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Wayne Lake

Well Teddie, I’d like to say it’s ‘sleeping with the windows open weather’ up here but it’s a little too cool for that with lows around 50F and highs in the 60’s to 70’s depending on the sunshine and rain.

I traveled North on Sat and noticed that the high for Sunday was supposed to be 96 in Houston – good timing for once.

After doing some cleaning around the place up here over the weekend, I put out 5 bird feeders and the song birds found them within a few hours – no hummers yet. They are all nice to see but I like the Yellow Finch the best.

I went for a walk along the lake today and came within about 50’ of a family of Canada geese with Mom and Pop looking over 11 goslings about 4 weeks old still in down feathers but big enough to graze the lawn on their own. I think they mate for life – better than most humans.

I hope it warms up soon as it’s too cool for boating. We are sailing Lake Superior Apostle Islands over the 4^th of July, it’s an incredible body of fresh water:

• The local native tribe Ojibwe called the lake gichigami, meaning "big water." And then Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the name as "Gitche Gumee" in The Song of Hiawatha, as did Gordon Lightfoot in his song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".
• Lake Superior is, by surface area, the world's largest freshwater lake.
• Maximum depth of 1,332 ft;
• Lake Superior contains 2,900 cubic miles of water There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover the entire land mass of North and South America with roughly one-foot of water.
• The shoreline of the lake is 2,726 miles. 
• Average annual water temp is about 40F brrrrrrrrrr
• Annual storms produce wave heights of 20+’ and 30’ waves have been recorded.

I hope it warms up before we go sailing.

From Lake Wobegon, the make believe childhood home of Garrison Keelor

wtl
 

Teddie Jordan

I wonder if Gordon Lightfoot actually wrote that song? I still hear it occasionally and have always enjoyed it. Can't remember if he had any more hits.

I would trade weather with you in a heartbeat Wayne. But at least we finally got some rain down in south Texas for our critters.

Had an interesting experience this morning while leaving our neighborhood. Short version is Fran and I rescued two little week old ducklings that had fallen down into a gutter  storm drain. The mother and five siblings were making a commotion topside and the two little guys were making a bunch of excited and scared noise in the dark down below. I always wondered how much those heavy cast iron covers weigh. With her help and the few tools I had in my truck we were able to barely pry it up enough to get a grip on it. My estimate is about 150 pounds. Anyway we got the cover off and went down into the muddy abyss and caught them and passed them out. Not a bad deed and a bit of irony for an old duck hunter. Gus was in the truck watching the whole thing and had a disgusted look on his face. Like why didn't you just let me go down there and get them and I'd have brought the mom to you too, so you could move them all to a safer place? And you wouldn't have gotten so muddy either.

Going to the coast tomorrow with Lisa and the boys and hopefully can wet a hook.

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Teddie and Fran.....I see you are really invoved with the "grandkids"  have fun....don't worry Texas probably won't give any of us much rain.  For myself, I'm tired of mowing all the grass and watch it grow longer in a couple of days so I'm kinda glad the rain will stall for awhile.  I was lucky enough to watch my annual bird have babes on my porch every year,but this time got to watch the little babes jump out and fly, had to coach one.  Enjoyed the pics of the kids, beautiful legacy...still enjoying retirement, but my back is not...trying to do too much every day. LOL, I've got to get out.

Wayne, enjoy your notes and such, still waiting for Burge to surface and the rest of you....hee, hee. We all know Beau is disposed in his new world preparations.

Pat Brantley (Ross)

Yes teddie.  Gordon light foot wrote the song.  He wrote enough to fill at least one album although I lost mine long ago.  I love his music.  

Burgess, we need to get you two puppies.  Do they have a sharpei rescue club?  

Teddie Jordan

Fran and I noticed in today's Chronicle that Vince Jarrett has passed away. Vince was, I believe, the middle of the three Jarrett brothers. Jerry is the oldest and went to Reagan with my sister Kay, and Frankie is the youngest and went to WHS ahead of us. They also have a sister Janice. As far as I'm concerned all of the Jarretts were and are total class acts!  They have always been just nice people, and of course the girls have always swooned over all three brothers.

Vince graduated from Reagan in 1961, went to U of H, was the golf coach at Abilene Christian from 85-03, golf coach at UH from 03-10, then went back to ACU as Athletic Director in 2010. He was seventy years old.

One Friday night years ago my mom and a friend of hers were having dinner in Doyle's, and Vince recognized her and came over to the table and talked to her and it just tickled her to death. Until she died she talked about how surprised and pleased she was that he recognized her after all of those years, and went to the trouble of coming over and speaking to her. I never got to tell you Vince but thank you.

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Houston Gang - Next Fuddrucker gathering is Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 6:00 p.m.

Fuddrucker's the 2nd Tuesday of each month -- join the fun! Starting at 6:00 p.m. or whenever you can get there. 290 feeder road between Pinemont and Tidwell (13010 Northwest Freeway - 713-462-2639) call if you need directions. No reservations necessary - just show!

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

I finally saw Charles and Jimmy Lee at MD Anderson last Thursday.  I knew our paths would cross one day and it was wonderful seeing them, in fact, we're having dinner this week!

Just an update on my chemo - thought I was finished last Wednesday, but saw Dr. Arun on Thursday and my PET scan showed such good progress in shrinking the tumors, that she wants me to go two more cycles - that's 6 more treatments of Taxol on a weekly basis.  At first, I thought she meant 2 more treatments and it wasn't until I read her report on line a couple of days ago, did I discover she meant 2 more cycles - that was depressing, but I've gone this far, so just a little more.  I've had many more complications from this Taxol, if my body can hold up a little longer, I'll finish the additional 6 treatments.  So I'm hanging in there and hopefully this will be the last before I go on a pill form of Endocrine Therapy. 

Dr. Arun states I'll be on the Endocrine Therpy the rest of my life.  The Endocrine Therapy blocks out the Estrogen and Progesterone that is feeding 90% of my tumors - so if you cut off the source, it should stop any regrowth.  Her goal plan for me was to shrink tumors as small as she could and then go to this pill therapy.  As she stated, my cancer is not curable, but it's treatable.

Thank you all for your continued prayers, and as Charles and I discussed, I think we are nationwide on prayer lists!  We're both going to be kickin' up our heels at the 50th Class Reunion!

Hugs and love,

J

Beau Wann, Jr.

Yea Jackie...youre gonna get so much better, and so is Charles and anyone else with health obstacles...

Good Morrow mine waltritexians...Actually not doing much on the new house situation, just waiting on the paper work ! And yall all thought we lived in a paperless environment...in triplicate no less! Actually been hurting almost more than even I can stand...at some point all this pain just HAS to go away...doesnt it? Been poppin pills and get almost no relief...been avoiding the forum, cause I cant keep a steady thought because of the pain! I have started a hundred times, only to just erase and close it out.

      I try to stay busy working around here, but I forget what I started out to do because of the constant pain! I never use to complain about it, because I just hurt in this spot or that spot, and thought you were suppose to hurt...until this...now I hurt everywhere, constantly, plus ache underneath the hurt...as I've said in the past, I hate to complain, cause there are sure enough folks going through a lot worse!

     Hey Pat, that is one of my favorite songs, "THE WRECK OF THE EDMOND FITZGERALD"...once I learned the chords to it, I played it to death...or till it sank... Which makes me think of the time I learned "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", recorded by a few folks...

     I was at an NCO club, I think in Hawaii, or somewhere in the SouthPac...I had checked out a guitar, they let you do that back then, and was sitting on a piano bench on a small stage in an empty hall...drink by my side (probably Chivas Regal) Thats what we drank mostly back in them good ol days...anyway, I picked that tune out, and knew the words from the radio, so I started strummin and singing...got all the way through it, stopped and took a sip...a female type lady person came in and asked was that me singing and playing...I fessed up, and she said, "That was great, I thought it was a radio playing"...probably the nicest and best compliment anyone ever paid my sparse talent...

I keep thinking I'll go upstairs and break out my guitar, and play something...but lack the strength and will to do so...I will...someday, just wait and see! ! ! Might get the band back together, go on a  Whirld Tour...

    Hey Teddy, I've done the "storm drain rescue" numerous times...probably one of the reasons my back is messed up...yup, those drains are 150 pounds...I never rescued ducks, but kittens...one pair I remember were siblings Nicky and Nora, now long since departed...out on an evening walk out in hearthstone with my beloved, some 20 plus years ago, and heard the faint cry of kittens. Always a heart warmer or wrencher...then saw mama kitty perched just above the storm drain! "oh no" I thought, theyre in the storm drain"...you see how sharp I can be sometimes doncha... Well, with all my strength I gave a mighty shove, then a miner yelled out, "theres a light up above"....oops, no wrong story, but I did manage to get the storm grate up and moved...back during my stronger days...

    Jumped down into the murky depths of the land of "gigantus crocodillus", (and I might interject here, I dont like crocodiles, well duh, who does? ) and located the two meowing waifs...they had ants on em, and dirt and sludge, but otherwise appeared in good health...dont know how they got down there...
as soon as I got them up and out, Diane had the waifs, and I was trying to put momma cat in a carrier, when some nitwitted moron driving by, honked, the jerk...of course that scared momma away, never to be seen again! I think she was hanging around just to make sure her babes were taken care of. I guess she knew who I was..."katmandu the kitty whisperer"...got em all cleaned up and to the vet where they were pronounced in good health...

Found a home for them, my beloveds brother...I knew brothers-in-law were good for something...we named em Nicky and Nora, after the two characters in the "Thin Man" series...lots of other rescue stories of dogs and cats...makes me weary just thinking about em...

    Been taking care of Lucys dogs next door, whilst they are in Europe...found out one of the dogs is terrified of storms...she got out, managed to catch and get her  back home. You wont believe how she got out...after numerous tries, she chewed through the wood on the gate and squeezed under...I boarded it up along with all the other chewed pickets...along comes another storm, and in both instances, hardly worthy of being called a storm...just some huffin and puffin, distant thunder, no lightning to speak of...and shes gone again...she chewed a hole above my patch on the gate...a BIG hole...caught the little ragmuffin and put her back up...more patching...

   I finally put up two 4x8 sheets of 3/4 inch plywood on the fence, and some 1x6 deck boards on the gate...SHE IS NOT GONNA CHEW THROUGH THAT...if she does, "good bye and good luck" ...concentrating on the repair work and capturing of the wayward pup, did help to distract my mind from the pain...and thats a good thing...

    Our internet has been on the fritz, as well as cable tv...well, tv you can have, but I've grown attached to the internet ! Not sure how we are gonna be able to get on once we're up in chappell hill...no land lines...oh well, if we can put a man on the moon, surely we can get internet to "Bluebonnet Hill"...our hill is...was covered in bluebonnets! ! !

    ok, time to, uh, do something, forget what, but maybe it'll come to me between the pulses of pain...loooking at my hands with my glasses on, I'VE GOT OLD MAN HANDS! ! ! ! ! ! ! Dang, when did that happen???? all wrinkled up and pruney looking...ok, I need to speak to the management about this...

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

we got 2 inches of rain yesterday...had to sit between both dogs on the couch yesterday during our storm...Doesnt bother Coop, but jack just goes nuts...he wont even take a treat...just turns his head away...got through that ok, and as we went to the store afterwards, we noticed a path of destruction just south of Pinemont on TC Jester, albiet a small path...must have been a small twister, or wind shear...lots of limbs and trees whacked about...inlaws on Latexo lost power for most of the day and night...well, we did get 2 inches of much needed rain...

Oh right, I was gonna sign off wasnt I...
Got Jury duty tomorrow...probably dismiss me though because of my hearing, or non hearing...aids not doing as good a job as in the beginning...oh well...I wish I didnt have to drive all the way down there to just be dismissed...you'ld think they could do it over the phone or computer...I never minded doing my duty and serving, got to meet a few judges and lawyers and other folks, which is good to do from time to time...

Ok, bye....your frien and bro...Olbeauwannkanobie...tha kitty whisperer...

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

BroBeau,

So glad  to hear from you, I was really getting concerned!  I hadn't been on the forum for a while until today and saw you hadn't either.

Goodness, I knew you must be hurting, so sorry that you are in so much pain.  Prayers are there for you!!  I've had a few discomforts with a shoulder ache.  I know it's from chemo, but just that wears on my nerves and I know it is temporary.   I cannot imagine in pain all over and all the time.  I was really hurting for you when you described building barricades for your neighbor's dog.  Too much --- sure wish you could find some relief!   Anybody have suggestions?

Hugs and love,

J

Beau Wann, Jr.

Hey Sis Jackie, thanks for your prayers and concerns...I really dont look for sympathy when I cite such things, just information...but I do appreciate your concern and good thoughts and prayers...I took a Naproxen and some codiene, double strength, and that has helped, finally...took its own sweet time though...I was so glad to hear of your good news of the tumors shrinking...here's a thought, maybe they will disappear althogether...what do those doctors know anyway...glad you are going to have dinner with Jimmie Lee and Charles...yall need a distraction...and why not with one and other?

      I sure do like the information that Wayne puts on his entries...lots of good stuff...He mentioned about the distortion and corruption of the name of the gitchee gumee indian tribe in Canada...I'm sure there are several here, one in particular is the TSIKAMAGI indian tribe of the Cherokee Nation. It's where the name Chickamauga comes from...I use to hear oldtimers call it "chickimaugi", and thought it was wrong, but it was more correct than what it's called today...

     The battle of Chickamauga was fought at Crawfish Springs, named after a Cherokee Chief Crayfish...see once again a corruption of names...The Cherokee settled that area in late 17 hundred to early 18 hundred...they loved the beauty and bounty of it...also about 500 Cherokee soldiers joined Andrew Jackson during the war of 1812, to fight against the Creek indians who had aligned themselves with the British...we defeated the British with the help of the 500 soldiers... we stole it from the Cherokee in 1835, which of course led to the "Trail of tears"...what a swell bunch of ingrates we were back then! ! ! Well, we needed it to build a zillion walmarts...I hate walmart...dont get me started on them...

    Anyway, the Battle of Chickamauga on Sept 19-20 in 1863, and involved 110,000 soldiers, the second largest battle in the civil war...there were some 35,000 casualties of KIA WIA,MIA and captured during this battle...the northern soldiers, led byGen  William Rosecrans went up against the southern soldiers led by Gen Braxton Bragg, and Lt Gen James Longstreet...we almost won that battle, drove them yankee dogs back up through Chattanooga...

Anyway, some 26 years later, in 1889, they held a Blue and Gray Barbeque for those that fought at Chickamauga. Some 14,000 attended from both sides hoping to put to rest any old wounds, pun intended...From that got started the Chickamauga - Chattanooga National Military Park, known as The Chickamauga Battlefield. It was dedicated in 1890, and is just north of the town of Chicamauga and is the oldest and largest civil war battlefield in the country...

Now, arent you glad you asked about the Tsikamagi Indian tribe???? I'll bet you are!!!

You know, typing on this forum also seems to help aleviate some of the pain...maybe I'll try harder to just type stuff...if yall will indulge me...

I kinda figgered out why I have to double up on codiene as a pain reliever...My mom gave me Codiene as a cough med all the while growing up...you could buy it over the counter back in them good ol DuBarry Days...so my system became immune to it after a fashion...but, I fell asleep alot in school and caught hell for it...they just labeled me a "good for nothin kid" rather than find the cause of my sleepiness...there were no written side effects on most meds back then...now they are required...in spades! ! ! 

 School is out...Diane is now on 4 ten hour days rather than 5 twelve hour days...hard to figgure that one out aint it! ! ! I guess now that means 4 fourteen hour days...but she is a trooper, nary a discouraging woid, nor a grump...

She gives me leeway because of the pain...it sure does make on kranky and  grumpy, mean as a snake, and a dozen more of the seven dwarfs names...use to, a motorcycle ride would soothe my aches and pains...now I dont dare ride because it doesnt help anymore, and I certainly wouldnt want to be distracted riding pegasus...

Ok, methinks me beloveds on the way home...maybe I'll make spagetti and meat sauce for supper...Been off my feed lately also...and had the chills Saturday night, all night long...thought I was gonna shake the house off its foundation...DW wrapped me in swaddling clothes and packed me with a half dozen hot rice bags, and piled 4 or 12 cats on top...finally got over that...dont know what that was all about...kinda reminded me of the "footed pajamas" with the trapdoor in the back we use to wear as a toddler...those were waaaaaarrrrrrrmmmmmmm...

Ok, I think I hear the garage door...
see yall...
Your frien and bro Katmandu..

John Burgess Webb

jackie and charley,i pray you find solice and relief from the pain of chemo;i understnd that no-one fully get it unless you havebeen through it.you grasp the full meaning of being a "patient",for patient you must be;i can use the term "long suffering".god bless.

burge

Beau Wann, Jr.

Good Morrow mine sweet friens...
      Hey Burge, your name is mentioned a lot, along with others, in my daily conversations with "The One"...Pat, I have a Gordon Lightfoot CD...around here somewhere...If you have a CD player, I would love to share it with you, providing I can find it! ! ! Lynn Burkhardt loaned me her CD collection, including every tune that Elvis ever did, plus some songs that I have been looking for for years, which really expanded my collection of music...then she gave a CD of Alan Jackson singing Hymns to me, called Precious Memories...best CD I have ever owned. It's the one I listen to the most now, at least once a day...

      Didnt make jury duty this morn, new I was gonna feel bad...my beloved got it delayed till August 6, so yall remind me to remember...plus I will mark it on my many calendars and cheat sheets for the living of life...I didnt know they would let you postpone it without some sort of bruhaha, gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands...but really they wont miss me or be short of folks, cause there are a thousand or more down there...just didnt feel up to driving down there and finding a parking spot, and walking a zillion blocks and getting lost in the tunnel system again like I did last time, and saying "what" ever time they asked me a question or barked out distructions...and they're gonna send me home anyway once they find out they are dealing with a "deaf dumb and blind man"...and I cant even play a pinball machine that good...dang! ! !

        Didnt wake up too many times last night...Diane slept in Haleys room so she wouldnt disturb me...wasnt that nice of her! ! !   Cats and dogs left me alone...Well, Big Oliver did keep vigil over me, make sure I was still alive...he knows where his bread is buttered...literally...I made a "butter bread" sandridge...remember those? Using real butter of course...I used a watered down version made with olive oil...anyway, Big Oliver jumped up on the counter, which he never does, and licked the butter off the bread, whilst I was otherwise preocupodo...that scamp...No, I didnt go ahead and eat it, so Jack and Cooper got an extra treat...

       Remember the butter and sugar sandwich? My Dad loved those and would make us one when he made one for hisownself...now that there sandridge would either cure you or kill you...real pure butter and pure cane sugar...all unadulterated of course...hardens my arteries just thinking about em...

        Since my interests in life have pretty much involved music, I have been watching "The Voice"...amazing talent from the very start...any one of those folks could be a super star in my estimation...they're down to 5 semi-finalists...absolutely encredibly amazing talent...if I were the kind to go to concerts, I would go to any or all of these five folks, might even buy a CD...we actually voted last year for Cassadee Pope, the finalist, like our vote mattered...not gonna do so this year...wouldnt know who to vote for....hate to see any of them lose...

       I still have to use the "closed captioning" , if I want to know what it is they are singing about, and the comments from the coaches...I've pretty much heard of only one or two of the songs they have performed! The little 16 year old Danielle Bradbury, from Cypress, Tx is absolutely "super star" bound....to be that good and only 16, and never having done it before is just a gift from God for her...

       I dont know her personally, but Cooper has performed his magic in the CyFair school district, and me being his personal "roadie", well I can say that Danielle and I are close friends...NO? Ok, well I would love to adopt her...can you imagine being at one of her family gatherings, say Thanksgiving, or Christmas? Lets say Christmas, ok? And singing Christmas Carols with her????? Oh My Goodness...be still my beating heart! ! !

      Sasha Allen, Shakiras protege, has one of the purest, smoothest voices I have ever heard...she sang Dolly Partons "I Will Always Love You", last night...I know, everyone thinks the song is Whitney Houstons, but it is Dollys...In fact Dolly and Whitney did a duet and released it as a single...but anyway, Whitney being in everafter now, is spoken reverently of as "Saint Whitney", which is fine, but I think Sasha did an even better and more incredible version of that song, but wont get the praise and recognition that Whitney will always get...in my non professional but musical opinion, she did...Sasha really made that her own song, but will always be compared to and slightly thought of less that Whitney, which is a shame because Sasha is, I think even better than Whitney...she seems to have a much more pure sound...

      About the only other TV show I like, and I discovered it this year, after it has been on a couple of years, is "Castle"! ! ! It is a "cop" show, "good looking guy  and beautiful woman" sidekick sort of show, but with a twist, it has a sense of humor, sort of like the banter between Nicky and Nora on the Thin Man series..."Castle" is really one of the better shows to come along in a long time...once again in my unprofessional but brilliant opinions...

     On Comcast, you can go back and watch prior episodes, but they dont run em forever...I think if they come out on DVD, I'm gonna buy em, cause I've missed quite a few of them...Remember "Moonlighting"? With Cybil Sheperd and Bruce Willis??? It was ok, for the time, but mostly all they did was bicker and fight with each other...very distracting! Castle is different, plus there are main plots and subplots and subsubplots....well anyway, in my small "deaf dumb and blind" whirld, It fills the bill! ! !

      I know, all yall really care about all this crud I've been talking about...well, it is theraputic for me, so just indulge me in my fantasy moments ok? Thanks I depreciate that alot...

     Methinks Cooper and I will go to the Antique Center, and anywhere else he is welcome, just go get out and mingle with the peasants...or pheasants...You know, I have never had pheasant before...duck and goose and chicken and dove and turkey, but never pheasant...I've eaten "crow" a few times...Cabellas offers all the above in the smoked version..Not crow, but all the others....I guess they pack em in dry ice, which brings me to my next wonder, "frozen Co2" ...ever wonder who thunk that one up? I did...but never found out...Ok, now I'm just ramblin..

    Need to get going before the going gets gone...
Thanks for your patience and understanding...it is greatly appreciated, more than you can know...
Keep the sun at your six and ride boldly ride...with a cushion under ya...
Your frien and bro...Katmandu...     

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Yay...good to hear from all of you on the Forum. Hope you can get out of jury duty Mr. beauman....Chappell Hill will make that civic duty go bye-bye forever.  This is a plus for living in the country.  I still miss the concrete that keeps cars, shoes, etc clean longer.  Mud, and grass dead trees, branches fallen to be picked up.....there is a lot of work in the country.  I thought when I moved here in Grimes cty. 1995, I could work part-time (no jobs readily available especially to newcomers, hire the ones they know) read lots of books and establish a small business....never happened,  Few amenities, like convenience stores, stores of all kinds just around the corner, mall near-by.  Crisp lawns, neighbors, neighbors popping in for a chat....take those out' of your lifestyle.  Just different just saying,  The air is cleaner, real stars can be seen, peaceful. Taxes are less though. We have a lot of Houston area people re-locating here, some stay and some leave after only a year or two. There is satellite service for t.v., no cable unless you have lines underground. 

Hope Fudds is well attended tonight, wasn't able to make that drive today again.  Prayers for all of the physically, mentally, and emotionally and spiritually ill will be said tonight. And that good overcomes bad in this world. Walking down to the gate to close before nightfall........it is a good walk, and back to consider a few projects and/or just watch good ole television, then to bed.

Wayne Lake

From geese to tenors……………………

Attended the Canadian Tenors concert last night and really enjoyed some fantastic voices, those guys are great.  This is no Back Street Boys/Justin Bieber stage hype but the real deal singing everything from Italian Opera to the Lord’s Prayer to Elvis to Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen’s Halelujah.  

Check out the tour dates in Texas as they are coming soon: Dallas June 28^th and Houston June 29^th @ www.canadiantenors.com.  If your ears still work, you will enjoy it for sure.

wtl

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Happy Father's Day to all you Dad's out there!!    

Beau Wann, Jr.

Hey all yall ! ! ! Guess what day it is! ! ! Yup, that's right., My Birthday...and not just any old birthday either...well, yeah, it is just any old birthday...howesomever, I already begun the calibration by dragging Cooper around the hood and then having jack drag me around...oh what fun...had breakfast...of lasagna, and vanilla creme cake and a big ol RC cocola...boy howdy, do ah know how to calibrate! Why yesterday was a banner day also too tambien...FATHERS DAY, AH, A restful peaceful easy going day.....NOT! ! ! ! ! ! !

Started off the day stubbin my toes, and got all of em this time instead of just the piggy that got none...started my limping early I guess...tried to put my boots on, and one of the cats left me a surprise, now wasnt that nice, a fathers day/birthday presnent if you will, and even if you wont!

Finally got that mess all cleaned up, new socks and different boots etc...put my other boots outside to dry out...had to find a place where the birds wouldnt leave me a presnent...jeese, the things ah have to put up with...then, Big Oliver was thinking outside the box, and thats one thing you dont want to happen, is a 22 pound wooly mamoth thinking outside the box!!

Well, he tried to stay in the box, but he sorta hangs over  the edges, sort of...anyway, without going into too much graphic detail, his misdeed sorta hung in the air a touch...got that malfunction corrected...hell, it wasnt even 8 oclock yet...I'm like the army, "I do more before 9 oclock than most people do all day"...that aint no lie either eyether.

Been working hard for two days just to get ready for fathers day...gonna have company, both boys and grandkids and inlaws. Last year I said I wasnt going to do this, and the year before I said I wasnt gonna do this...it's just too much work ! ! ! ! Cant get anyone else to set up the calibrations...then on top of all that, had a showing...didnt look promising though, she ran through the house so fast, dont know how she had time to look at anything...

Well andy way, back to Fathers day...after I got all the cat bidness and odg bidness out of the way, Diane wnet to church and I played hooky! put the mac and cheese in the oven, and got out all my other stuff, bbq , beans, potato salad etc...I noticed a flashing coming from the oven... IT WAS ON FIRE ! ! ! ! ! Got my handy welding gloves I keep in the kitchen for just such an emergency, took the mac and cheese out, and put the fire out...it was the element that had burned through and was arcing...good thing we have two ovens...put the mac and cheese in that one, meanwhile opening a winder (eaast texas for window) setting up fans to blow the smoke out...It's not even 11 oclock yet...

Started looking for my tea jug/pottery, about 2 and a half gallon one. Just like always, I cant find it...tore up the kitchen looking for it, until I remembered where I hid it...in plain sight of course....Made tea, several gallons...spilled same...tried to put ice in the tea container...spilled ice all over the kitchen...Annie-Bob ran into the kitchen to play with the ice...she loves playing ice hockey when I spill ice, which is just about every day, all day long...Finallhy got the tea and ice cleaned up...Made coffe for all the old foggies that drink it...I guess we can be included in that bunch eh! Why is it I cannot pour liquid from one vessel to another without spilling it????

Got it all prepared so I went outside with Jack and cooper...thought I'd hang around the cement pond and watch the boids whilst I waited for Diane to get home...danged if the cement pond wasnt hungry, the cement pond ate my binoculars...yup me and Coop and Jack peered over the edge, and there they were, sittting pretty as you please, in 8 feet of water, pure pristene chlorinated water...I left em set down there, just wonderin if they was kilt...they was! ! !

Fished em out, and water poured out of em for a minute or two...well, they were cheap anyway...glad they werent Nikon or Swarovski...

everyone came over, nuts and all...my back was hurting, along with the rest of my body, so I found a place on the couch in my secret garden and let the festivities carry on....one group of folks were watching NASCAR and the other PGA...good thing I have 6 TVs...SIX? you say! yup, dont know why, just worked out that way...now, I dont watch any of them, at least for very long...Fianlly got em all to leave bout 8 pm...good thing I clean as I go...and also a good thing Diane is a good sport and a good cleaner...

Yeah, fathers day, what a restful peaceful day...it's supposed to be, but not...which brings me to today...my birthday...whatever am I gonna do? as I said, I've et breakfast, lasagna, vanilla creme cake, aand a big old cold RC cola...oh, dont worry about it being healthy, it was all free range, so it ws good for me!

Ok, guess I'll go do something...maybe ride Pegasus...but it is gonna be hot...maybe just take an all day nap...well whatever I do, it's gonna be fun...yeah right! ! !

Keep the sun at yoru six and ride boldly ride...
Your frien and older brother...Olbeauwannkanobie

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Hey Mr Beauman...the most famous birthday of all...a BIG Happy Birthday to one of our most delightful and deserving Waltripians of all.  Love from one of us...LOL.

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Hey BroBeau,

Happy Belated Birthday!!!!  I knew it was yesterday but just didn't get a chance to get on forum.

Hope you had a good one!  Hugs, J

Jan Barnes '65 (Nimtz)

Happy belated Birthday from me too, Beaucephus!  Hope it was a wonderful day for you and that your pain was less than it was on Father's Day.  What a pity to have gone to all that work for the enjoyment of others and you couldn't enjoy your own celebration.  I'm glad you started your birthday out right with a breakfast of champions.  Lasagna sounds like a great breakfast to me!  I was such a picky breakfast eater growing up and my mom would never let me go to school with an empty stomach.  My favorite breakfasts were either a tuna sandwich or a fried weiner sandwich followed by a slice of leftover pie from the weekend.  My mom baked two fresh pies every Saturday for almost her entire lifetime, and they almost always lasted from one Saturday till the next when she would bake two more.

Hope you enjoyed your special day!  And heck... hope you enjoyed today too.

Beau Wann, Jr.

Thanks one and all for the well wishes on mine birthday!
      Jackie how do you post such delights? Youre gonna have to give the rest of us lessons on how to do that stuff. Thanks Kay, and Jan. Jan, I knew there was something special about you, "tuna sandridges for breakfast or weiner sandridges and pie...Oh my, what a delight. Life is hard, to say the least, why not have dessert first whenever you can get it ! ! ! Your mom bake the same pies, ie apple or peach etc every Saturday? I thought I smelled something delightful coming from that area of Oak Forest, on Saturdays! ! !

     Growing up, we generally had cereal, hot or cold depending on the weather, for breakfast. On weekends we would have bacon and eggs and toast, all cooked in real butter and bacon grease. No wonder it tasted so good...bacon was cured with sugar and salt back in them good ol DuBarry days! Bacon grease could make anything taste good...cept maybe liver! ! ! After cooking the eggs in about an inch of bacon grease, she would then adorn the eggs with real butter...wow, a double whammy for the arteries! ! ! We didnt have a toaster back in them good ol days! I allus thought that was a luxury to have a real bonefide "pop-up" toaster. My dad didnt believe in them new fangled kitchen gadgets...and isnt it odd, he never went in the kitchen, cept maybe to raid the icebox! ! !

     Mom put the toast in the "toaster oven" in the bottom of the stove...I just thought that was normal, till I got mine own "pop-up" toaster! Now, I kinda miss the "in-stove" toast...cause now  our oven is "toast"!
     Mine beloved got on line to see if our oven still exists...it does, even though it's a 1968 model GE. She has ordered a new element, and her woids to me, "why, it's so easy to take theold one out, and install a new one. Just takes 5 minutes...does the oven have a plug?"...Oh LORD, I know I'm in trouble now. I have been trying to get her to just buy a new double oven and be done with it...Nope, aint gonna do that, cause it's too easy and more costly...Oh well....The element will be here on Friday, so be on the lookout for a mushroom cloud from this area...

     My Catahoula Jack, has been getting his excersize running around the pool chasing the bottom dweller, Mr Polaris...I run it a few hours a day so he can run, since I cant run him...well he caught the bottom dweller as it came up to the top on the side..I hated to scold him cause, he is a "huntin" dog, and he looked so proud and triumphant for having caught the "monster"....

I straightened the wheels out, somewhat, but cant get the teeth marks out...it still rolls...a little shakey sometimes...he cant catch the tail, no matter how hard he trys...it whips too fast, and is constantly squirting out water...he does get a snoot full of water for his efforts though...Big Ollie just looks on with quiet disconcern...really, he's just asleep...ever heard of a cat sleeping wigh his eyes open???? Big Ollie does that...and always upside down too!!!!

Well, guess I will depart and deplane and decompress...is it too early for alcoholic beverages?
I did notice that the ones I had on Sunday, sorta got rid of the pain...hmmm...I like the drinks with the little umbrella, dontchu?

Keep the sun at your six and the Son in your heart, and ride boldly ride...
Your frien and brother...tha Duke of DuBarry

Jan Barnes '65 (Nimtz)

Hey, Beaucephus.  My mom always baked two different Saturday pies each and every Saturday so we wouldn't get tired of eating the same ones.  Fruit ones were apple, Dutch apple (with struesel on top) peach, cherry, and my favorite... dewberry (in season).  Then there was pecan and the best cream pies ever... banana, chocolate, coconut, and my favorite... tart lemon.

Don't worry about replacing your oven heating element.  When I lived around the corner from you and all the CO homes had 1968 ovens, I replaced both my double oven elements myself.  It was quick and easy.  And they do actually just plug in.  Good luck!

Beau Wann, Jr.

JAN ! ! ! I love all those pies your mom baked. I baked an apple pie once, under the tutelege of my mom of course. The hardes part is the crust. I had no idear what "cutting in" meant. Then to do it, it starts out a big mess, and you think it isnt working, and then voila, it's pie dough! Cant think of a favorite pie...

       My mom and grandmothers would bake a chocolate merengue pie for my birthdays sometimes. I do love peach and apple. I love pecan and strawberry, but cant have them because of the seeds and my diverticulitis. I guess I just love a good homemade pie. The flying saucer pie factory has good ones, but dont make merengue pies anymore. There is a place in Chappel Hill, on the inbound side of 290 at the light, that makes all kinds of pies, ranging in price from 13 dollars to almost 20. havent had one yet, but have had their BBQ and Burgers and Fries and colaches, and they are first rate.

I also love that picture of you in the mountains. Where is that, somewhere around Katy? Nah, just funnin. I do love the mountains. I guess if I ever had to leave Texas, I think I would love Montana.  There's a small town up there, cant remember it's name, but I know where it is. It's just beautiful, nestled in the mountains. I think I like Montana...yeah, thats a good place. Gonna have our own mountain...sometime in the near future...I hope. It is a whopping 224 feet tall, or down to the valley floor. Not exactly the Grand Canyon, but it will do.

Yall have a good thursday...keep the sun at your six and the Son in your heart, and ride boldly ride...
your frien and brother...jabberwrocky

Pat Brantley (Ross)

I love history and read all kinds.  I have been reading "the Plantagenets" for more than a week and am only at 1300 AD.  These men and women had many of the same dreams that we all do.  They were just kings and queens.  My first desire when I was growing up was to be a lawyer in manhattan with a large apartment, no kitchen and several cats.  Don't know where that dream came from.  I never knew anyone from New York.  By the time we graduated I was ready to marry a tall man and have five sons so I could have a basketball team.  Dated a few basketball players in college and one in the pro's, but married a guy who is six feet and had two daughters.  I still love basketball.  My San Antonio spurs are going to win tonight and make me happy.  I don't know what my next dream will be, but I'm sure my imagination won't let me down.    My next history book will be about the civil war.  In the meantime I will read several murder mysteries.  My daddy and I used to listen to Boston blackie on the radio, so I guess "whodunits" are sentimental.  

All the talk about pie has made me hungry so I will have to bake something before the family comes over for the ball game.  Beau, you would like this book.  Got to go clean the house so my grand kids can mess it up tonight.

Teddie Jordan

Pat, I always wanted to be a cowboy or a frontiersman. Kind of a cross between Roy Rogers, Davy Crockett, and Daniel Boone. But then the real world came a long and I ended up being a salesman.

Now at sixty seven I want to be a cowboy or a frontiersman when I grow up. I have come full circle.

I guess I was born a hundred years too late. What the heck?

Charles Charlie Brawner

Jimmie's Mom, Annie Lee Smith, made the absolute best Chocolate and Coconut Cream Pies EVER.  But I have to say, Jimmie has taken over and now has caught up.  Jimmie's pies are fantastic.  Also, my brother, Tommy, makes the best Apple Pie you ever put in your mouth.  My sister, Debbie, makes my Mom's recipe for Banana Pudding.  It's as good as it gets.  Just braggin a bit on my family.