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good eefening mine leibchens!!! (how you like my peter lorrie accent)???

Once again, Fudds was a major success!!! Saw a few new folks, and lots of us old folks! It is such a pleasure seeing everyone! Just a great pleasure! I know some had to drive a ways to get there, but we all appreciate the effort!!!

Kay, your critters are lucky to have you and me and Burge and everyone that takes care of them!

I will have to disagree with burge, But dogs are unclean!!!! At least my two are, cause they both got in the pool, just on the top step, and then rolled in the dirt! I opened the door to call them in, and this is one time I didnt have to coax them in! They both just ran rat in, leaving muddy foot prints and dirt everywhere!!! I was hard pressed to get mad at them, cause they stood there grinnin from ear to ear, like they had just saved grandpa from the well!!!

I tried to scold them, but they could see rat through me like I was a picture winder!!! I cleaned it all up, and cleaned them up, and we had a contest to see who could snore the loudest as we took a nap!!!
I did get back at them, because I have some spray sweet smellum coat stuff that I spray on them! They dont like that at all! But they do like it when I brush it in!

I am not ambedextrous, but I have to brush both with two brushes at the same time, other wise, I dont get either one, cause they are pushing each other out of the way to see who gets brushed! Then after I spray them and brush them, they both roll on the carpet to try to get the smell off!

Then the cats get jealous, and all get in line for me to brush them! They of course dont like to be sprayed period! Sometimes I have to spray them, just to get them to leave me alone for a few minutes!!!

Peaches doesnt like the two dogs, so she howls at them, and makes them run for cover! Peaches weighs 8 pounds, and cooper weighs 110 and jack about 70 pounds! But they think she is a grizzly bear!!! Critters!!! We are highly entertained! Dont have to watch TV at all!!!

Kinda reminds me of my dog Lucky, a pure chow, if there ever was one! We had him on DuBarry for a couple of years! We got him when he was a roly poly little puppy!
My dad broke his laig in 52 or 53 when he was on top of a wall of the newly constructed post building or chronicle building! A big wind came up and blew the wall over. Everyone else jumped to safety, but his foot got hung up and he went down with the wall, and broke his laig in multiple places! (are you sensing a pattern with the wann men here???)

Anyway, my dad had a cast from toes to hip, and when he could, he would scoot around the yard with his sheep shears (early weed eater the hard way) and trim the yard! Lucky would stay with him and ride on his cast, and also cut his teeth on the cast!!! (he also peed on my PF Flyers that stinker) the dog, not my dad!!!

Anyway, doing my part at community service with my family, I was shinning everyones shoes! ( I just made up my new shoe shine kit to make a little money, so I was hoping I'd get paid in my new found profession)!!!
I started on my one pair of Thom Machan Sunday go to meetin shoes! I did the first one, and set it aside, then reached for the other one and shinned it! Got through with it, and started on my dads shoes! I was just working rat along, whistling a song and dreaming about all the money I'd make and could spend on good stuff at the 5 and dime!

Man, I was pumped! Doing my part for capitalism!
After about the 4th or 5th pair of shoes, I looked over to admire my first class job! GASP!!!! They were all gone!!! I thought maybe mom or dad or one of my sisty uglers had gotten them and put them away! Man, I must a been really engrossed in my work to not see them!

Bout the time I discovered the shoes were missing, my dad came up with one of his shoes in his hand, and not exactly happy!!! "were you playing with my shoes in the back yard?" he said angrily!!! Of course I was pure as the wind driven snow! I splained what I was doing, and about to cry, when Lucky came up with the other shoe in his mouth! We walked tothe back yard, and he had been burying them all over the yard! Here I was doing a good deed, and got in trouble instead! So it goes with the rest of my life! A dog always stealing my shoes!!!

We finally had to get rid, (give away) lucky, cause he bit a boy named Eddy that lived behind us! Seems Eddy and I were good friends, until we got into a disagreement, what about I dont know! After a few days, or a week or so, I was in the back yard, and Eddy was on the other side of the chain link fence, and called me over to make up! I thought we were cool again, but when I got to the fence, Eddy poked me in the eye! Well, Lucky saw this, and apparently didnt like it, and didnt forget it either!

A week or so later, me and Eddy were friends again, and he came over and made the mistake of opening the outside door of my room, where Lucky was waiting for him! Lucky was on Eddy like a duck on a junebug, and almost tore his arm off before my mom could pull him off! My mom was only a hundred pounds if that, and 4 ft 10 inches tall, she was straining to hold him off! So Lucky had to go to a new home!! Wasnt his fault, he was doing what he thought was the right thing, protecting his family!!! Eddy had to have a zillion stitches! I think they moved after that!

Before the aforementioned episode, he also killed a pair of copperhead snakes in our back yard! This dog was fearless! My sisters could take him for a walk anywhere on earth at midnight, and no one, NO ONE, would mess with them!

I was sorry to see him have to go to his new home, but being only 7 or 8, I never questioned it! I hope he had a better life where ever he went!!!

got to sign off for now, the little excecutive woman needs to use my computer!
So happy trails to you and yourn!
Attila of Dubarry

01/13/10 11:38 PM

#2031

Hey, I enjoyed Fudd's. A lot of good people there.
I had invited Paige to our little Karaoke night, as well as a local. Thank goodness, no one came as it was awful. Well, the singing was off and the clientel too.

But I remember I had come home from Houston, brought my prize sheltie collie, Niki (Nikita), home w/me, instant fight w/another female dog, and my rottwieller, protecting his females, jumped in. Not a good thing, the rott bit my arm badly, my son, Todd, police officer came out and the rott bit him worse, twice. I told Todd to go to the ER and bill it to me, long story short, we both wear scars to prove it. I wouldn't have said anything if Todd had put him down, but he didn't, I went to the Dr. and she gave the rot tranquillers. The Rot, Scout, was the best protector and my love since then. lasted 10 yrs+ and it was my heartache to separate from him and put him down this year. If I am lucky, I will get another Rot, their loyalty is unmatched.

01/14/10 06:01 AM

#2032

Kay,
I seee you are the early late bird this morn!
I'd be hard pressed to trust a dog that attacked me!!!
Good thing for your rott he had you and not someone else that woulda had him put down!!!

I see by the radar on TWC that rain is immmmmminent! Got stuck on the m's there!!!

Dang, got a splinter in me left hand, and stumped "this little piggy that had roast beef" on me right foot!
You know, I have always been sorta clutzy, but this is getting rediculous! Cant seem to walk through a door without banging an elbow, or something! I spill just about everything liquid! Anyone else blessed like that, or is it just me???

Woke up this morn at 4, burning up!!! Seems that whoever was last to bed, forgot to turn the heater down! Shame on whoever that coulda been!!! Had to get up and take a shawr and that of coursed disturbed all the critters, or most of em anyway! BREAKFAST????? No, too early, go back to sleep! Got a dog behind me, a cat in me lap, and one on each side of me, just waiting for the B word!!!

Guess I will put on some coffee and get ready for the day!!! Got a couple more days cleaning out the warehouse, then what will I do??? Wont be an office to go to anymore! No more lunches! Boo!!! Cant go to the ranch, too wet, or too wet to get anything done! Just have to sit around inside! I can do that here and not waste gas!!! Happy birthday Tony and Gary et al!!!

Hey Bernd, it's lunch time in Germany! Have a knockwurst and sauer kraut and some of that dark german beer for me! And for desert, apple streudel and a good cup o coffee!!!!
I wonder how a good german restaurant would fare here!!!
I would haveto find a good german cook wouldnt I!!! Hey Bernd, you need a job???

Hmmm!!! Guess thats my stomach talkin!!!

Oh, does anyone remember the name of the author of one of the longest poem/stories on record?? ABout the Green Knight??? It is a classic, and I had to study it in college! I keep wanting to say Homer, but it isnt him!
I read the Illiad and the Odyssy by Homer, in the 4th or 5th grade! We were discussing this at Fudds!!! I thought I had it in my Library, but cant seem to find it!!! I thought it was written before Christ, or somewhere around there! I could be mistaken, and probably am!

Have a safe and prosperous day!
Your friend, Attila, the fry cook of DuBarry

01/14/10 07:25 AM

#2033

Ok, I'm back!
Finally got breakfast for all the critters! Cleaned out the litter boxes, had a homemade oatbran muffin and first cup o joe, AND, performed brain surgery on my hand to get the foot long splinter out, using your standard brain surgery tools, box cutter and pliers! Operation was a success, but prognosis is guarded! Patient will probably have to recover on the couch watching it rain!!!
I do more before 9 oclock, than most people do all day!!!

I am freezing to death now! Hot cold hot cold hot cold!!!
I guess my brain is doing combat with my body on whether it's cold or hot!!!!

Oh, I performed all the aforementioned tasks wearing my trusty led headlamp! And I looked so stylish too!!!
People looking in our windows probably think theres ghosts and or ghoblins roaming around our house, when I wear my stylish led headlamp in the dark!!! Good!!!!

"Martha, call ghostbusters, theys strange goins on in the wanns house", or words to that effect!!!

MAN, I make the best coffee on earth!!! And thats a fact jack!!!! I think maybe kinda sorta, I'll go back to bed!!!! NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trying to watch the weather channel, and now they have the news on! Either billyboy clanton is muggin for the camera or dictator obananananana is looking menacingly at us!

Now the earthquake in Haiti is a terrible thing, and we the taxpayers are going to have to pay for it with the money we dont have, and then obananananana will run around the whirld and tell everyone how awful we are and apologize for us mean ol Americans, like he did when he first took office! Gee, I wonder who pulled the whirlds stuff out of the fire when hitler wanted to run it???? how about the Berlin airlift, and millions of other efforts???
Who has been feeding the whirld and taking care of it for the last 100 years or more????

Remember the earthquake in managua mexico??? hundreds of thousands of tons of food water and money was collected to help them out! I worked on that one my ownself! Delivered tons of food to firestation 13 on 43rd! Then the freakin people in mesico have the audacity to blame us for not helping enough!!!!Scores of doctors and nurses and search dogs left the safety and comfort of their homes here in "mean ol america" to help those ungratful bastards!!!!!!!!

Gee, what about the AMERICAN RED CROSS??? Idly sitting by of course, like they always do! The only people in the whirld that POLITICAL AMERICA DOES NOT HELP, IS AMERICANS!!!!

Just burns me up about the bad rap we get! And even makes me madder about the idiots that believe it! There's a lot of families that paid with their sons and daughters and fathers and brothers and sisters and mothers lives!!!! That not good enough???? I dont know of anyone in America that does not extend a helping hand, except the politicians!
The only helping hand they extend is theirs in our pockets, then blame us, their employer, for failures around the globe!!!!
Talk about audacity!!! Seems I saw that word on the cover of some commies book!!!!!!!

Damn, aint even 7 oclock and I'm already pissed off! I gotta stop looking at TV all together! I thought the weather channel was a safe bet, but even they have gone to the news! Earthquakes are not weather related!!! It's geology!!! But, thats what most folks want, tragedy, hence all the so called reality shows! You want reality, be over 55 and a whte male and look for a job, even when jobs are plentiful!!! Good luck with that!!!! Been there done that!!!

Ok, I'm signing off! Getting madder and madder by the word!!!!
Vlad the mad

01/14/10 09:19 AM

#2034

I'M NOT THROUGH YET!!!!!!!!!!!!

When was the last time you saw or heard of another country helping us????? During katrina or rita or Ike or any other countless disasters that have struck America???? anyone anyone?????

Russia? China? France? Italy? Great Britain? Germany? Africa? Greece??? any country in southamerica??? Any country on earth????? NOPE!!!!! Hell, our own country barely helps us during any crisis or disaster, thanks to red tape and the middle man! But hells bells, let some leftist dictator stub his toe, and we canT throw enough money at the ungrateful bastards!!!!!!

There are thousands upon thousands of used and unused trailers, just sitting in a feild in arkansas and other places, already paid for by us mean ol hateful american taxpayers, like we had a choice anyway! Why dont they give those to the homeless, then they wouldnt be homeless anymore!!! Oh hell, cant have that now can we! wouldnt be something the liberals and leftwing media could wring their hands over! Well they could complain that the trailers were substandard of course, and probably would too!!!

How about our two closest neighbors, mexico and canada???????? They ever help us???? anyone anyone????

Their answer to that is, "But americans are so rich and can afford to help! Where as our poor meager helpless defenseless country can do nothing" blah blah blah!!! yeah yeah yeah!!!!!!
With the exception of the politicians, we as americans have worked for everything we have! I know I have!!! No one has given me anything that I havent worked for!

Well the rest of the WHIRLD CAN TAKE HEART, CAUSE THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION AND POLITICIANS IN POWER HERE, ARE ABOUT TO PUT US IN WITH THE REST OF THE WHIRLD!!!
POOR!!!!

All the money we have sent to all the countries in the whirld could have fed everyone on earth 6 good meals a day for freakin ever!!!! But the money never gets to where it's needed, thanks to the bleed off by the politicians into their pet projects, like a statue of themselves or a library in their honor, or a bridge or road that goes nowhere! What ever money makes it to the country in need, never gets to where it's needed! thanks to the politicians and warlords in all the other countries that we give aid to!!!!

Oh, Im just a mean ol angry white male!!!! YOU BET YOUR ASS I AM!!!!!! It's time everyone stood up and defended america!!!! The only reason everyone wants us dead and gone, is so that they can have what we have worked and died for lo these 200 plus years!

Do I think we should help Haiti??? Of course! But reasonable help that can be used by the people that need it most, help that cant be used against us! But how about other countries???? shouldnt they help too????
Well duh, theres a concept for you!

When they want whats ours, then they want us to be one whirld! Otherwise we need to die and stop taking up space and oxygen and resourses that the rest of the blood sucking whirld wants and is entitled to, that we arent!!!!!

Dont get me started!!!!!!!
VLAD THE DAMNED MAD

01/14/10 10:37 AM

#2035

Beau,

I don't think anyone wants to disagree with you today.....LOL. I'll just say, if you created a different America, I would want to live in it...commonsense abounds.

O.K. someone else jump in!

01/14/10 10:55 AM

#2036

They will probably use the interest on repaid TARP bail outs to pay for the Haiti re-build. By the way, where did the TARP money come from? Did we sell some of the gold in Ft. Knox to the Swiss?

Have to check my Atlas, but I think Managua is in Nicaragua.
I sure there was a Mexico earth quake as well. Google research coming up.

Ferrell and I tried to walk the neighbor's Rottwiler puppy while the neighbors were traveling. "Oscar" tore the shirt right off my back.... just playing of course.
That puppy is too strong for me.

Ferrell has spent two days trying trying to clean a small rug that daughter Leslie's cat stunk up. Cats can be stinky too..specially pole cats

01/14/10 11:07 AM

#2037

Managua Nicaragua 1972 quake
Mexico City Mexico 1985 quake

Glad we don't live in a quaking shaking zone

01/14/10 12:47 PM

#2038

Paige Talley (Meek)

It is a good day to go to the islands, if only in my mind. Hope you don't mind if I escape for a bit...

More from the waters inside the reef… Adventure and Romance with a Queen

Queen Trigger (not to be confused with Roy and Trigger) is a meaty lady about two hands. She puts up a really good fight and maintains her purpura and azul iridescence’s for a decent time after being caught.

After a cool morning on the reef snorkeling and fishing, a short siesta is in order while the catch is being prepared on the beach. Good reefers carry a small bag of stuff along side the liquid refreshment. Aw, the essentials of beach fish…butter, salt, pepper, limes, hot sauce and tortillas. Did I mention liquid refreshment!

Cleaned but not completely defrocked the queen is wrapped in banana leaves (ok it’s really aluminum foil) seasoned well, doused in hot sauce and drizzled with hot butter. Her skirt is secured with heavy chunks of peeled coconut (you really have to know how to open those coconuts or just skip this step and use toothpicks). Seal tightly and bed deeply within the hot coals. Did I mention you need to dig a hole in the sand and fix the fire first… Take a nap…it will all be ready when you get ready.

Serve on whatever large leaves are handy…sea grape works (wash them in the sea); garnish with coconut chunks; hot tortillas and dipping butter.

A romantic “evening” adventure this is not…the no-see-ums will get you and you will look like a bad case of the measles for the rest of your vacation / life.

Escape for the moment…

Paige

01/14/10 12:50 PM

#2039

Hey Group,

Just got through reading every "In Memory" student in Waltrip 65, and 64. I can tell you it is a very humbling experience. How many were taken before their time, and so many different circumstances of some. Touched my heart, and sometimes, when I feel lonely, forgotten, and/or fear the end of my existance, it is reassuring to know how many friends I will meet again when I get up there (uuuhhh...hopefully, up there!) I guess we should all be thankful that we have been fortunate to have made it this far.

Ted and Fran, thank you for your kind concern and responsibility for Ronnie Lawcock, and your brave action w/him.

In Waltrip 65, a comment on Dick Taylor from a former quiet student who has ended up happily is another reading recommendation. Whether you were popular or not, different, quiet, in school, (an excruciating period for some), it is nice to know of happy outcomes after.

01/14/10 01:32 PM

#2040

Jimmie Sue Roach (Nation)

Lloyd,
Thanks, I knew it was somewhere south of 34th st!!!
My boys remember buying bags and bags of dryed beans and rice etc, and taking them to No 13 Firestation! That was what the red cross and others were asking for! Even sent candy and first aid kits!!! Kevin was almost 3 and billy was 4 and they still bring that up from time to time when we pass No 13 and Myti burger!!! They were so cute back then and sweet! Still are!!!! My boys, not No 13 and mytiburger!!! Although Having both in the hood is a good thing!!!

Also did the same thing for the Mexico City earthquake, and raised funds for the Tsunami victims, among other charitable endeavors!!!! Bully for us, right???
I know probably everyone in our class has contributed in some manner or form for charitable causes! Dont necessarily want thanks for it, but I'm sure we also dont wish to be assaulted for it either, or because of it, or what others, that dont do anything, perceive!!!
Folks talk about perception, and the word should be stricken from the english language, nay, from the whirlds language!!!!! "Perception", is a stupid persons reality!!!!

The word,"Perception", is like the word, "tolerance", both oxymoronic! I know they are not true "oxymoronic words", but just think about them in the context of true reality!

Someone is perceived "less intelligent" because they have no college degree!!! You can even move on up the ladder, ie you are less intelligent because you have a BS or a BA and not an MA or an MS, and conversly an MA and an MS holder is less intelligent than one holding a PHD! And one holdintg a PHD, but not being an MD, is still a lessor individual! Or a PHD MD not holding a high office etc etc!!!! Now true, one that is well read, is generally more informed, and perceptively more intelligent than one that does not read! But it doesnt make that so!!!! However, in my book, riches and knowledge and intelligence does abound from being well read!

Now however, and there is always a however, in everything, one that reads and has a memory problem, where does that place them???? And to sum it all up, just ask an engineer, and he will tell you, "everything is relative"!

Speaking of flying, I received my Popular Mechanics Magazine last week, and just recently started perusing it!
I dont take magazines as a rule, but one of my sons takes all these surveys on line, and gets free subscriptions, and sent PM and Cowboys and Indians and Cigar Afficionado to me, of which the latter two have since expired!!!

There are a couple of articles in the PM that I just know you will be interested in! One is, "Can we trust robots"??? I report, you decide!!!! I know just the other day, I was trying to find the number to the "Stepford Wives" society, to see ifin I could get an upgrade on my beloved!
The other topic, and I know you all will find this very enlightening if not very interesting! Some one like me, however, finds it rather, "what"??? Ok, here goes! Are you sitting down???

"Surviving a 35,000 foot fall"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I kid you not!!!! What is that, a little better than 6 miles??? Take you about 3 minutes to fall that far. Lots of time to reflect on "why the hell did I take a plane" why the hell did I get out of bed"?????!!! Some of you good folks probably take PM, read it please, and then come to fudds and lets discuss it!

The article says youre falling, "Things are bad." (no kidding) "but nows the time to focus on the good news." THERES GOOD NEWS?????????????? OH HELP ME RHONDA!!!!!!!
It goes on..."although gravity is against you," YA THINK????

"Believe it or not, you're better off away up here, (6 freaking miles off the ground) than if you'd slipped from the balcony of your higrise apt after one too many drinks"!!!!! OH PULEASE, give me a gallon of booze, and I wont care where I'm falling from, or to!!!!!! It goes on to say, "Granted, the odds of surviving a 6-mile plummet are extraordinarily slim, but at this point you've got nothing to lose BY UNDERSTANDING YOUR SITUATION"!!!!!!!!!!!! REALLY??????? WHERE DO THEY DIG UP THESE GENIUSES?????????????????

I dont know about you, but if I'm falling straight down 6 miles at 120 miles an hour, with no chute or at least a mile of cotton to break my fall, i believe I understand the situation pretty well!!! I'M GONNA DIE!!!!! Hopefully I have passed out and wont catch on as to whats happening! Or if I can drink a gallon of Jack Daniels in less than 3 minutes, I probably wont care!!!!!
This article takes you through, step by step at different altitudes, of just exactly whats happening and why!!! I NEED AN ARTICLE FROM A MAGAZINE TO TELL ME WHATS HAPPENING TO ME AS I AM TRAVELING 6 MILES STRAIGHT DOWN AT 120 MILES PER HOUR????? DID THEY FURNISH THIS MAGAZINE AND HIGHLIGHT IT ON MY FLIGHT??????? I dont think so!!!! First off, if I am hurtling towards terra firma at 120 miles per hour from almost 7 miles up, I'm gonna be trying to get a hold of God!!!! I mean, if this happened to me, I dont think I'm flying again, thank you very much!!!!

I cant go on, you people have got to read this yourself!!! You wont believe it!!! Was this written by a humorist???
The author is Dan Koeppel! it doesnt give his qualifications, or if he has ever done this once, or more than once! He does give reference to, "become a wreckage rider", a term coined by Massachusetts-based AMATEUR HISTORIAN Jim Hamilton, who developed the Free Fall Research Page!!!! There is an actual database on the subject!!! Just boggles the mind, dont it!!!!!!

What the hell does an AMATEUR HISTORIAN know about anything, but AMATEUR HISTORY????? Perhaps I am too harsh!!! I dont think so!!! Perhaps their time would be better spent on things like the cure for cancer, or whirld peas, or hells bells, "can we trust robots!!!

Please, someone else buy this magazine. It is Popular Mechanics February 2010! I will reimburse you! you gotta read it!!!! If not, I will bring my copy to Fudds next time!!!

There are some other really good information in this periodical, like which chain saw to buy! I am in the market for a chain saw, my last three have been disasters! I need one to survive a 6 mile plunge to earth! I think I've narrowed it down to a Stihl MS 230 C-BE Duro Chain Saw!!!
I will let you know after I test it!

Well, it's nap time! check back with you later!
Paul "sky king" Bunyan

01/14/10 04:23 PM

#2041

Happy New Year a few days late. Hope all of you have a glorious year. I'm thrilled to see another one!

John, so sorry you have been under the weather. Lots of prayers going your way.

God sure knew what he was doing when he blessed us with critters! I know Beau and John agree. I sometimes think they love us more than our children do. We have 2 old kitty sisters that are 18 1/2 years old, a young tom, a dachshund (totally misspelled) that has had back surgery at Texas A & M vet. medical and a new puppy, Lousiana Catahoula Bulldog, that is about 5 months old and weighs a bunch. He has the most beautiful light blue eyes I have ever seen. He is white & has freckles on his ears, nose & tail. As I said, we love our critters. See Beau, you thought you had a monopoly. Of course, John has full bragging rights for the beautiful Ping and babies.

Tony, I hope you had a great birthday.

It is beginning to rain. Glad it didn't do that during the 12 degree weather we had in dear old Rusk.

Everyone stay safe and warm.

Jimmie Sue

01/14/10 05:39 PM

#2042

Scotty Croom

hey gang, just got email from betty g....allen had to have an arto-scope, found plugged arteries, that were fixed last spring...they changed his oil and put in new filter...will come home tommorrow....

01/14/10 05:39 PM

#2043

Jimmie Sue,
Howdy! Soooo glad you came on board! Being the kind of folks you are from the class of 64, I knew I wasnt alone in critter luv! Our first Kitty was 16 when she died! We sent her off for amonth to A&M for radiation therapy for thyroid, plus she had a nasty tumor on her spine! It maybe lengthened her life 6 mo to a year! I wont do that again! What ever she suffered wasnt worth a few days or months! Plus she was at A&M for a month!

Towards the end of her sweet sweet life, she lost the use of her back legs! She started dragging herself to which ever room we were in! When I saw that, I made a nice little box with a soft bed in it! I carried her from then till she died! I would carry her outside with me, she couldnt run off, and nothing could harm her as long as I was around, and I was around! We would sit in the garden and she would watch the birds and butterflys, and me! The last full day of her life, we sat in the garden, and I held her up to each flower to smell and touch! we had a plant called kat whiskers! we sat next to that and she played with a small moving branch, and a butterfly came and sat on her nose and my hand! Seems the butterfly didnt feel threatened and wasnt in a hurry to leave!

Finally had to go inside for the evening where Callie sat next to me where she had sat for 16 years! Went to bed, and put her between us in her box and went to sleep! got up at 4 or 5 and got dressed for work, and she was still on the bed in her box, looking around with the same sweet kitten face she had when I first met her!
I started to leave for work, and Diane called me back into the bedroom! Callie was trying to sit up!
I sat on one side of her and Diane on the other, and Callie laid back down and raised her head and looked at Diane and softly meowed, and then at me and meowed again, then laid her sweet sweet head down and was gone!!! Now I am not prone to tears, but this was as hard as anything!!!

Her playmate Goldie, a grizzly bear colored maine coon, had suffered from the same malady of a tumor on her spine! Vet called it vacination sarcoma!!! Goldie died 3 weeks after Callie, I'm sure of a broken heart as much as anything! Never have I seen two such gentle creatures as these! Callie was a real special ed kitty, everyday a new day, every step a new step! She would look so surprised everytime she jumped on the couch, like, "where did this couch come from"! And Goldie was her protector and friend! Been almost 15 years, and I can still see them, and miss them!!!

Sorry, here I am waltzing down a teary road, and I didnt mean to! But yes, I do love my critters! And my friends!

Been a lazy bones today! Did send some flawrs to Las Cruces for my moms 90th birthday this Saturday! Hope she is able to see them, she loves flawrs! But she has macular degeneration, and cant see so well! Maybe she can at least see the colors! I told them I wanted every flawr there was in that bunch or arrangement! They said ok!!!

Well the little woman is on her way home from the brat factory, so gonna start dinner and get all the critters fed or at least started on their way to getting fed!!!

What shall we have for din din??? I know, chicken and proscuito tortellini with a marinara sauce! Yeah, thats the ticket! Or hey, maybe chili???? Hmmmmm!!!!!

keep safe and warm and dry
Dr Doolittle and his merry band of critters

01/14/10 08:47 PM

#2044

Falling without a parachute? Hmmmmmmmm There is a memory from way back, Black Jr. High school teacher,mmmm,was it Mr. Duff? Sometimes as a reward for good behavior he would read us a story and I think I remember one about surviving a long fall such as the one reported by Beau. Maybe they just recycle these stories?

Don't know how we got Paige's island adventure again, bit am glad we did. It is one of my favorite posts

01/15/10 09:36 AM

#2045

Lloyd,
This was a "how to survive" manual on falling out of an aeroplane, providing you survive what ever in the heck blew you out of an aeroplane! I recollect one story about a guy that fell 44,000 ft and survived! But it was in my yout! If it was in WWII, we didnt have many planes that would go that high!

I dont know how you recollect the names of our Jr high teachers, the onliest one I recollect is Mrs Simpson and Mr Clausen! I dont even bemember the coaches!

Watched "Henry V" last night, and then "Shakespere in Love"! Dont always understand the dialog, but I do love Shakespere!!! Then watched something with Kevin Kline and others! I think it was "love me to death" or something! It was slow, but it was hilarious! Never heard of it before! Kline plays a pizzaria owner and married, and a lothario! Probably wouldnt watch it again because it is kinda slow, but it's worth a one time glance! Generally dont watch anything, except my cats and dogs!

I dont know what was the matter last night, but none of them would settle down! Dogs were up, cats all running amuck! Around 1130!!!! Hope they are not trying to tell us about an impending disaster here! Seems they are all semi-normal today!!!

Me and Coop already been on patrol this morn! Found some perfectly good lawn chairs that people were throwing out!
went back and picked them up in my truck! They work good at the ranch! Anyone out there need a 21 or 23 inch TV???
It has no remote, Jack ate it, but the picture is good! It's not one of those flat screen digical kind! I tried to buy a remote for it, but took it back as it wouldnt work! There is probably one out there that will though!
The price is right! I'm asking 0 dollars for it, but cash only!!!

Guess I will sign off, back hurting more than just a little! gonna try to move one of the dogs off the couch so I can lay down!!! Pour myself another cup of Joe and chill!!!!
Your antique amature historian
BeauZeau the hun

01/15/10 08:50 PM

#2046

Hello again classmates,
Soggy Friday eenen! Temp says it is 52, but it sure feels colder than that! All the critters down for a nap! Beloved at her mom and dads! Find myself at home reading!
Got on the "In Memory" section, and kinda put me in a more somber mood! I only knew a few of our classmates there, and not very well at all, I'm sorry to say!
What a nice thing for Teddie and Fran to do for Ronnie!
But then, I would expect nothing less from them! The best! As I have found out about most of our classmates! What a privilege and honor it is to know all of you!
Thanks!!!!

Had lunch at Angies with both my sons!!! What a treat that is!!! Angies is next door to Turners Hardware at 34th and old hempstead highway! It is a throwback to the 50's and early 60's diner! Good food! My sons know the other partners/owners of Turners! And of course we all know Clyde Petit!!! I keep forgetting it's there! Always wind up at home depot or lowes! I prefer to do business with small busineses and family busineses!

Guess I dont have a lot to say tonight! Just kinda wandering around! I use to love this kind of weather, but now I truly dont!

Watching an old George Raft picture, with William Bendix and Harry Morgan and others I dont recollect their names!
Hey burge, you doing ok?? Everyone else doing ok???
Well, my pea brain is drawing a blank, so I will sign off for now! Some of youse youts jump in here and tell me a story or two or three!

Stay warm and dry
Me

01/16/10 09:47 AM

#2047

Good morning,

Last night I woke up after 5 hrs. sleep, to watch TV, I have 2 dogs and cat! Just took to the Vet after school to the tune of $246. Everybody's little aches and pains have been taken care of, along with their nails clipped and baths. (Little do they know, I'm going to get out the shearers today). I think I'm preparing for retirement, sleep a little, take cat naps, etc. Annnywwaaay,

Caught Bill Moyers show on PBS...very encouraging, interesting. One man, Greg Mortenson, has lived and built several schools for girls (only) throughout Afganistan region. He teaches the girls, because they will become the mothers in the future and will share their knowledge w/ other family members, more so than boys. Teaches 5 languages,reading, writing, ? He has written two books, "Three for Tea" and "Stones into our Schools". I plan to read those, as Bill Moyers says he has shares his extensive knowledge of Taliban as well as Afgan cultures. His father and mother both were peacekeepers in a foreign land and he grew into it. Says the our presence will never be sucessful there as none has ever won against them. By the way he brings up his meetings w/McCrystal, Joe Biden (who've read his books) as well as the Taliban and is respected by the Taliban leaders. Says they currently take the young male children and isolate them from their familyies in camps,and they are easily trained to become terriost, strapping bombs that cannot be taken off their bodies, and uses many mentally and phyically challenged little boys.

He states he will die a happy man, because of the attainments in his life there. He says they do not wish Obama and troops to be there.

On to other watching, COPS, always good, sometimes Cheaters, my fave: is This Old House and Antique Roadshow. I refuse to buy Cable or Satellite, because I don't feel we should have to pay to watch TV, and what quality and consistent reruns to worthlessly entertain us and keep one from being outside. Just my "Stand" against them, don't have a cell phone either, but may get "just for emergencies" one at best.

Weather here is drippy, rainy, miserable cold...waiting for the sun and dry. Going to buy more fencing and Pastor Dan and Rocky of my congregation plan to come out and "fence", may have cattle in the spring. They know it is my long-standing dream to have cattle on the property again. I am a blessed woman.

01/16/10 10:19 AM

#2048

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Mortenson's book is "Three Cups of Tea" I think..... the first represents a cup of hospitality to a stranger, the second a cup to a friend, the third a cup given to family. a very good book about what a one person can accomplish. I'll look for his second.

I loved the Black Jr HS pictures! I remember that there were always singing groups, and as I hear them, pretty good ones too. At Valentines a group would come into class and sing a tune to an embarrassed student. Anyway, I liked the singin'. In the picture I can pick out Cheryl Perry, Sharon Walker, and Connie Bryant, who else is in the picture?

01/16/10 05:03 PM

#2049

I say it's Marilyn Havis, Betty Roberts, Sally Pollard, not sure of one in the middle - could be Sandra Bracey? -Sharon Walker, Cheryl Perry, Marcie English and Ronna
Brand.

01/16/10 06:43 PM

#2050

Jim Taylor

Beau,

I ended up catching the same George Raft movie. I thought the end was a little hokey. Why did George Raft have to die (especially in the overly emoted fashion that he did) and what in the hell was William Bendix doing picking a fight with anyone. He looked pretty silly jumping around and getting flipped over.

I'm not a fan of Ted Turner or Time Warner, but TCM is just about the only channel that consistently shows good "vintage" movies without commercials.

01/16/10 07:47 PM

#2051