player Plastico Burgess what went to prison and got into the habit of reading and has read near bout a hundred books in the last few years. We figured Leddie Sue may have got in the habit of computers and learnt how to do all kinds of things. Things like making it look like she is where she ain't.
Roswell, NM are a real familiar place to us. We had a woman what lived in Harper for several years, back in the fifties and sixties, what come from Roswell. I don't know if all y'all knows about the spaceship what they claim landed in Roswell back in 1947. Well we got to thinking about it and we kinda figured this woman might have been on that spaceship. Because:
1. She claimed she couldn't remember the first twenty years of her life.
2. She were kinda funny looking with big bulgy eyes and sort of lizard skin.
3. Nobody never saw her eat nothing.
4. She talked with what we called a mixed accent. Some words was pronounced like German and some was pronounced like French or Italian or Spanish.
5. Her hair always looked the same but she warn't never spotted at the beauty parlor.
6. She were the only person in Harper what didn't belong to a church.
7. She didn't work nowhere but always had plenty of money.
8. She never were known to go out into the sun.
9. Coon hunters was said to come upon her walking through the woods in the middle of the night.
10. This blue glow were often seen coming from her house.

Lookout Mountain

The next picture Leddie Sue sent home were of Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, Tennessee. On the back were the words: You the one who needs to be looking out. Another threat?? I went to the Harper Library and found a book what had pictures of Lookout Mountain in it. Did you know if you go up to the top and look out (like the name) you can see seven states. Lookout Mountain are really in  Georgia, just across the state line. But you have to go to Chattanooga to catch the little train what goes up to the top. From the picture it looks like the train goes up at almost a ninety degree angle, of course not quite, 'cause a ninety degree angle would be a elevator. Where will Leddie Sue turn up next.

Big Chicken

What Leddie Sue put in the envelope what she sent home were a picture of what they call the Big Chicken.  It are a fried chicken place located in Marietta, Georgia. I called my cousin in Atlanta and asked him about this place and he said it were more than just a place to get chicken. It are also a place what peoples uses to give directions. He said he can't count the number of times when he asked for directions and he were told to go to the Big Chicken and hang a left or go past the Big Chicken for about half a mile or some such instruction. It's what they call a landmark. Now in case y'all wondering if Leddie Sue wrote anything on the back of the picture she did. It said: I know a big chicken and I'm gonna wring his neck. We taken it as a sort of threat. Hope it warn't, but....

Your Cheating Heart

We all wondering what Leddie Sue are up to. The last picture she sent home were took in Montgomery,
Alabama in front of the Hank Williams Museum. On the back she wrote the words: Your Cheating Heart. That were a song sung and I think wrote by Hank. I kinda like Hank Williams music, but I never did care a lot about his singing it. There were also a note in the same envelope what held the picture. It said, "Things aren't always what they seem. I may not be where you think I am." None of us knows what to think.

Baton Rouge

Leddie Sue were in Baton Rouge. She sent a polaroid picture to her mama's house and on the back she wrote, "Don't try to figure where I'm at. Moving on. Moving on." I reckon she's gonna travel all over the place until she gets caught. I'm sure the law are gonna catch her, but I'm kinda pulling for her to go as many places as possible 'cause once she gets nailed again she ain't going nowhere for a long time. Baton Rouge are the capital of Louisiana and the building in the picture are the capitol building. That's the very building where Gov. Huey P. Long were shot and killed by that doctor way back when I were just a boy. That's all peoples around her talked about for months.

Pictures From All Over

I reckon y'all understand that Leddie Sue were under what they call patrol and she had this woman what were called a patrol officer she had to report to. If she didn't do this, she would have to go back to the state jail and this time she wouldn't be likely to get out again. At least not until she were a real old woman. If she were worried about this you couldn't tell from what she done 'cause she run off. And she done it in a real interesting way. She sent polaroid pictures home showing where she were at. But she figured a way to send them after she were gone. Kinda like a time exposure but not really. The first picture come to her mama's house and it were took in New Orleans in what they calls the French Quarters. It had a note wrote on the back: I ain't here no more, so no need to look. We all wondering where she's off to next.

Leddie Sue Takes Pictures

We feel a little better about Leddie Sue and her going after her ex-husband, Wilbur James, and his wife, Amy Jean, what are also her sister. Amy Jean called her friend, Amelia Doris, what lives right here in Harper about a block from Harper Lake Baptist Church and told her what had happened yesterday. Seems like Leddie had got her old Polaroid camera out of the closet where it had stayed all the time she were in the state jail and she had took it with her on her bus ride down to Pensacola. And what she done with it, she taken real up-close pictures of Wilbur James and Amy Sue while they was eating pizza on the porch of one of them places where you can eat outside. And she left the pictures in their mailbox with a note on the back of each one. One said: Any time I want to. Another: Cameras ain't the only thing I shoot. I say we feel a little better cause we figured them two would already be shot by now. Shot with a gun.

Waiting on News from Leddie Sue

While we are sitting around waiting on what's happening to Leddie Sue, I wanted to thank our friends in Russia which has become the country outside the US with the most views to our little blog. Number two is Germany, number three Canada, and number four Australia. Thanks to all.
All the countries are:

1.     USA

2.    Canada

3.     Australia

4.     Denmark

5.     Norway

6.     UK

7.     France

8.     Germany

9.     Slovenia

10.  Croatia

11.  Japan

12.  Philippines

13. UAE

14. Malaysia

15. Brazil

16. Russia

17. China

18. Hong Kong

19. Spain

20. Pakistan

21. Sri Lanka

22. Mexico

23. Saudi Arabia

24. South Korea

25. Macedonia

26. Argentina

27. Ukraine

28. Indonesia

29. Taiwan

30. Greece

31. Egypt

32. Netherlands

33. New Zealand

34. India

35. Lithuania

36. Latvia 

37. Italy

38. Sweden

39.  

Two-Timer

Amy Jean, Leddie Sue's sister, went through a short period of grieving after Leddie shot her husband, Albert. But it didn't last no longer than till Wilbur James, Leddie's husband, what she meant to shoot instead of her brother-in-law, got a divorce. Next thing you know him and Amy Jean run off together and got married. They was living in Florida last I heard. Now I ain't sure exactly what a two-timer are but some peoples say Wilbur James are one. And other peoples say Amy Jean were the one two-timing. I reckon it don't matter none. What the problem are now is Leddie Sue are apparently out to get 'em both. Ain't much you don't know about peoples here in Harper. And if there are something you don't know you can find out from Francine Farris. She found out that Leddie Sue bought a one-way ticket to Pensacola and were seen climbing on the bus last night. The woman what works at the ticket counter at the bus station reported that Leddie Sue had a real strange look on her face like somebody what had a mission to do. We all hoping it ain't a mission what were interrupted twenty-two year ago by a misplaced shot.

Leddie Sue Takes Action

Looking back on Leddie Sue growing up, I don't reckon she ever done nothing to hurt no person. She were a hunter and fisher when she were young, but she were as nice and kind to peoples as anybody you ever seen. I figure she put up with Wilbur James and his drinking and running around with other womens as much as she could. She went to his friends and some aunts and uncles and you know what they done; they just laughed and said "that's Wilbur James for you." I keep thinking how maybe one of them uncles could've straighten that noodle-head out and maybe stopped what happened from happening. As y'all know Leddie Sue taken her 44 and went looking for her husband. And where she found him were the Dew Drop Inn. Him and Leddie Sue's sister's husband was hanging out with two loose womens what come from out of town. When Leddie Sue taken aim to do away with her wayward husband she were shaking so hard she hit Albert, her brother-in-law, right in his heart and he were the one what were done away with. The judge throwed the book at Leddie Sue and she got what they called the maximum sentence. Now after twenty-two year she's back in town and she's looking pretty good considering. Next time I'm gonna talk about how Leddie Sue's sister done her wrong.

Pickpockets and Loose Women

Wilbur James and Leddie Sue was real happy. For about a year. They went on a honeymoon at the Gulf Coast Inn where a lot of locals went and come back all ready to settle down to a nice, quiet life in Harper. But Wilbur James were attacked by what I call the one year itch. He had always had a eye for womens and I reckon his mama were to blame somewhat, but that don't carry much slop to the pig pen as far as I'm concerned. He started hanging out at the Dew Drop Inn where it were known that loose womens hung out. It were costing him money what Leddie Sue needed to pay the rent and buy groceries, but for a while she took his word about him helping out a few peoples in need. But one night he were visiting this woman at the Dew Drop and when he awoke the woman,his wallet, and all his money were disappeared. This time he couldn't explain to Leddie Sue what happened. And she done some investigation and found out a lot of what he were doing. That's when she went out and buyed a gun. It were a 44 Magnum. She seen it in a movie about police in San Francisco and seen it were powerful enough for the shooter to put a big hole in the shootee. Next Wilbur James pushes the wagon too close to the cliff.