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Beau Wann, Jr.

     Hello everyone,   Got a new keyboard and mouse.  Since I waas having soo much trouble typing on the hp laptop,  Diane bought another one for me and a mouce.  I like them just fine.  I cna actually keep my fingers on the home keys, mostly.  Having trouble seeing the screem with my reg glasses, to Diane got some 1.50 reading glasses ,a nd they did the trick.   I can actually see the screen just fine and read it.  weell when there no kittly in stanting on the keyboard in frount of the screen....

      Hey Key, sorry you are having so much trouble with your back.   Had mine xrayed yet again.  Doc saw nothing out of the ordinary even though mine hurts so bad.  I had a hard time of laying down on and getting off of the xray table.  Took 3 people to help me,  hard time convincing them they were doing it all wrong.   My doc prescribed a medrol pack and some pain pills, specificcily for old people so it wouldnt mess this my natural functions. 

     Diane and I had an antique booth at the northwest mall where Penneys was.  we love it, of course we were much younger then and had Cooper, whom I use to take up there with me, and wow was he hit of the party.   Folks would stop by just to pet him, and then buy stuff.   I waas glasd folks wanted to pet him, and so was he....I talk about Cooper a lot dont I.   I still miss him like he left today 5 minutes ago.   Sorry, but he such a special angel in thiis whirld.   I miss all my departed critters, they all were such unique speacial angels.

      I would like to go to a church one day.  I may go in this Sunday to Oaks Pres, it be communion Sunday.   havent had communion with Diaane in such a long time.  But about the time we get to church an hour or so later, I'm so tired, I just wantt to go home.  Maybe, I can endeavor to persevere and make the trip.   There's not many people left at Oaks, to sit next to.   

     I remember the last time I went to oaks after surgery.  The minister said "it's was ok for me to be angry",   Who was I goinna be angry with?   I'm not angry at all, except when after each Chemo sessions, thjer's complications, which there has been the last two, two trups to ER, the last one hurt my back so back, It's still hurting, have to have two canes or a walker to get abroung.  

     Aug 21st is so far away,  it will be probably on the tail end of next chemo session, so I might be there and again might in the ER tring to put out the lastes fire from Chemo.

     Haave a Doc appt on aug 4 with lab work eary and an MRI at 7 that morning.  My back is already hurting in antipation of the hard takbl.   Boarding the dogs Tuesday evening and staing at the Rotary house hotel tuesday night.  If the labs and MRI look good, Chemo will start on the folloeing Monday night, last till Friday night, and if i get lucky, not be in ER the next week .  One can only hope.  

     Little Miss has gone to sleep on the arm of her rocking chiar that i'm sitting in .  she is face down.  I am about to go backside down in a moment or two.  Havent slept on my stomach in decades.  Too hard on the back.   

    Man, I love this keyboard.  Almost back to where I was and then again not completly. Still misspell a lot of words, leave some out soome words, but all in all I am so happy this this new keyboard.   Might just have to tell you a story or two, but it's lates, so not tonight.   

   In the meantime, I thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers, got 5 cards today, and one for Diane, now how thoughtful is that.  Got one from the entire chuch at st johns methodist chirck in Rockdale.  a small baptist church in industry jut up the road. sent a quilt called "Toch of the Mastrers hand",  which just one of my favorite poems.   

     Ok, got to go,  yall all are in my thoughts and prayers for now and for ever.  

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

Your friend and resident science project,   Cephus R  blessed beyounds all belief.

Larry Reid '63

Love you Beau! Wish I had your writing skills.

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Thanks Larry, youse are too kind.... wish I had your drum playing skills,  I'd scatter all the ckickends in the county.  or yuoiur organizing skill to help folks like the kids of veterans, ownd a new bike.
one of these days, when i'm not having to fight to stay alive, gonna meet up whith ya at one of your bike rides.  Youll know me beaceays youll see shaky Frankinbrain being chouffers by my personal angel, Diane, wife of shaky frankingbrain.   

      Hwwy Sandi, hows Tonda??   Still nutty?  Look whoms taking, Im nuttier than a truck full of payday candy baars.  menber those?  I rembemer when I got my first one, I was living where?   yup Dubarry.  dad sent me over to the 7 de eleven accross from the OF park and simmink pool.   Gave me a dollar to get him a pack of luckies, a saterdat evening post, two cokes and two payday candy bars, aad I got change back from all that.  AND I even found my way back home, amazing huh.  use to have Danial Boone traking skills,  and family didnt have time to move away.   I wasnt gone long enouff.

      candy bars were just a nickel back in them good olds days and were a least a couple of ounces.   Now about 5 dollars and probably dont weidh anything.  The idjits in charge if najubg stuff, didnt think that we weould notice the candy bars was half the size of it's predecessor.   I try to steer clear of any produck i been use to using when it has the the words "new look, same stuff inside"   when you see that, you know theyeve chaneged every up, and it never the same again.   

     Buternut candy bar was also a favorite  beceasw it haD nuts AANDS chocolate.  First time I ate a payday,  I kept waiting f or t he chocolate to kick in. But being a duke of dubary, and memer in somekind of staanding or sitting, of the dumb little kids, societry of nunny rose candy cornisuers,  here in after known as dumb little kids or the DLK secreat scoiety.  Secreat?   One coudl hardly hide us under a bussel baskets,  or in a closet id find someway to set the basket on fire, or flood the closet...  Although I'm sure some would liked to had tried that disappearing act with the likes of moi ! 

     Time to start getting ready to getting ready, got a long day ahead,  Occupatial therey and Phyisical carathy.   Diand has to get me ready and then her self ready, and them were alway late.   

     So be seeing youse youstes....When I get back, I'll junp rat in here and say "houdy", like it never happened....

Johnny Sheffield

Hi there folks, I will be sending a new updated list 

out tonight on those that have rsvp to the summer 

fling on Saturday august 21,2021 330pm harris county 

smokehouse Tomball Texas. 
please rsvp if you planned to come. 
johnny

Johnny Sheffield

Hi there, just 3 weeks till our summer fling Saturday august 21,2021 330pm

at Harris county smoke house Tomball Texas. 
here is a new updsted list as of today.

Johnny and Becky sheffield 

tom gann

Tony maddox

Lynn wren burkhardt

Linda Bolton roffall

jim and Beverly hengt alllen

Jimmie lee brawner

ronna brand 

Gary and sarrah moseley

Robert and Kay Derrick 

larry and Debbie York 

terry and Lynn Schaffer 

teddy and Fran Jordan 

John and pat goyen 

Paul and jenny Taylor williams 

beau and Diane wann

Ron snd pat Brantley ross

Dennis and mederith hansel 

Sandi Schlesinger stark 

jimmy and Michelle Hillshire 

Shelia Gilbert webb

jim and Jan Taylor 

llynn roff

Lloyd pond 

Lynn and pat Pruitt 

Linda Webster 

Richard kennedy 

don and Shirley ellisor

Walter and Colleen etie

Jack and Dede denton

Barbara porter and dick 

Kay greene

Sharon allen Richardson 

Gloria Hornick walker 

Ronnie peters 

jim king and pat Clooney king

please let me know if I overlook anyone. 
hope to see more folks there that evening. 
it will be a fun time!

Johnny 

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Hey Beau and diane, good to hear from ya'll.  I just may add my name to the list...would love seeing ya'll and all who contribute to our forum

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Hey Johnny, can yuo get aholt of Glenn Weisinger?  He just lives about 5 moles from us,  I dont have his number or email address.   He lives in a neibverhood where half of the chappell hill garden club lives.   One of the ladies does lots of things for us, brings food, and stuff.  I like food and stuff..   Her chicken spaghetti is great. and green  bean casserole is also too great also too.

     What a busy week we've had.  Met yesterday with head head doctors and surgeorn from my 2nd surgery.  Houston , we have a problem!   The MRI in july seems to be in question on the first surgery at bsw new years eve .   The people up in college station at Baylor Scott and white and bob and carol ted and alice interpet as possibly new growth, where as the people that really know at MDANDERSON, are of the opioun that it is just scar tissue, and or burnt stuff from the radiation treatment.

      So now, Dr. Prabhu that did the 2nd surgery wants to do sugery on the first area,  to make sure of what is going on.  They mentioned there is a lot of swelling in that aarea, and fluid floting aroung.  So a preop meeting will be Aug 31 with Dr Prabhu and also the anathesiologist.  they havent said when the actually surgery will be, but I'll bet Sep 1 or round about there.  They've put off my 4th installment of chemo till after the surgery.. they have doubled my steroid intake for this week and the next to see if they get the swelling down and fluid disappered.

     If Dr Prabhu thought it was urgent, it would probab ly be schecduled for this week or the next, or I'd b e typing this from OR.   This time I will be asleep, and wont get to asssist in the surgery like like last time.  Theree is none better than Dr Prabhu and his team.  He wrote the book of brain surgery.  He's licensced in just about every country in the whirld for brain surgery. 

      I feel ok about it, but obviously I'm just a tad nervous about it.  Anything can go wrong,  and they could find all sorts of problems,  they didnt say that, but, my mind can conjure up lots of senarios.  you know, he went for toe surgery aand his brain fell out...that sort of thing.   Like I've always said, "a mind is a terrible think"

     ok, got to get a move on, goi8nt to help Diane with the grocerry store shopping.   Got an order in for a chicken pot pie, if she has time to make one. If not, just me  eat cake. The whole time we were down at MDA, whaterver meal we had, was an absolute disaster.  Should have taken a himt from that how this was all gonna turn out.  

     I have so much to do on a plate,  before the end of the month, but stil plan on being at the 21st hoe down.  unless they push up the surgery.  They seem to like to schedule things for me on HUMP day, or wednesday.   If it's good for them, it just plumb tickles me alive.

      I'll  be back...

Johnny Sheffield

Hi beau , saw your request about glen , but Jimmie lee stated

She sent info to you . 
johnny

Johnny Sheffield

Praying all goes well for you beau. 
johnny

Beau Wann, Jr.

      Well wouldnt you know it, wrote a long dissertation aaned it disappeared.  Sep 2 is when my next brain surgery is. Got tons off tests scheculed and doctors appointment galore. I cant believe I lost that last post. what a bummer out deal.It was a goodun too. I'm too tired and slewepy to so anotrhe one, lucky yall..

     whats so disheartening, not that yall didnt get to read it. but it took me the better part of 2 hours  to type. I even went back and tried to  correct spelling and missed word and words that souldnt a been there.   

     havent had time to decide if I'm worried or not aobutr the next surgery.  All surgery is risky, anything can go wrong.  Glad i'm having itr after the get to gerther.

    they have me scheduled for so many pre-op tests, MRIs, ekg, sonigrams, covert tests, plus meet with the surgery team, etc.   got to go, mee and litrtle misss going to take a nap.
she insists.  Whatt ya gonna do, call nap busters?  I dont think so.  wpu;;d you believe it's not going to let me post this? Keep telling me I' dont have a connection.  unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Beau, can you put all that crap off, until after Johnny's reunion? So we can just enjoy and be ourselves, no matter what we have going on with ourselves, we are going to have fun.  I've agreed to go back to the antique shop and people I love so much,  Navasota has so much going for it and our shop is not up to par, so I'm back

I do understand the work and love and imagination you put  into that post, I've done this myself, thanks for starting over.  What would we be, without the imagination of the Master of our group..

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Isnt the reonion on aug 21?   surgery is slated for sep2.  besides it dossnt matter if my doc wanted to do it today at my house, I'd  go along with it because, either the cancer is back, or its scar tissue or dead cell from radiation.  There's swelling and fluid that they are also concerned with.  So I would say I'm in a gunfight and i only have a knife and fighting for my life...

     Speaking of Diane, she made 2 chicken pot pies for us today. musta worked 6 or more hours straigth ,  Then one of the garden club ladies brougt us two dishes, both need onion, tomato and chilies and maybe a smigden of garlic. but othern that, they are ok.   Onion cures just about everything, doncha think?

     Sure be glad to get  this all behind us.    God, Diane and me...a three corded braid is a lot strogner than one or two cords, then again there is all yall to add more cords to the braid, yea, thank God!!!

      Been flying around in my DeLorean,  ran the Phase Flux Capacitor almost out of "go juice"....I think my name if Buddy Holly....I have his guitar.  And apparently I have written numerous songs already....and an OPUS...mOST of the classical composers have written opuses, and even The great trombone player, Tommy Dorsey, wrote tune called "opus one"  So here's my OPUS 1...

Dont worry, I dont like to fly...

Guess I'll deplane ...keep the sun at your six and "ride boldly ride..."

your frien and resident pin cushion and science project,  Cehups R Weary esq

Ronna Brand

Beau, we are all looking forward to seeing you and Diane at the fling!!  I just wanted to remind you that with all of us Waltrip 64 prayer warriors keeping an open line on your behalf, it is bound to work out!  Hang in there and we will see you soon. 
Ronna

Beau Wann, Jr.

Well I did it again, wrote a long response and it disappeared.  my new mouse has a button I hit that erases. didn't know it.  So a short message.  Thank you Ronna for your kind words and prayers.  Diane is going to set up a new mouse. See if it works. 

     either that, or just not get on here.  2 more hours wasted

Teddie Jordan

Cephus, if I were a new mouse brought into your home,  with all of those cats,I think I would be more than a little nervous too! 

I look forward, as an obvious bunch of others do, to hugging and being with you and Diane on the 21st'!

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Hey TJ, we only just have the one and olyn Little Miss.  We have had as many as 8 at one time.  But they were all good kittlises.   Had one and a half litter box per kitty.  no mice or any other creacther invade our abode.   each one had a unique personalitly and talent.  Callie was a tortouse shell color, and was special ed, everyday was a new day, every step was a new step.

    Libby was the freaky one.  She was tabby and simonze. kinda zebra stripe,  Had electric blue eyes, and could clear 8 feet on a sinble bound.  We had 11 spoot cecialings and she could be on one of the 8, or 9 foot shelves in the closet.   And she could junp on tip of the entertainment center which waas about 7 foot tall, and she could do it from the base of it, no running strart.  She also had diabetes for 7 of her 18 years.  Gave her an insulin shot every 12 hours.

     Goldie was grissly bear color, and had the kindest  and sweetest heart.  Anytime that Callie would pass Goldie, goldie would lay down so she woldnt spook callie.  And talk about a mouser and a birder, she was a champeen..    AND she would play ping poing with me.   She sat on the other side od the net and when I hit the ball, she would stik up a paw and batg it back t o me.  Callie died at 16, and Goldie follower frien 3 week later. 

     Tucker was jet black, taking a picture of him was hard to do, because his black fur absorded the flash.  He was long and tall and had a very long, very expressive tail.  He could walk by the coffee table and his tail would go over the top of it like a periscope, but not toch the table, like he wass feeling for something.   Sometime his tail was in a question mark ?, and sometimes two or tree stair steps,  he would also fetch a little piece of paper and bring it back to you and put in your hand.   he would do that till your arm fell off.  When I would come home, he would run and junp in my arms and hug and lick me.   He was 13 years and 13 days old when he died. Had lung cancer.

     Katy was a blue and white tuxedo, and weighed 16 pound, and also a retriever.  God never made a sweeter animal.   

     Big Oliver, or "big olie", was a maine coon and weighed 22 pounds.   Big olie kept the peace, especially when Annie Bob came to live with us.  She was what you would call "high spirited". Big olie was alsso very good friends with Katy...Katy organs began to shut down, summer of 13 and died in August of 13,  Oliver followed 3 weeks later, had a stroke, which er vet said was common in MaineCoons. 

     Sammy was a grey tabbly and he and Oliviver were inseperalbe.  When Olie died,  Sammy grieved terribley.  he would lay in the same spots at the two would lay in together.   Sammy died up here, probably about 20yo.  

    Lacy was true to her name,  frilly and a tail that look like a plume from on of the musketeers hat.  She was friends with all the other kitties, in fact they all got along and werre all friends.  She died up here, and then Sammy followed a short time later.

    Then Annie Bob died up here, after lacy and sammy.  Then there was peaches...We got her and Katy after callie and goldie died .   She was an exotic short hair that kept her liitle kitten face till she died on new years day in 14.  First to die up here on the funny farm.  These were all indoor only kats.

     Then there was one, little miss, and she and Annie did not get along. 

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Dorry about that lasst post on our kitties, I started it about midnight and fell asleep with Little Miss in my arms, and woke up at 4 and tried to work on it,  to no avail.  

Johnny Sheffield

Good morning 

For up dated list on summer fling go to august 1st posting no 10576

thanks 

johnny

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Thank you Johnny for all the hard work of putting together a get together, hard work that! and thanks to Lynn W B and to Beverly.    yall are much loved and cared for.   Forgive me if  sentences and thoughts dont make sense.  Sometimes I'll add words that are not needed or wwrong allthogether, or leave out words that really need to be there.  It's tough being a 76 year old 5th grader.   

      unless they move up the surgery, we still plan on being at the gathering.   I wont be awake for this one,  darn, and I wanted to help with it, maybe get my brain surgeons certificate, be like Jethro Beaudine from the hillbilly show.     What a stupid premise for a stupid show.    Mrs  Blount absolutely HATED that show.  She made no bones about it . I have to concur with her about the BH.  TV has sure make a mockery of a lots of things, My Dad said that TV was the ruination of mankind, and so it is.  

     Little Miss is curled up in a tight ball in my lap, right paw over her eyes, but she says hi anyway.

     Diane made a choclacte and vanilla butter cream cake last night for me birthday, since I spent that day in ER.   Was just thinging about having a piece before lunch,  Dont want to fill up on too much food that's good for you, and not be able to enjoy dessert, that's just wrong.  I was thinking for the main course, maybe a spam samich and some tater chips. Yeah, that's the ticket.  The doctors told me to eat, it would help me heal, so eat I shall. And heal I will.

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

From the funny farm, your frien and resident brain teaser,  Cehups R hungry esq

Beau Wann, Jr.

'     It's me again, fraunkenbrain...been frettin about coming to the hoedown on the 21st.  Not suupose to get in gateherings or be out with the public, not for the covert 18,19,20, but for any germ, and there are lots of em out there.,  We always wear masks and hand sanitizier when we go out or when anyone comes over...I know there's lots of thought on mask wearing,  but to my way of thinking, as uncomfortable as it is,  it couldnt hoirt.

      Woke up today, just exhausted,  and weak feeling.  My beloved had a steamin cup O joe ready for me, and bacon in the pan, and all kinds of breakfast stuff going on...yum.  Sure am blessed beyond all belief.

     If we decide to go to the hootnany on the 21st,  as much as I'd like to hug all yall, no can do,  surgery in about 2 or 3 weeks.  Dont want no complications.  This surgery is gonna ge scary, because they not sure what they will find, whereas the last 2 they knew what they were going in after, except mabe the one that wass done in college station. Now because of that, MDA is having to redo that one.

     Ok, gotta get outta heah, got a small load of lumber coming and some large stones today, gotta get ready for that one stuff.

     Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?"
And I said, "here am I; send me"

Isaiah 6:8

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Hello my pretties... 5:45 AM, as in early,  up here on the funny farm, got a busy next couple  of days, weeks, mounths, years ahead of me.   

      as far as i gno, we will be at the hookilau 21st. we'll scrub up, mask up and may  evevn wear gloves, yeah, thats the ticket....

    on a more sadder note,  James "Butch" Winborn died Wednesday.  dot lknow how old he was or what cause, he wass Dianes moms 1st cosin, i think.  They lived up here off Kickapoo road, we'd gotten together a couple times for dinner and supper, but not often enough.

     Thinkd I'm gonna stop for now, been so very tired this week. aarms andlegs ache like I've run a marathon.   Hope to see youse youtes on the 21thes.   

Teddie Jordan

Cephus, so sorry to hear that news about Butch, I think he was WHS class of '63. He and I worked together at St.Joe Paper company factory on N. Post Oak in Summer and Fall  of '65 as laborers on the corrugator, stacking just pressed and glued together with hot glue, corrugated box sheets on Pallets, a hot, hot job in an un air conditioned factory. At that time we were working the evening shift from  2pm until 10pm, and I was taking morning summer school classes at South Texas Junior College in downtown Houston.

My dad died in October '65 right after I entered U of H taking  night classes, and I was working at St. Joe that Monday morning when my foreman brought me a message to call a number immediately, and it was the hospital telling me to come there immediately! I didn't know what was going on until I saw my mom in the hallway crying. Daddy had undergone a stomach surgery the preceding Thursday and on Sunday night he was recovering and doing well expecting to be discharged the next morning.  Fran and I visited him that night and he said,  you two sit down on this bed and tell me about your wedding plans , which we did. He loved Fran as I did and was happy for us. He had a Pulmonary Thrombosis, ( blood clot), that next Morning and died immediately when the blood clot hit his lungs. He was only 59 years old. It was very hard for all of us, he was a good, good man in every way. 

Butch'es  dad Windy  was my barber and was a real character.  I last saw Butch at your house in Houston when y'all celebrated an anniversary, He looked at me and said, what are you doing here? I asked him the same question, small world.

 Rest In Peace Butch! 
 

Tom Britton '65

I think we are ALL looking forward to seeing Bo in a couple of weeks. Hang in there my friend. Many socially-distanced hugs await you. You, my friend, are an inspiration to the entire class. 

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Thanks for those kind words tom,  all  yall have been an inspiration to me over a lifetime, so thank YOU.   Been sitting heere since about 4  or 3 and am just exhausted. Too tired to type. The girsl all have the right idea, napping. So ill be back in a while, howevere long that is.

Johnny Sheffield

Good morning , 

you can go to august 1st posting no 10576 

for the updated list on our summer fling.

See you all soon. 
johnny