(Copyright SteveStickley 1997)

Leta Fay and Ronnie June

Dear Sister,

It's been up around 110 degrees the last three days in a row. We are so glad that we got our air conditioner fixed, finally. The front and back lawns are practically burnt up from the heat. They've been advising that you keep old people and dogs indoors til this heat wave is over with.

Momma's sister, Leta Faye, and her daughter, Ronnie June, came through a week ago Thursday night. They were driving back from Estes Park, Colorado and were staying with different family here and there, so's not to pay for a motel, meals either I guess, and they both ate like P.I.G., pigs.

They didn't even tell us they were coming. They just showed up on Thursday night, in time for dinner I might add, and they left on Sunday after lunch. They didn't help with a lick of the housework or dishes during their entire stay. Leta tries to act feeble and helpless all the time except for when her soap operas are comin on. Then she jumped two footstools and ran into the den like a racehorse to grab the T.V. remote away from Harla and Darla.

They both seemed to be real glad to get away from Ronnie Joe's little boy Donnie Ray. You might remember that he is just an absolute terror and has done all kinds of things to both Ronnie Joe, her Momma, and various members of their community. He was spendin two weeks at some kind of military summer camp, and so they went on the trip to Colorado while he was there to get away, and I believe so the military people couldn't find em to come get him early if he was actin up or somethin.

First thing I ever heard of him doin was kickin out a full store-front sized plate-glass window at a All-U-Can Eat Catfish place cause he was pitchin a fit. The people at the restaurant made Ronnie Joe and her then husband Leon pay 250 dollars for the window and told them never to bring Donnie Ray back.

Then he was at a department store and he told Ronnie Joe he was gonna do number two on the floor over in front of the escalators if she didn't buy him some silly kind of toy that he was wantin. She told him no, they was goin to the car, and that's when he just filled his britches right there. She had to buy him underwear and pants in the boys department and have him change into em in front of a security guard before they were escorted from the property.

About the worst thing he did though was when he was stayin over with Leta, Ronnie Joe's Momma, and they got into it about somethin, and he hauled off and kicked her in the tail-bone, his own grandmother mind you, and fractured it in two places. She was upstairs rollin around on the floor and cryin and takin on just like a baby from the pain. He took off down stairs as soon as he could see she was hurt.

She kept callin to him to call 911 and get help that her tail-bone must be broke. There was no answer from downstairs and no phone upstairs so she had to crawl on all fours all the way down two flights of stairs. When she finally got down there he was sittin in the living room reading "The Golden book of Planes for Boys" and whistlin a little tune sorta under his breath, just like nuthin had ever happened.

Momma says he's just like that little girl in "The Bad Seed" that burns up the Janitor and hits the little boy in the head with her shoe and kills him. She Says one of these days he's gonna burn down their house or drive the car off a Clift with all of them in it. He is just pure D. Evil.

I'm just glad he wasn't here to influence Harla and Darla. They already caught the drapes on fire melting plastic with a blow-dryer and they dropped a 2 week old puppy from on top of the swing set all by themselves without any help. Lester had to explain to them about what internal bleeding was and why the puppy didn't survive that smack on the concrete.

Lester says if we see any more of Momma's people drivin up in the driveway to turn out the lights, close the blinds and don't answer the door. If you come, call first or you'll know why it looks like we're not home, and Girl, you know we never go any where but to the grocery store and Church

Well be good and remember, we love you anyway,

Your sister, Leona