Another memory for "Do you Remember When"
On the sand, down from the weir, where you could find any of us Pace children, day or night - it wasn't
to hard to slip out. but, what I am going to try to describe here was broad daylight and perfectly normal (for us) {Aunt Mamie
would have had a fit}.
Us Pace boy's (sorry, don't remember if you were there Ditter, you were probably helping mama with
laundry or something - girls work-) were playing on the sand bank (pure white sand) of King's River.
My big brother Fred see's a BIG washed up log on the bank. He has a GOOD Idea. He's going to make us
a diving board !! - just like they got at the new swimming pool in Lemoore.
Well, he send's his other little brother (Millard) down the levee to where he remembered seeing a good
piece of lumber thrown away.
All this time, I'm just splashing & playing (and not eating TOO much sand) otherwise, just enjoying
life - not knowing what my BIG brothers had planned for me.
Well, with no more said, they put that board over that log, had me try it first, BECAUSE I was younger
and it wouldn't be fair of them to take advantage of me. Let women and children go first (AS all gentlemen do).
SO, I went first. That rotten board broke as soon as I walked past that rotten log, , the log or bank
side in caught me under the neck and the last thing I remember is Fred and Millard laughing about how funny I looked because
I could barely keep my toes to the ground.
I never thought it was that funny.
Your brother
Palmer Lee Pace
November 02, 2002