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Beau Wann, Jr.

Hey Linda, I remember your name!  I dont recall any classes we had together, but then I dont recall  much about my classes, cept maybe lunch! Now that there class, I aced!  Most of my classes, the teacher would probably jump for joy if I didnt show up!   I do remember visiting HomeEc and scarfing down the "spanish rice" the lovely ladies would make!  Now that was heaven for me, beautiful girls AND food too ...did you take HomeEc?  I wish they would have let me, I would probably be Chef Boyardee by now!

 Thank you for the prayers and well wishes, wwe shall wish you well on your knee surgery recovery....Hmmm, Napa Valley??  Why a feller and or a gal could recover nicely in Napa Valley, drinking all those grapes ! ! ! Yeah...and I'm not even a wino, and I say heck yeah on the wine therapy.

Donno when the last time you were down here in Gods other heaven, but the GREAT OL BIG STATE OF TEXAS has a gazillion winoeries!  Did I get that right?  Well, no matter, the vino flows freely here!  Well, not free, you do have to pay for it, unless youre in Baltimore!  

One such winoerie is Masina Hof in Bryan, Texas...got two or three rat cheer (east texas for right here) in Chappell Hill, not far from our house on Sam Wann Hill...what the sam hill ??? yup  ! ! !   We havent been to the ones here, but did go to the one in Bryan!  

They have a wonderful white riesling called appropriately "ANGEL RIESLING"  Late harvest 2011. It is wonderfully light sweet, as I like my whine!   Another is a red one named for yours truly simply called "BEAU", a tribute to beauty, "naturally sweet", jus like me! ! !  Well, the part about it being red and called "BEAU" and naturally sweet, is true any ol how! 

Wine connoskewers would not like my choice in wines, cause I like em sweet. The sweeter the better.  Heck far, Welches grape juice is good enough for me! Thats how sweet ah lack em!

Ah bemember way yonder back when, me an another ol boy, Tommy Warren, who shall remain nameless, drove to Galveston one weekend and drank 6 bottles of Boones Farm Strawberry hill wine on the way down there.  Wine? No, I dont think you could classify that as wine so much, probably more like  strawberry koolaid gone bad!

Dang, didnt mean to go off on a soliliquy on wine, but I  cant sleep! Duh, there's a real shocker!  You know they said not to eat or drink anything after midnight before a surgery and it is 3:12 AM, and I am so hungry and thirsty a bottle of wine sounds pretty good right now. Probably wouldnt be good showing up for surgery plastered would it!   Well, just think of the anesthetic they could save....hmmmm, I think not!

Man, the moment midnight struck, I was craving lasagna, meat balls, pizza, spam, spanish rice, hellz bellz, I think I would eat liver and onions if it were on the menu, and I hate liver and onions!   

Why is it, when someone tells you, you cant have something, the more you crave it ! ! !  Hmmm, if I ate something and drank something, they would probably have to put offf the surgery a couple of days wouldnt they....Hmmmm...nah, better not! ! ! 

I can tell you, that if I'm conscious when it's over with, I'm stopping at the first burger or chicken joint, and load up! ! !  Our dogs are always glad to see mee cause I allus bring em some left over chicken or frys!  Whatever is next to and in the way of their tails, gets the heck knocked out of em!  One time I brought home some chicken and frys and Cooper and Jack were standing together, both tails wagging in unison...waggin?  More like a giant humminboid at a hunnert miles per kilomonster! 

Anyway, I brought some chicken home, and the boys were excited, and it just so happens one of our cats, Annie-Bob, was sitting on a dining room chair next to Lassie and Rin-tin-tin!  I broke out that chicken, and their tails started a waggin goin a hunert miles a secont, and those tails were smackin her right and left!   She, never being one to back down from a fight, if not down right starting one, latched onto both tails in a death grip, claws and teeth sunk in, and them ol boys had no clue The Lion King was attached to em! 

Their tails just snatcher her off the chair, and she went back and forth on their tails like a pendulum on a grandfather clock, on steroids!  I was feeding them chicken and their tails wagged that much harder, and I was laughing so hard I hurt my back, again! 

Anyway, Annie-Bob lost her grip and went sailing into the wall, "wham", and into the boys water bowl ,"kersplash" !  She about drowned trying to get away!   She stumbled away, rather shaky, grumblin and hissin and trying to shake the water off, bobbin and weavin,  bumpin into the furniture. 

I can report with some accuracy, that Annie-bob steers clear of Beowuf and White Fang when they get excited! Ever now and again, she will walk by one of them and smack them with unsheathed claws, gettin even for her unscheduled "tilt-a-whirl" ride!  Of course they will look at her as if to say, "what did I do", then they look at me, "well, arent you gonna reprimand her" ...."not on your life, cause then she'll just smack me!  That girl has no respect for us guys in this house!

Ok, getting close to zero hour, if zero hour is 4 AM. So guess I'll sing off for now...

Keep the sun at your xis and your cat away from your dogs tail, and ride boldly ride...

Your frien and personal strainer...Cephus Jim bob jump back,  Silly from chappell hilly...

Post Script:  Hey Pat, our address is:
Me, Post Office Box 576
chappell hill, Texas  77426

Or

Me,
4040 Marshall Ln
Chappell Hill, Texas 77426

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

BroBeau is sending his own text and is still funny even after surgery!

At noon got a text that he was in recovery and waiting to hear from the doctor.  Just got second text from him, "I'm ok, but seeing double, which is good because the nurses are beautiful!"

That's our Beau,  I'll keep you posted!  Thanks again for all your encouraging well wishes and prayers for him.

Hugs,

J

Beau Wann, Jr.

Yes, thank you one and all for the encouraging words and prayers...I guess they were wasted on the wrong person, because the surgery didnt work, and it cant be reversed.

I now hurt more than ever before...even hurts to breathe...even th pain pills they gave me dont work...

Dont know what I'm going to do now!  I am home, such that it is...so much to do, and ...well,  just dont know.... 

Sandi Schlesinger (Stark)

Beau,

So sorry to hear your relief was not instant.  I hope you are joking about the surgery not working.  Maybe it takes some time to work, and will be better in a day or so.  Everyone, including me, is hoping for you to be pain free in the very near future.

Sandi Schlesinger Stark

Linda Breazeale (Allen)

Beau, I also hope that you are joking about the surgery not working.  After my knee replacement surgery, I received a special drug "cocktail" in my knee to help p me with the 6 hour drive home.  When it wore off, the pain was very intense.  Maybe the pain meds they prescribed for you are not effective and you could request something else.  Will continue to pray for pain relief and healing.

John Philip Adams

Beau this is a major surgery. i doubt that the pain will be instantly relieved, but it will get better. maybe Henny can give us some help.

Ii know this isn't nearly as serious as your surgery, i had a bunion removed last month. still hurts like hell and now i have to go thru rehab. my knee rehab was good for a 5 pound weight loss.

Give it a chance and use this opportunity to have Mrs. Beau take care of you. go watch the varmints out the porch and breathe all of the great air in Chappel Hill. it will get better.

look at the bright side, you live about 5 miles from Royers in Round Top, the BBQ joint on 290 and Beavers in the middle of your new home town. FOOD is nearby.

Beau Wann, Jr.

Nope, I wasnt kidding about the surgery not working.   Just thought it would be instantaneous, but  Yall maybe right !  Maybe I'm expecting too much too soon.  I guess my expectations are set too high! Just so anxious to get rid of the pain!  I plan on taking it easy, which is what I should have done 4 months ago, but the sawbones never told me to quit doing stuff.  Of course, being deaf I probably missed that part of the conversation.

So, I will endeavor to persevere.  Your words of encouragement are just what I needed.  Sometimes if a pain is severe enough, it does  cloud the thinking doesnt it.    Once again, I am endebted to all the fine folks on the forum...thank you! ! !  

When I woke up in recovery, I was seeing double!   I remarked to the 4 nurses there that I didnt know they had two sets of twins working there. Must be a record having that many twins working together at the same hospital.    And all of em were just beautiful too!    Once my eyes cleared up, the twins disappeared...musta been a shift change!  

They even served lunch to the starving grizzly bear!   Salisbury steak, grain banes, (east texas for green beans) and mashed taters with an extra bowl of gravy!   just about the best frozen dinner I've had...since the last frozen dinner!    Well, when youre hungry, any and everything looks good! 

One thing that bothered me, immensely, was having to get buck nekid under the "warm gown"...I'm a real private and modest person, and that bothered me more than the surgery!  When I woke up in recovery, I had a different gown on ! ! ! ! ! ! !    Now,  who changed my gown?   and why?    I'll bet every nurse in the hospital was in my room admiring my....knee high big bird socks! 

  OH, I had to put on white hose....lord a mighty, I'll bet you ladies hate having to put hose on!   If I were a woman, I wouldnt wear em!   Not to please  no infernal idjit guy, neither either!   Those thangs are a pain to get on and off!   Mine white hose was open toed, so I just ripped em apart!  WELL, the horspital was  just gonna throw em away and I fer shure wasnt gonna wear em never ever again! 

  you've probably noticed I put  an "H" in sure!  I'm sick of words that arent spelled like they sound, like shure and shugar!  In less than two months, I will be 70 years old, an HCC graduate (took me only 25 years for a 2 year degree), and a veteran, and married oncet removed, had to give up my gall bladder, have my spine mangled, and lost all my har (east texas for hair)  so I think I'm entitled  to  take "carte blanche" and poetic license in my spelling. )  I think Mrs Simpson would forgive an old fool like me, dontcha think! ! ! !  

Mrs. Simpson ! ! !    I really loved her as a teacher and a person!  She was tough but fair! She had rules, and they needed to be followed and obeyed.  I think that's why I admired her so much, and other teachers just like her, because they were unyeilding when it came to right and wrong!   The whirld could shure use some more of that, dontcha think! ! !

Well, guess I'll go lay down! I hadnt planned on giving a soliliquy at this time, but you know me, there is no way I can be brief! ! !

Again, I sincerely want to thank one and all for their posts on my welfare!   That shure is a good feeling! ! !  I hope to someday repay one and all!     Maybe a thank you party for all yall up here on sam wann hill!   Yeah, that's the ticket...probably this fall...whatcha think?  I know not everyone could attend, but everyone is welcome, and not just from the class of 64...ALL are welcome!     Yeah, I'm gonna get busy and plan one heck of a whing ding shiveree! ! !

Keep the sun at your six, and ride boldly ride...
your frien and resident perseveree, olbeauwankanobie... 

Bill Traill

Beau, Give nature a chance !! You ain't a Spring Chicken any more !!!

Jan Barnes '65 (Nimtz)

Beau, So sorry your relief wasn't instantaneous but I don't think you can expect years of pain to disappear in a few minutes 'under the knife'. Follow the docs orders and try to relax. Rest itself is a healer. I know we all will continue our prayers for your recovery. You certainly sound like your old self in your forum post. Keep the sun at your six and cuddle with all those fur babies of yours.

Jenny Taylor (Williams)

Beau, 

I am so sorry you are hurting but I really believe you are going to get better each day.  With all the positive energy and prayers going your way, it just has to happen.  Hang in there and remember how much you are cared about. 

Jenny

Terry Jones (Gallemore)

Beau... Please be patient with yourself!  We ALL wanted instantaneous pain relief for you, maybe your doctor just did not prepare you for the time it takes to heal... But know you have so many friends who wish and pray for you...the BEST that God has!  It is difficult to relax and sit when you have so many things that you plan to do around your new place, but for right now your job can be just to let Mrs. Beau take care of things until you are better.  Surgery takes time to heal...  Take this time to PLAN your party AND to plan projects for when you are better.  Make lists.....  And lists and lists.  Hang in!

Beau Wann, Jr.

YES I'M AM A SPRING CHICKEN ! ! ! !  Hmmm, or maybe that's a sprung chicken...

Guess I am running short in the patience department, allus have I suppose..."LORD ?  Give me patience,  and I want it now..."

Thank yall all so much for the well wishes, oncet again...A fellow would have to be pretty sick not to get well from all the good thoughts coming my way...After yesterday when I tried to dig a post hole, well, I'm pretty much cured of wanting to do that anytime soon!   Yall are absolutely right about taking it easy, I have to learn the hard way, but the important think, is I did learn.  I have been lounging around last evening, and all this morning to day! 

I didnt make breakfast, (which is why the dirty looks from the dogs)   which is something I allus do, shucky darn, I didnt even make the coffee.  My beloved handled those chores. I'm just laying on the couch, dictating to one of the cats what to type here.  the hardest part was learning em to not use their tail to type. I know Jimmy Lee would frown on that in her typing class!  "Class, if I see anyone of yall using your tail during this test, I will put you in a room full of rocking chairs..."

But, they're not looking at the keyboard...(ok, everyone avert your eyes, this note is for Jimmie Lee...thank you!!!!)   Ok, yall all can look now !

Ok, ol lazy bones is getting sleepy, so guess I'll repair to the chaise lounge, providing there isnt 2 dogs and 3 cats blocking the way!  You know, we have a gazillion beds for each animal, and they want ours! 

You know what would taste good about right now?   Most anything...feel like I've been starved for a week of Sundays!

I believe I was signing off...
keep the sun at your six and ride boldly and gently ride...

your frien and resident resident...Sam Wann Hill

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Well, Beau, I will actually let you off the hook and give you the privilege of typing while looking at the keys (everyone else does it anyway, don't they?).

I'm in agreement with what everyone has said and what I emailed you a few weeks ago - STOP TRYING TO DO SO MUCH AND JUST  R E S T FOR A CHANGE.  I think Terry said all the right things and you have to be patient.

I've become a procrastinator in the past few months because I had to push so hard for a while to get so many things done as fast as I could - I THOUGHT (no one else agreed with me).  So, maybe you need to lie back, relax and take advice from all us "older" friends who believe you push yourself too hard and have aggravated your physical ailments (especially when you post your Pegasus adventures - with a broken back?????)

Bill Trail hit it on the nail head - we are not spring chickens and our bones and body parts are not able to keep up with all that our minds wish we could accomplish that we could do even 5 years ago. 

Diane needs to call us when she needs help and and we'll come running and you need to "cool it" for a while.  Did you read your discharge papers about what to expect?   Don't make us come to Chappell Hill to set you straight - you won't like it.

Beau Wann, Jr.

Oooh yeah...bomp bomp, OooH YEAAAH...Come on, bring your bad self on down here...Nah, just kidding...but you can come anyway and set with me on the porch.    You are so right Jimmie Lee, as are all the others, including Diane, who gently nudges me in the direction I need to be heading.   With so much to do, it's just so hard to stop.........

 But, guess where we get our stubborness  from...our work ethic...clear and simple, and we learned it from our parents, whose work ethic could never b e called to question!   

We have worked our whole lives, sick, broken, tired, rain, cold, hot, round the clock and grieving,   and still we worked  and got the job done, trying never to let anyone down, ourselves included.  So, this is where something good has come round and bitten more people than me on the backside! 

Plus, Diane works all day at the education factory, and has to drive to and fro for about 4 or 5 hours to and from work, so I do like to pull my share and hers when I can!

So, today I did nothing,  cept get up to go to the kitchen, and the other place!   Diane and I just walked down to the gate to lock it, a task we have performed together from the start,  and I struggled a bit and had to stop a couple of times.   The paper work said that "my walking is unlimited"...I say ok!   

The sawbones did say I could do anything I wanted, take up where I left off...I guess he didnt realize I do the work of 10 men and women around here!    Well, no matter, even if I feel like I'm shirking my duties/work, and I do, I guess I'm going to have to take er easy.   I'm no spring chicken you know, just a sprung one! 

My sides hurt, ???  Hmmm, wonder if they dropped me on the floor a couple of times in the operating room!
now I have fever, plus I'm cold...nothing I havent felt before though!  I have Balto and White Fang at my sides, to keep me warm,  plus Lacy on the desk monitoring my typing or really swatting at my fingers as they fly with lightning speed over the keyboard!

No, Jimmie Lee, I am not going to look at the keyboard, a rule is a rule wow38fijdiwijowiejr802pwi....oops, took my eyes of the keyboard...so you see Jimmie Lee, a rule is a rule....I really am a good typist, you would be proud of me if you saw me typing.  Bettern some, not as good as others!

ok, time to go lay down!!  My favorite western is on, "TIN STAR"  with Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins...
keep the sun at your xis and ride boldly but gently ride...
Your frien and brother in classmate,  Quasimodo

Jim Taylor

I was going through the Elementary school pictures and noticed that Katherine Smith was not represented.  Here is Mr. Bass's sixth grade class in 1958.  Please fill in the names I can't remember

Back Row:  Larry Smith, ?, ?, ?, Johnny Gibbs

Third Row: Ruth Ellen Winters, Diane Rouse, ?, James Powell, Gary Alexander, Charles Chupik (I think), Sharon Pintsch, Melanie Childress

Second Row:  Mary Huebner, Linda Bolton, ?, April Kleinman, Glenda McDonald, Charlene ??, Karin Tron, Georgia Wall, Mr. Bass

First Row:  Honor Stein, Jim Taylor, Raymond Haefy, Lynn Bledsoe, ?, Sharon Pratt, Pat Williamson, Tonda Theissen

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Jim, you were good to recognize all those when the photo seems small to me.  It's Mary Huebner 1st left on 2nd row.  Thanks for sharing with us.

Jim Taylor

Jimmie. I'll try to get a better copy uploaded. I worked for an hour to get one this size uploaded. I'm sure there is a trick to it, but I haven't found it. Thanks for Mary's last name. 

Ruth Ellen Winters (Schmidt)

Jim Taylor how did you ever remember all those people in sixth grade it was fun seeing it. Thanks for posting. I do think Charlene's last name was peace or something like that. How I remember that I don't know.  Really enjoy reading all the posts. Ruthellen winters schmidt.  Don't know if I did this right.  First time to do this

Beau Wann, Jr.

wow Jim, phenomenal memory...could the charlene be Motl ?  It is so small, but I can see who the folks are, only AFTER you mentioned their names. Dont recognize some of the names...

My beloved went to ???? Oh, Stevens, not Kathrine Smith...I get the two schools mixed up...."runs with sissors,  doesnt pay attention...."  of course when I was 18, my beloved was 8 ...

been pouring rain here since 6 am, and it is now 10:40...we wont have a road left if this keeps up, if we still do...cant see down the hill because the rain looks like fog. 

This is absolutely mind boggling...we didnt get one inch of rain all of 2014 and preceding couple of years, now we have had 2 and 3 foot of rain in just the last couple of months...

Jim Taylor

Pat Brantley (Ross)

Thank all of you for posting class photos.  We are traveling this weekend, but I will try to send in the photos I have.  

Beau Wann, Jr.

Hello myne fyne waltripynes...on a sad note, Joe Ely, the lead singer for the Kingsmen of Louie Louie fame, died last week, he was 71!     Louie Louie was written in 1955 by Richard Berry and recorded in 1957 by Berry. The kingsmen released it in 1963, and Joe said it cost all of 36 dollars to produce and record!    It is one of the most "covered" songs on earth.   Just a small bit O trivia...

here's another...the battle of "NEW MARKET" in the Shenandoah Valley, was fought on May 15th, 1864. Why the battle was so unusual, was that "cadets" from VMI were conscripted to stand as reserves in that battle, but wound up filling the breech in the middle of the line of confederates, and then charging up Hobson hill and routing the federals with fixed bayonets and hand to hand combat and siezing the cannons on the hill.  There were about 221 cadets give or take, my memory is a little fuzzy on it!   I think they had 7 killed, and 62 wounded.  Every year on May 15th, the battle and the cadets that took part are called to honor by a full dress parade of cadets.  The known average age is conflicting, or so I read!  They were 17 and 18 year olds, and as young as 12 or 14!   I guess they didnt have an age requirement to get in VMI back in them days! 

The then governor of Virginia, John Wise...(not sure of his first name), but he had two sons that fought in that battle that day.  John Wise survived, and Henry his brother perished...I could have the names backwards, but you get the jist!  

If you are a history buff, you might look aroundd on the TV, or other media to see if this years honor will be showcased. Oh, what was I thinking, probably not, because we here in the south, all the way back to the confederates between 1861 and 1864 are all racists...yeah, thats the ticket, thats why I've never seen anything on the news about it.  We cant have any glorification of any stinkin confederates now can we! 

There's a book out called "THE BATTLE FOR NEW MARKET"  ...man, my memory is good, just short ! ! !

I think thats the title ! ! !

Friends, instead of watching TV or a movie, or reading a book tonight, Me and Me Beloved and Cooper and Jack, sat on the back porch watching "lightning bugs" ....youd a thought we were a couple of 7 or 8 year olds calling out, "there's one !   Look, there's a whole bunch!    Look over here, right by the fence....OOOOh man this is so great..."     WOW, what a wonderful evening we had just sitting and watching the fireflies!   I sure miss the simpler care free times when we were kids down on DuBarry!   I know, not everyone lived on DuBarry, but since it's my memory, I'm generalizing...of course I could have said Oak Forest, and now, dont know why I didnt!     Oh pooh !

Cooper and Jack werent really in the spirit, but humored us!    I wish youall could come up here and enjoy what we get to experience.  By day, there are litterally a gazillion, and thats a conservative estimate, red male cardinals, and another gazillion brownish red female cardinals, all flitting about, seemingly saying, "oh look at us, we are so beautiful",  and you know what, they are just that, BEAUTIFUL ! ! !  And by night, the fireflies put on a show and all for free!  

Dont know how they stayed on the hill, cause the wind is really blowing hard out there!  Sure hope we dont get anymore rain. Last Wednesday, we got hammered by a huge and fierce wind and rain storm.  The rain and wind seemed to come from every direction, and horizontal. It was so bad, it flooded our screened in porch. Here we are, at the top of a 1200 foot hill, and one foot above grade, and WE FLOOD! ! !  Also, the crick came out of it's banks and washed over our road down at the foot of the hill by the front gate!

In the last 3 or 4 years, I dont think they got a foot of rain total for all 3 or 4 years....we have had 3 ft or more since the first of the year, and in 5 inch bursts!  We got 5 inches just this last Wednesday in 5 hours!

Of course it's nothing compared to Allison in 2001 ???? We  got 34 inches in 8 hours, and our house flooded back then, and during Ike, we got about 4 or 5 inches, and some water in the house....WHAT THE HECK IS IT ABOUT US AND GETTING FLOODED ????????? Were on a 1200 foot hill and 1 foot above grade, and we still get flooded....good think we have a "wet/dry" vacuum, and some fans! ! !

I sure do want to thank each and every one of yall that sent get well cards and personal messages and also on the forum, about my back! ! !    It sure is a wonderful feeling ! ! ! Like I said before, we are going to have a Waltrip Family appreciation party here on Sam Wann Hill....at least that is the plan!   If it will ever stop raining and dry out long enough for us to do some outside work....oh well, hopefully the weather pattern will change here in a couple of weeks!  

Our tractor is sitting right at 50 hours, and is in need of a scheduled service appointment.  Need to find a 16 foot lowboy trailer to haul it to Navasota. If they come get it and bring it back, they charge 3.50 a loaded mile, which in this case would be about 212 dollars. I'd sure like to put that money to someother use if I could, but might just have to bite the bullet and let em do it anyway.

We had a new 16 foot lowboy trailer at the ranch, but when we sold the ranch, we sold the trailer, not thinking we woulde ever need it again....heavy sigh! ! ! 

you know, I'm just ramblin on, like I'm having a sit down conversation with all you wonderful folks...that's just like me!

Well, guess I'll sign off...
Keep the sun at your six and ride boldly, but softly, ride...
your grateful friend,  Tater Cephus olbeauwannkanobie esq...

PS:    Oh, my back is still not any better...guess I'm just gonna have to live with it...Not something to look forward to for my remaing years! Oh well, it can always be worse!
got a follow up appointment with the sawbones, Dr Frahnkensteen, next thursday may 14th...he suppose to tell us what they found in the "great biopsy" (what he called it) . He did say the bone was not soft, which is a good thing!

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Mrs. Gale knew all the words to "Louie, Louie."  Remember when it was put on the juke box in the lunch room and she was leaning over the juke box listening to and writing down every word so she could decide whether it would be removed?  

Steve Puckett '65

Maybe this is what she heard....  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I76ssjRjeqo

Beau Wann, Jr.

According to reports, the FBI got involved with Louie Louie, and found no intelligeble woids that were obscene.  Also the lead singer Joe Ely,  the microphone was set too tall for him, and he had to crane his neck about 45 degrees and stand on his toes and scream into the mike. I think Iread that he also had braces on, but have no confirmation on that at hand!   

The battle of new market in the shenandoah valley was surely an anomaly.  One account mentioned only one of Governor Wise sons,  John !  another account didnt mention the governor or son at aall, and one site mentioned he had two sons that fought in the battle of new market and the son named Henry died. Howsomever, the official death memorial does not mention a Wise casualty!   So, whatcha gonna do, call ghostbusters?

Oh well, it's all ancient history.  But me and Dee love history! 

Had a wonderful surprise visit, well, she called first, from Jimmie lee...There's lots of things I wanted to talk to her about, but her visit was a short one, and my memory, being phenomenal, but short, time, you thief, just got away from me!  Thank you Jimmie Lee! ! !

Watching the lightning bugs through the office window...they seem to bee brighter than I remembered, in fact my beloved mentioned that very thing!

Time to deplane...C YA maybe at fudds Tuesday!   We are planning on attending, but sometimes best laid plans of meece and mean, yadda yadda yadda...etc