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06/17/14 11:35 PM #6451    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Oh no, Bennie, you mean there are two of us...TWINS???? I didnt think anyone understood my...blather...Thank you for the birthday wishes and good well wishes also too, and happy birthday to you, and to all others that I missed...and thank you John...if you dont want to go to Jury duty, just get yourself a cheap pair of hearing aids, or if you need em like I do, an expensive pair...

    Last time I was down for jury duty last year, I went to the clerk and just pointed to my ears so they coiuld see my HAs, and they sent me to the main jury window...I pointed to my HAs and said it probably wouldnt be a good idear for me to be sitting on any jury...the lady behind the glass said something, and I said, "what?", to which she stamped on my papers EXCUSED...she said something else, to which I gave my patented answer "what?", and she just waved bye...

    I really didnt mind being on a jury, but just getting down town was such a bother, then finding where you needed to go...well, dont get me started! ! !

     I tried to take it easy today, I really did, and really this was one of my easiest days, but still, back and legs, shoulders and arms hurt worse than ever before, and on my birthday no less...whats a young man to do? I did one load of clothes today. I mention that because I washed, for the millionth time, a "do rag", a large handkerchief that I tie on my punkin head and then put  my motorcycle helmet on.  For me, it really cant be called a "do rag" , cause I no longer have a "do" to protect.... Well, I have never gotten to use this one, and I have had it for about 5 years or more. It is the stiffest piece of cloth I have ever touched.

     We have soaked it in fabric softener for weeks on end, and washed and rewashed it till it has started to become frayed on the ends, but still  stiff as a board...well, today, I decided to see if it had a label...It did! Said 100% cotton MADE IN CHINA...now I get it, it is of the CCC brand...Chinese Communist Cotton...and we all know how stiff necked the chicoms are dont we...now, they have their own brand of cotton...thats the onliest explanation I can come up with! ! ! I didnt know they grew cotton! Rice maybe, but not cotton!  I wonder if they have the antebellum plantations to go along with the cotton farms!  "Way down upon the sawanneeeeee riverrrrrr..."

     Trying some new "Honey Whiskey" made by a distiller up in Minnasooooota called "COOPERS MARK".... I bought it because it probably was named after my dog Cooper. I am enjoying some now, and I can tell you it smells a whole lot better than where cooper has marked...It's only 70proof, so it is very smooth and does have the taste of honey.

    Ok, time to go...going up to the hill tomorrow morn check on the progress of our house. Going to have breakfast at the Chappell Hill cafe...so, if yall care to join us, I'm buying the coffee...

   Keep the sun at your six and ride boldly ride...
your frien and resident crack pot...Beauregard Cephus E. Lee
   


06/18/14 05:22 PM #6452    

 

Johnny Sheffield

Well beau happy birthday to you and to all 

others that have a June birthday. 

See that Jimmie lee had one coming up

pretty soon. Someone told me happy birthday but it is still 

a few weeks away, let's font rush it. 

Just got back from donating money ho

the Mississippi economy but had a good time at the pool. 

Drink to many tiki splashes and ate to many

bar b que oysters 

Jackie glad you got a good report also. 

Anyway see everybody soon still unpacking

johnny

 

 


06/19/14 11:42 AM #6453    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Good Morrow Myne Fyne Waltripynes...and a lovely morn it is...astually slept from 12:53 till 5:24. Now that myne fyne friens, is a good knights sleep! ! !

Thanks Johnny for the birthday wishes, and one and all for all the good birthday wishes and well wishes as well . Here's an early birthday wish for Jimmie Lee who will be turning 16 tomorrow...Happy sweet sixteen Jimmie Lee...

I was thinking about sending a fruitcake or some grits to Jimmie Lee, but thought better of it cause I know shes got enough to think about than, "now where did I put that fruitcake"? Of course, it could be a welcome distraction! I have oft times thought of fruitcake or liver and onions as a deterrent to worrisome thinking, like, fruitcake or liver and onions to name a few! ! !

I do have a few fruitcakes left over from whenever it was I got fruitcaked by me loving classmates...(I really did love it though...the thought, not necessarily the fruitcakes) ! ! !
I woulda sent one to Johnny, cept he keeps moving about...I guess trying to make hisownself less of a target nowdays in these troubled times...cause it is easier to hit a stationary target than a moving one...ie Artillery class 101...or how to lob a fruitcake just so! ! !

Also, you gno Johnny, you also recollect me of good ol Doc Gould ! Oh, not because he was short and had a limp, but because of his bedside demeanor...I dont care how bad you felt, after a visit with Doc Gould, you just felt better oncet it was over...well, maybe after the sting of the shot wore off, and that might take some time if you had a penicillin shot, cause those hurt...especially in the derriere mon ami! ! !
Johnny you have that same easy going fun spirit, (not of a penicillin shot), but of good ol Doc Gould...When you come into fudds or into the room where ever it might be, you just light up the room! And to be sure, I'm not the onliest (east texas for only) one that notices that, and for that, we all thank you!

Had a good knights sleep, as aforementioned, but woke up with a heaviness and sharp pains in my chest...oh great a heart attack and just 2 days after my 16th birthday too also...I did notice it was moving around a bit..."hmmmm" says I...gas? Nope, it was definitly a heart attack, with gas probably...saw a shadowy figure lurking close to my face, tha grim reaper? says I, "go away, I'm not ready yet, havent had me breakfast"...then my nose had a heart attack! Do noses have hearts? then the smell of tuna breath...the grim reaper eats tuna?
Oh yeah, put em all to gether and whatta you got, bibidybobidy boo, actually they spell trouble, Annie-bob the Pixie Bob, kneading my chest and biting my nose wanting her just deserts, or breakfast, whichever comes first...

@#$%^&* ding dang moron idjified @#$%^*& cat! ! ! ! Boy that durn cat will make you forget your troubles, and give you a whole new set of em... Alright, I'm up! ! !

Got all the critters fed and watered and other bio stuff tooken cared of...(my apologies Ms. Simpson)...(east texas for tooken cared of)...Even got breakfast for me beloved and me! Had scrambled eggs with a light dusting of very fine grated graded extra sharp cheddar cheese, sausage, croisant toast, very very fine coffee, seedless black berry jam for the toast, organic apple juice, and some of the most wonderful homegrown maters (mountain folk speak for, maters) your palate has ever had the pleasure of paleteing...heavens delight for the taste buds...bud!

Those maters were grown at 2023 Latexo, rat in the heart of uptown Oak Forest...Now, I never hoid of eating maters for breakfast till I dont know when! I think it is a yankee thing, and ever now and again, they do get stuff right!

Maters, whose soul purpose is to delight the adnoids, or is it the olfactory noives, and palate of taste buds, whichever, it does wreak havoc and chaos amongst all them senses!
gonna grow some oncet we get to the hill, if that ever happens! It is going slower than mol asses in winter...hells bells, Johnny will probably move again before we move to the hill! Well, thats good that he's getting plenty of practice moving boxes and furniture about, it will keep him sharp and in shape for when we move! "Oh Johnny, that box doesnt go there, it goes in the pink room..."

Yup, having a "pink room", grandaughter picked that one out...also a blue room, the office, a green room, and our room, whichever in the heck that color is going to be...probably tuna colored for the cats!
So when any of youse youtes come to visit, you may specify which color room you wish to occupodo...if youse care to spend the night! Of course a nominal fee will apply, but you get family rates...Ha, now how you gonna be? Jus fine ah reckon!

Ok, time to make like a tree and get the heck outa here...there has been some grumblins about my posts being too long...here's a tip, just read a paragraph and close er out, and then come back and read another paragraph, and by the time youse get through with the entire pulitzer prize winning post, I'll have another for your perusing pleasure....remember, "there is no frigate like a really large  book and a paddle"...and "when in danger and in doubt, run in circles scream and shout"...

Your frien and resident resident, Beauregard Cephus E. Lee...master chef, gardenier, and garden ganome...and Hemmingway of the house on Shady Grove Lane...

Post Script: Is it better to have loved and liverwurst, or go down to the sea and see ships, see!  

 


06/19/14 01:05 PM #6454    

William Donald Ansley

     I just want to break in and wish Jimmie Lee Brawner a very Happy Birthday!

Bill Ansley.


06/19/14 06:30 PM #6455    

 

Johnny Sheffield

Beau

thanks for the nice words. Wish I still could remember like you

i went to dr Gould and also went to his son for medical and the brother for dentist work

It is funny that you say that I may move again

becky and I were just talking about going over to

holiday world and looking at rvs in case we 

decide to relocate again  Hope not soon

taking grand daughter to cabellos Friday in buda texas

 

our favorite place can down all day there

for all you northwestwaltrip 

folks Cracker Barrel grand opening 

in August 

johnny

 

 


06/19/14 10:20 PM #6456    

 

Pat Brantley (Ross)

Jimmie lee

God will bless your birthday and the rest of your life.  He danced on the day you were born.  


06/20/14 07:55 AM #6457    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

     "THEY SAY IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY..."  HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR JIMMIE LEEEEEEEE, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUUUUU ! ! !  AND MANY MORRRRREEEEE...

     Everyone told me to stop and do something for me on my birthday, but after a lifetime of working, meeting ETAs and ETDs and project completions, working is a hard thing to let go of!

    We all do hope you can just stop and relax, if that's possible, and get your hair and nails done, shop for a new pair of shoes...truth be told, I love buying new boots, and new tires for my truck, although the latter is a tad more expensive than the former...

    Words are cheap, but  I'm sure I share the same sentiments and feelings as all your friends and classmates, if we could somehow make this day the most special day of your life, we would do just that...  Jimmie Lee...this is your special day, so have as happy a birthday as you can, as you dare...that goes for all you good folks on your birthdays...


06/20/14 09:22 AM #6458    

 

Linda Webster '65 (Jennings)

Happy Birthday Jimmie Lee. Hope you have a wonderful day!

Linda

06/20/14 09:42 AM #6459    

 

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Jimmie Lee, Happy Happy Birthday!!!!   We can have an extended celebration at our reunion!!!  You and Elvis just keep on dancing!  Hugs and love J


06/20/14 07:08 PM #6460    

 

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Wow!  Thanks to all of you for the birthday wishes.  A Dallas friend of almost 30 years took me for my favorite:  fried shrimp and oysters and we hadn't been able to get together for months, so it was a nice lunch and catch-up time.  Each of you taking the time to send me good wishes is just wonderful.  Actually, Charles never remembered my birthday until after he got out of the house and realized the date.  He'd then make an effort to buy a card and sometimes some flowers.  So, the only thing I missed was that late afternoon, recently-bought card and my daughter, Betsy, brought some gorgeous flowers by this afternoon, too.  

I've been staying very busy getting Charles' things his brothers wanted packed to take with me to Brawnerfest on July 4.  Charles was a clothes horse when it came to golf clothes and shoes, so everyone wants at least one pair of his over 15 pair of golf shoes and sooooooo many golf shirts and shorts/pants.  There are so many boxes, I've got to drive my truck and look like a gypsy hauling all that stuff.  But, once it's there, it's THEIRS and I won't pack it up again. 

I truly appreciate all your cards, emails and calls during the past few weeks.  Your support and friendships are the things that keep us all going during hard times.  I am so grateful for our life-long commitments to each other.  We are all very blessed!


06/24/14 11:15 AM #6461    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

       Happy belated birthdays to Bill Trail...last time I saw him, he was either coming into the states at San Diego, and I was leaving, or vice versa sometime back in 66 maybe???...    and Happy birthday to Jan Barnes...Hey Jan, Shelley and Byron were going to try to move Bob up to Denver, but the cost to do that was astronomical, so shelly decided to stay here with him...    he seems to be doing as well as expected for being 80 something, and the trauma suffered in the wreck a year and a half ago...

      More belated birthdays...to Ruth and Stephen and Ken Treuter, and Jack and Glenda M...and the love of my life back in 58 or 59, Jimmie Sue... she never knew it, I was soooo shy,   but thats ok, because  I was short and really really dumb and an idjit besides...Of course lots of the pretty girls, and they were all pretty,  were the secret loves of my life back in them good ol days...

     Oh, and I missed Jenny Taylors birthday...I wonder if she and Tony were out steeling a new car for her...I'd stay away from Bucees though...slim pickens there...

    Oh, hey it was Rick Stricklands birthday sometime methinks maybe may 31st....Hey Rick, get your drums packed and ready, cause we're getting the band back together, and  going on a comeback whirld tour...Rober T and I are packed and ready, just waiting for Our lead Singer Lonnie, to detox...whilst I TOX....and grease up my walker...having a walker is really cool, cause I can have a basket and a horn and bell and all kinds of stuff...I can dress it up whilst we are at Carnegie Hall playing for the masses...

     I've been trying to get the Beach Boys to let us open the show, but so far no luck at that...Guess we better learn a couple of new songs....I think we got Honky Tonk down pretty good, we could wait till the crowd is plastered and just play it for and hour and a half...waddayathink???? Sounds reasonable to me...

    Wonder about a new name for our band O bros....Since Robbie is the healthiest one of the bunch, maybe SKEEDOO AND THE THREE CRIPS...THREE OLD GUYS AND ONE REALLY OLD GUY...i I know, 40 MILES OF BAD ROAD...for the uneducated, that was an instrumental back in them good ol days.....    I dont know, maybe we can think of a good name...

    Time for lunch...yall have a great day, ifin you can...
Your frien and resident Bard....Beauregard E Lee Cephus Magillicutty Allan Badillion Trahern Esq....


06/24/14 11:22 AM #6462    

 

Jan Barnes '65 (Nimtz)

Beau, Thanks so much for the birthday wishes but they are wa-a-ay early.  (Well seven weeks early.)  My birthday is in August and I plan to stay 66 until then.


06/24/14 07:55 PM #6463    

 

Teddie Jordan

Jan you're just a baby!

And Beau don't feel bad, I've done the same thing and mistaken the updated profile list for the birthday list, just never reeled off the whole list of them.

Headed to Freer tomorrow with oldest grandson Jake to commune with the wild critters for a few days and get in a little work and tractor time. Jake is really a lot of help down there and he and I always have a good time.  It will only be about 150 degrees, or at least feel like it.


06/25/14 08:31 AM #6464    

 

Pat Brantley (Ross)

I love reading what you guys write.  Jenny and tony won't steal my rattletrap at buckies.  I always have two big dogs in the backseat.  They bark and people think they are mean.  They are barking because they want the food in the hands of the passerbys.  If you feed them they will just get into your lap in the front seat.  Alliecat is my Aussie and she is too big to be a lap dog, but she doesn't know it.  Paris bean is a small lab mix.  She doesn't weigh more than forty pounds.  Neither of them can drive so they aren't allowed in the driver's seat.  Doesn't stop them from trying if they think there is food to be had.  

Maybe the car thieves will get me a new one.  That would be great.  Let's talk with tony first.  I think he's the weak link in the gang.  

I hope skeeter reads the message board.  I miss hearing from him.  Maybe I'll just call him.  Wow!  What a concept.  No tweet, twerk, or text; just a phone.


06/25/14 08:34 AM #6465    

 

Pat Brantley (Ross)

Beau, don't get on one of those electric carts at the store.  Stick with the tricked out walker.  I don't even go to walmart anymore because someone always runs over my foot.  I am not kidding.  It hurts.


06/25/14 09:43 AM #6466    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Hey all yall...Jan I sure thought June 17th was your special day. You have my most profound apologies for being an idjit...a pox upon me for being a clumsy lout...

Well, here's tha deal...you can prorate your birthday specialness from the 17th O June, till August 31st...the dates will be all muddled up, so you can continue to claim 29 as your age, plus reap the harvest of presnents and well wishes fer quite a spell...then, after time passes, and after a fashion, things will get sorted out, and the paper woik will catch up to you, in triplicate, about this time next ye ah, and you can plead nolo contendre, AND temporary insanity, after all, who amongus is sane, and start all over again....see there how thats woiking out! ! ! Doncha jus luv a plan that comes together put together by one of us phi beta nonsense contortionists???? I gnu ewe wood! !

     Pat, thanks for the tip on the moving bumper cars, or "dodgeums" as the brits call em...wear steel toe boots so it wont hurt so much when one of the idiots runs over em...I rode one of those oncet (east texas for once), after knocking over several displays of canned tuna and coffee, I was asked to quit it!  Glad I didnt hit anything breakable...well, unless you count the flowers in that dept...but hey, they were gonna have to cut those stems off anyway, so what's tha big deal lucille?  I really dont have a walker yet, but preparing myself for when I probably will have to have one...I just mentioned it, because Monday I didnt need a cane at all, Tuesday I needed two of them, and as blessed as I am, I have THREE of them, but alas only two hands...

     Hey Teddie, what wonderful times you get to have with your grandsons...wow, I'm jelloweeze...
We did get that tractor for my beloved last friday...I showed her how to woik it, after the delivery guy showed me how to woik it, and Diane wont get off of it long enough for me to ride on it...she has mowed, and moved heaven and earth with the loader...grinnin from ear to ear...we really didnt have much earth to move, so she kept moving this one pile of dirt from one spot, back to the original spot...ya gotta love her...what a sport! ! !

Diane had to work Monday so I went up to meet with a delivery of crushed concrete that never arrived....mowed about 3 acres and moved some crushed concrete to the road...learning how to use that bucket...man, it does take the place of back breaking work...at first I would get off the tractor and try to do stuff by hand...then I got the feeling the tractor was laughing at me and saying, "yo moron, why dont you use me instead"...well you know how obstinate tractors can be...using that loader, just takes some getting use to...

I can drop the bucket on the ground and it will smooth out a surface and follow the terain...first time I tried it, I forgot to put the stick all the way forward, and the bucket picked the front end of the tractor up, which scared the bejeebies out of me..."oh no, Ise is done broke my new tractor AND killed me"...thought it was gonna buck me off...Diane was watching me, so I finally got a holt of myself and righted the problem...and I pretended that that's what I had intended to do all along....My beloved ask me to show her how to do that, but I said, that manuver was in "TRACTOR DRIVING 1501", right now, she was in "TRACTOR DRIVING 1301"....(dont anyone tell her, that I'm still in 1301, OK?) practice practice practice makes perfect perfect perfect...

Anyhoo, ifin I got anyones special day wrong and cornfused, I do hereby apologize forthwith heretofore notwithstanding and a partridge in a pair of trees...

I think I will try to put a picture of Diane on HER new tractor here on the forum..


06/25/14 09:46 AM #6467    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

 

 well halleluja, I done it...(east texas for did it) thar she is, my beloved, farm and ranch gal, or GRITS, (Girls Raised In The South)  on her very own tractor...I love her so much,  oh and Diane too! ! ! See the wave? well, it's really a "no you cant get on yet, get away, I'm still driving this here tractor"

 


06/25/14 03:56 PM #6468    

 

Scotty Croom

you go,diane...urban cowgirl...drive that tractor....


06/25/14 05:34 PM #6469    

 

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Hey Gang,

Only 115 days until our 50th Class Reunion, and you might say that's still a pretty good ways out, but not if you are on the reunion committee.  Your reunion committee and, especially Lynn, really don't want to have to sweat this one out.  Please get your registration and money to Lynn Wren Burkhardt ASAP.  Thanks to all that have already sent and we know the rest of you will be doing shortly!

Just to be frank, if you've never planned a reunion before, you may not be aware of all the expenses and commitments - hotel ballroom contracts, deposits, etc. Yes, we are obligated for costs, no turning back.  At this date, Lynn has received money for 40, we need at least 150 to cover expenses.  So come on guys, don't wait until the last minute, we would really really really appreciate your help.  Go to "50th Reunion - 10/18/14" tab for form or just select "Contact Us" above and I'll send you a form. Then we can all sit back and RELAX and look forward to the great reunion with fun, dinner, dancing and live band.

Thanks so much from your Reunion Committee!

Hugs,

J


06/26/14 05:11 PM #6470    

 

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

We now have 42 paid for!!!  Do I hear more -----

Hugs,heart

J


06/29/14 09:13 PM #6471    

 

Jenny Taylor (Williams)

Jackie, I sent mine yesterday so that makes 43.  I also gave Pat Edwards Obedrpriller the form. She is coming too and staying with me that  weekend.  We can't wait!!

 


06/30/14 08:14 PM #6472    

 

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Sheffield, I hope you have an extremely happy birthday.  You are one of the happiest people I know (all the time), so I'm sure you won't have any trouble having fun.


07/01/14 08:27 AM #6473    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

    "Ooooohhhh....You're a yankee doodle dandeeeee, yankee doodle do or dye...A real live nephew of our Uncle Sam...born on the 1st of Julyyyyyyyy..."  Howdy and  happy birthday to ya JOHNNY...There's a rumor goin round that you're moving to Minnesooata....or was it North Dakooata....dontcha doit ya heah! ! !  Do not go west young man, do not go west...well, cept maybe to the woodlands in october...

                HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOODNIGHT....

    


07/01/14 08:46 AM #6474    

 

Llynn Roff

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHNNY.  We are all in the same boat.  Just a bounch of mature, super smart dueds.


07/02/14 09:06 AM #6475    

 

Teddie Jordan

It's probably Jackie's countdown clock to the reunion and the fact that it's close to being only double digits until our fiftieth, but Fran and I recently got down our old Waltrip yearbooks and have enjoyed looking at them.

Here are a couple of inscriptions from mine:

From Lloyd G. Pond Jr, our class president: "With your knack for getting in and out of trouble I'm sure you will have no trouble being a sucess in what ever you do".

From David Blankenship: "Teddy, I hope you and me too!! have better luck in life than we did in chemistry. Be good - keep your truck off of drug store sidewalks and I hope you always have a good supply of Havatampa Jewels!". David was referring to the time in the tenth grade when after a Pony League baseball team practice  he and I decided we would go cruising the neighborhood in my dad's '51 GMC farm truck. We stopped at the Garden Oaks Pharmacy and I went in to buy us a pack of Hava-Tampa Jewel cigars to enjoy on our cruise. I pulled up in front of the Garden Oaks Theatre and went into the drug store to get them. While I was in there David decided as a joke to pull the truck up on the sidewalk. He then laid on the floorboard so  no one could see him. You can imagine my shock and embarrassment when I came out and saw the truck there and noticed a crowd of people was starting to gather around it looking puzzled. I jumped in and started it and we got out of there pronto, laughing all the way!

As I read the inscriptions it is obvious that the girls are all sweet and sentimental and serious, and write in flowery script and language about our completion of a milestone and extend sincere and thoughtful good wishes for the future, while the guys are a lot shorter on words and prose and tend more towards humor.

I would be interested in reading some of your inscriptions if you care to share them.


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