title: Adventures On Owl Creek
author: jean stanley
description: Jean Stanley is now retired from Nursing which she worked in for 30 plus years. She raised six children and has 15 grand children and 6 Great grandchildren. This book is about a time in her early life just after her Father dies. Her Mother moved the family to the Texas hill country, it was a very big change. They went from City life to hills , snakes, armadillos and no indoor plumbing. The family became very close and depended on each other. In later life when they were all together the hill country always came up.
zlib_text: Song
  
  > of the
  
  > Tree Hollow
  
  by
  
  Karen Hugg
  
    
  
  Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
  
  Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
  
  > > \--Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”
  
    
  
  Prologue
  
  > > 1992
  
  > > Jeremy and Charlie rode their bikes in circles that summer day, bored by
  > the neighborhood of clean streets and trimmed lawns and people washing cars,
  > so they decided to explore the ravine. At the street’s dead end, it rose in
  > a cloud of trees and dark mist. They parked by Mr. Holman’s house and walked
  > the skinny trail down into the shaded woods, talking about strategies of
  > their favorite video game. When they came to the trickling creek at the
  > bottom, they took off their shoes and waded aimlessly as they skipped stones
  > and turned over small logs to search for centipedes. Jeremy lobbed a huge
  > rock in the water, smiling at the loud “plop” sound and giant splash. A crow
  > landed on the branch of a tall tree. At the tree’s b