Pilgrim Jim's Treasure Field
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matthew 6:21
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Several years ago, when my three oldest
children, Doug, Brad and Jeff, were about 10, 9 and 7 years old, I took them on
a tent camping trip. We visited Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, Lookout Mountain and
Fat Man's Squeeze in Tennessee and went through the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee
and North Carolina. We saw some bear in the Smoky Mountains and they were quite
close to us. It was a fun trip and one that I will always remember.
One morning as we were driving down the
highway, I wanted a cup of coffee so I drove into a restaurant parking lot,
parked the car, and went into the restaurant and got a cup of coffee to go. When
I got into the car I asked Doug to hold the cup of hot coffee until I could
maneuver the manual shift car back out onto the highway. Doug spilled the hot
coffee on me and the front seat, whew, it was hot. I went back into the
restaurant and got a second cup of hot coffee to go and once again asked Doug to
hold it until I got the car onto the highway. Doug spilled the second cup of hot
coffee too and I think it was hotter than the first one. My bottom was wet with
steamy hot coffee. An expression and exclamation that I used to use came from my
mouth and I said, "Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!" I went back into the
restaurant and got a third cup of coffee to go and again for the third time, I
asked Doug to hold the cup of coffee while I wheeled the car out onto the
highway. This time he didn't spill it and I enjoyed the cup of coffee as we
cruised down the highway.
When I think of that tent camping trip with
the boys, and the coffee incident, I get a smile on my face and a warm feeling
in my heart. Several years after that trip, Doug wrote a song about the hot
coffee episodes and the song is entitled, "I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle". The song
mentions Route 66, but we were not on Route 66. Otherwise the song is true and
factual. Here is a link to the song.
