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Pat Brantley (Ross)

I was blessed ny his life affirming Jeses Cheist.  He died in or peace and no doubt lived that way.   Blessings on his family..  

I had ome of those senior accidents Sunday mornimg.  I fell out of bed after getting twisted up in covers.  My head has a goosegg, but I don't think. I have is missing,  my neck got jammed up so that my left arm is on strike.  Most do the trauma is the cartilage across my chest.  Heard to breath and it takes so,some to help me stand.  More from the stupid woman later.

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

April 9, 2015 Update from Rich Beil '67 regarding the dedication for Coach Burton on June 5 in Waco. All details are on homepage.

I spoke with Leslie Burton 2 weeks ago. He confirmed that the family plans to attend. I also communicated with Mr. Tusa. He and his wife plan to be in Europe in late May, but they may be back in time and will make it if possible.

I know a lot can happen in 2 months and plans can change. But, I'd like to have an idea of how many are planning to attend on June 5th. I want to coordinate with the Hilton. Thus far, we have over 20 people from our class alone planning to attend. If a group of 30 or more descend on them unexpectedly, there may be service problems. I doubt they normally get that large a crowd in the Lobby Bar on a Friday afternoon. They may want to put on an extra bartender.

Also, I am hosting a charity golf tournament the next day, Saturday, June 6th at Baylor's home course. The flyer is attached. If there are any golfers out there who would like to play, I will hold open a FREE 4-some spot and you may play as my special guest. But, let me know ASAP.

Semper Fi

LtCol Rich Beil

USMC (Ret.)

1802 W. Main St.

Gatesville, TX 76528

254-499-0106

Additional Golf Event on Saturday, June 6th that Rich is hosting

The Jack Lummus-Young Marines Golf Tournament

Twin Rivers Golf Club, Waco, Texas

June 6, 2015

Registration 0700-0900

0930 Shotgun Start

4-Man Scramble -$500 per team

(Field limited to 30 teams)

Special Guests

2-Time Olympic Gold Medalist Bob Richards

2012 Senior Players Champion Joe Daley

Entry Fee: Green Fee/Cart, Range, Shirt, Lunch, Gifts ($90 value)

Prizes: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 11th, 24th, 30th place

Hole in One Contest

Mulligans (max 2 per player) $5.00

Longest Drive on Hole #9

Devil Dog Drive on Hole #4 ($20 per team)

Closest to Pin on all Par 3s

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Raffle

Conducted by American Legion Post #42

Gatesville, Texas

Benefiting

U.S. Marine Youth Groups of Central Texas

Gatesville Boys and Girls Club

American Legion

Grand Prize - U.S. Open Golf Bag Autographed by Lee Trevino

2nd Prize - Browning .270 Semi-Auto Rifle Simmons 4X 16x40 Scope w/Hard Case

3rd Prize - Reagan Heritage Portrait Painted and Donated by Colin Kimball

4th Prize - Titleist Tour Bag Autographed by Joe Daley

5th Prize - STIHL Chain Saw Donated by Ace Hardware Gatesville

6th Prize - Taylormade Slider Driver

AND MANY MORE

Tickets - $5.00 each or 8 chances for $20

To Register -Contact - LtCol Rich Beil USMC(Ret): Email-

iwojimajoe1775@gmail.com

Event Website: http://www.planmygolfevent.com/26282-HOTYM/

Note: Deadline for registration is May 15, 2015 to allow for ordering of shirts in correct sizes.

Steve Puckett '65

Dancing at Garner - 1963.  The girl in plaid is Bonnie Robinson from Reagan.  Note the curler bonnets. I bet no girl would be caught dead wearing one of those on the dance floor today!  Whip dancing was big.

Teddie Jordan

Great pictures Steve, thanks. Sure looks like fun times to me. Sorry I never made it out there.

Sandi Schlesinger (Stark)

Our family moved to Brookwoods in late '53 or early '54.  I was in the second half of the second grade and Wayne and I went to Cooley Elementary in the Heights with the other neighborhood kids.  Forrest was just a baby and Sherwood and Kelly weren't even a thought.  Since I had been in the Brownies in my old neighborhood, we wanted to start a troop but had to raise some money.  Lindy Heyen and I got old ties from our Dads and my Grandfather and went door to door selling them to the ladies.  After convincing them that they would make great belts, amoung other things, we convinced them to give us any old ties of their husbands so we could keep on selling.  They were a bargain buy at 50 cents and when our total sales passed $16.00 we started the neighborhood Brownie troop.  We forged some friendships that are breakable today only by death. Lindy Heyen, (who we lost in 2008) Sweetie Marbury, Sharron Lindstrom and myself quickly became thick as thieves.  We met Tonda, who lived in a different neighborhood and went to a different elementary school, because her parents and Lindy's parents were such good friends, Tonda joined the scouts in our neighborhood and the rest, as they say, is history. 

"Waynelake" is another story...He lived across the field and was at our house so much, we thought he was a member of the family.  I refer to him as my other brother.  Since my brother's name was Wayne also, we just ran "Waynelake" together to distinguish between the two.  My parents loved him like another son and we took him, Gordon Hammett, Lindy and I believe Lynn Prewitt with us to Garner State Park when we went on vacation -- which was usually every year.  Fun fun memories.

I babysat for a lot of the Brookwoods kids, including the Jones, Flanary's, Haynes (as in Richard Racehorse Haynes' kids).  Ivan Jones was only six months younger than me, but I believe Bill and Helen thought if they left him in charge of the other kids while they went out that when they returned there might not be too many left standing.  My Mother loved to tell the story about Ivan getting his driver's liscense at age 14 and showing up at the door and announcing "I'm here to pick up the babysitter."

It was a wonderful place to grow up and I will always be grateful to have been part of such a great community.  Everyone's parents looked out for all of the kids and didn't hesitate to correct you or put you in your place.  You just sort of flowed in and out of each other's homes since no one locked their doors and you were always welcome.  

Great memories...

Sandi Schlesinger (Stark)

One more thing -- I was a little late to this discussion and I can't remember if anyone mentioned The Tradewinds.  We went roller skating every Friday and Saturday night if there wasn't a football game.  

More fun memories.  

Beau Wann, Jr.

Just posted a rather lengthy dissertation, only to have it disappear.  Oh well...230 AM, and cant sleep. Duh! ! !
Sorry to hear pat, that you fell out of bed and hurt  yourself.  I do hope you get better. I havent fallen out of bed, yet, and not looking forward to it! What am I saying, I'm never in bed long enough to fall out of it, let alone sleep in it!   

Great pics of the pavilion at Garner. I dont remember it looking like that, and I also dont remember seeing it in he daytime, just at night!   As I've said in the past, a mind is a terrible think....

Seems ol Miss Poly is back, and this time with a vengeance. She brought her evil twin, their mama, and their mama-in-laws....I've always hurt, or as far back as I  can remember, and I've hurt bad...but lordy, this time is the worst so far!  I only have one pain pill left, so I need to save it for tomorrow...maybe!

We've seen herds of deer cross our property...found 5 baby rabbits, lost 5 baby rabbits. I even built a hutch for them, put in fresh hay, lettuce and carrots, and they just go away! Thats gratitude for you!

looking forward to our mini get together. 

Sorry for this jumbled up post, the pain is making it hard to concentrate, and it is almost 3 AM. 

Ok, I'm not doing too good in he "word" dept, so I'll say aurevoir...
keep the sun at your six and ride boldly ride...

your frien and brother-in-classmate....olbeauwannkanobie....Hunchback of Chappell Hill

Wayne Lake

Steve, where do you find all those great photos? I really enjoy them and seeing the girls in short, shorts at Garner makes me wish I was 16 years old again and could start all over, as I would have tried hard to learn to dance the whip, 2- step and jitterbug for sure.

Sandi, between you and Larry all my secrets are out.

Suzy, was Larry Peters Ronnie’s Dad? They took me to Seabrook when I was about 12 years old and we went for a boat ride on their Chris Craft which was in a boat shed at Seabrook Shipyard.  I have had a passion for wooden boots ever since. Around 1980, I got my first sailboat and kept it there for several years. Has anyone heard from Ronnie, Someone said he had recent heart issues?

Teddie, Brook Woods Area as I recall it:

Sherwood Lane was developed before/during the war and it stretched from Mangum on the West end and dead ended at White Oak Bayou on the East end or where West T.C. Jester is now. Each lot was 100’ W x wide x 400’ deep or about one acre. My parents bought/built in 1947, Lynn Prewit’s grandparents lived there before us about 6 houses West. Our immediate neighbors were all Germanic/Slavic ethnicity with last names like: Ghroman, Watzlavic, Seiffert, Majorwitz, Syzmanski and Ceizeliski, you get the picture. There were some nice homes on the very end near the bayou but mostly wood frame houses  on blocks and since the lots were large, they turned them into apartments in the 60’s. According to Jenny Taylor, Spanky Taylor’s last known address was on Sherwood so went looking for him while in town for the big reunion but could not find same, I hope he is ok.    

Brook Woods was an ‘upscale’ development that started around 1950 with two main East - West streets; Brook Woods and Ascot Lane with cross streets of Hellberg and Volmer.  It was heavily wooded with pine and oak and had some natural ravines sloping  into the bayou.  Brook Woods went from Mangum where the Mangum 1^st Baptist church was located (my family attended but not enough rubbed off – so did LD York, Dennis Hansel, Steve Fain, Doug Mc Cuen, Holbergs, Witherspoons) again to the bayou on the East. Ascot did not go through to Mangum but started East from Hellberg. Many of the homes in Brook Woods were designed by architects and also had wide and deep lots some up to nearly one acre. Clayton Witherspoon’s family had a beautiful place with stone façade on the very East end near the bayou.  My brother and I had the paper routes for Sherwood lane and Brookwoods so I got to know it well. Sometimes we deliverd our papers on horseback if our Cushmans scooters did not run.

There were no curbs or gutters, city sewage or water at our place.   

Beau, try typing your dissertations into Word, drag and click the entire eptiaph, Control C to copy and paste same with Control V, it works great. You can still edit after pasting into the forum.

I am installing 1100 Sq St of glue down wood floors and cabinets this month and can finally see a glimmer of light for the project completion. It has been a while since I have been able to relax/fish much and I look forward to it.

Fair Winds and Following Seas from AP TX,   

RIP Tom Holder,

See you all next week,  

wtl     

Beau Wann, Jr.

Aye God Wayne, your memory is phenomenal (sic) . Just thought I'd put one of those (sic)s in there. 

      That's what I thought I was doing, (control c highlight control v) but, thanks for the info,  my wife showed me that some time ago, and as my GPA would bear witness to my witlessness, I hit the wrongest button, and poof, it were gone.  Howsomever, at 3 AM in the morn, duh, when else would 3 am appear but in the morn, I  believe I should be allowed a lattitude of error, plus or minus a megaparsec.  But knoooooooowwww, just disappeared like my 5 little bunny rabbits. those rascals were the cutest things.

     But no matter, story was a jumbled mess of nothing.  Wayne, how do you remember all what you  remember?
You went down Sherwood lane recently?   Amid the gunfire? That place is a war zone, saddly!  I havent been that way in a long time, so maybe theyve cleaned it up.  

     Here's another person that lived in brookwood, methinks....Hmmmm, what was her name?  I know, Rita !!!!!!!!! She was soooo beautiful, totally out of my league. Howsomever, I went out with her one time!  Methinks she lost a bet and had to go on a mercy date with me!  But no matter, she was beautiful and classy, and I'll always remember it! 

     I think I was in my verry classy but somewhat antique 51 ford! Ol Blue!!!  It was on a Friday, or maybe a Saturday. Well, no matter, there are only 5 other days to chose from, so one of the 7 anyhoo!  I'm not sure where we went, someplace for sure. (mind like a steel trap). She probably remembers it, because she probably had to help push Ol Blue....Then I took her home!  Yup, I remember every detail, like it was 5 minutes ago. (It would have to be 5 minutes ago if I'm to remember it) Now where was I?  Oh yeah, My date with the lovely and beautiful Rita.  Ok, I do remember she was a blonde and she had a beautiful smile!  Just check out her picturre in the yearbook.

I do hope she doesnt mind that I shared our date on the forum, me being a lad of low degree and all!  Her house was on a dead end street closer to 18th, and I think her house overlooked a grassy gully of sorts!  Beautiful landscape, a large picture window with a baby grand lit up by accent lights....methinks! 

Oh well, "she were a phantom of delight"....I do hope she has faired well in life!!!!

I dont remember any other neighbor hood but Oak Forest,  my little whirld, and the close by hoods.  Never ventured very far from DuBarry except Oak Forest Elem. Oh, except on the shuttle bus from Wakefield and OakForest to Sears on North Shepherd.

Wayne, I allus believed that Scotty was the historian of WHS64, but you, my friend are just a wealth of information. thank you, and keep up the great dissertations!

Putting in a hardwood floor?   Oh man, my sympathys! ! ! Good luck! At least when you get to a stoppin point or finished, YOU CAN GO FISHING! Or watch the delphiniums swim...around!

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

yore frien and brother-in-classmate   olbeauwankanobie...hunchback of chappell hill

Oh, the bluebonnet festival is on this weekend, if you like crowds and traffic....

Suzy Jones '66

Wayne yes I believe larry peters was the dad. The mom was Jenny Peters. The ravine runs through both streets. I remember walking down the ravine and not using the streets. Sandy I was always so glad when you would babysit. I loved having another girl in the house. Clayton Witherspoon provided me with first aid after I was bitten by a copperhead. He had a snake bite kit and everything. How lucky we were to have grown up there.

Steve Puckett '65

Larry Peters was the older brother of Ronnie.  Larry graduated in 1954 from Reagan and was active in sports there.

  Grad photoLater photo

The parents of the 2 boys were Pete and Ginny Peters, both very nice people. Pete was a business partner of my Dad's and our two families did a lot together so I knew a number of the Brookwoods kids. Pete and Larry were both homebuilders as was my Dad.  As I recall, the Jones family (Ivan, etc.) later moved into the Peters house.

Scotty Croom

larry peters dated my neighbor on ebony ln. ..in early 50's...all the girls were after him because he was so handsome..never knew link between he and ronny...

Suzy Jones '66

Thanks Steve for the correct names. I remember Mrs Peters was Ginny. She was a friend of my Moms. Of course the adults were always Mr and Mrs. And I did not know Mr Peters as well. I do remember we bought their old house. It is so great how connected we all are. 

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Enjoying all the posts.  Sorry Pat and Beau for your pains.  Hope y'all are better soon.

Congratulations to Mr. Tusa!  Thank you Jane Jester for the information.  Banquet on Wed., Aug. 12 at 7:00 p.m. - JW Marriott, 5150 Westheimer. Hugs, J

Subject: Joe Tusa named winner of 2015 Touchdowner of the Year Award
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 17:55:31 -0500

     Former Houston ISD athletic director Joe Tusa has been named the 50^th Touchdowner of the Year by the Touchdown Club of Houston, and will be honored with a banquet at 7 p.m., Wed., Aug. 12, 2015, at the JW Marriott, 5150 Westheimer. The award has been given annually since 1966.

     Tusa, who recently had HISD’s Delmar-Dyer athletic complex on 290 at Loop 610 named after him, joins a famous list of Touchdowner winners, which includes Darrell Royal, Kenny Houston, Tom Landry, Jerry LeVias, Ken Hatfield, Bill Yeoman, Mack Brown, DeLoss Dodds, R.C. Slocum, Spike Dykes, Jack Pardee, John David Crow, Doak Walker, Jess Neely, and Grant Teaff. Tusa is the third person associated only with high schools to win the Touchdowner, after Brownwood football coach Gordon Wood (1986) and Eddie Joseph (2000), who ran the Texas High School Coaches Association.

     The Touchdowner is given annually for extraordinary contributions and outstanding achievements reflecting honor and sportsmanship to football over a lengthy period of time.

     Tickets for the gala are $50 each. The cost for tables is $450 (regular table), $600 (bronze sponsorship), $1,000 (silver sponsorship), $1,500 (gold sponsorship) and $2,500 (platinum sponsorship). Premium table sponsors will get their names in the paper program.

     The annual All-Greater Houston Preseason UIL High School Football team also will be named at this dinner.  

     For more information or to pay for tickets, please call the TD Club’s Neal Farmer at 713-849-9860 with a credit card; or e-mail Neal Farmer at nfarmer07@att.net; or use the PayPal option on the front page of the TD Club’s website at touchdownclub.org.

Neal Farmer

Touchdown Club of Houston

713-849-9860 - home office

713-899-0783 - cell

nfarmer07@att.net - e-mail

13280 Northwest Freeway, Suite F

No. 367 Houston, Texas 77040

www.touchdownclub.org

Pat Brantley (Ross)

I will not be spring flinging this weekend with you sweet people.  Evidently falling on your head when you are old causes problems.  What few marbles I still had have left the building.  I am so proud of mr. Tusa.  We really had the best of the best.  

Beau, most of our beautiful blue bonnets are gone.  Do you still have them in Chappel hill?

I have been reading about "free range children" .  Evidently it is now endangerment of a child to let them wander like we did.  How sad.  

Beau Wann, Jr.

So sorry Pat about your fall and subsequent problems caused by such a fall.  Yes we still have some bluebonnets left, but they are fading rapidly.  Yeah, it's also sad about no more free ranging children.  So sorry you wont be able to attend Saturday. maybe next time. We all will be looking forward to seeing you! Take care of your self!

On a sad note, Robbie Boswells mother passed away this morning about 1 oclock.  The only arrangement so far, is where the funeral will be, and that is the cemetery on 59 somewhere around the toll way north. I think it's called brookside.  My dad  and Robbies dad are already interred there, as well as most all of my dads family, and as many funerals as I have been to there, still dont remember the name, so forgive me if I have the name wrong. I do know it is up by the intercontinental airport!

Robbies mom was, as far as I know, a great lady! She put up with our shenanigans and tom foolery for nigh unto 70 years. She was always glad to see you, no matter who you were!  Never saw her without a smile. Very gracious and loving, kind and generous!  Allways complimentary to everyone.  Seems she cared more about everyone else than herownself.  She was 96. She was greatly loved and will be greatly missed!  She truly was like a second mom to me. 

Mr and Mrs Boswells truly fine legacy would have to be their 5 beautiful  children. 

Bradley Seals

There will be an event in memory of Tommy Holder at Reichle Ranch 3288 FM 109 Columbus Texas on April 25 from 1-5 P.M.  There will be fishing so bring your fishing gear if interested. Minnows will be provided. Tommy's wife Becky will be there. RSVP to LReichle@comcast.net 

The memorial service in Portland Oregon will be held on May 18 at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church 650A Avenue, Lake Oswego, Oregon 97034 at 11:00 a.m.

For other information check the CaringBridge website. You can enter Thomas Holder in the upper right where it says Persons Name. 

Susan Howard (Bowman)

The bluebonnets are still prolific in Georgetown and surrounding areas. We also have red poppies galore.... getting ready for the Red Poppy Festival in a couple of weeks. So come this way if you want more wild flowers.

Looking forward to seeing everyone Saturday night.  It will be great to see those who came to the reunion and I'm hoping to see some folks that couldn't make it.

Sorry you had a fall, Pat. That's a bummer! The older we get the more careful we have to be.

Also, I'm sorry to hear about Robbie's mom and I know Gloria Hornick's mom passed away recently. Those of us whose parents have lived into their nineties share something special. My mom is 98 and still doing well. She blesses my life every day!

Gloria Hornick (Walker)

I won't be able to make it to the mini-reunion, but know it will be fun.  Have a great time for me!  Thanks for the kind remarks on here about Mother, and for the thoughtful cards I received.  So sorry about Tommy.  Thanks, Jackie, for keeping this website up so we all can share.

Scotty Croom

had a great time tonight at  fling....sorry if i didn't talk to everyone...limited space kept movements from being easy...weather was good for us ...

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Mini-Reunion pictures have been posted. They are under a new tab on left - "Mini-Reunions Spring/Fall Flings" just beneath Fuddrucker tab.

Saturday was super fun and fabulous!! We had about 46 attendees. Thanks to all that made it a great successful evening!

Teddie Jordan

Thank you Jackie for all of your hard work taking and posting the pictures. And thank you for all that you do and all that you have done for our class!

And thank you Johnny for planning and organizing this and all of our mini reunions. Thanks especially to those who came from afar, including at least one from Austin, one from Georgetown, one from lofty Lufkin, two from Cat Springs, two from Lake Conroe, three from the greater Navasota metroplex, two from beautiful Chappell Hills, two from bustling Porter, and at least one from balmy Aransas Pass. By my count looking at the pictures I came up with somewhere around 43 classmates and guests who attended this one. And I didn't see anyone leaving who didn't have a smile on their face! Another fun evening for sure.

Susan Howard (Bowman)

Saturday night was so much fun!  It was great to see everyone who was there. I am always sad when the night is over, but then I know we will have a next time together.  Thank you to Johnny for arranging a great place with great food for us to meet.  As always, thanks to Jackie for our wonderful website and for taking and posting all the pictures of our events!  Also, thanks to everyone who comes out to support these get togethers.  Until the fall.......

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

I'm with Susan, always sad when it's over.  But Johnny is already planning our Fall Fling!!!  Had such a good time with everyone and missed those that couldn't make it.

Thanks, Johnny ,for your love and dedication.  We appreciate all your hard work coordinating these Flings.

Congratulations to Rick and Janet Strickland.  Rick is retiring and they are packing boxes and moving to Shiner, TX to the Strickland Ranch.   I've seen pictures --- God's BEAUTIFUL country!  We wish them the best.   

Hugs,

J

Beau Wann, Jr.

FIREFLIES FIREFLIES FIREFLIES ! ! ! ! ! ! ! My fellow waltripians, I has re-entered my youte!  We have FIREFLIES up here on Waltons Mountain!  My beloved is a witness, because she sawr them tooooo!  We both expounded on the fact that we havent seen them since our very young youte. 

I dont know when they disappeared from DuBarry, but thats about the last time I remember  seeing  them in houston.     We use to see them all the  time in Little Rock, Ark. when we visited my Grandparents....hmmm wonder if they still have them up there.  Someone ask Gary if he has them at harmony hill!

Our internet service, via att hotspot, is not very reliable, hence my absence from the forum!  Thought Id give er a go this rainy morn, and so far so good!

Diane and I concur with the fun and frivolity at the "RAM SPRING FLING".  Onliest (east texas for only) problem was, my hearing!  I could catch a word or two out of each sentence, enough to at least contribute to the conversation and still appear like I was awake!  But no matter, being amongst all our Waltrip friends is  good enough.  I thought the food and decor was excellamente!  Thank you Johnny, oncet again! 

I do have an apology to make to one of our dear friends, I "one upped em" again, inadvertantly!  they were telling me about a "domesticated lynx", or cross bred cat to a wild lynx...I jumped right in there and expounded on my visit with one of those some 20 years ago, at CAPS on katy frwy and Tully. Well, in my boyish exuberance to actually be included in a conversation with a fellow human, AND, a treasured friend, and on a subject I knew something about, I let my enthusiasm run amok, as well as my ratchet jaws! 

I do hope they can forgive an old idjit for my social fox paw!  Oh, I also did that with another treasured friend, talking about firearms....guilty guilty guilty! ! !  It's just so nice to talk to humans instead of cats and dogs for a change, and friends to boot, and with subjects I know something about!  I will try to curb my enthusiasm, or at least keep it reined in, but as we all know, inadvertant fox paws happen from time to time.

Well, enough of apologies, onward and upward!

The rabbits are running amok up here on Wolvertons Mountain.  Dozens of the little bunnies chase eeach other in circles, and then turn around and go the other direction! The cardinals and bluebirds are giving us a red and blue show all day long!  They ssit on the fence, come up on both porches, sit on my truck and motorcycle, (if it was anything but cardinals and blue birds, I would shoo them away from my motor pool,  but I forgive them of their trespasses!

We have had "barn swallows", or some kind of swallows, dive bombing the house for the last 3 days trying to find away in under the eves at the gables!      House is too tight for em to get in...me hopes!  I know they eat skeeters, but couldnt they just bring an RV or mobile home instead of trying to crash my home?  Oh well, if thats the worst thing that happens to me, I'm good with it!!  I will build and erect boid houses for the little blaggerts.

Going to have back surgery next Frahday May foist! It's not that serious, methinks, because it is outpaitient surgery like my gall baldder was!    However, the break should have healed in 6 weeks, which has now been 4 months and still has not healed.    Even though you are fully under anesthesia, I get to go home at the end of the day...barring complications!  My spine doctor, Dr. ************, cant pronounce his name, but he wrote the book on spine surgery!  It will be at physicians hospital in college station!

The proceedure, if I may, entails going in on both sides between which ever ribs T-9 is between!  They pull out the broken bones and pieces, then take a biopsy, (just to see if this was an accident or something actually wrong going on), then they fill er up with elmers glue or gorilla glue or some kind of cement that drys in 10 minutes. Then I  be on the way to recovery, and should be able to dance and run amok at our next get together!

Shoot, I'll be running up and down the mountain afore you know it!  Goodness, my running around will know no bounds!

Like I said, this should be a "piece O cake", "a walk in the park", compared to what some others of our dear classmates have gone through and are going through right now! 

I hope I get the same kind of anesthetic for this time like I got with my gall bladder event. Man, I never felt a thing, never dreamed, or remembered anything about the surgery. I do know I had 3 incissions across my mid section, almost like he was searching for my gall bladder. "oops, not there...hmm, lets try here, oops not there...would someone get my "this is beaus body" book out, I seem to have forgotten where the GB is..." or woids to that defect! 

Well, he was british, so maybe he was getting even for my Prince Phillip jibe! Oh well, cheerio, pip pip and carry on, stiff upper lip...

Ok, time to shut er down...see if my connection held up...holding my breath, crossing my eyes,

keep the sun at  your 6 (suns gonna be hard to find today) and ride boldly ride...

your frien and brother-in-classmate...cephus t  allan badillion trahern magillicutty olbeauwankanobie...hunchback of chappell hill...esq