Day 7 - Aunt Ephie in the Rhubarb

I heard Maggie tell this story today. We were talking about cycling and flying when she brought up that she was going to learn to fly at an early age. It seems that her two older brothers had just finished building an airplane. They planned to launch it from the top of the barn and Maggie was to be the test pilot. After managing to haul it to the peak of the barn, they attached one end of a long rope to the plane and the other to the farm mule. John was to shoot the mule in the rear end, but evidently he was not a polished marksman. Instead of hitting the mule he hit Aunt Ephie in the rhubarb. There was a stunned silence among the group as we tried to figure out if that was a part of her anatomy or a patch in the garden. Either way, the plane never took off, and Maggie never learned to fly.