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Good morning Waltripians. I hope you all passed the night well rested and are doing well today.

Yesterday County Judge Ed Emmett spoke at my Rotary Club. Couple of interesting items One I liked and the other is interesting. The county is in good financial shape. They are going to reduce spending because next year they predict a fall off in tax revenue. But their pension responsibilities are funded. Also HC still has a AAA bond rating because of their financial condition. The interesting factoid is that 1.3 million people live in the unincorporated part of Harris County. As a comparison Dallas County is almost totally covered by municipalities. We have 34 municipalities in HC but the county is so physically large that we still have a lot of unincorporated areas. If the unincorporated area of the county were to be incorporated the 1.3 M residents would make it the seventh largest city in the U.S. We already have 3 in Texas in the top 10.

Paige thanks for the information on healthcare reform. Passed even though the majority of Americans felt otherwise. There are all kinds of snakes going to crawl out from under that rock. So contact your Congressmen and Senators and let them know how you feel. And get your friends and neighbors out to vote in November. Even better would be to get more involved. If you don't go vote you probably get the representation you deserve. I want people to go vote whatever their political persuasion is.

Tater, since we haven't heard from you today I hope you didn't od on choclate cake.

Keep on dancing,

Rich LH

06/18/10 03:22 PM

#2781

Good news from Scotty Croom - earlier news was Lola might get to come home on Monday - now the latest - she may get to come home tonight!!! Keep the prayers flowing for her and all the others!

Hugs!

06/18/10 03:39 PM

#2782

Okay, if you are totally bored - watch the picture - it will move

How many folks - 12 or 13?

06/18/10 04:59 PM

#2783

Lloyd Pond

Celebrating grandson, Ben, ninth birthday...going to see Karate Kid and then Key Lime Pie!

06/19/10 06:00 PM

#2784

John Burgess Webb

i mean,really;isnt mother nature the sweetest thing?

06/19/10 06:07 PM

#2785

Scotty Croom

hooray lola 's home.....

06/19/10 08:50 PM

#2786

Teddie Jordan

One of the things I've really enjoyed doing in my 30 years of walking around and exploring ranches in Webb and Duval counties of south Texas, is finding, studying and collecting numerous indian artifacts left by the natives that roamed these same lands 800 to several thousand years ago. Many of these artifacts are spear points, from the short spears that they slung with rawhide slings, devices called atlatl. They are primitive by our standards today, but were effective at close range back then on everything from rabbits, to javelina hogs ( Collared peccary ), to deer, to bison, to the large mastadons that were here until about 8-10,000 years ago. Only the very small points were true arrow points as that weapon didn't appear until roughly 1000 AD. Others of these stone tools were used in everyday life to skin animals, cut meat and other foods, drill holes, etc.. These indians didn't have large permanent villages as we envision from movies, but rather were hunters and gatherers who roamed about in relatively small groups following the seasonal changes in food supply. In the spring when the prickly pear was putting out fruit they were no doubt in the south and western parts of Texas living off of that resource. In the fall when the pecans and other fruits were ripening they were along the rivers and bottom lands. Water was always precious to their lives, as it is to every living creature on God's green earth, so they tended to spend more time along the drainages. And of course year around they knew where and how to fill their meat and leather requirements from the deer and other creatures that are still abundant in these lands.

It is a special feeling to walk up on and pick up and hold in your hand a tool that was made by a man several thousand years ago. On some occasions that feeling has made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Some of these points, especially those in the blue frame shown, are still sharp enough after all these years that you could easily cut with them and almost shave with some.

It is also true that every time you find an intact point, and you find about 3 or 4 broken ones for every intact one, you can't help but wonder what its story was. Was it a miss and he kept on in hot pursiut of the first protein he'd had a chance to kill for some time, hoping to get close enough for another shot? Or was it one of several that were probably required to bring down the bigger animals and just discarded at the skinning spot, or was it just dropped or misplaced, or was it from a burial site?

06/20/10 05:13 PM

#2787

Happy Father's Day to all you great dads!!

Scotty, I'm sure that made your Father's Day having Lola home!!! We are all so thrilled she is home!

Enjoy your day!

Hugs

06/20/10 05:50 PM

#2788

Teddie,

Great pictures and collection of arrow heads - my son, Doug also has a great collection. I too enjoy the deer lease - walking the banks of creek beds looking for arrow heads, bones and rocks. I don't get up there as often, but Doug hunts every year. Got his first deer at 9 and now he's 34!

One of my favorite pictures - 1985 - Georgetown deer lease - Doug was 9, my brother, Larry and my oldest daughter, Cheryl, 13.

I have Doug's picture with his first deer - but don't want to upset anyone -- some folks are touchy about that, so didn't post. Their deer lease is now in Llano and I was up there a couple a Christmas ago with my grandson, Dylan. It's such a whole different world being with nature! Don't like to hunt, but enjoy watching all the wild life --- and collecting rocks, I've never gotten an arrowhead - you guys have the eye. But so true what you said - the mysteries of their lives and just knowing you are walking along their paths they walked 100 of years ago.

Hugs J

06/20/10 07:03 PM

#2789

Teddie Jordan

Jackie, that is a priceless picture! I just love old pictures of our kids having good times and good memories.

And Burge, I don't think I've ever seen a picture of baby skunks before. It just proves that baby anythings are cute!

06/21/10 09:52 AM

#2790

Jimmie Sue Roach (Nation)

Scotty, good to hear that you got Lola home. I hope her recovery is rapid.

Burge are you raising those skunks? I remember that Kay Edwards younger sister had a pet skunk when we were kids. It really was sort of like a cat. But Ted is right baby anythings are cute.

On the subject of baby anythings. My anything Liz is growing like the proverbial weed. Took her in to get another vaccination (Bordatella). Saturday's weigh in. . .14lbs. 4 oz. That's from 3lbs. 3oz. on May 5th folks. I'm not sure what mix of dog she is but there seems to be a large one in there. As I understand it, you can now get a DNA test done on your dog and they can tell you what the breed mixture is. I know that's nothing new but it apparently isn't terribly expensive to have done. I saw an interesting dog on our trip to the vet. He was a Labradoodle. A cross of a Labrador and a Poodle. What some people will pay money for.

Sir Theodore it is obvious that you get major enjoyment out of El Vendedor. I don't think you could help but wonder about the people that have previously lived on that land. Even in more modern times it must have been a real challenge to make a life in that part of the world. When I was at Sargent Beach this weekend I was wondering about those sorts of things. I think watching the herd of Longhorns across the road from my friends place prompts that. With it's short comings I think I like the way we live now.

I hope everyone has a great week!

Keep on dancing,

Rich LH

06/21/10 03:46 PM

#2791

Burge

Loved the babies. I had a baby skunk just after we moved back to Rusk. We lived in the booneys (totally misspelled) and my boyfriend caught one. He took it to the vet and had it de-scented. She was really a sweety. Naturally, her name was Flowers. My son and his wife raised a new-born fawn. Her mother was hit by a car and the fawn was in the tall weeds by the highway. She stayed in the house until she was big enough to go to a petting zoo.

Scotty and Lola - thrilled with your good news. God does answer prayers. Just take it slow and easy.

Beau my friend - sure sounds like the ladies of your house douth spoil you rotton!! Could that be a faint odor I detect? It couldn't happen to a more deserving fellow. As I said, hope you had a glorious day.

To everyone on the forum - love reading all postings. You all really bring back fond memories. Thank you again, Jackie, for all the hard work that went into this website. I never thought that we would all be able to be that wonderful Waltrip family again. Love and thanks again.

p.s. Happy birthday again Doug!

Jimmie Sue

06/22/10 12:18 AM

#2792

Good eefeninink mine waltripians,

WOW!!! What a busy week last week! I thank you all for the birthday wishes. got more birthday wishes this year, than of all the years prior combined!!! Or maybe my rememberer remembers it that way! But it was great this year! Didnt get the blues, like I do for every holiday or special day! Didnt get cranky until Fathers day! Too much celibrating goes a long way with me! Not that I dont appreciate it...well, like I said before, my mind doesnt react to things in a...er...normal way! But Fathers day wasnt too bad! Both boys and grandaughter came over! Taylor is in colorado at camp! But he was here for my birthday, and gave me one of those new fangled m3p players or whatever it's called! Cant use it, cause I cant get it to work, and he left town before he could educate me on the subject! I looked at the destructions, and it's in "geekeese", or smartalecky language! So I will wait till he comes back in town! I really wanted it to play in my truck, so I wouldnt have to change CDs. Guess thats lazy huh!!! Lucy from next door was going to help me with it, but havent seen her! They are getting ready to go on vacation, so I guess she is picking out swim suits and hats and sandals! She gives all her old, hardly old, clothes to Haley! We will never have to buy her anything if Lucy keeps giving us her semi used clothes! Nice clothes too!!! What a sweet heart she is!!!

Me and the boys been oujt on many patrols since last I writ! Alls quiet on the western front! Mama duck with 10 ducklings moved west up stream past the RR trestle between Antoine and Bolivia! last I saw them was Friday morn, swimming in the large pool of water before it goes into rapids under the trestle! Sure would like to have seen them traverse the rapids, or semi rapids, heading up stream! I wished them well as they headed west! Hope their quest is peaceful! Saw Mama duck with 8 smaller babies on the east side of the Bolivia street bridge! they were kind of scattered, which is unusual for such small babies to be that far from mama! When me and the boys stopped to take a gander at em, they all scurried back to mama, all 8! It was close to dusk tonight, and she was herding them on to shore in the tall grass! Good mama!!!

Bout the onliest (san leon for only) time I have seen, or smelled any skunks, is dead in the road. Thats about the mainest (also san leon for main) thing I experience, that I wish I wouldnt, is seeing dead critters from here to the ranch and back! Saw a fawn on 290, still with its bambi spots, laying lifeless, countless coons and possums and skunks and dogs and cats and deer etc...Bout the onliest thing I have come close to hitting, was a huge deer on Eldridge between clay road and Little york! I felt his presence on the front of the truck, but never touched him! He was as big as the Hartford Elk! Glad I didnt hit him, but we were only a nano second from colliding!!! I'm sure a lot of the collisions could be avoided, if people werent in such a darn hurry! Some I suspect are just fate...luck, or the lack thereof!!!

Rode my bike today...wonderful therapy!!! I thought it was very hot today, and sure nuff, I was right...98 gredees...see, nothing gets past me! As long as I was moving, it was ok, but stopping at a light, wassssssss hot! Duh!

Me and DW went to Beyond the bed and bath store in town and country! Bought a few items, like a new set of silver shiny pots and pans! I'm the one that wanted them too, not DW! She was ok with what we had, but It was all at least 15 to 30 years old! Some hers and some mine before we got married, and some we bought together, but really just a hodge podge of pots and pans! We have a hard time quiting on things that are useful, just to have something new. We bought some Chantal, which was supposed to be all the rage back when we bought it! It is pretty, but aint worth spit for cooking, and hard to clean up too!!! So now I have a real chefs set of pots and pans! Gonna take the old ones to the ranch, and give some to Purple Heart! Now that we have the new ones, I dont want to use them cause they might get dirty!!!! Finally used them, and they are great! Sauteed some baby spinach and portabella mushrooms in olive oil, and sprinkled Manchego cheese on them...hmm hmm hmm...heavenly!!!! Cooked great and cleaned up even easier and better!!! Cant ask for more than that now can I!!!

Whilst we were shopping at Beyond bed and bath, I always go off and let DW peruse at her leisure without me harrassing her! I check everything out...every new kitchen gadget and TV advertised item they have. I especially like the small CD selection, with the demonstration boards where you push a button and it plays the CD to give you a sample of the music! I like to push all the buttons and hear it all! They have two sets of CD selections, so I doubled my pleasure! Found one I liked in particular, by sound only! Seems I forgot my glasses, and am blind as a bat when trying to read! Even the pictures are fuzzy! I was holding one of the CDs up, trying to read it, I dont know why I do that, cause I cant, but still I squint, and hold it up at all different angles, and probably look like a chimp trying to figure out what to do with a rubicks cube!!! Anyway, after I had squinted at all the cds, I narrowed it down to 10 of em, when a pretty lady walks up and said, "can I help you"! I said, "I wish you would"! "I'm trying to figure out which CD I want, and cant see them, but I can hear them" ! So she told me to push this button and that one, and finally we matched the CD with the picture over the button. She said that she liked that one, and coninkidinkly, so did I! So, she bought one! She thanked me for my help, and I thanked her! I think she was sweet on me, probably wanted me, but no, I am betrothed! And as luck would have it, my betrothen just happened to walk up as the pretty lady was leaving! "Are you getting in trouble again" my lovely bride said??? "WHO ME"??? Says I! " You know I am pure as the wind driven snow" I retort! "Yeah, the deadly yellow snow" my betrothed says!!! But with a wink and a smile and a laugh, and a kiss on the cheek!

So, I grab onto the basket so she can lead me out of the store with minimal trouble! Did you know that you can use up to 5, 20 percent coupons on 5 different items at one time???? And, they can be expired too, they dont care!!! Great store!!! I only mention the store, cause I dont know where any of youse youts shop! Probably walymart right??? I dont shop at walymart, and havent in 15 years! They are killing all the small mom and pop businesses and the downtowns of the small towns of america! I can live without em! They remind me of the mining towns, where there was a company doctor, company store, company school, and company money, only good in the company town! I drove through many small towns two years ago on my way to and from Las Cruces, NM. What I saw, was disheartening! Lots of almost Ghost towns, because of walimart! Oh, the walimart was open, and doing a booming bidness, but nothing else was open, save for the errant Dairy Queen or fast food joint! Now that Mcfreakindonalds is in walifreakinmart, all you need do is go one place! Next they will be offering condos at the walifreakinmart, so all you have to do is open your door and step out into the store! How fine would that be??? To some, I suppose, just great...sad sad sad!

One town in particular, was Pecos, Texas! A town of folklore and legend, and now allmost dead! I drove through the downtown, and every, and I mean every storefront, and building was empty and boarded up! I couldnt believe it! So, I drove back through it twice! Saw some stray cats, and paper blowing down the street! I even stopped in the middle of main street and got out! Not another car in sight! Drove on through, and rat on the edge of what use to be a town, was a WALLIFREAKINMART, doing a booming bidness! Sometimes people can be so stupid! Killing the goose that laid the golden egg, all for a bargain from china! What do all those people do for a living??? Farmers??? that they only needed one store????

I'm seriously thinking about moving to Montana! I love texas, and swore never to leave her, but...Montana...Hmmm!!!! Kevin and Candy got back in town from Thompson falls Montana, this past sunday! Their pictures were great! Lots of wildlife, blackbear, deer, elk, bison, golden and bald eagles, beavers and otters etc...Plus lots of trout caught and eaten!!! Really seriously considering it! I know, I know, it is super cold up there...still...hmmm...maybe! Yall could visit us!!!! I could open up my small diner...we could move Fudds up there!!!! I dont think so, right??? Well, it is beautiful there, and just a touch cooler! Well, if the good Lord wants me to move to Montana, I guess I will! Right lord???

My boys fixed us giant sea scallops and lobster for Fathers day! I loved both, but the scallops were the best I have ever had, of anything! I havent had lobster in 30 years, and scallops like these, ever!!!! What a treat!!! Had my whirld famous coffee and some LEMON MARINGUE PIE FROM MARIE CALLENDERS!!! Good day, but long and busy!!! Did you know it was 47 degrees here on this day back in 1947??? Well you do now!!! How a bout 1 billion seconds is about 32 years??? Touching and stroking a plant will aid in it growing healthy!!!! Yeah right, If folks in the hood dont think I'm crazy enough, if I start caressing my flawrs, theyre gonna know for sure! Hells bells, I just dig a hole and stick em in it! I aint gonna start talkin to em and loving on em! Thats up to God!!! And last I looked, I aint him!!! How bout this one, the average 4 year old asks over 400 questions a day!!! Or the average 65 year old asks where his glasses and keys and remote are, as well as, "what did I come into this room for", over 400 times a day...the longest engagement lasted 67 years, and the couple ended up marrying when they were 82 years old!!! Wonder what their hurry was!!! Also, in New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans, each year...?????? It is New york city we're talking about here, so I'm not surprised! My next question is, "why"??? They got lots of vampires up there???? People just real hungry, and cant get to a wallifreakinmart quick enough???? I just know you all will be ponderin the above information for sometime to come!!!

Heres a real good one, there is a large brass statue of WINNIE THE POOH, in Lima, Peru...However will you thank me for all this great information???

Guess I will sign off for now! Hi Jimmie sue...Theo and Fran...Rich LH...Burge...Sis Jackie...et al. sure is good to know that you all are out there and getting on the forum, even if its just to read! Hi Paige, staying cool??? Sis doc L in herne and aunt alva, aggie and kyle...Lynn burkhardt, hows charlie??? He home yet???

Ole Ollie the wooly mammoth is in my lap upside down, so until he wakes up, guess I am here to stay! Both boys went out about midnight, which is unusual for them! They usually sleep after our evening patrol till 5 in the morn! Always unnerves me when our critters do things out of character, or break their habit or patterns!!! Wazzup??? says I!!!

Goodnight John Boy...

your friend and brother Sweet tater Beauregard cephus DOD

06/22/10 01:08 AM

#2793

It's Me again margaret...There was talk earlier about stockpiling food!!! I have done some, not a years supply, but a months worth or more! Here is another thing you might want to ponder, is buying whiskey! Not for consumption, but for trading! Lots of folks would rather have whiskey or beer than food or comfort! Well, I guess their comfort is "drink"!!! I have a rather large cache of whiskey, some real good, and some mediocre! You can get mason jars, pint size, and cut the whiskey in half! some folks dont care, long as they get a taste! I'd rather eat than drink! Dont much care for "drink" anymore!

Coffee and Tea and sugar and salt are other items to consider! PEANUT BUTTER...omg..I couldnt live without PEANUT BUTTER!!!! I buy two large jars at Costco, in fact thats about the only way they sell it! You can get two jars from costco, for the price of one at Krogers or Randalls! Same way with Bisquik! Now, white rice is cheap, but brown rice is better for you! I saw someone leaving Costco with about 50 or more bags of rice, and they are about 25 pounds apiece!

Just thought I'd pass that along! Doesnt hurt to plan! Saw a sign that said; "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail"!!! Kind of like having a fire extinguisher, good thing to have, but you hope not to have to use it! Same way with a weapon; I'd rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it!!! Or as Mark Twain said; "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." Smart man he!!!

DOD

Looks like this is gonna be one of those long sleepless nights! Good thing I have this computer, and a cat sitting in my lap, holding me down!

Indian arrow heads; As a kid, I lived for that magic moment when I stumbled across an "indian arrowhead"! Dont have any of the ones I found as a kid, but do have the memories! I love history and being a part of it, or finding a part of it! When we went to DC in 86 and again in 91, we visited Mount Vernon, and Monticello, the highlight of the trip, for me! Anyhoo, I stood everywhere I thought Thomas Jefferson and George Washington stood, and touched everything I thought they touched, that is everything the caretakers would let me touch!

Our last deer lease in west texas by Uvalde, Camp Wood, and Leakey, was in the mountains, just west of Garner State Park! And those that have been there, know how beautiful GSP is! Anyway, this place was like I have imagined heaven should be, and the caretaker took us all over it, or as much of 50 thousand acres as we had time to traverse! On the backside of one of the mountains, he said that we were probablyu the first whitemen to ever set foot in that place!

There was an indian village just on the other side of the mountain where the hunting cabin was, a 3 bedroom two bath brick house! But we found no artifacts! The back side of the mountain, the air was as still and silent as a tomb! It was kind of erie, but exhilarating! Heard the scream of a mountain lion, as I guess we came too close to suit him! The scream didnt sound very close, but we got the message! Of course I was armed to the teeth, but really didnt want to have to shoot him or her! I already had to put a wildcat, or huge bobcat out of its misery! He had a broken front leg! Couldnt catch him without a battle royal, and he would have died a slow painful death other wise. still, it just killed my soul to have to end his life! The caretaker took care of the carcass! Skinned him and all...This was about 5 or 10 years ago! Dont remember the year! But we lost that lease when the owner died, and the heirs were divying up and fighting to see who got what parcel!

We are still in touch with the caretaker, who owns about 10 thousand acres in those mountains!

Well, the wooly mammoth has gotten up to forage for food, so I will go do something else, besides bore you, my good friends, to death!

Peace to you all... DOD

06/22/10 01:27 PM

#2794

Scotty Croom

what happened to pics,jackie???

06/22/10 04:27 PM

#2795

DOD, I glad to see you posting a message. We haven't heard from you in a while. I had not had any reports in the neighborhood of some bald fellow streaking down 43rd so I wasn't too worried. sounds like you had a very good father's Day and birthday. I hope all you dads out there did.

I noticed that things are back to normal on Carleen Rd. Since Krug passed on last Thanksgiving I had been keeping the glass in the front and back door pretty clean. You'll note the word had. Now that Liz has grown tall enough to look out those doors I'm back to having dog nose prints on both locations. She's just like Krug, by the time I put the windex away there's a new nose print on one of the doors with the other soon to follow. I wonder if dogs do that intentionally or if they just don't know where the end of their nose is. It's one of natures mysteries since the dogs aren't talking!

Well the rain is really coming down outside my office. Has been for about 20 min. now. I hope it cools things off. It's been pretty brutal for this early in the summer. If you get rain wherever you are. . . you can thank me. I washed my car yesterday! Well it's back to the grind.

Everyone have a nice evening and keep on dancing.

Rich

06/22/10 05:59 PM

#2796

Pictures --- now they are giving you the option of master photo or not -- so if your picture was there you should see a frame where it was, just click on it and select "master photo" and it will reappear. Sorry -- out of my control!

06/23/10 08:06 AM

#2797

Lloyd Pond

I am at the Guitar Foundation of America International Convention and Competition this week in Austin. I am serving as a volunteer and helping to get things set up and organized. It is great to see so many people from all over the world enjoying wonderful music.

06/23/10 09:59 AM

#2798

Paige Talley (Meek)

What fun, Lloyd. I bet there are some great tunes floating around.

Although I am still not secure in the explanations and information I am getting, I don't want to put "false" information our so here is what I am being told by the CPA.

Regarding: Starting in 2011, (next year folks), your W-2 tax form sent by your employer will be increased to show the value of whatever health insurance you are given by the company. It does not matter if that's a private concern or governmental body of some sort. If you're retired? So what; your gross will go up by the amount of insurance you get.

I did some further research on this and made some phone calls. I was "assured" that just because employers had to report health insurance contributions on the W2 did not mean that the amount would be taxed as income. I asked if it would be taxed as something else or taxed in the future. They did not know the answer.

"It doesn't say anything about being taxed on the amount of premiums paid on your health insurance. It just states that the amount will be included on the W-2. I think this is so they can see whether or not you have insurance. At some point they are supposed to penalize those who don't have any." CPA comment.

Otherwise, life is good, kids are good, God is excellent. No matter where these trying times lead us, God is ultimately in control and my faith is in Him, not the government or the people that think they pull the strings.

If you are in the College Station / Bryan area, or want to make a road trip, please consider the 4th of July concert at Central Baptist Church on that Sunday. It is an hour program so you will be able to make it o the fireworks by dark easily. I get to sing with this wonderful choir. There is lots more than just singing going on. The man on the poster is Lt. Stephen Hand, a member of our church. He and his unit are currently serving in Afganistan.

06/23/10 10:09 PM

#2799

Hello Dere...mine waltripians...

Thats a greeting my favorite uncle Ivan use to greet everyone...well, not with "mine waltripians" but " hello dere"!!! Just got back off dusk patrol with my boys!!! Alls quiet on the western front! Didnt see a living thing, well, unless you count people, and I dont! But only a few of those repulsive creatures were out and about! No coots, no ducks and nobody left on!

Sister Jackie suggested we should update our profiles...what could I update??? Same old address...same old deranged me, same old cats and dogs! well, we did add John Boy aka Jack...oh and same ol DW taking care of all of us!!! Well, I help!!!! Maybe new pictures??? Hmmm!!!!!

Heavy trash day!!!!!! Get to see inside folks lives on heavy trash day! Last Friday was such a day! Picked up a perfectly good park bench and 4 of the heavy plastic stackable lawn chairs! All in great condition, well the bench is a tad wobbly, but I can fix that! Great stuff to take up to the ranch! dont have to worry about it lasting, cause I didnt pay anything for it! Now, I'm not a dumpster diver, but I do look for 2nd chance stuff for ye old country place! As most of youse youts know, the sun and rain and outside is very hard on most everything on earth! Even if it says "indoor/outdoor lifetime" etc...Bout the onliest thing I know of that will last forever outside, is REAL SURGICAL STAINLESS STEEL!!!! I have some SS Bolts that were bought for the port of houston, but rejected by an inspector for some stupid reason! Probably didnt get enough protection money from the contractor!

Among the treasures I found last friday, was, A BOX OF BOOKS!!! Can you imagine??? A box of books literally abandoned on the curbside! Well, as luck would have it, they followed me home! I told em not to, but they just wouldnt listen, so home they are, and in the garage they sit! And as luck would have it, before I could go through them and distribute them throughout my already bulging collection, my beloved found them!!! "WHERE DID ALL THESE BOOKS COME FROM" , I heard shouted from the garage!!!! "WHAT BOOKS" I shouted back!!! "YOU KNOW VERY WELL WHAT BOOKS I'M TALKING ABOUT" says DW!! I walked out into the garage to see this here offending box of books! I am greeted with a "teachers glare", and said rather lamely, again, "what books"???? DW has her hand on the box, and might I interject here, that the box is rather small! "OH...those books" says I!!!! "Yeah, these books" she said, of which I thought was said rather sarcastically and uncalled for!!!!

"What are you going to do with MORE BOOKS" says she??? Then she began to peruse through the titles, and says enthusiastically, "Hey, theres one here by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "The cost of Discipleship" !!!! Of which I retorted, "of course, good ol Dietrich Bonhoeffer", and again, was rewarded with "The teacher glare"!!!!(I had never heard of him) duh!!! "He was a German Scholar and the son of a famous Pyschiatrist! He had embarked on a Literature tour in the states and london, and was a vociferous critic of adolph hitler!!! "WHO THE HELL WASNT" says I rather sarcastically!!!!!! And again get "the glare"!!! Well, he was safe here, and could have stayed, but chose to go back to Germany and work with the resistance fighters! He was arrested in April of 1943, and executed in April of 1945!!! Now there's a man that had the "courage of his convictions"!!!

Most of the books are of "Christian" substance, such as the aforementioned, and "Lost Books of the Bible", "God Calling", "Texts for Preaching" etc, and a huge edition of the "New Testament for English readers"! This book is about 3 inches thick, and no publishing date inside! Who could throw something like that out??? I cannot bring myself to throw ANY book out! I donate them to the church, or whoever wants them! On further perusal of my "new book collection", there was lurking in the bottom of the box, a huge copy of an American Heritage Dictionary of English Language, a college book on american government policy and politics, and a stock market book, and last but not least...a college book...ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA WITH GEOMETRY...just cant get away from it can I! Someones just rubbing it in that I am, ALGEBRAICALLY CHALLENGED !!!!!!...among other challenges!!!

So if anyone reading this, wishes to relive their college algebra days, I have one for sale, with your name on it! Just pay shipping and handling of 29.95 and its yours!!! Or, I can bring it to Fudds and you all can fight over it! I can bring all the books, and you all can hep yourselves!!!

The index finger on my right hand is healing nicely thank you!!! Almost had it taken off by one of the neighbors dogs! I was trying to give him a hotdog, and the dog wanted the hotdog and hand that was feeding it!!! Damned near got the hand too!!! Musta got some nerves too, cause it hurt like hell! But it is healing very nicely! It was only a few years ago that I had a tetanus shot because I cut my hand open with a pry bar and had to go to the emergency room and get er fixed up! I sure do keep the medical community in dollars and stitches dont I! "Why Mr Wann, fancy seeing you here in the emergency room...again!!! If they dont see me for awhile, they will call to see if I'm ok!

Guess I will sign off for now, but I will leave you with words of wisdom from Mr Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

"Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves...the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship..."

"Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock..." "It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life."

Heavy words they are...

Your friend and brother, Sweet tater Beauregard cephus DOD

06/23/10 10:21 PM

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Hey paige, fine looking young man on the poster! Might just make it to the 4th celebration in CS...maybe!!! I'll bet you sing like an angel...Oh, it's on a sunday. My beloved sings in our church choir, so might not make it...we will see what we will see.

Hey Lloyd, they got any Old Guitar buyers at the convention??? Got a 62 or 63 Fender Strat that I might part with for the right price! Guitar center on Westheimer has one just like mine, same year, for $37,000 dollars American money!!! I'd be willing to let mine go for that, or a figure in the roundabouts thereof, give or take!

06/24/10 11:47 AM

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