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Beau Wann, Jr.
Good chilly eenin myne fyne waltripynecicles. Man, that wind and cold out there is brutal. I remember working out in it as an ironworker back sometime in the last century and also as a lineman for the phone phactory for 30 years. On a couple of occasions, had ice cicles hanging off my hard hat. One brutal winter, winter of 73 methinks, I was an ironworker working on the north side of a phone company building in Huntsville. I was using a roto-hammer, which at best would shake you to pieces and at worst, the same thing. When I turned the hammer off, I was still shaking, and it wasnt from the hammer. I think it snowed that year.
I remember another particularly brutal winter, hmmmm, winter of 89 as I recollect. I was hanging on a pole off Wilcrest and some street down from Dairy Ashford. Nothing was happening but me phreezing, I was on hold, so I clumb down and walked across the street to a Southern Maid Donut shop. Got a couple of donuts, just to keep my strength up, you understand, and a large cup a joe. I set the coffee down on one of those SWB green cable boxes you see on the side of the road, and spilled the coffee down the side, and it phroze before it went a phoot down the side. Now that's cold.... that was the year it got to 2 degrees. I sure couldnt work out in it today at my advanced age...of...uh, how old am I now? ...Had to turn the heater up to 70...at least that is less than my age today.
Hey Jimmy, we have a fake owl, and have had it mostly on the back porch to keep rabbits, skunks, snakes, birds away, and all to no avail. Theyve all thumbed the proverbial nose at us, but I will move it around to the deck to see if it has any affect on that crowd.
This owl has a bobble head, and eyes that reflect light. It also has a hole in the base, I had to fill it's butt up with rocks because first storm we had it, blew it to mars and back. I left the window down on my truck for a few minutes last week, and the birds went inside and crudded on the steering wheel. What the heck did I ever do to them, cept feed em and house em? That's socialism for you! I have seen stuffed almost live looking fake kats for around 35 dollars. Might just get one of those.
Hey Jimmy,. how's your knee? Heard you had it replaced with a bionic one. Hope you recover with as little of pain and problems as possible. If your up this way sometime stop in again, and depending on the weather, we can have beah, or hot chocolate with the little marshmallows in it, or both if we're feeling adventuresome. Good healing to ya !
TJ, come to the front, TJ, come to the front. I need all sackers and stockers to the front, all sackers and stockers come to the phront....Yeah, I'm with you Teddie, we could just sit in the parking lot and have a good time. As I remember correctly, we actually did that some when we were young er. Doug R worked at the museum of fine arts back when we were meeting at fudds, I think. Wonder if he is still there! Maybe next time my beloved is in that vacinity, she can check if he still works there.
Work? At a museum? I dont think I'd call it work? A small part of heaven maybe, but certainly not work!
Same way with the Rose Emporium up here in Brenham. It actually Looks like heaven might look. It was forsale last year or year before. I hope that if it got bought, they dont change it.
The sun has teased us a little the last few minutes, ducking in and out of the cloud cover. How is that cloud cover still hanging around with the wind blowin a hunnert miles an hour?
"The answer my frien, is blowin in the wind, the answer is blowin in the wind..." Thank you Bobby, now here is a little number from Myron Floren on the accordian, "Lacy of Spain", a one and a two...
Been thinking about putting in my garden this spring. I think I'm going to put it in right field, there's room for plowing up more than a few long rows, and besides aint knowbody hit anything out to right field anyhoo. In fact, no one has hit anything to any field, cept Jenny and the lady team. You know they cheated, had some ringers on their team for sure.
I was also thinking of putting in a few rows of corn and sunflowers down in the valley by the crick. Deer and dove like those stuffs. You plant the corn in March, and it wont be ready till August. Dont think it takes long for sunflowers to flower. Planted 200 pounds of Austrian Winter Peas this past fall, and it has really flourished. The little doey eyed deah like the peas. the winter peas also help with erosion. Some grew over a hose I had strung to the valley, and me and the peas were playing tug-o-war for that hose. I won of course, but it was touch and go for a minute or two.
Still havent had an epiphany on where we could hold the "sprang flang", othern here. But then, that's where I am right now, so it's hard to think of anywhere else...DANG, IT'S RAINING, AGAIN...well, not raining as in pouring down, mostly just sprinkling. CUT IT OUT, WE DONT NEED ANYMORE RAIN, TODAY...
I have got so much work to do from now till this time next year, dont think I'll git er all done, but I'm gonna try. WOW, this was a long dissertation! Well, good excercise for my fingers eh what, and good excercise for your brain to try and keep up and figger out just what the heck I'm talking about. Well dont worry about that, because I dont even know what I'm talking about. It's all classified anyhoo. But there will be a test on the subject matter third thursday of next Friday, and remember it counts as one half of a third of your grade X pi. Dont for get to read Mark Twains "The Man That Corrupted Hadlyburg". Your book report is due at the end of next trimester and a fortnight, or whichever comes first.
keep the sun at your six, yeah, that would be a good trick since we have no sun, and ride boldly ride...
your frien and Jabberwocky magpie, Cephus Allan Badillion Trahearn,esq....
Post Script: Jackie, have we told you lately that we love you? Well it is unaminous, and the ayes have it, we do...many thoughts and prayers going out to you and to any others that are having any trials and tribs...
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