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Teddie Jordan

Charles and Jackie are two of my all time favorite people, and this is one of my many favorite pictures of them.

As young married couples with not much money we used to gather at one of our houses and celebrate New Years Eve. One year at our rent house on Gardenia, one at Charles and Lynn's house in Rose Hill, and one at Sharon Smith and Nicky Gouras' rent house on Judiway. Simple get togethers and loads of fun. And now Charles and our beloved Jackie and too many classmates have gone to Heaven and are no doubt having wonderful reunions with their families and friends and classmates there. Rest in Peace all. ♥️❤️👍

Teddie Jordan

This was at one of our Fall or Spring Flings at the good BBQ place in Tomball. Charles and I sat at a table to eat together and  as old friends do, we started right back where we left off laughing,  having fun, and cutting up and remembering the good times. 

Teddie Jordan

I've been thinking about Heaven, and the growing number of our friends and  classmates Approaching 1/4,  who have already ascended to there. I'd be willing to bet that our beloved Jackie, shortly after her arrival there, organized a WHS '64 Ascendants group, and soon after that starting organizing get togethers, including several times a year honoring and welcoming new arrivals!

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Teddie, thanks so much for posting some great photos of happy times with Jackie and Charlie.  

Beverly Hengst (Allen)

Lynn plans to have a celeration of Charlie's life when things open up.  In the meantime, you can mail or call her if you wish.  She is moving in with her daughter, Kaye, for the time being.  This is her new address:  10543 County Road No. 162  Boling, TX  77420.  Her phone number is 713-907-3493.

I know Lynn would love to hear from us.  It would be nice to share a special memory you might have of Charlie. 

Teddie Jordan

Well since postings on this Forum  have been a little slow this past week or so I decided it might be a good time to post some more of the great photos that our beloved and selfless Jackie took with her camera and posted for us all to enjoy. 
 

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Two of our favorite people in the whole wide world!!! When we were barely out of HS and young marrieds, and all off from work on Sundays, We would drive down to Surfside  beach  near Freeport, with the Prewit's and Stocktons, and have a good time playing  in the saltwater and laughing and destressing. None of us had much disposable income, but all it really took was 3 or 4 gallons of pretty cheap gasoline and some sandwhich makings and potato chips and a few cokes. Good times and memories of yester year!!

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And one more and one I should destroy, but one I enjoy looking back every once in a while, and taken by Jackie. 
The way I always describe it is, the "Perfect combination of Old Friends, Laughter, and Beer!"  The fact is they decided to have an Ugliest Knee's contest, and we were the two finalist's!

Teddie Jordan

Francine  and Frances, I believe it was at our 45th Reunion. 
 

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Thanks TJ, wonderful memories those pics.   Hard to believe times have passed so much.  I've been a little lax in my positing, been struggling a bit with the usual physical and mental things that three quarters of a century brings to a youte.   Mainly just maintaining the hill and compound.  Hoping all this Cootie-19 will eventurlall y go away and we can get back to normal, or what we consider normal.

      Did have a visit from one of our cherished classmates this last week, and what a Godsend that was.   They just stopped by on their way to or from as they have in the past.  Sat in the Cooper Memorial Ice house and Waltrip beer hall,  and had a few beers and ratchet-jawed about any and everything.  Completely solved all the whirlds problems, yeah, fo sho ! ! !

     Finally got some much needed rain to break the multi year drought, 6 inches in 3 days, YEAAAAA!  You can hear a sigh of relief from the countryside, and if that wasnt enough blessings, a cool front came in early this morn.  Me and the pups were out poolside waiting for it, bout 5AM,   lo and behold, THAR SHE BLOWS...

     Dont know about chew, but ahm ready to toss a few snowballs.  It snowed here a couple years ago, just enough to turn the hill white.  beautiful it was...Maybe we'll get lucky again this year, eh what !

    Bought a buschel basket of apples to feed the little doey eyed deah and any other critters that like apples.  Krogers has a clearance rack for produce and meat as well.   Stuffed em all in the fridge and everytime I open the door, it fills the house with apple aroma...hard to beat that cept maybe with some cinnimon rolls workin out in the oven...dang, now I'm hungry, again.

     Ok, time for me to deplane, hope all is well with everyone, as well as well can be...maybe we'll be able to get together this year or next sprang for a "PARTY ON THE HILL"...

Keep the sun at your six and the Son in your heart, and "ride boldly ride..."
Your frien and resident person...Cephus R Stranger than Fiction esq

Wayne Lake

Man alive, with all this conflicting COVID pandemic takes, rebates, debates, USPS mail-in ballot-bates, tax evasion inflates and a constant barrage of ex-presidential campaign inmates on the TV, it’s hard to decide which side, if either, is telling the truth but on the subject of  the promised vaccine proposal, consider this cause here's something we can all possibly agree on:

When available, the COVID 19 vaccine should be tested on all Washington politicians first.

If they survive, the vaccine is safe.

If they don't, the country is safe.

Don’t forget to Vote early and Vote often.

Headed South this week back to Texas with the birds where I belong now that the temps on the coast have dropped and it’s long pants weather up North,

wtl   

Teddie Jordan

Wayne, your wish is coming true? One of the Covid antibody treatment courses is being tried on several of our people in DC now, including our numero Uno!

Pat Brantley (Ross)

Still feeding my sweet deer every day.  Thursday night I realized that my bird feeder and squirrel feeder were empty.  Bird feeder is close to the ground because it's on the back deck of the house.  Birds don't mind at all and I get to watch cardinals up to close.  Well I decided to fill everything Thursday night for the following day!  Silly me.  I had the biggest raccoon on the back porch I have ever seen.  The cat was going nuts trying to get closer to him.  I tried to take a picture with my iPad camera and it flashed on the glass.  All I got was two eyes in the dark.  If I put my bird feeder higher it will be in the elements and the cord will break.  Glass feeder will shatter.  If I put it too high I will not be able to fill it.  Do I just fill it every day and take stuff out at night?  Someone told me if I buy the hot mix at the feed store it won't phase the birds, but mammals hate it.  She said I could mix it.  I like squirrels.  I just don't like attracting raccoons.  We have at least one fox family that neighbors feed.  They put out cat food for them.  Again, I don't want to attract rats, possums, or raccoons, so I can do without having the little red fox family come visit.  
well this has been my hobby during this weird time of isolation.

we are old.  Wear the mask.  I know you can't breathe well in it.  I feel like some antifa grandma when I do go out to storm H‑E‑B.  If I am wearing my big black mask and sunglasses my face is gone.  Even if I wear the smaller mask my face is covered.  I can breathe easier through the black one, but people I come into contact with don't seem as friendly towards me.  Maybe if I put a sticker on the mask.  Oh well.

my daughter had to go to Houston this past week.  She took me along and dropped me at my sister's house.  Janis was in class of '63.  She was the quiet one.  Couldn't get a word in since I talked all the time.  We had not seen each other since last December.  We were supposed to get together several times but Miss Corona kept interfering.  We had a nice afternoon together.  My chariot arrived just as traffic was starting to back up.  My daughter has a way of driving aggressively while smiling and waving.  It was good to get to sit and talk with other humans.  

Scotty Croom

hi gang...got new computer hooked up yesterday...made it thru storm here w/no power,got to houston and got stuck inside for over 2 datys...back home to power,elevator and empty frig.   life returuning to normal.. did visit mom during trip,talked thru window..next trip,she can visit on porchand have more contact and will get here phone to her...

Beau Wann, Jr.

       GOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING CHAPPELL HILLLLL...It's me again margaret, ol 96.8...   Yean, I know what youre thinkink, "boy's gone all dyslexiac on us, everyone knows it's 98.6"...au contraire mon ami.   For normal people 98.6 is correct, but we are talkin about me here, ol, "walks stooped over"...Yup, my core temp dropped to 96.8 some years back.   

      I've asked my vet, Doc Frrraunkunschteen, (notice how I rolled my Rs? Yeah, good job ehk hoser!) anyway, I've asked my doc about it and can get no definitive answer from he or anyone, so I guess it's ok to not be normal...that would explain why I've lived this long wouldnt it.  Usually,  "not being normal"   and longevity are mutually exclusive, yet heah I am.

    Since you've brought up 98.6, that reminds me of a tune back in them good ol days called appropriately enough, "98.6".  I didnt remember whom recorded it, so I looked it up on the "DARK NET" , yeah, it's all dark to me...and a guy just called KEITH sang it.  There was talk going around that he came into a studio one day and recorded it and left.  That would have been ok ah reckon. But he returned and did a total of 9 singles of which only 5 hit the charts.

    I guess you can call 135th as being on the charts.  98.6 did make it to number 7 on the US charts, 24 and 26 in UK and Aus respectivbely, and No 6 in Canada.  Keiths real name was, James Berry Keefer, and I say was, because he changed it to Bazza Keefer and is known as "Keith". Go figgure!

    Here's some more useless information, "THE TOKENS" performed "backup vocals" on 98.6 and for the life of me I dont hear them in the background.  Well no matter.  Ahm just a wealth of information eh what!  And it all comes in handy should you be playing "Trivia pursuit", or find yourself competing on the game show "JEOPARDY".  I see myself there one day.  "Now for 100 million dollars, Mr Walks stooped over, "a box of rocks..."  "yes Mr Trebek, "what is dumber than...?

     Hey Pat, I quit putting bird seed in the feeders, we got plenty bugs for the little blaggerts to eat.  We've had as many as 5 bird feeders out, and the birds could empty them in one days time, and whatever the birds didnt get, the coons would finish em off at night.  Some of the deer feed I buy has lots of seeds in it, including sunflower seeds, which the birds like also too tambien.

    Diane tells me that some of the ladies in the CH garden club say that the deer eat their roses and they cant find away to keep em out.  We dont have that problem because there's a fence in their way which if they wanted to,they could jump easily enougjh.  However, our "killer dogs" would "bark em to death".   They dont allow any other critter in our inner compound.

     Again, another however,  I've been taking the "deadheads" that diane cuts off the roses, down the hill and depositing them and 2 or 3 cut up apples, at the two deer feeders.   Next morning, all the apples are gone as well as all the rose hips and petals.  I have a camera down there, but it is such a pain to turn it off and take the SD card out and go back up the hill and stuff it in the computer and try to figgure out how to do stuff with it, even though I've done it a zillion and a half times.

     I'm with you Pat, it's sure nice to visit with folks.  Saturdays and Sunday mornings along about daybreak, I ride my Harley to Bucees in Waller just to have a couple cups O joe and  "people watch".  Lots or weird people go in and out of Bucees...I'm not weird of course, just others!   Pat, good luck on your wildlife feeding.   You deffinately dont want fox or skunk hanging about.  With skunk, it's quite obvious an oderiferous thing, but skunk and fox are the most suceptible to rabis and can pass it on.  

     As you can tell from the  dissertation, here to fore, not much going on at "the hill", just meaningless and trivial stuff.  Oaks Presbyterian has reopened, as of yesterday, all masked up of course.  Diane made the trek and visited with her mom and dad till dusk.  They use to go to Lubys for after church lunch...but no more. Lubys is closed and Sears on North Shepherd is closed.  Might as well just close the whole whirld.

     Scotty, dont look now, but another named storm is headed your way, TS Delta dawn.  Gonna go rat up the same path as all the others that have graced your area.  Take your old computer down to the beach and chuk it in the gulf as a peace offering to the TS goddesses, maybe they'll go somewhere else, like California, which needs the rain.

    Guess I'll deplane, having nothing to say, I sure say a lot dont I !  I think of things, but when I sit down at the computer, I forget what it was I wanted to say.  

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

Your frien and resident ol indian, Cephus Walks Stooped Over esq

Wayne, glad to have you back in this neck O the woods...      

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Beau, for the past few years, my normal temp is 97.4.  Makes it difficult to know how much above 97.4 is NOT a good temp when you're trying to determine whether you're ill or not.  

Out of curiosity, has anyone else who uses AOL as your email account had any problems with it lately?  AOL techs have been trying to determine the reason my AOL calendar entries disappeared on the "monthly calendar pages," but all my entries synced with my iPhone still show up on the "daily version" of my AOL calendar - YAY!  They believe it has something to do with a recent update AOL did.  I'm amazed that for the $9.99/month I pay AOL they have taken my issue seriously and continue to research and keep calling me back to try different solutions.  If I didn't have so many emails saved in folders, I'd tell them to just delete my AOL and reinstall it.

Have a good week everyone.

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Glad tidings from the land of nod...egg nod that is. 
Hey Jimmie Lee, yeah, I know what you mean, if I have 96.8 as core temp, and then it registers 98.6, is it the same as 100.6 in the normal whirld?     I dont think we have AOL, but Diane is having trouble with one of our email accounts.  She has to sign in with a new password everytime she signs in, which is very aggravating, to her.  And would be to me if I were using it.  

     Hey Wayne, the package finally arrived yesterday, and I'm already to page 53.   Good book so far...what a hard life for folks back in them days, especially farming families.    Was so excited about the new book, we went to our used book store in Brenham and got a couple more.  "Cult of Glory" about the Texas Rangers, and    "Gunfights and Sites",   also about the texas rangers.  Feeling patriotic, I got   "A line in the Sand",  about the Alamo.  Got my reading cut out for me next few days eh what!

    Trekking to day to a College Station endocrinologist, seems one of my tests came out higher than normal, about 3 times higher than what average should be.  We have Baylor Scott and White hospital system, and they have their stuff together as far as electronical stuff like email where they send you the results of your tests, and it gives you full discription of everything, and compares it to your last tests etc.   .

    Of course I have to let the brains of the outfit, Diane, open the email and hep me navigate about in there, but other wise, I'm there baby...drag me kicking and screaming into the 21st century... HA..I didnt belong in the 20th century, let alone the 21st.  Well, mid century wasnt bad,  grewup in a great time for a kid, not so much for adults.

     Anyone have NETFLIX ?   Saw a couple of good/fair movies depending whatcha like to watch.   The first one is my favoritist or close to it,  "MR RIGHT".   Guess I'm sorta out of touch with todays stars and celebrities, because I  dont know who the stars are in it, but the female lead is the one that does the Hilton Hotel commercials, such a cutie she is. It's sort of an action/comedy/love story,  kind of. 

       I dont ever recommend a movie, especially if one is paying good money to see it, but I do say that "I like a movie, or dislike a movie", and I'm very hard to please in the movie watching  department .   The lead male in the movie drives a 1967 red corvette convertible, the "holy grail" of Corvettes.  The onliest (east texas for only) thing was that it had the numbers 383 on the cowling of the hood...???  I could have misread it, but watched the movie twice and saw the same thing.  Guess I'll have to watch it again, third time for charm, eh what! 

      Chevy didnt make a 383, to my knowledge, but Chrysler did for their Plymouth Fury.  I know chevy made a 283, but the 67 came with either a 327 or a 427, whichever one was available.  Of course I could be all wrong,  but I doubt it.  Thought I was wrong once, but I was wrong.  Anyway,  I always thought I wanted a 58 through a 62 Vette, but I believe I like the 67 most best.  We had an 85 red one, and it was fun back then, but today if I could ever get in one, I could never get out of it, literally.

     Another movie I liked was "Morning Glory", with Rachael McAdam,(didnt know who she was till my wife and son told me who she was)  She's really pretty, but dont recollect seeing her in anything else.  It also stars Diane Keaton and Harrison Ford, now I know who they are, they are probably my age now. There are a host of other actors in it that  I've seen before, but dont know their names.  It's a cute movie, cept Harrison Ford plays a really grumpy curmudgeon, the whole movie.  Of course he's suppose to, but I didnt like it that much.

     Just saw "WONDER WOMAN",  and loved it, which surprised me, casue I dont generally dont like movies like that, ie Superman etc.   I think it's the latest in the Wonder Woman efforts of epics.  Another couple of good movies in my opinion was, "Leap Year"  with Amy somebody and dont know whoelse, but it was funny, and "like Father"  with again Amy somebody and Kelsey Grammar.

         Just letting yall know stuff you can do at home since we cant go out and parrty anymore.  No sports to watch on the boob toob, all of em have gone bonkers.  Tried to watch NHRA drag racing, but that gets me down, cause EVERY driver I was rooting for lost.  There is a new golf course just opened up in Springfield Missouri called Payne Vally Golf course, after Payne Stewart.   

     The man that owns Bass Pro, Johnny Morris, had the course built to honor the late Payne Stewart.   It is litterally carved out of the OZARK mountains, and is absolutely beautiful, and is a PUBLIC COURSE, meaning anyone can play there...well if you pay the greens fee, which I dont know how much that is, but to play it once would be worth whatever the fee is. The course also has a 19th hole, that is on an island, ha go figure
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     The course is designed by Tiger Woods, or his company TGWREASDFWERR D  or whatever his company is called.  But dont take my word for anything I put on here, you can access all of it on the NET.   I watch a lot of youtube when I'm not out on the hill mowing or doing stuff or reading a good book. 

      My Grandson has fixed it so I can project the youtube from my phone onto my 82 inch TV, and that is so cool.  I do think my wife is tired of "tractor pull failures, and dragster wrecks and explosions, unassisted triple plays, great ball girl catches,  womens volleyball"   I do love their little shorts.   Well, I'm old, but not dead...yet.     

     Maybe that would explain why my testosterone levels are three times that of a normal human bean. That's why I'm going to the edocrinologist.   When my doc told me my T was too high, I just said, "hey doc, I'm a manly man, watched every John Wayne movie at least a zillion times etc...love the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders"

    Ok, time to deplane. Once again, I had nothing to say, but said it anyway, and I might add, said it well, well? 

Keep the sun at your six and "ride boldly ride..." 
Your frien and resident chatter box, Cephus Walks Stooped Over, esq

Post Scritp:  Hey Beverly, thanks for keeping this site up and good, loved the Racoon and captioning, very clever and so true.           

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

YAY!!! PTL!!! AOL just called and my AOL calendar is WORKING!!!!!

The problem was on their end - result of a calendar update they did a while back and it affected all AOL calendar users.  Belief has been restored in people doing their best to help out old ladies like me get their life back by restoring my calendar.   

Bennie Schielack

Beau.  just finished "War's End".  Written by the pilot of "The Great Artiste, one of the B29's that accoumpanied Tibbets on the first nuclear attack on Japan and then flew Bockscar with the second bomb.  Very interesting history of the 509th and what it took to make it all happen and hasten the end of the big one, WWII . . . . . FYI . . . . . there is a 383 Cheby engine, but I don't believe it was ever standard equipment in any GM product.  Watching MAVTV on Sunday mornings and The History Channel, I frequently see vehicles modified and if I'm not mistaken, crate 383 Chevy engines are installed in a lot of them.  You are right in that the Corvettes of that era were 327, 350, 390 and 427 . . . . . I had a '65 with a 327 (replaced by a 350) and a '76 with a 350.  My roommate prior to marriage had a '67  with L88, 427, 3 deuces, and GM claimed 435 hp, but in reality, I think they were closer to 500 hp.  

I believe Johnny Morris also owns Dogwood Canyon Nature Park.  Touring this place is a great way to spend an afternoon on a tram ride, or bike ride thru the canyon, or do some trout fishing.  I would love to head back up to Branson and try out that new golf course.  It looks and sounds beautiful   

Jimmie Lee, I did not know that AOL was still around.  Have not heard of it in 20 years.  

I see Scotty has a new computer all set up, just in time for another hurricane . . . . . 

Last year about this time.  Univ. of Houston was scheduled to play Tulane, and if you all remember, Houston had a terrific flood.  My brother, his son and I managed to make it to New Orleans just in time for the game.  We left Houston about 7:30 in the AM, went North, traveled across Texas on 190, once we were in LA, we headed to I10 and on into NO.  This Thursday night, Tulane is scheduled to play UH again, and again a big storm is brewing, this time in or around NO.  

Beau Wann, Jr.

      Ok, went to my entomologists appt yesterday, no big deal says the doc.  When I got home, I was feeling "fluy", fever, runny nose, sneezing and coughing and lungs thick, just knew I'd contracted THA BIG ONE, COVID-19. As the night wore on, I was sure of it and on deaths door.  All that was holding me here on oith was Little Miss, my sweet little kitty.  Only reason I didtn pass away last night was the thought of, "who would take care of my precious little kitty?",  so I decided not to die just yet,  Good idear huh!

    Little Miss stayed in the crook of my left arm all night, except when I had to get up and do stuff. But I'd come back, and she'd kept our chair warm and then curl up in her spot, my left arm, and she'd sleep and I'd nod off for a bit.  Finall y went to sleep at 4 AM and except for waking up a few times, I effectively slept till 9:30.   I NEVER DO THAT ! ! !

    I just knew I had the cootie 19, and I was not long for this life. Took my temp this morning and it was 95.7.  Go figgure since the normal temp is 98.6, and my normal temp is 96.8, how in the name of Fredrick Fahrenheit do I have 95.7???   I got better as the day went on, and I guess I'm gonna live, maybe.

      Diane called my vet, Doctar Frrrraunkensteen  (notice how I rolled my Rs)  this morn and he assured me that I was ok because I only had fever and cough and nunny rose.  "ONLY"??????  Hey doc I'm dyin here, at least show a little symphony, eh what!  Whatever any of yall are going through, bet your glad you dont have to live with me.   Not a pretty sight for sure. That thought probably made all youse folks feel a lot better whatever your situation. 

    I know folks must think that I'm a kleptminerac, no, that's hypo marx, no again, hypochondriac, yeah, that's the ticket, but I promise you I'm not.  However, I do get all the symptons of whatever is going round, whether I know them or not.  I get all the sideeffects of any and all meds, whether I know what they are or not.  Example, if I'm prescribed a med, and the doc lies to me and says it has no side effects, and it really does, I get them.

    Oh well, to make a long story even longer,  I have to hang around to marvel,  amaze and regale all youse youtes with my idjitry, so hang on my friens, it's gonna be a bumpy ride.   Didnt Betty Davis say somehting like that in one of her movies?   I'll have to look it up on the dark web speaking of which, how does a spider string a web in the middle of a 5 acre field with no trees and nothing taller than a blade of grass?  Hmmmm? Beats the heckj out of me.    

 Jimmie Lee, it's really hard to think of you as "old lady"...Glad your AOL problem has been corrected.  It is nice when folks that are suppose to be professional, "act professional" and are proficient, professionally speaking. 

     Hey Bennie, Lots of interesting folks and books back from WWII.  The Enola Gay rests inside the Air And Space Museum, to lighten it they sold off the redundant metal to which Harley Davidson bought some of.   The emblems on my '05 Soft Tail Deluxe are made from that metal.  Didnt know that until this year.  The '05 Deluxe was unveiled in 04 at one of my old bases, NAS North Island.  I saw that in the paper back in naught four.  Who'd a thunk it eh hoser ! 

     When we flew in and out of North Island, I was the radioman, I'd tune the R390 to THE radio station in Chula Vista, California,  WOLFMAN JACK, "hot mercy, I know youre gonna love this tune...AAAAOOOOOOOOOO".  He's long since passed away, rest his soul.

    So much for a trip down memory lane...hard to believe that was over half century ago.  Keep in touch with my old squadron mates from time to time, although there's not many of us left.  Whoever "nam" didnt claim, agent orange and old age has.

    My beloved has 3 books going at the same time, well not all three at the same moment, but you know what I mean.   I've 2 going now myownself.  "ONE RANGER"   and one of a series of books that Diane is reading. She's on the 7th and I'm just starting the first. 

    The author is Janet Evanovich, and the first novel is "ONE FOR THE MONEY".  It's about a woman, Stephanie Plum, that loses her job as a lingerie buyer, and has to go to work for her cousin Vinnie's bail bonding company.  She becomes a bounty hunter from New Jersey.

     Diane was laughing so hard whilst reading it, I just had to start reading them, and there are 20 in that series. It's on the best seller list and gets rave revues.  There are so many good books out there that I'll never get the chance to read, just too many of them.  Read all day yesterday and day before and half the night, my eyes are really hurting and very blurry, but I shall endeavor to persevere,   even on deaths door and all...

     Guess I'd better keep this short,  eh what?  Keep the sun at your six and "ride boldly ride..."

Your frien and resident harpomarx, Cephus R Ned Nebulizer, esq

Sandi Schlesinger (Stark)

Beau, that Janet Evanovich Series of books are classified as mysteries although they are hysterically funny.  I listened to most of them on CD's while driving which made my commutes seem shorter and certainly more fun as I followed the adventures of Stephanie Plum. I hope you and Dianne enjoy them as much as I did.