This is a little blower, and I'm going to start something today that is new to me. I've never had did it before, but I think it might be a little bit of fun. See, I live down here in this little old community called Wellwood, and we've got a pretty good community down here. We've got all different kinds of people, and we don't always, you know, agree on everything.
We have differences in opinions, but one thing we do is that we help each other see. We just because we don't see eye to eye all the time, that don't mean that we can't support each other and help each other, you see. And so that's what we do. And so what I'm going to start doing is kind of give you maybe a day to day diary about the community down here, and what goes on and some of the people in the community.
So I'm going to start today by telling you about some of the people that live down here. Now we've got old Flossie Butts, and Flossie is a good old girl. She runs a boarding house down here, and she's a good old girl old Flossie. See her, great-grandad, he was a blacksmith.
And so Flossie Butts is a big old stout girl, I guess. She probably would go over 300 pounds, but she is a real good old girl, and she tries to help everybody that she can. And like I say, she runs this boarding house down here, and a lot of us eat over there, you know, and then she helps. We've got this woman down here named Emily that lives down here on the corner.
And Emily, I don't know, she's 89 or 90. I don't know how old she is, but Flossie tries to help her, you know, in every way she can. But Flossie Butts will help you if you need some help. And she's a real good cook.
And then we've got old Uncle Fred, Will Hight. He's not my uncle. Everybody just calls him Uncle Fred. And he's kind of curious, you know, Uncle Fred is.
He's, I don't know how old he is, but he's welling up yonder. And he got more money than anybody that lives down here. Uncle Fred does. And he tries to help the community in every way he can, but he's kind of your gruff.
And if you don't know him, and he, he wants to help people, but he don't want to let on, you know, that he's that he cares about people like he does. So, you know, you can't thank Uncle Fred because he just, he just, you know, don't like to accept, you know, thanks. But he has helped people down here in a lot of ways. He, he put air conditioning in the schoolhouse and he bought he's he's a big member of the church up here.
And he, he, he, give him money for their air conditioning and for carpet on the floor. And he, he bought him a piano down here. He, he, he's got more money than he knows what to do with. But that's Uncle Fred.
And then we've got, you know, preacher Crockett and Jimmy Vanderstig and, you know, different ones that I'll be telling you about from time to time. We've got this teacher down here named, friend seen Adams, that's, you know, real good teacher. She just now got out of college. Now she grew up down here.
I know when she was a little bit of girl and she went off to school at the University of Arkansas and she plays, she played baseball, a softball up there at that college. So she's, she's a little bit of a, of a tomboy, but she's a, she's a good old girl. And then we've got the Houston forward and Houston forward come down here from, he was, he, he lost his eyesight in the Gulf War, you know, in Iraq, he went over there and fighting and he lost his eyesight in the Gulf War. And he is kin to old Carl up here.
Carl is a, has got this tavern, pool hall and a beer joint up here on the highway. Anyway, Houston forward is some kin to Carl. So when Houston forward got back from Iraq and he lost his eyesight, well old Carl wrote him and told him to come on up here and he'd give him a job, which he did. And so Houston is a real good guitar player and I'll be telling you about him, you know, and some of the, some of the podcast is that I do.
I'll tell you about Houston forward, but I won't, I won't talk about any of the other people right now. I just wanted to give you an idea of the kind of community this is it's a, it's a country community. And but we, we kept each other and every way we can, even though we is all different, you know, and some of them is educated. Now I ain't got no education.
I had to drop out of school when I was a, you know, I just spent part of one year in school. And so I ain't got much education, but some people down here does, you see, but they don't hold it again me because I don't have no education. Like I say, we try to, we try to accept each other is what I'm, what I'm trying to tell you. But anyway, I'm going to stop here.
And then next time I come on here next time I do a podcast, I want to tell you about Uncle Fred's racing me. Well, that's a real good story. And I want to tell you that next next, next podcast, me maybe tomorrow, next day or two, I'll tell you about Uncle Fred's racing me.