The message forum is an ongoing dialogue between our classmates. There are no items, topics, subtopics, etc.

Forums work when people participate - so don't be bashful! Click the "Post Response" button to add your entry to the forum and then click "Submit".

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Hey, Linda and Lynn, my thoughts and prayers are totally with you.  Surgery is not fun, but this is a time when we must put on our "big 'ole gal pants" and go forward, as you both  have so many people that need you in your lives, and here on the Forum.!

I enjoyed talking with you Lynn at the Mexican rest. in College Station,  and Linda, so many fond memories of you at Waltrip as well....we'll be watching for good things to happen and progress.

Burge, quite the presenter of mystic and beautiful pics!  I've had cataract surgery, it is great,; years ago,  people just had to stay blind and dependent on others....not in today's world.

Bernd Joachim Tonat

nobody home?

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Still here, Bernd.  Late Super Bowl night everyone?

Susan Howard (Bowman)

Hi Bernd!  The Forum is really busy at times, then at other times I think folks read it, but don't take time to post.  I do that a lot!  I just talked to my 95 year young mother.  She is so wonderful - I am so blessed!  It is really great that I am now able to go see her frequently!  

Did anyone watch the Super Bowl last night?  I have to give Indianapolis credit - they did a fantastic job!  A friend of mine sent some pictures from the Super Bowl Village - she was down there a few times - it was really spectacular!  I am just glad the weather cooperated, although I know they were prepared for anything!  Last year on Super Bowl Sunday we had about a foot of snow plus 3 inches of ice to deal with!  They are having a mild winter this year, as we are here in Sun City!

Hope everyone is well!  Bernd, please send us some pictures - I can imagine the snow you have!  

Beau Wann, Jr.

"WANTED,
SENIOR SITIZEN SITTER...MUST LOVE DOGS AND CATS; WALK SAME, (WELL, NOT THE CATS, THEY WILL WALK ON  YOU)  CLEAN LITTER BOXES, CLEAN UP DOGGAH POOPAH; MUST LIKE SWIMMING; IF NOT A CERTIFIED SCUBA DIVER, AT LEAST BE AN OLYMPIC SWIMMER; BE ABLE TO TELL TIME...ALGEBRA A MUST...OH YEAH, AND MOST IMPORTANT, BE ABLE TO COOK ON THE STOVE TOP...AND NOT WALK AWAY AND LEAVE A PAN OF POTENTIAL BOILED EGGS TO BURN AND EXPLODE...

And so it goes...yup, you guessed it...I put half dozen unsuspecting eggs into a pan of water, put em on "the burner with a brain"...yeah right, some brain, hell I could have done as much as that brain burner did...well duh, I did didnt I...Me and catahoula Jack went upstairs to do other stuff, and just sitting around fat dumb and happy...Jack was lounging and snoozing on the couch, and I was checking emails and stuff, when "POP"...
I looked at jack, and he looked at me with the "sounds like you messed up bro" look, then layed his head down and went back to snoozin...That pop sounded like it was in the foyer...hmmm, if it had been an intruder, ol jack woulda been onem like jack on and intruder...Hmmm, maybe ol jack is slippin, or maybe he just wants me to take care of his light work...so ah grabbed mah shootin arn, headed down the stairs, and peeked around the corner...no intruder...but, I smelled something burning...dang perceptive of me wasnt it...it still didnt dawn on me that there was a problem, despite the smell...

wandered into the kitchen, just in time for another egg to explode..."What the heck" I said outloud..."who the heck put something on the stove and walked off and left it"????  or woids to that defect...
"UH OH, does the phrase, "looks like you REALLY done it this time ol roy" have a familiar ring to it????
I looked around to see if anyone was watching...just a couple of kurious kats with the "looks like you REALLY REALLY done it this time dummy" smirks on their pusses...cats are so arrogant sometimes...

I turned off the burner, just intime for a third egg to explode...thought I'd try for the trifecta, so I put the pan in the sink on a plastic/rubber grate, and put cold water in the pot to kinda cool things down...damn, I wish I had paid attention in Mr Clausens class...well, the cold water did the trick...the remaining 3 eggs erupted with rapt aplomb...real gusto...or otherwise WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTIONS style...

I'm standing there with, literally "egg on my face", and my shoulders and feets and the ceiling and fridge and stove and walls, and all in time for my beloved to walk in...what timing...she never batted an eye...went to the garage and brought out, not just one roll of paper towels, THE WHOLE 12 PACK...yup boys and girls, my wife is a trooper...through all that, the cats never flinched or stopped to change the looks on their faces..."boy ya really done it this time"...

Time passes, as do several rolls of paper towels...(yall buy stock in the paper towel industry)...the subject of "what happened"  was finally broached..."what happened" says my beloved..."what the hell do you think happened" says a much perturbed and unrepentent sounding idjit...I get the teacher look, "hmmm, I think I know what happened" says she..."there's boiled eggs and shells and crud all over the house, and a burnt pan in the sink, and smoke hanging in the air ???? why, thats pretty astute of you doncha think" says I rather huffily...ok, I need to calm down and just accept that I am hopeless..."sorry DW" says I, "I feel pretty worthless right now, coulda burned down the house. Thats how Kevins house burned down"...

So, thats why I need a senior sitizen sitter...

 I've been  cleaning that pot inside, and outside where the rubber/plastic stuck to it...DW says to leave it alone, and she can fix it... she pulled some majic pot be clean, powder out from under the stinky sink, and voila, pot be clean... 

Hey Bernd, they say that yall are having the worst winter since the "little ice age"...that true???? Stay warm man...if you cant, you and your family are welcome here in WARM TEXAS...

oK, GONNA sing off for now...gonna go to K rogers and get some of those already boiled eggs...I be banished from the kitchen...really more of a "self exile" than anything else...
Your frien and slightly "egged on" brother...Mr FOGHORN LEGHORN, OH BOY, AH SAY BOY, THAT THAR IS A CHICKEN...

Scotty Croom

beau, this sounds familiar...lola did same few years back...i was'n.t up that am...diane and i will find cooking school for both of you....lol...

Beau Wann, Jr.

Dont think a cooking school would help me, unless an assisstant came with graduation, that and a timer attached to my head...of course then I'd have to remember JUST WHY it was I set the timer in the first place...
It's a good think that those eggs have an alarm on them, that goes POP, otherwise I'd a burnt up fer shure..dont know if it's comforting to know that other folks are as absent minded as I am...cause if it's ONLY ME, then the rest of yall could take turns to cenior citizen cittin me...Jack and Cooper can only do so much, and DW has to keep working to support her deadbeat unemployable hubsand to the lifestyle to which he is accustomed, cement pond and all...which at this very moment, is a murky green...thought I sawr the creature from the cement pond swiming around there...

Susan Howard (Bowman)

Take heart, Beau!  I think these things happen to all of us - maybe not to the extent of your experience - but then again, maybe so!  When we get distracted or get involved in doing something else that has our full attention is the time when the little green monster of forgetfulness creeps in!  It's happened to me - only it was only one egg and I caught it before it exploded!  And no one was at home to catch me!! I also melted a tea pot one time - let it boil dry because I walked off and forgot about it - could have burned the house down!!  I was under a lot of stress at the time - that can do it to you too!!

Alright everyone - 'fess up!  Just to make Beau know that he is not "in" this alone!

Lloyd Pond

One morning got up and made breakfast. Coffee first , pour in the water, press start, only thing forgot to put coffee in the filter as I found out later when the coffee pot was full of clear water. Then I turned to the oatmeal and got it started. Takes 25 minutes so I go and turn on the TV and computer to check email,  but see I forgot to set the timer... It was a great breakfast burned oatmeal and clear hot water, yum! ever so tasty!

Lets  see, TV folks are reminding me to eat more apples and bananas, hmm when was the last piece of fruit I had? Sunday? Better get busy!

Teddie Jordan

Back in the mid 70's I officed over in the Galleria area, and to beat the bad traffic on 290 and 610 I used to get up at 4:45 and get there before 6:00 AM most mornings.

One morning I did all of that and got there and got the coffee started, then went down the hall to my office while it brewed. About ten minutes later I went back to the  kitchenette in the file room and discovered to my horror that in my haste and sleepy fog I had failed to put the glass carafe back in, and a full 12 cups of coffee had run out and down onto the carpet. It took me almost an hour to clean up the mess and the carpet was never the same. 

My lesson learned was to slow down a little. I still have to remind myself to do that.

Beau Wann, Jr.

Wow, before yall fessed up, I was getting a complex...to add to all my other complexes...ok, I dont feel so bad. at least I havent caused any loss of life or real damage...I did try the "no carafe" trick that Teddie employed. 12 cups O JOE, is not easy to make disappear, especially when it's on the floor and in the carpet...Yesterday, I was outside playing with Jack and Oliver, and decided to go back in the house for a cup O Joe, when I noticed the HOT water in the kitchen sink was running wide A open...dont know when I turned it on and walked off and left it, but at least it was still hot...NOW, I have to take exaggerated steps to make sure that all is well...As Emily Latella says, "It's always something" ...and can always be worse. (at least I think that was her name from SNL) Or was it Roseann Roseanna Danna??? Matters not...

I watched the Stupor bowl last sunday at Kevins on his 7 ft screen...looked like we were inside the stadium in our own skybox...Room was too small and screen was too big...Looked just like front row at the Garden Oaks...Didnt know who was playing, didnt care, but someone won, and someone lost, only on the scoreboard...methinks all them ol boys and girls won a passel O money...

I finally went down stairs and watched it on the 5 foot screen...and fell asleep, like a ol man does from time to time...

Charles Charlie Brawner

Can't really comment on the effectiveness of this product.  Jimmie has forgotton to remind me to take it for the last 3 days.

Teddie Jordan

Charles, I too was impressed with the exciting potential of coconut oil in treating the symptoms of Alzheimers.

Being a marketing guy, in the days since I saw that story I've been thinking about commercial applications. How would you feel about  a coconut oil infused beer? I'm thinking Old Geezer and Old Geezer Light.

Bernd Joachim Tonat

I can't find the papers for my car. Do I have to throw the coconut somewhere to find sem (thats Germ for th, Beau). Coconut oil would waste sem.

bjt

Beau Wann, Jr.

Coconut schmoconut...I Been eating mounds bars for years, and I aint gotten nothin but dumber and more forgetful...Maybe I ought to increase my intake O them little hunks O heaven...Me and the Bataglia twins, we use to date, the three of us, use to have coconut oil parties...of course during the festivities, I never forgot nuttin honey...WHOOWEE them ol gals was fun...Of course that was back in my younger care free days...even with the amount of whiskey we consumed, my mind was ever so sharp. (didnt help my algebraic shortcomings), but it didnt take a math major to figure out the twins, or their coconut oil parties...MAN, I remember the time we....oops, better not go there...just a might risque and DW does read this from time to time...

I have been known to sip coconut milk on a south sea island or two back in them good ol days...and bust em open and eat the meat too...I'm eating a mounds bar now as I type this...HMMMMMMM good..."Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you dont" ....

Hey Bernd, cant find your car???? You dont need a car over there in the quaint little village you live in...surely there's a Mickey Ds within walking distance for your mornin coffee, and a Pub in the nafteroons and eenins for lunch, supper and a brew...You might try coconut oil, but my truck doesnt have a place for coconut oil, cept maybe the bed...does coconut oil come in 10W-40????

Shirley? You jest Mr DOD!!!!! Why yes, yes I do...and most apologetically too, also...

Got a hardee plank siding crew working on replacing all the siding, and with their hammering, I cant tell if someone is knocking on the door or what...I disconnected the doorbell long time ago, because ALL THE cats hate it, and I have a father in law-breaker, that thinks it's funny to just lean on the doorbell and ring it a million times when he comes over...I, however, loathe and dispise and other wise hate that kind of tomfoolery shenanagins and otherwise bufoonery perpetrated upon my person round about thereof...

Ok, me and Coop got to get ready for school...on that note, two of his students, have old timey names, Savanah and Desiree' ...not sure about the spelling of the latter, but phonetically it sounds like Des er ray...I like the old timey names...dont see em much anymore though, guess it's a generational thing...

Ok, yall remember to eat those Mounds bars and or Almond Joys...and remember...oh shoot, I forgot...
 

Richard Meek '65

Good evening Waltripians, I know it's been a while since I posted here but I've been out been out trying to corner the market on coconut oil. If you need any I can let you have some for a price! LoL. My only recent coconut experience was helping Paige's grandkids open a coconut so they could try fresh coconut. Of course Paige was fluttering around like a mother hen just because I had a machete for the task. That blade never came within two inches of any tiny fingers. Such a worrier! Actually I just used a heavy hammer and had the little ones stand back. Of course then she started worrying that they would get hit by flying pieces of coconut shell. For Pete's sake it was wrapped in a towel. Didn't seem to bother her that they kept dropping pieces of coconut on the street and picking it up an eating it.

I think DOD has a better idea for getting coconut in your diet with Mounds and Almond Joys. I'll refrain from comment on the twins since I'm engaged now.

If you don't have a previous commitment next Tuesday Morning come over to the Sheraton Brook Hollow  for breakfast with the Pachyderm Club of Northwest Houston. The speaker will be our own Ken Armbrister, '65. He is Gov. Perry's Legislative Director. He'll have a lot of interesting stories about his 25 years as an elected official. Breakfast is $20, it starts at 7:00 and ends promptly at 8:30. It's a good group of folks. If you need more info let me know.

Keep on dancing

Rich LH

Dance like no one is watching

John Burgess Webb

hey rich,i found out in vietnam that eating too much coconut meat will give you a giant tummy ache;we had an abundance of them at chu lai.we would punch a hole in them and drink the milk,water was scarce at that time and it was a treat to have those coconuts.

as for the pachaderm club,i was known as the man who jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.tell ken that we appreciate the pizza provided by gov.perry at our meetings at the bowie county courthouse via the program he and judge lacy support.we are the "veterans supporting veterans",made up of vets from ww2,korea,vietnam,desert storm,iraqi freedom,bosnia,afganistan and other wars few even know about or remember.the young vets coming back from iraq and afganistan suffer as we did but the head injuries and post traumatic stress has led to depression causing seven times the suicide rate of returning vietnam vets;many kill themselves while still on duty in afganistan.it is an horrorfic conundrum for them under changing 'rules of engagement"that subordinates them to the 'hidden enemy' among them.widely publisized incidents are propagated and the taliban use human shields of women and children to instigate what to the uninitiated is interpretated as "atrocity".the same thing happened to us in vietnam and it sets up a guilt complex explicitly designed by "psyops" to demoralize and used as propaganda against us.we were spat upon and called "baby killers" by the likes of those who know nothing of the horrors of counter-insurgency and asymetric warfare.on our patrols,the viet cong would purpossly ambush us knowing that women and children were in between us and them,unseen by us.in one incident a mother came forward with her dead 8 year old son,wanting two hundred dollars;a waterbuffalo also killed that day was valued at a thousand dollars,go figure.in afganistan as in vietnam,children are strapped with explosives and told to approach american soldiers for handouts then detonated by remote control. if that isnt evil then i dont know what is.when this evil comes accross our border from mexico in the form of hizbula and hamas,then mabe people will wake up.a sitting supreme court justice denegrates our constitution on egyption television and our so-called 'homeland security' pulls away air support from our border patrol;all took oaths to defend our constitution.black is white and down is up.bad is good as we pull babies from the protection and nurturance of the womb.what is next? im dying so i can speak my mind;what a wonderful feeling in this day of "political correctness".

semper fidelis

Steve Puckett '65

A note from the peanut gallery:

I've been following the coconut oil discussions for a few years now.  It's apparently more complicated than just adding the oil. See  http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/coconutoil.asp for more discussion.  It may, however, work for you even without the scientific studies. Be careful, though, when dealing with ketones, low-carb diets, etc.

Hope this helps.

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Next Date - February 14, 2012

Fuddrucker's Houston Gang - 2nd Tuesday of each Month -- join the fun! Starting at 6:00 p.m. or whenever you can get there.  290 feeder between Pinemont and Tidwell (13010 Northwest Freeway - 713-462-2639 - call them if you need directions).

Scotty Croom

lola and i will miss fudds tues....other commitment that nite...will have 2nd eye csurgery on left eye...glaucoma relief next thurs. am...will see you all in march...

John Burgess Webb

scotty,good luck on your eye surgery;sight is a major part of enjoying life and i hope it turns out well.remembering back to the fifth grade when i developed myopia and astigmatism, it was impossible for me to read the blackboard;i didnt tell anyone for a while and it was one reason i started to fall behind in my grades.modern eye surgery is amazing and though correction for my problems are different,i wish you better sight and ameleration of pain and anxiety associated with gluacoma.

burge

Wayne Lake

Well Waltrip alumni bloggers, you have finally broached a subject, I know a little bit about: Coconuts. I spent a considerable amount of time in Trinidad over the past 30 years whereby coconuts are a mainstay for the locals affectionately referred to (by themselves) as Trini’s.  For those of you geographically challenged, Trinidad or formally, The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago West Indies is located at about 10 degrees latitude North just N.E. of Venezuela S.A. bounded by the Atlantic on the East and the Caribbean on the North. The demographics are roughly 40-45% African descendants from slaves introduced to work the sugar plantations during the 17th-18th century, 40-45% India or Hindis which arrived as indentured/bonded servants after slavery was abolished around 1860 and the remaining are a mixture of the above with some Caribs, Anglos and Chinese mixed in.  Trinidad is where calypso music was originated as protests were not allowed by the British but protest songs were evidently allowed. Port of Spain, the capital is the home of one of the greatest Mardi Gras celebrations in the world. Cricket is the most popular sport and they still love the Queen of England. All in all, a warm, friendly, happy, English speaking group that love rum, music, limin’ (hanging out with friends), coconuts, wild game, dance and romance but not necessarily in that order.  Large (up to 1,000 pound) leatherneck turtles migrate from the North Atlantic to lay their eggs on the Northern most beaches, parrots abound and some of the best sport fishing in this hemisphere is immediately offshore.  

Back to coconuts, Trini’s drink the juice called coconut water, they typically drink it over ice and consider it about the same way as iced tea here in Texas.  As far as I know, they don’t have a very high incidence of cancer, heart disease, diabetes or Alzheimer’s.  Coconuts are typically harvested by 10-12 year old boys that climb the 30-40’ trees with their ankles tied together (for gripping the tree) about 10” apart using a cutlass (machete).  

Trinidad is the home of several different rums, one of which is Puncheon 151 which is highly flammable and one which I am very fond of myself called Royal Oak, however, none are readily available in the states.  Trini’s say if you mix de’ rum with de’ coconut water you will not have an aching head the next day. However, I always mix with diet coke and a twist of lime and therefore have occasional hangovers.

From League City, the largest city in Galveston County,

wtl

Lloyd Pond

You put the lime in the coconut..then you feel better. (Old song lyric)

Just finished a fruit sald with a liberal amount of coconut on top. grapefruit, oranges bananas cherries... I am caught up on fruit for the day. I guess it is a Sunday habit. Stayed in bed today to keep warm. Winter should be over!

Last week celebrated my adopted Ethiopian grandson's 5 yeqr old birthday at Aster's Ethiopian restaurant. First time for that cuisine. You take a big thin pancake made of Tiff grain, tear it in to small piece, and grab the food with the pancake. Not bad! I couldn't identify all the ingrediants but I don't think there was coconut.

Valentine's day lads, remember that if nothing else. I bought Ferrell a giant cocolate bar the other day... then ate all of it myself before I got home! Last night I tried to make up it for it by buying some wonderful iced cookies. One cookie was shaped like giant girls lips, iced with strawberry, I guess they could have been Mick Jagger's lips. Another cooking was shaped like a heart one half with cocolate icing and one halh with toffee. Ferrell was in the car with me so the cookies were equally divided, before being consumed. Still have two days left to find some more ways to say "I Love You". 

Ferrell wants to know what is the difference between coffee and toffee?

John Burgess Webb

loyd,loyd,eating your wife's choclate bar on the way home-"called the doctor-woke em up- and said doctor--docter"....you put the lime in the coconut and call me in the morning" .yeah you'll be alright.

Beau Wann, Jr.

Hey all you co co nuts...had a spirited discussion last night with two PHDs about ccn oil...they say it is BAAAAD FOR YOUR HEART...they use to say Coffee was bad for your heart, and nhow they say it is good...diet drinks use to be good for you, then bad for you, then good for you, and now bad for you again...FOLLOW THE MONEY, ie grants etc...before the global warming, we were due for an ice age, and then that grant money ran out, so now it's global warming...cigarettes use to be advertised BY DOCTORS, as good for you...now, thats a no brainer, we all know just how bad for you they are...that is until I saw someone that was 104 years old, smoked two packs a day, ate a dozen eggs or more a week, drank whiskey everyday...all depends on your jeans...Lee or Levi or Wranglers???? I have all three, just to cover my bets, among other things...

I made meatballs for dinner Sat night...had noodles with them (cant spell spaghetti so I said noodles)
garlic bread salad etc...oh, and some red red sweet sweet wine wine...no harm in doubling down...the the wine wine was was good good...
My sister was in town for a showing of her paintings at the BUTLER LONGHORN MUSEUM down in League city.
Interesting place...Seems Mr Butler was the one that introduced the longhorn steer to this part of the whirld, or maybe he brought it back from extinction, no matter, he was a good guy...Hey Wayne, you need to visit that place...no fishing, but lots O long horns etc...I think Kathys paintings will be there for a week or two...She's pretty good...although I like her horse paintings better than the longhorns...Saw some of her prints at Bed Bath and Beyond...she signs her paintings KWinkler...I think...anyway, her name is Kathy Winkler if you happen to see longhorns on canvas somewhere...

Hey Burge, a steady diet of coconut juice/milk, gave me the "green apple quick step", other wise known as Montezumas revenge...

The difference between coffee and toffee is,  one is spelled with a c and the other with a t...ok, smarty wranglers, Ithink toffee is coffee and taffy mixed and instead of saying caffee, cause noone would make the connection with coffee and caffee, hence toffee...WELL, ???? SOUNDS GOOD TO ME ANYWHOM...

OOOOOO, time for a mounds...and a boiled egg...not boiled by me howsomeever...Mrs K rogers boilin oil my oigs from now on...

Them ol HARDEE PLANK sidin boys, are still a woikin on the house...got almost three sides done...once they finish, I will have to caulk and paint...unless...some of youse youtes would like the privilege and FUN of participating in the aforementioned frivolity...says huck finn...

I for one, will be glad they are through, and stop hammering...tired of answering the door to nobody...I did notice all the pictures hanging on the walls, are now askew and askance from all the hammering...

time to head downstairs and tuck the boys in...they look cold to me at night, so I put a blanket over em...they look so cute...
Happy Trails mine CO CO NUTS