Reese’s Pieces and coffee are not the best breakfast choices for a diabetic. Perhaps, since the coffee has no cream, sugar or anything else fake or sweet in it, the bitterness balances out the sugar and fake stuff in the candy. Yeah, I like that reasoning. Fits my mood this morning.
Weed eaters right outside your front picture window are not good for headaches, either. No one asked my opinion, though, so I reckon I’ll get over it.
My grandparents said that word all the time while I was growing up—reckon.
“Are you ready for breakfast?” Mamaw might ask.
“I reckon,” Papaw might answer.
“Well,” Mamaw would say, “I’ll get it on dreckly.”
Dreckly: a term meaning directly, often spoken in the Appalachian region.
Directly: an adverb (note the “ly” ending). Used in the context above, dreckly-directly means the person will begin making breakfast in a few minutes.
Would you be surprised if I admitted to you that it was hard not to use the adverb, shortly? We writers find it difficult to stop using adverbs.
Mr. Weed eater man is getting his workout this morning; that bank across the street from my house is steep. Oh, now he has friends. I can hear them talking. Maybe his go-get-em attitude has inspired my neighbors into getting their work done. The only thing that noise inspires in me is the urge to grab something for this headache. I think I need food.
Food, sustinance, roughage, grub. Which reminds me, did you know Adam and Eve were vegans? Read Genesis 1-3. God said He was giving them every herb bearing seed for food.
When we hear or read the account in Genesis 3 where Eve eats from the forbidden tree, it focuses our attention on fruit. But what other kinds of food did they eat? Adam was not tilling the ground at that point, so there were no whole grains. Of course, when God told the earth to bring forth all the plants and trees, He may have meant wheat, as well. We don’t know.
One thing for certain that we do know is the did have figs. If they did not, then Adam and Eve would not have sewed fig leaves together into aprons to cover themselves after they sinned.
What if one lazy afternoon, Eve said to Adam, “If you bring me a pile of figs, I’ll make us something sweet.”
Adam goes fig hunting for a while and comes back with a sizable fig leaf full of them which he drops at her feet. “Here you go, babe.”
Eve puts them on a rock, grabs another rock and goes to smashing them.
Standing there and watching, Adam stares at his wife’s strong arms. He’s mighty glad she never gets mad at him, or he’d be in trouble.
“Babe!” Eve hollers. “Do we have any more of that ground wheat from last night?”
“It’s in that fig leaf bag under that apple tree,” he says.
Adam watches for a minute as she scoops some out and mixes it with water. Then, he feels the warm sun on his head, yawns and closes his eyes. It’s a good day for a nap. After all, good things happen while he sleeps. Just look at Eve. Before his nap that day, he was alone. When he woke up, God brought this lovely, talented creature to him. Yes, naps bring good things!
A few hours later, Adam wakes up to a smell he has never smelled before. He opens his eyes, and lo and behold, there on a rock before him is some square things that look like yummy food.
“Taste them,” Eve says.
“What are they?” He asks.
“God said they look like Fig Newtons—that’s what people will call them someday, anyway. Eat up!”
Adam eats, and once again, he knows that naps bring good things. First a wife and then Fig Newtons!
“Promise me, babe, you’ll make these again real soon.”
She smiles. “I will, dreckly.”
Shannon Wells 