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01/27/10 05:05 PM #2103    

 

Bernd Joachim Tonat

Now this is printed (or taped or typed however yuwonnit) on my regular laptop, so I can see what I have written and correct my krautyaccent if I get it - this stupid wrong word or letter that seems to hide. Barbara has lived for years in South-Africa and in other parts of the world like Ecuador, Ethiopia or India and had to speak English all the time, but she was not able to understand yall and other easy words in Beau´s original and correct English.

But Barbara knows many other things. Because she was a doctor and people knew she was a doctor, they send for her, when a poor little old cow in Ecuador was sick and there was no doctor around but her. I’m not sure if she ever knew what a cow is or even has touched one in her life before and now she had to operate this creature and she cured this little old cow.

I have touched many cows in my life. My ancestors were farmers for eighthundredfifty years and I believe they knew what a cow is and so do I. And they knew how to work and what is wrong and what is right. They knew their roots and so do I!

Beau thanks for the warm wishes, it’s gotten warm now, just about 23 °. Our Berlin mayor would like it, he is pure gay and people over here like him, because the other politicians are worse. I’m purely lesbian, I like women and I always did, I read the new Houston mayor feels the same way I do.

But that’s why I like to live in Berlin. This city is so colourful, people from all over the world are living here, bringing their ideas and cultures into our city, which is not only easy and weef got a lot of problems but very often weef got a lot of fun too. And great music!

When the wall fell down I was out at least five nights a week to go to concerts, theatres or other cultural events. People from east and west coming together in freedom was great and I was part of it.

Beau, it was quite exciting, when they found the Nebra star disc a few years ago. In 2008 we stayed with our Stammtisch in Freyburg which is near to the site near Nebra, Saxony-Anhalt where the ancient Sky Disk of Nebra was discovered some 60 km west of Leipzig in the Saale-Unstrut region (our regulars' table is a poor and not correct translation for Stammtisch, but in English there is no word for it, just like Gemuetlichkeit).

This Nebra star disc is rewriting the tale of how civilization evolved in Europe. 3600 years ago we were not only jumping from tree to tree, meanwhile the Chinese were producing their China bone and sending little rockets into heaven and writing on paper. Perhaps we were even able to say hello to each other, before hitting a club on the others head. Mankind anyway started in Africa, the bones (not China) they found seem to say.

Now it’s midnite in Europe, I’ll jump down from my tree, put the laptop to sleep and go to bed

bjt

01/27/10 06:39 PM #2104    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Bernd, you cracked me up! I had to laugh out loud! Thanks man, youall are just too cool for school!!!!

Well, if Bernd is out of the closet, guess I can come out too!!!!! Yes it's true, I LOve the ladies!!!! There, I've said it! Boy, sure feels good to come clean at last!!! I believe I mentioned Franch Whores earlier didnt I???? OH LIGHTEN UP PEOPLE!!!!!! "A people that cant laugh at itself is a sad and doomed people" BW

See, me and Bernd have so much in common, and we are a gulf, a ocean and a continent apart!!!
Even with Bernds krauty accent and my cracker accent, we ccan communicate beauteously!!!

I speak a little kraut too, liverwurst, knockwurst, bratwurst, sauerbraten, streudel, leiderhosen etc!!!
SEE, bet youall didnt know I was ambilingual didja????

I also speak the universal language of "MONEY"...HONEY!!!

On a much seriouser knote, Took the hounds of the baskervilles to the vet! Coop was cool, but jack peed on the floor! oh, not a dribble, not a drop, but a torrent!!! That boy just peed and peed and peed!!! He was so excited to see his friends at the vet! Hells bells, yould think he was a cockel spaniard!!! Just embarrassed me todeath!!! Of course the vet is use to all that kinda stuff! Both idjit dawgs got a clean bill of health, cept Jack needs to lose a few pounds!!!

Dont know why he gained so much weight! He gets no treats!!! Well, almost!!! Gets beef neckbones, which has little or no fat! A milk bone or two, and peanut butter filled pretzels, but other than that, no treats for him!
I are the offending party!!! I guess we love out critters to death literally, eh!!!

Gonna take the "lagerfeld truck" to the car wash tomorrow and try to get some of the smell offin it!!!

Ok, the little woman has supper on the table, Porridge!!!!! What the heck is porridge????
chat at yall later
ATtilla the stinky

01/28/10 10:06 AM #2105    

 

Lloyd Pond

Back in the days of working, I had the good fortune to be priveleged to take a "pool car" home in the evening. After five I head down to the dispatcher and flash my card and he or she would give me some keys and the parking space number. Pretty routine. One night I came home, walked in the door, greeted Ferrell with a kiss, and Ka Boom!, she goes ballistic. Where have you been? Who have you been with? What do you think I' am ,a fool? I can tell you have been with some floozy! she might have even thrown a punch or two. Hell hath no fury like a women scorned was never truer.

Man, this was the maddest I have ever seen the sweet wife. She went on for about ten minutes. I was thinking What the heck set her off? Finally she calmed down long enough to say that I smelled like I had been rolling around in a "White Shoulders" a fancy women's perfume. I assured her that I was as pure as the driven snow. Finally, we tracked it down to the steering wheel of the pool car.

I didn't have to spend the night in the dog house after all.

Young girls that look like Paige???? Man I am going to go to Mancusco's and buy a Harley. Wait...maybe it would be cheaper and safer to move to College Station and see Paige in person.

01/28/10 04:49 PM #2106    

 

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Happy Birthday Glenda McDonald!

Maybe this will get you on the forum ---

J

01/28/10 04:52 PM #2107    

 

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Man, I would sure have liked to see Ferrell "screaming mad." Doesn't seem possible to me. Ferrell and I went from kindergarten at Garden Oaks to Black to Waltrip, and I have never seen her even act upset. Gosh, Lloyd, glad you got that problem solved.

01/28/10 06:47 PM #2108    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Kay, the psycho phd that liked avatar, and told me to give it a chance, (no way am I gonna sit through a cartoon wannabe) is in fact a lady female woman girl type person! Been friends for eleventy five years!

My wife doesnt get mad aabout other women, she knows that she be the onliest one! No one else would haveme, and if they did, it wouldnt last long, cause I be obsessive compulsive, and just a little bit krazy, as in nuts! See, I also have a PHD in the psycho area! Although its not the marketable kind!!!!

But the ladies do love me at Mancusos! Why, everytime I go to the counter and pay for something, they just smile and bat their eyelashes and coo and gush something fierce! I say, "OK" !!!!!!!

Hey paige??? The new name of our pirate ship is the SS Raging Queen, ok? It will be where us MANLY MEN can exercize our MANLY MENNESS!!!!
Anyone remember the skit on SNL yet????

"no coke, pepsi, cheese boogie cheese boogie, cheeps"
It's not that skit, but I just bemembered that one!
Ok, Porridge is done,
Attila the stinky pirate

01/28/10 11:09 PM #2109    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Howdy youall,
It's me again margaret!!!! Dr Psycho!!!
Hey Lloyd, my beloved came home one day, and found me reeking of sweet smellum! I was taking all the samples out of the magazines and news paper and stacking them up to check em out to see ifin I liked any of them!

Soooooo, oncet I gotem all sorted out, I opened them up, and started smelling them, and it sorta got out of hand!
I rubbed some of them on my shirt, and on my hands, and my face, and the chair, and the dogs and a couple of the cats! I only got the smell on the critters because they kept coming over for me to pet em, so I did!

My beloved comes home and half of the zoo is rolling around on the floor trying to get the smell off!!
Of course, I immediately get the "look"! "What did you do to the animals" she says!!!! "Who me"????
When you start a sentence with "who me", you know things are pretty much going to go down hill from there!!!

"WHAT IS THAT SMELL" my beloved shouts incredulously!!!!
"What smell" I reply!!!! "Whatd you do, hire some french fleusseys to poison the animals" my beloved says!!!!
"I've never been in a Franch Whore Whouse, but I'm thinking this is pretty much how one of em smells" she says!!!

I explained to my beloved just how it got started and then where it went from there, pretty much down hill, into the ditch at the bottom!!! Meanwhile, Jack and Cooper and about 5 of the cats were sliding along the carpet on their faces, being pushed by their hind legs! It was a pretty comical sight, and I felt pretty sure my beloved was gonna have a really good laugh once her nose got over the initial shock!!!

"Get those clothes off, so I can wash them, and go take a shower, but first, help me do something with the animals" she says, "we may have to put em out of their misery, or I might just put you out of MY misery!!! So we got some wet towels and commenced to wiping down the critters! The dogs didnt mind too much, but the cats werent diggin it at all! Got a couple of war wounds from that little escapade!

"What were you thinking" DW says!!! "Well, I was trying to find a good perfume to buy you for your birthday or christmas" I says, remorseful as hell!!!!
Well, that sorta softened her up some, and she held her breath and stood on her tiptoes and gave me a quick kiss!

So off with the stinky clothes in the shower with my stinky self, and back out with some less oderiferous casual wear!!! The poor animals, however, were still sliding along the carpet trying to get their smellers fixed!!! "Sorry guys" says I!

Well, my beloved and all the critters got over the "stinky" episode, just waiting and flinching for the next episode of "Dr Psycho", a true "pair of normal skitzophreniacs", ME!!!! Well, I'm quite sure I will out do myself somewhere along the way!!!

You people need to count your blessings, you could be living with me!!!! I live with me, and I have to tell you, sometimes I amaze myownself!!!!

Went to CostCo today, and got somemore coffee, and Bisquick, and cornmeal, to go along withthe hundreds of pounds of coffee, bisquick and cornmeal we already have!!! I keep waiting for Y2K to hit, I'm gonna be prepared when the SHTF! You people will be looking for some coffee when the shortage hits, and I will be sitting pretty! 10 dollars a cup; 10 dollars for a biscuit, or corn muffin!!!!! Maybe even more!!!! Ha!
The onliest problem is, I've run out of room for our survival supplies!

Guess I will turn the game room into a rather large pantry!!!! Talking about all this food, has made me hungry! Cant have anything though, I am fasting until "breakfast"! Already had my "porridge"!
Ok, I'm getting sleepy, so I will sign off for now!
But dont get your hopes up, I'll be back!!!!
Keep the sun at your 6 and ride boldly ride!
yours very best frien, at least 6 or 4 of the 7 dwarfs, stinky, docky, dopey, grumpy, donder, blitzen, snap, crackle and Pop!!!!! Or just plain ol me!

01/29/10 09:24 AM #2110    

 

Lloyd Pond

Scupper deck Hand Pond, Ma,am!
Request permission to come aboard SS Raging Queen , Ma'am!

Believe it or not, there was a time when I didn't have a clue about these things. At Black JHS, Mr Roth had an orchestra party and for some reason it was supposed to me a costume party. I went to class with my costume in a grocery sack and then after the class bell rang, I went across the hall to the empty Boy's room and changed. I dressed up like a girl. Yep a sweater and tight skirt, high heels, lipstick the whole package. Can't remember if I had a wig on or not. Mr Roth thought it was hilarious. I thought it was kind of fun too! Remember a skit once with Jack Birdsong, Clifford Ballard and other track team members dressed as girls chasing each other trying to pop their balloon bosoms.

01/29/10 09:31 AM #2111    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Good moanin fellow waltriponians,
Kind of a squishy day today eh hoser!!! Me an coop already been out on patrol! Had to wear my Lt. Colombo trench coat and 35 year old resistol hat! Did catch a break in the weather, just sprinklink! Cole Creek was raging! Probably a 6 on the scale of 1 to 5 on the richter scale! Dont know how they measure white water, but from the trestle on about a hundred yards, was some pretty violent white water!!!! Me and coop watched two cormorants, or coots, ride the waves! THEY WERE PLAYING!!!! Never seen that before! They would ride the whitwater to the calm area, and then fly back and start over! So cool!!!! The old coots!!!!

I know they couldnt been fishing, water too rough!

Looks like all the critters are down for a mid morning nap! I wish I could go back to bed!!! Nothings stopping me, except me! If I were to go back to bed, I would feel just horrible, mentally, the rest of the day, and at least for a few days after!

A hot steaming cup O Joe, is sure good on a dreary day like today!
Hey Bernd, it's about suppertime at your house! It's friday here, what day is it there???? Youall gonna go out for some knockwurst and sauerbratten? Maybe have a snifter of brandy or cognac, and a fine cigar???? Listen to a Franz Lizt concert and go for some coffee and streudel latter on???? Sounds like a fine eenen youall got planned!!!!

We will probably have some kinda mush or porridge, maybe even some curds and whey with little miss muffet! That girl better not bring any spyders with her!!!!

We're working on a 60th anniversary party for Dianes parents! they will be out dancing this evening, so we will stealthily steal over to their house and liberate some of their pictures for a slide show! My son Kevin is catering it, along with making a 3 tier wedding cake!
I thought we could just have beanie weanies, or maybe some corn beef hash! I have quite a few cans of hash and beanie weanies stockpiled for Y2K or WTSHTF!!!

Can you believe that, both Max and Jeanine are 80+ and they go out galavantin and cattin around like a couple o youngsters! I tell you, the yout of yesteryear has no morals attall!!!! I would like to take DW dancing, but my back says "nope, not gonna do it"!!! I especially like the swing music, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller etc!

Well, thats ok, at least I can listen to it and tap my toes!!!!

Think I will take a break, and maybe someone else will get on board the "love train" here!
But you know I love ya dont cha!!!!
Your frien and slightly demented and irreverent brother
Attila the stinky dancer

01/29/10 01:10 PM #2112    

 

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

You all be so entertaining on memories and small talk. I can't think of any. Just have to say that when I came into my office this morning, my papers and desk and all were extremely wet. Seems we've sprung a ceiling leak. Set my day up, having to clean and alert the protocol. At the moment we have no maintenance man on board.

If anyone is looking for a DAY F/T JOB at an old school, septic, old pipes, etc, must be all around handyman and of good moral character (?) around students all day. We had one who was a bit of a character, and spoke like one and yelled at the kids....no appropriate knowledge of what to say and do....gone. Got another, he was great at work, but, they say, broke the law after work....gone. Looking for another now. Anyway.....small school 150 students all one-level and located in a very, very, small town...Richards, TX. One must set up an interview with our superintendent, Mr. Ainsworth.

Hope we all enjoy the coming weekend....cold, and wet out here! Has anyone had difficulty swallowing food? I have it going on right now. I'd be interested in your sharing your experience.

01/29/10 01:32 PM #2113    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Kay,
you best go to the sawbones, just in case it may have something to do with your diabetes! It could be esophagus acid reflux! My eldest had his esophagus enlarged, or stretched! Pretty simple and painless proceedure! Just inconvenient and uncomfortable! Outpatient proceedure, only takes a short time to perform, then short time in recovery, and then home! My expertise is in brain surgery! Bout the onliest think I ever had trouble swallowing, is liver!

I would be perfect for the maintenance job at your school! I have all the qualifications, except for a small one, I dont know how to fix anything!!! But, I make great coffee, and good with kids and kritters! I fetch and tote pretty good too!!! But I couldnt fix a leak even if there wasnt one!!!! I really fixed my lawnmower by dumping it in the pool oncet!!!

Would I have to climb a ladder or stairs???? Cant do that!!!! Would I have my own office with a desk and easy chair????
How about a secretary???? Maybe you could hire a secretary for me, and she could do all the fixin!!!
Sounds like I'm looking for a government job, eh!!!!
Thats probably how most companies are run anyway! Secretary does all the work, and the executive gets all the credik and money!!!! Pitiful!!!!!

NAP TIME!!!
your frien and brother
ol stinky attila

01/29/10 02:49 PM #2114    

 

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Lloyd,

I think I've got the newspaper clipping of the photo of you guys in drag. Must have been in The Banner.

01/29/10 03:34 PM #2115    

 

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Thought I was going to die laughing at you. Good thing I checked the forum before going home.

This job suggestion is for the physically qualified, not you Dr. Sawbones, although we would all enjoy you here. But yes, you HAVE TO CLIMB LADDERS, one of the last ones wouldn't do it and had the younger guys doing it for him.

Hope Diane's parents party goes well and have
a GOOD WEEKEND ALL.

01/29/10 05:55 PM #2116    

 

John Burgess Webb

hey kay,i just want to be serious for a minute;i can laugh at myself(as per dr.beaubones)at another time when im feeling better.it you have a hard time swallowing,it may be an esophageal problem.ive had double-over heartburn from a hernia at the mid point of my esophagus(discovered to be there by scan which was protacol prior to by-pass surgery)but the pain from my heart i took for the esophageal problem and the heart problem was identified at the ekg test and surgery went from the planned lower lumbar surgery to open heart surgery 3 days later.that is why it sticks out in my mind;any kind of blocking in the throat is serious enough to see a doctor about.if it blocks food it can also cause medicines(mostly capsules)to stick and literally burn a whole or pocket in the esophagus which only can get worse without treatment.---there ive been serious for a minute,now-whats going on with this pirate ship business?beau;why are you being so antsy lately?mild stage-fright.man if lloyd can be the ugliest girl in the world then you can the navigator for a minute.check your gryoscopes for bearing and stand by.

i think i remember the track team as girls;yeah,something wrong with that picture.you kinda had a "dress" rehearsal for that one lloyd.was thinking about the good ole days today.i had 'sugar corn pops'for part of my evening meal.i spied them in in the lakeway store and had to have some.the only thing missing was "wild bill hickock"on debox.well it beats porrage or gruel or curds and whey.its just corn"with sugar shot through em"everybody can like that;well almost everybody.

hey beau;cool wheen wild animals play.the coots on the flood is as cool as it can be;my dogs got hyper from all the cookies they had that they sparred in the living room for an hour and a half.they are amazing fighters,rolling and tumbling and jumping and never knocking anything over.they are accrobats in motion.i watched and played with them then let them run in the rain from time to time and though they smell a little funky when they are wet they are sparks on steel.ive never seen dogs so quick and sure.i think they could be dangerous to the uninvited.i like them a lot.they really are the fu dog.lovable gauardians through and through.jb

01/29/10 07:34 PM #2117    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Hey Burge, you getting lots o rain???
I'll bet this is tthe wettest ever for two states town!
Talked to a lady person, and she has a shar-pei/lab mix!
I havent seen it, but she says it is beoooteous!
My boys and girls here, have been kinda whacky last week or so! Well, ever since the earthquake in haiti!

I DO HOPE IT AINT BECAUSE WE GONNA GET ONE!!!!! I hope, it's just cause they are whacky!!!

Watched Gunny R Lee Ermey on the development of the rifle! I met him at the NRA convention in 05! Got a autographed pic for my Grandson! The Gunny is good people! His favorite and my favorite rifle is the M1 Garand!!!! Kevin and I had a table at the Reliant HGCA gun show this past weekend! We did pretty good! I sold an old Over and under that I never could get right! Seems it fired both barrels at the same time! Now that didnt bother me so much, but it was annoying!

Saw two side by sides, both steel, one from N R Davis and Sons, and the other Hopkins and Allen! I never heard of either, have you! They were both 375.00, and in very good shape, but needed your craftsman hands and patience to restore them! I think they had hammers!

Took coop and Jack out on patrol, and that north wind, just chilled me to my soul!!!! The boys wanted to run, but all I could do was kinda run and limp! but got er done!!! Man the cold sure does seem colder nowadays, dont you think!!!

Well, running down, so I will sign off for now! Hope you are getting better day by day Burge! Find stuff to laugh at! It does help!!! Hope everyone is doing well!
Keep yore eyes along the skyline and watch yore topknot!
Attila vanilla

01/29/10 08:17 PM #2118    

 

John Burgess Webb

earthquakes in houston,well though it is at zero probability in houston fleur built thier main building at hwy6 and hwy59 to california standards for earthquakes.from katy to baytown there are about 16 subsidense faults.the one seen most clearly is the longpoint fault in spring branch.travaling west on longview between campbell rd and n.gessner there is a sudden rise of the road and houses.it was the big dip on milwee when it connected mangum rd to spring branch;that rd is gone now but some of you may remember that big drop on milwee.thats the long point.by map it does weave close to the balcones fault from above austin(like spyder veins) which comes within proximity to faults all the way across the west to the great san andraes fault system which branches out from the main faultline in southern california.faultlines fan-out in systems up and down the deserts of arizona and new mexico. a subsidense fault is caused by the lowering the watertable or aquafer to a point that the ground subsides and causes a gap over time like an earthquake does in an instant.i think you could feel tremmors in houston.the people in the know about that would be nassa.earthquake?zero probability.your dogs sense something,that you know, so i wouldnt rule out a tremmor;animals know somehow when to take cover and thier senses are powerful.
jb

01/30/10 08:28 AM #2119    

 

Jennie Anderson '65 (Dylan)

I'd like to share something good in the neighborhood. My 90 year old Mother has been recently hospitalized, in fact, several times over the past 3 weeks, but she is now recovering in the old Heights Hospital, now referred to as Select Care. I was presently surprised by its aesthetics. Oh my, it is really nice and my Mother is loving every second she is there. She was so tired of the hospital and loves the TLC she is receiving. So, if any of your older parents need a place for recovery or hospice I would highly recommend you visit there. I was hospitalized there several times as a kid and my family members were, as well. It sort of feels like home, in a hospital setting sort of way. My childhood doctor was Dr. McSpadden. He was so sweet and so good. Anyone else have him as a doctor? He died a few years back, his son-in-law is Dr. Watkins, the eye doctor, practicing across the street from the hospital.

I was hoping to paint this week-end, but I like to do it when the weather is warm, which it isn't. Oh well, maybe I will start anyway.

I am anxiously awaiting the Olympics. I look so forward to them and find I only want to watch them and do nothing else during the time they are on. It will be a relief not to hear about John Edward's, Tiger Wood's, Alec Baldwin, ...........and all that craziness. I quit taking the Chronicle after 40 years and seldom even turn the TV on anymore b/c of news burn-out! I learn about the world by looking online occasionally, or when Linda calls me about an obituary.

01/30/10 10:09 AM #2120    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

I allus wanted to have a newspaper and or radio station to rebut the idjit morons in the state owned and run papers and radio stations!
I think I will start one near hear!!!!

EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT

It is cold today!!! Dont start any painting!!!!
Stay home and snuggle up with a pot o hot coffee, a blankie and a good book a warm dog or a kitty or two!!!

The krazy nuts are still in DC and Hollywood and on the sports scene! They are not headed towards your house, YET! Film at eleven!!!

On a much lighter note, Beau Wanns dogs and cats are down for a mid morning nap! Further on this as this story unfolds!!!

We would like to extend a warm hug to all the folks that might be under the weather, or recovering from some unpleasnt stuff! Special hugs to Burge of two states town!
Kay of anderson; Karin of hilltop; Pat of H town, and of all the really really great Waltrip class of 64!

Beau and his Killer trained, K9 korp kompanion, Kooper went out on dawn patrol, and found all to be peaceful! Beau also confirmed that, "it was indeed, COLD"! Also
Beau stated that there was a pair of disruptive ducks squaring off with a couple of knarly koots. Beau and Killer K9 korp Koop rushed in, with reckless abandon, and complete disregard for life and limb, quietly quelled the quack and coot disturbance! Should this be blown into a full scale duck and coot riot, you will be told where to go and what to do!!!! More on this story as it may develop!

In the birth column, Mrs Penelope Hutchinson-Smythes cat Matilda, gave birth to 6 healthy babies! 3 Boys and 3 girls! Mother and babies all in fine health and spirits!

In the obituary column, nobody died!!!!!

We will now turn this over to the music dept!
Here is Ducky Coot, your round mound of sound playing your favorites! Our first tune, for all you lazy bones out there, is by Benny Goodnan and his orchestra, "King Porter Sttomp"...

01/30/10 04:33 PM #2121    

 

Steve Puckett '65

Speaking of earthquakes, one day as a kid I felt a brief shake and was looking around for a big truck of something: Nothing. The next day there was a bit in the paper about an earthquake about 2 on the Richter scale. It went on about the low probability of quakes in Texas, etc. I think in California it wouldn't even make the news!

In 1985-86 there were some big earthquakes in SE Mexico that caused a lot of damage, notably in Mexico City over 100 miles away from the center. It caused tall buildings in Houston to sway. A friend was working high in one (the Tenneco bldg?)- chairs & objects began rolling around and people started getting sick. They evacuated the building while they determined what was going on. More about TX earthquakes: http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/eq/faq/tx.htm

01/30/10 05:55 PM #2122    

 

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Thanks again for your timely medical responses, Beau and John. Yes, my throat still hurts and it is still difficult to swallow. Ow, Ow. More will be revealed next week on my follow up visit. That was an unusual twist, going in for a heartburn problem and discovering your heart had more than a "burn" it had an ache, oh well, Beau is a lot better at the puns. Now you have a new lease on life! Yeah, I do have the hernia as well. I was talking to my pastor today and he has had it too, seems to be a lot more common AND, it does happen to people of our AGE!!

Jenny, thanks for the update on my favorite Hospital, twas where I was born. It is nice to know it has fared well. I loved the old Heights, too overbuilt, and the cottage homes are monsterously priced out of my pocketbook. Hope your mom continues to enjoy it, I know it brings back memories to you as you visit. By the way, I think everyone used Dr. McSpadden he was a favorite. My aunt lived on Columbia, so we visited frequently.

Off to see Sherlock Holmes,our little movie house in Navasota. A long time ago, new owner came in and removed each alternate row of seats for more leg room. Wed. was Ladies Nite and they were known to bring in their beverage of choice! What a hoot! Life is good!

(P.S....anxiously waiting for the SuperBowl.)

01/31/10 02:25 AM #2123    

 

Bernd Joachim Tonat

Sunny morning in Berlin! But cold and snow, icy and freezing and we are meeting for jogging around a lake
and I have got to get up in 10 minutes, but I had my darjeeling tea!

Sleep well everyone

bjt

01/31/10 07:38 AM #2124    

 

Jennie Anderson '65 (Dylan)

Kaye,
My gastrologist reinforced some great eating tips in December, that I typically forget to use, but always work, if I remember. Purposely eat slowly, by chewing EACH bite a minimum of 14 times, put back 1/4 to 1/2 of every helping in the container you have put on your plate, use smaller plates, than dinner-sized ones, be on watch for feeling full and when that body awareness happens, stop eating. And one more, avoid eating processed fast foods. Coming from a history of eating difficulties, these seem to work so well. I get angry at myself b/c I don't always automatically remember to just do it. Maybe these can help.

I think it is great so many of you want to return to Texas when you retire. I can't imagine living anywhere else. Once a Texan, always a Texan. We are big hearted people, that's for sure.

01/31/10 11:45 AM #2125    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

THREE THINGS FOR YOU IF YOURE FEELING CRUMBY!!!!
HOT COFFEE; HOT SHOWER; AND HOT CREAM O WHEAT!!!!!!!!!
Seemed to have caught my perfunctory winter cold! I was too close to the computer, and some of the germs musta come over the line! WELL, stranger thaings have happened befoere!!!!!!!! After Kay said she was having trouble swallowing, I developed it, along with a stuffy nose!

Had to sleep standing up last night! Of course, it doesnt really matter, I dont sleep anyway!!!!
Finally my beloved noticed there were all sorts of cats on my side of the bed, and I wasnt one of em!!! She immediately thought they just ate me for a snack!

After finding me and assertaining the problem, she produced a majic bottle of Afrin!!!! It cleared my nose and head up rat off!!!!! So now I'm a Afrin junkie!!!!
CREAM O WHEAT, IS ANOTHER WONDERFUL INVENTION!!!! Any of youse youts had any lately???? Malt o Meal????
They be soooooooo gooooooood!!!!!!

Bernd, you going jogging around a frozen lake in minus gredee weather????? On purpose?????
Well, I did take the lovable cooper on dawn patrol this morn! Even though, I really didnt feel like it!!!!
But, thats what hot showers are for, and fireplaces, and hot coffee!!!!!!! Made it through patrol ok! Gave Coop and John Boy (Jack) each a bone! I love to watch them gnawing on em! They do love those bones!!!!
Remember what I said about beef neck bones??? You can get the m at Krogers! About 2 dollars a pack, with about 4 or 5 in each! Just boil em and voila, you have a healthy treat for your best buddies, and a beef stock for soup, or for lacing your best buds food bowl, when you feed em!!!!

Heres another think about eating out, or in, if you are dinning with someone!!! Order one meal and split it!!!
Or if you are dinning alone, eat half, and doggie bag the other half!!! Eating slow though, is the mainest thing!!! Takes about 20 minutes for your brain to catch up to your stomach!!!!

Still feeling poorly, so I will try to find a chair or couch that doesnt have a critter in it, and nap!!!
Happy trails buccaroos!!
me

01/31/10 02:07 PM #2126    

 

Robert Derrick

Hey Jennie & Kay,
I was born in the Heights Hospital also and so was Lynn Prewit. And you can check our profiles, we were born there the same day. Hell, we have often talked about maybe being accidentally switched. What a hoot and what a coninscidence.
Don't remember the doctor that gave me birth, but my family doctor for years, until he died a few years ago, was Dr Paul A Stent. His first office was on Oak Forest, just across from Waltip. He later moved on to 34th across Mangum.

01/31/10 05:58 PM #2127    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Hey Robert, it was probably dr spankus!
I know I was switched at birth! I was probably one o them rockyfellers!!!!

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