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Lloyd Pond

Cameron Carpenter is the correct name, my bad

Beau Wann, Jr.

Good Wednesday Morrow to all mine fine Waltripines,   Lloyd, beeyoootiful picture of you and your Lovely wife...the church is nice too...which one is it???  Wow, the decorations and the organ are sooooo fine....we have an organ in our church, but the music director can only play it a smidgen...she is a concert pianist, and plays it superb...I allus thought that if you could play the piano, you could play the organ...that is of course not so, I have learned in my continuing education of life...the key boards u can play, but it's the foot work and the stops that make the magnificent sound...Our organ is an Allen, methinks...very old...got nothing but complaints from all the organ players that have played it...not being an organmeister, it sounded swell to me...kinda reminds me of the poem, "The Touch Of the Masters Hands" by Myra Brooks Welch...

Hey JimB...thanks for the picture of Dixie...sweet...but then aside from Lions and Tigers and bears oh my, I havent met too many critters I dont like...Next time you are in Tomball, and primed for something to eat, try Goodsons Cafe...was voted at one time, the best chickent fried steak in the whirld...dont know where it stands today...they had a satellite cafe on the corner of Gessner and I-10 for a spell, but like most things, it closed...in fact, the whol shopping center has been leveled, probably just waiting for that zillion story zillion square foot building...probably for Memorial city Hospital...but thats a good thing I guess...a hospital to take care of us after Goodsons took care of us with chicken fried steak and gravy...

Hey to Great Nana...PPPP of the P...and to Great aunt Alva and sister doc LB of Hearne, RR crossroads of the whirld...

Just got back from patrol in the rain with Fric and Frac and my beloved...alls quiet on the western front...cole creek running about a foot higher due to this great rain we are being blessed with...
Took the boys to the country place Monday, and they just romped and played like two overgrown puppies...rye not germinated yet, hoping it will with this latest rain and the rain we got on Christmas eve...about 1 inch maybe...checked the buckets I set out, and of course it was ice...

looking out the Library window, along with 4 cats and Jack, it is really raining..."you never miss the water till the well runs dry", eh what???

DW and grandaughter Haley were working on making a quilt out of some of Haleys outgrown clothes...

oops got to run...
DOD

Paige Talley (Meek)

The concerts at Central were fabulous. When I got to work Monday after the 12th concert, all the Chinese in my office had attended the concert and brought me pictures. What an honor. Each concert was acclaimed throughout the valley. The "Keyboards" at Christmas was a hit. Jacob (grandson age 8) takes piano lessons. His teacher performed. I did not get to go... too sick, but the family went and were really impressed.

It was a fine holiday for all mine. I had a great time and got to spend some of it with fellow Waltripians. My Mom even had a good time and voiced her appreciation and thankfulness for the season and the "reason".

Some of you may relate to having a loved one that is "dementing". Mom has for the last few years been in a couple of "homes". As her comfort zone increases and the new place becomes "hers", she begins to pilfer. She roams around and locates the room where the lost and found is located. She then begins collecting or shopping as she sometimes calls it. She began a couple of months ago shopping for Christmas. She found these awful afgan or at least I think that is what the crocheted items were. She would bring them to her room and hide them under her coat which she keeps on the extra bed. When I would come by, she would "make sure that no one was watching" and show me the new items.  With firm instructions from MaMa, I was to take them home and save them for the  girls in the family for Christmas. Being a dutiful daughter, I took the items and after a day or two would return them to the lost and found. A few days later, Mom would start the process again and soon we had plenty of presents for the girls for Christmas. We had shopped the same "afgans" for at least two months.  The morning I went to get her and drive to the Christmas gathering... there they were, each with a bow on top.  The girls were thrilled with the treasures from Mom.

JOY is best when shared...

Paige

Teddie Jordan

Paige, what a great Christmas story! God bless her.

I'm just back from a few days of solitude in South Texas, just Gus and I in the middle of no where, immersed in nature with only the occasional distant sound of a big truck going down the nearest highway about 4 miles away. A lot of work and maintenance was accomplished.

One of the things I enjoy the most about being there by myself is the time it gives me to just think and reflect quietly as I go about my work. One of the things that came to me this trip as I counted my blessings was just what a wonderful group of people you my classmates are, and how blessed I am to have finally realized that fact, 46 years later. So many good, honest, God fearing, smart, sweet, funny people. It's scary to think that I could have lived my whole life and never really gotten to know so many of you, people I saw every day for at least four years, that I have gotten to know in the last two years since Jackie started this website and we started meeting at Fudds. As I look back I realize that due to the way they kept us in homerooms and seated in class in alphabetical order, my then limited social skills, the cliques that existed, the fact that even a year diiference in age seemed like a big deal, and just plain teen ackwardness and shyness, I probably didn't really know over 15% of my classmates. I knew your names and your faces, but I really didn't know your values and personality and sense of humor and goodness. I am very grateful that has changed.

About 10% of our class has already gone on to that big high school in the sky, which is so sad. I try to go through the In Memory section of this website from time to time and just read about and remember each of them.

So please keep putting down your thoughts and comments and memories on this Forum, and coming to Fudd's when you can. None of us are getting any younger and none of us are going to get out of this deal alive. How nice it is to have a group of people we've known most of our lives and share so much common background with to share the remainder of the ride.

Happy New Year everybody.

Jim Taylor

Teddie,

Very well stated!  I couldn't agree with you more.

Jimmy Brown '65

I am a guest on your web site and I think this website is # 1 period !

Jackie is a amazing person , Beau writes beautiful according to Mrs.Simpson's

poetic licensing. And everyone I been in contact with is very special .

Beau Wann, Jr.

Yes, Theo...dont think it coulda been better said...right now, there are 5 cats and two dogs hugging me because of the storms coming through...a cat on each arm of the chair, and one on my back and neck, and two, count em, two of em in my lap...and both Jack and Coop are hugging my feet...ok, storm has eased up a might, and cats have loosened their death grip on my sweatshirt...lots o critters look to me for protection...hope I dont let em down...

I think it was a great day when Jackie started this website and Theo, I believe it was, suggested that we meet on 2nd tuesdays at Fudds...what a great gift that has been handed to us...at least to my way of thinking...

Seem to be having difficulty concentrating on my thoughts...not making much sense on screen...have typed and erased a half dozen times...think the storm has me distracted...of course it could be big Oliver and companys claws hanging on to my arms and legs for dear life...OK GANG get offffffff....oooooffffffff...gee, with all the holes in me, when the cats move off, I will either bleed to death, or fly around the room from the air leaking out from all the holes they put in me...

DINNER TIME...that ought to getem off...sooo, gotta sign off for now...feeding time at the zoo
heres your warning...just might be back later...
DOD

Bernd Joachim Tonat

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about three weeks ago, Barbara working hard for Xmas.

Psychiatrist at work, almost son in law Benni and Soeke in the back. But not many cookies left.

Since the end of november there is a lot of snow in Berlin, and it´s fun trying to drive a car. Temperatures even down to below zero. Just before Xmas snow was melting for two days but Xmas night again lots of snow, but the pictures don´t like to be shown.

I don´t know how to make it to fudds, perhaps I need that yellow bus to pick me up!

No more pictures from Germany,

bjt

Susan Howard (Bowman)

Wow!I haven't been to the forum in a couple of days and can't believe all of the wonder I read! You all make my day many days! Teddy, you said it so well - Lloyd, I love the picture of you and Ferrell!  The rest of you who have contributed - thank you!

Jackie, I have been through Manhattan, KS, many times driving to Lake City, CO, where our family cabin is - we've even spent the night there a few times - it is a pretty part of Kansas.  Enjoy being with your family!  It's wonderful!  Our Christmas was so quiet this year without family - it was nice just the two of us - but I do miss my family, especially during the holidays! 

I love the story about your mom, Paige!  It will be something to remember when she is gone.  My mom is still doing well at 94 - keeping my fingers crossed as the days go by!  Her younger sister passed away on Christmas Day.  Mom is the only sibling left now.  She is such a spiritual person - very close to God - everyone loves her!

Happy New Year, everyone!  Be safe and enjoy whatever you are doing and whomever you are with where ever you may be!  It is hard to believe it will be 2011!  I don't feel like I should be this "old"!  What we have experienced in our lifetime!

Bernd Joachim Tonat

Working today at this place about 20 minutes from home!

Paige Talley (Meek)

Teddie Jordan !!! You made me cry... and then thinking that now I'll have to practice being more nice than not.

Great snow pixs, and wonderful thoughts... Thanks

Have a Happy New Year 

Be extra cautious while being reckless (that should put us all at about netural).

    Paige
 

Bernd Joachim Tonat

100 years ago this chapel was built in Norwegian style

Back of the chapel. The cottage in the back has just been restored and can be used now for "special needs". But so many trees around, I don´t have to go there.

I´m still fighting with uploading pigs,  c

bjt

Bernd Joachim Tonat

Tried this pic three times before, now I got it!

Richard Meek '65

Good afternoon fellow Waltripians. Not much left of 2010, eh? I hope 2011 is a great year for everyone.

Paige, that story about your mom brings back many fond memories about my dad and mom in good times and during their declining years. I feel blessed that I have those kinds of memories.

Ted, I think is is close to unanimous that you hit a home run with your comments (guys tend to resort to sports analogies don't they?). I say close because we don't have a comprehensive survey. Your comment about not getting to know people better because of several reason but teen akwardness prompted a thought (yikes). Now that we've gotten beyond teen akwardness we're now dealing with adult akwardness. It's always something new to deal with.

Bernd, I love your pictures. I'm glad to get to see them. I'm also glad to not be there to experience it. I think I prefer to make visits to your homeland in the summers. Taking a cruise down the Rhine in summer is delightful among many things.

DOD, that picture you posted of the inside of Oaks Presbyterian brought back many good memories of Christmas Eve services attended. One thought I always have when I think about those times is about Charlie Smith. For those of you not familiar with OPC's service the final hymn was always sung after the congregation had filed out of the sanctuary and were holding lighted candles. As soon as everyone was outside Charlie would start singing his favorite carol (very forcefully) if it wasn't the one selected on the program. So everyone would sing along and then do the one on the program. Charlie and his wife Ruth were fine people. They were members there when I was growing up. I don't think people have those kinds of memories when they live our current transitory lifestyles. Do something this new year's eve that will give you fond memories for the future!

I hope you all have a fun and memorable New Year's Eve!. Stay safe and warm and. . .

Keep on dancing,

Rich

May God hold you in the palm of his hand until me meet again

Beau Wann, Jr.

Bernd, great pics...love the church and of course the snow...especially since I dont have to shovel it or traverse in it...
Rich, I think about Charlie and Ruth almost everytime I enter the church...one of the stalwart cornerstones of that church for many years...the ministers in the past didnt pay enough respect to the Smiths in my estimation...and youd think they would, since it was the Smiths of the church that brought them to our church...But I loved it when Charlie would stand up after the service was over, and sing O Holy Night. Being the proverbial rebel, I would stand and sing with him...pretty soon everyone was singing and filing out, much to the ministers chagrin...

 The ministers hated it because THEY wanted to be in charge...forgetting, that THEY WERE NOT THE CHURCH, WE, THE MEMBERS, were the church...so what if a plan was not followed to the letter...been a few sermons stopped because of illness during the services...the earth did not come to an end...God may have CALLED them to the dance, but Ministers/leaders tend to forget just perzactly WHO it was that BRUNG em to the dance...

Teen awkwardness, peer pressure, family influences, just to name a few of the forces tugging at our young hearts and  minds...how we are perceived by others...how we percieve others...I have learned, the hard way as usual, that perception is the killer of possible friendships and dreams..."well, that person is not like me at all"...oh, big whoop...thank goodness we are all different in some ways, and alike in others...we all want to be accepted and respected, from the time we are born to now, 65 years later...and thats what this wonderful website has done, bridged time and space and memories...and hopefully, acceptance...

Like Theo said, I wish I had gotten to know more of you back then, and know the ones that we will never get to know, that have passed on...I recently saw someone from our class at Kroger...they have never attended a reunion, but they are some one that I respected and looked up to and wanted to emulate, but knew that I couldnt, and I told them this, and they said WHY???? I Dont know, and couldnt really explain it to them, in K rogers, but they just seemed so confident, sure of themselves, knew where they were going, and did what was expected of them...they were for all intents and purposes, role models...we have many in our class, many many many...

Just look at how all of you turned out!!!! It is my contention that we are all where we are suppose to be, like it or not...sometimes I like it, and sometimes I wonder, "what if"...but, who doesnt????
I can tell you, with all sincerity, that I have been blessed beyond all belief...being a part of a class of folk for 12 years in school, and now, once again part of that same class...It has made a huge difference in my life...that and my beloved...she of the class of 72, has kept me grounded in and surrounded by faith, hope, love and charity...regardless of the direction of the winds of fortune, a man could do none better...

Now that I have hiked through the furrows of you minds and  waxed philisophical, it is feeding time at the ZOO...
Take care mine waltrip friends...
your friend and brother DOD
PS: Sister J, we are forever in your debt for this website...God Bless you, and God bless each and every one of us...Jack B, we are still thinking of you and praying for you: Lindsey A: Pat: Tony: Mickey R: et al...

Jimmy Brown '65

Happy New Year to All of You

From All of Us

Bernd Joachim Tonat

Happy new year to all of you!

bjt

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

It's count down now!!   Happy New Year to all!

God's Blessings to all of you for 2011 ---

Hugs and Love,

J

John Burgess Webb

                             happy new year everybody

Beau Wann, Jr.

Good Happy New year mine Waltripians;  Today is BLACKEYED PEA AND CORNBREAD DAY...YAAAAA...we been cooking ourn for a while...I mix in Japalenas (special dispensation for mispelling words was bestowed on me by the pope...Bill Pope) in my blackeyes and also in the cornbread...cant have toooo many japaleanas (see rule above)...

Blackeyed peas gained prominence in Athens Texas...early folk wisdom holds that the tradition started during the UNcivil war when the dang yankee troops would burn OUR crops. They passed up burning the blackeyes, because they mistook them for cowpeas and cattle feed...southerners woulda starved to death were it not for the blackeyes...A Mr J. B. Henry, an Athens Bidness man, first started to grow BEPs commercially around 1909. Trying to stop the weevils from eating the peas, he dried them in an oven and discovered that they were easier to ship dryed...in honor of Henry and the BEPs, Athens use to have a Black-eyed Pea Jamboree.

Another person, by the name of Elmore "Tiger" Torn, the father of actor Rip Torn, founded the International Black-Eyed Pea Appreciation Society...(I love em, but dont think I would have gone that far in promoting them)...

George Washington Carver touted the BEP and peanuts and sweet potatoes, for their soil amending qualities and  as a good source of protein and provided calcium, folate, iron, and potassium and fiber.

Sadly, the Black-Eyed Pea Association and the Black-Eyed Pea Jamboree in Athens are no longer celebrated, but the Anual Fll Festival at the East Texas Arboretum and Botannical Society has a Black-eyed pea cook off... So, break out those cast arn pots and lets commence to cookin...

Now you have learned more than you ever possibly wanted to know on the Black-eyed Pea...
But thanks to me, your ignorance of the subject has been corrected...

Putting away, or am suppose to be putting away our Christmas decorations for another year...It's amazing how long it takes for Christmas to get here, and then WHOOOOSH, it has come and gone...then it's October, and then Thanksgiving and Christmas has come an gone again...been 65 of em for me...doesnt seem like that many, but does seem like a long time...WELL???? It is!!!! more than a half century....when you use that term, "more than Half century", it seems a lot longer than 65, doesnt it!!!!!!!!!

Watching TCU and Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl...Hope TCU wins...long overdue Honor...rat now, TCU is ahead, but I think that whoever has the ball last, will win...both teams look pretty evenly matched...

You know, Jan 1st is a good day to start a journal, if not for you, for you kids and grandkids...I started on years ago, but it has since fallen by the wayside...It's hard to write in it everyday, especially when mostly all you do is "feed the dang animals; clean out the litter boxes; clean the dogga poop out of the back yard; vacuum the carpet; wash the dishes; wash the clothes; fold same; make the bed; try to fix the dangblame things that break; go to K rogers and buy groceries; go back to K rogers and get the stuff you forgot; and then repeat the process over and over and over and over ad infinitum....

But I read a story on a mom that put everything down in a journal for her funeral and what the kids needed and should do; like favorite hymns etc...Dianes grandmother Grace, did just that...put it in the Family Bible, which we have...I love reading the notes she put in the bible...

When she was alive, Diane would take her to do her shopping, and then take her to supper...Diane did this every Wednesday from the time we met, till Grace Died in 93...Sometimes I would get to join them when I wasnt working overtime at the dial tone factory...they either ate at Piccadilly cafeteria at Northwest Mall or Wyatts cafeteria on 43rd or Monterey House on Oak Forest and 34th (now Don Teos, and still the same great tex mex food) !!! Grace was the first person I have eever seen eat mexican food, with japalenas (see above rule) and wash it all down with hot coffee...my kind of woman...I could make her laugh, and so enjoyed doing just that...

When Diane and I first met, she, Diane, didnt drink coffee...it has only been in the last couple of years that she developed a taste for my splendid cup o joe...now, she askes, "have you made coffee yet? and if not, why not???" It's nice to share things with the people you love, isnt it!!!!

Guess I better sign off for now before I lose it to cyberspace...
Happy new year to you all and a better new year this year and forever...
your friend and soothsayin brethern Beau Re Gard C Ephus...

Lloyd Pond

Sunday morning skirmish in the back yard.. One mocking bird has decided that the yaupon tree and all of its red berries are its sole possesion. However four blue jays are thinking they deserve some tasty berries too. Swooping in and out. the birds chase one another around the branches, Whew! I think the mockingbird can't hold out much longer. This a good show to go along with my second cup of coffee. I got the binoculars out to check out other feathered friends. Up high I see a large white bird has black wing tips moving along at a pretty good clip. Must be a crane. My brother can identify birds quickly, but I say, look there is a blue one. OK coffee is gone so 'd better get dressed for church.

Robert Derrick

Hey Teddie-----great story. You bring so much to this group that is becoming closer together all the time.

But we owe it all to our Jackie!!!!

Beau Wann, Jr.

Good Monday Morrow Waltripian mine,
    Well, it's back to woirk for all you STILL productive peoples...the little woman is back in the Mz Executive mode...and I...well, I'm in the "domestic engineer" mode...which one never gets a vacation from...Got lots and lots O interesting stuff to do...SOOOOO ifin any of youse youtes feel the need to, er, uh, hone your skills in the new olympic game events; "syncromeshed Litter box cleaning";"The Timed BackYard Doggie Poop Scoop"; "syncronized doggie patrol"; "Free style washer and dryer dance"; "Team Mowing and Edging"; and not last nor least, "Cross country Cement pond cleaning","the Hundred Yard Trash Dash","The High Hurdle Recycle Take out"...and the beat goes on...

BUT FOIRST...we must finish putting away the CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS....YAAAAAAAAAA....
We took down the Tree last night and of course all the hanging decorations on it...what a job...
Did you know, that my beloved can tell you, or me, especially me, where each tree decoration came from, AND WHEN!!!!!! Spent several hours last night trying to watch a football game, and put away the decorations, and I get, "sweetie, remember this one"?...lord help me I tried to remember it, but I just have to plead ignorant on it..."uh...sweetie" I say, "isnt that the one aunt Weezy gave us"???? WRONG ANSWER...."YOU DONT REMEMBER"??? she says..."I'm sorry sweetie, but there are  so many of them, it's hard to keep them all straight",says I with as much apologetic salve as I can muster.

"This is the very first one we bought together" she says somewhat miffed...."OH, THAT ONE" says I, trying to recover..."well sweetie, the duck tape threw me off a little" says I.
I get sort of a frosty look, "well YOU are the one that put the duck tape on it in the first place, so if you would fix it right.... it's been broken for 10 years" she says...
Now it's coming back to me, one of the cats, Tinker Bell, Duffus Dog, Igimoron...etc, dont remember just which demon it was, but one of em ran up the tree and why it picked that particular one to smack into oblivion, I dont know. I discovered it being batted around the house in a rather unceremonious manner! I took it out to the man cave and found my "fix all" duck tape, and put a piece on it to hold it together, and then hung it back on the tree...

At first discovery by my beloved, the Christmas Tree Decorations Guru, yould a thought she was gut shot..."AAAAAAAAA WHAT DID YOU DO TO THIS ORNAMENT" she screamed....
Now, why I get first blame is just wrong...I esplain what happened and my benevolent and valiant try at "fixin" the ornament, and say I will buy her ten dozen like it...but you folks know, that sentimental items are irreplaceable...

Well, the ornament in question, has been hanging on our tree for ny unto 26 years...probably be around longer than me, duct tape and all...
"You know when we bought it, but do you know where"???? she says...."Oh lord if you get me out of this one, I will put more money in the offering plate next Sunday" says I....
So the good Lord does, because DW answered, "TG&Y, thats where we bought it"....whew...I sigh...."Why sweetie, thats just what I was gonna say, that we bought it at TG&Y " I lied...(I really dont like to lie, but sometimes in the interest of self preservation, a little white one wont hoirt)....she slips in a knuckle ball, "well, do you remember which TG&Y we got it from, and what day it was"????

"Ok, I give up, I dont know where or when or why any of the ornaments came from. there, are you happy now...." I say vexedly..."well, if your gonna be an ugly grinch, just forget it" she says...so on it goes, "why this one is the very first ornament that Taylor our grandson picked out, and this one is the very first one our grandaughter Haley picked out, and this one........

How she remembers all that, I dont know...I cant remember what day it is most of the time...I ask, and some brilliant person will say, "why it's Jan 3, 2011" ."No NO No...what is the day of the week, " I says exasperatedly....I dont know why I cant remember the day of the week anymore...I dont care what the number is, just the day....is it Monday, Friday, what day?????

Hey Lloyd, I know a few of the boids, like the obvious, Bluejay, Cardinals male and female, and a couple of the hawk familys and of course a buzzard....did you know that there is a "buzzard hawk", or so I call it, but the real name is "Zone-Tailed Hawk"...it looks a lot like the buzzards, or vultures and sometimes flys with them...I only learned this from my Bird Book just the other day, trying to identify two hawks flying together, but distincltly different...they were challenging each other over hunting rights...My sone got a couple of pics of em, but they are kinda far away and not as clear as one would have liked...

But all in all, I'm not a "birder"so most of em go nameless, unless I make up one..."oh, there goes a "Multifeathered black hotchie kootchie..."or woirds to that effect...I did see a couple of real Blue Birds and Red Birds up around Dallas some years back...that was, well, I wont say thrilling, but it was unusual, because we dont have em down here...

Ok, guess I have bored you silly...remember now, if your boss catches you sleeping, you cannot blame it on me...you shoulda been woirkin insteada readin...
Already took fric and frac out on patrol, and it was in the 30s...looks like it warmed up to 54 now...My beloved and I rode the motorcycle Saturday, buzzing everyones house in Oak Forest that we knew, Jackie, Barbara, Rich, etc...only rode an hour, but it was fun just riding that short time...So, guess I will get busy with the continuance of mine chores....I will never catch up...

Your friend and domestic engineer brethren Beau Re Gard C Ephus

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

"Dorothy" is back from Kansas.  Wonderful visit but I sure hated to leave.  Left on an early flight yesterday morning -- it was 8 degrees, icy but no snow.  Awwwww I really wanted it to snow -- in fact maybe a blizzard so I'd be stuck there another week or so.  But here I am back to work -- bummer!!

BroBeau, thanks for patroling my house -- all was good when I arrived.  Picked up my dogs - Charlie and Moochie yesterday evening from kennels --- talk about happy to be home -- they were dancing and jumping for hours! 

Happy New Year to everyone -- have a good week and see ya'll next week at Fudd's - January 11.

Hugs,

J

Beau Wann, Jr.

Hey Jackie, welcome back...all was well at your house, everytime I passed by...at least on the outside...now, if the clampettes had moved in, there was no outward sign...no rickety old truck with a rocking chair in the back...sorry you didnt get no snow...but my lumbago is actin up, so methinks we are due for some...so get out your mittens and snow shovels and snow shoes...I just know everyone has snow shoes, right???? I've all ways wanted a pair...and a sled named bob...
Well, ok...did the yard today, and only took me 3 hours...good think it isnt a timed event...

Took my grandson to the Gun Range Friday...been promising to let him shoot my M1 Garand...He did, and put a grin on him Ajax wont wash off...also shot my M1 carbine and AR and AK...that ol boy dont say much, but he sure has a great smile...Need to do that more often...

DW got home late today, and is gone again to choir practice...we had each a bowl of Black-eyed peas and sausage, yet again...I peppered it some more, and Diane peppered it some more, unbeknownst to each other...I can tell you it has now, more pepper than it needs...still good, but spicy....any of youse youtes ever do that???? We made some shrimp gumbo once, and I tasted it and thought it needed some more salt...Diane came along, and added more salt, of course, unbeknownst to one another...it turned out tooooo salty, had to throw it out....I did salvage the shrimp, and wash them in a collander till they were edible...so then I fryed em in some olive oil, and added pepper...diane came along and added more pepper...and round and round we go...the shrimp was good, just spicy...gonna make up signs saying, "SALTED"..."PEPPERED"....

guess I will go watch the orange bowl...by myself...alone...No, hey, I couldnt make it anyway, so dont worry about me...no really, I like being alone...
Hey Rich and all youse other youtes, lets hear from you...
DOD