slops

I lay my tools on the ground and wipe my hands on my slops.

“How to love what life gives you. Even when life gives you slops.”

He also earned the equivalent of twice the average man’s annual wages selling kitchen slops with Washington’s permission, and some of this money was spent on a gold-headed cane.

Toño lifts the thing high and, grinning gleefully, slops it in my direction saying, “Here is dinner, little brother.”

Like many city kids, I got my first exposure to farm living through “Charlotte’s Web” — to slops and manure piles and barn swings.