It's been a long and challenging road to recovery for so many individuals and businesses

in Western North Carolina impacted by the devastation of Hurricane Helene.

Eblen Charities in Asheville, North Carolina has started a hurricane recovery fund to pay for food,

gas, and even housing costs for people who've lost work or wages.

Thank you to everyone helping Western North

Carolina get back on its feet. To donate, go to ebblincharities.org. That's ebblincharities.org.

Welcome to this paragrenating episode of Talking Lamar. Today, I'm talking about learning to drive a car. Let's get to it. What are you

talking about? What are you talking about? Sorry, I forgot what I was talking about. What are you talking to

you? That's just what I was talking about. It's talking Lamar. You know, because I lived out in the

country on a farm with a little over 100 acres, I got a chance to

ride and drive a lot of different things more than you would have if you're living in town.

And that includes bicycles and lawnmores and tractors and mini bikes, go-carts, motorcycles,

just all kinds of stuff. And I've mentioned in the past that one of the

things my daddy would do is he would, when we built the house across the road, we had about a two-acre

yard. So he'd put me on the riding lawnmower and crank it and put it in gear and just leave me

out there to cut until I either ran out of gas or he'd come out

to check on me or whatever. And I can't remember exactly how old I was, but I couldn't work

the gear shift or handle any of the pedals and stuff. All I could do was just steer it and

follow the track that I made with the right side tire by when I come back around,

I put my left side tire onto that track.

That way I didn't miss any grass and just, you know, that would not be good.

That would not be good because he'd come out and check.

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