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Richard Meek '65

Don't forget that tomorrow April 1st (appropriate) The Whirld Affairs and Burger Evaluation Committee will meet. Location is Five Guys Burgers & Fries at N. Shepherd and Loop 610 North, 11:45. No agenda, just good fellowship and good food. Come join us. You'll be glad be glad you did and so will we!!!

Beau Wann, Jr.

been trying to respond to responses, but keep losing connection...so maybe I try again to morrow after the WABEC meeting at 1145...

Jimmy Brown '65

 THE SENILITY PRAYER :
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and
The eyesight to tell the difference.

Happy Trails Til We Met Again  !

Beau Wann, Jr.

Well ok,  guess I will weigh in on the discussion here on the forum...uh, what would that be??? Senility???? Hmmm, I forgot...where the heck are my glasses...where the heck am I....who the heck am I...OH yeah...ME...well, we all have to be somebody AND somewhere...now, I just need to find my glasses...OH, there they are, on me head...Ok, now all is in order...where was I????

Good morrow mine waltripians...the meeting of the WABEC met last friday...FOOD FIGHT...banter was light and subdued...I suspect an underlying problem...ME???...5 guys is very noisy...methinks we need to find a new meeting place...How about Gabbys across the street???? Or ANGIES???? Speaking of, had breakfast there Sat and lunch today...meatloaf monday...yum...it was great...
fried okra and greenbeans, mashed potatos, greens etc...plus they had chicken fried pork chop and chicken cordon bleu...I feel sorry for youse youtes that havent eaten there, and may not ever eat there...oh woe...

Did talk to Angie aka Serena, at length Saturday morn...she is such a delight...great smile and great attitude and personality...cute too...tomorrow is beef tip tuesday...think I'll go again tomorrow...great bike riding weather...anyone want to ride tomorrow???? NO??? Hmmm...

My eldest son was out of town for the weekend bidding on jobs in Austin and elsewhere, so we fed his critters this weekend...he has three dogs, a Chespeake bay retriever, a dalmation, and a German shorthair...all very spirited and fun dogs...the Chessie and the German shorthair are pushin 11 and the dalmation is about a year old... they are all retreivers extrodinaire...I have been hunting with Rox the chespeake bay, and she is such a beautiful sight when she works...a lot like Teddies Gus...there is nothing more beautiful than a working dog or horse or cat...did I say cat???? Yeah, a working cat...thats an oxymoron...

Anyway, I threw several tennis balls for the girls till my right arm fell off at the shoulder...so I threw it with my left till it felll off...now I am MR venus de Milo...Billy also has two cats, one outside, Emmy, and one inside, Pork Chop...herein after know as WHITE FANG, OR HELL KITTY...
I have seen  lions and tigers less intimidating than Mr White Fang...I have never seen a domestic cat so aggressive and so LOUD...when he hollars, sounds like an air raid siren...oh, and YOU DO NOT WANT TO PET THE PRECIOUS BIG KITTY, UNLESS IT WANTS YOU TOO...dont know how you could tell if it wanted you to or not, but I aint gonna touch that bad boy, ever...again...

I sat down in billys chair to watch tv, or channel surf, and Mr Hell Kitty jumped up on the chair and started sharpening his claws on my back...guess I wasnt suppose to sit in that chair, ok, I get it, I'm gettin up...I got up and Mr Velcro Kitty got up with me...
Started to unsheath my pistol and shoot Mr bad boy...lorda mighty that has to be the meanest orneryest animal I have ever come across...makes charlie sheen look like santa claus...I think I'd rather talk to the cat though than CS...Mr Hell Kitty seems a lot smarter, if not a lot meaner...
When I fed Mr Bad Boy, he was waitin for me...He screamed at me, "OPEN THE (*&^%*$# FOOD BUCKET YOU IDGIT", or words to that effect...I opened up the container of food, and he was on my like ugly on,  me...He was suppose to get a half scoop of food, he's on a diet, but he wasnt havin it...I just dumped the container over and ran like hell...

Now, I love cats, but I hope the sob ate himself to death...Billy could leave the doors open and just invite burglars in, but they aint gonna leave with anything, or alive for that matter...
I could not wait to get out of there...Emmy, the outside kitty is just the opposite..sweet and loving and cute...and sat in my lap and snoozed out on the patio, whilst the hell kitty, GODZILLA, was sitting on the window sill inside, howling at me and Emmy...if looks could kill, my beloved would be typing this...I told billy that (^%&()*(* T-rex could starve for all I care, I AINT GOING BACK IN THAT HOUSE AGAIN, unless Mr Bad Boy is sedated or stuffed and mounted, preferably the latter...

Bill sympathized with me, oh goody...he did say that when he takes SATAN to the vet, he has to sedate him...otherwise the vet wont allow him to come to the clinic...smart vet...I'd lock the door and CALL the bomb squad to check and see if the cat was REALLY OUT, maybe use a stun gun, or a taser or maybe some good ol 220 volt stuff...I doubt any of that stuff would be effective...
my question to my son was, "why do you take the, uh, sob to the vet???? What in it's right mind would try to infect or make that, thing, sick????" another question, "WHY DO YOU EVEN HAVE SUCH A A A THING, LIVING IN YOUR HOUSE???.... Bill said that he opened the door one day and ol SATAN just walked right in, and refused to leave...bill says he gets along fine with him...define fine...define gettin along...I'd be willin to bet that this bad boy could whip a wolverine, or a grizzly bear...I aint goin back over there without a whip and a chair...and a bazooka...

I wonder what pissed that cat off in the beginning???? Something bad, like "press 1 for english, and 2 for ..." "you are very important to us and we value you as a customer, please continue to hold, someone will be with you shortly...(barry manilow in the background) "MANDY...YOU CAME AND YOU..." "please continue to hold...this call may be monitored for blah blah blah...if it were monitored, that would require a LIVE PERSON, so it aint likely that it is being monitored, so I will sing..."oh mandy, you came and you..." "yes sir, my name is Dementia, how may I help you...???"  Figures...

Me and the boys been walking every morn...last wednesday, we was jumped by a neighbors dogs, a big boxer and a big white dog...JACK KICKED THEIR COLLECTIVE DOG ASSES...Cooper barely had time to unloose one of his window rattlin barks, and Jack whupped em.. sent em back to their driveway where their owner was standing, not even trying to control em...I called him a stupid idiot, well laced with a lot of expletive not deleteds...I DETEST STUPID...there are no accidents, just stupid...well, then the guy wants to fight...he tells me to come up in his yard or driveway and he's gonna kick my ass...oh no...not that... well, I aint no fool, I am not gonna go in anyones yard or drivway to fight, so I invited him to come out into the street, which he didnt do...so I left...hmmm, I'm almost 70 and the stupid moron is about 35...I could probably kick his ass if pushed, but I'm too old for that nonsense...now I cant go down that street without worrying about his stupid dogs running out...dont like the sound of dog fights...rather unsettling...oh, and the moron owner of the dogs, runs a dog grooming bidness on antoine...I have seen him chasing dogs down the street that I assume he was suppose tobe taking care of, and he couldnt control them...Glad I groom our pets and not rely on some stupid moron like that stupid moron...after all, no one loves my critters like I do, and they are not gonna take as good a care of them as I am...

ok, guess I will sign off for now...glad to see SO MANY OF YOU ON THE FORUM...honeymoons over...new has worn off...I know, most all youse youtes have REAL JOBS and lots of other things to keep you busy...but I sure enjoy reading what youse youtes have been up to...anyone seen or heard from Doug Romans???? Hey Lloyd you still there???? Burge???? Bueller???? anyone??? anyone????

keep the sun at your six and ride boldy ride...

Your brother and frien, Hell Kitty sitter, Beauregard C Ephus esq.

Jimmy Brown '65

 Beau you have me wanting meatloaf and potatoes and green

beans. Looks like you and me are the only ones with spare 

time on our hands. I like the idea of meeting elsewhere,Five

Guys food is good but the noise level is extremely loud.

Gabbyssounds good,so does Angies and Demitrius BBQ

is good too.

Taking care of your son's cat ,sounds like the cat got the best

of you ,thats what you getfor invading the cat's space. I have 

said enough for today.  

Happy Trails Till We Meet Again!

Susan Howard (Bowman)

Beau, I am feeling guilty for not adding my 2 cents lately, even though I try to check in with the forum almost every day to see what is going on - so here goes!  First of all, my other half and I visited Sun City, TX, near Georgetown the first of March.  We are now in the process of getting our house ready to be put on the market by the first of June.  We are hoping to be in bluebonnet country sometime this summer! Yea!   In the meantime, I had to have major surgery on March 14, and am recuperating from that.  I hope to be able to get busy around here in a major way in another couple of weeks so that June 1 deadline is possible.  This last winter was just tooooo much!  I will miss my friends here, but look forward to rekindling "old" acquaintances and friendships and making new ones.  Plus I will be keeping my Hoosier friends, too - they will have an additional place to come visit.  It's an exciting and stressful time!  Also realized as I get older I want to be nearer family!  My 94 year old mother is so delighted we are moving back, and I have a son, 2 year old grandson, and wonderful daughter in law that live in Katy, just about 2 1/2 hours from Sun City.  My husband's oldest son lives in Ft. Worth.  So it will be nice to be near them!  That's the major things going on in my life right now!  I hope to be making some of those monthly get togethers at Fudd's soon!  There you have it!  Ya'll take care now!

Scotty Croom

susan, hope all is well after surgery...good luck on home sale...

John Burgess Webb

its a jungle out there beau;stop falling into those traps,you never know when someone is up tight about something that has nothing to do with you and is waiting to take it out on someone else.yeah,i know;a dogfight is violent enough to switch the fight/flight mode on.be aware.

Lloyd Pond

Bark Less   Wag More

Spring cleaning I finally found a pencil drawing that Allen Geiser and I drew in 3rd grade, Been looking for it since before the reunion, The picture is of a desparado with guns knives granades nitro and all sorts off evil stuff. He has lots of scars. For some reason we bestowed our work of art on Ferrell and she kept it all these years. Another treasure that I know is here somewhere amidst all the junk is a hand made Beat Reagan flyer someone gave to me at a pep rally before the 1963 game. Despite downsizing many times there is still too much stuff piled up. Course like Beau, I tend to pick up street treasures and hide it from Ferrell when she is not looking. Lately it has been wheel balance lead weights. Toxic waste on our streets that I am obligated to pick up and take home to a bucket in the shop.

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Hi all,  a beautiful morning in Grimes County, albeit.....no rain and no rain forecast probably til next month, everyone's ponds are "DOWN"  it is a real problem, remember when I was going to buy cattle for my new fencing.....Lordy, haven't been brave enough to because of the drought conditions.

For those interested in my son and daughter-in-law:  they are still both at home, getting more mobile and into a routine, home phy. therapy not very helpful, and they will be going to outpatient phy. therapy in Bryan this week on.  Their son Michael's baseball team has started up again and Todd was asked to throw out the first ball of the season; all the team has Michael's number "5" on their right sleeves in remembrance of Michael.  The parents have a lot of close friends their ages on this team and everyone includes them in everything!  Thank the Lord for this.

Susan, welcome and "what's not to enjoy about this state!" you and your spouse will be happy here. NO PLACE LIKE TEXAS....especially for those of us who cannot travel to far away places.

Oh well, another day at school, ending in a couple of months!  I read daily and really enjoy the animal stuff, but Brother Beau, Burge, you need to stir it up a little bit....only a little bit...LOL.

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Kay, so glad you updated us on your grandson's family.  We pray for all of you and know you still have a long way to go to adjust to such a huge loss.  That's so caring of those families to include y'all in their everyday activities.  Pray that each day comes just a little bit easier for all of you.  I'll also pray for some rain for you.  We had some for a couple of days in a row so far this week with 36 at night and 88 in the day - go figure.

Beau Wann, Jr.

YEAH, THATS WHAT I'M TALKIN ABOUT...

Thanks Kay, Burge, Scotty, Jimmie Lee, Lloyd and Susan...so glad to read stuff other than mine...thank you...LLOYD???? YOU PICK UP THOSE WEIGHTS TOO????? Dang, see how much we got in common...we could start a "wheel balancing weight committee" WBWC...I nonimate Lloyd for president...all in favor...AYE...all opposed...ayes have it...Lloyd you da man...

Kay, you really want me to start something...??? Ok, here goes...DAMN THEM DEMOCRATS....equal time...DAMN THEM REPUBLICANS...and the PROGRESSIVES AND THE INDEPENDENTS...and especially those that dont vote, and also those that do...and also anyone not like me...and all those different...and the same...especially those folks over there, and the ones over here...and especially space aliens...

Hows that??? I got em all, most anyway...

Hey Lloyd, how many baskets do you have in your house???? That goes for anyone out there...or anything you seem to have an abundance of, but dont know where they came from...

I was spring cleaning today...I spring clean all year long...doesnt do any good though...(how did the font get this big??? trying to change it now)

Hows this??? Ok, I think it's back to where it was...maybe...where was I... oh yeah, spring cleaning...as I was perusing our HOME, I noticed several baskets downstairs, you know like, "a tisket a tasket a green and yellow basket"...anyway, I walked around downstairs, and found 8 baskets...what tha???? Same upstairs, only 13 baskets...I asked my beloved where they came from, and why we have so many, and she said she didnt know, because she didnt buy any...I know I didnt buy any...how could they have possibly gotten buy security????

there are even baskets in baskets...ok, this is weirdin me out...
Also, PILLOWS...there are 12 pillows on our bed...12, countem, 12...and 11 on the bed upstairs, and 3 on the couch upstairs, and 8 on the couch downstairs and 3 in one chair, and 1 in each of the other chairs...lord, that just wears me out...I cant count that high..not enough fingers and toes...I guess I could count the dogs and cats toes, probably not enough there either...where did all these pillows come from???? I know the pillows on the couch down stairs came with the couch, and one chair, but the rest, is a mystery...do de do do, do de do do, (theme from twilight zone)...

Oh well...I hollared for my beloved, but methinks she has repaired to the bed chamber for the eefenink...guess maybe I ought to head that direction directly...

Jimmie Lee, we got nary a drop of rain out of that storm...did have a heavy dew though...I guess a heavy dew was due us...
Susan, here's hopin you are on the mend by at least 200 percent...you have our thoughts and prayers, which go without saying...so I mention that...that we are thinking good thoughts for you...even though I dont have to...but I do...so you'll know...man, my brain is ready for a reboot...
WATCH A FUNNY MOVIE...laughter is the best medicine...

Goin to the country estate tomorrow...me and the boys...gotta lotta stuff to do...probably wind up me and jack just sittin in the swing...oh well, lifes too short to always work...
Speakin of Pegasus, rode couple hundred miles today, just cruisin...I find a road, and say, "hmmm, wonder where that road goes", and just take it and find out...thats the fun of riding a bike...however, paid almost 4 dollars a gallon for super unleaded...thats what Pegasus has to have...
DAMN THE OIL COMPANIES...AND DAMN THE SPECULATORS...

The wind was just moider today...buckin a headwind no matter which direction I took....Oh well, if thats the worst thing that happened to me today, I cant complain, so I wont...
Been looking for a bluejean jacket for a month or so, as my moldy oldy one is falling apart...seems that is now a seasonal item...I remember when you could go to Sears and Roebucks any day of the year, and buy one for about 6 dollars...even had Roebucks on the buttons...(am I spelling that right)??? Robucks??? Roebucks???

well, youse know what I mean...but anyway, couldnt find one anywhere...thought I'd have to wait till next fall...but, got a brainy idear of stopping in at VF (Vanity Fair) in Hempstead, and voila, they had a whole rack full, and just my size, and LEE too...the price tag said 48 smackerollyans, but I thought that, "well, you have to sometimes pay the price to get what you want"...got the jacket to the checkout lane, and it was 19.99...MAN, I LUCKED OUT ALL THE WAY ROUND DIDNT I...I have always loved blue jean jackets...

Ok, time for me to sign off...got to study for a test...I'm enrolled in the Jethro Beaudine Cyperin, Brain Surgery and Double Naught Spy School, correspondent course...Studying to be a Double Naught Spy, with a minor in Brain Surgery...

Soooo, keep the sun at your 6 and ride boldly ride...
and watch yore topknot...
your frien and bretheren... Beauregard C Ephus...esq and DOD

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Beau, before I read about your VF purchase, I was going to suggest your going online for a jacket.  I am NOT a shopper.  Christmas is the only time I set foot inside stores, and only for items I haven't been able to find online.  My kids are sure they were sent home from the hospital with the wrong mother since they can't imagine any woman not delighting in spending hours in a mall - YUK!  I bought a great jeans jacket from JCP online for a great price.  However, the shipping costs keep creeping up and up.  So, the other day I had some items I'd found online and they were actually in stock in the new Fairview JCP, so I went over there and couldn't find the items.  Also, couldn't find any clerks.  Finally, went to a huge CHECKOUT counter to ask for help.  The woman took me to the Ladies' department and helped me find the items and then I went to check out.  Wow, times have changed.  Guess it's all for money-saving and I did get help quickly and I did get what I wanted and got out of there fast and saved shipping charges, so I can't complain.  But, I remember all the times of shopping at J. C. Penney, Woolworth's and SEARS on North Sheperd (across the street from my family's home on W. 39th) and I knew most of the people who worked there and I knew I'd get help and get it FAST.  My, how times have changed.

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

that'll work Beau.  I'm so disheartened about our America.....Costa Rica is looking more welcoming!  Paalleeeesssse throw em all out, we'll organize our own America.  Beau and Burge, ready to sign up???? Somebody's got to do it!  Headquarters will be in TEXAS!  Maybe in Normangee???  Bet Rich would be interested!  It will have to be Seniors, the younger generation ain't worth a hoot....errrhhh, tongue in cheek.

Oh well, come on out to the country, where you can get some real vegetables, homegown; real yard eggs homegrown;beef butchered from the farm homegrown; but unfortunately the gasoline is at it's highest.  Darn, I sold my horse already. The wind is at it's highest here too this weekend!  I'm going to try canning some of those veggies this summer.  Maybe catch and eat some catfish too.  Bet Rich would be interested!

Maybe it's time to take a trip to Louisana and try our hand at the Casinos...never been, could win enuff to buy some gas for the summer, you think?  ChiliFest in Snook, is coming up as well...I'm brain-dead this morn.  Grandson and great grandson kept me up til 2:00 a.m.  then I started watching something on PBS?  about Gen. Ulysses Grant, Robert Lee, and the war, excuse my ignorance as they had all kinds of names for each battle.....thousands slaughtered unmercifully, and Americans fighting Americans for goodness sake....made our circumstances look a bit more merciful.....yesterdays leaders making  decisions just on a "whim", etc. etc.... doesn't look like we've learned anything yet!  Finally, I thankfully went to sleep.  Coffeepot broken, I beat it to death yesterday to make it work, went to Kott's Cafe for a good necessary cup of Joe! 

Well, this is my story, and I'm sticking to it.....Bet Rich would be interested!  Anybody?????

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Inspirational words and picture from Lindsey Apostolo.  It is so heart warming that I wanted to share with all --- you go girl!!!  We're all here for you and prayers are flowing!

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

I'm with BroBeau so glad to hear from Kay, Burge, Scotty, Jimmie Lee, Teddie, Paige, Jim B, Lloyd and Susan..and all the others.  The rest of you better join in -- we want to hear from you, too.

Doug Romans where are you?

Susan so glad to hear you're coming HOME!!!  Keep us posted on your move.

Kay thanks for the update on your son and daughter-in-law - you are in my thoughts and prayers everyday!

REMINDER:  Fudd's next Tuesday, April 12 - you better me finished with your income taxes -- no excuse!

Way to go Aggie Girl's Basketball Champs!  Fantastic game!

Hugs,

J

Beau Wann, Jr.

KAY...!!!! YOU SO BAD...But I love it...thank you...SAAAAAAAYYYYYY, how would you like to be President???? or VP???? We can have the headquarters in Anderson at Kotts...no, thats no good, they dont like outsiders in that cafe....Hmmmm we could hold it at our country estate in Normangeeeeeeee.....but it's kinda primitive...no maid service no butler, no valet parking...I'm like you, they, all politicians, are destroying our America...where are all the VIETNAM PROTESTERS???? We need to be in iraq, iran, afghanistan, and libya like we need another politician, like we need another tax, like we need a larger debt...maybe the amityville ghosts could tell the DC crowd, "GET OUT"....

Yall know me, right???  I'm about 12 aircraft carriers to the right of Attila the Hun, and the powers that be, are WRONG WRONG WRONG...we are not helping the situation over there, or anywhere for that matter...those people, yeah you read it right, THOSE PEOPLE, are tribal and feudal...they have been fighting eachother for this or that for as long as they have existed...any bunch that can kill themselves and kill innocent people for a FANATICAL RELIGION, dont deserve any consideration at all what so ever also too...we are getting our young men and women KILLED FOR NO REASON AT ALL, just because we can...(we being the powers that be)...where are the vietnam protesters when you need em...there was a megalomaniac in office back during vietnam, and we have one again...Oh, I dont excuse GW for his part in being stupid...stupid is as stupid does....whew!!!! Ok thanks Kay...now I got that out of my system...I can eat some ice cream...

Jimmie Lee, I forgot about ordering it on line...my beloved suggested looking at Cabelas or LLBean...but them ol boys are HIGH, plus shipping...although some are advertising "FREE SHIPPING"...I'm like you, I dont like to shop...If I go, I already know what I am going for, and generally I get in and get out...unless it's TOOLS AND HARDWARE...then, I'm a lost puppy for sure...But, VF during the week in the middle of the day, is generally a ghost town...just a few old people...wish them dang old people would stay at home...

Hi Jackie...drove by your house on my bike...not at 3 am though...middle of the day...you werent home...glad someone has a job...

Me and the boys just got back from ye olde country estate...got a few things done...mostly just watched the boys play...I was gonna get a picturre of them...yup, forgot the camera...yup, I said the same thing youre probably saying, "that camera dont take pictures by itself and is doing no good at home, where you arent"...or woids to that effect...but I took snapshots with my brain and heart...Jack and Coop bounded through the fields and woods, like two brand new puppies...yould a thought this was their first time to be there...Ol coop was soooo...hmmm...funny...he and jack would run and jack would disappear, and coop would be looking above the tall grass wondering where he went...Jack would double back around and sneak up on coop and stick his nose...well, anyway, ol coop would leap up about 3 foot in the air, and whirl around and bark and the chase was on....for a 110 pound dog to jump 3 foot straight up is amazing...

Then they would start all over, jack disappear and coop would start searching and jack would sneak up and coop would go up in the air and the chase was on again...I was laughing so hard, I fell in an ant bed...the ants let me know rather quickly that I was an unwanted visitor...not that I wanted to visit them pesky red devils...these were just your everyday garden type ants, not "far aints", thank goodness...only got bit a couple o times...

Finally had to rescue coop from Jacks shenanigans...we repaired to the fenced in area where Jack and coop played U-boat commander in their wading pool...then we had donut holes from the Donut Palace from Navasota, loaded up in the truck, and they were asleep before I got to the south gate...both snoring so loud, I had to take my bionical ears off...them ol boys are so sweet...wouldnt be no fun without em...

Oh, Coop has a new class, this time 4 little 9 year old giggly girls...Skye, Haley, Nadya, and Kellie...they are sooooo shy and sweet...ol coop isnt shy, he managed to lick all four in the face, which they just loved...Next Wednesday, they are honoring all volunteers in the CFISD...I ask about the food for Cooper...they said he couldnt come, just me...I'M JUST HIS CHAUFEUR...but, they said not this time...well, believe me, I am gonna take a picture of him and put it on the table...wonder what they are gonna serve...chicken???? probably...

this is the picture I'm gonna put on the table...they will be sorry for not inviting such a handsome fellow, and sweet too...
Ok, runnin out of steam...Soooo thanks Kay and to all that posted responses...I really love to hear what eveyone is up to...I already know what I'm up to, so thats no surprise...
Hey Susan??? How you doin???? mending???? good....got good thoughts headed your way...be glad to see you at fudds sometimes...
Gotta study for my Double Naught Spy test with a minor in brain surgery...
As James Brown says, "Happy Trails"   Hey Rich LH???? where you be...Jack Bevil how you dune??? Pat??? Paige???? Tony???? DougR???? if you can read this, walk to the sound of my voice...maybe I can send one of the 12 aircraft carriers for youse youtes...

What about having our 50th this year, or early next year...whirlds suppose to end dec 21 or 22 in 2012...or so the Mayans and Hopi indians say...plus, we wont be as old next year as we will in 2014...
Ok, time to go...Happy Trails, keep the sun at your 6 and ride boldly ride...
Beauregard C Ephus esq DOD, your frien and brother...

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Regarding Linsay Apostolo......WOW....you go, girl!  Affirmative, Upbeat attitude, and I would get that tattoo permanent, instead of Henna, unless of course they don't want needles and ink embedded in your skin for some medical reason, ....and I am not usually one for tattoos.  

Sounds as if you are having the time of your life, and I agree on this too, as we have a lung cancer friend and he insist on getting out, not being babied, and drinking one beer with his best buddies couple times a week. We think this socialization has kept him going like a Timex watch.

Beau - I love your doggy pic and put it on my desktop, but alas, it lacks the same effect because it is too large for the screen.  Can I make it smaller?

Beau Wann, Jr.

Kay, I think you can make it smaller...right click on it...maybe...or left click, and it puts little boxes on the edges, and then you just click and drag on one of the little boxes...if none of that woiks, I can email a pic to you...Lindsey is such a delight, as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside...besides I like my women with mohawks...especially since I cant grow one...mohawk, not a woman...

Had lunch at Angies today...I had the chicken fried chicken...bought beef tips to go for tonight for the little woman...she is gonna be soooo surprised and delighted...Angie aka Serena, is such a delight...man, what a smile...lights up the whole room...hey Rich LH???? where you be brother???  You need to weigh in on our discussion of whirldly affairs...beef tips, etc...Kay is gonna run for president, and we need you to help get her elected...her slogan will be a, "a beef tip in every pot"..."two mules and 40 acres", "damn the torpedoes full speed ahead"...

If any of youse youtes would like to enroll in the Jethro Beaudine Cypherin, Double Naught Spy and Brain Surgery school, I can be bribed for a referral...

Any of yoouse youtes been outside lately??? Honeysuckle is in fulll bloom and full oderiferousness...wow, talk about taking you back to your youteful days, that'll do it...well, unless you have allergies...I had em from born day to about 69, then it went away and came back some years later, then went away and came back, and now it's gone again...I use to pop Dimetapp and dristan and anything else for sinuses, like they were candy...surprised I survived...

Ok, nap time...Jack is next to me running in his dreams, and Big Oliver is on my feet...I can feel him snoring and purring through my boots...oh hey...and aside here...I hard wired my computer to the server and not using wireless anymore, plus I put my pictures on a 1TB hard drive and deleted about 3 gig off my laptop...puter runs almost flawless now, and sooo much faster...

see ya mine waltripians... 

John Burgess Webb

                                                  ITS ALWAYS BEEN HARD

Lloyd Pond

Been at this home about 5 years and Ferrell is ready to move again! Found a forecloseure fixer upper for a good price and it has 1/2 acre! Could plant a lot of bluebonnets out there. For a 65 year old, she sure has an abundance of energy. I hope I will have enough to keep up. Let's see, for our next move I'll be 70 guess it will be to the retirement village. Another opportunity to get rid of some more junk.

April 7 we celebrated our 43rd anniversary. Looks like we may make 50 if the Mayans are not correct in predicting the end of the world.

First order of business for the Lead Weight Society will be to make our currency based  on lead. Wonder if all that lead has had any impact on my brain?

Susan Howard (Bowman)

Hey to all of you who read the Forum!  When I think of Lindsey Apostollo I just see a very courageous wonderful young woman who has a loving fighting spirit and is an inspiration to every one of us!  For those of you who have asked, I am getting better each day.  I still have to take it easy, so I do things, then rest - just got up from a Sunday afternoon nap.  It will be 4 weeks tomorrow that I had surgery, so I expect things will start to get a lot better very soon!  I know what you mean about "stuff"!  One of the most frustrating things for me right now is NOT being able to start cleaning out so that we can get our house on the market by June 1!  Patience! Patience!  It will happen, just needs to be sooner rather than later as far as I'm concerned!

We are really excited about our move!  It is going to happen and I know everything will fall into place!  Lloyd, it's always good to move every few years!  Although I know what you mean, this will probably our next to last move.  The last one in a few years will be to assisted living I expect, although I'm not really thinking that far ahead right now! 

It is actually warm here!  We turned on the AC today!  We have had rain, so I'll see what I can do to send some your way, Jimmie!  Spring is really a beautiful time in Indiana, but I DO look forward to the blue bonnets and Indian paint brush in the hill country of Texas.  My mom's azaleas in Houston were beautiful this year, too, as always.  It's too cold to have azaleas here - they don't make it through the winter.

Enjoy life - that is the key - no matter what you are doing or where you are.  Beau, keep making me smile!  Have you ever thought of writing a book?

Take care, everyone!

Beau Wann, Jr.

Good Sunday Morrow Waltripians,
          MOVING posts, just MOVING...speaking of which, I would consider myself lucky if we could sell this albatross and find a smaller home, or at least one with all rooms on the ground floor, and a separate storage...like yall, I have acquired sooooo much...stuff...antiques...stufffffff beat all to heck and gone...lead wheel counter weights...old magazines, and I mean old, in the 20's and 30's old...life magazines...and my dads Playboy Mag collection...which some are purportedly worth at least 300 apiece...I quit looking at Playboy 30 years ago...old readers digests teens and 20's and 30's and national geographics back to the turn of the century...kinda crusty now...

My grandfather signed me up for National Geo when I was born...those that subscribed, got a certificate suitable for framing...I never framed any, but it was sooo cool...thought I was someone special when I got my first...I always thought when they sent the magazine to me, they would look me up, and "alright, lets send this months magazine to that little kid Beau, on DuBarry"...didnt realize they had no idea who I was...but that was ok...as a kid, the simple small things I could understand, meant so much to me...still do 60 some odd years later...the wagging tail of a sweet pup or two, when you get home...no matter how bad your day was, they are always glad to see you...but, I dont need to tell anyone that, most all caring folks know that joy...shucks even some of my cats come a runnin...well, cats dont wag their tails...but I'm sure they would if they could...

I had one cat,black as the ace of spades, tall and lanky, with the most expressive tail for any critter, Tucker was his name,  would come running when I came in the back door after a hard day at work...he would jump into my arms and rub his face all over mine, just purring to high heaven, wrapping his long black tail around my arms and neck, like it was an anaconda, with a mind of it's own...I would forget how bad or good my day went, when he jumped in my arms...there was no putting him down for quite a spell either...how he loved us, and we him...born on christmas day, he was 13 years 13 days when he passed over the rainbow bridge...I still miss him...

Had a wonderful day Saturday...everyone needs a good saturday from time to time...One of my Leatherneck friends, Frank, and I rode our bikes up through the back country through Bellville and into Fayetteville...and wouldnt you know it, it was 2nd saturday for them, which meant crafts and jars of honey and put up jams and jellies for sale, and LLOYD, musicians galore...lots of bluegrass and western music (sons of the pioneers western music)...lots of guitars and bull fiddles and fiddles and dulcimers, banjos and other instruments that were not in my memory bank as to what they were...the groups ranged from 3 to 25 or 30...all playing in different spots around the town square...none seeming to intrude on the other, even though they were playing different songs at the same time...the sweet music mingling with the sweet smells of barbecue smoke wafting among the crowd, onions on the grill...man, what a day...we must have sampled everything offered...we did eat at Orsaks on the square...burgers and onion rings...not bad, not bad at all...they also offered plate lunches of pot roast and all the trimmings...hmmmmmmm

The ride to Fayetteville was just wonderful...lots of sights and smells....saw a couple of new houses on hilltops over looking valleys with porches on sunrise and sunset sides...I would die of delight if I had to drink my coffee watching the sun come up and set...every day...especially if friends were there to enjoy it...aint no fun if you cant share...
Only downside of the return trip, was the wind...we were traveling 50 to 70 mph, and buckin a head wind and cross wind of about 35 miles an hour...blowing us all over the place...got wind burn and sun burn...but all in all, no complaints...what a day...I would have liked to join in the music with my guitar...

Susan, I started a book, got two chapters into it, and lost it into cyberspace...gonna restart it again...I would go back and reread it, and change it everytime...undangle the participles...add an adjective here, an adverb there...it isnt easy to write a book...I admire folks like Tom Clancy and W E B Griffin and others...wonder if it was hard for them in the beginning, but got easier as they progressed???? Did they know they wanted to write a book???? was their first effort rejected, or even accepted by a few friends and or family????

Ok, feeding time at the Wannzoo...
hope all had at least a reasonably good weekend...
Olbeauwannkanobie

Paige Talley (Meek)

 I had a good weekend, Beau. Went to the Astro's game Friday. They held their own for a good many innings, got out scored in the end, and offered forth a good bit of fun. The foot-long hot dog filled my tummy AND I got an "original souvenir cup". Thanks to Marathon Oil Co. the Friday Night Fireworks Display was magnificent . Seems they have the fireworks at every Friday night home game. There were some kids down on the field during the fireworks... running and running and running around the bases. One little toddler boy, glove on hand, got loose from his Mom and ran to the pitcher's mound and was doing the "pitcher thing" ready to through before his Mom could get to him. He had evidently be practicing in his mind and planning his windup the whole game. 

I always liked baseball. Played a bunch of sandlot ball and even got kissed on first base once. That is not to be confused with "getting to first base" !!!  There are lots of fun memories of baseball games from those fun years chasing foul balls to trade for snowcones all the way to chasing the boys that were hitting the foul balls. Did any of ya'll play baseball... tell me a story...

Gotta get to work, then rehearsals for the Easter Pageant... all this week!

Ya'll come, ya hear !!!

Paige

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Beau, I say you don't have time to write a novel.  But, if THE LEADER is still in existence, you could publish a very short story every week like Leon Hale (was that his name?) used to do in THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE.  Your stories are hilarious (at least I think they are hilarious).  Since you keep losing your valuable stuff, why don't you back it up on a CD and you don't have to worry about it.  I envy you your motorcycle ride yesterday.  On our way back from the lake yesterday we saw what you must do - the motorcycle escort for a funeral or at least the deceased was a rider.  Lots of riders in Anna with police cycle escorts.