I’ve been trying out some new material. A feller once told me that ya should try to change about a third of your material every year. I want to do that cause some of it is getting purty stale dated with me!

What I do when I’m practising my routines is to either look in a mirror or try to find an audience. The new stories I’m workin’ on is getting’ past the mumblin’, stutterin’ and stumblin’ stage and I wanted to give it a try on something live. My brother, Blue, and Aunt Tilley saw me comin’ with that look in my eye and they headed for the truck in the driveway so I let ‘em be.

But, my eighty-six year old Aunt Tilley got some sunflowers in the garden that stand a good ten feet tall and they stand at the end of a couple of rows of corn that is about six feet high. So I figgered to hide in between them two rows of corn and give it all I was worth as there twern’t nothin’ around. There I was givin’ the performance of my life to them sunflowers. Man, I thought it was kinda rude of them not to give me a standin’ ovation!!

When I come out of the garden there was Aunt Tilley and my older brother, Blue, standing arms down by their side and starin’ at me. Blue had a rope in his hand. He says, “If he starts to get too violent, I’ll calf tie him. You run fer the phone and call 911.”

Geez, the things a feller puts up with to get ready to entertain folks.