CHAPTER 3 PART 2 MILKY

After swimming for hours we return to banks looking for our cloths which we hid under some shrub.  Only to discover to our horror that they were gone.  My older cousin while we were having fun had crept up and grabbed our cloths. This presented a big dilemma how do we get home without cloths?  Hands between our legs and over our bottoms. Picture that?  Total humiliation as we walked down the street the girls of the neighborhood to see us and laugh at us; then licks like peas when we got home. And if you don’t holler loud you get more licks not an easy proposition never the less, we have to journey home. May be we wait till dusk? Still not good proposition dusk is chilly and cold mosquitoes and Sand flies bite your tail. 

Once upon an Easter.

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Chapter 3 Milky

Feeling the nostalgia of youth and some of the happiest moments of my life I present to you my followers the remaining chapters of Once upon an Easter. Attached to this blog is art "Blue Diamond" which is on sale for $400.00. Illustrations for Once upon an Easter are not for sale. Once upon an Easter is available on Barnes&Nobel.com in eBook format.

With the coming of Easter also comes Easter showers and Campbellville always floods.  Mr. Kerry our neighbor had a speed boat which he would float down to the wide trench at the back of our homes. The trench was called Milky.   And there gather all the boys of the street and we would go speeding up and down the trench. This was the water way where all the boys in the neighborhood learned how to swim.

Peter one of the older boys would lead us out to the middle of “Milky” floating on a log then take the log away and leave you in the middle. This called for desperate action frantic scramble to the shore line suddenly we were swimming.  Going to swimming in Milky was not however approved by my aunt Yvonne. Therefore after concocting lies as to our reason for leaving the house we would end up at “Milky” swimming naked as we were born. Best way to swim one felt a sense of freedom. 

ONCE UPON AN EASTER

Today Monday 04/13/2020 in Guyana and most of the Commonwealth of Nations it is Easter Monday and a holiday. On this day kite flying and picnics and parties are celebrated. However today I mourn for all who have died and are sick due to the COVID-19, pandemic sweeping the world.

                          CHAPTER 10: JOURNEY

When we got to Kite Man’s room he was already dressed and waiting for us he had a broad smile on his face and his eyes sparkled with anticipation of the day. He wore a green suit with white shoes. And said “We go fly in style”.  With breakfast over we headed to the Back Dam where all the kite flying took place.  Our kite was so big we had to hitch a ride on a donkey cart and bumped our way to the Back Dam.

Once upon an Easter.

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