I saw a Barn Swallow perched on the bridge rail today, it had been busy darting and diving for insects. Kinda got me thinking a little....Outside of the house I would guess we stayed at the Tobacco barns more than anywhere else. There were four big White Oak trees there, and the tobacco bench was built under them so we could hand leaves and tie tobacco in the shade during harvest. Grandaddy had a couple of hammocks made of Guana bags which is what we called fertilizer bags made out of burlap, hanging there. We sometimes slept there during the heat of summer just for the heck of it....and a lot during tobacco curing season to keep the wood fires going and keep the heat in the flues needed to cure tobacco. A big thermometer hung in the barn and watching it told you when you needed to add wood. We'd burn a tire sometimes in the Summer to keep the skeeters away. I learned to count and say my ABC's under those trees at night. Fall would find me picking up White Oak Acorns to feed the pigs....Grandaddy paid me a nickel a wagon load. I had an old hand me down Red Flyer Wagon and it had to be filled to the rim to get that nickel. Feeding the pigs acorns was not a good sign, it meant they were being fattened up.....and with colder weather approaching that was not good news.