High Tailin' It
MacKay's had just moved in on the Gilmour Farm next place down the road from us. King and Myrna and their three boys and their beautiful daughter, Shelly. It was the summer of 1984, and we were young and fast and strong. Rodney and Scott and Mike were work-hardened, bronze skinned lads from manually slugging all summer with hot asphalt in the family business, King's Paving. King wanted to farm. Namely, he wanted a cow/calf beef operation and that's why he bought the Gilmour farm from Hubert Gilmour. Marble-mouthed Hubie was getting up in age and had long retired from farming, and even from managing the Ross Township dump, where he had been a fixture every dump day for years. His wife had been gone for a while and he wanted to whoop up whatever life he had left, so he sold the farm and moved into Cobden. But, MacKay's adopted him, as they had a way of doing, and he still hung around the farm when it suited everyone. Hubie bought a sharp black Pontiac Grand Prix with s...