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Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Update on Richard's daughter, Christina, from his sister, Cherry.  Please pray for her and family.

FYI - We are having our ups and downs but know with God mercy's each day we will make it.

We are still praying for Richard's daughter - Christina. She delivered her baby boy last Wednesday because she was having pains. The baby was not due until September but the baby is doing fine.

Christina is still in ICU in an induced coma. They have operated on her twice, she has had high fever that is better now, she has had an infection that they are working on and phenomena. She can not keep anything down with a feeding tube. She has no idea of her father's death nor will she be at the funeral of course. We are video taping it for her later.

Please pray for her healing and the doctor's wisdom. Put her on any prayer list you can - Christina Garcia. This adds sadness to our loss of Richard as you can imagaine.

Love, Cherry

Susan Howard (Bowman)

You are so right, Lloyd!  Sooooo many blessings - too many to count!  Live each day to its fullest! Hope your deal goes through on your house!  We ended up getting a little less than what we paid for our house.  Plus we've put in thousands of dollars of improvements through the years.  So technically I guess we are taking a loss.  Somehow I can't look at it that way though - I don't let things like that steal my joy!  It is what it is in this economy!  I am just looking so forward to being home!!

John Burgess Webb

so sad about richard,compounded by his daughter's condition.a new life comes into her world.pray that she recovers and sees her baby grow up.i hope the joy overcomes the sadness for her;she must live.god be mercifull.

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

I got to meet Jimmy Brown yesterday @ Brimberry's funeral.  Since Richard had 20 years in @ Houston Fire Department, (besides his Navy service) there were 3 officers who came to escort him to his gravesite and give him the FD send-off.  It was very unique.  The head officer explained the significance of the bell to firemen and what the different number of rings mean.  At the end, the officer radioed in to the main firehouse and the commanding officer there radioed back an official farewell to Richard.

I spoke with Richard's son-in-law, Archie, and he said Richard's daughter Christina is doing better, but she's still in ICU.  She also has not been told Richard passed. 

Tony Maddox and Brian Copeland were there, too.  All the Brawner brothers were pall bearers along with Archie and his son.

Heat index in McKinney yesterday was 130.  As we were driving home from the funeral, the temp fluctuated between 107 & 111.  Stay inside, everyone.

Beau Wann, Jr.

Good Morrow Waltripians,
       It's me, Gummi Bear...HOT???? Ok, enough is enough already... everyone start chanting, cold front cold front cold front, rain rain rain, snow snow snow...is it woiking yet???? nah, probably naught...

Had the usual 28 suspects at ye olde little country church in the city...Thats down 2 from our usual 30...Mr and Mrs Theissen were there, as usual...Jim just had his 90th birthday last friday...yeaaaaa!!!!! Served communion this morning...good wine...I always have a good time at church, trying to keep everyones spirits lifted...kinda lifts mine, to see them smile...Pastor picked some strange hymns for today...uncharted territory for sure...said prayers for lots of people on our prayer list...who knows, might just woik, but cant hoit now can it...

Had early meeting of BAKPAK CRITTERS/CRITTERS FOR CHRIST, board of trustees...set up the  2nd annual WOOF FEST will be held on church grounds on October 2, Sunday from 2 to 4...had a great turnout last year, bout a dozen local vendors and a couple of rescue groups...boy scouts did what boy scouts do, and have been doing for a hundred years, helping out...they will be there again this year...You can bring your favorite critter, or maybe, just adopt one of the cute little rascals...should be prizes for this or that, and a rafflle for stuff...free samples of wares from vendors...cookies and cakes and other goodies that can be purchased with a small donation...plenty of water...etc...if we should get lucky, and it rain that day, the following Sunday will be the rain date...

Some one made the mistake of crashing through the front door of our BAK PAK leaders home at 3 am this morn...she trains dogs for a living...guard dogs...yup, uh huh...she has several...she kept telling the nitwit that he had the wrong house, go away...some folks just have no snap...once the moron broke down the door, one of her dogs knocked the guy down, and the other was using his legs for a chew toy...she called 911, and they told her to run...can you believe that???? she said that the guy was coming in the only door she could go out of..."now what"???? Then she told them, ok, he is now inside...thats when her faithful companions took over...she has a couple of other dogs, but they were stressed out and had to go lay down...her two cats, were watching all the commotion from the top of the stairs, probably saying..."oh hey wesson, you got this under control"???? Smith knocked the idiot down, and Wesson is the bad boy that likes chew toys...good names

Once the PO lice arrived, she called Smith and Wesson off, using whatever code word she has, they went back to her side and sat there with teeth in full view, locked and loaded...the PO lice were very impressed with her pups...wanted to buy them...well, NO!!!!
She said she wasnt afraid, just annoyed because she wanted to go to sleep...I say, let her sleep, cause I coitainly dont want her annoyed at me...I'm glad she was not hurt, or her pups...obviously...

If someone actually MADE the mistake of breaking in here, whilst I am here, Jack and Coop will be the least of their worries...I have some blue cheese that has been fermenting in the fridge since 1960...That stuff will gag a maggot...I'll just whup out the cheese, and smack em in the kisser...and whilst they are distracted, drop BIG OLIVER on their head...he will get em to bleedin real fast...he dont like 50 year old blue cheese...me neither...

Speakin of fermentin, my beloved threw away a bottle of grape juice, at church, because she said it had gone bad....I thought that WINE was GRAPE JUICE that had gone bad...maybe the juice had cussed at her, and that is of course, bad...grape juice should never be smartalecky...

Sat astride my trusty steed Pegasus early Saturday morn...long about first light...very pleasant ride, even though it was 83 when I left the house...rode up to bellville and had breakfast with my brother-in-law, at Newmans Bakery...on a scale of 1 to 10, I'd have to give it a 3, and thats pushing it...I have heard nothing but raves about their breakfast, and was so disappointed...the eggs were cooked close to perfect, and they served real grits, which were good...but the hash browns, didnt qualify to be called hash browns, not even german frys...they were just, chunks of potatos...the sausage was on the verge of going bad...AND THE BISCUITS WERE HORRIBLE...Newmans is a bakery!!!!!! You'd think they could make good biscuits...coffee was hot and black, and semi-ok...oh well. next time I will just get the pastry...they have pies and cakes and donuts and all kinds of stuff not good for you...they have some small pies, they call "personal pies"...hells bells, any pie to me, is personal...cake is personal...eclairs are great, and personal...

On the ride back, I was maliciously attacked, with malice aforethought, by two kamikazi bees...oh, there was foul play afoot...it was an unprovoked attack on my person, that will live in infamy...well, maybe not that far, but I can tell you it HOIT...they both hit my right ear, with me traveling at 70 MPH, and they had to be going at least that fast from the opposite di rection, so that makes the collision at 140 MPH, times 2, since there were two of the perps...a 280 MPH collision...kill an ordinary man...I had to pull over and put a frozen water bottle on mine poor wittle ear...(I had a helmet on, and still got smacked in the ear...man, they had to be planning this attack for eons, time it just right....)

By the time I got home, my right ear was swollen up to where I looked like I was from the planet Vulcan..."Oh Mr Spock, warp speed please..." Couldnt get any no symphony from any of the cats or dogs...but my beloved came through for me...she was gonna kiss the offended ear, till I said not to, just kiss my lips and it would get to my ear...it didnt...but the kiss was good anyhow...
She made up a poultice for my ear, which drove all the critters away...hmmm, might just have to keep that recipe for further use, like when I want to take an undisturbed nap...

My ear is still swollen, but doesnt hurt anymore...sniff sniff...I wonder if I am disfigured for life???
No teeth, big ear, walks with a limp, cant hear or see, sounds like stuff that dreams are made of eh hoser!!!!!!

When was the last time, or the foist time any of youse youtes had a POULTICE applied to your person???? I have had a few...one was, and any of you can correct my spelling on this one, and it just might be a made up woid from my grandmother..."assaphidity bag"....?????I dont bemember if it was for my lungs or what, but it wassssss not grand atall...I have had chewing tobacco applied to bee stings before, and the slime off a catfishes head applied to a "gigging" from a catfish...a mustard poultice, and some other poultice that was sickeningly sweet...as you can tell, Poultices are big in the Wann clan...I kind of like a "hot sauce" poultice, applied from the inside...a generous portion applied to some tacos or tamales...yum, now I'm hongry...

any of youse youtes make your own tamales???? I tried once...turned out to be, uh, MUSH...but good mush, just not recognizable as a tamale...kind of a tamale poultice...it was good in a tortilla though...sort of a tortilla tamale, if you will, and even if you wont....it's amazing how good things taste in a tortilla...eggs, cheese, sausage, peanut butter...yup, tortillas...from china of course...

That Marco Polo knew his stuff didnt he????? Ok, time to turn in, hit the hay, slip between the sheets...of course, got to move the cats out of the way...
Keep the sun at your six, and ride boldly ride...preferrably in the AC...
your frien and brother, Toothless in Oak Forest...

Bernd Joachim Tonat

70° and rain - come to Berlin!

Jennie Anderson '65 (Dylan)

The picture is of my new little granddaughter, Cashion Lynne Cuniff.  She was born August 2nd in Austin, on a very, very hot day there.  Her hips are dislocated, due to her breach position, but her mother is a physical therapist and will work closely with the doctor and other therapist in her therapy. Her name comes from a tiny town, northwest of Oklahoma City, Cashion.  My grandparents made the run into Oklahoma in 1889 and staked farms near there.  Cashion is between Guthrie and Kingfisher, so we are wondering if they will name their next baby, Guthrie!  Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman made "Rainman" one summer in Guthrie, while we were there for wheat harvesting.  It was quite exciting, but not as exciting as Baby Cashion's arrival last Tuesday!

Kaye, your post on August 1st was too funny.  I dread returning to work each August, just like I used to dread returning to school as a child.  I remember having school anxiety so bad, that when I did get there I would fake illness to get to go back home.  Not one of my mother's favorite times of the year either. When I was in 3rd grade I used to say Maurice, a boy who sat behind me, pulled my hair, hit me on the back, and more just to get sent to the nurse's office. I would cry like a baby until the poor frustrated teacher would send me down there, I'm sure just to get me out of the classroom. I wonder whatever happened to that Maurice.  We attended Oak Forest. Anyone out there know?

I am with everyone else about the heat.  What is the deal with the pine cone parts being everywhere chewed by squirrels?  My poor dog gets them stuck in her paws and they stick the HE__ out of me, too!  Does it mean we are going to have a cold winter or something?

I loved that picture of Richard!  His grin is what I remember, also!  I do pray for his daughter's speedy recovery, so she can hold and love that little baby of hers.  What a blessing in light of the sad news she is about to hear.

I think I will spend the morning looking up rain dances on Google and see if I can conjure up some drops or more.  Have a good day everyone!

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Jennie, Congrats - so cute!!!   I know you are on Cloud 9 -- my grandkids certainly make my world!

My youngest grandson, James, will be 4 months old the 19th.  Just got back from vacation in ho-o-o-o-o-o-t Kansas - 113/114, but still had a great time with my other two grandsons, Dylan and Ryan.  Of course with James here in Houston, first time for "Grandma" to be divided!

Sorry I missed Richard's funeral, but thank you Jimmie Lee for describing his "Fireman" farewell; I know it was very emotional.  My son-in-law is a fireman and they have such a close bond.

Richard was a great guy, sorry I lost contact with him so many years ago!  He was my neighbor when we first moved to Houston in 1956.  Please continue to pray for his daughter, Christina Garcia.

Remember Fudd's tomorrow night.  And Berlin is looking good, Bernd!

My goodness, Gummi Bear -- sorry to hear about the bees and your Spock ear --- thanks for guarding my house while I was out of town!

Hugs,

J

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Jennie, 

Congratulations on your little one. This is the good part of life, welcoming a baby in....and grandkids are the most fun to spoil and have fun with, your worries just seem to disappear when they are with you.

Today I was at my pond, just looking at it shrink, when I saw a snake slither into the pond.  Went back to my yard and while moving the water from the front to the back yard, there was a huge one (same one, do ya think he followed me?)  close to 3 ft., fat and scary.  Got my garden hose and wacked him one....got him!  Went to the internet to see if he was a cottonmouth, water mocassin, or a water snake....turns out he was a non-venous water snake, but when he opened his mouth had a white mouth.  I wasn't going to have any snake that big in my yard!  Second snake, I killed this summer, 1st was a copperhead I saw as I sailed over his head.  I was raking leaves that have been in piles all summer that I can't burn.  Had one in my house for a while, garden snake, kept surprising me in the kitchen, so I had to whack him too!  I'm becoming an experienced snake-whacker....guess no one will want to come over now!  I've been dealing with a few scorpions, and mis-guided mice in the house as well, mis-guided because my cat turns them into a delicacy, just really don't want any of them to go over me in bed!

Ahhh, Berlin, sounds wonderful.  I can't believe no break in this heat, it is about to get to all of us out here....might as well go back to school next week.  With the gas and the heat, didn't have much of a summer....oh, poor me.  Can't believe you got stung by bees on your bike.  A less sturdy man may have over corrected and run off the road....We've had 6 bikers killed on FM244 going to Carlos, TX ---- Yankees.  Sure you've been there?

We are losing our pastor, Beau-man.  He's turned down 1 call from Wisconsin, but they've called him back to reconsider and I'm sure he will take it.  There goes my favorite family down the road. Our congregation is either on vacation, or taking turns not attending each Sunday.  Everyone is reacting....he has been here 19 yrs.  They lost their 1st child while here, auto accident, have a pair of twins and now expecting another boy and both have family in Wisconsin....it will be a good move for them, our parsonage is a bit small for 3 kids, and they can escape the HEAT!

Robert Derrick

Not ready to leave Texas for Germany yet. Just wait everybody, in about 6 weeks or so we will get one of our great blue Texas northers that will drop the temperature and humidity about 30 points within 2 minutes as we stand outside and watch and feel it blow thru. And then we will enjoy weeks of beautiful fall Texas weather. Mild days, cool crisp nights. Ahhhhhhh. Do you remember??? And even Wayne Lake will probably come back for that.

Teddie Jordan

Robert, you are absolutely right. I was thinking that very thing today. Give us about 6 or 7 weeks and a little front will slip through and we'll get our first morning with low humidity and a trace of fall in the air, and there's no place on earth that I've ever been that I'd rather be than here.

Plus between now and then dove season and teal season will open. Gus and I say bring it on, and thank you Lord for another year to enjoy Your creation and the great outdoors.

Beau Wann, Jr.

Hey Jennie, congrats on your newest arrival...they gonna be able to fix the hips so they will be normal????? I hope so...I know some of our class has bionic hips and knees and the like...
a big Welcome and a Texas howdy Cashion, did I get that right???? great name...at least they didnt call him harold or beau, yuk...I never did like those names for some reason...woulda been proud to be a Cashion, or heck, even a cashew...

Hey Kay, SNAKELADY...you could get a job with that ol boy that has his own TV show about relocating unwanted critters...cant believe you have seen that many snakes there...I have seen one on our place in 5 years, and a small copperhead at that...before I could whack im, he ran across the road to the perrys...LAVENDER, is a good repellant for scorpions, or so I read...we have those little devils under every rock, and some on the rafters of the barn...I forget, if they like water, or dont like water...if it's dry, they come out, or stay in...just cant seem to remember stuff...it has been reported to me, that they wont kill you...isnt that a comfort...I dont want the little sobs to even say howdy to me....

Hey Robert...send that ol blue norther to us, will ya!!!! Man one of those would sure be welcome just about right now...I believe I'd get nekid and run around the yard...well, maybe not...but it would sure be a welcome change...the norther, not me getting nekid...I do that all the time...

I remember a BLUE NORTHER, December 67...I was home on leave, and visiting my mom and dad in San Antone...Dad was building a microwave tower for SOB/LBJ, up on Bullverde Mountain...
My dad was showing me what all they had done, and what they were going to do, when both of us looked north at the same time, and there was a semi-blue line of clouds headed for us and in a hurry too...the line extended east and west, as far as you could see...Dad hollared out to his crew to head for the trucks...seems they all carried about 3 difrferent weights of jackets...light, medium, and blue norther...luckily my Pea Coat was in the truck...

When that line got to us, the wind started howling and dang near blew us offin that mountain...temperature dropped about 40 degrees to below freezing, in a nano second...dont recollect  experiencing one of those since then...at least not that pronounced...thats where I learned to carry at least 3 different weight of jackets in my vehicle, during the winter...I still do it...in fact, I pile as many different jackets and shirts in my truck as it will hold, looks like I'm moving somewhere...I like jackets and coats...but not spiders and snakes...

It was bound to happen sooner or later...Ol Cooper is going to HARVARD...the trainer Mary, got him a collar with three ties for the occasion...yup, that ol boy is going to Harvard...an Ivy League man...well, it is harvard, but Harvard Elementary school in the Heights, BUT STILL HARVARD YALL...

Kevin and Candy finally rented a house a few doors down from their weeny roast house...the guy was trying to sell it, and said they could live in it as long as they wanted to...or at least till their house was ready...the insurance company sent a furniture company over last friday and filled it up with rental stuff...then, today, Kevins so called friend, told him he sold the house, and they would have to get out...what a jerk...friends like that, who needs enemies????

Kevin just cant catch a break...so now, looks like they be looking again., and after all that work ..I hope he plays the lotto and wins a zilllion dollars...

Hey Kay, sorry you are losing your pastor...them ol boys and girls dont seem to want to stick around a small church...seems they want the mega-bucks-church, and then they are happy...
I was chair on the PNC, (pastoral nominating committee) at Oaks back in the 90's methinks...I hated it...I was the only guy...I never chair another committee again...I am a leader, but by example...not a good delegater...the way I figure it, if I know what needs to be done, then others should too...so I just do the job rather than delagate...

I was thinking about opening up a country church somewhere, or a diner...maybe a church/diner...come in, get coffee and biscuits, and get saved too...sounds like a good plan to me...

I was saved, oncet...when I was about 10 or 11...yeah, but it didnt take...yessir, got saved at Oak Forest Baptist Church, rat there on the corner of Rosslyn and 43rd...seems they were having a revival, and my good friends Johnny and Larry, got me to go one evening...the congregation was raising a ruckus...good thing they werent no snake handlin or pysin drinkin, cause I'd a been saved alright, Id a run out the door as fast as my short little legs would take me...Of course, Andersonville Kay woulda been rat at home with the snake handlin...

Anyway, the visiting preachers were none other than Brother Freddie Gage, and Jerry Lees cousin, what was his name...??? you know, the one that crys alot, and was caught with a whore, oops, prostitute...Brother Jimmy Swaggert, yeah, thats them...anyway, they had on gold lame' suits, and they were extolling the congregation to "come to Jesus, and be saved"...Now, I didnt know what that meant, and Johnny and Larry, grabbed me and shoved me down the aisle up to Brother Swaggert, much to my consternation, and dismay...

Brother Swaggert grabbed me and whirled me around and I just about peed right then and there...I thought I was a gonner...he was hollaring "SWEET JESUS" and "LORD SAVE THIS CHILD"...Hell damn RD, I was just 11 or so, and Never having ever experienced that sort of goings on, I was as bug eyed as a mad horned toad...I was trying to get away, but ol Brother Swaggert had the sleave of my shirt in a death grip...I can tell you, if I'd a ripped that shirt, I wouldnt a been saved at all...my momma woulda whupped my behind, or worse, give me a good tongue lashing...

Brother Swaggert was holding on to me, prayin for the "DEVIL TO LEAVE MY SINFUL SELF, AND FOR SWEET JESUS TO COME ON IN..." "LORD, SAVE THIS YOUNGUN, HALALUJIA AND AMEN"...
I didnt know that the devil was in there, and I was a wonderin about how all three of them ol boys was gonna fit inside myownself, the devil, God, and Sweet Jesus...Then, Brother Swaggert pulled me over to the "Baptism tank"..."OH NO", says I...if I dont drown, my mom and dad are gonna kill me for gettin my clothes wet...then I would be seeing sweet Jesus...but there was no way out, brother Swaggert and now brother Gage both had me in a head lock,  and locked arms and commenced to dunkin me in the tank...well, maybe I'll drown, and just get it over with, then the devil and God and Sweet Jesus can just be on their way..."HALALUJIA LORD JESUS" them ol boys was a hollarin...If I hadnt been so scared, I believe I'd a joined in with em...but like I said, I had never experienced that sort of goings on before...

as I was being dunked, my arms and legs were a flailin, and man that got the congregation all worked up...they thought I had dont got the spirit...what I had got, was a mouth full of stale water, and I hit my funny bone on the side of the tank...so I started hollarin, and the crowd got louder...I was hopin that Brother Fred and Brother Jim would get so swoony, they would drop me and forget about me, and then I could swim away...and as luck, or Jesus would have it,  that didnt happen...

In between dunks, I peeked over where my ex-friends Johnny and Larry were standing, and they were just laughing like crazy...whoopin and hollarin, joinin in with the spirit...If I lived through this night, I was gonna fix them ol boys for sure...

Well, after getting dunked a half dozen times, and prayed over and hollared at, they finally turned me loose...man, I ran out that door, drippin wet and just a cussin...guess I hadnt been saved after all...I even out ran my good ol ex-friends, I ran all the way home, hopin that the wind would dry my clothes as I ran...
it didnt...I kinda squished when I walked...
I got home, and the whole family looked at me like I had just stepped off a space ship...which was nothing unusual in my house...most times they would just roll their eyes and continue on with what they were doing, trying to pay no mind to their "idjit son"...

I tried explaining what had happened, and they just rolled their eyes, and didnt believe a word of it...they were so sure that I had been in the bayou trying to catch minners or some other such fool hardy boy excursion...they just told me to"stay away from them "fool baptists", stay away from the bayou, and to go take a bath and go to bed, and that would save me...so I did...SAVED...

Got under the covers out in my room/back porch, and just shivered, reflectin on the days, er, uh, goings on...I settled down, and tuned into the crickets and frogs and fireflys outside the screened in porch, and could tell whose dogs were barking in the distance...I could see the stars between the wind blown pine tree branches...I wondered about God and Jesus...wondered why they would trouble themselves with the likes of me...seems I thought I could hear their voices on the wind blowing through the pine needles...what sweet sounds those were...I still love to hear the wind blow, and marvel at why the wind blows...and pretend that it's God sayin "howdy" to the likes of me...

Now, I know what "Saved"  means...I just didnt know there was a ceremony to go along with it...
well, got to get up at the crack of dark in the morn...having breakfast with Rich LH and Ted Poe at 7...I better learn something, thats all I got to say...

your frien and brother, the Vulcan gummi bear, and toothless in oak forest...

Jennie Anderson '65 (Dylan)

 Oh my Beau,

I had to read this in sections because I relish the humor in your writing.  Want to smile all day!  You absolutely are one of the best humorist I have ever read, and that is the truth!  

Jennie

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Jennie, I agree with you....actually had an experience similar with my Baptist baptism at age 8.  Seems we (Sue and I) may have been a bit cajoled into accepting our Savior at age 8.  Lord, Lord, it drove us to Catholoism, and when we moved to Oak Forest, Mom tried us at Oak Forest too Beau.....didn't work for us, either.  Anyway, stayed a Catholic and baptized both children, even though married a Baptist.  Later when I moved here in Anderson (not ville....Goofus) always felt good in a Lutheran church, warmly friendly, and more bible taught in sermons, study, and songs  which I've always wanted in a church, or why go? 

Wildly funny, and Snakewoman is coming to Fudds tonight....anyone want me to bring the smelly snake? 

Wayne Lake

Well I’m glad to hear some chatter on the forum, I was concerned everyone had shriveled up from the heat and lack of rain.

I was really sad to hear about Richard Brimmberry. I don’t remember seeing him since high school but the guy always seemed to have a smile and that’s not a bad way to be. I think my time around Richard was mostly at Hi-Y meetings – I never knew what we were supposed to do at those meetings but I went to get out of the house on a Tuesday or Wednesday (?) night and will not say what we (Gordon, David David, Larry York and others) did afterwards as I’m not too proud of it but David David could sure drive that ‘55 stick shift, blue and white, hardtop Buick Special, especially if we needed to make a quick getaway which seemed to happen way too often. Whatever happened to David anyway – maybe his family moved to OK? And what about Bruno Leonardt? I think Bruno got really rich early haven’t seen him since one of those get togethers on the north side of town about 20 years ago. And Spanky Taylor? I’d like to see him and catch up……….  

Robert, I think I’ll head back to Texas when the temps start to drop around mid-Sept (I hope) to make a Fudds and see my old friends, water my grass if there is any left and fish the flats of Lower Laguna Madre with a couple of my buds, if I’m lucky.

Beau/Toothless, I always heard that the knees were the second thing to go…………………..?

Lake Wobegone Weather:

Today's High: 69 F

Tonight's Low: 53 F

Dew Point: 53 F  

A/C, who needs it?

Eat your heart out................................

wtl

Wayne Lake

Hey Bernard,

How about sending some of the rain to Texas as its really dry and any spare German Marks/Euros to Washington D.C. as it appears we need help as bad as your European neighbors?

wtl

Beau Wann, Jr.

YEAH BERND, SEND US SOME OF THAT RAIN YALL ARE HOARDING...

Wayne, knees went first, long time ago in a galaxy far far away...

UH Kay...negatory on bringing that smelly ol snake...we take your woid for it...it isnt andersonville???? wonder where in the name of homer t anson, did I get andersonville????
Hmmmm...me thinks there is foul play afoot, here in me own barain...Whats wrong with andersonville anyhoo...it is Anderson...correct??? and it is a Village, eh what???? soooooo
Navasotaville...Dallasville....Houstonville....Hooterville...

Well, mine Bionical waltripians...Had breakfast today with Ted Poe and Richard the LH...
Breakfast was good. Wish I could have eaten more. Congressman Teds talk was good, informal, and informative....for instance did youall know that we give foreign aid to 158 of the 170 some odd countries in the WHIRLD???? And some of those are our enemies, like Pakistan for instance, and Palestinians, and just about every country that hates us, which is just about every country in the Whirld...Now I dont want to get political here, theres a shocker, but how does this happen????

I'm glad you axed that question...There is ONE foreign aid bill that passed umpteen years ago, and dont know which regime passed it, but I could take a wild guess, but wont...anyway, all the countries are listed in this foreign aid bill, and if you vote to give money to israel, then all the countries get our TAX DOLLARS...if you vote not to give money to pakistan, then none of the countries get any...which wouldnt be a bad thing to my way of thinking...

A bill has been introduced to eliminate that sort of stupidity, at least on foreign aid, that would... OUR so called reps, would vote on EACH country, either yay or nay, and doesnt affect any other bequeathment of OUR HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS...If it were up to me, I would cut all foriegn aid out all together....AMERICA IS BROKE ALREADY...why do we have to support the rest of the whirld when we have people here that could use the help...new bridges...new roads...hospitals...etc

I wonder if any country ever sends US AID???????

Oh, in case your wondering about HOW I knew that the visiting revival ministers were Freddie Gage, and Jimmy Swaggert, I didnt, until my neighbor, who is a devout Baptist and belonged to that church for years, told me who they were...I still didnt know, nor care, and still dont care, but I do know who they are now, or were...I'm sure glad they werent into handling snakes...I cant believe some churches practice that sort of tomfoolery...Hmmm, I dont know of any personally, and I did see it on the boob tube, and we all know how they make up stuff and lie every chance they get...for ratings...yeah, thats how I'm gonna tell it...no intelligent or semi-intelligent earthling would handle snakes and dare to be bitten, or drink poison and dare the lord to kill him or her with it...thats tempting the lord, and youre not suppose to do that...so I aint!!!!!!!!!

Hey Wayne...100 air temp

                      108 heat index

                       90 at midnight

                       80% humadidity

EAT DIRT...we're coming for you...Kay has a basket full of HOT snakes to unloose on Minnetonkaville...all that cool air is bad for your skin...yeah it is...thats why you will look much older than those of us that live here in  O'keefe and Merritville...Hmmm, now that I think about it, if that were true, we'd all be about 6 years old down here in Texasville...

See ya at Fudges tonight...hey wayne, COME ON DOWN!!!!!!!!

Your frien and semi-saved bretheren...Me, from Oak Forestville

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Enjoyed seeing all of ya'll at Fudd's tonight....going to hit my little ole bed.

In the '90's here tonight, take that Alaska ..... we are frying here! 

Good night Texasville!

Beau Wann, Jr.

Hey Kay...!!! Yes indeed, it is always such a pleasure seeing everyone, although, I dont get to talk at length to everyone, still it is such a delight seeing everyone...

I took a couple of pictures of Cooper wearing his Sunday-Go-To-Meetin-Ties, when we go to Harvard...Cant decide which one he should wear...what do you think?????

Hard not to love that ol boy...he's such a good sport...and a loving creature
Well, whichever tie he wears, he will be sooooo handsome, and the kids will just love him...

"LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW..."

Bj Brady '65

If I may cast the first vote- I'm going with tie number one.

I have one very similar and the female dogs just love it. Also, it has a nice Harvard look to it.  I suspect that he would even be the big dog on campus at UT, A&M or my alma mater Lamar U.

Beau Wann, Jr.

Thanks BJ, thats two votes for tie number one...methinks cooper likes that one best also...

Cooper is having surgery in the morning, hopefully nothing serious...he has a small growing bump on his right eyelid, and the doc wants to "nip it in the bud", before it does become a problem...and I am one nervous nelly...he has never been away from home, without me, and I have to drop him off at the vets at 7 am...they know what he does for a living, and they have always been very gentle and treated him special at the vets...I just dont want him to be scared and fret because I'm not there to hold his paw...gonna be eatin fingernails till I get him home again...

had to cut off his food at 5 pm today...so he got extra special treats all day long...which is nothing unusual around here...I know, he's just a dog...oh, but what a special dog he is...

Rode my trusty steed to ol Doc Hollidays this morn...he pulled another tooth...this time a broken wisdom tooth, that came in broken off...aside from the two shots, it wasnt as bad as the others he has taken out...worked on fitting my new bridge for about 30 minutes, and he says it finally fits right...WELL, it LOOKS good, but that is it...this is about the worst thing I have ever had in my mouth, and I've eaten lizards and snakes and other decalacies...(yeah, I know it's spelled wrong. my way of rebelling against foreign substances in the kisser)...

It feels like I have a spatula in my mouth, a rather LARGE spatula, bout the size of a 2 X 4, or did before I took it out...I cant talk with it in my mouth, and I dang sure cant eat with it there, and thats the reason I got the dang thing, SOs AH COULD EAT...well forget that...I tried to eat a cake donut and drink a cup of coffe, just as a test case you understand, and nary one crumb went down my gullet...got it all over the outside of mineownself...and it felt like I was gonna swallow the dang thang...plus, you lose all your taste buds, bud...what a waste of money...looks like its soup and pudding and ice cream for me for ever...plus, sitting in the bottom of a cup of water, it looks GROWTY TO THE MAX, MAX...(I know groty is spelled wrong...I like phonetics)

Any of youse youtes out there had that particalar (yes, I spelled it wrong on porpoise too) event in youse lives out there???? Ol Doc Holliday, says, "you'll get use to it"...AH DONT THANK SO...

Today has made me rather surly and aggitated and agravated and otherwise PO'd...AND TOMORROW, I'M GONNA BE A NOIVOUS WRECK TILL I GET COOPER HOME...

Hey Kay, I looked at your profile again, and love the pictures of the snow up there in Hooterville...Just funnin ya, but I do love the snow pics...your pup is kinda far away, give us a close up, eh...

Hey Paige...Jennie....we missed you at Fudges...and everyone else that wasnt there...

Our thermometer had 110 on it, in the shade...garage thermometer had 102, with all three doors open and a fan going...

This is Sammy...he is VERY shy and illusive...he likes his anonimity, but I got his permission to use his picture this once...

your frien and resident grouch...ol snaggle tooth in Oak Forestville

Jimmy Brown '65

 Beau I got up this morning and had to put on a sweater.

It was 86 degrees out side and felt like a coldfront.

As far as Mr. Cooper's tie I vote for a Bow Tie,

formal of course.  Enjoyed Fudds and meeting new to me 

people such as Ms. Kay and others . Did not like the

bruises Linda and Scotty had, reminded me of some of mine.

I also missed Paige,Richard,Jennie and others.

Happy Trails !

Paige Talley (Meek)

       Meghan and Nana

The little grandchild is now 21. It was a grand party at the Hula Hut in Austin. Those attending were abunch of family with friends sprinkled in for effect.  She was born on a "Fudd's Tuesday Night" in 1990, so please forgive me for not being there. I am truly blessed to have such a fine family... even with all the bumps and scratches that growing "old-er" produces ... Life is grand!!!

I sat here for awhile this afternoon and indulged my self in the forum. My heart aches as I am reminded often on the forum the hurt, aches and sufferings among us. Although not forgetting these same trials I am moved to tears again but in knee slapping laughter at Beau's antics with the menagerie and Jenny's triumphs (and a new baby) and it goes on and on and on... this Forum is often like sitting around the kitchen table with life's friends. The conversations flow in, out and around our lives, then and now.

Beau, I vote for tie number one, too. 

Love Y'all

Paige

Richard Meek '65

Good afternoon Waltripians, I've been catching up on reading your postings. It is good to see the chatting going on. Also a good sign that good sense is prevailing and you're mainly staying in the AC indoors. I've been working on repairing a fence for the dog run that a tree fell on a month ago when we had some high winds. I been getting out at 7:00 in the evening and working until dark. I even got out at 6:45 a couple of mornings to put in a couple of hours before coming to the office. Jimmy I think I could feel that touch of fall in the air you spoke of or it may have been a hallucination. anyway I just need to put in a couple of pieces of trim and the project will be finished. Then on to the next home maintenance project. Ahhh the joys of home ownership.

Jennie another congratulations on the new GC. Pretty neat name. Although I think if your kiddos have another instead of Guthrie they should be really be bold and name that young'un Kingfisher. With a name like that the kid will either grow up tough as nails or be a recluse.

Ted and Robert if you have any pull with Almighty please use it. Fall really is special but heck anytime is special in Texas. I remember going to a UH vs. OSU  (bout 5 yrs. ago I think) at Robertson/Jeppeson Stadium. It was one of those fall days when the humidity was about 85 and the heat was about 94. Everyone just had sweat running down their faces with nor a breath of air moving. Just before half time a blue Norther came in and the temperature fell about 25 degrees in 5-6 minute. (Not as dramatic as Beau's description but then nobody out does DOD). First time I ever saw 24,000 people give a cold front a standing ovation. A memorable sight indeed. And just to add sweetness the UH won the game!

Yep Cephus and I as well as Barbara Raines and another friend Gerry Parker went to hear Ted Poe Tuesday morning. He is a very entertaining speaker. But that day he brought blessed news from Washington (I know that is an oxymoron). Anyway he delivered the news that those of us that have been suffering for many years with Sheila Jackson Lee as our Congress Person are now relieved of that burden. With redistricting taking place we have now been moved to the 2nd Congressional District and Ted Poe is now our Congressman. I'm sorry but SJL is just an embarrassment. Also she is just about dumb as a stump. As long time Texans you'll appreciate this from Congressman Poe. He is introducing legislation to try and reign in the EPA. They have come up with another environmental issue that might trump SJL's dumb stunts. A big bugaboo with  the EPA is particulate matter in the air!. Now take a minute. . . give it some thought . . . can you tell me what particulate matter in the air is exactly? HHHMMMM. . . .tick, tick, tick . . . . . . . .. . . .times up. It's dust. Well at some of their in house regulating meetings where they figure out what to regulate someone noted that there is a lot particulate matter  (dust)in the air in. . . . . of all places West Texas! Can you imagine that? Well they started studying it (no telling what that cost the tax payers) and decided that all those big ranches in West Texas have a lot of roads running through them. So when those ranchers and their hands get to driving down those roads in their F-150's they are stirring up a lot of particulate matter! So their brilliant solutions is that the ranchers will or just have to asphalt their roads. As a compromise the EPA will allow them to water their roads to control the particulate matter. Sounds to me like they don't need to reign the EPA in. . . they just need to fire that bunch of DA's.

Another of Ted's funny comments was he wasn't sure why he was assigned to the House Foreign Affairs Committee because he has no background in that. The only thing he could guess was that the eastern boundary of his district borders Louisiana and that's the same as a foreign country. It was a good breakfast with good friends with an entertaining speaker. A hard combination to beat.

Beau I vote for tie #1 for Coop. Although a formal bow tie would look good too.

I'm glad to hear that Oaks Pres. is going to have Woof Fest again. Liz will be wanting to get  some new girls things for the social on the church lawn.

Kay you didn't have to move all the way to Anderson (ville or otherwise) if you just wanted to have snakes around. I run across one every now and then in the yard since I have a creek behind the house. Fortunately they've all been of the non-poinsonous variety.

Well, time to head for the house to feed the critter.

Keep on dancing

Rich LH

Stay Calm. Carry On

Beau Wann, Jr.

Good Morrow Waltripians,
     Got Loopy Coopy home from the vet yesterday bout 5...looks like he is on drugs...oh yeah, he is...boy just spins around in a circle when he goes outside...poor dear...Diane had to sleep with him on the couch last night before he would settle down...I told her I would do it, but she insisted...he has that "cone of healing" thingy on his head, to keep him from scratching at the stitches in his eyelid...good thing it is there, because he keeps trying to scratch it...

Cant get him to eat anythng but Oscar Mayer and bacon...hmmmm, come to think of it, if I had a choice of dog food, or oscar mayer weiners and bacon, I do believe I would choose the latter...Of course Catahoula Jack is down with that sort of food too...cause you know children, what you give to one, you must give to all...

Had to move "Command Central" back downstairs, so I could babysit...looks like I wont be leaving the house for the next two weeks, or maybe less...Doc said the stitches could come out in 10 to 14 days...

But, all in all, the patient is resting comfortably...although, as mellow as cooper is normally, the drugs just seem to magnify his "mellowness"...I will be glad when they wear off, and he gets back to just being "mellow Cooper" instead of "nuclear mellow Cooper"...

Gonna be long days and nights till he gets healed and back to normal. but what is family for...help a body get through the tough times, and enjoy the good times...

Dennis Dorsey has finally signed onto his Profile...yeaaaa!!!! often wondered about how his life had turned out, and judging by his comments, I'd say just fine...Dennis mentioned TJ as oneof the finest people he has met, and he is...but so is Dennis...and so are most of our waltrip family...Dennis and Teddie J and Doug Mcuen and Jackie and Robbie and family, and most ALL members of our class, were the folks I looked up to and tried to use as Role Models...didnt always work out because of the character flaws I possess, rearing their ugly heads...but with the aforementioned, at least I had high aspirations, and set my sights on lofty goals, the best of the best...not there yet, but still a work in progress...

Certainly dont mean to embarass Teddie or anyone, but it is the truth...and why not tell someone, WHILE they are here to hear it, that you think the whirld of them...why wait till we are all gathered at Pat H Foleys and say, "he or she was such a fine person"...thats good too, but let folks know now, that you love em, that they are indeed, fine people...that maybe in some large way, or small way, they influenced your life for the better...

Well, Master Cooper is up, and I need to take him outside so he can spin around in  a circle...poor dear...so try to stay as "cool as a cucumber", (anyone know what that means?), why a cucumber??? why not a cumquat, or a guacamole dip or ice cube...I cant just say goodbye and sign off can I!!!! Got to keep on yakin... Well, I dont have a lot of people to talk to during the day, just dogs and cats, so I feel like I can TALK to youse youtes, my Waltrip Family...

Nurse Cratchet, signing off...