The Waltrip Club will meet tomorrow, 10/29,2010, 11:30 AM @ Five Guys Burgers & Fries, SE corner of San Felipe & Post Oak Blvd. Be There for good conversation, good food and solving world problem

Hello All,

I just tuned in to say Howdy! I've been reading and keeping up, and laughing with ya'll, but I've been really busy this year with different things going on.

Jim, sorry to hear about your brother.....the irony of life is we can be here today and gone tomorrow, no one knows our time but the One upstairs. I feel your loss.

Beau-man, hope you get relief and back up to snuff TODAY! Perhaps the weather changing will help. I know it will help here, as we NEED RAIN here badly, our ponds are at least a foot down and everywhere the fields look like heavy-laden fluffy straw....that's not good.

Went to Madisonville MUSHROOM Festival this weekend with my twin sis, and we really had a good time. Her first time, she loves mushrooms, and she loved the festival as well.

Burge, I think that was your little Pre-K student,? She is Sassy and Sweet, Beautiful is not a good enough word. We have 10 Pre-Ker's for the first year, and while they've cost me time creating their profiles, they are the sweetest.

O.K. Back to work, work, and more work. Have a great day and thanks to everyone who does check in....

10/26/10 11:02 AM

#3329

Good morning Waltripians. Something unusual happened on my drive to work this morning. Moisture was accumulating on my windshield. I actually had to use the wipers a couple of times. It wasn't enough to call it rain but hopefully we'll see some rain by Thursday.

Jackie, If I'd known you were going to Kroger's on Monday I'd have waited instead of going on Sunday. I see you and Barbara Raines there periodically. I'd probably see Beau C. Ephus but I'd have to go down the ice cream aisle and I tried to avoid that. It's too easy to give in to temptation. Although on a recent sojourn to Caney Creek I stopped at Lake Jackson Disney World to buy cigars. I bought them and an ice cream cone (a strange combination, what?). I had a flavor I hadn't had in an age, Toffee Rocky Road.Man that was good!

Don't forget this Friday is the gathering of The Waltrip Club at Five Guys Burgers & Fries, SE corner of San Felipe and Post Oak Blvd., 11:30 AM. All are welcome for good food, good conversation and solving of world problems. Members of the Yale and Harvard Clubs are welcome since we have reciprocal agreements with them.

Jimmie Sue sorry to hear about your rough going with or L4&5 vertebrae. No fun at all. My ex had that problem 20 yrs. ago. She had a neuro surgeon use a laser to cut out the bulging part of the discs. She only had a 3 in. incision but by now they probably can do it on a non-invasive basis. When you get into pain management be sure to ask them about a tins (sp?) machine. My sister has been dealing with a fractured vertebrae for a couple of years. Meds weren't helping much. She recently got one of the tins units and has gotten a lot of relief and feels like doing things again. I hope you have good success.

Burge your grand daughter is a real beauty. It's probably good I don't have kids, particularly daughters. I'd be digging a moat around the property and keep the draw bridge up.

Kay, good to hear from you. Isn't it amazing how the food scene has changed in Texas since we were youtes? Having all kinds of festivals for mushrooms, wine cheese, etc. and it's all produced in Texas. What a variety of choices available now!

Keep on dancing,

Rich LH

Breathe, Smile, Go Slow

10/26/10 11:33 AM

#3330

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Hey, great to hear all the "Howdy's" from Susan, Teddie, Burge, Jimmy S, Jimmie Sue, Kay W, Rich LH -- keep it going! BroBeau where are you? Hope you are feeling better today.

All you folks out there that are just "reading" and not responding - shame on you! Again, just a Hi is wonderful --- PLEEEEEEEASE!

Burge, your grandaughter is so precious and know what you mean about grandkids - my grandsons brighten up my world!

Susan, I know the joy of a visit with the grandkids and especially seeing the little ones grow. My youngest grandson, just turned 4 last week and my oldest will be 14 in Janaury - oh, my!!!!! Wish they were closer but still will not complain since they used to live in Germany -- let's see Germany vs. Kansas, yep, a lot better! And come April 26 I'll have a new little grandbaby right here in Houston - hard to believe!

Jimmie Sue --- hate to hear about your back/hip problems -- but I'm sure most of us can relate -- mine come and go. Right now I have neck issues -- it an old elevator accident injury 11 years ago that has come back to haunt me!!

Oh, and Rich -- I was at Krogers on Sunday -- probably just missed each other.

Hugs

10/26/10 01:32 PM

#3331

Good Morrow mine waltripians,

Tis I Dr Jeckle/Mr Hyde, back from the depths of hell...God, the cure can be as bad as the malady...meds got to me yesterday, worst yet...too much albuterol and prednesone...was in a state of frantic panic all day up in to the wee small hours of this morn...if you have not experienced it, no explanation would be sufficient...it is just the most horrible feeiling you can ever imagine...if I didnt know what was causing it, and had not excercised uncomon will power, I just dont know what would happen...after walking around the house, or actually sprinting around the house, I took both boys for a mile walk or run each, and then plugged my mp3 player in and listened to bob seger, heart, lynard skynard etc and jumped on the stationary bike, riding frantically for about 5 miles in just a few short minutes, until DW stopped me...then run around the house till I finally collapsed about 1 this morn...

Scared the cats and dogs, not to mention DW...the cats all went to high ground, any cabinet or hutch or book case out of reach from the "madman", both dogs on the couch, crouching and not moving anything but their eyes as I would pass by...

Jack did go outside and sit on the swing with me about midnight...I fell into a dead sleep and dont know for how long...wind was just howling and leaves swirling around...finally woke up to jack licking my hand and face...guess he was worried...not to worry son, I aint goin nowhere...

This morning, climbed out of the depths of hell, over the frantic panic, but still lungs a little thick, but breatheable. Took both boys for their walks, hot and humid...guess our fall and winter is overwith...dang, missed it again!!! Very windy yesterday, and now today too. wind lookis like it has shifted to out of the north west, hopefully...

Not going to use the albuterol if my lungs stay ok, but will taper off on the prednesone, well you have to taper off, so it doesnt send your system into shock. It works on the adrenal system...
They dont tell you this, had to find out on my own about it...if you are on prednesone, and you hurt yourself, you can go into immediate shock, and DIE!!!! All of my sawbones that have been prescribing that crap, seemed to have left the Dying part out...Medrol packs are set up for this, ie take 5 pills the first day, 4 pills the second day 3 and then 2 and then 1 nad then youre done...

Burge BEAUTIFUL JUST BEAUTIFUL little girl...beautiful seems so inadequate a word to discribe her...angel for sure!!!!

Jimmy sue, did any of us know what L4 and L5 were when we were young-er??? Other than the A side and B side of a hit on the juke box... we damned sure know now dont we...sorry your having trouble in that area...me too, not as bad, but sometimes it's either standup or lay down, and neither is comfortable...Ive tried the dead chicken hanging around my neck, but only aligators and crocodiles will be your friends...and I have a strict rule, no alligators or crocodiles for friends, period...too rough a crowd for me!

Hey Jimmy S...how you dune??? long time no hear...you still training those champeen horses????
Got a Secretariat on hand???? The grandson of Secretariat has moved over to a lady in Austin that rehabilitates race horses, and adopts them out to suitable ranches and farms. Wish my place was ready for a couple of horses and or donkeys...but in time!!!!

Kay!!!!!!!!!!!! I wanted to go to the mushroom festival so bad, missed it the last 4 years...I LOVE MUSHROOMS...were they giving away samples???? I've been wanting to try my hand a growing them, but dont have a cave dark enough to give it a try...next year, I am going, come hell or high water for sure...yeah yeah yeah, I say that every year....they have any good jazz bands tthere????I know you said you like jazz...me too....well, not too progressive. I do like some sort of semblence to a melody....my last Coltrane album I bought was just the pits... most horrible miserable excuse for music I could ever imagine...He was good at one time...went crazy...think he died in an asylum...genius can do that sometimes...hmmmm guess thats something I wont have to worry about, hopefully...

Hey Sis J...glad I didnt go to Krogers...probably would have ended up in a brawl the way I was feeling...I'm surprised that I dont see more people there that I know. I do see Barbara from time to time, and a few others, but not as often as one would think you would...kinda sorta...
I saw Elvis there, but it was late at night...he was buying peanut butter and bannas and ice cream...he looked good...said I did too, but then he was just being nice...

Feeling as bad as I did yesterday, I couldnt disappoint Koopers Kids yesterday, so I maned up and toughed it out, went to lamkin elem...Kooper gets so excited, HE KNOWS, what is important...he was magnificent yesterday...seemed to know what each child needed, closeness, space, a lick on the head...I almost forgot how bad I felt, almost...couldnt wait tot get home...sure was proud of cooper though!!!! Those kids just love him and vice versa...

Bernd...HI!!!! Voss ise losse???? Der hund isse losse!!!! My uncle use to tell me that all the time, have no idear what it means...he would laugh, I guess it's suppose to be funny...I laughed, because he laughed, he was big and mean and crazy, so I had better laugh...

Wave of fatigue and tiredness just came over me...be back later...thinking maybe I be at the lunch bunch friday...not much of an appetite lately, but then it is a few days away...do have some deffinite idears on how to fix the whirlds problems though...never short of those...

see ya later crocodile...or words to that effect...

your friend and other brother...Dr Beauregard C Ephus Jeckle Hyde esq

10/26/10 01:51 PM

#3332

Just gonna add a couple o pics...you dont mind do you????

Take eye of newt...one owl feather...one basket of cat...stir but dont shake...

Keeping my eye on youse...

10/26/10 05:58 PM

#3333

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

BroBeau -- wow what an ordeal!!! It's kind of like an "out of body" experience. I know you will be glad to get off meds and back to normal soon.

So glad Coop was able to brighten the kids day --- and you felt so punk - what a trooper you are.

Hang in there and love the pics -- that basket full of fur is a winner!

HugsJ

10/26/10 09:55 PM

#3334

John Burgess Webb

hey jimmie sue,its good to hear from you.

beau,i cant believe jackie called you a punk...gawlee.

10/26/10 10:41 PM

#3335

Susan Howard (Bowman)

Hey, Beau! I love your cats! I have one - have always had at least one! His name is Duffy and he is a character. He's 15 pounds of long, white, soft fur and a real love! I'll have to figure out how to post a picture of him on here for you! Take care and feel better!

Jimmie Sue, take care of your back! My husband is having major back surgery a week from Thursday - there is nothing else to be done for him!

Jackie, I envy you having a grand baby close by! I know you enjoy your visits to Kansas, too - not too far away - like my daughter in Alabama - I can drive it in 8 hours. Mine are in Texas, Alabama, and California, but none here! We are flying to LA to see 3 of them this weekend - need to see them before my husband's surgery - we'll be doing the wheel chair thing in the airports - not fun! But it will be okay! My oldest is 17 and the youngest 7 months - 8 all together. My oldest granddaughter is studying ballet at the Gelsey Kirkland Ballet Academy in New York - she is a wonderful ballerina - finishing up her senior year there - she belongs to my stepson in LA. Enough bragging for now - I could go on and on!

Everyone else that dropped in to say "Hi!" keep it coming! Just remember - getting older and having aches and pains is better than the alternative!

10/26/10 11:53 PM

#3336

Jimmie Sue Roach (Nation)

Jackie can call me anything she wants, as long as it's her friend...why do we feel "punk" and light our "punks" to light our fireworks, and "punks" are gangsters????? Just makes the mind reel or real reel...

Hey Susan, post that picture of your cat...and you can brag all you want about your grandkids...good luck to your husband on his surgery...pushing a wheelchair through an airport aint gonna be fun...they gonna xray the wheel chair???? make sure it isnt harboring a WMD????
My mom is ninety, and she has all kinds of steel parts in her, and in a wheel chair or walker, and they still act like she's Bin Laden...we dont have very bright people in key places it seems...

Yeah, it is like an out of body experience...kinda like to get way out of body...of course, wouldnt want to turn the "frankenstein monster" loose in the whirld without some kind of supervision...

You know, I looked on my juke box for L4 and L5, and it only goes to K...so L4 and L5 must be in the back...Jimmy Sue, we're going to add you to our prayer list for healing...et al...

Thought I was getting hepititis here...too...also...seems my hands were turning yellow...oh great and I was doing so well too...showed em to my beloved, and she says, she says, "how did they get yellow"..."what is this a trick question" I says???? She says, "you dont have hepititis"..."Well how do you splain the yellow on my hands" says I, rather perturbed!!!!! "See how even the yellow is on the edge of your palms"???? says the resident sawbones..."oh" says I, "didnt see that"!!!! "What kind of lotion you been putting on" says DW..."Oh, whatever you bought, some NIVEA" says I and then showed her the bottle...Now shes laughing as she reads the bottle...
"Dear, you really should wear your glasses when you use stuff, might just avoid certain, er, problems" she says..."Ok, what is it" I ask???? She hands me the bottle and my glasses, and I reads on it...NIVEA BODY SUN KISSED FIRMING MOISTURIZER, which I can read without my glasses, but down further in smaller print, soft gradual tanning, tans in three shades in three applications...I been putting that stuff all over me, now I'm TANNISH SORT OF...the little woman says she bought it by mistake...oh well, I will continue to use it so I can have a firmer more moist and sun kissed tan body...besides, Nivea aint cheap, so I aint throwin it away...

How do you buy stuff by mistake???? I never buy stuff by mistake!!!! Every mistake I buy, is pure calculated and on purpose...why, take the 2 pounds of potato chips I bought at CostCo...Please, take em...I was hungry, and they were handing out samples, and they tasted pretty good, so I said, "you got a bag of em"???? "Sure" the little lady said as she pushed a bag over my direction with her forklift..."Say, you dont have a larger bag do you" says I just on the short side of testy!!!! "Nope, this is all we have" she says! Well, what the heck, it was only 4 dollars, and they were pretty good. Opened em up when I got home, and there's a hell of a lot of potato chips in that bag, and they are thick cut, about poker chip thick and krinkled too...after one or two...well, I or we, dont eat 2 pounds of potato chips in 2 years...now what am I gonna do with all these chips????? Heavy sigh!!!!! Well, at least it was an on purpose mistake...or words to that effect....

Hmmmm...midnight...again...whatever will I do???? Maybe i will go work in the garage...lots o work there bubby...lots o work everywhere...

I did see one of the old B horror movies I saw at the Garden oaks; X-THE UNKNOWN...
It was worse this time around...wonder why they dont bring back two of my all time favs; "NUDE IN A WHITE CAR" and it's second feature; "I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE"...really two fine award winning classics...I saw em at the Hempstead Drive in me thinks...never did see any NUDE personnel in that movie, or see anyone spit on anyones grave. forgot what those two were all about...I think the Nude movie employed the use of a 53 white cadillac...and probably for illicit behavior that I'm sure I wouldnt approve of...or words to that effect!!!!!

Remember "THEM" about the mega ants eating radioactive sugar...dont know how a batch of sugar got nuked, but if you have to ask...how about "THE BEGINNING OF THE END", about some oversized grasshoppers...the classic "THE FLY" with vincent price...the one that scared the bejeebers out of me was "THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN", had to go out into the lobby...any of those FRANKENSTEIN movies WEREWOLF AND DRACULA movies were pretty scary to a youngster...well me anyhoo!!!!!

SAY, MINE FINE WALTRIPIANS, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE A PICTURE OR TWO OF A CAT???? I THOUGHT YOU WOULD...

He stuck his tongue out at me...I told him to come in the house, and this is how he treats me...

Well, guess I will sign off for now...it's almost 1 and need to go to bed...yeah right...

Keep the sun at your 6...and hey, it's dead of winter, how come it's gonna be 93 tomorrow,er today????? I want some cooler weather...NOW...
your friend and other brother...Me

10/27/10 07:48 AM

#3337

Good morning everybody! Today is 50s day at my school and it does bring back fond memories. Daddy's long tailed white shirt, rolled up bluejeans and saddle oxfords! It is actually drug free week and we all get into the fun.

Thanks to all of you for the well wishes. I am so ready for whatever it takes to relieve the pain. I don't know if the nerve damage is reversable or not. I can certainly sympathize with those who get dependent on drugs. You will do and take anything to get some relief.

I posted some of my reunion pictures on my profile page. Check them out if you have a chance.

Ya'll please keep me in your prayers and I know that will get me through my day to day struggle.

Love you guys

Jimmie Sue

10/27/10 08:37 AM

#3338

Hey Beau, love your cat pictures, but also noticed the furniture with the gleam of fresh polish and am wondering if you could get out here and help me with mine! You could have a complete new career cleaning houses out here..hee, hee. People really do that here when they lose a job, it is really well-paid. Me, I just suffer with the dust, flogging myself that I don't have time to keep things up. Retirement, where are you?

Jimmie Sue, we are wearing boots today to kick drugs out of the way! I think the kids really enjoy this week. Guess everyone has heard of that new drink that has coffee, caffeine, and is the equivalent of 5 or 6 beers in one can.....which would put most of us in a very unpleasant place with 1 can. Someone doesn't like our kids and there will be more tragedies to come because of this.

Ya'll have a good day....Kay clunking down the halls of Richards in her Lucaese boots. Yahoo!

10/27/10 10:02 AM

#3339

Good morning everyone. I hope your day is off to a wonderful start. Beau it is supposed to be cooler this weekend. Hey we're here in paradise , no tornadoes like the Dallas area, no hurricane force winds like the upper Midwest, just enjoy. Liz and I made a dawn patrol through T.C. Jester Park. the western perimeter of Candlelight Estates is secure. If we encounter any evil doers Liz might lick them to death. Well what can you expect from a Rushin Setter that's still a pup. She's now learned how to bark like a grown up dog. She's just like a kid with a new toy. She'll bark and then look at me like she's saying "did you hear that? cool!".

Jimmie Sue I think the nerves will regenerate as long as the bulging disc don't put pressure on them for too long a time. Hope you get some relief soon. Susan hope your husband does well with his surgery.

DOD you never have responded on the question about the actor G. W. Bailey or I overlooked your answer. So I'll presume that I finally stumped you. GW. is a character actor that works pretty frequently. My favorite role of his though is Sgt. Luther Rizzo. The motor pool sgt. in the television series of MASH. Sgt. Rizzo was from Louisiana and always wanting to get home to wife Zora and baby son Little Billy Bubba. Now you're probably going to say Oh Yeah I knew that. I had the pleasure of meeting G. W. in Houston in 2008. He's a very down to earth personable guy. I believe he is a director of the Sunshine Kids Foundation if memory serves me correctly. On another subject, Big Olie, maybe you should get a laundry basket for that big old boy to get in instead of all those tiny baskets. The boy looks cramped. Oh well he's a cat and they pretty much do what they want to do. Be happy that Olie just stuck his tongue out at you. That's not the usual response of male cats if you do something they don't like.

Back to the daily grind.

Keep on dancing,

Rich LH

We all do better, When we all do better!

10/27/10 11:36 AM

#3340

Cood Morrow mine waltripians,
Jimmie Sue...we praying for your back to heal...I'm sure you have been given all the excercises to do for your back...One is when youre standing up, which I'm sure you usually are, and to rock forward on the balls of your feet whilst leaning back at the waist, hands on your sides...at least thats how I remember it...after doing this for...ever...sometimes it works ok...I did notice at functions, as I looked around the room, a lot of guys were rocking forward on the balls of their feet and leaning back at the waist, drink in hand...and you thought us guys didnt dance...we just do it more...dignified...why, we're rockers...We all do hope you can get some relief for your pain...as we hope for ALL our Waltrip brothers and Sisters, the relief of pain...physical and mental...

Kay, the onliest (San Leon for only) reason the furniture looks polished is because Big Olie and company generally are running across it...we dust twice a year, whether it needs it or not...ooooh DW is not gonna like me kidding like that...too late...I hate dusting...I brought the leaf blower in oncet...it worked, sort of, but before I could shut er down, I blew magazines and pictures and what nots and cats and dust and CDs all over the den, and my idear right out the door...

I am now forbidden to bring ANY yard equipment into the house...I kinda sorta thought that was rather unreasonable and short sighted of my beloved...dont you???? What if the Wright Brothers wives had told them, "you can not play with that stupid contraption anymore, now go mow the yard"....Susan, you would have to ride the train to California...or wagon train!!!!! Actually, train riding aint so bad at all!!!!!

I have used my air compressor ie long air hose...all that really does is put the dust, dog hair, and cat hair in the air to settle oncet again on the furniture...used the bottled air...can freezes up...thats no good....I guess thats why we try to cover every square inch of flat surface, with junk....every now and again, just throw the junk away, and voila...you has dusted....but then you have to put out more junk...well, in this house that doesnt seem to be a problem...

We have feather dusters, and swifters and snifters and pifters and I dont know what all, some work good one time, and then not the next...what cha gonna do???? Call dust busters.....

Ok, with the exception of the ER Sat, I have not been anywhere...got to go somewhere, I know, Home Depot and buy me a toy of some kind...there is a specs liquor right in front of HD...hmmm...maybe stop in there and see if they have Wimberly Valley Wine Sweet Red...K rogers doesnt carry it...and it is goooooooood.....

Went on long patrol this morn with the guys, one at a time of course...saw three ducks down at cole creek, swimming in formation...looked like syncronized swimming....water kind of...stagnant??? city mowed all along, all the way down to the water line...dont know how they do that without falling in...one of lifes mysteries...

I really dont want to drive, so why doesnt someone come pick me up and take me...I'll wait...I'll buy lunch!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey sir Rich...I forgot...well, lotsa luck to you and yourn...Oh, I know, GW Bailey...I forgot you axed that question... for the life of me did not remember who he was...but I liked his Rizzo character...he's one of those character actors you like to see more of....he is in a series now, me thinks...Probably one of those cop shows...

Blizzard in North Dakota, 60 mph winds, can we be far behind in getting that??? Not perzactly what I had in mind for winter...

It is sooooo great that all of youse youtes got on the forum...sometimes it seems I am talking to myself, which I do all the time, whether on the forum or not...but I love to read what all are up to...now I know most all are working, and sometimes is hard to stop and fiddle with a computer...and all are not night owls like me with unlimited time...Hey Jimmie Sue, I remember you wearing jeans rolled up and a long tailed shirt and bobby sox...lots of girls did...my oldest sister did not, but my next oldest did...she also wore short shorts, or cut off jeans, that were so short...then the peddle pushers came out...then culotts...fashion is funny...function is lasting...Arent the culotts nowdays called skorts???

Ok, must go get ready to go...Keep the sun at your 6 and dance like no one is watching...well, cept for those of us with bad backs and joints...do the "Elaine Bennis Kick"...

your ever friend and demented and deranged other brother...Harold...thought I'd use that alias...

Mr Cool...

10/27/10 04:31 PM

#3341

Yo Beau, you keep talking that way about the house keeping at your casa and I think you'll be cruisin' for a bruisin' from DW! After she whoops up on you I know who will be sleepin' in that unoccupied dog house by the cement pond. Whew it's gonna be ugly Bubba!

10/27/10 05:26 PM

#3342

SLEEP???? DID YOU MENTION SLEEP???? WHO THE HELL DOES THAT???? CERTAINLY NOT ME...
I'd sleep in the dog house if I could get some sleep...I already sleep in the swing outside better than I sleep in the house...thats it, its the house...the amityville house...GET OOOOOOUUUUUTTT!!!!!.... alright alright I'm going...

Went on my field trip today, to Home Depot, bought a few incidental items that we wont bother DW about...no need getting her involved, and besides got my veterans discount of 10%...it's become automatic there, they know me now...then went to specs liquor and found the Wimberley Wine Valley Sweet Red and Sweet White...the white is for my beloved...I cant drink it because it has too much sodium Bisulfite in it (to keep the grapes from turning brown) which shuts my lungs down...the red has it also, but just not as much maybe...so far, the red doesnt affect me like the white...remember all the salad bars in the 80's and 90's and I'm sure there are some still around, but anyway, they use to spray bisulfite on the salad to keep the lettuce and stuff from turning brown...one of the things GOOD the gov did, was make em quit doing that...

Field trip wore me out...had to take a nap...only got about an hours worth, but thats better than nothing, and better than probably most of you good folks got today...yall bein productive members of society and all, and me being a drain on social security...and totally worthless and useless...

Little woman on her way home, and has no bell choir or singing choir tonight, so we are gonna go vote early...we have voted together every year of our marriage but one...neither one of us liked that, so we vowed to keep voting together...we hold hands when we go in, and when we come out...corny, but effective...

Looks like we are going to have Thanksgiving dinner at our house...again...no one else seems to want to have it at their house...we love doing it, but it has become increasingly harder and harder to get ready for and to clean up after...I have been trying to begin work on it now, but my furslerginer lungs wouldnt cooperate...so, I am going to start again this evening and work on it till T day...I think I am going to make the gravy this year, I feel like I'm ready for the big time...I know, turkey day gravy is a big step, and a precarious one, cause nothing ruins the day like bad gravy or no gravy...

Any of youse youtes have any tips or goodies to share for Thanksgiving, by all means share them with the rest of us boys and girls...one that I learned from somewhere, only a year ago, was how to really carve the turkey...instead of the traditional cutting down the side of the turkey breast, I cut long ways from front to back at the top, then make a perpendicular cut down at the bottom of the breast and cut out a long wedge, like a center cut, then I cut crossways and it is marvelous...my caterer friend showed me how to do that...dont know why it took me so long to figure that out...we also use the small butter colored colorado potatos for mashed potatos...with lots of real butter...find some fresh green beans, and wrap them with bacon and use real butter and some brown sugar on them, I think thats how...I'll have to get back to you on that one...

Use to make my moms homemade receipe for "Butterflake biscuits", but they are really too hard to make...they are yeast rising biscuits made with buttermilk, and everything has to be just perfect for them to come out good...when they are good, there is nothing better, but when they are bad, then they are just canned biscuits...be glad to share the receipe with youse...

Speaking of Christmas, Home Depot is already decorated and set up for Christmas...It isnt even halloween yet for crying out loud...
Oh, one of the incidentals I bought was a new Corn Bristle Broom...been needin one of those for a coons age...got it home, and it has a band across the bristles that says, "THIS HERE BROOM IS A PROFESSIONAL BROOM"...well thats comforting, because I am a professional sweeper...that there professional broom was almost 12 dollars...they had a 9 dollar broom, but I always say, "a 12 dollar broom is better than a 9 dollar broom, unless it's broken"...words to live by for sure...

Sweet taters!!!!!!!! My beloved makes em with Honey instead of sugar...they are heavenly, and I'm not particularly fond of sweet taters...hmmmm lessee, what else...generally we forget to put out the cranberry sauce, almost every year, which is fine by me...I like em ok, but I'd rather have other stuff than CS...I know, theyre good for you...yeah yeah yeah!!!!

Voting partner should be close to home, so I will sign off and put my voting boots on and get our registration cards out...meanwhile, youse youtes be thinking of some tips on cooking Thanksgiving dinner, and dishes and memorable days and days things went right and days that things went wrong, but everything still turned out ok...we had one Tday that went all bad and never recovered, bad feelings all way round...but it is past and gone...

fair winds and following seas to all my waltripian brothers and sisters...

Yours in good fun...Mr Katmandu, professional cat wrangler, sweeper and duster...amen

Just thought I'd throw in a couple of pictures that didnt have a cat in it, but a wonderful pup and a grandaughter...oh well there is me, a hep cat of sorts...

10/27/10 06:29 PM

#3343

Robert Derrick

Jackie, Beau, RH et al,

On the way back from following the Lewis and Clark Trail. In Ardmore OK now headed home. Tracked those guys from St Charles Mo to Suoix City Iowa and never a glimpse. I think they doubled back on us. Beau, Kay ( she is the Lewis & Clark guru) and I listened to your oldies cd's the whole way. What a blast. RH, we bought a case of the best Missouri wine when we started and intended to bring you a bottle but ....... well it was a long hard trip up the Missouri River and well you know, we are drinking the last bottle tonight and still not back in TEXAS. Will you settle for MD 20-20. That is another favorite of mine and I can get it in Navasota.

See ya'll at Fudds.

10/27/10 11:08 PM

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John Burgess Webb

i appreciate the comments/compliments for my grand-daughter.both of them are real sweethearts.they are a brilliant light in all this darkness.we that have grandchildren are very fortunate indeed.

well,im going blind and its unnerving and depressing;its hard to type and ive been putting it off because i dont care for a third surgery this year.i see the va doctor on the 5th of nov.but im not sure i want a va resident to cut my eyes."path of least resistance;lead me on,"

ill miss another tuesday night;i will go vote tuesday.the problem with absentee and early voting is the possibility of the physical mannipulation of a ballot.ive read on the internet that harris county has already had problems.lotta good hicks up here so ill split my ticket."all politics is local."

jimmie sue,those nerves get pretty bruised and crushed with trauma and friction;its a pain that you know only when youve had it.i hope you can get relief from that vicious circle.

10/28/10 08:37 AM

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Hidy Hidy! (remember that?)

Burge sorry to hear about your eyes, is that a casualty of your profession?

Robert seems as though you and Kay had a mellow time and smelled the berries....hee, hee. We have so many good winerys out here in the Brazos area that you can throw your MD40 away....rotgut stuff. I'm going to MBeaux's tonight with my school friends for dinner, looking forward to a wonderful meal......cajon shrimp or DC Platter (grilled fish, rice, boudin balls, creole cream sauce.....doesn't get better!

Jimmie, we are wearing the red today and school shirts tomorrow to end our drug week!

Beau, once again, you have started my day with numerous guffaws ....hang in there, God has probably let you live just to entertain the Waltrip Senior crowd, LOL, and we who work, especially need it. and to make the Thanksgiving sauce, clean and keep those loved ones safe.

By the way Richards ISD is asking for a 6.3 million bond to help our little ole school attract more students and progress for the community. It is a very controversial issue, a lot of surrounding counties. want to put our little school (151 students from pre-K to 12) out of business and force our students and their families to drive long distances to over crowded noisy overlarge surrounding schools, they will thrive on our tax dollars if we lose. Not to say our jobs and the deteriorating town will become even worse and probably disappear. It is a wonderful small town school with a lot of upbeat outstanding teachers, who've watched whole families of kids grow up and become good people, unique experience I've gotten into here. Kind of like your old Oak Forest group who started and continued throughout school and the neighborhood together, and nothing much has changed here. The Superintendent and Principal are the best and we all actually know each student and have time to take a real interest in each of them. Well, I've got to go and produce our Progress Reports today! Enjoy the weather!

10/28/10 08:54 AM

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Lloyd Pond

A wonderful morning .. cool and nice, We will get a few days before it warms up again. After three years of no pecans there are pecans falling from the trees. One of natures treasures.

Burge, brother in law David Bedell says Hi and asked be to tell you that Linda is doing fine. Linda's second husband recently passed away.

10/28/10 09:18 AM

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Teddie Jordan

Burge, sorry to hear that you're having vision problems. I can only imagine how you feel about a third surgery after the two dillies you had earlier this year, but then again vision is a very high priority for all of us. Trust your gut and keep us posted.

Beau, I hope your lungs are doing better. This cool front may help or may hurt, depending on what particulate rode in from West Texas with it. As for Thanksgiving, it's also my favorite holiday. Just food and family and friends, with a tradition of football and heading out to the hunting lands with kids and grandkids afterwards. What could beat that combination? Fran is a semi retired cook, but let me tell you she can cook. Her cranberries, made from fresh cranberries cooked and sweetened, are the best. No matter where our family gathers, and it was at our house for about 35 years, she is always asked to bring her cranberries. My oldest daughter Lisa is known for her deviled eggs, Fran's mom for her green beans, Fran's sister Judy for her fluff fruit salad, and me, well let's just say I've got decent table manners.

Jimmie Sue and Kay and other teachers and administrators out there, I will guarantee yall that there is going to be a special place in Heaven for all of you who work so hard to help our children. Nothing is more noble than your cause. You, along with our soldiers and law enforcement and firefighters and emergency personnel, are the true heroes of this world. Our youngest daughter is a speech therapist, and they should be included in that list too for all the good work they do with special needs children.

Robert, I look forward to hearing about your trip. I got really interested in Lewis and Clark several years ago when Fran and I spent some time out in Montana and crossed their trail a few times. I bought and read several books on the expedition and really was intrigued by their exploits. President Jefferson was a brilliant man and his putting together and funding their expedition in 1804 was a key step in the development of our country as we now know it today. The stories of their encounters with Grizzly bears for the first time, their navigating, their dealings with the Indians, especially the role of Sacagawea (sp?), are all just fascinating.

10/28/10 10:20 AM

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Hey Burge, you can have one of my eyes...ones good enough for me...sometimes one is all I use anyhoo, as I have to close one eye to see sometimes...I have noticed the lights getting dimmer, where even my 200X reading glasses cant pick up the print, or very hard to do so...soons a determine which is the best eye, I'll give er to ya...would if I could...

Hey Robert, or should we call you Daniel Boone...lewis and clark stopped in here for a fortnight...they new you were hot on their trail and decided to double back and hide out...had they known you had firewater, they would have hunted you down...so they said!!!! But noooooo, instead, they drank my firewater...had to go down to the general store and local moonshiner and get a jug or three...found my Wimberly valley sweet red wine and some sweet white...hmmmm good...I could become a drunk...again...but, maybe not...at least I'd sleep and be happy...a cheap happy sleepy drunk...thats at least 2 or three of the 7 dwarfs, eh what??? Glad you like that music...puts you in the right mood...uh, negatory on that mad dog stuff...mom use to cook with that sometimes, and it was terrible...drinking it is even more worser...someone put it in the communion trays at church...never heard so much gagging and coughing during communion...probably converted a couple a drunks over to t-totalers that morn...the Lord sure do work in mysterious ways...

Kay...only 6.3 million...hmmmm, let me check my pocket book, I know I've got that much in change around here somers...151 kids???? 6.3 mil...lessee...hmmm in the whirld of the Jethro Beaudine school of brain surgery and cyperin, that be...41,721.85 per chile...they could hire one teacher per each chile, or just have 5 in each class, and that would be 208,609.27 a year salary for I know a fine splendid teacher...where do I apply??? Anderson is a nice little town...I like the main street and court house...the confederate memorial there on the main steet is a nice touch...at least thats how I remember it...if the chamber of commerce of small towns could raise money to fill up the town squares and main streets with mom and pop bidnesses, stuff would happen...and maybe good stuff at that...kay, keep up the good work heppin the kiddos out...teachers are special for sure...

Hey!!!!!!!! Remember I mentioned I bought a PROFESSIONAL BROOM????? Well, I took er for a spin last night...SWEET...didnt know that thing had a turbo charger...good thing I am a professional and this was a closed course...the dust and cobwebs were a flyin...probably a good idear not to let this model fall into the hands of an amateur...

It's a blustery day in the neighborhood...will you be mine...wont you be mine??? Took the boys out on early dawn patrol, and they were frisky in the brisky north wind...cant wait to take em to the country...I know they are anxious to go...both run to the truck when we go out into the garage...jack can jump right in, but I have to get a stool for Mr Intellect cooper, and then sometimes have to push his big behiny up into the truck...That boy...

Got a lot of Errands to run today as well as work, and I am already worn out and havent left the comfort of the attila the hun chair...

After me and me beloved voted last night, we stopped in at Jasons Deli and visited with our friend the manager Mr Ha...such a nice young man...even comes out and sits with us and always makes us feel special...they have a new dish, Beef Stew...gave that a try, and it is good to excellent...you kind of have to go wide on the compliments on beef stew, because everybodys mom made it just a bit different...but to me, beef stew is beef stew, and this was good...just had a cup last night, but today I am going to have a whole bowl...very hungry, so I will go over at 11 and eat early and avoid the lunch crowd...

Think I'll eat first to quench my appetite before I go to the general store and other places...My appetite generally gets me in trouble, ie 2 pounds of potato chips...probably about 1.9 pounds left in the bag...think I'll bring em to fudds...dont think they will go bad, they are pretty thick...

Ok, big ben is chimin 10 bells, so gonna hit the road...all critters are down for a mid morn nappy poo...Remember as Sir Richard the lion hearted says, "we all do well when we all do well"...

Soooooo...DO WELL...your frien and other brother, Jefferson Davis Beauregard Robert E Lee Magilicutty T. Hoohead Maxwell Johnson esq...
Cooper gettin ready for Christmas:

Big Oliver just getting ready...You'll notice how he has his big ol claws and fangs sunk into that poor unfortunate tree skirt...thats what he does to feet...thats why I wear steel toe boots, and that aint no funnin either...thats the truth...

10/28/10 04:08 PM

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O.k. Beau, that is a simple way to divide, you forget, each student needs air and heat, several desks lockers, computers smart boards, elmos, etc, bathrooms, cafeteria, auditorim, books, phones class accompliments computed gradesperson (me), etc. I could go on and on into administration, teacher ongoing learning, etc.

that child does not exist outside w/1 teacher looking at each other.....ha, got ya! We actually wanted 11 million, a new high school, but it was nixed and trimmed down. Think about how much goes into the expense of your dogs and cats and it multiplies.

But your potato chips sounds swell! put in KBTX, under local news, Richards ISD Bond (search) and read the story and the comments if you haven't too much to do, it will tell you how controversial an issue it is in this economy. But thank you for all your comments on the educational community. They are wonderful, I love my school! Got the progress reports out, we are so small we can manually get several students in a family into one envelope and save on stamps. Out of 151 students, I mailed out 76, passed out to moms and dads who work here their student(s) reports, and if I do this 12 times a year, that saves a lot of stamps! Take that you large computerized impersonal mailings! We Rank!

Thanksgiving sounds wonderful, wonderful, when does it begin, if I can get away from all this paperwork.....I'm READY. All the comments about the food sounds so good! Actually, some years ago I quit playing the traditiional Thanksgiving and went out of town with a few friends and we just drove to small towns seeking an open restaurant, and at other times, made reservations at Stagecoach Inn in Salado, TX for their wonderful traditional luncheon, stayed over at the Inn and purused the local stores. Differences make us all unique, I guess. The Schwedes have been having me over the last 3 yrs., grateful to have a Church family to share with. My son and his wife have to go all over the area to visit each family, so I don't do the traditional thing. I remember how agonizing it was to decide and turn others down.

Love all of your animal pics, never ceases to do my heart good and uplifting! Cars just don't do it for me...hee, hee.

10/28/10 04:42 PM

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