We have all been in situations where we needed or wanted to throw down the proverbial gauntlet for the final time in a matter. Usually we indicate it’s the final time, as in: Sometimes we have similar situations in a family context. Your compiler’s late mother, who was born in Fayette County in 1939 and who was buried here in 2024, is a prime example of that last situation. A powerhouse of a woman in her day, Jane Langford took no nonsense from anyone. And she stubbornly insisted on doing physical tasks for herself long after it was neither safe nor practicable for her to do so. A perfect example was when she wanted her barn painted in the fall of 2017, when she was approaching her 79th birthday and had two terrible knees. She decided she would hire a professional to paint the second-story portion, but refused to part with any money to paint the first story “because I can do that myself and don’t need to pay for it.” Her two sons, your compiler and his brother Jon, knew it was fruitless to try to convince her to hire the whole thing out, but they figured they could save their mother the trouble and the risk by painting the first story themselves. But they didn’t start the next day, which to Jane’s single-minded way of thinking meant they would not do it at all . So the morning of the second day after that conversation, Jane got busy painting. Your compiler arrived home from work that afternoon and saw the ladder propped up against the barn…
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