Grandpa & Grandma Walls

• More Choices

• Introduction to TV

• A Two-Sided Partnership

• Haying at Uncle Warren's

• Who You Gonna Call?

• The Gathering

• Dean-My Cousin, Competitor and Friend

• Finger Lickin' Good

Photo by Dean Walls

Our farm was a quarter-mile from Grandpa and Grandma Walls' house. Uncle Warren's house was just a few hundred yards past Grandpa's. Uncle Floyd's place was just another half-mile up the valley, towards Mt. Pisgah church. This physical closeness assured that much of our lives be shared with our Walls cousins, uncles and aunts.

We enjoyed the life of sharing in such things as putting up hay, cutting up wood, butchering hogs or just being together Dad's sisters also lived close and it was normal and great for all to go to Grandpa's for Sunday dinner right after church.

Since Grandpa, Uncle Warren, Uncle Floyd and our families lived close to each other we shared things like farm equipment. It was then possible for one to have a mower, another a rake, the third a wagon; and by working together, Grandpa and his sons could in turn put up the hay at all three places. These times of sharing and working together were to me some of the really glorious days that I will always remember and treasure.