EARLY FATHER’S DAY AT COOCHIE SPRANGS
Posted June 17th, 2009 by Jill Conner BrowneThe Cutest Boy in the World got not one but TWO big giant water toys for being the Best StepDad in the History of the World, Living or Dead! On Facebook, there is a photo of him and our three-legged dawg, Sostie, trying them out this morning! ”Coochie Sprangs” is the “name” of our house–being a joke all the way around–who NAMES their houses, I mean, unless it’s some big fancyass ESTATE or something. This is Joe House that just happens to be on a lake. There is a website–www.coochiesprangs.com–that needs updating badly but is still pretty funny. We occasionally get requests to have corporate retreats at Coochie Sprangs–WHAT are THEY thinkin’??
Sostie looooves to swim–and she also rather enjoys floating on rafts or just letting you hold her in the water where it’s nice and cool! She would stay forever if you’d stand there and hold her! Edie–the baby of the family, who is 99.9% CHOCOLATE LAB–has not yet figured out that she is a WATER DOG but we are working on that. BD (BoyDog) is a porch dog and a bank-walker–likes to ride on the boats but not much for a dip.
“Coochie Sprangs” comes from one of my books–when a crack-ho asked a friend of ours (who was TRYING to detail his car at a DIY car wash)–”where he stay at” and he replied, “Florida.” At that point, she spread-eagled on the hood of his car and announced that SHE was from COOCHIE SPRANGS. He most fortunately had the presence of mind NOT to ask WHERE THAT was. When we bought this house at the lake, we naturally named it COOCHIE SPRANGS–have t-shirts and everything. For awhile, that’s what it said on our answering machine–but our daughter had a stroke when she heard it and we took pity on her and removed it! bwahahaha! Our t-shirts are embroidered with “COOCHIE SPRANGS–SUMMER CAMP AND PERFORMANCE RIGHTS WORKSHOPS” and our motto is “WHERE THE FISH ARE HUGE AND THE WIMMIN ARE TINY!”
20 Responses to “EARLY FATHER’S DAY AT COOCHIE SPRANGS”
June 17th, 2009 at 8:52 am
For the record, my house is named “Chortle Cottage” so yes people DO name their houses.
June 17th, 2009 at 9:33 am
But you GET IT–that it’s a goofy thing to do and so it’s funny. My sister had a PLAQUE made for the front door of her double in New Orleans–dubbing it, THE SNUGGERIE–bwahahaha! Love Chortle Cottage!
June 17th, 2009 at 9:35 am
I think The Masses need Coochie Sprangs t-shirts… just sayin.
June 17th, 2009 at 9:41 am
We need to put new stuff on that site–it cracks me up every time I look at it. Katie and that HUUUUGE fish–which is, by the way, the ONLY ONE she has ever caught here! bwahaha! I am certain that a Coochie Sprangs shirt can be had for My Favorite Wannabe…
June 17th, 2009 at 10:27 am
I have named Jill Murphree Leitner’s above ground resort
“The Beaver Pond” ona accounta when us wimmen all go swimmen… Ain’t that right Jill? Thank God she has her very own Edwardo Raoul Pool Boy!
June 17th, 2009 at 10:57 am
My dear friend’s house is named Beaver TIT–more on that later!
June 17th, 2009 at 11:03 am
When’s the lake party?
June 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am
got outta the beaver pond just now…oh, raoul, honey … be a darlin, grab me a towel and fetch me some custard, will ya? btw, i grew up spendin summers up on chigger ridge, in north alabama ( my mama- she would hate bein called that cause she’s a city girl and corrupted my sweet southern daddy – she named it that. ) so i’m fine with having me a beaver pond.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
When are you gettin’ here, Khaki? I WISH y’all coulda SEEN me climbin’ up on the new FI2 out yonder–NOT PRET-TY–plus I was laughin’ so hard, I liked to drownded mysef. Off to the hospital…again…where there are NO SLIDES…but there IS custard…!
June 17th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
I’ll be there this evening – after I get back from the hospital, too! I’m sure it’s hyelarious! Try and get more photos!
June 17th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
The story of how “Coochie Sprangs” got it’s name reminds me of one of the little towns in our county. Seems like every crime in the town that involves a woman, the woman is either neckked, or at least on her way to neckked. During one such crime the completely neckked gal decided to throw her bountiful self on the hood of the officer’s cruiser and show him the ‘coochie’ that would be his for the takin if he just wouldn’t take her to jail. All of which was caught on his cruiser camera. Poor ole country boy almost had a stroke and the look on his face was beyond priceless! Yep, she went to jail and that week was actually a fun week at the prosecutors office! I’m thinkin we should send her a shirt as a way of sayin thanks for the entertainment.
June 17th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
How ’bout some PANTS, too?! Khaki–we’ll have to coordinate our schedules–I’m in and out of the horspital all day and glued to the plastic sofa there all night long! If it had been ANYBODY ELSE trying to get on that thing with the slide today, I woulda wanted VIDEO–but since it was ME–I was glad it was a weekday and not even KYLE was home! I nearly drownded from laughing at my fat, clumsy self! If it shows up on YOUTUBE, there will be a homicide in our neighborhood, I’m just sayin’…
June 17th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
My door does have a plaque above it that says “Chortle Cottage”. That’s a must – after all how else would anyone know? And it’s a requirement for entering – you must be ready to laugh.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:56 am
i LURVE ya’ll’s Coochie Springs website…
June 19th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Okay, I’m not all that much of a squealer, but I *did* just squeal at the very possibility of having a Coochie Sprangs t-shirt of my very own.
June 20th, 2009 at 9:35 am
My, don’t we give ourselves Airs? “Not much of a squealer”–IN-DEED! I have a PHOTO of you SQUEALING and about 2,000 WITNESSES as well! Face it, you a big ole squealee-thang!
June 21st, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Hell, I know it. I couldn’t even type it with a straight face.
July 7th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
There are plenty of kids who have developmental issues who have never used a walker or a bouncer. Considering this, and the fact that there are plenty of kids who have used them who don’t have any problems, if I were to have to make a decision tomorrow as to whether or not to let a baby be in a walker, I would wonder at the legitimacy of the research and probably just use the danged walker.
July 20th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
SOL! Holy belly-o- laughter Jill!! Oh Lord I’m lovin’ this story! Sounds like somethin’ that would happen in my lil’ hometown of Funnellon, the Play capital of the South (Florida ain’t really considered south…but i like to think so!).
Where are these Tee’s? I vote that Chigger Ridge should be on a shirt as well!
August 30th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
I loved reading this and I dont really like to read