Over The Hill

by Will Welton

Overview

This is a collection of my short stories that I have not added to the end of some of my novels. I have written many short stories, blurbs as some folk call them, over the last forty or so years. Several in this book has been published in Germany when I was station there from time to time in the Army. Other stories I wrote lately,
I wrote what ever came to mind and on some scrapes of paper,napkins, note books and in the margins of two of the field manual we had to have on maneuvers.
When I was cutting wood last winter, for my fire place, I even set down on one of a cut of wood to rest and a thought hit me. Needless to say I whipped out the trusty felt tip pen and put some notes on several of the cuts. I waited on splitting them cuts of wood until I brought my trusty NEO typer thing, I used to put files of what i write on when watching the grand kids play, down and transcribed the writings on to it.
The young people think just because we are over the hill so to speak that we are unable to do things we did when we were younger.. Even though I am 70 and have a half an acre garden and use only a shovel and hoe to plant or till the ground and also cut my on winter fire wood I'm not done doing things. I know a lady up the street has a 50 by 100 foot garden that is over 80 years old.
Young people of the world take notes on what you see,, hear, or think for it will come in handy some day.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940152088793
Publisher:	Will Welton
Publication date:	04/20/2015
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	283 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

I grew up during the 1940’s and 1950’s, in the Choctaw (McCurtain and Choctaw Counties) and Creek Indian (Okmulgee County) Nations of Oklahoma, with the spoken languages of Choctaw, Ojibwa, Spanish and English was an asset in my knowledge of story telling. Most of the time I lived on Jamaica Street in Idabel Oklahoma. My stepfather knew a lot of the old outlaws of the late 1800 and the early 1900. there were a lot of old men living on the street that my stepfather said were old outlaws and old lawmen from earlier times.
When I entered school I had trouble with writing down the English language for the way we spoke where I lived was not what I was being told so my writing was atrocious. As I advance in the grades at school my writing was not getting better. I got a job working doing part time work at the State Theater when I was only ten years old. A reporter, that worked part time at the theater when the owner was out of town or needed to do other things, for the McCurtain County Gazette told me, “Write down the stories and the things you have done in life for some day they would be useful in keeping the tales of the old folks alive after we all are gone.” I took his advice and he helped me in my writing of what I heard in the neighbor hood and it helped me immensely in junior and senior high school at Idabel.
I was working various jobs from the age of twelve doing things from cowboy, working with cattle, loading lumber or fence post on to trucks, building fences and farmer, hoeing cotton, picking cotton, stripping corn, and plowing. When got my driver licenses I started driving small trucks and hauling freight and hay. Form there I went to work for the Saint Louis San Francisco Railroad as a labor and later carpenter rebuilding wooden bridges to holding, the positions of Foreman of a bridge gang.
I enlisted in the army as a buck private and worked my way up in rank to hold the position of Command Sergeant Major of a battalion in the Army. The experience gave me the opportunity to meet a wide variety of people. I was medically discharged from the military with an honorable discharge. After a few years and I got my health up and running, so to speak, I did construction work until finally being forced to retire completely because of my health.
Moving near Russellville Alabama because my two sons came to this area to work and raise my grand-children. After over twenty years here on the mountain top my wife and I bought coming to this area we enjoy the people and the country side. Now I live and play near the Crooked Oak community near nine of my grand-children and my one great grand children.
I have written short stories, young adult books, free lance magazine articles, articles for several news papers and write novels about the tales of the old folks when I was growing up. In addition, to the western novels, I have also written two mysteries of modern day times.