Kit and Kaboodle

Remember the terms: "Kit and Kaboodle" - kinda goes with "Lock, Stock and Barrel". Maybe some historian can give a Webster definition of these words and the time of the century they were used. I haven't heard these terms in a long time, as they may have just phased out.

Remember the Rumble seat?? Sounds like a "donny brook" somewhere, or a "fist a cuff" out in the street, or a "rumble from some rowdys" out in the crowd. Actually, I remember the rumble seat as a back seat in the trunk area that exposed when the seat was opened up -- convertible type on the roadsters. Yep!!!

Remember the Three Ring Circus? With the center ring being the main attraction? Oh Yes!!! Sometimes I felt I was there. HHHAAAUUGGGHHHHHHH!! Gotcha!

Days have gone by and times have changed indeed. Now they want to know how much stock you own -- how much money you have in the bank -- do you drive a lexus or mercedes?? WHO CARES???? I just love my friends for who they are and have a special place for simple down to earth people like Haiglerites. Oh Yes!! I know my roots. And I can tell within a few seconds who I choose as a friend, the genuine or the bad actor, as the sixth sense kicks in and lets you know who is who to accept or define. A gift of natural ability indeed that I seem to posess.

So I'm back to my "Kit and Kaboodle" theory of the hobo with a stick over the shoulder with all my worldly posessions tied in a knot from a bandana as I walk down the road to Haigler. -- A place to find Peace, as so many before me found as they chartered to Homestead in the Dundy County area of the late 1800s early 1900s to find home.

I hope I have my Kit and Kaboodle in order.

-- Submitted by Dallas Adams