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Beau Wann, Jr.
Hey Kay, myne fyne country friend. Our garden will be late this year, but down here, you can garden 9 or 10 months out of the year. Back in the old days, we always expected and werent disappointed that there would be one last freeze before Easter. (my dad said that the garden he planted February 17th was his best year ever. Try as I might, I've never been able to get one going that early)... Easter being early this year, I dont think it will freeze, but the mercury has been sitting at 42 all day, wind averaging 30 mph. Kay, you're already mowing? I'd love to mow, but having a hillside full of bluebonnets, cant mow till May the 15th or after. That's when the seeds will be ready to be dispersed by the mower.
We do have leafy lettuce and leaf cabbage, (not head cabbage) some cauliflower, all in containers, and maters (east texas for tomatoes) in the ground, lots of rosemary, mint and other hoibs and spices. Oh, got my onions in temporary pots till I can get them in the ground. Concrete people were here from 11:30 yesterday morn till almost 9 PM. finally got the garage poured. Now have to wait 21 days before to drive on it. Juan said 5 days before to drive on it, and 10 days before to paint it, but I allus heard it was 21 days. I've waited this long, so whats another 21 days eh! ! !
The cement finisher, Juan, is an absolute master at his craft. Never seen anyone like him before in the construction industry. Here's a man that takes pride in his work, sadly you dont see that much these days anymore!
He tried to explain to me the mix ratio he uses, cement to sand to pea gravel to water etc. The wind blowing a hunnert miles an hour, and me being deef, and Juan speaking softly with an accent, makes for almost no communicating with me. I nodded my head that I understood, like I do with most people nowdays. Sure do miss alot being deef. So frustrating! ! ! !
Talking about Easter and the last freeze before, every year for 35 years I've always asked Diane about why they move Easter around so much, and every year she explains it to ol Mr. Potato head. I'll remember it this time, till Monday morning, and next year, I'll ask her again ! Nah, I actually get it this time, having to do with "PASSOVER" and all. Dont really understand it, but then there's lots I dont understand, duh! ! !
Finally went to town this afternoon, after Jacks meds of course, checked the mail in Chappell Hill, drove to the square in Brenham to look in a bookstore and also at Bluebird off the square shop. Never guess what I found! ! ! A 1928 first edition copy of Edith Whartons "THE CHILDREN", and for 7.50. It's not in the best of shape, but not in the woist eyether. I remember ALL OUR ENGLISH TEACHERS starting in 5th grade Mrs Simpson, God Bless her, luring us to the wonderful whirld of reading and enjoying the classics..
By the 5th grade, I'd read the "Odyssey" and the "Illiad" and the likes of Edith Wharton, Thornton Wilder, Harold James, shakespere, among others. Didnt much care for some of them, but liked Homer. O Henry and Edgar Allan Poe were good, wierd but good. Loved all the poets, mostly the rhyming ones, iambic pentameter.
Remember the Paper back book club? I remember buying a few paperback books for .50 cents apiece, I think, and then waiting impatiently for them to arrive. Believe it or not, one of those books has survived 60 someodd years of moves and stuff. "The Day of Infamy", about the japs bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec 7th, 1941..."A day that will live in infamy..." I know yall all know the date, just thought I'd wax dramatic and throw it in for free.
.50 cents for a book was a lot of money back then. that would buy a couple days worth of lunches, and to have spent it on a book, well, money well spent, lunch for the soul. Trying to pick a out a book to read among all my books, is overwhelming, like trying to decide which project to start next. I've read most of them, and some of them more than once. Sometimes I dont have to actually read one of the books, sort of like the Bible, just hold it and caress the cover and flip the pages and catch a whiff of the musty smell books turn into. Then sneeze of course, which generally breaks the spell.
All our young trees, oak and red maple, snowdrift crabapple, peach and redbud, are doing great. Wind blowing so hard and long, bending them this way and that, I'm surprised the trees have survived. Credit goes to God of course..."poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree"...perhaps one of my all time favorite poems. I have so many favorites, hard to really say which one. I guess the ones I can remember are all my favorite ones, yeah, that's the ticket.
Hey Kay, dont worry about the dewberries, they'll be out in May and June. Lots of em blooming on our place and have been for the last week or so.
EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT, NEWS BULLETIN...SAW THE FIRST FIREFLY YESTERDAY....Talk about a sight for the soul. Good thing I dont have to listen for them. When the wind is from the east, noth east, I can hear the rooster on the next ridge about half to three quarter miles away.
Christmas came early this year, sort of. One of my cousins that I was close to, died last July, of the dreaded A word. Then this valentines day, her husband died. Having no heirs, their estate will hopefully go to charity, they were very wealthy. Hmm, my mom died Feb a year ago, then my cousin 6 months later, then an aunt a month after that, then another cousin in January this year and then my cousins husband in Feb. Where christmas comes in, is that I did inheirit my cousin and her husbands music collection of CDs. It wasnt written down, but they were going to throw them out and I raised my hand and said, "I'd love to have those", or words to that effect.
I have the entire collection of hit parade hits from 1940 to the 60s. One of my all time favorites that I didnt have, was in that collection from 1957, "SO RARE", Jimmy Dorsey. Sadly he died 3 months after it hit the charts. best all time instrumental ever in the whirld. Lots of close seconds though. Also have years and years of rythym and blues, and every album and song Elvis ever made. I just thought I had all his works, I was mistaken. Now I do. Lots of old classic country and western etc. Blessed for sure am I ! ! !
Been having a whale of a time putting them on my computer and then copying the best of for a CD to listen to in the truck or in the garage/daince hall. Most all the new music I inheirited, I didnt have. Now I do.Blessed for sure! ! ! WOW, is it that late? past midnight? Sorry, didnt mean to keep all yall up. Guess I'll sing off for now. Kay, thanks for getting on the forum. I like to read what other people are doing besides my stuff. You take care, glad your sciatica has eased up. My pains like to move around. Easter weekend and week before, both knees gave out with pain. Had to use a cane, and help from my beloved getting up from sitting. This week not bothering me so much. Go figure!
Oh, a quick synopsis of our Easter. Maundy thursday, last supper, the little country church in the country set up a "last supper table. complete with unleavened bread and wine. 13 places. One chair was drapped in black and was not for sitting because it was Judas' chair, and one was draped in white and also not for sitting because it was Christs seat. Each person in the congregation would get up and pick a seat and then pray or contemplate, and then accept the sacrement of communion. Then Sunrise service at 7 was even more specialer.
All the chairs were outside the south side of the church facing east. During the brief service, the sun rose in our faces, the mocking birds and crows and cardinals put on a symphony only God could write...WOW ! ! !
So, that was it, another beautiful Easter.
Keep the sun at your six and cows in the fence...
your friens Cephus and his beloved Diane....hope to see you soon
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