We had a bottom nearbye in Pennsyltucky.  It was Manada Bottom, on
Manada Creek.  It sort of ran the opposite direction from Fishing Creek
out of the Fishing Creek Valley.  I loved the name.  Named my estate,
"Manada Bottom Native Tree Nursery and Design Emporium", 'cause the mrs
wouldn't let me call it the "Manada Bottom PigWerks".  I didn't have
any pigs or intentions towards pigs, but love the story about the three
legged pig and wanted to put him on a sign in front of the house.  The
mrs. is not so very fond of pigs.  I think she takes the whole kosher
thing too far when she extents dietary suggestions to living and
breathing and multiplying critters that aren't your own...let alone an
imaginary one painted on a sign, die an imaginary business.  But in the
heat of summer it was always 10 degrees cooler down in the bottom.
They say there's trout in there, but my napping skills are superior to
my fishing skills and I never found out for myself.

My pond doesn't even have a name.  Nor the creek that run into it and
out the otherside.  My business doesn't have an inventive name.
There's no mules in the neigborhood, no crazy neighbors.  We have more
pets than the whole neigborhood combined and our existing nonconforming
white picket fense keeps them home most of the time...maybe we are the
crazy neighbors.

Good morning!

-jc



On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 10:15  PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> No snow hill here ;
> but we gots a snow bottom .
>
> A bottom is for many folks round here
>  the south end of a north bound mule
> and my 3 yr old Mary could fill you in with the rest.
>
> Nearby  we gots a black bottom  once a flappers dance
> is in fact a rich soil deposit and dats where  da big house (plantation
> house) sits
>  But right here just a mile past a place called Ticky Bend; in Robert
> Johnson
> country
> we do gots  a      ....Snow Bottom;
> ....a thriving black community of ramshakle shacks in a long lost
> bottom
> (cotton patch )
>  that predates slave times .
>
> Its  a dirt road  off a dirt road ; and the folks have more mules than
> they
> gots teeth
> and on Sat . night they gets a singing ( sanging) and a carry-on so ...
>  they gots a blind  pig ( Illicit bar)
> and a juke joint ( illicit bar with music)  on le weekend the Mrs is
> has
> been invited to do her Etta James  debut of  low down blues in said
> establishment.
> Pyrate will be all duded up with his horse shoe stick pin and pomade
> on what
> hair I gots left....Live  Sat night  from Snow bottom  Pyrate
>
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>

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