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Jenny Taylor (Williams)

Classmates, 

I saw this obit for Brian Copeland's Mom in the Houston Chronicle this morning.  

Georgia Helen Copeland
1919-2017
Georgia Helen Copeland, 98, passed away Friday, April 7, 2017. She was born January 29, 1919 in New Willard, TX to parents Edna Vivian & Sims Seth Rawls.
Georgia was a member of Baptist Temple for over 50 years, and later was a proud member of the Reba Class at South Main Baptist Church. She was the Manager of Lease records at Highland Resources for many years. Georgia was the second woman Landman in the state of Texas. 
She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Henry R. Copeland; brother, S.L. Rawls. Georgia is survived by her children, Brian R. Copeland (Vicki), and Susan Sirnic (Mark); grandchildren, Callie Copeland, and Donavin Sirnic.
A Memorial Service will be held at 1:30 PM at South Main Baptist Church Chapel. In lieu of flowers, please make memorial contributions to The Star of Hope Mission.

Heights Funeral Home

Love and prayers to Brian, Susan and their family. 

Jenny

Teddie Jordan

Continued thoughts and prayers for Beau please. As of last night he is still in a lot of pain. 

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Beau, there is a bit of silence in response to Teddy''s report....we are all quiet, wanting to be "good little peeps" for you, hope you can feel the prayers coming your way from all

With Diane's help and the animal love surrounding you, you will conquer this, and once again, rise and ride your tractor again....First thing I hopped on (JD riding mower folks) and mowed happily on Saturday..  You will too.

Prayers and Hugs

..

Susan Howard (Bowman)

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Oh my beautiful and wonderful friends ! ! ! !   Thank you so much for all your encouragement, love and prayers. WOW...it is a wonderful life isnt it.  No one is a failure that has friends like you. 

    Bernd????  Where have you been?   We've missed you and the sights and sounds from Germany.  Talk us through it sometime. I still remember the snow picture you posted....great to hear from you.  Almost like your wife being a doctor, mine is a pharmacists daughter and has worked in her fathers stores since she was 6.  She generally knows what will work and what wont in the medicine field.  She remembers just what I've taken over the years and what I'm allergic to and which ones I've had the side effects on etc.   She is taking very good care of me, and believe it or not, I have been a very good patient, this time. 

    Believe me, I dont want to jeopardize the work that's been done on my foot, hurting though it might be.  Yall would be proud of this hard headed patient with no patience.  I have kept my foot elevated above my heart and ice on the backside of my knee to cool the blood flowing down to my foot, 99% of the time.  I've mostly gotten up to take care of the call of the wild, and believe me laying back down never felt so good.  I'm now able to turn on my left side, some, and turn my right foot and leg in, still propped up on a few pillows. 

    I took my opium the first day, and regretted it.  I now just take two tylenol whenever Diane says I can. Lo and behold, tylenol seems to be the answer. It has allowed me to sleep more, I still wake up about 1 and then from 4 to daybreak, but able to go back to sleep, HOORAY! ! ! !   Today I slept till 930.....I havent slept that late in decades. It's something I think Ican get use to.  I think the reason I sleep that late now, is I'm not tuned in to HAVING TO feed the zoo here, since I cant, so I just let it be, and Diane takes care of it.  Although it just kills my soul for her to have to take care of things I have taken care of. 

     I have tried to spare Diane lots of work by just locating in one room rather than all over the house like I am want to do.  I have use of a KNEE SCOOTER, and whoever invented it sure knew what they were doing. The hardest thing about it, is it hurts my knee and shin. I have added another pillow to it to help aleviate that problem. Actually the really hardest part is backing up with it, which I manage to do. I have run over the big toe of my good foot numerous times, but I'm learning to quit doing that.  I have a wheelchair and walker and crutches. I've tried the wheelchair and it works out just fine!

    Diane hass attached a backpack to the front of my scooter and I can carry water and my phone and snacks and all kinds of things, so I dont have to hollar for Diane to "get my phone please" or " bring some water please"....Nope, dont have to do that. Only think I have to hollar for, is ice for the back of my knee, I'm not yet adept at getting that myself, but I soon will be.

    Monday was the third day, and the absolutely worst day in memory. I've had my back operated on, my gall bladder out, and none of those compare to this. Of course they say, and I've known, that the third day of any illness is the worst ever. Why it is, is anyones guess.  Sunday the meds doc Frahnckensteen shot me up with, wore off....really bad night!  I thought, ok I've hit bottom, tomorrow will be better!  Oh contraire mon ami! ! !  Monday it went from bad to worse.  I tried to eat a fork full of buttered rice, and then a cracker....WRONG THING TO EVER DO. My esophagus collapsed and I could not swallow, I thought I was going to  choke to death, but I could breathe, just not swallow.

    My chest hurt so bad, and I was just gagging and spitting and it was just terrible. I now know that episode to be acid reflux, that and the rice and cracker were just too dry,  something which I have never had before.  Anyway, it took 2 hours to get over that where I could swallow some crushed ice. I have sworn off rice and crackers for ever. Everything I am reelating to you, is just a heads up in case you find yourself in such a state! 

    Today was a much better day, Diane took my truck to the ford place for some warranty work, and I had a visit from my good friend Richard Meek.  That really elevated my spirits.  Paige took a picture of Jack and Dixie, and put them in a frame and had Richard deliver them.  We do love our critters dont we!  Anyway, what a nice surprise! I shouldnt be surprised though, look who I'm talking about! 

     I cant wait till the spring fling and seeing all youse wonderful youtes.  I noticed Goode Co has WC accessible ramp, so I will probably be using the ramp with my wheelchair.  As much as I've liked some of the history of the 18th and 19th century, a persons survivability was limited with even the smallest of health problems.  Glad I'm here in this century!

    Got to sit out  in the setting sun today...oh man it felt so wonderful. Someone remind me of just how good it felt, especially in July and August when we're burnt to a turn! Diane turned the wifi on in my new laptop, and I'm on the couch typing this with two of peoples best friends, Jack and Dixie Belle. One on oneside and one on the other, both snoring.  They are such a comfort...wish Cooper were here!

    Hopefully, if all goes well tonight, Diane is going to take me on a field trip to the HEB in Brenham tomorrow. I will take my wheelchair and just sit at the coffee bar and flirt with the young ladies that tend it.  Well, I dont really flirt, just get them laughing and smiling...that's always good for the soul!  I'm at least 50 years their senior.  They give me an old person and military discount. I told one of them I was in the revolutionary war, and she said, "was I really," she had heard something about that war. Are they not teaching history anymore????

    We are now the proud, or semi proud parents of 5 bunny rabbits....not willingly you understand!   I have put up chicken wire to keep the rabbits out of the yard, we have spread grey fox urine, mothballs and "critter away" all around the outside of the fence, all to no avail.  A rather fertile mother bunny rabbit dug a hole in the middle of the front yard, and placed her 5 babies in there.  During the storm, Diane donned rain hat and duster and rubber boots, and pulled the babies out, dryed them off and when the storm subsided, drained their home, put in fresh straw and newspaper, placed them back in and built a fort around the hole. She used every object she could get her hands on to see that that remained off the menu of two certain bunny killers.

    An engineer she is not, but pure of heart she is...I will post a picture of said "bunny fortress"...on the next post. This one is kind of long....NOOOOOO really?  Yeah, you all know how brief I generally am....I will sign off for now....thank you one and all for your care and love....Kay, next time you need meds, come see us, we have a pantry full of potions and cough meds, which none has worked on Dianes cough. Even the cough syrup her dad reccommended didnt work.  It's just one of thos e things that has to run it's course. Heavens knows, I have had a zillion of those where nothing worked but time.  Hot tea laced with lemon and honey and coffee seems to help.

    Well, there you go....

Beau Wann, Jr.

    It's me again....OH NO MR BILL.....YUP....

here is the bunny fortress, she stacked up almost everything in the yard...dont laugh, it was built with the purest of hearts.  I see my next project, a rabbit hutch.  I will look them up on line and check out the feed stores here, and build one without a floor.  Then when we find a rabbit  nest I can place it over the top and anchor it with rebar, and just leave the door open when Jack and Dixie are in the house. I will build a removable roof to keep the rain out, but let the sunshine in.  As soon as I'm able to dance, "rabbit hutch" will be my next project! 

     I've also started mulling over a few othe projects I noticed, like move a fence, put in a garden, and a huge flower garden for Diane to plant her bulbs and easter lillys, and a pond with a waterfall....just to name a few....first things first, I need to heal, and I forbid me to do otherwise....

so there you go....

Beau Wann, Jr.

Here's something else I'm going to share with all yall.  Makes me feel bad for feeling bad....

I dont know who he is, what a smile. And I complain about my minor foot problem....

Terry Jones (Gallemore)

Beau, it is really good to see you online again!  And i LOVE Diane's bunny fortress!  While you are temporarily slowed down, it is good to have time to make all those lists of things you want and need to do around there, and plan what you need to do them.  I am sure, as long as you behave and do what you are supposed to, that Diane is happy to do your chores temporarily until you are back out there!   

Keep those messages coming!  And good luck on your field trip to HEB!  Have fun....

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Hey Terry, how did you conjure up your picture?  Pretty snazzy!  I am up early this morning, 730. Sounds funny,  Usually it would read "it's 730 and I've been up since 3 and already done a half days work"...I was hoping to go back to sleep, but I was excited about the field trip today and couldnt sleep.  Seems kind of a grey day today. Kidss have already been out and taken care of bidness.  Diane takes a small can of pennies out with her and shakes it loudly when the kids get too close to the "bunny fortress".  the kids dont like that sound so they move away quickly.  Diane checked on the wee kids and they are larger and have more fur, but eyes still not opeen yet. They sure grow up quickly dont they!

     Speaking of growing up quickly, the baby blue birds have all flown the coop.  We watched mom and pop teaching them how to fly.  It was so cool. The babies are actually larger than mom and pop, all stuffed full of worms and such. Never seen a parents work so hard raising  their young.  The blue birds have been coming here for 3 years, I hope they continue for as long as I'm around.

     Had a visit from a racoon and armadillo night before last. Tracks all around the dance hall.  They dont usually come up this close to the house.  I had Diane put a bucket of deer corn and bird seed over by the containers and tall grass hoping that would deter them from venturing over here again. Dont want the dogs tangling with a racoon.

     Aaaahhhh, thanks flo!   Flo the waitress just brought a cup a steaming hot black joe for my dining pleasure. I'm in the pink room so as not to be sprawled in the way all over the house. I have two windows and a glass door to look out upon the whirld.  I can see two of my red maples from here. Teddy and Fran brought us those trees, and they are growing like weeds.  Isnt that something, I compare something I love to something I dont love. 

     I thought the 19 degree temperature we had this last short winter, killed all my trees. They were all late budding out!  I think they were just waiting to see if they were going to get smacked again with arctic cold.
We have three red maple, one red shumard oak, two snowdrift crabapple, two peach trees, a lemon, lime and orange tree. All but the citrus trees and peach trees are just covered with leaves.  The peach have some coming out on top, but the citrus just have leaves at the bottom of the trunks. The citrus will probably have to be removed as they wont produce any produce for at least a zillion years. The tops froze, boo!

     This new computer is....wacky. I hate HATE Windows 10.  The idiots that produce this stuff think they have to screw something up to improve it, and all they are doing is mudding the water and making things less productive, and all for an extra buck. I dont know of anyone that likes windows 10. Wish they'd change it back.  Just think, they will probably "new and improve" windows 10 into something more useless than it's predecessor.  I have never found a "new and improved" product to be superior than it's predecessor, mostly less and inferior.  I know, "bottom line" gotta shave off a tenth of a penny in production to increase the bottom line so the CEO can retire with a 100 million dollar golden parachute plan. 

     When I find unsatisfactory products and service, you can bet I fire off a condemning email.  I've even had a company argue with me that they didnt change the product. Nestles was the offending party.  I told them I had an old jar, and compared the ingredients, and the new improved crap is different.  They actually sent a coupon to me for 5.33 towards more Nestles crap.  I sent it back to them. Mess with me will you!
On some of the  more egregious offenders, I never hear back from. That's ok, if it's a restaurant, we generally dont go back. Doesnt seem to matter to them though, they seem to have enough suckers to pay the bills.

     How did I get off on the big company crusades? Sorry, lost my head there for a second.  I havent decided if I am still going to town today or not. Had my foot down for a few hours yesterday and it really hurt last night. It's propped up now, as it was all night, but still feels like it's swollen and is tingling.  Both feet feel like they are on fire most of the time, and I can thank my lower back for that, but not much can be done about it except take tylenol and asprin. I have found that Excedrin Migrain works as well as if not better than prescription pain killers.  The asprin attacks the inflammation and tylenol eases the pain, and the caffeine helps them both to work better.  I think today I can start taking asprin again, but will check with the pharmacists daughter to make sure.

     Going to have another sponge bath today. I'm getting quite adept at sponge bathing. Dont really use a sponge, just a couple of washcloths and towels, 6 bars of soap, some soft soap, antibacterial soap, grandmas lyesoap, and anything else I deem to help with cleanliness.   I cant wait to get back in the shower again. I love a "fire hose shower". If the water isnt pinning me to the back wall, it isnt hard enough!  I was thinking about Katic Stana, Liv Tyler, and Gabrelle Anwar, and how good it would be if they could come over and give me a sponge bath.....or just come over and have a cup a joe with me.  Hmmm thoughts of me youte!

    Ok, I've been rambling since "hello", so I will deplane, boss!

remember, keep the sun at your six and ride boldly ride and endeavor to persevere...
so, there you are....

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

BroBeau,  so happy to hear from you!  I know it has been a painful recovery, but we all pray that each day is better! 

Everyone do me a favor, I know many of you read the message forum, but don't response.  So for Beau's fast recovery, let's all give him a big hug and shout out!!  I challenge you, just put "Get well soon" or whatever you want, that's all.  I want to see all of you on here!!!  Bernd sent one from Berlin, that made my day! Glad to know he's okay now.

A little HAPPY EASTER humor!!   Hugs

Beau Wann, Jr.

     HEAL YOU IDJIT....just thought I'd jump rat in there.  Yeah, that's what happens to all chocolate easter bunnies when they enter the wannoleum residential area.  I bite their ears off. If I cant hear, why should they?

been through two bunnies, got 2 togo....

Teddie Jordan

 Cephus, glad you're doing better. Your photo of the little boy with his prosthetics says it all. And look at the big smile on his face!

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Hey Bernd, I wish you would post some pics of berlin from time to time.   Old sections if there are any left. Or anything would be lovely. 

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Well Beau Cephus, so glad you are slowly improving.    I suppose you aren't in your official office study as such. That is a neat place!  I, myself, not quite back to snuff yet, but off meds and taking it easy.  I suppose my immune system is not what it used to be....I have noted that my carpal tunnel in both wrists and back have improved greatly, now that I'm not out there doing all the handyman chores.  Food for thought, may have to start thinking of selling some of this, getting me a little concrete, near a golf course would be great....I suppose I would miss my old oaks, silence, no neighbors......on 2nd thought, a few more years can't hurt!

I have a wren or red bird has built a nest outside my window, so I get to watch them.  I've got the great-grands coming to visit this weekend, can't wait to show 'em and the dewberries. 

I imagine it will be - did you say two mos. before you can move around?  Enjoy the late morn. hours, and the personal service!

Bernard, that was  a pretty serious viral infection around the heart.....glad you are better.

Terry, those pics are flying around the facebook, I love them, mine had the top of my head chopped off.

Have a glorious Easter, everyone.

Ronna Brand

Beau  so sorry you are having to go through this difficult time.  Sounds like you are doing what it takes to get well.  That is good news!  Your down time is our up time because we get to read your great messsges on the Forum.  Take it easy and one of these days, this will all be a memory!

Beau Wann, Jr.

     TJ, Kay, Ronna, Jackie et al...thank you again so much for all your cares and prayers. A fellow would have to be brain and heart dead not to get better with all yall pulling for them, and I can assure you I am neither of the aforementioned.  I do, however, have aligator skin!  Not thick mind you, but scaly looking.  The backs of my hands are black,  where they tried to find a vein to poke for the IV.  Whichever vein they picked and poked on either hand, would go all Z on them and then the tube would pop out and I would bleed all over the place. My blood is on their Hands....their arms, uniforms and most everything in the preop room.

    I remember seeing my moms and dads hands long towards their old age, and mine now look just like theirs did. I use to have pretty hands, and now they are pretty ugly, but do still work pretty good, sometimes! Not a complaint but an observation.

    I wasnt able to go on my field trip today, I just felt too bad. As it turned out, Diane didnt go either. Seems Jack had a nose bleed, so Diane called the vet and had her bring him in to check him out just to be sure.  I must say I should have been amazed by what they found, but was not.  Jack has a SINUS INFECTION....

     Animals can get what we can, but I just never thought they would have sinus problems. Jack has been sneezing alot.  Now in addition to his 11 pills a day he now has 6 more to add!   One of those pills is vitamin K to block any nosebleeds he might get in the future.

    Tomorrow we will try again with the field trip.  If I dont feel well, then I will postpone it again till next week.  I forbid me to do anything to jeopardize my future ability to walk without aid.

    Spent some time out in the glorious Sons sun.  Vitamin D never felt so good!  As I gazed across the hill down into the valley, sadly, the blue was fading from the bluebonnets, but the indian paint brushes were a brilliant lot as if they were screaming, "we're still here, and arent we beautiful", and I must say, they are correct!

      Lots of mockingbirds flying about in the wild mating melee that comes with spring.  Flashes of red from the beautiful cardinals, 2 and three males courting each female. Sometimes they land on the rose trellis and their red just puts the rose red to shame. I know the roses have to be jealous!   I am, I should look so pretty!

      Buzzards as ugly as they are on the ground, were soaring high and low, some as high as a thousand feet or more I surmise!  Several male redtail hawks soaring and trying to impress the female. Aint that just like us guys!  And the best thing I have been holding my breath for,  FIREFLIES....!!!!!!  They are back. Diane said she saw them down at the creek as she was locking up the gate.  I cannot wait to see them back up here on the hill.

     Jack and Dixie Belle are fast asleep, she on the sofa and He on his bed in the corner of the office. Dixie is curled up with her teddy bear. Seems she has poked another hole in his nose this time, with teddy bear stuffing pouring out.  She did this to her last year teddy bear, relieved it of all it's stuffing. I looked in the bluebird house and they are using some of it for their nest. At least the babies will be warm and comfy!

     Sometimes I dread the night so much....not just for my sleeplessness, but because I just hate the dark. Always have. It is inspireing sometimes, however, for silly old retards like me.  Reminds me of the beginning of a poem I've read ,
"I'll remember you, love, in my prayers" by  ol mr UNKNOWN....

"When the curtains of night are pinned back by the stars,
and the beautiful moon leaps the skies,
and the dewdrops of heaven are kissing the rose,
It is then that my memory flies
as if on the wings of some beautiful dove
In haste with the message it bears
To bring you a kiss of affection and say:
I'll remember you, love, in my prayers..."

Not the sum total of the words of the poem, but enough!  I have dearly loved that poem over the years, and my love for it is ever increased when thinking of you, my dear friends...as the hour after midnight approaches, I will close and say "good night"....and,  "I'll remember you, love, in my prayers..."     

Ruth Ellen Winters (Schmidt)

Beau wishing you a quick recovery.  Sounds like you are making progress so that's good.  Know when you are so active this is really hard. Praying for a quick recovery and for pain to subside.  Praying for patience and for Diane also.  God Bless you both.  You can do this.  🎈🎈🎈🎈😋

Terry Jones (Gallemore)

Beau, try        nametests.com, i think that is where the pictures are transformed if my memory still works.

Llynn Roff

Beau, GET WELL SOON. ( I'm not sure we should be asking for that.  After all, you can be a "pain in the ___" when you are healthy.)

Susan Billings (Smock)

Johnny Sheffield

Like to wish everybody a very happy Easter

and gods blessing to all for good health. 

Beau, get well soon , summer softball will start soon and we need 

you ready to go. 

See everybody next week at the spring fling. 

Johnny

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Hello myne fyne waltripynes...our wifi has been down, or so I thought. We lost power yesterday morning. Bluebonnet Electric Coop is enlarging a substation.  The little icon on my computer kept telling me we had no internet....and like a idjit, I believed it. Big liar!   Thanks again for all the cares and prayers. At this juncture of the road, I think I'm ok. 

     Lots less pain, (ice is really the answer, that and tylenol). Went on my first field trip yesterday to HEB in Brenham.  Used the wheelchair, because I was just going to sit at the coffee bar and flirt with the young girls!  Well, mostly drink coffee and watch the throngs of people shopping. Yould think no one was at work yesterday except the folks at HEB.  Made it through that ok, came home and put my leg up on a block of ice. No ill effects, just a tad tired, but that's normal, hurt leg or not!

     Went on another and longer field trip today. Had breakfast at the chappell Hill bakery.  That was probably the worst thing today. It was edible, but just barely. We should have gotten a kolache or cinnimon roll, those they excell at, just not breakfast.  Then we went to Walgreens in Brenham and got some more drugs and a few sundries. 

       I decided I was ok, so we went downtown old brenham and visited PUPPY DOG TAILS pet store and antique sundries. It is in an old steel foundry, and is well worth the visit to any of you that come up this direction and make the Brenham square a regular stopping point.

     The shop use to be on the, or just off the square, on the same street as the square, but due to landlords greed, kicked the Puppy Dog Tails out.  However the owner found a bigger and better place just 100 yards or less off the main street.

      The proprieter is a super lady, and her store is more than worthwhile to visit and browse in. We went today, as I said, and she fixed a chair for me, and even provided me with some ice for my leg. We had come at a slow time in the day, and she and I chatted nonstop whilst Diane shopped. She is just like many of our class, although much younger, she is so kind and sweet.  If not for her making me comfortable, I would have been ready to go home.

     Finally got home after being out for about 4 hours, no ill effects.  Rested on a block of ice, ready to go again. 

     We have tried to transplant dogwood, and have never been successful.  The meeks brought us a redbud tree, bud, and it isstill in the pot and thriving.  We are carefully trying to select a spot for it that wont be in peril of a tractor or any vehicles.  Since it is small, we dont want it overgrown with weeds or whatever the grass is up here. We have plenty of time to pick a perfect spot.

    Last year we put in 5 crepe myrtles down at the creek and the split rail fence. They survived summer and a brief but cold winter, and are bursting with leaves. Cant wait to see the colors when they bloom. When my foot is better and I have a clean bill of health to start doing stuff, we are going to put in a dozen or more KNOCKOUT ROSES down along the split rail fence by the creek.  That rose is very prevalent up here, everyone has zillions of them, and their blossoms are so prolific, the bushes are almost sold red with blooms!

    Another prolific bloomer up here is PLUMBAGO !  We had some at our old house, and planted some at the rent house. I planted four down by the creek last year, and the freeze killed them.  They are sky blue, and beautiful.  I just love blue flowers. Well, any bloom is ok by me, but especially like the blue!

    I cannot wait till I can walk again! ! ! I have so many ideas and projects to do, I feel a slacker not being able to work on them. 

    Just watched a show on Puerto Rico, about the fauna and flora.  They have a green parrot that is their state bird.  It was driven almost to extinction. There were only 13 of them left when they started a "save the parrot" program.  Now there are over 700 in the wild down there, and they are cultivating hundreds more every year.  If it were me, anyone found with one of those birds, or trying to sell it, they would get the death penalty on the spot, unless they were giving it mouth to mouth respiration. No appeals, no ifs ands or buts!   But that's just me.

    They also have the LEATHERBACK TURTLES that are an endangered species.  they just declared one of the beaches a protected breeding ground for them.  It is the largest of it's kind, weighing in at 1000 pounds.

    I guess you can tell I do love the fauna and flora, of all the whirld. Well, cept snakes and spiders, and scorpions!  

    Someone was selling flopeard bunny rabbits at Walgreens, and had two left when Diane wheeled me away from there. I know we have wild bunny rabbits, but I've always wanted one of those big flopeared bunnies.  Oh well, I reckon they found good homes for them.

    Dang this foot anyway, I NEED TO GET WORKING! ! ! Building a rabbit hutch for the wild baby bunnies and planting trees and flawrs, moving fences and putting in new ones, and installing an automatic gate opener.....

    Gotta run, Diane has made us a late lunch early supper,  TACOS ! ! ! And her tacos are wonderful, crispy and soft...

I'll be back....

So, there you go.....  

Post Script:  HEB will be closed Easter Sunday....hooray....guess I'll have to keep on shopping with them...

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Happy Easter to all, 

Glad you are feeling better, Beau!  Entertaining my great granddaughter, Aylean, this weekend. She is 6 yrs. and still loves coming out to Grammy's place,  to pick dewberries....6 cups and growing, most went down her mouth!  Weve visited some friends and she has seen the baby bird's nest, wildflowers which she loves and examines, seen small just born hereford calves my favorite , wild catfish, (ex-fiances ranch) shopped, bought her siblings Easter baskets, and tomorrow on to church and an easter egg hunt, and then back to her mom. God is good!

I miss plumbago in Oak Forest, doesn't grow well out here.  But I abhor pine trees, raked too many of them on FM 1960.  Crepe Myrtle is a weed out here.  Always wished I could get some dogwood  trees to grow though.  

Wish a Happy Spiritual Easter to all my Waltripian fellows.

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Hope y'all are able to get on website now.  Sorry, there were some maintenance issues with ClassCreator our host, but should be good to go now!

Latest headcount for Saturday's Spring Fling (details on homepage)  Some deletions and some additions -- see you soon. Hugs

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Howdy! Been busier than a one legged man in an a**kicking contest; busier than a one legged man stomping out a grass fire....both are virtually impossible!  Ha, I'm glad I uncovered those myths. Besides, I've perused the periodicals and couldnt find an a** kicking contest anywhere, and the CHVFD assured me, should there be a grass fire, they would come a running!

    Been interesting to say the least, me and my scooter fell over yesterday, and right on my wounded foot as luck would have it, and she pretty well has her way most days.  Dont think I did any damage, except to the dictionary trying to find just what words I used and are they legal!

    Me thinks I am ok. Going to the sawbones this morning at 11 so he can look at it and change dressing and or bandages, and probably fuss at me if I did any damage!  I am, as always, very careful!  I dont particularly like pain, I'm just use to it and have a high tolerance for it. The wreck was just one of those things that either has your name on it or not ! 

     Kay, sounds like you had a great time with your grandaughter.  6 is a great age for kids. From 4 to 10 is a good time, but once they hit that "teenage" year, cant hold em back!  Then when they get our age, they will love naps, and figure out that "growing up is a trap"....

    Had lunch yesterday downtown Brenham at the Brenham grill in the Ant Street Hotel.  they have an old fashion hamburger, and it is just that, almost like the CHUCK WAGON, except thicker meat.  It really isnt anything special, just a good meal. The french fries, advertised as such, are really wedge fries and soooooo soooo dry.  I've had better burgers, but the BGs is ok.  Yumms, a block away, is much better, and their french fries are great, regular and sweet potatoe.  They were closed yesterday, otherwise we would have eaten there.

     Might go there today after my sawbones visit if I feel up to it.

     OH OH OH ALERT ALERT...THE FIREFLIES HAVE COME BACK....They are now at the top of the hill and all around us.  They put on a show last night, even through the rain, that was spectacular. They almost seem unreal that something in nature can be so flashy at night. Barring lightnig from the list!

     Latest on the 5 wee bunnies project, went to Tractor Supply and found just the item we needed, or Diane needed for the bunnies. A bunny cage and bunny mat made of leaves woven together.  Diane must have worked on it for 2 or 3 hours to get it just right.  She even has a bunny bottle and bunny milk just in case momma bunny doesnt come back.  I draw the line at bottle feeding the wildlife.

    Diane checked on the wee lads and lassies and all five were doing fine and momma had visited them last night and rearranged them and brought more nesting material for them, her fur!  I dont know how she can stand to be away from them all day, but then I wasnt consulted about the matter.

    I think I mentioned that the bluebird babies have flown the coop. Mom and pop did a magnificent job, as they do every year. 

    Unless I fall over on my baby Harley with no motor again, we plan to be at the sprang flang.  It will be good to see all yall. Haven seen youse youtes in a whole month, and that's just too long. Oh, the Meeks came out after Easter services and played donimoes with us. That's always fun!

     Dang, I'm getting sleepy, again!  Dixie Belle is asleep next to me, just sawing logs.

     Time to deplane....glad we're not flying United, we'd get kicked off for sure!

so there you go.....