The local pool wouldn't be opening until the end of September so I wassimply going to stay at home and practice the guitar which I was definitelygetti...g better at (along with the saxophone).Now the good thing about Swampview was that Uncle Bill had purchased 2horses several years ago for his daughters so that when car lifts could notbe arranged, it was easy to simply saddle up a horse and ride the 3-4 milesinto town instead of walking or cycling. I offered to saddle up Cherry(Cherokee) for. Unfortunately for her she got to know this nurse how sold her ninety-five proof medical alcohol, which she diluted with some juice, and soon enough mom became a weekend drunk. You know the type. When Friday afternoon comes they drink themselves into stupor. They take care of job and obligations during the week alright, but during the weekend it's as if they change into someone else. Mom did just that. At the beginning she didn't want me to see her drunk so I think she waited to start to drink. Together we sat at the dining room table and spent several hours drinking coffee and holding long conversations about my grandmother's early childhood in Italy during the second World War. Dreadfully, however, I had to leave before noon. Though I promised to be with him all day on the coming Sunday.And I kept that promise.When I arrived at about 11 o'clock Sunday morning, I followed him to the living room and found that he had rented several movies from Redbox. The genres consisted of action. I was working on an ulcer worrying about the bills. My home life was spent taking care of the yard, the pool, and hundreds of little errands. Needless to say, I wasn’t a happy man.”The idea that someone who lived in a house like this would be worried about debts ran counter to Jack’s expectations. Rather than express his doubts, he said, “I can imagine.”“I hated coming home. I’d stop at the sports bar at the corner and have a couple of beers before heading to the house. Coming home, I’d feel.