Huff and Jenny (part 1)

The 1st and the 15th were Jenny’s favorite days. These were special days for

Jenny because that’s when Huff got paid.

Huff taught industrial technology at Hopewell High School. The classes consisted

mainly of field trips to hog farms and the local wall paper factory and generous

lectures on the Vietnam War. Huff was a veteran and damn proud of it, except

for the fact that he had caught a piece of shwrap metal in the knee and had to

wear a knee brace. But war wasn’t talked about on the 1st and 15th cause

that was when Huff carried Jenny into town to shop at the Wal-Mart and have

lunch in the diner there.

Life was good and simple. Twenty years of marriage hadn’t faded their love

for one another. The 1st and 15th they got to go out and by chance see some

old friends and talk about the kids and grand-younguns’ they’d soon be having.

Jenny was born and raised in Houlka, Mississippi, the daughter of a Pentecostal

preacher. Huff, or Daniel Wayne as he was referred to when he didn’ t  do

right, grew up in Thorn, Mississippi. Huff’s daddy had a sweet potater farm

and that’s where Huff and Jenny first met.

Jenny was kind of a big girl, country with long black hair, and not afraid

to get her hands dirty digging taters. Old man Huffman could tell a good

tater-digger when he saw one, and when Jenny came down looking for a

job, he hired her on the spot.

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