One weekend, Lula Belle gave James a birthday party and invited Papa Joe and us to the affair. Lula Belle invited a lady friend named Mrs. robinson for Papa. Now Mrs. Robinson was a nice, intelligent woman and we thought it was going well for Papa.

that night, after all had gone to bed, we heard Papa thinking loudly; “she’s a nice lady but her head looks like a peach.” That morning, Lula Belle asked; “well Uncle Joe, how’d you like Mrs. Robingson?” He said, “oh, she was a mighty fine lady!” We all laughed and confessed that all had heard him saying that her head looked like a peach.

I will always remember Papa Joe as a very proud and independent man – and one who was always neat and clean. This particular night, Papa decided to run his bath water and he came into the kitchen to get the soap powder (Papa liked lots of bubbles). Papa poured the powder in and waited. After a while, he came into the kitchen and said “May, there’s something wrong with that soap powder.” I said “Papa Joe, let me see the box.” We both had a big laugh – Papa Joe had poured pancake flour into his water.