Comments on: A river runs through me http://madronoranch.com/?p=1779 Sun, 25 Sep 2016 11:55:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: susan farrimond http://madronoranch.com/?p=1779#comment-377 Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:26:10 +0000 http://madronoranch.com/?p=1779#comment-377 Martin,
I loved this article with the tales of your trials and tribulations on the Colorado. Being a child that grew up on the banks of the Texas Colorado, I have always had the greatest respect for the river. The people of Smithville never viewed the Colorado as having any recreational value. The house from Hope Floats was at the end of my street. I was never tempted to wander to the river because the banks of the river were covered in high grass and the mention of cottonmouth water moccasins was all it took to scare me away. Since the black children had no swimming pool, they swam in the river. Someone was always getting bitten by a snake or drowning. Not for me. I think I would have walked on the water to keep away from the snakes.

We did get a weekly treat from the river, however. Many people who fished in the Colorado would take their fish to the grocery stores and sell them. Hence, when my grandmother made her morning call to Shirosky’s Grocery, she was informed of the freshest item they had, and when ordered it was soon delivered to our house. When that item was fish, we always had fried catfish and hush puppies for lunch that day. Our main meal was at lunch, supper was leftovers.

Thank you for writing such good tales. They conjure up a lot of memories and sometime they even manage to make the wheels in my head turn.

The people of Austin were always more citified so they found something in the river that was recreational. I swam at Barton Springs and in the Austin lakes and never feared a water moccasin. Go figure! Same river, just wider.

Susan

]]> By: Tink Pinkard http://madronoranch.com/?p=1779#comment-373 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:55:40 +0000 http://madronoranch.com/?p=1779#comment-373 Great post! Martin, lets get together this week and do some angling!! Tinky it was not me who took the vanity plate, promise!!

]]> By: Janis Monger http://madronoranch.com/?p=1779#comment-370 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:06:01 +0000 http://madronoranch.com/?p=1779#comment-370 Martin — This is one of your loveliest columns. I feel the water, the breeze, the lazy feel of summer. I particularly love the title. Rivers run through us … and we are better for it. Thank you for sharing! Janis

]]> By: Tinky Weisblat http://madronoranch.com/?p=1779#comment-369 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:44:16 +0000 http://madronoranch.com/?p=1779#comment-369 It’s true that there is nothing so soothing as a river. And don’t even get me started on Huck Finn!
Could it be that this Pinkard person is the one who took my license plate? When I applied for a vanity plate in Texas, I was told that “Tinky” was taken…

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