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Teddie Jordan

OK, One more of the images that I believe is true, and I'll shut up. 

Scotty Croom

i have a friend, reformed alcholic,whose store was torched in minn.such a shame   

Sharon Brenner (Lisa)

Thank you Stan, Susie, Frank, Jerry and Teddy. I seldom post here  but I really appreciate your thoughts and comments. Enlightenment for sure. 

Diane Vandel (Siebels)

Thank you, Stan, for your opening post and everyone who has added their insightful comments.

Mary Weidner (Williams)

Don't know if anyone has heard that the Sears store on North Shepherd is closing! It will be a big change not to have this store as a landmark! I still live in what was my parent's home on West 39th Street. There have been lots of changes since our high school days but with Sears closing the last of our old landmarks will be gone. I remember the Sears of our  time as having the smell of great popcorn and then there was the candy area where you bought in bulk! Chocolate covered peanuts for a nickel!! Anytime we needed anything, Sears would be the first place my parents would go. I also remember catching the bus to go downtown with Sherry McWhorter outside of Sears under the big open covered pavilion. It was here where their were water fountains for "colored" and "white". Back then we dressed up to go downtown to shop at Foley's and to L C Cafeteria (where you went underground on the escalator and they had something called "chicken fried steak"!) In the bus there was a sign that said, "colored to the back". This was our world and we just accepted it. We all loved our "colored" ironing lady, Jessie. We certainly had no money but everyone had an ironing lady! Yes, I guess we lived in a bouble! I will miss the Sear's sign as a landmark and I hope the store is replaced with something the neighborhood can be proud of. 

Dennis Johnson

I truly appreciate the past few posts.

Beau Wann, Jr.

       Goooooooood evening Chappell Hilllllll, and all the ships I see.   Let me add to the above, no matter how bad one has been treated in the past,   there is no reason for LAWLESSNESS.  We have laws for a reason, I may not agree with some, but just because I disagree with the law, or you because you are black or white or polka dot, or martian, or democrat or republican or went to Reagan HS,  doesnt give me or anyone  the right to riot and burn things down.  Regardless of how one was treated 200 years ago or 2000 years ago, or 2 days ago, does not excuse bad behavior.  AND SHAME ON THE MAYORS AND LEADERS of the cities for condoning this behavior ie Seattle etc.

     I had no friends of color growing up, just a sign of the times,  except the two men that worked at Mangum supervalu, Clarence and I forget the other mans name, but I believe they were treated with the same respect that most men were treated with back in those days, at least by me.  I made .60 cents an hour, and they made considerably more, and well they should, I was a punk kid and they were grown men with familys.  It never occured to me  to be envious or even upset because they were paid more than I.  It really never occured to me that there was a difference except skin pigment.

    I did have "Mexican" friends, now latino or hispanic, but I'd never heard those words back when I was young dumb and full of bubble gum.  I remember one young man, and he was older than I, named Ray.   He prepared me for "bootcamp" with his shoe shining ability.  WOW,  his shoes were like mirrors, and so were mine when I got the hang of it, then bootcamp boots were a breeze.  Other stuff in BC not so much, but I made it as did many a young boy on the verge of manhood. 

   Once out in the "fleet", I had probably an equal number of black and white friends that all shared one thing in common, surviving, that and the love of music and booze of course.  My "blood Bros" tried to teach me to dance, but I was a hopeless cause.   The biggest cultural shock, was not the color of skin, but were the guys from different parts of the country ie New York, Boston, California, Arkansas, Louisiana, South Dakota...my very best friend, who just recently had a stroke, was  half Souix and half Swedish.  Another  good friend that died May 26, 1968 during the tet offensive,  in the stinkin delta in Kien Hoa province south VN was Cherokee.

     One of my friends in the patrol squadron was from Baaastaaan Ma.   He was all Boston.  When the two of us would get together, neither understood what the other was saying.  All the other folks in the  squadron thought that was the funniest thing, my southern drawl " all yall"  and his Boston Accent, "paaaak the caaaa in the gaaaaage" or words to that defect.  

     One of my very best friends in the squadron was a young black man that could have been the poster for Join the Navy.  His uniform was immaculate as was he.  I think he was from Philadelphia.  He talked about Johnny Mathis being "Queer" his words, that he had met him at a party back home. I thought it was just "guy talk", but as it turned out, he knew what he was talking about.   A couple of months before I was to rotate out, he told me that he was getting a medical discharge.  My first thought, was "oh no, he's sick".  I asked him if he was going to be ok, and he just laughed and said he would be fine.

    I never pursued the medical discharge of my friend, or asked him about it again, and it finally occured to me some 30 years later that he was gay, hence the medical discharge.   He never acted that way to me.  He was a very eloquent speaker, well read and educated.   How naive and dumb could one person be, as I was back in them good ol days.   Even if I had known he was gay, it wouldnt have made a difference to me, what drew me to him was his eloquence in speaking and his love of music and reading and seemingly superior intelligence.   I've often thought about him and hoped he was doing well.

    I'm not completely dumb and naive, I know there are differences between the races, hells bells, there's differences between folks in the same race, but as Mr RK  so eloquently put it, "cant we all get along"?   Apparently not !   There's ignorance and there's stupid. Ignorance can be corrected, Stupid is forever!  

     One of this country's favorite first ladies, was Eleanor Roosevelt, and one of her quotes was "no one can intimidate you unless you let them". She probably came up with "the only thing we have to fear,  is fear itself"  or words to that defect, which FDR used. 

    Well anyway, the fear we have to fear now, is lawlessness and the inexcuseable non leadership of our leaders in not quelling the disturbance.   It's been my experience that if you are to survive savagery, you have to be more savage than your opponent, or you lose.   If you live in the same forest as a grizzly bear. you either have to move or kill the bear, or be lunch. 

    Time to deplane, so keep the sun at your six and "ride boldly ride..."
your frien and resident pontificator, Cephus R inviskable esq. 

Teddie Jordan

Mary that news is sad, but has been expected. In many ways looking back, that Sears store, the aroma of Popcorn as you entered, the candy counter, the bus stop, was at the core of our lives back then. Our family would sometimes go there just to enjoy AC and browse around and visit with friends! I would go straight to the farm and ranch department in the back where we entered, and wear out the saddles! And open until 9pm on Monday and Thursday nights. 

Teddie Jordan

Cephus, Clarence Moore, was the older brother, and Vernon was the younger. They lived out in Acres Homes off of West Montgomery. I drove Vernon home after we got off of work more than once. Turn left right before the cemetery. And I always enjoyed Clarence's story about how he worked on his wedding day, a Saturday. He said Mr. Otto told him he could take a two hour lunch that day, but because it was a Saturday and busy, he had to be back by 130, and he was on time. Vernon called me TJ like everyone did, but he always added, TJ, the Dee Jay! I enjoyed them both, always fun. ( Vernon told me once about an English teacher who would look around the class at the raised hands to answer her question, and after he would stand up and tell her the correct answer, she would say, Tell me more Vernon Moore!)

Beau Wann, Jr.

         Hey TJ, thanks for the info. I remembered Clarence, and now I remember Vernon.    You sir have a phenomenal memory.  That sounds like Mr Vanek, giving him 2 hours for lunch to get married.  But  service to the customers was very important to the business back then.   And boy did we ever give good service.  our fellow employees felt like family as well as our customers.  I still remember some faces, but not many names.  Only one comes to mind, Mrs Fly, Sandys mom and Sandy had a sister whose name I've forgotten.

       Very sad indeed. Spent a lot of time in that particular Sears, my mom worked upstairs in the credit department from the time it opened in 1950 till she retired in 84 or 85 methinks???    thanks TJ for the picture. Spent many a time at that bus stop waiting for the "shuttle" to take me back to Oak Forest, or waiting for the Heights bus or the one that went downtown via shepherd to Washington Ave to somewhere on Main street, maybe in front of foleys.

     Just to the right of the bus stop was an entrance/exit into sears, long since walled up, but that's where the boy scout dept was, just inside that door.   The back door to the parking lot along Crosstimbers was generally where we went in, and goodness the smell of popcorn and roasting cashews and coffee would almost bowl your nose over.   Then on into the sporting goods dept with the smell of the leather saddles, sight of guns and fishing equipment, boats and outboard motors was eyecandy to a young fella.  Music dept was in the general area, where I got my first guitar and learned to play "Ghost Riders in the Sky".

    Fear is not the only thing we have to fear, but the fear of violent change, which seems to be happening all over.   Never thought I'd live to see the distruction of our wonderful and beautiful country.  The country that so many fought and died  to preserve.  We''ve lost the "freedom of speech",  with the inception of the law against "hate speech".  Who's to say what hate speech is?   I guess whoever is in power and or aquieses to whoever is rioting.   Which amendment will fall next?   I would hope, "freedom of the press" since it is mostly them that are fanning the flames of hate, then watch em scream, "NO FAIR".

    I hate change, and the "times they are a changing", and not for the better I fear.  looks like there will be nothing left of any of our childhood haunts except memories.   At least we have those kind of memories, Sears, Woolworths, Foleys, Garden Oaks theatre,  Whites, Western Auto, Mangun Super Valu, Trixie,  behind the lunch counter at Dugans Drugstore, Prince;s drivein, The Pig Stand, Kaplans,  Sony Looks, 2Ks, Rumpleheimers, Jimmy walkers in kema, Hempstead Drivein, remember the Texan Drivein next to the hempstead drivein theatre?   I remember getting a shrimp and fries basket with a rootbeer there for   $1.25.

     Baileys on Crosstimbers?   LC cafeteria downtown?  The 9 floors of Foleys downtown, Oak Forest Bank, and the list goes on and on...reminds me of a poem called "Nothing Gold Can Stay", aint that the truth!

Well, such are the musings of a romantic, dreamer, and old man.  I suppose this is how many an old man felt in the waning years of his life, those that is that were allowed to get old and not die on some beach named Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno etc, or on an island named Iwo Jimo, Okinawa and Hacksaw ridge, or the "anonymous battle" in the "dogs head" area of Vietnam.   It took 40 years for those soldiers to get recognized and recieve the "presidential citation" that they were put in for 40 years earlier.  

    Heavy sigh ! ! ! ! !

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Good soggy mornin to youse youtes !   We;ve had about 3 inches of rain since Satiddy last,  and that is a good thing fo sho.   All's quiet on the western front cept a little thunder ever now and again.  Angels banging on heavens pots and pans, if you will, and even if you wont.  Good an explaination as any I reckon.

     Pretty much clinging to home, as one should I suppose.  Too muddy to go down our road anyhoo.  Hope it drys out by friday morning, got an oil change appointment at Ranch Harley in College Station.  Made it 2 weeks ago.   Dont know what's up with that, all the dealerships have a two week wait.  Was a time I could just drive in unannounced and get an oil change among other services. Can't be that many Harleys on the road, can there?Oil well, just have to taker as I can.

     Now the FARM AND RANCH REPORT,  brought to you by;  The Mine Safety Appliances Co. "everything for mine and industrial safety" such as the Dustfoe #66 respirator. Just the thing for fresh breathable air;  And also Cloverine Salve, for cool soothing relief from whatever ails ya....There are about 3 dozen ears of corn in the Wann garden, several cucumbers and necks of crooked squash.  The lazy jalopenos have finally decided to join in on the fracas of actually producing fruit, what a concept eh!

     This portion of t he Farm and Ranch report is being brought to you by S. Andral Kilmer M.D.s Swamp Root for aiding the kidneys in their necessary work, and we all know what that entails, getting rid of last nights moonshine,   and by Hamlins Wizard oil liniment, est 1865,  for all your aches and pains...Clydes goats,  Winkin Blinkin and Nod, have once again been trespassing and assaulting the greenery around Sam Wann Hill and Izzys ridge.  No discernable damage was done, so no charges were filed since the perpetrators have agreed to pay restitution with a free load of fertilizer.

    The preceeding announcements were brought to you in part by Father Johns Medicine for colds and allergies, and Packer's Pine Tar Soap est 1869, "you will enjoy it's clean piney odor". Now on to the news;

    There's good news and bad news, the good news is there is no news, and the bad news is there is no news for all yall expectin news, which is news to me, so I'm singing the blues bout no news and cat mews and church pews and beef stews....looks like I killed it.....lawd stop me before I kill again....

    And now the weather report brought to you by Old Spice, since 1776, "Look like a man, smell like a man" and not an old goat...CHIMACS has recorded 3 inches of rain since last Satiddy, including  just over an inch today, and is still raining this very dadburn minute.  Maybe some clearing by late this eenin and definetly tomorrow fo sho. 

    And now the Classifieds section, brought to you by  the following;  Stanback Headache powders, " snap back with Stanback" and Alka Seltzer,  "Plop Plop Fizz Fizz, oh what a relief it is";
Harley Jones has 3 15 inch rims for sale that will fit a ford truck not newer than 1965. They are just a little worn as one would expect since they came off a 1965 ford truck. He would like to get  $15 dollars for them, or $ 5 dollars each whichever comes first: He doesnt know what happened to the fourth wheel, if he finds it he will let us know...betchu cant wait for that announcement eh.....  Letti Longstreet has 1 laying hen and one Rhode Island Red Rooster for sale, $2 dollars each, either live or ready for the frying pan. Seems they got into her garden and ate all the seeds she just planted;

.    Church updates are brought to you by God;  Saint Barnabas day was June 11, and whoever made off with the communion wine glasses, please bring them back.  Never mind, someone brought them back on St John the Baptist day celebration June 24th, seems they got into Martha ledbetters picnic basket by mistake. Martha Martha Martha, how's that home course going on "how to cure kleptomania"? A little backsliding?;
We will be celebrating St Peters day this June 29th, well, we dont actually want to go see St Peter just yet, but will celebrate his life and devotion to Christ. "Always be zealous for the truth and to be careful not to deny our lord".

    Keep the sun at your six and "ride boldly ride..."
your frien and resident nut radidio announcer, Cephus R not a broadcaster esq    

Bill Traill

Beau, must be our turn this morning !!!

Teddie Jordan

Fran and I went and visited our sister in law that we consider to be a sister, Betty Jordan, WHS '63', at her home today and saw this cute sign posted at several spots in her senior cottage compound!

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Hey Bil... Our turn for what ?      Teddy, would that be, slow grandparents, or slowdown, grandparents are around?  Or just grandparents are slow ! ! !  

     GOOOOOOOOOOD MRONIN  HAPPELL CHILLLLLLL........and all to hear and see.   Ha, whatever that means.   This portion of todays shew is brought to you by DUKES mayonaise. They've been puttin up their DUKES and knocking the sandridges outa the park since 1917.  Now  the weather report...yes there is weather today.  

     There will be no Farm and Ranch report today, cause the weather wont permit it, just too lousy, but if there had been a report, it would have been brought to you by Gold Medal Flour, milled in the USA, your great grandmothers have been using Gold Medal since 1880. Wonder what the heck they used before then? 

     On to the sports section for today, brought to you by "look sharp, feel sharp, be sharp" Gillette razor blades, since lord only knows when, and he's not sayin.  The baseball scores:  3 to 2, 5 to 1 and 10 to 0, boy, that musta been one heck of a game there.

    Classifieds this phine mornin;  Harley called in the morning and said he found that 4th wheel, and that he's decided to lower the price to $3 dollars a wheel just to be fair.  I know it's a fair bet that  youve been waiting for that announcement since yestiddy.

   On to more nonsense!  Wont be going to the Harley dealership today, besides being too wet, I have an emergency dentist appointment this morninfg in Bellville. Seems all the dentites around here, are either busy or closed. Not looking forward to it,  I hate going to the dentist, duh, who does?   One of the questions on their survey, "How  anxious are you about going to the dentist?  A: not at all. B: somewhat nervous: C: Very nervous?   I can add a D in there,  "PHREAKIN OUT" nervous !    I'm in enough pain already,  going to the dentist ensures I'm gonna have more. 

   I was thinking about buying a new shotgun.  I have moren a half dozen now, so what do I need with another on eh?   I dont really, but I use to bust them tough ol clay pigeons alot and I liked doing that, and was good at it.  If you could eat those pigeons, I'd have a warehouse load of em already filleted.

    Ok, time to walk the plank, walk the steps up the gallows, sit in ol sparkys chair, and head off to the dentist.   Man, I wish they could just put me under and I'd wake up next week!   Oh show a little backbone will ya!   I did show some backbone once, and it broke back in 14 or 15, so see where that got me.

    Keep the sun at your six and "ride boldly ride..."

Your frien and resident moaner, Cephus R hurtin esq 

Pat Brantley (Ross)

I think I caught up on everything except Donna Webb.  Did we ever get another report after she fell?  My two cents about the shape of our old neighborhood and haunts is - our memories are ours to keep.  My mother and father were born in 1910 and 1912.  They went through two world wars and a depression.  I didn't share their childhood memories (which sounded pretty amazing to me), but I have mine.  My favorite band was the Bobby Doyle Trio.  I loved folk singing/blues singing.  Of course I was illegally dancing to Bobby Doyle and at the Jester Lounge because the age was 21.  My date and I took Lightning Hopkins home one night.  He was famous in Houston at the time and he lived in a shack in 5th ward.  People outside Houston don't know the boundaries of the different wards.  
My daddy showed me the deed to our house to talk to me about racism when I was pretty young.  It said no blacks or Jews.  He said he was ashamed because he had been in a war defending people who were being kept out at home.  Teddy your Abraham Lincoln quote was great but    Lincoln didn't say it.  It was a minister.  Has anyone else wondered if there is a difference between a pastor and a minister?  Just always wondered.

now you're herding goats Beau!  I am amazed.  What's next - cats?  So sorry about the dentist.  I had an emergency appointment last month, but it was just getting a crown put back on.  I have enough crowns in my head to be queen of something.  They do have sedation dentistry but I think it's pretty expensive.  

I do pray for our nation to end the chaos.  We can decide legally and in order about removing statues.  Rioters destroying property should be in jail.  My older daughter called me during her first year of college to ask me I'd I would pay her bail if she were arrested for picketing outside an abortion clinic.  We are a very prolife family.  I told her No' because she should be willing to pay the price for breaking the law.  I feel that way about everyone who breaks the law because we are a nation of laws.

Beau Wann, Jr.

     HEY PAT ! ! !   What a breath of fresh air you are. Thank you for posting the things on your mind, and likely as not, we are of the same mind.   I survived the dentist ! ! !   Next time might not be so lucky, gotta have a root canal on my one good tooth.  I've had them before, and their not as bad as everyone makes out.  They're not a picnic in the park, but still not the terriblest thing in lifes bag O tricks.

    We do have a new dentist now, the Tippit Group in Bellville.  They have 3 offices, one in Houston, one in 'Brenham and the aforementioned.  Very nice folks !   I like Bellville bettern Chappell Hill, and Brenham. But alas, you cant always get what you want !   Wasnt there a song...   We looked around Bellville for something before we settled on Sam Wann Hill. 

     Our new dentist was talking to me about implants.  I voiced my concern about the discomfort after the joy juice wears off. He said it was less than having a tooth pulled.  Hmmmm....seriously thinging about having said implants.  They're probably real cheap arent they!   Ifin any of youse youtes have had inplants, I'd be grateful ifin you'd let me know how you like them or dislike them.  He explained it to me, and it sounded real plain and simple and good, but you have to remember it's me he was talking to, ol mr plain and simple and not necessarily good.

    Ok, gotta deplane, need to feed the pups and go down and lock the gate in that order. However, I'll be back ! ! !   I know, thanks for the warning eh !

See ya on the flip side....

Bennie Schielack

Beau, I have two implants.  One is a front tooth, damaged in an accident back around the time we moved from the '60's into the '70's.  Broke off the bottem quarter of both upper front teeth, but Dr. Stephen Burdick did a great job adding on some compound to the bottoms and they felt normal for many years.  Then about 7 years ago, one of those teeth broke off just under the gum line.  Had the root removed and the implant journey began.  First, the x-rays were sent from my local dentist to a specialist in Sugarland.  When I check in with them, I was told they did not take insurance, so I went to an "in-net" dentist who, after my interview with her, was a 14th century witch doctor.  Back to the specialist to just foot the bill.  Turns out I have to pay in full, then they will submit a claim to the insurance co for me, and then I'd get some $$$$ from the insurance co thru the dentist.  Cash out of pocket for one implant about $5000.  Insurance remitted about 4, so things were not so bad, until I found out the next step . . . . . I had to go to another dentist to get a tooth to place in the implant . . . . . then I had to go to a tooth maker for a color match.  Another $2000 later, I had a new front tooth, just slightly off color from the rest.  This was actually the second implant attempt.  The first failed because the bone between my sinus and gum line was too weak to hold an implant.  On to the third implant.  Very similar to the secnd and just as succesful.  I can still eat corn on the cob with no problem, but in retrospect, it might have been cheaper to have full dental implants done.

Pain wise, I do not remember taking any pain relief medications, but then again, when I had hernia surgery, I never took any of the prescirbed pain pills then, and only took one pain pill for one of my two knee surgeries.  I still have three full bottles of pain pills, but they are now way out of date.   

Good luck with your dental adventures . . . . .  (sorry about being Wann winded)

Teddie Jordan

Bennie, I had to have a good laugh after reading, then Rereading the last phrase in your comment. And I'll bet that old what's his name did too!

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Hey, Pat.  Donna Webb Cummings is now living in Chetek, Wisconsin with her daughter, son-in-law and grandson until they all get resettled.  After Donna's fall, she was unable to get into a rehab facility (they think it was because of the overload from Covid patients).  So, her daughter, Corey, and her family were moving to Wisconsin to be close to Corey's husband's family and decided to take Donna with them.  Corey thought it would be easier to take care of Donna with help from her inlaws with her toddler son.  Corey's husband packed up Donna's home and they were putting it on the market.  I believe they are living with Corey's inlaws until they find a permanent residence.  They posted photos of Donna on FB showing them in a pontoon boat on a beautiful lake and Donna was all smiles.  Donna said the move and everything happening so quickly was certainly not expected, but she's "going with the flow."  

I know Fifth Ward - I was transferred from Waltrip to Wheatley 1970/71 when the teacher cross-over program began.  My parents and Charles said, "You will NOT teach at that school."  I bucked them all and it turned out to be one of the most "defining" times of my life.  My parents were some of the most prejudiced people around and I never understood their thinking and argued with them frequently about their bias.  Being at Wheatley was certainly a learning experience for me and opened my eyes - I have lots of tales that reflect on the Black administrators' role in holding Black students back in those days.  Even back then, the gates were locked during school hours to keep bad influences OUT of the school.  Teachers carried guns before "carry permits."   Police were on the grounds daily.  Back then, female teachers weren't allowed to teach while pregnant, so I didn't tell them I was carrying Betsy until after Thanksgiving and the principal allowed me to finish out the semester.

Beau, implants are good and bad - depends on your gum and bone structure.  Charles went through 2 attempts to attach the metal rod into his bone throughout a year's time and he developed such horrible infections that he was given antibiotic infusions over a month's time twice to kill out the infection.  They were never able to determine the cause and his doctor (top one in Dallas) wrote up Charles' case in medical journals hoping other doctors would share similar experiences - no other similar cases were reported.  So, Charles never got that implant finished.  I've had one implant with no problems.  I wasn't happy to wait the months between the extraction and the rest of the implant procedure, but I imagine that process has probably improved by now.  

Teddie Jordan

Cephus I had a tooth implant a little over a year ago, my first, with a good result. Being self employed we have never had any kind of dental insurance and it was well into 4 figures, but I still enjoy eating. As I recall the toughest part was being sore at the location where they cut and drilled into the jawbone and installed the post. As that healed the pain subsided, but the first couple of weeks were uncomfortable. The dr. prescribed a pain killer, but I never had the RX processed and normally don't. They had to wait about 3 months after that to install the new tooth to monitor the acceptance and healing of the bone graft. The reason I had it done was that after I had to have my last wisdom tooth pulled a couple of years before, the last wisdom left in my body, I was unable to chew in that part of my mouth which caused  extra wear on the other side. They cut out the wisdom tooth at 11AM, and we were able to get to Richard McCauleys's beautiful memorial service which was at 1pm that day. My prayer was to get through that service without having to get up and leave it to spit, which thanks to a big wad of gauze I did. Just wasn't my normal chatty self. Anyway, I am glad now that I did it.

Beau, I am sorry  that I hurt your feelings commenting as I did on Bennie's joke. My comment was inappropriate!

I talked to Dennis Dorsey on the phone last night and he asked me to extend his regards. He  told me how much he enjoys reading about everyone's life in these crazy times. He said that when he reads the In Memory comments he never fails to shed tears. And I told him we all do our share of the same. But continue to read and honor those precious memories and lives!

Pat Brantley (Ross)

I had a cap on a front tooth.  Evidently I got a cavity I never felt and the cap came flying off during dinner.  Almost a year later I finally had my implant finished.  This was almost two years ago.  That implant cost more than my first two cars!  I didn't want to keep returning to my beloved dentist in Houston so I saw my daughter's dentist.  I think he is the most expensive in the hill country.  I have since found one who is much more reasonable in pricing.  She is good too.  Wearing a retainer painted to look like a tooth at my age was strange.  It did make me look like I had not lost my tooth but it caused a more pronounced lisp.  Oh well.  I wasn't trying to find a boyfriend at a sock hop.  When the dentist starting explaining the bone chip part I said "we can just call it cadaver bone". He was rather startled that I knew the source of the bone.  I told him that it was not my first implant and I understood the procedure.  I should have been talking money instead of skeletons.  Learning experience.

Jimmie Lee I think it's great that you went against the fears of others to teach at Wheatley.  When I started driving my daddy gave me a map with red zones.  They were mostly the Latino gangs around Laura Koppe.  I didn't find that street until I was in my 30s.  Thanks for the information about Donna.  She is one of the sweetest souls I have ever met.  She was a neighbor.  There was a family who rented a house on our street.  They had two daughters and they were dirt poor.  The girls took turns wearing one pair of church shoes each Sunday.  Donna gave them some of her clothes.

i told my daddy when I found out and we left a pair of shoes on their porch one night.  I don't know if they wore them or gave them to their church.  They were very religious.  I went with them one Sunday.  It was a small Pentecostal church on Crosstimbers.  I enjoyed visiting other churches because I thought ours was boring.  Theirs was not boring but I had to go home to ask questions about the service.  

Scotty Croom

went thru power outage last week..lasted about an hour...remember going to hs game at dome many years ago,waltrip had late game..early one was yates and sterling..cheerleaders came thru crowd to sell support buttons,i bought one and the girls thanked me for supporting team...that area near uh was middle class working folks ..milenials ? now want us to pay for mistakes of 200 yrs ago..i know teddy was there,then..but i wasnt...

Tom Faria, Jr.

Good morning Beau,

I'll chime in.

Over 55 years I had a root canal / implant on a molar I cracked on a shotgun pellet.  I have not had any problems with the implant per se. 

At the time novocain was the standard and it did not work well for me.  It was the most physically painful experience that I have ever had.  Have them use plenty of the strong stuff. 

Take care,

Beau Wann, Jr.

shhhhhhhhhh thsi si boz kat.  mr grumpy is uot wterin tha gradren so im tkaing this time to say mr grumpy is just grumpy becuaes of the presnent i lef on his pilo, wel he stpedd on mi tale, so wht gos rond cums rond...uh oh, mr grumpys comin in...HYDE...

    Ok, I see little miss has been doing her impression of "kitten on the keys" that wascal.  Dont believe a woid of what she says, or at least not all of it, she's always high on katnip.  You know,  Having 2 girl dogs and one girl cat sleeping with me is not exactly what I had in mind when I said,  "I'mj going to surround myself with lovely girls..."     Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.  Dont say, "boy, I wish I had a million bucks.."  well, you know the rest of that story dontchew!  

     Hey TJ,  I'm sorry that I gave you the impression that you mighta hurt my  feelings.  Knowing you, I dont think there is anything you could do that would cause me to get mad at you.  "you can burn my house, steal my car, drain my liquor from the old fruit jar, but uhuh, dont step on my blue suede shoes..."  Of all the folks on this oith I'd not want to hurt, it would be youse.   

            Speaking of Dennis Dorsey, if he's commentied once, he's said it moren once,   "Teddys the finest man I've ever known".  I believe that could be extended to include Dennis hisownself, and just about any one in our class and surrounding classe, the list would be long.

        I was just feeling grumpy because my whole head hurt from the tooth ache, and the Myalgia sisters are back from their scandinavian cruise,  Poly,  Holly and Molly, and they brought their mama, By Golly.  "The bitch is back"......I know TJ knows what I'm talkin about.

     Had the root canal on my one good tooth, yestiddy,  and Doc Holliday said it's a good thing I did cause that tooth had died, or was in the process of dying.  He said there was no blood when he commenced to drillin on it!

     You want blood?   Hells bells doc, just come around my house anytime, any day of the week,  and I'll show you blood!  If I aint bleedin at the end of the day, then it hasnt been a productive day!   Just the other day, Dixie Bellle stepped on my arm and drew blood with her claws, and we were just giving her a bath, and then I cut the same arm on some barb wire on the fence I was a fixin...you want blood?   Come to my house, "there will be blood...". I believe there was a movie of the same title.

    The good Doc and one of his techs spent the better part of 2 ud vun haf hours on just that one tooth, and to the tune of $2500 dollars, FOR ONE TOOTH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! ! ! ! !   Good thing I have good insurance       One of those transplants costs $5000 dollars, so I dont think I'll get that done this year,  maybe in the year 9595, "if man is still alive, if woman can survive..."  Sorry, my life has shirley been influenced my music, and dont call me shirley.

    You may have noticed a lapse in time between paragraphs, well, tha's because I'm waterin my trees.  The tree people said that they should be watered 5 minutes a day eve3ry day, so that's what i'M DOING.
Teddy and Fran brought us 2 Red Maple tree saplings when we first moved in, and they are now about 15 ft tall and flourising.  I love the red maple for shure.  Thanks again TJ and Fran!

   Hey Scotty, we had a power outage here Monday for about an hour.  We, all three dogs, the cat, and my beloved had just lay down for a nap, had the fans running as I am want to do, (cant sleep without one going in my ear because of tinnitis) when all of a sudden everything went deathly quiet, with the exception of the ringing in me ears.   "Ok, that's not good", I says to myself and anyone else around. Notice how sharp I am on observations.      The dogs and cat didnt seem to care, but my beloved got up, seems I['ve ruined her too, she has to have a fan running as well.

     Diane got on line to check with the eclectric company, BLUEBONNET, and they said that everyone was out from Chappell Hill to the river north of 290 up to fm 1481, about 3500 people.    Seems a snake crawled into our substation transformer and blew a fuse, not to mention fried the snake, GOOD RIDDANCE.  Dont know what kind of snake it was, probably a "titanoboacobra"...  SEEE, SNAKES ARE BAAAAAAAD !    If they dont bite you, they knock out your power, ha! 

       Speaking of which I dispatched another copperhead that was inside the compound fence.  He, she, it was so large I had to hit him with two rounds of my 38spl.  Now, just waiting on his or her mate to rear it's ugly head, yuk and shudder.  AH HATE SNAKES AND SPIDERS,  killed two t-rexantulas last week. My beloved killed one that was after one of the dogs, and I killed another trying to do the same think with Izzydorable.  Cheeky devils !

    I'm serriously thinking about selling this place and moving to a highrise, somewhere without snakes or spiders.  In fact, saw one for sale in new york city overlooking central park.  they only wanted a paltry sum of 73 million for it, ha, I'll just write em  a check out of petty cash....HOA fees are 4K a month !!!!!   Cant imagine having that much money at my disposal.

       Saw a show on channel 387 called AWE, (a wealth of entertainment), where a young couple from the middle east was looking at several houses in the 90210 zip code, Beverly hills.  they liked two of the houses, one for 74 mil and the other a paltry 19 mil.  When asked by the host which one they would choose, the young mans reply.  "we'll get both of them".   Saw the same thing happen in Florida, a lady was looking at a home on a golf course for umpteen mil and also a high rise penthouse that took up two of the top floors for umpteen mil.  When asked which one she chose, she said both.  Why? Because I can she said!

    Ok, time to deplane and take my grumpiness to the store and see who I can piss off. 
Keep the sun at your six and "ride boldly ride..." clyde ! ! !

Your frien and resident grump, Cephus R A Krazoid esq

Beau Wann, Jr.

     It's me again Margaret...I'm just a tad late getting on here, started to get on last week and just couldnt muster up the desire to do anything that required any thought at all.  The Myalgia triplets, Polly, Holly and Molly and their evil morther By Golly been beating on me like I was a drum.   The saying, "PMR causes PMS" is true. Been grumpier than hungry bear in spring.

    Tried on half dozen pair of glasses, and cannot see what I'm typing, so I had to bump up the type size to 20, and even that is suspect.  Turned 75, and went to hell in a handbasket.  Well, already had one foot in that ol basket anyhoo.  What is a hand basket anyway?   Something you put your hands in?  I dont have any extra hands to help around here, let alone chunk em in a basket.

     Killed another copperhead, and this one was under my rocking chair on the back porch.   If Izzy hadnt alerted me, it woulda bit me on the foot and Ida died for sure.  Yall be careful out there, lots a unsavory critters looking for water.  

     See how things work out, if Izzy's  previous owners hadnt moved away and left her tangled up in the creek and I hadnt found her, I'd be dead for sure from snakebite.  That aint a pleasant thought ! ! !   So an extra helping of Filet Mignon for that fine pup for sure.

     Now the farm and ranch report:  Got three ears of corn out of the garden, and cucumbers that look like crookneck squash.  I took the wascally wabbit fence down because we hadnt seen any wabbits trying to get in anyhow.  Why should they, aint nothing edible in there anyway. 

      The livestock situation has changed somewaht, the three goats, Winken Blinken and Nod have moved to another pasture in Waller County.  The red aberdeen bull has been stomping around bellowing like an, an,....old red bull. Dont know if he's announcing to the "girls" that he's available, or just out hollaring for the heck of it, you know how us guys are...AROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...

     And now the weather, whether you want it or not...IT'S HOT, DANG HOT, had 106 yesterday and 103 today, musta been a cold front come in, eh what?   Sure could use some wrain ! ! !

    Well I had nothing to say before I got on here, and sure nuff, I said it.  Guess I'll depart and deplane and cease and desist, so, keep the sun at your six and "ride boldly ride..."

   Your frien and resident blind person, Cephus R Magoo esq