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John Burgess Webb

thanks for the book tip wayne.lewis and clark;as a lover of history,the notebooks and drawings are treasure;the commisioning by jefferson was a realization of his vision and a baseline for american growth.as a surveyor who has surveyed in the mountains of colorado;the logistics and navigation in an unknown zone fills my imagination.an inroad for discovery and commerce.an expidition that produced an accurate map and journals of note.

Beau Wann, Jr.

Kay, you can certainly join us for Turkey day if you want chaos, critters and cranberries...the more the merrier...I would like to, one year, do what you did, go out to a small town restaurant for T day, and then let them clean up, whilst we went shopping...man, I am hungry for some turkey...My math, is that of a black and white mind...just dont know what to do with the grey...I'm gonna put you in for a raise..teachers dont make enough anyway...although, diane has taught 3 generations of kids and some have come back to express their love and appreciation...I guess whatever isnt made up in a paycheck comes back in some sort of compensation, and I know DW loves to know she made a difference just as you have and all the others or your most honorable profession...thank you!!!

Hey Wayne, been to Quannah Texas to check out ol quannah parker...interesting story that...I will find the book you mentioned and check it out!!!! Yall gonna be here for T Day???? You know where the turkey and sweet taters are...

Robert, yall been to the Messina Hof wino place in Bryan???? Got some pretty good stuff there...
Me and cooper stopped in there, and he peed on the flowers...and I drank some wine...all in all we had a pretty good time...Cooper doesnt drink wine, so I bought him a beer...

Was out at Katy tonight, grandson had a JV football game at Morton Ranch...Taylor goes to Cinco Ranch... Cinco Ranch won 27-8...Taylor plays safety...he's so so...only gets in on two downs a defensive series...he did knock down a pass...had the chance to intercept, but you know how that goes...The weather was ideal football weather...he has one more game left with Katy HS...

Ran all my Errands today, and took about 5 hours...the traffic and people were nuts and krazy...something must of been up, it was just a madhouse out there...wore me out...

Christmas is coming up...ya think einstein???? Ok ok...sort of stating the obvious, eh what!!!
anyway, the Vermont Country Store Catalog, has a lot of the old toys we had as kids such as;

the baking soda submarine...I had one of those, but dont remember just what it was suppose to do except go under water; Slinkys...a 1955 wooden duncan yo yo, lincoln logs, toy tin soldiers, plus a lot of other toys your grand kids might like...for about 30 seconds...if it doesnt have a tv screen on it and some reactive buttons, most probably wouldnt want it...but the stuff is out there, as well as old fashion candy...you can go on line to Vermont Country store...show em what their grandparents use to play with...and the candy we use to eat to rot our teeth out...

Very tired, think I will go lay down...DW upstairs doing paper work...her job never stops...she's talking to principals up to 8 and 9 pm... 

Remember, put the lime in the coconut...your frien and other brother, ME

I think I posted this pic before, but I forgot...my grandaughter haley pressing the wooly mammoth...girl has to get her excercise..

                                                                Haley and Cooper after a hard day...who couldnt love
                                                                these two...

Richard Meek '65

Wayne I agree with you about Thomas Jefferson. What a brain the man had. I think it is good to read multiple books about any historical person to get a better picture of them. Each author will knowingly or unknowingly put their spin or the resource data they use. While TJ was just amazing in his intellect he apparently was to proficient in money management because he died a $100K in debt. I'm not sure what that would translate into in today's dollar. A bunch of his cronies covered his debts because they thought it would be unseemly for a past president to be bankrupt.

C Ephus, it sounds like your trip was Mesina Hof was in proper order. Better Shortbus doing what he did and you doing what you did than reversing that, eh what?

Robert and Kay I wasn't aware of any wineries up near Navasota. I knew of Mesina Hof and some wineries over near Brenham. I would like to check them out one weekend though. Maybe we cn pick one out and have a carvan of Waltripians sipping wine all over the area. The old joke in the winery business is if you want to make a small fortune in a winery start with a large fortune. I think it is really like most businesses. Some people do very well (i.e. Gallo Bros.), some people do reasonably well and some people don't). did you know that Gallo sells 30% of all the wine consumed in this country. They cover the entire spctrum of quality from MD 20-20 (Robert & Beau's favorite) to really fine high quality wine.

Back to the salt mine.

Keep on dancing and sipping wine,

Rich LH

Breathe, Smile, Go slow

Jimmie Sue Roach (Nation)

Thanks for all of the encouraging words. It really helps to know that I am not the only one going through this.  I am not a complainer, but here lately, it has become my norm.  I don't make a very good patient.  Burge, I am so sorry to learn of your problem.  I also know from my dad's experience with the VA, some good - some bad.  He had bleeding ulcers.  Was there on 3 separate occasions.  In the end, he had a good outcome.  I do believe in prayer and I know you are on everyones prayer list.

BroBo - breathe easy young man.  Take care of yourself.  Next thing we know, we will be having a pity party for all of us.

Kay - today is dress as your favorite story book character.  I am Lolli, a munchkin from the Wizard of Oz.  The kids absolutely love it.  I have neon green hair, a neon green dress & with neon orange polka dots.  Our little ones love red ribbon week.

It was 36 degrees at my house this a.m.  There was definitely a hint of fall in the air.  Beautiful weather! 

Karen and Jimmie Lee - thank you so much for sharing your own experiences with me. I am going to ask the pain management dr. about what you suggested.  I can't see him until Nov. 15, but I will be asking questions.

Hope everyone has a glorious week-end and keep smiling.

Beau Wann, Jr.

Sister Jimmie Sue,
we are all in this together, safety in numbers...thats the reason I put some of this stuff on the forum, ie me hurting or feeling bad, sick etc, just so folks will know that they are not alone, I hurt, you hurt, maybe we can help one another with our caring and concerns, and voila, WE DO...having good family and friends is the best medicine, well, that and laughter...My back has been really hurting bad the last couple of weeks...a change in the weather...getting older...sins of the past, but it comes and goes, and has since 1979 when I first injured my back...

We can all pray for each other and our afflictions, no harm in that for sure...I, and I am sure I am no exception, have and do wish everyone nothing but the best of the best...If I can help, just holding a hand, lending an ear and sympathetic shoulder, make you laugh...I can still give blood too... my brothers and sisters, in Christ...I am here...
Here is my other grandaughter Kelsey with of course, who else...Mr ED...the shortbus

Scotty Croom

richard, i thought that was my house---we lived at dubarry/jester from 56-59....

Bernd Joachim Tonat

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Have enjoyed everyone's messages ---

Burge, we certainly have you and Jimmie Sue on our prayer list - along with BroBeau and any of our other ailing brothers and sisters!

A laugh for everyone -- here's my magic healing fairy!  Don't know what kind of fairy she was at the time I drew her, but I think Healing one is good now. 

Would you believe I just found this looking through some old piano music of my sister's.  Mixed in with the music, Mom had saved some of my old elementary work -- spelling tests, geography reports and yes, my art work.  Anyway, thought everyone would enjoy my "fine" art work!!!

The Magic Healing Fairy will make everyone feel better!

Have a beautiful weekend and watch out for the Ghosts and Gobins!

HugsJ

Beau Wann, Jr.

Sister Jackie,  having cast my eyes upon your majic healing fairy...HALALUJIA...I AM HEALED...thank you Sis...methinks it looks a touch like you sister J...methinks...Mz Hawkins woulda loved it, she loved everything we did...and thank you for the healing words...

Hey Bernd...how fine to be in your place...a place of important history of our church...I love church bells and chimes, just love em...OUR SAVIOUR LUTHERAN church is across the street from us, and has the tallest "ONION DOME" west of the Mississippi, or maybe in America??? not sure which it is...anyway they have wonderful church bells that chime on the hour, and especially at 9 am...on special days ie Veterans day, they play all the services hymns, and of course at Christmas play all the Carols and whichever other holiday comes round...would you believe there are people in this neighborhood that dont like the bells?????  Beats me why...but different strokes I suppose!

Our little country church in the city, Oaks Presbyterian, has a lone bell, and guess where it came from...A TRAIN ENGINE...I kid you not...dont know which...it was donated by one of our members,
Bill Leslie, who worked for the railroad...I will ask my mother in law, she should know which RR...I and all the kids like ringing it on Sunday Morn...

Pretty neat huh???  Ok, the little woman is home...gotta get supper on the table...

Peace...your friend and other brother Me 

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Sorry, I sent out an update on Jim Taylor's brother's funeral arrangements yesterday and just discovered that everyone that has a comcast account your emails came back to me -- saying Comcast blocked  it as Spam. 

Hopefully this was just a one time thing -- if it continues I will find a solution.  You should be able to go into your account and mark as safe if you receive from noreply@classcreator.net -- again, I will check this out. This is a shorter version of what it said for each of you ---

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Hugs

PS - David Taylor '66 funeral was today ---

Teddie Jordan

Beau, I remember Bill Leslie from our old days growing up in Oaks Presbyterian Church. He was an elder on the session with my dad and they were good friends . My dad always spoke of what a fine man he was. So glad they still have the old bell and use it to this day.

Bernd, what an idylic scene of Wittenberg you paint with your words. It sounds like a perfect scene for a postcard, maybe if you just wait a few months or weeks and add snow.

Trick or treat everyone. Halloween brings back memories of boyhood thrills in old Oak Forest, in a much simpler and more innocent time.

Bernd Joachim Tonat

Ha, got it!

Barbara in front of the town church

Barbara at the backside of our church in front of our apartment.

bjt

John Burgess Webb

ping got jumped on by the same pitbulls that beat up little tug.they dug under the fence and they are usually chained.chaining them makes them mad;then mean.the shar pei is a much more refined dog;it will guard you from a threat  but sees no sport in fighting to the death with other dogs.i dont know if i can hold my peace a third time.country dogs pay thier dues too.some dogs;some people

Beau Wann, Jr.

Bernd, "picture post card perfect"...how beautiful...post some of your street and home and church when it snows...what a beautiful place to live...not to mention the history...

Burge, man, sorry about the attack on your critters...dont know what I'd do...yeah I do, probably something I'd regret, when it comes to the protection of my friends and family up to and including my critters...Hope your guy heals up ok...

Sunday morn...got to take the boys out on patrol... then off to church, if I feel up to it...dont have any duties today other than ring the bell, and there are plenty of other children that like to do that...DW gonna go in early to rehearse choir song, since they missed rehearsal Wednesday...

Halloween!!!!!! I hate halloween, and always have...just dont like it for some macabre reason...but not to worry, NEXT COMES THANKSGIVING...MY FAVORITE...

Peace and a good breakfast to you, mine waltripian brothers and sisters...
ME

The boys, Mr Ed and John Boy, in a more sedate pose...of course that is one way to keep John Boy sedate, have a 115 pound bubba sit on him...

Bernd Joachim Tonat

Here´s some more pics from olgermany.

Today is reformation day and this little town really is crowed and medieval music evevywhere. Soon we are going to the concert in the town church. This morning we were in the service for this special day. Daytime pics are on the other camera, but the iphone makes better pics at night.

Was ist los? Der Hund ist los!

Whats going on? Beware of free running dog! Best wishes to all chinese dogs!

The end of the day!

Barbara saying hello to everyone

Near to the town church

Barbara at the entrance of the Leucorea, the university foundet in 1502

Churchtowers in the back. Today these streets are completely crowed.

Churchtowers from the other side, the market place.

Hope these pics are not boring, perhaps some more later on. We´ve got to leave about 80 steps to the music. We got our tickets yesterday,

greetings to y´all,

bjt

Jim Taylor

Bernd

It's fascinating that you would post pictures from Wittenburg.  The sermon at church today was centered around the Castle Church in Wittenburg and of course the nailing of the 95 theses to the doors of the church.

It's a small world.

Robert Derrick

Hi to all commentors of Lewis & Clark!

Robert and I had a wonderful trip up the Missouri and trying to imagine what it was like for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and the rest of the Corps of Discovery!  We visited the gravesite of the only man to die on the expedition, Sgt. Charles Floyd; gone two years and only one man die!  We were on Lemhi Pass in 2005 which was 200 years, to the date Lewis reached the Pass.  The actual date - August 12, 1805, was when Lewis ascended Lemhi Pass only to find an unexpected panorama or mountains, mountains, etc.  Gone was the "magic water ride" to the Pacific.

We have done the Trail from St. Lewis to Yankton, So. Dakota (Spirit Mound where you can actually stand in the very place of the explorers) and from Horse Prairie Valley, Montana to Lemhi Pass in the Beaverhead Mountains, Montana.  We look forward to doing the Trail we haven't seen yet.

I don't know how many of you realize the tragic end for Meriwether Lewis.  He never could adjust to "postexpedition life" and suffered all his life from depression and what most historians agree was manic depression.  He took his own life on the Natchez Trace in central Tennessee and is buried there.  I would like to visit his gravesite in Tennessee as we also were able to visit the gravesite of William Clark and quite a number of his family, in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis.  Quite impressive.

Stephen Ambrose got me started.  I don't know why it facinates me so but it just does!  Thanks for all the comments regarding L&C.  I don't find many persons who are that interested.  (They never taught us in school about Lewis's tragic end.  Shame!)

Kay

Bernd Joachim Tonat

How about some Missouri pics? Here´s  three more from Wittenberg.

Today is our way back to Berlin, leaving all the great man. Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchton, Lukas Cranach (and women, like Katharina von Bora, Luthers wife, who enabled him to do his work). They started the ideas of free thinking. Three day off - Thursday, Friday and Monday - what a great vacation!

The guard, the castle church in the back.

Quite noisy these guys.

Don´t say kids have no culture. Look at all our grandchildren! Did we have?  Many olders said no at our time.

As a special now greetings from Alma Lily.

Lloyd Pond

recently visited the Lewis and Clark Museum at the Pacific Ocena. Lots of stories ..like they were so hungry once they ate candles. Another Clark was shot in the butt by a one eyed guide..Yeah they left that one out of the history books as well.

Speaking of one eyed, I heard The Flying Purple People Eater and I'm a Mummy yesterday. I love listening to the bizarre Halloween songs on the radio   and there are so many!

Tomorrow I will eat only soup. After two days of over indulgence, I can not sleep. Started Saturday night with giant donuts the Sunday afternoon, BBQ and then tacos, then candy, then Blue Bell...get the picture?

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Happy Monday All,

Al the pics were outstanding, except for Burge's, believe me I wish it weren't so that a type of dog is distinguished as being "dangerously bad" but Pit Bulls have certainly proven to be so.  Have them picked up by animal control and I bet you will find they will be euphanized.  I know in Brazos county, if it is a pit they are killed.  Sad that the breed has come to this but the other day a new born baby was left on the bed and a jealous pit disposed of the baby.  And Burge, looks like your beautiful trusting Sharpee has no less been terrorzed.   A dismal start for Monday on that one!

The Halloween pics, the Reformation Day and baby pics are all enlighteningly pleasant.  Enlightening because I missed church to pick up one grandson 8yr. and keep up with the other grandson 24 yrs all day Sunday.  We drove that one back to Houston, enjoyed seeing the busyness of city life, but totally glad when we left Magnolia on our country way back to Anderson and both of us totally tired of weekend's activities and to bed.  Next weekend the other grandson plans to visit with both my great-grandchildren.  Will cook porkchops that day and just enjoy. At my age, doesn't make sense to have to keep up with city craziness, nothing beats, at the end of the day, sitting on the porch looking over your country land, the sunset and turning in to watch t.v. and go to bed to wake up to another wonderful country morning. 

Jimmy Sue I think the teachers did the same book themes and it does tie in costume activities to make the festivities more fun...Bet you played your role well, too!

Beau, you are right on helping all to know where we are on the rung of life and that there are others of us who share their pain, exaperations? but we are all in this together.  I have a Diabetes Type 1 group I've share with for the last ten years, it is a big help to know you are not alone, with your questions, fears and also sucesses.  Hang in there Class of te 60's! 

Richard Meek '65

Good morning Waltripians. it's another great day in Paradise (H Town). We'll be having the rain we need very soon. I washed my car yesterday. I should have done it two weeks ago.

Burge I'm sure sorry to see Ping's condition. I think Kay is right. If it were me I wouldn't wait for another incident. I'd call animal control and get it taken care of. The problems with dogs of that temperament just escalate. If your neighbors were responsible people they would put the dogs down after two episodes. It's best though to let the authorities handle it and not provoke an incident. Keep us posted on Ping's recovery.

The Rushin Setter was beside herself with excitement last night. I only had about two dozen kids come by and Liz thought that wasn't near enough kids to lick. She wants me to do something to increase the number of kids next year. In between bunches she kept running to the front door hoping the next group had arrived. She had a great time, licking kids and getting to watch baseball.

Kay, your peaceful life in the country sounds very inviting. Although for living in Houston the Oak Forest area is just about as tranquil as you can find. The hassle of getting out of the city and then back in is the worst part to me. but changes of scenery are good for all us. it gets us out of our ruts.

Bernd, great pictures. Thanks for sharing them.

Keep on dancing like no one is watching,

Rich LH

Breathe, smile, go slow

Beau Wann, Jr.

Good Morrow mine waltripnipionians,
     A Ghoulish night it was...Hey Sir Rich, you and liz shoulda been over in our hood...all the apts and projects, bus in their kids so they can eat our candy...we probably have only a dozen or two kids that live in the hood at most...is this a wonderful country or what...we gave out candy for over 2 hours before we ran out...and amazing enough, everyone seemed to run out at the same time, and all the crowd disappeared..., and they were roving crowds of people, plus lines of cars down the street...some almost old as me...not quite, but almost...I will say that most all were very polite...yes sir, no sir, thank you...etc...I was going to hold some of the candy back for a snack emergency, but they got it all...I tried to eat it as fast as I could, but that tactic drew the "teacher glare" from me beloved...plus, you can eat only so many reeces peanut butter cups and Twix before it aint fun anymore...65 years, and the Ghouls aint got me yet...yet...

Out on patrol this morn, sawr some candy wrappers, not many for the amount of monsters we had in the hood, but a few...sawr a reeces peanut butter cup wrapper, but it wasnt one of ours...how do I know???? I'm glad you axed that...ours were orange wrappers with yellow lettering, and this one was yellow lettering and an orange wrapper...see...entirely different...

We, I, set up the garage with lattice barricades, (used to keep the dogs in but doors open)...TV on watching football...Jack and Coop pacing back and forth, to and fro, just loving to greet all the kiddos in costume...the kids and the adults loved the boys...just ooed and ahed over em...at one points, the wooly mammoth joined us in the garage...HE WAS AN ENORMOUS HIT(PUN INTENDED)...people couldnt believe how big he is, kept wanting to touch him and an enormous paw...  but after a bit, the commotion was a shade too much for him...He wanted back in the sanctity of the house and the basket on the table...big sissy...scratched me too for my trouble...

YUK...I was wanting a club soda to settle my stomach, but picked up and took a big swig of TONIC WATER...boy, that stuff  will set you free...I hear tell, that it is good for  cramps, either give you immediate relief or in 5 minutes, whichever comes first...Got my club soda, and it's not much better...I'd add scotch to it, but thats not the way I ever drank my scotch...generally just out of the bottle! That way, no glasses to wash...

OK noW...BIG BURP...YESSSS!!!!! Wish I could patent burps...I could retire...oh...I am retired, or is that retread? 
Hey Bernd, wonderful pics...Lloyd, excellent pumpkin, and I see you had expert help too...that always helps...I've tried carving pumpkins, by myself, and looked like a massacre...not even good for pies...

Clark got shot in the buttocks by a one eyed guide???? Sounds like one of my stories...Saaaaayyy, at the Smithsonian, there are a lot of wildlife on display that the cards read that "these were taken by the Lewis and Clark Expedition given to Thomas Jefferson...My question, how did they keep the specimens fresh???  I imagine Igloo coolers and ice were a might scarce back in them good ol days...plus I dont think they sent them back everyday by UPS or FEDEX, neither one having been around in the day...so how did they do it???? Keep them live and then bring them back and kill em and stuff and mount em????? I mean no disrespect either, just curious how they would handle that 200 years ago...

Sometimes history states the why, but not the how...and in some of my books, not even the why!!! I have some old history books, and Lewis and Clark is not mentioned...???
One book, copyright 1894, mentions them in one paragraph..."their explorations covered nearly all the country south of the 49th parallel..." Plus their company was composed of nine Kentuckians and 14 soldiers...Didnt mention that Meriwether Lewis was President Jeffersons Private secretary..."Lewis and Clark held incorrectly that not much of the territory would ever be fit for white men..."obviously they never met Frank Sharp or David Weekly...also didnt mention that William Clark was a Missouri soldier and was Governor of Missouri Territory form 1813 to 1821 and from 1822 till his death in 1838 he was superintendent of Indian Affairs at St Louis...

Zebulon Montgomery Pike...led two expeditions from 1805 to 1807 both from St Louis, one up the Mississippi to Ft Snelling, and one from St Louis to Santa Fe...ZEBULON...now that is a regal name, eh what!!!

John Boy, my trusty sidekick, has me all figured out...he knows that when I put my socks on in the morn, it is in preparation for our patrol...I can be very quiet, and stealthy, make no noise whatsoever, and sit down on the cedar chest in the bedroom, and start to put my socks on, and who should come round the corner, grinnin and a waggin his tail...John Boy...how does he know??? I put them on at different times...and yet, the moment I grab one sock and start to put it on my left foot, (I always do my left foot first) voila, he is there, grinnin and waggin...lately I have taken to putting my socks out the night before, just in case he heard the drawer open and close in the morn...makes no never mind...the moment I reach for a sock, he is waggin and grinnin at me...I started leaving them out at night, and Katy, the other heavy weight cat, sleeps on them...well, on a cold mornin there aint nothing like a warm sock for your cold tootsie...the onliest (san leon for only) problem, is that Katy becomes attached to them...literally...and doesnt want to relinquish control, so I have to gingerly pick her up, all the time her protesting vehemently, and retrieve yon hosiery...the things I do for love...

Today is Monday...Koopers Kids on monday at 2...I generally dont start anything on monday, just so it wont run over into Coopers time...dont want to get distracted and be late, or horrors, forget...which is what I am want to do at my advancing years...forget...boo...

Halloween is behind us, can Thanksgiving be far behind...that is my most favorite day of the year...I just love it...wish I had that little Diner, I'd make Tday a free day...

Oh, saw my little sweetheart grandaughter from next door, last night...My heart just goes thump when I see Lucy smile...I wish she was my official grandaughter, but, she has deemed it so...I guess that is good enough...she calls me what my kin Grand kids call me...Beaupa, and Diane they call DD or Dee Dee...Lucy is 15 and the epitome of what a child, a person should be...she runs over to our house to show us her AAA+++ papers, or plays our piano on a new piece she has learned...plus she came over and modeled her homecoming dress for us...even gave us a picture... includes us in her life...what a gift she is...she dressed up last night like one of those kernal korns...kute too...when I am sick, which nowdays seems to be all too often, she will text me from school or home to see how I am, plus brings us plates of food...lucky lucky us...

Ok, 12 high noon...time to get ready for Coopers outing...

Keep the sun at your 6 and ride boldly ride...
your friend and other brother...Beaupa the DOD

John Burgess Webb

will this be white-washed from history books of the future?this non-event;this "overseas contingency"blessed by the imams and ignored as "a man caused disaster".oh,i forgot,not supposed to be political;but,i can most certainly be 'politically correct' about it.we are to "engage with"this this errant child of islam.

Beau Wann, Jr.

Hey Burge...never happened...just like the holocaust...all a conspiracy...perpetrated by George Bush...just ask the ever most wonderful Oliver Stone, and that mayor of minnesota Terry something or other...that last guy, has his own conspiracy late nite television show...both of those guys are nuttier than I am...

Wish yall coulda been with me and Cooper at his class...warm your heart no end...Morgan, coopers first student, brought the book Double Trouble, about two West Highland Terriers named Sugar and Spice...Morgan began reading ok enough, but then came to the word "forget", and stumbled...she showed it to Cooper, and cooper raised his eyebrows and looked at me for help, and I told Morgan, "Cooper says that word is "forget"..." to which Morgan promptly asked me if I knew what it meant...to which I said, "oh brother do I"...she just laughed and giggled, and then put her book down and grabbed Coopers snout in both of her tiny little hands and started telling him "knock knock" jokes...Cooper was laying on his stomach, head stretched out in a little persons hands, just looking so serious with an every now and then arched eyebrow in my direction.  Morgan did the "banana" knock knock joke, you know the one where they repeat banana several times and then say orange you glad I didnt say banana...My boys use to pull that one on me all the time...

Then she did the "interrupting cow" knock knock joke, when you answer, she says MOO rignt in the middle of your answer...I was answering for Cooper...Morgan just laughed as if it was the funniest moment in her entire life...it was definetly a good moment for me and Coop, thats for sure...

one of our other kids, Westin, was on the way out the door with his mom when we came in...he ran over to Cooper and hugged him and introduced his mom to Cooper. Westin was also eating a sandwich, to which Cooper tried to liberate from him, which delighted Westin...

Then Scott came in and immediately laid down next to coop to which Coop laid his head on Scotts back and licked scotts head...The librarian and her assistant and other teachers came by just at that moment, and I thought they were going to cry...they swooned some...There was also and Author named Windham, talking to several classes about nature and stuff...He came in and we met and he met cooper and was smitten...duh, who isnt smitten with a critter like Coop...When we got through, the librarian said that she hadnt seen Scott smile in 4 years, that is until Cooper...YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a great thing that is...

During Morgans session, she informed Cooper that she was an "OLDER 8 years old" soon to be 9, and might get to go to the 4th grade...an older woman...I told her Cooper was an "older 5", to which she just squealed with delight...That childs laugh, is nitro for the heart...oh my...

I told my beloved, DW about it, and she just said, "welcome to my world"...well, I wouldnt put myself in the class of teachers as Kay and Jimmy lee and Jimmy sue and DW and any and all of the teachers in our class, because I have only 3 kids, oncet a week for one hour, but it does feel good...did anyone ever thank all you special teachers out there????? Well, here is a big THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO AND HAVE DONE FOR A LIFETIME...

Thunder boomers kept me and the zoo awake most of the night...opened the door to the outside of the master bath, and me and Jack and a couple of the cats sat and watched the light show and listened to the rain...looks like it  rained up in Normangee...GOOD!!!!! We probably got an inch or so here...we had a rain gauge at one time, but it had a hole in the bottom...of course that is detrimental to keeping track of how much rain we have gotten...took me awhile to discover that...Sometimes it would rain all night, and not one drop in the rain gauge, to which I thought..."hmmm I guess we didnt get that much rain after all"...nothing slow about me, except my brain of course...

Barbara sent a video of Bill Cosby on the show "YOU BET YOUR LIFE"...I sent it to some of you that I have email addresses...SEND IT ON...if you do nothing else, if you watch no TV or videos forever, you have to watch this one...I was laughing so hard, I was crying...havent laughed that hard in a while...and laughter is the best medicine...watch it and send it on...Thanks Barbara, I needed that...

Ok, I'm late, gotta take the boys out on patrol...may peace and laughter be with you today...
your friend and other brother, Beaupa DOD

PS; Sit tall in the saddle...(my grandson Taylor, showing off)

John Burgess Webb

hey lloyd,before i forget,the next time you speak to david b. tell him i said hey.good people.ping is running around like nothing ever happened,a little wimper now and then;robust and resilliant, like a champ.speaking of which;an undefeated mare,zenyatta,is a georgeous horse.19 starts,19 wins.i cant transfer any pics from the site...zenyatta.com.a very great horse.check her out.