These are real life stories as I remember how they happened over the past seventy years. Guess we were poor when growing up but we lived the same way that everyone lived. Always got by with what we had or could get. There were ten of us children-9 boys and 1 girl. All lived to middle age. Most married and raised a family. One was a Baptist Preacher, one a good carpenter, one a plumber and a rock layer, one a contractor, and me; I was in the military for twenty years and a truck driver for twenty years. Three went into the dry wall business; one was an electrician and one works for the local newspaper. As for the book, it is just three hundred short stories meant to entertain the reader.