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Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Thanks for all the fun and laughs last night -- the Fuddrucker pictures are posted! 

Burge, that fish or whatever it is - is something else.

Brother Beau, take it easy at the ranch -- you don't' need any more aches and pains!

Hugs

J

Beau Wann, Jr.

Well well well, guess who's up...ME...now there's a real shocker!!! Hey Paige, Jackie et al, tuesday was fun wasnt it...I enjoy seeing everyone there...I could name names, but then with my no how short term memory, nohow, I'd leave out a name, and then there be hurt feelings, and I DEFINITLY DONT WANT THAT...

Just got back from the high country...Cooper and Trooper Jack, had a ball...both bounded through the fields and meadows and woods like krazy fool dogs.  They did come whenever I called them, and we walked sidebyeach checking fence lines, and feeders etc...both slept all the way home...well, except when we get to Navasota...then they raise their heads up as we pass the donut place there on 90 or is it 39???? well, it's rat by the high schrool anyhoo! They just love those donut holes...hmmm hmmm hmmm me too!!!!!

Well, good news on the news for a change, they rescued all the miners and the rescuers...now thats TV worth looking at...what a great joint collective effort on all the folks that were involved...some 12 nations, I think I heard them say!! The Chilean president seems to be a stand up guy...He'll get my vote next time...All the miners were sure calm...wouldnt be a bad thing if they were on your team, or worked in your company...nice things are about to happen to them, I hope they can handle it, I, and I'm sure most everyone wishes them well, and the best life has to offer. Someone is giving them 10 grand apiece, and the most they made working the mines, is about 600 a month...and I hear that there are 1200 job offers for them...

I always did like Chile and its rugged mountains, and the fact it is on the pacific side...dont know why that appealed to me, but it did...
Lungs acting a fool, hard to breathe, and sinuses all whacked out because of the fronts that come in this time of year...always happens...used one of my steroid inhalers, dont know which one, but I think it has gotten old and isnt working, it does have me hyped up though...now, gotta go find some pain pills so I can calm down...but, not to worry, this happens every fall, with rare exception...also sneeze my fool nose off till I look like rudolf...could be an improvement!!!!!

When me and the boys are traveling the Brazos Valley, I always think of Tony and Kay and Robert and Gary when we go through Navasota, and of Paige and Lynn B when I pass through College station and Bryan...my mind plays word association on it's own...but, thats cool, all the above folks, are just as good a folk as they come...So glad to know ya!!!

Well, guess I will sign off for now...Hey Jimmy Lee, how you and Charles doing, havent heard from yall in a spell...Jimmy Sue, how you??? 

May you have fair winds and a following sea...and semper fi...

your friend and brother-in-class...Beauregard C Ephus, his dukeness

Richard Meek '65

Good mornin' all you Waltripians. Gorgeous day out, eh? Tuesday night was enjoyable wasn't it? No surprise it always is. I think it's kind of remarkable that we get together to talk about old times and good memories in addition to current things and in the process we wind up creating good new memories to treasure. Seems like a good cycle to me.

C Ephus, sorry you're struggling with seasonal maladies. With all you have going on have you ever thought about  just turning yourself in at UT Med. School or Baylor Med. School as a research project? It would probably save you a lot of money!

Paige, your granddaughter is a doll. It looks like the good gene pool is strong. From the pictures on your profile all your grand kids look first class. The only questionable one is your son that lives in Utah. Is he there voluntarily? All that snow and cold weather is not inviting to this Gulf Coast resident, brrr.

For those of you who haven't done so, go get a flu shot. It's that time of year. Whether you want to acknowledge it or not we're in one of the high risk age categories now, Yikes, tis true! while you're at it get vaccinated for pneumonia!

Also, pencil in voting on Nov. 2nd on your calendar. If you don't vote don't complain.

Well I better get back to doing my part to keep the economy moving forward. It's good to be King but it has responsibilities you know!

Keep on dancing,

Rich LH

Breathe, Smile, Go Slow

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Check out Class of '61 website -- www.waltrip61.com that Jon Enloe just created. 

Jon Enloe - now

Joe Stuessy - now

Hugs!

J

Beau Wann, Jr.

Howdy, I am speeding around the house at the speed of light, or just below...lungs started shutting down, so had to get out the albuterol inhaler, and pills and neberkanezzer (nebulizer)...that stuff makes me so hyper, if the energy spent,  could be harnessed, I believe I could run a power plant by mineownself...mowed the yard several times, moved the backyard around, vacuumed the pool, fixed the fountain, washed a load of dishes, put em away, washed  4 loads of clothes, one of em twice...dryed said clothes, folded and put em away...washed the truck among other tasks! Made dinner, cleaned up afterwards, folded more clothes and hung more up.  I havent even slowed down yet, and all this started early this afternoon. I am typeing so fast, the screen cant keep up with my fingers. Jimmie lee, you would be proud of me and my typing, I'm not even looking at the screen or fingers...I will tell everyone you were my typing instructor...

I can barely sit still TO Type...had to take some cough medicine, and it has hydrocodone in it, and it made me sleepy, but did not slow me down one iota...Rich, sadly youre right about turning myself into UT Med school...wish it wasnt so though...The hydrocodone helps with the pains, and stopped the coughing, but man I am sooooo hyped up on this albuterol...I have been running around the house, or walking real fast...Cooper and Jack are on the couch, and are watching me run...all the cats are in a good out of the way place, so I dont run over them, and everytime I pass by, they all watch me...they know something is wrong, or up...

Is anyone out there affected by meds like I am????  If so, you have my sympathy...Poor DW, I was yelling at the stove and the cats and the fridge, and the sink and dishwasher, and everything else around me. I try to leave DW alone, and fortunately she understands and just takes it all in stride! Womans a saint...fortunately we both know what causes this, and it wont last more than a million years...

I was so hyped up, still am, but earlier, I flung a glass across the house because the ice maker was missing the glass and ice wound up on the floor...good thing th eglass was plastic...
I started to straighten up the book case, and am so jittery, that I was slinging books everywhere...DW put her hands on me, somewhat calming, and sat me down, and started picking up the books...

Now the hydrocodone is kicking in, and making me sleepy...Great...ever see someone hyped up and asleep at the same time???? Well, if I can sleep, then I'm good with that!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder if this gets any better in the next life!!!! I sure hope so...I havent exactly been a choir boy at times...not that I didnt want to be!!!!! Oh well...

supposed to be in the upper fortys tonight...yea...

You know,  the HIGHLIGHT AND BEST THING THAT HAS HAPPENED in this century, is the rescue of all those miners...absolutely incredible...makes me proud to be Chilean...bet you didnt know that I was, did you???? Italian, German, Chilean, Texan, Anglo Saxon and all around whirld champeen something...

Ok, guess I will sing off...la la la la la de dah, hum hum hum...

fair winds and a following sea to all my fine waltripfuddians out there...
your friend and hyper brother in class...
Beauregard C Ephus speed demon extrodanaire and your Duke of DuBarry

John Burgess Webb

thanks jackie for the new website;i know a bunch of these people.my youngest sister hallie was in the first class to graduate from waltrip and she had a bundle of friends.those were fun times,except the jokes she and linda [warren]bedell used to play on me.a bunch of us would all go over to gary keith's house and play football after school until we all got tired out and went home.i kept a jar of water in the fridge to empty when i got home.i came in the side door to the kitchen and right for that cold water.well hallie and linda had taken all the jars and bottles out and emptied the juice from the pickle jar,hot sause,tabasco,red pepper;every thing lovingly mixed and poured into my water jar.oh,ha!ha! it was a good one and i ended up laughing about it-many years later.sometimes it was like "the wild bunch"over at mothers house;from schools' out till she got home from work.my oldest sister christina and her friends were more mature;a lotta kids from reagan and waltrip enjoyed mothers' hospitality.those days were full of family and fun;we had to stick together in those days.

hey beau,i think the norton you speak of was a road-racing version of the verticle twin,i think it was a 650,for higher rpm.i asked a friend of my mothers' who was a road-racer what the highest speed he ever rode in a race and he said"about 180mph.this was in 1955 or 56.the cowling and outragous performance of the newer roadracers can scream and glide corners like like a top but the inherant coeffencient where the rubber grips the road with less of a square inch of actual contact,limits the forces that hold it to the ground so there is a limit,evidently approached by those roadracers of the 1950's until now.speaking of now and i wish my steel and polomer knees would allow me to ride the 'hyabusa'(a yamaha i think)they sell off the floor for about 10,000 and will top out at about 200mph.i cant get my knees to bend that extra 4 or 5 degrees backwards to get my foot on the foot peg and shifter.oh well,mabe that keeps me out of harms way..i almost traded my superglide for a honda 'blackbird' but the same knee problem.i wont complain i still have my legs and im able to walk,some cant.im just dreaming.i really am a fortunate man.

now that its nice and cool i get to walk more and enjoy the company of these fun-loving dogs:debox(aka boy),tugboat(aka booger)and sweet little ping.

I GUESS ONE CAN TELL THAT I REALLY ENJOY MY CANINE FRIENDS

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Hey Burge,  glad you enjoyed 61's website -- your story brings back a lot of good memories of family and friends we all cherish.   The water gag is a good one!!  And your "best friends" pictures are wonderful - they are just beautiful. 

Bro Beau, have you crashed --- so sorry to hear you are under the weather -- and yes, meds are the pits.  I stay clear of them - but thank goodness I didn't inherit my mom's allergies -- my oldest daughter did.  I feel for all those that have allergies - I was just Blessed!

Anyone coming to Sheraton Brookhollow Hotel - 4 to 7 tonight for Waltrip 50th gathering - then Delmar Stadium for homecoming game?  Tomorrow morning at school will be a parade - 11:30 a.m. BBQ - 1:00 program in the auditorium and then a dance tomorrow night. Details are under Annoucments on Homepage.

Have a great weekend to all ---

Hugs,

J

Beau Wann, Jr.

Hey sister Jackie, I crashed sometime around midnight! Not too bad, lungs still trying to leave home...but I'm ok...any of youse youtes thinking about going to disney whirld, just come over here, it's a riot...as you know, the cats have learned to open cabinets, which they do on a regular basis, this morning being no exception.  Thats what woke me up...kathunk...kathunk...kathunk...the hinges have springs on them so that when they dont open all the way, they close shut...what a handy idear!!!! Except when you live with a wooly mammoth and his cronies...Seems big Oliver was sitting on the floor of the bathroom, opening the cabinet and letting it slam shut. Then Annie Bob started following suit...at least I surmised it to be so! I remember I kept thinking, "what in the hell is that noise"??? or words to that effect!!!!  

when I finally dragged my own self out of the rack, and looked into the bath, there were 5 cats, 3 of them opening and shutting the cabinet doors, and 2 cats as spectators...not to mention two dogs peeking in the door to see what all the hubbub was about...bub!!! I shouted, "HEY", pretty clever of me wasnt it!!!!  You all can do it, go ahead, shout it out, just say "HEY"...see there, feels good doesnt it!!!! Anyway, the largest of the group, Cooper, feared he'd been caught  doing something bad, turned and ran out of the room and jumped on the couch where he assumed the position of "sleeping dog"!!! Jack ran out and onto his footstool, and assumed the "sleeping dog" position.  The cats...well, cats are cats, and they are their own cats and take no orders from anyone!!!! I started shooing them out of the bath so I could have some privacy in the privacy of mine own home. Counting, I counted 4 cats, hmmm wonder where Peaches went...Oh well, she probably ran out with the dogs, her being a fraidy cat. Ok, all clear...

Turn on the shower, getting ready for some good vibes, falling water! Oops, fogot my towel...I open up the cabinet where we keep the towels, and out jumps Peaches, just hollaring at me in cateese! I'd wash her mouth out with soap if I knew what she was saying, and I'll bet it wasnt the Gettysburg Address..."HEY", I shouted...got to use that word again. Amazing, my extended vocabulary!!! "It isnt my fault you got shut up int the cabinet you you, CAT you"...or words to that effect! Finally unruffled some cat feathers with a few kitty treats. That generally does the trick at turning around the surly mood of a disgruntled cat!!! So here I sit, about to go on a ride on pegasus.

Maybe I will see youse youtes on my journeys today...

Keep the sun at your 6 and ride boldly ride...Your friend and other brother
Me

Scotty Croom

enjoyed seeing everyone at 50th gathering last nite......but what a fiasco----who planned all this....it was lijke shoving 10 # of crap in a 5# bag...met john enlow...he wants to form alumni group...lets get on ground floor and do it right...see my pics on faCEBOOK

Bernd Joachim Tonat

Alma Lily, born Oktober 11 in Bern in Switzerland, daughter of Karla Viktoria

Puh, I got this pic uploaded (I hope so at least). Barbara already has seen our new granddaughter in Bern, she is coming back to Berlin tonight. Karla did not want the name Viktoria, her two sisters should care for this name, it will be the fifth generation, starting with my grandmother from Galicia.

Paige always will remember this birthday, I already wrote her.

So much to tell about this year, so little time to write. Anyway thanks for the wishes for my birthday. I had to quit reading the forum regularly after page 100, must have been about easter. After that I just had a glimpse to keep up with all the stories, probably missed several.

But some I got. For instance one of my spiritual leaders is and always was Dietrich Bonhoeffer (greetings to Beau!), I grew up with this great man (I mean Bonhoeffer).

My first car was a 2CV (deux cheveau - two horsepowers). a real fun car, but slow like a snail. After that an R4, another French car with almost no horsepower.

In May my very good friend Bringfriede died, she was born in 1915 and she grew up in a liberal family and never voted for Hitler. She even had a ticket to the States in 1936, because she had a jewish friend but she loved her father so much and when he asked to stay she stayed in Germany. So she typed a memorandum for the Kreisauer Kreis, a group against Hitler, many were killed like Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the last days of the war, but they didn´t get her. She was a great woman.

I hope you had a good time at the 50th anniversary. Plans are to come over next year but rather not in this yellow schoolbus.

Greetings from cold and rainy Berlin,

bjt

Bernd Joachim Tonat

This is a 2CV

Bernd Joachim Tonat

Three pictures this time! Several weeks ago I tried to load up one of the Berlin Philharmonic, when we went to a concert, but I didn´t make it. Might have been the Iphone, I don´t know anymore.

bjt

Paige Talley (Meek)

Bernd,

She is beautiful your little "Miss Alma Lily Paige"... OK so it is a little poetic license but one should enjoy something on such a great October 11th day of celebration. Take heed, my friend, she will be a fun filled, hand full of a female. Hug her one from NanaPaige

Thanks Jackie for the new Waltrip 61 site. I think my sister is in that group. Joe Stuessy and his band played at the (help me out here ya'll) Black Jr. High 8th ??? grade dance before the 9th graders went to Waltrip? He accompanied me singing "The Wayward Wind"  as part of the entertainment. I can't remember the pertinent details, but I remember the dress I wore and the boy that mattered most in the 8th grade... Oh those are the pertinent details!!!

https://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=S4KrIMZpwCY

For you Ford guys, you may have seen this, but I enjoyed it and you may too even if it is again. I used to get to work on our cars with my Dad, nothing fancy, just maintenance. My sister and I had to be able to change a flat (which included getting the tire out from under the truck and getting the other one back under the truck), change the spark plugs and oil as well as checking the water and tire pressure BEFORE he would let us practice driving a car. Granddaddy was easier. He taught me to drive a tractor when I was 8 or 9. Then he "employed" my sister and I to drive the tractor while the hands picked corn... yep same year we learned.

Beau, next time you want to zoom around like that come up and zoom through my house... it could use some zoom cleaning. On 2nd thought, never mind. I don't think zooming like that is too good for you!!!

Love ya'll

Prissy Pirate Paige

John Burgess Webb

remember the days when all you had to know about cars was where to put the key and know how to say "fill er up"?gas was 16 cents a gallon during a gas war;learned how to drive on sundays,way out in the country where the katy rice fieldy went on for miles.a nice ride.

bernt,what a wonderful family,such a constellation of talents.i especially liked the picture of the snow at your home.very nice.congradulations on your beautiful grand daughter.

more cars;this is the car that almost bankrupt bmw,made from 1956 to 1959.the cost doubled the estimate at 10,000.you could buy a ferrari 250 gt berlinetta 2+2 for that amt.the bmw had hand rolled aluminum body and an aluminum overhead valve v8.there are 202 left,not many less than that were ever built;the owners took very good care of this rare jewel.

for a little less than the 10,000 for the bmw roadster you could order this 1957 ferrari 250 gt berlinetta 2+2(named for berlin) ,it had a velvet- smooth duel over head cam v12 with 6 webber 2bbl carburators.both are worth a million+ today.its funny,value and perception;some things are nice to keep around;and in some cases in a museum.

Beau Wann, Jr.

Congratulations Bernd...beautiful girl and names to go with her...I also like Viktoria, very regal name...I liked your car...isnt it french??? the Maladroit Escargot something something???? I'm serious, seems like I saw a pic of this long time ago and the above name is what they said it was! I guess they could a been funnin me, and you know me, I believe anything!!!!

Hey Paige, I'm like a buldozer when I clean and move around the house...mom use to call me the ol "bull in a china shop"....whens the last time you heard that phrase????

Burge, wonder how much those cars go for today???? Someone sent a set of pics of a new Italian Police car, a Lamborghini, something something, cost 250 thousand dollars. Said it was to catch speeders...does the autobahn go into Italy???? anyway, the last pictures were of it wrecked sitting under another car...looks like they should have opted for some driving lessons too! I sent it to some of our classmates, maybe they can put a pic of it on the forum, I couldnt!!!!

Trying to stay "positive focused", steroids for my lungs get me in the proverbial "roid rage"...knowing what it is and what causes it, helps...alot.  I know it isnt me...too bad it cant be Jack Daniels, or Michelob, cause I'm a happy drunk, and a cheap one too. Doesnt take much for me to get silly and sleepy...Hmmm...I wonder if the roids and whiskey would not be good to take together...have to ask the resident pharmacist, DW, about that...Ok, she says the distructions dont say anything about alcohol, but not to take antidepressants with albuterol...but she also leaning towards, NOT, possibly leaning into a left hook by adding alcohol...she says she doesnt want to have to call 911, or have to shoot me, whichever comes first...ME TOO, yumpin yeminy!!!!

Big Oliver sitting in a grocery box from Costco, waiting for a treat...they line up to get in any box I bring home...

annie-bob homesteading DWs sink........Big Oliver trying to fit his size 10 butt in a size 5 basket.

Annie-bob trying to fit her size 5 butt in a size 1 box...Annie-bob asleep on the sink, waiting for
 Breakfast...

Big Olie sleeping in the dogs house, He might as well, dogs wont get in it...this is the one I
dropped in the pool.

Big Olie sleeping in the entertainment center...the album below doesnt exist, according to RCA, even though it is one of their LPMs. It is as you can see, Benny Goodman, songs recorded in the 30s, original recordings from then, with greats like Bunny Berrigan, Teddie Wilson, Gene Krupa, Toots Mondello, Pee Wee Erwin, Ziggy Elman, Harry James, Lionel Hampton, Martha Tilton etc...
These are all original recordings from 1935,36,37,38,39...I called RCA about 40 years ago, and they have no record of the record. Gave them the LPM 1099 number assigned to it, but nada. I have put it on my computer and copied to CDs...It is a super fine album...one of the best of that
era!!!!

Lacy, our Turkish Van, in the same basket Big Olie was spilling over the sides...Lacy fits right nice!

 Hey!!!! who's this good looking man about town????
Why its me, sportin an outfit my mom made for me! I guess I'm 2 or 3 there???? Well, ok, I will stop boring you with pictures and my ramblins.
Fair winds and following seas to ya...
The Duke of Dubarry...Me

Teddie Jordan

Beau, that's more like the dapper Harold I remember as a boy!

Great picture.

Richard Meek '65

Mornin' Waltripians, I hope you all had great weekends. For you nature lovers I had an interesting experience on Saturday. A buddy and I went down to his bay place on Caney Creek near Sargent. We were doing our usual, sitting on the banks of the creek watching the sun set accompanied by Cuban music, wine and cigars. There is only ranchland on the other side of the creek so we get some very beautiful sunsets. It was an amazingly quiet day for a Saturday, virtually no boat traffic or neighbors playing conflicting music, it was ideal. There is a very large Blue Heron that fishes along that stretch of the creek and he was fishing in some bamboo about thirty feet from us. He had squawked very loudly shortly after we settled in for sunset. Like he was saying he didn't like the cigar smoke or did we bring him a cigar, not sure which I'm not fluent in heron. As dusk wa setting in he took flight and crossed the creek in front of us. Quite a sight to see that massive bird skimming over the water with just about 2 ft. of clearance. Then the excitement happened. Just as the dusk was  getting deep another bird took flight out of the trees and scrub brush across the creek. He headed straight for us just skimming over the water. As he approached by buddy asked if that's a hawk. I replied nope that's an owl. He was a big fellow with about a 4 ft. wing span. I kept expecting him to gain elevation or veer off but he didn't. He flew right at me. I was beginning to wonder if I was about to have an owl attached to me. He went on past. When he passed He was so close I could feel the wind created by the flap of his wings and hear the air ruffling his feathers. I guess he just wanted a close look at us and headed out for his nightly hunt. I've never stared an owl in the face like that in the wild. A once in a life time experience probably. Truly amazing!

Keep on dancing,

Rich LH

Stay Calm, Carry On

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Hey Bernd, congratulations - what a beautiful little angel she is.  I know you are a proud Grandpa!

My youngest daughter, Carrie, is expecting their first in April - so we are all thrilled.  My oldest daughter, Cheryl, has the two boys -- and I'm flying to Kansas to see them for Thanksgiving - time cannot pass fast enough!  I haven't seen them since August ---

Keep us updated with pictures - they grow so fast.

Richard, that was a close experience with the owl!   My daughter-in-law is a Marathon runner and she was in her neighborhood running early one morning near a vacant field and a hawk attacked her -- she was screaming and running as fast as she could.  She could hear the wings flapping above her head -- and he hit the back of her head a couple of times - thank goodness she had a cap on.  She finally cut across to the residential area and it flew off.  She was okay except for being re-e-eally shook up.

Barbara and I participated in some of the 50th Anniversary celebration and I'll try to post pictures ASAP.  The highlight of the event was seeing Miss Sandra Lee - or Mrs. Cole now - our first Imperial Guard sponsor/English teacher.   She married in '64 and left Waltrip soon after - they have lived in Midland, Washington, DC and they now reside in Virginia.  I've asked her to join our website ---

This is her first Waltrip function to attend since she left -- so it has been 46 years since we've seen her.  It was a good weekend and glad to see some of our group - Wendy Sherrill, Tom Gann, Scotty and Lola Smith, Doug Romans, Lynell Carapezza, Linda Martin, Patty Payne, Gloria Hornick, Mary Huebner, Debbie Sherrill '63, Norman Adams '63, Marianne Allison '63, Jennie Anderson '65, Richard Meek '65, Linda Webster '65, Suzie May '65, James King '65 and Pat Clooney '67, Joyce Barta, Pam Sebesta, Donna Williford, Jon Enloe '61.  60's and 70's pretty much ruled the event.

Oh, and can you believe, it has been a year since our 45th reunion --- this time last year we were partying and dancing to the Rocking Beau tunes!!!  Just makes us a year closer to our next reunion!  Beau love your picture - you were stylin'in that outfit your mom made -- a work of love!

Hugs

J

Scotty Croom

that pic of beau--at sadie hawkins game,1963--is one for immortal status

Richard Meek '65

Howdy Waltripians. Another beautiful day in paradise, H Town,  a good weekend just passed. Even including getting up close and personal with an owl. Next time I'll be more hospitable and offer him a cigar and some wine. There is a great article on the front page of the Chronicle this morning. It's about a gent named Harry Pepper. Lives here in paradise. Just passed his 100th birthday last Saturday. Still drives, day and night. Just ordered a new 2011 car, he deferred on the extended warranty. Also Harry still bowls. It's an interesting story, get and read it.

C Ephus, after reviewing the pics of your critters it strikes me that napping is one of Olie's best things. Enjoyed all the pics. Don't animals have great personalities? You may have missed your calling. Maybe you should have been a model. You're obviously a natural at styling!

Burge that BMW Berlinetta is a knock out of a car. I would love to be able to drive one. I've always liked BMW styling but have never owned one. Have to add that to the list, which grows longer all the time. Hope things are well in Almost Arkansas.

Back to work if I'm going to make any progress on catching up to Warren Buffett.

Keep on dancing,

Rich LH

We all do better, when we all do better

John Burgess Webb

the same pattern of a vortex on the surface of the earth, in our "milky way"and throughout the seen universe.facinating to me;one a horror to civilization,the other a pattern of serenity and beauty.dynamic vortis
es,seen now as never before.thank you nasa,fine work.

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Hi Gang,

I'm in the process of downloading the Football Banquet pictures that Tom Gann took of their celebration for Coach Burton and Mr. Tusa (Thursday, Oct. 14) and my pictures of Waltrip's 50th Anniversary.  I'll see how much I accomplish at lunchtime -- so take a peek around 1:00ish.  In the meantime, you can go to the '67 website and see Pat Clooney's slideshow of 50th - www.waltrip67.com

Also Scotty Croom has his pictures on Facebook of the Friday night gathering at Sheraton Brookhollow.

Hugs J

Richard Meek '65

Good morning to all my fellow Waltripians. It's another beautiful day here in paradise. We could use some rain though. I'm already watering the flowerbeds. If it doesn't rain soon I'll have to water the lan too. I better buy an extra length of hose so I can hook up to the neighbors faucet.

I read an interesting article last night about dogs. Some of you will find it interesting others will wonder why read that stuff. Anyway it will clear up a misconception that many people, me included, have had for years. It is widely thought that the term cur refers to any dog that it is of undefined origins. Some folks also attach being ill tempered to that definition.  But aucontraire that is incorrect. A Cur is actually a breed of dog with several different types within the breed. The two I remember are the Mountain Cur and the Yellow Blackmouth Cur. These dogs were brought over from England by immigrants. they are generally in the 35 to 55 pound range. they are fierce hunters but very friendly and gentle with people. They are primarily used to hunt game that is treed such as squirrels, raccoons, possums but they can be trained to hunt just about anything be it rabbits, hogs or whatever. They can also be trained to herd stock.They got their name from the fact that traditionally their tails are docked. The name Cur comes from the fact that the dog was curtailed. The reason for this is that in Jolly old England they had to pay a dog tax annually. The amount of the tax was determined by the length of the dog. So if you snipped off part of the tail it saved on taxes. Another interesting fact is that in England paesants weren't allowed to own hounds. Only the nobility could own them. So the Paesants owned dogs like the Cur to herd animals, protect their hovels and to put food on the table when they poached game on the lords estate. So that is my bit of dog trivia for today.

DOD we haven't heard from you in a while. Are you still under the weather? In one of your past postings you mentioned that your dogs won't go in the dog house you built. Do you think that might be because they saw you roll it into the cement pond and they don't want to be on board if that happens again? I know you say that Coop is dumb as a bag of rocks but maybe John Boy helps him out. Just a thought.

It seems that it is about time to reconvene the Waltrip lunch meeting. Anyone up for it?

Keep on dancing,

Rich LH

We all do better, when we all do better

Beau Wann, Jr.

ALBUTEROL, ALBUTEROL, YOU ARE SO DARN MYSTERIOUS,
ALBUTEROL, ALBUTEROL, I TAKE YOU VERY SERIOUS.
YOU CLEAR MY LUNGS, YOU MAKE ME SHAKE,
YOU HYPE ME UP, SO HARD TO TAKE.
ALBUTEROL ALBUTEROL, YOU ARE SO DAMN MYSTERIOUS....(sung to the tune of O Christmas Tree)

Greetings from clever ever land...Just had another lung treatment of albuterol on my nebakanezzer...and for some reason, I was thinking of christmas tunes...sure not ready for Christmas yet...shucky darn, havent even had thanksgiving yet, and it is my favorite.
The nozzel you put in your mouth, is about the size of the end of a garden hose, and makes it hard to talk, or say anything intelligible. I'm trying to tell the resident MD, pharmacist/zoo keeper, DW, something, and it just sounds like I'm humming... couldnt get her attention, so I started singing, Deck the Halls, then O Christmastree, I heard The Bells, Deck the Halls again, and then a rousing rendition of Jingle Bells...all sounding like uhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh etc...DW comes in and says, "will you be quiet, you are scaring the animals"...Seems they were all in huddled around DW....well, cept my boy BIG OLIVER...he was huddled around me, and he can huddle around thats for sure.

The nebulizer has a nozzel, on both ends sort of looks like a Kazoo...steam, or condensation comes out the part in your mouth, and at the other end, overflow oxygen and steam or condensation comes out of it...Oliver was just watching it with rapt facination, either that or wondering what the hell I was uhuhing about...

Hey Rich, I read the article on the 100 year old bowler...still bowls in the 150 range...that was probably my average...laid another soldier to rest this past weekend, Sgt Mcnerny, MEDAL OF HONOR recepient from Vietnam. Served 4 tours...all his men were in to see him in September! He knew he was not long for this world...fighting cancer, plus at 79, it's hard to fight something as bad as cancer! He was laid to rest at Houston National Cemetery up on Stubner Airline/Veterans memorial...Good...Great Man he...

Yes, LUNCH BUNCH should meet sometime, somewhere, soon...I will be there, if you dont mind my coughing and nervous twitching...it isnt contagious, just contrary...
HEYYYYYYYYYYYYYY....DID ANY OF YOUSE YOUTES SEE IN THE HOUSTON PRAVDA CHRONICLE THIS MORN, THAT MARK TWAINS AUTOBIOGRAPHY IS SET TO BE RELEASED THIS NOVEMBER 15, 100 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH????????? IT WILL BE IN 3 VOLUMES!!!! WITH ALL THE PREORDERS, IT IS ALREADY ON THE BEST SELLER LIST.  I have already let it be known to the powers that be, DW, that would make a most excellent Christmas gift for yours truly, moi!!!! I have Twains entire works, and read them numerous times. Even did some college english lit reports on some of his stuff, one comes to mind, "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg". Got an A+ on that paper...it was fun researching and writing that paper!!!!

I think the reason the boys dont get in the dog house, is because they always wind up in the massas house, the big house...they have been in the dog house, and Cooper even slept in it once...but if I go outside, they come a running...dont know why, other than for me to brush them...neither one plays much...Jack plays some, but quickly tires of the...lack of challenge???
Coop on the other hand, will sit at my side and watch me throw the ball and then look at me like..."ok, you had the ball and now youve thrown the ball, so now, YOU go get it"...or words to that effect...

The "CUR" information was interesting...always like facts and origins of facts...Ol Catahoula Jack is a CUR breed, and is recognized by AKC assoc...Not yet for competition, but other...There are a few other CUR breeds here in the good ol U S of A, whose title escapes me at this very moment!!!
Thanks for the info! Keep it coming!!!

Just thought I'd throw in a picture of myself and my grandson, Taylor! I think he was about 3 or 4 maybe. You remember those picture machines at Woolworths and Walgreens, and some of the other stores, where you could pay 50 cents or whatever it was, and get three black and white pics of you and a friend etc?????? I think this was at Sears, or Northwest Mall. Cost a whole dollar, but worth every penny...Taylor is now 16 and over 6 ft tall...and I might add, one of the finest young men in the whirld...good devout christian...gentle soul...soft spoken..but deep voice...a smile that would melt the hardest of hearts...but then I'm not telling youse anything you dont already know about your own grandchildren, eh!!!!

Ok, gotta run EEEErands...see ya laterrr mine waltripians...

your friend and other brother, DOD

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Miss Lee (Mrs. Cole) just made my day, she joined our website!

I've posted Football Banquet pictures by Tom Gann under "Football" tab.  I'm in the process of IDing and still have to add our 50th pictures -- just not enough time during lunch.

Hugs

J