Stay With It, Polly did!

My family came from a bunch of hard working people. I always remember our Mom working 3 jobs all the time. I used to not understand how she could do it. She never had much fun in her life except when she was at home on a Sunday which was a football day. Go Mom!! She loved watching college football.
We lived in Lompoc California, when I was in high school. She would scream at the TV when the Arkansa Razorbacks came on and you'd hear......... Soooooo----eeeeeeeeeeeee-----pig-----soooooo----eeeeeeeeeeeee......in a long drawn out scream. You can bet Mom had the voice. Everyone heard her as we lived in a 6 apartment row duplex style place that everyone got to know Mom as just, Polly. She really had a lot of fun doing that. Those were the good ole days. Everyone loved Polly.
All the kids in the neighborhood would come over and we'd have so much fun as Mom would let us all play around the house or inside. We had to shut our door when the football game came on or we could sit and participate. Either way we always knew we could have friends over at any time as long as it wasn't bed time. She was called Mom by all our friends when we were kids as everybody loved her. Most of her friends knew her as Polly. She had such a good funny way about her. One thing you couldn't do was tell her something about yourself or something private. She told everybody and used to say "well, it's the truth." Or she would say, "that's what they said I'm just stating what they told me." Me and my sister Linda, would say, "Mom, please. They don't want people to know they have a sore on their you know what, and had to you know what, to get rid of it." She'd say, "well what did they tell me about it for then. They didn't tell me to keep it a secret."
Soooooooo, if you didn't want the whole neighborhood to know all your biz you left it out of Polly's ears. Funny thing though, no one ever did. They all just kept telling her things. I think they must have wanted people to know about it that's why they told her, I suspect. Funny, now that I think about it.
Anyway, she really worked her butt off, and no one can ever take that away from her. I never remember her being off more than one day at a time, unless a holiday followed a Sunday. She always said to work as if the good Lord is watching you. I know he say you working Mom and very hard at that. If Polly can do it so can you. I guess that's why all us kids, Leo, Lee, me and Linda picked up the work very hard method from Mom's example. It wasn't what took her anyway. Stay with it, Polly did.
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