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Teddie Jordan

Beau, I'm a little late but thank you for your service to our country.

On that mouse trap Fran told you about, I just bought several of them and will try them out this weekend in South Texas and give you a report. I don't have any problem with putting out poison for them in Houston, but don't want to kill my barn cat at the ranch so I use traps down there. I'll give you a report next week.

Scotty Croom

spent pm at grandaughter's school for vet program...great show...

Beau Wann, Jr.

Moanin yall, Looks like I have the midwatch...again...I want a recount...Hey Scotty, I see youre up too...I did get about 2 hours sleep...whoop de doo!!!

Wish more people would get on here and yak...everyone probably has more important things to do, like sleep for instance, or go to work...yeah yeah yeah...sleeping and working are overrated...

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Hey all of you military veterans (everyday heros)  HAPPY BELATED VETERAN'S DAY, prayers and congrats Are the order of the day for each of you....thank you for your loyalty and un compromised service for the U.S.A.

Beau, Richard, Burge, and all, I check in daily and always enjoy the pics of the animals as well as the funny script that accompanies them.  As always, I enjoy checking out the pics at Fudds.  I know, I need to be there...LOL.  But when I drive all the way to Houston, I want to be able to go hither and yon to check out other memorable places to nudge my memories.  I suppose it is easier to play it in my mind as I read all of your comments.

I checked out Saint Marie - Bernadette.....very interesting.  Oops, got to go, got a call from the office.  Later.

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Hey BroBeau - glad you got good news from your CAT scan -- although that still doesn't solve your pain.

At Fudd's we were talking about the menus at Prince's and Miller's. Check these out if you haven't already viewed under "Early Memories & HS" tab

Enjoy and have a happy weekend!

Hugs

J

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Hey Bernd,

I just added this to our Early Memories & HS tab -- little by little I'm trying to get all of our yearbook there.  I need to scan the second picture and verbiage to complete your interview - but for now it's a wonderful memory.

John Burgess Webb

its amazing that we can remember the days when prince's was the place and food was so inexpensive.teen anxt aside;we were pretty happy kids.we have done the best we can.i can only pray for the generations ahead;they deside now,with all the 'book learnin',the "dumbing down" and disparaging of belief in a higher power,its not going to be the same for them.they will need something to touch their hearts beside mtv.

ps

ballance and order is what is required now;no unity,no solution.id become a xommunist if thats what it took to stave off this wild red tide.this ritual,which begins in innocent pre-teen years,is to harden the heart for jihad;the beating on the head with a sword is to learn to sacrifice with blood and pain.in iran after the islamic revolution another torture was used  on the miscreant muslin population.iran during the peacock throne had become modern and secular,the shaw was a dictator for sure and his police state was a dred .to re-educate the 'faithful' they were terrorized.young boys were called into village center and made to witness the mutilation of one of their classmates as a method for "horror to set in their hearts"(some villages in vietnam were subjectgated in the same manner.according to the eyewitness;A high ranking cadre wo spoke 'formal vietnamese' he explained that it was an obscure northern dialect and he compared it to the enunciation used by a professional  radio anouncer.people really didnt talk like that; i assumed that it was an affectation of superiority.talking politly as he chose his victim at random.the man shot was the 'example'for anyone who thought about resisting. and saloth sar(pol pot)the  english professor;well you know the story of the killing fields...this little boy,looking up to make sure his father  acknowledges his bravery, is changing forever.their hearts are hardened towards us;yet we are patient with them.the iranian people i know are very pleasant people,some muslim,some christians.two married americans.they would call this child abuse.

 (Burge I removed this picture because some folks found it too brutal to view. But we love your dogs  and other interesting pics, so please keep sending)

Lloyd Pond

I had the opportunity to see a 17 year old classical guitar player, Tim Callobre, this weekend. what a talent. Plays piano like a pro as well. I 'll bet that he could even give Robby Boswell and Beau Wann a run for their money. What a brain to memorize a two hour program! I have trouble remembering four measures.

Weather is cool and damp, leaves are falling, some nice colors here and there... but I miss hearing the geese migrating south.

Richard Meek '65

Hey Radioman 3rd Wann, somewhere in the recent past I read a book that had a pretty lengthy portion about the Navy hunting submarines in current times with airplanes. I wasn't familiar with the aircraft but if I remember they would drop strings of sonar buoys that would transmit back to the plane. Once they would vector in on the subs location they would then start dropping some type of depth charges. I would guess it would be similar to the Lockheed you flew in in the "olden days". In the book they referred to them as sub killers. Do you know anything about the "modern" day version of that plane old timer?

I did get a pretty funny mental picture of you guys sticking your .45's out the window to shoot at any incoming enemy aircraft. Also I could visualize you faking an injury for the benefit of all those stewardi that were on the boat that picked you and crew out of the Pacific. would our Beau do that? As usual C Ephus, funny stuff! Keep it coming.

Beau Wann, Jr.

Hey Lloyd...that youngster can play rings around Robbie and I, with both hands tied behind his back and both eyes closed, and asleep...that young man is a whiz master...could I play half as good as he, that would just tickle me to death...like you, I have a hard time remembering 2 measures, let alone 2 hours...last gig I did at church, I did 6 songs, and had to have words and music to all six...I can remember some parts of the songs I have played a zillion, just not all of the whole song...and I have to have 200X glasses to read them...what a time...

My Grandson Taylor and grandaughter Haley came to stay the weekend with us...heart just soared...Taylor brought his Martin Guitar, and he let me play it...willingly...I was showing him how to play the Beatles tune, written by Ray Eberly I think, TILL THERE WAS YOU...the guitar progression is a  really very nice and smooth descending pattern from Bmaj bar chord, then down a fret and all fingers down a string apiece till you get to the third fret with the bar...anyway, he really likes that tune, so I was showing him how to play it...he played Dust In the Wind, the instrumental version...he is so much better at 16 than I was at 16, and that I am now...He and I jammed a little, me on my 40 year old Epiphone (has a good tone) but you can tell the difference between the Martin and it, in the notes higher up on the frets...Martins sound cleaner, epiphones a mite blurry...

Took the kids to the Gun show at George R Brown Saturday...We all had a great time...Haley loves pink, and must have fondled and picked up every PINK gun in the place, with supervision of course and permission from the sellers...Found some ammo for my Garand, less powerful 150 grain 30-06, than the sporting ammo for hunters...only two boxes though...06 ammo is expensive...We sampled some Jalapeno and Cheese sausage that I eventually went back and bought a stick of, about 5 pounds???? Gave half to the kiddos to take home...that stuff is strong, but good....bought some Fudge....OH MY....sinful...peanut butter and fudge...vanilla and fudge, and some just plain ol fudge fudge...what a wonderful time we have together, whether knocking about, or just playing dominoes and or cards...both kids have such a great sense of humor...they get that from me, along with their good looks and good grades and....you dont believe any of that do you???? well they do have my sense of humor, but both are straight A students, and a whole lot better looking...

Hey Rich...the S-3A Viking is an all-weather, carrierbased Patrol/attack aircraft, which also does double duty as a CARRIER BATTLE GROUPS primary tanker. From the side, it looks like the Harrier jet...it has short stubby folding wings and a crew of 4...it has two GE turbofan engines and flys at a max speed of just over 500 MPH, with a 40K ft ceiling and range of just over 2300 miles...
The later version, S-3B can be equipped with ordnance such as the AGM-84 Harpoon and AGM-65Maverick and AGM-84 SLAM missles as well as torpedoes, rockets and bombs...The versatility of the S-3B has earned it the nickname, "Swiss Army Knife of Naval Aviation"...

There now, more info than you ever wanted to know on anything...

Ok, looks like supper is on the table and "I gotta get to it"...be back in a while...I know, thanks for the warning...

Your ol frien and other brother...Duke 

Robert Derrick

Come on Beau, I am sure you know the words to every top 10 tune ever recorded prior to 1965. Or maybe top 100. I know you have them all on tape or disc somewhere. You were nice enough to give about 300 of them. Thanks again. By the way, I enjoy your posts and learn more than watching the Military Channel.

Beau Wann, Jr.

Robert, mighty kind of you sir, one is glad to be of service...like you said, I know most of the words to the songs, but them when I try to do two things at one time , like playing the guitar chords AND singing the words, then I faulter...

I forgot to add that the S-3A and B were made by Lockheed...first flight was 1972...The AGM on the missles means AIR TO GROUND MISSLE...the SLAM on the AGM-84 SLAM, means stand-off land-attack missle...newer S-3s will have the SLAM-ER, (EXTENDED RANGE) for "over the horizon" combat...in 2003 an S-3B from the "Red Griffins" of sea control squadron thirty eight (VS-38) became the first aurcraft to attack inland and to fire a laser-guided Maverick missile in combat. The attack was made on a "significant naval target" in the Tigris River near Basra, Iraq. VS-38 was flying off the USS Constellation.

When flying ASW (anti sub warfare) it has a MAD gear(magnetic anomaly detection) boom that can be extended from the rear of the aircraft, when not flying combat or tanker mode...and retracted when flying combat or tanker mode...cool huh!!!!

My oldest son Billy has a friend that is or was an S-3 Viking driver...I was honored, got to talk to him for a while... combat pilots a different breed of cat...and thats a good thing...I always remember what the pilots told me when I was in the Navy, they always flew "a mile ahead of themselves"...got to anticipate every scenario...loved just to sit and listen to them discuss the days activities...sometimes, I miss being a part of the big picture...

At the airbase I was stationed at, cant mention where it was, still classified, since it was covert, the only plane logged in once a month, was an F-80 shooting star, I think that was the one..used in the Korean War...in fact it was the first "jet against jet"  air combat in 1950, when 4 MIGS flew into Korean airspace...the F-80Cs from the 51st Fighter-interceptor Wing challenged them. Lt Russell J. Brown attacked and destroyed one of the MIGs in spite of all but one of his guns jamming...anyway, the F-80 looked alot like the latter Lockheed F-94 and the McDonnell F2H Banshee and the Grumman F9F Panther...seems to me, there was a Grumman Eagle and a Hellcat...But anyway, all those aircraft looked very similar and it could have been any one of those that did "touch and go's" on non existent runway...that no one knows about...or suppose to anyway...Oh, the early T-33 trainer looked like the above also...in fact the F-94 was fashioned from the T-33...

More useless information for my friends...but interesting, methinks...Probably the all time HOSS of fighters was the F-4 Phantom...280 air to air victories in Vietman...flew better than MACH 2...
I always thought it looked slow and clunky, but what the heck did I know, a lowly Radioman 3rd class...we have an F-4 sitting outside Post 560 American Legion Hall on Alba...Dont know what it is about me and "hardware", love to look at em...

The Grumman F4F wildcat in WWII was a workhorse...not the equal of the Jap Zero in a head to head straight on fight, but VMF-121, a  USMC squadron, led by Captain Joe Foss shot down 72 Nipponese aircraft in just 16 weeks...Foss shot down 26 or those hisownbadself, including 5 in a single dayand was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor...

The Jap Zero was a Howard Hughes plane that he tried to sell to the US Gov....but the "too smart for everyone US Gov, in it's infinite wisdom turned it down...he sold them to Japan, before WWII of course...

Whilst I'm on the subject of fighters, the P-38 Lightning was phenomenal...the top ace of WWII, Major Richard Bong shot down 40 aircraft flying the P-38...
the P-51 Mustang was my all time favorite of the fighters...equipped with the 1590 HP Rolls-Royce Merlin engine,  was capable of flying almost 450 MPH and could stay on station for up to 8 hours...(if the pilot didnt have to go to the loo)...the P-51 was even faster than the British Spitfire, even though both had the exact same engine...the famous Tuskeegee airmen flew the P-51 as escort for the bombers over Europe...they never lost a bomber or a fighter...the remaining 7 Tuskeegee Airmen today, met somewhere near hear just a couple of weeks ago...I wanted to go so bad, but my grandson was playing football that night...didnt want to miss that, he was counting on me for support...

there are so many good aircraft past and present...shoulda been a pilot...just not smart enough or reflexes quick enough...but I can dream cant I???

Ok...boring lecture over...quiz friday...counts as one millionth of your grade...thanks for being a good group of folks...

Your frien and other brother...Duke

Beau Wann, Jr.

It's me again Margaret...I'll bet youre surprised to hear from me...havent been on the forum in a few...minutes...alert the media...I slept all night long!!!!! Probably 2nd time thats happened in a decade or 12...

Well, it's happened, I am officially lost...cant find a Pilgrim cleaners..."If you cant find a Pilgrim in 10 minutes, you're lost"...I have a couple of coupons for Pilgrims, but cant find one...the last one we used and that I knew of, was up on Shepherd, just north of Pinemont, across from St Pius HS...now it's a chinese restaurant...Hmmm...maybe they do clothes too...whilst you sup...

Hey Tony, Robert, Gary, wake up, it's 49 in Nasavota...Kay??? Rise and shine My brothers and sisters...disgusting arent I, this chipper in the morn...well, my back does hurt, but other than that, as the good brother James Brown said..."I FEEL GOOD...DANA DANA DANA DANT...I KNEW THAT I WOULD NOW...DANA DANA DANA DANT...."

It's 54 here in downtown Oak Forest...and the coffee is sooooo goooood...My brother in law brought some over this weekend from Brazil...he has a co-worker friend that goes there often and brings back the stuff...STRONG???? Had some this morn, and it's got me chatterin like a magpie and running hither and yon, to and fro...man, that stuff is nuclear, or as GW says Nucular...

Need to do the grocery shopping today...all by myself...alone...been cutting coupons out for a fortnight or four...I like shopping, just not the places to shop or the people...other than that, it's fun...anyone want to go with me??? I am going to the Krogers on Wirt road at westview...thats where I buy gas too...get .10 cents off a gal...

I dont not never ever go to Randalls...I know, a triple negative, but thats how much I hate them...I went in a few weeks ago, after a funeral, so you know how I was dressed, nice...
I decided to have some of their soup...I went to pay for it, but there was  line...so not to let my soup get cold, I sat down and ate it and drnak a coke waiting for the line to go down...the FLOOR WALKER...remember that term???? well, Randalls has a floor walker, that just bird dogged me, and kept watching me...I was not in a sportin mood, having just attended a funeral, but decided to walk this guy around abit...so I went to the bakery and ggot a donut and then back over to the tables, with this moron in hot pursuit...he watched me eat every spoonful of the soup and every bite of the donut...finally the line went down, and I went over and paid for the food...apparently he told the check out lady about it, and even took over an empty small bowl to show her what I had...this guy really pissed me off...on the way out, I stopped in front of him and asked him, "DID I LOOK LIKE A THIEF????" he just stammered and stuttered...

I DONT STEAL!!!!! Especially a 2 dollar bowl of soup and a .50 cent donut and a coke...this really really made me angry...I havent been watched like this since I was 10 years old and Duke of Dubarry, walking around in Haleys five and dime on 43rd....I emailed Randalls with my displeasure to which they sent back a form email...blah blah blah...so now, I will never set foot in Randalls again, I dont care if they give their crap away...just really makes me mad...I mean, do people regularly go in and steal the soup???? old people like me???? well dressed old people????  If I'd been in my biker garb, well, maybe...but an old guy??? an old limping guy???

So, dont shop at Randalls, and spread the word...I like Brookshire brothers, but we dont have one this close in...do have one up in Normangee that I like...just a little country store, and very friendly...I sure hope Krogers doesnt make me mad, I wont have too many places to shop left...
the Krogers across the street from me at Tidwell and antoine made me mad, with their shoddy service, or lack of service all together...there can be a zillion people checking out, but only one checker...at any given time...

The one at 43rd is better, mostly, but they are teetering on the brink of incuring my rath...then where will I go??? HEB????

Ok, got to sign off to get the little woman excecutive off to work, so I can go play...after I walk the dogs, and after I do the dishes, and after I fold the clothes and add more to the dryer and washer and after I make the bed and after I pick up stuff and after I take a shower and after I look for my glasses and hearing aids and after I take a nap...a womans work is never done...I dont know how my mom did it all those years...full time job at home and full time job at sears...I know most of you ladies out there, did the same too, and are still doing it...my hats off to you...oops, got to put it back cause my heads getting cold...

which brings me to my next subject, hair!!!!! I think I will let mine grow out, into a comb-over and a pony tail...whatcha think???? it's already a reverse Mohawk...Ok, ok, I'm singing off....

Keep the sun at your 6 and ride boldly ride and dont shop at Randalls...

Duke

Lloyd Pond

My complaint about Randalls is the higher prices. I like the stores. In fact, After the 34th store was completed, I thought that I would just go hang out there during the day. They had nice bathrooms, good book and magazine sections, a place to soup or a snadwich for lunch. 

We have HEB in Austin. If you want real high dollar you can go to Whole Foods or Central Market. Lucky for us, our neighborhood has an independent IGA Minimax grocery...just like the one you might remember in Oak Forest. There is a little barber shop across the parking lot, a pharmacy and the best kept secret in Aust, The Litttle Deli. Great Pizza or a sandwich. Life is good.

In Portland Oregon, the place to go is Trader Joes. All the workers wear Hawaiian shirts and are super friendly. Their selections ar high quality and not too much higher in price.

Sun is shining today and I think I will be assigned to mulching the leaves.

Richard Meek '65

Duke a question about the P-38, was it flown exclusively in the Pacific or was that just the dominant theatre of operations?

Probably if you let your hair grow out, do a swoop over and a pony tail you won't draw as much attention in Randall's or whoever your new favorite store is (hhmmmmm)!

C Ephus I know exactly how you feel about that house cleaning. You work like crazy to get everything clean and then you have to do it again in 6 months. Phew, wears me out!

Keep on dancing,

Rich LH

Enjoy the little things, they may turn out to be the big things

Beau Wann, Jr.

Lloyd, you notice that now most of the stores dont have real coffee machines!!!! Just some ol quarter snatcher that gives you a cup o mud...I hate to say it, but Mickey Ds has great coffee...
wish I had my diner up and running, I'd show the whirld a great cup o joe and service and breakfast, and meatloaf, and HASH...oh man, I make the best hash in the whirld oh my...and gravy too...

I want my coffee served by a waitress named Flo that calls me "hon"...Today, I am going to 5 guys burgers and fries at Shepherd and 610, if anyone wants to go...11:30...I will of course be prepared to discus the ills of the whirld and how to fix said ills...and of course, I am right and everyone else is wrong, unless you agree with me...then it's off to K ROGERs...shop till I drop, which will probably be 5 minutes after I get there...

Took the boys out on dawn patrol...didnt look that cold, but the wind was whippin around 200 or 300 miles and hour...kill an ordinary patrol...gonna wear a jacket next time...

well, maybe I can get in a nap before lunch...nah, got clothes to fold and wash, and poop to scoop...yes sir, never thought I'd be shoveling cat and dog...uh...stuff...but, it's gotta be done, and some one has to do it, so I am selected to be elected to collected...

bye for now...I will try not to be a stranger here on the forum...
Mr Mom...Duke

PS, the P-38 was specificly in the pacificly...unless it was used else where...and they failed to notify me...
Major Richard Ira Bong was killed on a test flight on august 6 1945, whilst testing a P-80 starfire...his death shared headlines just under the dropping of the atomic bomb...

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Good morning all,

I'm here to tell ya that I visited Kroger in North Bryan, because our PTO gets a little bit of everything I buy.  I don't shop there since I don't have one close by, but when I checked out I requested $40.00 over my check amt. and they refused and said my card was flagged....flagged did they have something on me I don't know about ?   from Houston ?  So I took back my check and charged it to a credit card, a bit embarrassed because I'd held up two other ladies while the manager was hunted down and wouldn't approve.  Turned a pleasant trip into an unsettling one, as he didn't tell me why, just No approval....well, I checked on Monday why my card was flagged thinking someone else had been using it? and was told policy says I have to make at least seven purchases there before they will auth. extra money when I request it. 

Now isn't that the way stores now handle their customer service, and of course, the manager was as young as my grandsons, no smile, all cool business policy, kick the old lady out of the store attitude.  Probably won't try to help the PTO, too many trips, too many miles for too little service!

Gosh, Beau, I realize you retired gentlemen are co-helper home engineers, but you are a Saint.  DW is blessed!  So are your animals!

Had my two great-grandchildren come out......Ailean's first visit to the farm!  It was a heaven-filled weekend.  Everyone is in agreement that she looks like Lisa, my deceased daugher and I agree.....not only did I finally get a grand daughter , but to have her resemble her grandmother is a blessing.  

Back to work, got to get out report cards this week, but wanted to stop in to say  HELLO!

P.S. If anyone has any good Thanksgiving antics, recipes, memories, good places to go to eat Thanksgiving in case we give up and travel....thanks again, Beau.  Let's get the ball rolling!

Beau Wann, Jr.

Kay, you have a GREAT GRANDAUGHTER???? NAH!!!!!! COME ON NOW!!!! I keep telling DW how lucky she is, and she agrees...well, except for the time I fell through the attic into the kitchen...but I was just trying to see how a skylight would work there...I still havent made it to the K Rogers, the dirty rats...had an extended lunch with most all of Waltrip 64, at 5 guys boogers and fries...everyone in the whirld can go about their bidness, cause we solved ALL the whirld problems...

Me and Sir Richard the LH, and Jimvette T...all told, I guess we were there about 12 hours, give or take...Oh, while we were at it, we gave everyone a tax cut too, and there will be a little extra something in your pay envelopes next payday...Ha, hows that????? And, all teachers salaries will be quadrupled...

We also traded players and coaches off teams we liked, which wasnt many, or is that any...we called Dan Pastorini to see if he was available to play for the Texans, not that we care about them...Didnt dallas beat them, and the only game they won too...

Kay, glad you had a good weekend with your grandkids, we did too...They are getting kind of old now and dont really want to spend as much time with us as they use to...they have lots of friends...well, come to think of it, who wouldnt rather spend time with their friends rather than a ccouple of old foggies, or at least one old foggie...me...

well, ok, need to take a nap so I dont get cranky...Duke

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Hi all,

In answer to Robby on the '65 forum, I totally agree with you.  Tradition is not all that, I for one, think it is totally overrated, and a lot of family dysfunction goes along with it.  The nicest thing is that you can create your own memorable time since it is truly a holiday that doesn't require expected presents, such as BD and Xmas.  For anyone wanting the turkey works, our school is serving and outside people can come and pay only 2.75 for turkey, dressing gr. bean cass., corn rolls, giblet gravy, cranb. sauce, swt potatoes, gravy, dessert and tea or milk.  That will satisfy me and if anyone wants to invite me for an extra day's meal, locally, I would make myself available, then my appetite will be on hold for anoth. year.  I will be going to the Renaissance Festival in Plantersville for their Celtic Christmas the weekend after, another turkey leg experience.....Walaa! For me, life is too short to slave over a stove for several days and all the dirty dishes, bucks spent and all that goes with it.

Thank you Beau, if we have to get old there are truly benefits in our children, grandchildren and hopefully, greatums.

Susan Howard (Bowman)

It amazes me that you don't have Trader Joe's in Texas!  We have 2 in Indianapolis and they are wonderful!  Before they opened here we would always take an extra suitcase to LA when we traveled there to see kids and bring it home full of goodies from TJ's - like coffee, hard salami, cheeses, things we couldn't get here that were near the quality or with the good price.  I shop there often since there is one not too far away from where we live.  By the way, the service is always excellent - friendly, "wanting you as a returning customer" types.  They have wonderful wines, too - and CHEAP!  I know they have them in NC and the eastern states, as well as in the west.  They are a great place to shop and during the holidays they have some very special items just available during Christmas.  Need to get some in Texas, right Lloyd?!

Robert Derrick

As Davy Crockett said "As for me, you can all go to HELL and I will say "Merry "CHRISTmas".  And a Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

John Burgess Webb

anybody need a new kitty-kat?

Beau Wann, Jr.

Hey Robert, more accurately he said, "you all can go to hell, and I will go to Texas" or words to that effect...and since we are all in Texas...have a merry Christmas and a nappy hew year...or words to that effect...

Burge...thats a mighty big pussy cat...is that a liger??? Almost as big as Big Oliver...speaking of which, he has now started standing with his front legs on my shoulder and back legs on the dining room table...then he gets stuck and doesnt know which way to go, on me, or on the table...then we have a tricky maneuver I call, "kitty extraction", and hopefully it is bloodless...my bloodless...

HEY...all you anti-traditionalist people...I love tradition...and kay, I was only going to charge 2.50 for a plate...not the exhorbitant 2.75...but, you are welcome to come on over and I will only charge you half price, thats the kind of guy I am...

I am hoping that my deadbeat brother-in-law and sister-in-law dont show up...they have been invited elsewhere, and hope they take up on it...I guess it's part of tradition to have a couple of deadbeats show up...I try to make it as uncomfortable for them as possible, but when there's freebies, it's hard to keep them away...other family members have complained that Ed has pushed people out of the way to be first in line...if I'd seen it, I would have thrown him in the street...I generally bring out a few guns and leave em laying around...loaded...next to the turkey, and gravy and mashed potatoes, and on the couch and other furniture...plus I don my shoulder holster and stuff it either with my .357 or .45...they are uncomfortable with firearms...oh gee, too bad...I also allow my cats to roam free, and both dogs...now if it is real people, I put the cats up and the dogs out and my arsenal in the powder room, not the loo, the real powder room...

wish I had that Kat in burges post...nah, he or she would probably eat more than the deadbeats...maybe he or she would EAT the deadbeats...oh lighten up...I mean no harm...just slight discomfort...

ok, the little woman needs to use the computer, so I are leafink for a spell...

eat more dark chocolate...Duke

Lloyd Pond

Seeing the menus from the drive ins reminds me of a story about a double date to the brand new Jack in the Box at Shepherd and 19th? Doug McCuen  took out a new girl, (my apologies I don't remember her name and my apologies if you are reading my story). Doug thought it would be great because the prices were so cheap. A taco was 15 cents, I think. Anyway we pull in to the drive through to talk to the clown  and Doug's date says , "Yum, I just love tacos!"
She orders four tacos...Doug was mad and his budget was blown.

Here are some pictures of Eddie our mandolin orchestra mascot. He sneaks round while we are playing and will drink water out of your cup if you are not careful.

Richard Meek '65

Burge, I appreciate the offer. I would take that Kitty right in but I already have two cats coupled with the Rushin Setter that's plenty of critters about. It is fascinating about cats I think that that big cat and my little 9 lb. one are almost identical from a skeletal and musculature standpoint. Basically the only difference is 391 lbs.

Lloyd my pooch does the same thing if you leave a cup of anything around. She really started getting in hot water since she keeps trying to get into my wine. She's treading on thin ice there. My old dog that passed away last year was a great fan of Ottmar Liebert. When I would put one of his CDs on Krug would come over lay down and heave a big sigh of contentment. I guess he really liked the guitar music. Critters really are amazing to observe.

Susan I've read pretty good reviews of the Two Buck Chuck wine that Trader Joe's sells. Some friends of mine that live in Carmel shop there often and they are very picky about quality. So if they're buying it, it's good. Carol is a gourmet quality cook. Maybe they'll open up in Texas someday.

When it comes to the Holidays I like traditional but I like to mix in new food items and other things. Some of my relatives think it is heresy to have anything on the table that you haven't been eating for fifty years. One year one of my contributions was a juvenile Specklebelly goose that I smoked over pecan wood and kept the cavity full of red wine while it was cooking. When I put on the buffet some of the said relatives are saying "no way I'm eating any goose, etc." I thinking that's ok more for me. Anyway when we started clearing everything away there was nothing left but bones on the goose platter.  Same thing happened one year with a leg of lamb cooked in a middle eastern marinade. Another time at Christmas we got all the party stuff that the Brits use at Christmas with goofy hats little gizmos that look like firecrackers but are filled with confetti. It was a challenge but we eventually got everyone participating. Another Christmas I enlisted the assistance of my sister and cousins and at the end of the blessing I said and altogether let us recite and we started the Pledge of Allegiance. Man one of my aunts went nutso. Good she didn't have a gun or a carving knife. she might have done us  bodily harm. You need to lighten things up by blending new with traditions. Anyway that's my take on it. I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving.

Keep on dancing,

Rich LH

Enjoy the small things,

They may turn out to be the big things