Beau Wann, Jr.
Wow, if I stay off long enough, lots o folks get on with great things to share...absolutely love it...Teddie, you need to import some hogs, maybe the domesticated ones, for your snake problem...we had lots of hogs at our place in Leon county, so really wasnt worried too much about snakes...plus the hogs didnt do much damage to anything, cept maybe small patches of ground they rooted up...they mainly just hung around twice a day for the corn feeding...cant blame em for that now can we...did you know, you cant poison a hog? Yup, thats what I was told, and thats one of the reasons they eat snakes, a delicacy to them for sure, cause they are immune to the venom! ! ! (an old hog farmer told me that)...I guess just being an "old" anything is good, eh what!
I was told that we had tree rattlers up in that neck O the woods, and that they were an endangered spieces...they certainly were, if I saw one of them bad boys...I always wore a wide brimmed hat, just in case one o them bad boys dropped in for a chat...(shudder)
I was getting worried about you Burge, dont stay away so long...always love reading your posts...we do think alike!! The measure of an intelligent man, is how much he agrees with you...RIGHT?
Still thinking about those with health challenges...you are being thought of and prayed for daily!
Hey Richard, hadnt heard from you in a while...you will be glad to know that an eagle scout candidate came to our church asking if he can work on his ES badge by fixing up our Meek Memorial garden...we graciously said "yes"...and he did come through...he had help from his troop, and his church also...When it is rededicated, you will of course be notified and be a guest of honor...I'm guessing the church will do the notification...this is just a heads up...
Hey Teddie, Susie Fuller is suffering from some yet unnamed bacteria, that the medicos cant seem to get a handle on. She is not feeiling so well, and is trying to recover, at home. Also those of you that know the Theissens, (Tonda and Sheilas mom and dad), Jim suffered a stroke that left him blind in one eye. The sawbones says it will wear off and get better and he should be able to see again out of that eye. He says he is starting to see some light in that eye...he is 90+...
Hey Wayne, happy trails to you for sure...guess who mentioned the book "The Trail Drivers of Texas"? One of my altime favorite writers, Leon Hale...In his column today, he was recounting beginning lines in some of the books he has read and loves. His favorite book is the above mentioned...mine too! Although, I am hard pressed to remember the opening lines of any book...cept maybe the line..."It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" from...David Copperfield???? Or maybe it was "A Tale of Two Cities"...our books are packed away in anticipation of MOVING...
I remember some poetry, bits and pieces, but dont recall any opening lines of any books...I like the classics by H.G.Wells, Hemmingway, EA Poe, Dickens, Twain, Shakespere etc, but I also like the new authors like Jacquline (sp) Susane, Tom Clancy, and W.E.B. Griffin...oh, and I use to like Harold Robbins. I read every book of Clancy and Griffin and most of Robbins. I quit reading Robbins because of the last book that I tried to read was just awful. I think it had a womans name as the title. It was just terrible. Love poety, Dickinson; Bronte sisters; Elizabeth Barret Browning, one of my all time favorites. Love her sonnets and Shakesperes sonnets...Yeats; Poe; So many of them...all old friends.
I do remember the last line of a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Ad Finitim"...
"There is no fear, and hell has no terror, to change or alter a love like mine"...
There are lots of other books I have read, whose author escapes me...read lots of biographys and autobiographys...some good, and some not so much. Of all the civil war generals, both north and south, the onliest (east texas for only) one that never wrote a memoir or autobiography, was Robert E Lee, known affectionately by his soldiers and slaves alike, as "marse Robert" ...Longstreet and Grant wrote biographys, some 30 years after the war. Grant met Mark Twain and they didnt like each other, but finally grew to be friends. The resulting friendship culminated in Twain helping Grant write an autobiography, and getting it published, shortly before Grant died.
Of course all yall know all that stuff, but it's fun for me to recollect that information. Just trying to keep my mind strong and active. Wish I could find a book study group somewhere. We have one, sort of, at church, and I was gonna jine! I read their first book, and hated it...I dont remember the title, but it was a former POW of the japs, that suffered horrible things, as did most of the POWs in jap camps. Anyway, it was about all he suffered, and that he forgave them...I dont like POW books, or prison anything books...
So, I didnt go to the discussion group, cause I just didnt like the book. I thought they should have picked something else. But what did I expect, it was picked by a minister, about forgiveness, which is all fine and good, but whats to discuss....Having read alot of those kind of books, in the past, sort of burned my interest out about that sort of subject...no matter how you slice and dice it, war and all it's atrocities, ARE NOT SO GOOD...
Well, Sunday is drawing to a close...just 15 more minutes to go...guess when I get through here, gonna look up "Jake", from State Farms number, see if he really is wearing kakis...you know, thats all my dad and his brothers and their dad wore, kakis...(is that spelled right?) probably knot! ! ! Well, they wore shirts too...and they had the obligatory "funeral suit" they would wear to, where else...duh, funerals! ! ! !
Hey Jackie, we have the "RAM cookbook, but it's packed away...I think I will stick to speghetti and meat balls, meat loaf, and breakfast...I do those exceptionally well...maybe if we FINALLY do get moved, I will invite all hands over for some of my whirld famous speghetti and meat sauce, and if you stay the night, your choice of a good ol southern campfire breakfast, or breakfast tacos, or both...
You hear that? The 11:55 freight? yup, right on time...crossing 43rd heading for Union Station...
Speaking of cooking, apple pie! ! ! Ok, can any of youse youtes that took Home Ec, tell me if you made "mock apple pie"? I dont recollect ever having it, but heard that it supposedly tastes just like real apple pie...WHY? My Question, who came up with it, and how did they decide that "Ritz" crackers would make a great apple pie????? One of lifes great little mysteries for sure.
Ok, I see some of yall nodding off...guess I better sing off for now...
I do have lots more to say, just tired, and made myself hungry mentioning food...dont know why my appetite is so strong...seems I'm hungry all the time! ! ! I guess thats a good thing, eh what!
Keep the sun at your six and ride boldly ride...
your frien and other brother...Windy JabberWrocky
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