This past weekend I traveled to Ripley, Ohio – my home sweet home. I had three main reasons for visiting (other than to spend some time with my Mom and Dad). The first – to get my taxes done. The second – to clean out the horse trailer. The third – I forget. But anyway, I got my taxes done but didn’t get to the trailer. I was planning to get my tack box out to clean it out and then take the tack box back to Columbus to use as a coffee table. You know, vintage, with a touch of Cara Lawson history and good memories. And as for the taxes? Like most Americans, I hate them and I’m glad to be finished.
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| Taxes are annoying, but necessary. Photo Credit: BBB |
I had planned for this trip to Ripley (2 hours, 15 minutes south) to take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday. Of course, I got off to a late start. And as I was hanging out at Mom and Dad’s after taxes and lunch at Pasquales, I got sucked into TV. Since I don’t have cable at my apartment, I have this uncontrollable need to watch everything I’ve been “missing.”
After watching multiple episodes of classics such as “Teen Mom,” “Real Police Women of Cincinnati” – which by the way, is a classic all itself as I know where most of the places the cops go are, I got sucked into a timeless tale at about 8 p.m. This would be the epic 1980 something hit “The Coal Miner’s Daughter.” I took interest, and was excited that my parents had OWN on their TV (on which the movie was showing).
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| From the movie, a photo of Loretta (aka daughter) with her Dad (aka coal miner). Photo Credit: jenni.com |
Now let me just say this – it’s probably a good thing I had not heard of this really when I was in high school, because I probably would have written about it in scholarship essays! While I fancy myself an Appalachian, I am definitely not like Lorettie! Geez! What a life that girl had / has! I was so sucked into that movie from start to finish! I loved every bit and will probably buy the movie on Amazon. If you haven’t seen it, you should definitely check it out. Holy crap. Holy. Crap. Mom watched it with me and we had a good time laughing and talking about poor Loretta while eating cheese spread.
Coal Miner's Daughter is on my best movie list. I get sucked in to watching it every time it is on. Glad to know someone else likes it as much as I do.
ReplyDeleteCara, I love your choice of words... you "Fancy" yourself and high school essay... NOW THAT IS A BLOG POST YOU SHOULD RIGHT ABOUT!
ReplyDeleteI need to figure out how to be alerted when you guys comment!! Sorry it's taken me so long to get back with you.
ReplyDelete@Lynn - I know! I was so sucked in the whole time and even started watching the encore presentation before falling asleep!
@Rose - Ha! I will totally write a blog post about "what I wish I would have said in my high school essay - lessons from Coal Miner's daughter - reflections of one Appalachian child." Thanks for the idea!