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03/21/10 11:16 PM

#2403

Beau Wann, Jr.

Hey Jimmie Lee, hows this global warming working out for you??? I hear tell McKinney is going to be declared a ski resort! Yall are up for the winter olympics, whenever that is! I also heard ol Al Gahore was gonna visit yall to see if maybe there wasnt some kind of tomfoolery, or highschool highjinx going on in McKinney!

Yesterday, as kay said, rainy and windy and cold, just the way I like it! Yeah right!!!
Today however, was beautiful, but blustery as I am sure most everyone knows! Reminded me of my youte! Of all the traditions we had as boys, Feb and Mar, kite flying time, was almost like looking forward to Christmas! I thought about kite flying time all the time! Actually you could fly a kite anytime there was wind, but i thought that Feb and Mar and april was the legal and official kite flying months!

My first kite was a homemade job, made by my grandmother no less!!! It was made of newspaper, and had a rag tied tail! My grandmother use to make the oval rag rugs, and crocheted and other stuff a grandmother was good at! Generally it was out of necessity rather than, "nothing to do"! Grandmothers had plenty to do!!!

But anyway, my kite was homemade, with a rag tail, and a ball of twine already attached! I took it down to Oak Forest Park, and let er fly!!! I dont remember who helped me, but that ol homemade kite flew all the way out to the end of my string, almost out of sight!
I remember being scared for my kite! "What if it got lost, or fell to the ground, or worse yet, just flew away off the earth!!! Dont know why I was such a nervous nelly about stuff! I use to think everything had feelings, even our dumb ol cars, even a dumb ol homemade kite! Idjit kid!!!

I remember going to Haleys 5 and dime at the oak forest shopping center! It was next to Talleys record store!
I got a red one, just the standard 4 point kite, costs a dime! String was probably a nickel! But they came rolled up, and you had to put them together! I busted a few before I could get them airborne! The art of and anticipation of "kite season" was just one of the traditions of our generation! Now it's gone! Who flys a kite anymore? DW and I use to fly kites when we first got married, and then we took her nephew kite flying and our grandchildren too! But havent flown one in years! I guess it's like riding a bicycle, once you know how, it stays with you!

My dad was a box kite kinda person! I flew a few of those, but couldnt understand how one of em could fly!!!
I understood why a 4 point or 6 point flat kite could fly!! But there again, thats probably where algebra could a helped me, right???

When we moved to DeMilo, me and the Dollens boys would send a kite skyward, and use several balls o twine! That kite would plumb disappear! Use to think it went into outer space!!!! Ol Dopey me!

Anyway, today woulda been a great day for kite flying!!!
Oh, everytime I think of kites, or flew one, I could never NOT think of good ol Ben Franklin! When I first heard of Ben flying a kite, I thought, "man, what a cool grownup"!!!

I've had a few kites do a "charlie Brown" on me, and just get hopelessly tangled in a tree! I use to worry myself sick trying to figure out how to rescue em!!!
The fact that they only cost a dime didnt seem to register! Just the fact that, to me, it was like losing a bicycle or something of that magnitude!!! Here was a perfectly good toy, a kite, and it's stuck in a tree, and no one can do anything about it! BOO!!!

I guess I got over it! I wonder If anyone sells kites anymore??? I know I could make one! You dont have to be an aeronautical engineer to know how to build a kite!
I just might make a kite!!!

Another tradition, is Sunday After church Dinner!!!
Wouldnt be so much trouble in the whirld if everyone took part in that tradition!!!! Would there??? Well????

Me and my beloved went to Church today, as usual! Had to go in separate vehicles, cause I washed my hair, and couldnt do a thing with it! Plus, as I was walking out the back, Sylvester the cat and Boomer and Little Bit all showed up for breakfast, late! So I was late! But thats ok, didnt miss too much! We had our usual 30 plus people today! Even though I cant uderstand much of what the pastor is saying, thats ok, I know shes talking about the bible!!!

So after DW and her mom counted the offering, we went to Gabbys for lunch! Everything there is great, except their barbecue sauce! But thats ok, I ask for the gravy! And everytime I do, they ask me if I want the sauce on the side, I say no, that I want gravy! they look at me funny, and say, "it's cream gravy"!!! I say "thats just fine with me, I love cream gravy" !!! I guess they cant believe that anyone would turn down BBQ sauce for their BBQ!!! But like I said, their sauce is not any good, But everything else is great!!!

Me and DW picked a table out, and she went to get napkins and Tea spoons and pickles and stuff as I was taking the food off the tray! I sat down and moved one full Tea glass, and picked up the other one, and promptly turned the first tea glass over, tea and all! I'm not talking dimitase (sp) cup here! I'm talking a glass that holds about as much tea as lake livingston holds water!!! It went everywhere!!!! I havent done that, in I dont know when, especially in public! I am generally so careful! Just about ruined my whole day! I HATE BEING CLUMSY!!!!!!! But I got over it!

I know, to most folks, it's no big deal, and shouldnt be to me, but it is! I AM OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE!!!
But I have gotten better at the small problems and large problems as well!!! But, it just bugs me about making mistakes, that I know I can avoid!!!! Such is life!!!

Me and Coop have been on many patrols since last I typed! Coop was sick yesterday! He would go outside almost in a panic, eating grass, in the rain!!! He did this all day! I knew what it was leading up to, he was going to give us a present! And sure nuff, he did! About a bushel basket full of grass! Bless his heart, he is so dumb, you just gotta love him!!!

He even played ball with me today! thats pretty advanced for Cooper! Generally I throw the ball, and he just sits down and looks at you like, "why did you do that for, you had the ball in your hand, and you threw it away. now you'll have to go get it", and get it I do! Then I throw it again, and get the same look from him! Maybe thats how he plays fetch, having me go get the ball!!! But today, he actually bounded after it like a puppy, if you can visualize a 110 pound puppy bounding!!!

As cold as it was, ol catahoula jack was standing on the top step of the pool, in the water! He had this look on his face like, "give me a treat, or I'm gonna jump in"!
But I knew he was just bluffing! Last time he did that, he almost drowned and froze to death at the same time!

I mentioned earlier the ragrugs my grandmother use to make! She made small ones, and huge ones, that went under the dinning room table, and all the chairs could fit on it as well! Sometimes, we would take the big one outside to wash with the hose, or rather, I was instructed to take it out and hose er down! First time I did that, I thought, o boy, fun!!! Fun, that is until I was told that I had to hang it on the clothes line when I was through hosing it down and scrubbing it! Lessee, I weighed about a hundred pounds, soaking wet, and the rag rug weighed a thousand pounds soaking wet...Hmmmmmm

I tried to carry it to the clothes line, but couldnt lift it! Oh, I could lift one corner, but not the whole thing! So I lifted one corner, and dragged the rest of it through the grass and dirt, causing me to have to hose er down again, adding more weight to it! Now it weighed two thousand pounds, but at least I had it to the clothes line, not on, just to it! Trying to put that thing on the clothes line was akin to putting a mastadon on the clothes line! I got one corner on the line, and it was sagging and straining terribly under the weight!

Wound up breaking the clothes line and incurring the ire of my dad! On one of my attempts to hoist the wet mastadon up on the remaining clothes line, I was staggering uder the weight, looking like I was dancing with the stars, a real star, when my dad came out and voiced his displeasure at my ineptitude! Well, thats a nice way of putting it! He didnt think much of my prowess with anything! And, I really wasnt very handy at much back in them good ol days, cept maybe kite flying, or playing in the dirt!!!

So, he picked that ol mastadon rug up with one hand, like it was a piece of tissue paper, and threw it across the fence to dry! I dont think I ever measured up to my dads expectations! Dont think anyone really could, but I tried, never to succeed!

It is freezing here!!! I'm shaking so much, I'm having a hard time eating my ice cream and drinking my Ice tea!!!

I will leave you with a bit of wisdom;

If you your lips would keep from slips,
Five things observe with care:
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
And how and when and where.

If you your ears would save from jeers,
These things keep meekly hid:
Myself and I, and mine and my,
And how I do and did.

Sound wisdom DellQue, sound wisdom!
Your friend and brother
Beauregard

03/22/10 09:55 AM

#2404

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Well Beau, you have more than measured up to our expectations!! and then some....when we look over the past Era, including our parent's lives, their views on parenting stemmed from little parental education available .... as kids, we were just expected to keep quiet, stay out of trouble and survive, and Dads were not expected to interrelate consistently with their children, and their job was to work outside the home and little more was expected of them, as well as their male personna to be "tough-guys". I applaud today's parents who have so much information available and support in every direction on wellness, safety, education, tool and toys to aid in raising their children.

I believe that rural families fared better, families and relatives were involved more in the growth of a child, along with an inate sense of involvement with Ag, church, cousins, school settings, dinners at home, etc. I've witnessed the interwoven threads by families all related in one way or another out here, One lost that by moving to an urban city and leaving the basic family rules and traditions behind.

I have been labelled "Simple and stupid" by a member of my family because I chose rural life, honesty, basic values, animals, rather than follow the "money trail" and that bothered me for awhile because I came out here with all my citified traits, and the more I unravelled from them, the happier I became.

03/22/10 11:36 AM

#2405

Beau Wann, Jr.

HARRAH KAY!!!!
You hit the nail right on the head! thats the best description and definition I have ever heard on the matter! My dad worked in an extremely rough profession, where kindness was considered weakness! Plus he came from a time when, as he put it, "they never had two nickels to rub together"!!! They lived by their wits and brawn! He said they would unload box cars for 12 hours a day, and earn .25 cents, total! Now twenty five cents then, is about 25 dollars today, but still...

Thanks kay for your insight! If you are "stupid and simple" for wanting to live like you do, then I am a thousand times that! That is my dream, arrived at a little late in life, to get out of the city, for good, and live the "simple country life"!!! I just wish it hadnt taken me so long to figure things out!Talk about simple and stupid, I am just a very very slow learner!
But at least I know now, eh!!! Someday, maybe in this life, or the next, I will enjoy the simple life! I think thats where my mind headed about the time I was thinking about retiring, and has never recovered!

Talking about kites yesterday, I forgot some of the important stuff, like how to fly one!!! Kite flying was generally a community project! Whose ever kite it was, was in charge, sort of!!! There was a lot of kabitzin goin on..."LET MORE STRING OUT...NO NO, REEL IT IN...NO NO LET MORE STRING OUT...PULL TO THE RIGHT...NO NO PULL IT TO THE LEFT..." That poor old couple of sticks and paper didnt have a chance!!! Man, that kite was dancin and shuckin and jivin and dancin a jig, whoo boy, heady stuff that kite flying!!!

One time a man walked up just as I was gettin instructions on what to do, and said "boy, you sure can fly that kite! Howd you learn how to do that"? "Oh, I been flying kites for a long time now", (I was every bit of 10 years old) says I!!! I thought about turning pro, and going out on the road with my talent, but my dumb ol family said I had to go to school! ANOTHER DREAM DASHED ON THE ROCKS OF RESPONSIBILITY!!! "I coulda been somebody...I coulda been a contender...instead of a bum..."
Later on, I thought about going pro "flunkin algebra", but couldnt figure out a successful formula! Heavy sigh!!!

"Flying kites with the stars"??? "Flunkin algebra with the stars"??? Any of that sound good???? Oh well, I'll hit on something!

Me and coop Been out on dawn patrol today, and saw only the cooty old coot! Hope the ducks come back!!! Yesterdays wind probably moved em down to galveston county! Whew, that woulda been some hard flying!!! Rapids on cole crick was at warp 5 saturday and sunday, but calmed down considerable today!!! What a beautiful day to day is!
Weatherwise of course! I say weatherwise, because I dont wish to trivialize any of the demons and battles that a lot of folks fight daily! But if you can take a break from the fight, go outside and soak up some sun, the fight will still be there when you get back! Always has been for me! Took me a long time to figure it out, but I started staying away from the fight for longer and longer periods! Now, I just open the door and see how the fight is going, and close it again and go on my way!

Before you figure things out, things are soooo complicated and hard! When you do figure them out, you look back and go, "why, that wasnt so hard"! But hindsight is always 20/20 isnt it!!!

I slept last night, but had all kinds of things rolling around in my brain, so it wasnt a relaxing sleep!
The chair of one of the committees at church, is putting on a talent show April 18th, and asked if I would be in it! She knows I play the guitar and use to sing in the choir!
So, I said I would, and how many others are in it!
She said, "just you, so far"! Oh great, thank you very much!
Dont remember the last time I played for a crowd! Yes I do, it was at the Bammel Road Church of Christ on 1960!
Got suckered into that deal by my roommate! He said it was a talent show, and it would be FUN!!!! I got there expecting it to be like a family picnic, but I were wrong!!!!!!!!!!
The talent there was first rate, and, THEY BUILT THE WHOLE SHOW AROUND ME, AND I WAS THE LAST AND TOP BILLED ACT!!!!!!!!!!!! I never in my wildest imagination could have seen this coming! I was supposed to get a free meal before the event, but I knew if I ate, being as nervous as I was, I'd be throwin up all over the stage!!! THERE WERE 5000, THATS RIGHT, FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE!!!!! I was going to jail, cause I was gonna murder my roommate!!!

Well, zero hour approacheth, then the last act, and then me!!! It scares me to this day to even think about it!
So I went on, the stage was dark, and I sat on a bar stool with two mics, one for me and one for my guitar!
When they introduced me, the MC said "and heres Beau and his Guitar"! Sounded like I had a dog act! I can tell you, my guitar did no tricks! Then the spotlight came on...

I am surprised I got through that...alive!!! I did about 6 or 8 songs, and surprisingly didnt make a mistake, and was at my absolute finest, thank God!!!
I was so nervous...well, you can imagine!!! Afterwards, lots of folks came up to me and said how much they enjoyed it, and they loved my selection of music!! I somehow thought I cheated them out of some real talent! Like George Goebel so aptly stated, "you ever feel like the whirld is a black tuxedo, and youre a pair of brown shoes"??? That was exactly how I felt! But it ended ok!

So, to make a long story even longer, my brain was going over all the songs I knew, and in my dreams, I forgot how to play them, on stage...then Dr John's "I was on the right track, but it musta been the wrong train..."
popped up in my head, along with Dr Johns voice, and stayed there all night and this morinin! First words out of my mouth, when DW told me good morning, were..."I was on the right track..." complete with Dr Johns voice!!!

Dw says, "whats wrong with you, getting a sore throat"???I tried splainin to her what I just splained here...
SIGH!!!! My poor wife endures so much!!!!

Gonna go get on Pegasus, my therapist, and ride boldly ride...
check with you good folks later!!
BeauZeau

03/22/10 01:15 PM

#2406

Jim Taylor

Just putting some odds and ends together while I am digesting Beau's tomes from the last week.

I just returned from a whirlwind Spring Break tour of Mississippi with our grandson. He wanted to visit some civil war sites so we hit Vicksburg and Jackson. He also wanted to do the driving. I had forgotten just how "interesting" it could be to ride along with a newly minted eighteen year old driving. He certainly knew how to use the accelerator. I was not inclined to catch up on any sleep or reading while he was driving. Somehow Jan was smart enough to "have to work". That decision, and it's resultant lack of nervous tension, probably extended her life a year or so.

His eighteenth birthday was the first of March so his dad and I "restored" his dad's old 1990 Mustang for him. Well at least we got it running. Fixing up a vehicle that old is quite a "tar baby" experience. Everytime we thought we had something fixed, we found something else that needed work. We decided to wait on painting it for a while as we anticipate that he will remodel some body parts over the next few months. He has yet to master the manual transmission so we did not attempt to take it on our journey.

03/22/10 01:53 PM

#2407

Richard Meek '65

Howdy folks. I just spent the weekend in Ft. Worth so that seemed an appropriate greeting. I was there to attend a wedding. The wedding was at the chapel on the TCU campus, very nice. A fun event and it's always good to see friends and family you haven't seen in a while. But it was COLD and I mean REALLY COLD. When I got back to my hotel Saturday night it was sleeting and snowing, the temp. was 34 and the wind chill was 18. It felt like the proverbial Siberian Express. I sure was glad to be heading south yesterday. It was great to see spring breaking out the further south I drove. I came back through Waco and Bryan. The rolling country side was really pretty.

Going up on Friday I went up I-45. Up around Huntsville I was looking for a local radio station to listen to. I picked up an AM station, 1290, KIVY but they never identified where they were broadcasting from. They just talked like everyone knew where they were. Is anyone familiar with that station and where it is? They were playing music from the 60's like Rita Coolidge, Henry Mancini,The Mamma and Pappas, etc. I felt like I must have entered a time warp.

Based on the traffic I saw on the road the recession isn't holding many people back from traveling. Spring break probably influenced it greatly. The price of gasoline sure wasn't slowing anyone down. I was driving about 75 and I wasn's passing many cars. It amazes me how franchise fast food places are everwhere now. There is a little and mean really little town southeast of Waco named Riesel. I passed a Shell station there that also contained a Subway and a Bush's Fried Chicken. You can now get a Subway value meal in the middle of nowhere. Sorry if anyone feels connected to Riesel. Anyway it's good to get on the road and see more of Texas.

Jim, I think I saw some people like you with newly minted drivers behind the wheel. Usually there was a male in the passenger seat of parental or grand parent age with a look of shear terror on their face. I noticed that you wanted to give them plenty of room because there was frequent braking for no apparent reason. Oh well it's all part of the growing up process. I'm gald it was you and not me.

Just going off on a tangent, Beau since you are a fancier of dogs, are you familiar with the Carolina dog? My cousin that lives in Spring has one. There was an article in National Geographic about them several years ago and they are a breed.

I'm taking an extra day out of the office so I need to resume recreating.Best to everyone, looking forward to seeing you at Fudd's. think about it the first quarter of 2010 is almost gone!

See you down the road,
Richard

03/22/10 05:35 PM

#2408

Beau Wann, Jr.

I have heard of a Carolina, but thats just it, just heard! dont know anything about them at all, but am interested enough to learn! Heres another breed, that is a TEXAS BREED, called a BLUE LACY! They were almost extinct, but are being brought back hopefully to prominence! I saw them in one of my outdoor mags! I will research it also! And another interesting fact, the austrailian shepherd, is not from austrailia, but Wyoming!!!

Speaking of newly minted drivers, my wife taught both my sons how to drive about 20 someodd years ago! I'm not sure why I wasnt the one, probably lack of patience!
But one hugged the curb and the other hugged the center line! Now they both are 40 and drive like a bat out of hell!!! My grandson just got his "adult in the car" drivers license! But he has been driving our tractor and his dads truck on the ranch for a couple of years! But like most kids nowadays, doesnt drive a stick shift! He has had Drivers ed, and turns 16 this May 31 and gets his "for sure nuff drivers license"!
We are giving him my wifes old car for his 16th BD! He doesnt know it yet! Gonna have it detailed and polished up and the safety equip gone over with a fine tooth comb, then put a big red ribbon on er and drive it over!

It is a 1998 or 99 Nissan Altima! Only has 80K miles on it!
I dont like riding with either son! they drive like they are in an Abram M1 tank!!! Both have lead footitis!
to be fair, I dont like RIDING with anyone! I am the best driver in the universe, so only me can drive! The rest of the whirld just drives me krazy!!! So stop it!

I prefer a standard shift on the floor of course! My last truck had a 5 on the floor, and I loved it, but only me and Cooper could fit in it! DW and grandkids didnt much like that, me either, but I sure did like that truck!!! It was a V6 and didnt have a lot of power, and you would have to be going 90 or a 100 to pass anyone! But that was ok, I didnt care! I just feel at one with a vehicle with 4 on the floor...when you can get rubber in 4th gear grasshopper, then you will be a man!!!!!
Someday I'll have another truck or vehicle with at least 4 on the floor! The vet I had was automatic! That is a crime to do that to a sports car! Of course, the clutch on a vet is very stiff, and would probably wear my left leg out and down to a nubbin!!!

I can bring the front wheels off the ground in 3rd on one of my tractors! I really dont want to, but it just seems to do that involuntarily! Hurts my back when it does that! Gotta start dinner for the little woman, so I will cruise on!
Ride boldly ride yall...
BeauZeau

03/22/10 06:58 PM

#2409

Beau Wann, Jr.

In case anyone is interested, the Carolina Dog is also called the American dingo! they were discovered in the late 1970s in isolated stretches of longleaf pines and cypress swamps in the southeastern united states! Experts said that the Carolina dog is indistinguishable from the Jindo, korean dingo! these carolina dogs go back as far as 2000 years or more! Also when they checked their DNA, they found that it was at the base of the DNA table of dogs, meaning they were at the beginning of the dog family tree, no pun intended!

The UKC (united kennel club) has classified them as a pariah dog which includes other primitive breeds such as the Basenji of africa and the thai ridgeback!
More information than you wanted to know eh!!!!

Heres some more interesting dog info;

The Blue Lacy was originated in Texas in the mid 1800s, and the only dog breed to have originated here! It has been recognized by the texas senate in 2001 as "a true Texas breed". As of 2005, Rick Perry signed into legislation adopting the Blue Lacy as the "official state dog breed of Texas".

There are 3 permissible color varieties, blues, reds and tri color.
They got their name "Lacy" dog from the Lacy brothers-
Frank, George, Ewin and Harry lacy, who came here from Kaintuck in 1858 and settled in Burnet County.
The dog was a mixture of coyote, grehound and wolf and maybe scent hound and or english shepherd!

For all your Aggies out there, there was a move in 2008 to replace Reveille VII, as the mascot dog of A &M! But in accordance with tradition, a collie was selected!
Can you imagine, "The fighting Blue Lacys"!!
Dinner is ready!
beauzeau

03/23/10 05:29 AM

#2410

Beau Wann, Jr.

Good morrow gentle folk,
Been up since 2 AM and it is now 4:26, so check your watches! It is a cool 42 gredees, visibility 10 miles
wind chill 39! High today about 75! Nothing important is happening, so yall just roll over and go back to sleep!
All except Jimmie Lee! You need to roll out of that sack and break out the old snow shovel and clear a path to the store!!!

I have completely upset the kritter kommunity here at the Wann Hacienda! All kritters were up and hanging around their food bowls! It's too early gang, go back to sleep! Had this been an actual emergency, you would have been told where to go and what to do! Again, this is only a false alarm, go back into your homes and go about your bidness!!!

Got one of me heated rice packs on me back! Been hurtin something fierce lately! Of course, I did tend the yard yesterday! Took 4 hours to do all I needed to do! Had to work on a weedeater! Got it running ok! I have two weedeaters, one for here and one for the ranch! I found the 4 cycle weedeater I like the best! no mixing gas and oil, plus it is a tad quieter and less polluting! It is a mite heavy, but for all us HE-MEN & WOMEN, thats not a problem! I managed to cut down some of my beloveds Jonquills! The good news, is that I didnt get them all!
With a little care, some of them might just survive!
Durn my hyde anyhow!!! That weedeater just does not have a fine tune adjustment on cutting! Well, I did plant 7, count em, 7 rose bushes for my beloved!!!

Excuse me whilst I replenish me coffee mug...Ok, now I'm back! I just wish yall could taste my coffee! It is absolutely the best in this part of the free whirld!!!
If I open up a coffee shop, could we move Fudds to it???
Then what would we call it...BeauZeaus??? Sounds ok to me! You can call me anything, just not late for dinner...A rose by any other name...

I mean, heck, I'm generally up early, so why not have a coffee shop! I'm sure there is some other fool up this time of day besides me, some other coffee lovin fool...
As I have mentioned before, it would be out of the city to get away from their silly stupid and archaic rules and regs and taxes and permits ad nauseum!!!

Probably up 290, and maybe even as far away as 290 and 6 the road to the "fighting blue lacys"!!! Sorry Lynn, just funnin around! You know me, ol dopey me!!!
If my place has a real kitchen, or maybe a real good kitchen, yall can come by and if you didnt like how I cooked something, just feel free to jump right in and cook!!!!

"Coffee with the stars"..."cooking with the stars", and all you stars out there know who you are, that would be class of 64 waltripians!!!

I have got to get busy on what songs I am going to do in the talentless show at our little country church in the city! My brain is just singing every song it has ever heard! But thankfully, mostly Alan Jacksons Precious something or other, good old church hymms! And a big thank you to Lynn and charlie Burkhardt for that cd! If you dont have that one, get it, you can thank me later!
Or, I can make a copy for you at no charge of course!!!
Hmmm, that might be illegal...Well, I wont be making any money one it...Hmmm, guess I will have to consult my legal team of Dewey, Cheatum and Howe!!!

When I went downtown to Gotham City for my sojourn into the justice system, and got released, a part of my old brain wanted to head down main st and go to Woolworths and sit at their lunch counter...Heavy sigh!!!!
You never miss the water till the well runs dry!!!

If I had the money that Bill Gates has, or any number of the other billionaires, I would build a "Mayberry", for all us old sentimental types! And, I would make it affordable for folks to live there! Build nice houses, with enough room on both sides of them to breathe!!!
The houses would be built around a small downtown, with drug stores and soda fountains, grocery stores, and dept stores, and hardware stores and a private post office, and all run by old retired folks like me! It wouldnt make any money, but then that isnt why I would build it!

With billions of dollars, I believe it would run forever! Of course, the government would want a piece of the action, and come in and destroy it like they do everything else...I've mentioned this before, but they took over a Whore House in Nevada for back taxes, and tried to keep it going, but closed up within a year!
How on earth do you run a whore house out of bidness???
Fire the help??? Well, that would be just like em!!!
"I'm sorry sister, we are going to have to let all you girls go, with the economy as it is, but feel free to collect unemployment and welfare", or words to that effect!!!

Now, I'm not condoning houses of ill repute, just giving a prime example of big brother at work!!!

Dang, coffee cup must have a hole in er...scuse me whilst I replenish...Ok I'm back!!!
woke Jack up and a couple of the cats tripping over them!
"DONT LAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLOOR"!!! Yeah right!!!

Only thing on TV is the weather channel! All the other stations, a million of em, are hawkin something! The wagner power painter, the slap chop, the shamwow...

Well, I am running down!!! Just in time for the alarm to go off!!! Everyone out there doing ok??? Sing out, so we can send good thoughts your way!!!

Ride boldly ride...Oh man, some nut or nuts has made a catamaran out of plastic bottles and is heading out to austrailia! Theres trouble looking for a place to happen! What in the whirld gets into folks doing all the nutty stunts they do..."hey sweetie, you think I could tie helium filled balloons to my lawn chair and fly to cousin orvilles"??? Some fool did that if you can recollect it! He carried a BB gun with him to pop a balloon or two, to avoid flying too high!!! I'd say his balloon has already gone too high as it is!!!

Well goodight, or good day whichever you prefer!!!
Local on the 8s is playing "east bound and down"

Your friend and brother
sleepless in oak forest
Obiewankanobie

03/23/10 08:30 AM

#2411

Lloyd Pond

Got up early this morning to go to Starbucks. See, today was FREE pastry day according to an ad on Facebook I checked the box that said I'll come and Facebook told all my contacts that I was going to Starbucks for a FRE pastry. We got there before the sun was up expecting that a million others would want a free pastry. I order a grande mocha and a breakfast bun pastry.
"Free, I asked right?"
"Well." says the barrista, "Where is your coupon."
Rats! I didn't see anything about printing a coupon. So another ten bucks down the drain.

Another special that I did not take advantage of was Pie day at Marie Callendar on March 14 you get a free slice of pie when you order an entree. Get it? March 14, 3-14, pi =3.14?

Pie are round... cornbread are square

03/23/10 10:28 AM

#2412

Richard Meek '65

Beau, what you read about the Carolina dog checks with what I remember from the National Geographic article I read. Your comments about the Blue Lacy's are very interesting. I didn't realize they are the only original Texas dog. I had always heard that Leopard dogs in East Texas were a Texas breed but my guess is that they might actually be Catahoula hounds that migrated from Louisiana. Do you know anything about the Leopard dog? I have heard that they were used to heard cattle in the Piney Woods. My cousin's Carolina dog, Tex, is a character. I think he and John Boy might be kindred spirits. She tells me his idea of a good game is to slip out of the house and then play Catch Me. About two miles out and two miles back to the house is about right.

On your comment about the fighting Blue Lacys. At Presbyterian College, in Virginia I think, they are known as the Fighting Blue Hose. I haven't ever looked into the origins of that but they must have a devil of a time recruiting male athletes. Another interesting mascot name is the University of California at Santa Cruz. They are the Fighting Banana Slugs. They are sort of a counter culture university. It is sort of a time warp of the 60s. Obviously they are not avid sports fans. I have read about them a little. Apparently when the mascot comes out on the field at football games it leaves a trail of silver glitter so it looks just like a slug crawling across your patio. College athletics could probably use more of those kinds of things. People need to lighten up some.

I agree about your thoughts on a car or truck with a maual transmission. For years all I drove were cars with them. It just doesn't offer any enjoyment with the congestion of Houston traffic nowadays. Mostly I drove sports cars and I loved driving in the hill country or east Tex. but in reality you just don't get to do it that often. I think you're right that most people don't really know how to drive. All they know is to press on the gas and the brake. The vast majority of folks way over drive their ability and their vehicles capabilities. Just because a car will go a 100 mph doesn't mean it is safe or the driver has the training for driving that fast. it would make a big difference if they were experts like you and me!

That's enough, I have to go enrich my dentist.

See you down the road,
Richard

03/23/10 11:55 PM

#2413

Beau Wann, Jr.

Richard, the Catahoula and the leopard dog are one and the same! I called them Catahoula cattle dog, but that is not entirely correct. They are good herders though. In fact the AKC has classed them in the Herding group! they are the Louisiana Catahoula Leopard Dog or Catahoula Cur, and they get that name from the Catahoula Parish in louisiana! It is reported that Jim Bowie and his brother Rezin had a pair of Catahoulas, as they lived in Catahoula Parish for a spell!

It is believed, or one theory is that the Catahoula is thought to have descended from "war Dogs" (Mastiffs and Greyhounds) brought to Louisiana by de Soto in the 16th century!

Teddy Roosevelt used the Catahoula when hunting! Also, the Catahoula was made the official state dog of Louisiana in 1979! In 2007 the Catahoula was voted to be the school mascot for Centenary College of Louisiana.

So, there you have it, more info on the Catahoula Leopard Dog than you ever wanted to know!
Gonna go up to the ranch early in the morn, so I be absent for a couple O days!
Ride boldly ride you all
Catahoula Beau

03/24/10 11:26 AM

#2414

Richard Meek '65

Beau, I had heard also that in Louisiana that they used the Catahoulas to run deer, which is legal in LA. Since you are spending a few days at your country estate I hope you remembered to take apples with you for the neighbors mule. I'd like to know if his thoughts are similar to those of Leon Hale's talking mule. I think we're supposed to get rain tonight, don't drive off in the mud again.

Kay, I didn't know that there are minature Herefords. Are you planning to raise them for beef or to sell show calves?

03/24/10 11:58 AM

#2415

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

I wonder if Beau has a computer out in Countryland? Or if he is in total "escape"? Anyway it is beautiful out here so he is in for some good weather.

Richard - Believe it or not there are min. donkeys, we all know horses, jerseys, bramas, chickens, etc.

Herefords are what I enjoyed on this property when I was a kid out here visiting. So I'm thinking it would be appropriate to enjoy them again.

I'm thinking of raising them to sell out to other small tract owners, 10-20 ac. for ag break on taxes. They are pricey though, but it would be enjoyable and just as profitable as raising reg. cows for auction. You can read about them on the internet. Their meat is just under an Angus in quality, I may have said that already.

03/24/10 12:29 PM

#2416

Paige Talley (Meek)

Lloyd,

Reading about your 3.14 pie I was startled (yes even mathless brain me) to see that when Hannah (6th grade age 11 granddaughter)was doing her homework this week, she was using 3 for pie to determine the area of a circle.

I questioned the use of 3 as pie. She said when she asked the teacher which "pie" they were going to use on this assignment she was told to use "3 today". Seems as though they use different "pies" on different assignments... is this like pot luck dinner or something?

So all you math teachers out there... what's the deal? Is pie open to discretion? Is this new math?

I am no math wizard by even a close call, but something does pierce my brain occasionally... isn't math supposed to be the thing we can depend on. Doesn't it help that engineers and such ALL use the same math so that the bridges actually meet the roads when they are finished.

I am confused... R pie r'nt Square anymore ???

Paige

03/24/10 02:27 PM

#2417

Douglas Romans

Paige,
Wake up kiddo--if the present educational system is free to rewrite history to suit their biased agenda they can surely rewrite universal mathematical principles.

So what if pi (3.14159...) is now rounded off to an
even 3---no big deal--close counts today!!! I once had an intern at the museum who was assisting me on proper wall placement of a group of paintings. Well we needed the wall measurement and I gave her a tape measure to accomplish this task--I asked for her results and she responded "38 and 1/3 feet"--to hell with 8ths and 16ths and the bridge meeting the opposite road!!!!! ONE THIRD of a foot! And she was a college graduwait.

The same goes for the transformation of spelling, syntax and grammar of the English language in text messaging today. As you probably know the words "Are you" are now spelled "R U" which is becoming accepted. College teachers constantly run into these problems with today's students when writing essays, etc. Once a child is initially taught the WRONG way to spell or to calculate it is very difficult to correct them later on. But such is progress in our new times.

Current teachers out there please weigh in on this subject as to whether you agree or not with the current state and trend of education.
DougR

03/24/10 02:48 PM

#2418

Richard Meek '65

Hey guys I remember when the "new math" started appearing I saw some kids working on some problems and it sure looked like to me they were counting on their fingers. That was a big no no back in the day.

I do remember doing a paper in college (in the dark ages you know)about the influence of television on children, specifically focusing on advertising. In some studies done at several universities in a spelling test, using elementary kids, when asked to spell the word relief they spelled it rolaids! LOL
You're right Doug, today close is ok. Don't get uptight about precision.

Kay, I'm glad to hear that you're mainly looking for an ag exemption and some pasture art. The reason I say that is I always remember a client who lost a lot of money in cattle in one of those cycles when cattle prices tanked. He said his motto in the future would be to never invest in anything that ate while he slept.

Buena suerte amigos,
Rich

03/24/10 02:54 PM

#2419

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Always enjoy everyone's input and all the laughs!!

Just wanted y'all to know I just renewed the Waltrip 64 website for 5 years. The initial registration was for 2 years and it expires in May --- so now we are good until 2015. So keep this rolling - we have lots to talk about over the next 5 years!!!

Hugs,
J

03/24/10 05:01 PM

#2420

Jimmie Sue Roach (Nation)

Hello one and all!

Have throughly enjoyed catching up with everyone on the forum. I don't often jump in, but I do enjoy reading everyones comments. Just back from Spring break. It was great. Spent several days in the Woodlands. As always, good eats and good shopping. Drove home in a frog guzzler on Sat. and a swirling snow storm on Sunday. There are four or five of us gals that take a trip during spring break and then again in the summers. We leave the hubbies at home. Last summer we stayed (7 days)in a cabin in the Smokey Mts. on the outskirts of Gatlinburg. Great fun!

Once again KUDO's to Jackie for taking care of us. Thank you, thank you, thank you for keeping things going for another 5 years.

JS saying to all a good nitht!

03/24/10 08:17 PM

#2421

Beau Wann, Jr.

WHATS UP DOC???
Didnt make it to the country today, even after I had the truck loaded down or is it up! No matter, it was loaded!
Which is where i wish I was, loaded!!!

Hey Kay, or any of youse youtes want to know about cattle ranching, ask Dennis Hansel next time he is at fuzzes! He big time cattleman, and has been since high schrool! If he dont know it, it aint to be known!!! Or, you could ask me, and I'll make something up!!!

Kay, I dont have any way of communicatin from the country, except by cell phone! No computer, No TV, no chains!!!

Didnt go to the country today, cause my back was hurtin so bad, and in new places too! Felt like it was on fire and was running down my leg too and up my right arm and into my head!
Now I know the pain in your back goes down rather than up, but I could be an anomaly...hell, I am an anomaly!!!

So went to the saw bones today, just to see what he knew, and if his diagnoses coincided with mine, a BRAIN CLOUD! Told him what all was going on, and I got a couple of "hmmm hmmm"..."I see",
etc etc! Gave me some nerve medicine! What nerve!!!
Gonna wait to take it at bedtime, like it says! Had to let Doc Beloved take a look at it to see ifin it was gonna mess with my head or other parts of my anatomy! She says its ok! Well, we will see what we will see!!!
Oh, the medicine only cost 4 dollars!!! Cant be any good being that cheap, can it??? DW says it is a generic, and been around a long time! Well, now I know it aint no good, cause if it was, the government woulda outlawed it!!! Am anticipating what the side effects will be!!!

So if you read in the paper tomorrow, or hear on the news that a wild wolf man was howling at the moon limpin nekid down 43rd, that probably was me!!!

New math, old math, some math, no math, if you dont know how to do it, the answer is wrong...period! Those idjits teaching the idjits that pi is 3 is doing more harm than good! Those folks aint gonna work for nasa or any engineering firm!!! How they gonna talley up their pay checks if they dont know how to do math??? That PI are 3, is government speak! I would be willing to bet you a dollar to a donut, that it is government mandated!!! THE NEW WHIRLD ORDER, KEEP EVERYONE DUMB, THEY CAN BE CONTROLLED MUCH MORE BETTER...old government axiom, now new government axiom!!!

There is an old indian saying, "garbage in...garbage out"!!! I'm not sure which old indian said that, but trust me he said it!!!

Jimmie Sue, that campin trip with 7 of yall, sounds like fun! Didja see any bears??? Me and my beloved and my two boys drove to D.C. one summer, lets see, when was that, OH YEAH 1986! Took two weeks off and just let er roll!!!
Had a great time at the smithsonian! That was like giving a drug addict more drugs! DW and I were in heaven!
We started reading every tag on every exhibit when we first got there! But after an hour or so of reading and moving only a couple of feet, we decided that it would be best to pick and choose what to read, otherwise we would still be there! Which would be alright with us, but I dont think our employers woulda appreciate that!

Going there, we passed through Jackson, Tenn. There is a motel there called Casey Jones! They have a caboose on top of a tall pole! They also have a caboose you can stay in behind the place! That was the only room they had left, so we took it! What fun, it was a real caboose!
They also had a locomotive that you could play on, and I did!

Coming back, we stopped in arkansas at Spider Creek resort on the white river! It was really just a bunch of cabins, fully furnished, pots and pans and everything! What fun that was! Boys fished in the famous white river, and caught a mess of rainbow trout which we cooked and ate! I guess when you mentioned your spring break cabin trip, it reminded me of our cabin experience!

Speaking of Catahoula Leopard dogs, Catahoula is choctaw and freeench! I told John Boy that he was A Catahoula Leopard Dog, and he seemed to understand! His eyebrows went up and he gave me this look like he already knew that bit of news! I DOOGLED, (it is like google, but for dogs) and did some research and found his family tree!
Seems he was descended from Jim Bowie and His brother Rezins pair of Catahoulas, and also from Teddy Roosevelts Catahoulas! Yeah, thats the truth, or the truth as I understand it!

In John Boys fur, there is a faint JB formed and a TR also formed by some dark fur! So naturally one must conclude that they stand for Jim Bowie and Teddy Roosevelt. Right???? Yeah, I thought so!!!
So John Boys great great great, many greats grandparents belonged to the aforementioned! The way I hear it, is that when Jim Bowie was at the Alamo, he had his trusty and loyal Catahoula pal with him! He saw that they were not probably gonna get out of the perdicament they were in, so he fashioned a collar out of an indian blanket, I heard it was from a blanket worn by Crazy Horse his ownself, he cut it out with his Bowie knife, and fastened it around his buds neck! He then wrote a note to General Sam, asking for reinforcements! He hugged his Catahoula friend and told him to "find General Sam"!!!

Well, our Catahoula hero did eventually find the General, but it was too late! I hear tell, that Catahoula Jim, went with Sam Houston and fought in the battle of San Jacinto! Our Catahoula hero distinguished himself in battle by bitting Santa Anna on the butt!
Now parts of the story are a bit fuzzy, but probably accurate...When they wouldnt let Sam Houston on the river boat, Catahoula Jim bit the captain on the butt and so, they finally let Sam and his men on!!!

There was a big barbeque, and Catahoula Jim was reunited with Mrs Catahoula Jim and all their chilluns and they lived happily ever after!!! Then time passes, and a couple of the descendants of Mr and Mrs Catahoula Jim, went to live with Teddy Roosevelt! This was after the Catahoulas fought so bravely in the uncivil war!
Then they charged up Kettle hill at san juan with the Rough Riders, and bit the enemy on the butt! Decorations all around!!!

I'm sure there were other descendants of Mr and Mrs Catahoula Jim, that distinguished themselves at whatever endeavor they attempted! Which brings us to John Boy, as fine a representative of the Catahoula breed as ever existed!!! YEA HOORAY!!! Hope he doesnt bite me on the butt!!

Cooper was looking at me and John Boy rather envious, so I told Coop he was a Catahoula and a descendant of Jim Bowies catahoulas, and that he and good ol John Boy were brothers! He bought that story! His eyes lit up and he grinned and is happy again!
So you see what a little research will turn up!!!
I told big Oliver he was a Catahoula Leopard Cat, and he grabbed my boot and started kneading his size 12 claws! Good thing they are steel toe!!!

Big Oliver dont care anyway! He is his own cat!!!

Looks like lotsa dang rain coming agin!!! I got out 60 pounds of fertilizer before the last rain! Looks like we are gonna have a greeeeeeeennnn spring!!!

DW at choir tonight at the little country church in the city, so guess I will see what devilment I can get into! It will have to be something that I can do laying down, cause my back still hurts!

We will of course, keep Richard Brimberry in our prayers and hearts and minds!

I saw one of my neighborhood friends for the first time in 6 months, today! I knew he had heart problems and stroke problems, and was following his progress! I finally saw him this morn walking with his therapist down to the end of his driveway! He is almost 90, and flew B-26s in WWII! Worked for the Phone company in the heights here for 30 someodd years, and rode a Harley with the San Jacinto High Rollers for 20 years!
I dont know why I mentioned that, Guess I lost my mind, or maybe its backed up on a disc somewhere!!!

Ok, I will sign off for now, but I will be back!!!

Your friend and brother
Me, sleepless in oak forest

03/25/10 10:19 AM

#2422

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Beau, glad you didn't go, as the weather turned out cool and misty rain after lunch....a bit miserable, not much you could really have done outside (and that's what we like to do best in the country).

Willie Nelson is scheduled out here in Bryan for an April event in Wolf Pen Creek Park, alas, looks as though the tickets are already sold out! (Waaahhhh, the older one gets, the less they are in on the "cutting edge" of obtaining anything first coming out. I can't even get the local daily prize from the TV stations anymore). Oh well, maybe if conditions and wind is blowing just right, I can listen to it if I sit outside on the porch. sometimes one can hear your neighbors talking if it is just right.

I enjoyed your bit of history on your elderly neighbor, sounds as though he had some good memorable experience to be shared, military, the Heights, etc.

03/25/10 02:06 PM

#2423

Beau Wann, Jr.

Hey Kay and all,
Yeah, my neighbors name is Henry Meskat! Born and raised in the heights and adding to a small whirld, he graduated from Reagan with my wifes fathers brother!
He even spent a lot of coffee drinking time at the Number 1 Cunningham pharmacy at 15th and Yale! They opened that one in 1932! It is a small whirld! He also had Mrs Gail and all the other infamous teachers at Reagan!!!

What an absolute BEAUTIFUL DAY! Went out on dawn patrol twice! Once with Catahoula Cooper and Catahoula John Boy!
Coop is pretty easy to walk, but JB is...uh... very...uh...spirited, yeah, thats the ticket, spirited!
But the last two mornings he was a dream! Put his harness on, and his little working dog backpack and off we went! He stayed right by my side, never tugged on the leash! Thats a first for him! I guess now since he heard he is related to Jim Bowies dogs and Teddy Roosevelts dogs, he is walking just a little cocky! He not only carries a knife now, but a big stick as well!

Walking through the hood today, all the sights and sounds and smells harkened me back to a time when not even time mattered, unless you were waiting on Christmas or a birthday! Me and the boys sat down by Cole Crick, and closed our eyes and soaked up the sun and conjured all sorts of things in our minds! I'm sure the boys were bounding through the meadows of the ranch, or somesuch meadows, chasing butterflies and the like!

I was remembering walking barefoot down DuBarry, and into Oak Forest park, hoping to find some playmate there! Or sitting on the banks of the White Oak, smelling the wet leaves and pine needles after a good soaking rain! My toes dug into the grass and the sun, warm as Gods hands surely are, on my shoulders!

Reading a Hardy Boys book outside in the sun. Listening to the occasional dog bark or noisy old car or a train crossing Oak Forest and the ding ding ding of the crossing arms! What sweet memories! A simple time for sure! The whirld was ours, small as it was! A nickel coke a nickel candy bar, a ten cent kite, and a decent wind in which to sail it! Friends around you helping you fly it, and taking turns holding the string! Just holding that string with the kite some several hundred feet in the air, made me think it was as important as flying an airplane!

Me and Coop and John Boy fell asleep in the swing in the back yard! JB was in the swing with me, and Coop, being as large as he is, was laying on the deck, allowing me to use his big ol muscular back as a foot rest!!! The sounds of the Mockingbird is as much music to my ears as Beethoven or Mozart...We have a pair of Cardinals that frequent our back feeders, and their song has no equal!
Doves cooing unabated, John Boy is allowing them to pick around in the grass in the back yard!

Opened all the windows in the house, to air er out! There is a cat in everywindow, or at least 6 of em anyway!!!

So far the meds ol mr sawbones gave me has had no adverse affect, but my back is still hurting! Oh, not as bad as it did, but enough to think I have an arrow sticking in it, or thats what it feels like it might feel like...

Have my computer set up in the MAN CAVE. We have Wifi at our house! I also have a set of speakers out here, and I hook the computer to them and the computer plays my music non stop! I can put it on shuffle or play the list straight down! Burned some CDs last night or the night before! I love that I can make my own BEST OF cds!

Just took another nerve pill, so am feeling sleepy!!
You cant just take one, and then stop taking them, like I am prone to do! you have to take these and let them build up in your system, which just scares me to death!
I dont like my mind messed with, and thats where most meds sideeffects hit me! My mind is already teetering on a precarious cliff as it is! I dont need any help pushing it over the edge, thank you very much!!!

But most things have a trade off, if it isnt medicine, it something else, a job, a hobby, etc!!!
For every force, there is an opposing force...
My opposing force for the moment, is drowsy, one of the 7 dwarfs, or is that dopey...??? Oh well, it's one o them cats for sure!

Be back in a while! Now, just because I get on the forum, dont you all stay away! Tell us about your day, what you enjoyed, if you did, did you get to sit in the sun for awhile! You got a puppy or a kitty??? tell us about them!!! Dont be bashful! This forum has been a wonderful therapist as is my Harley!!!
But, go outside and close the door on your demons and battles, they will be there when you get back, and soak up the sun! I believe I mentioned this before!!! Sometimes the easy thing, is not so easy...to start!!!

See ya
Me, Sunny in Oak Forest

03/25/10 02:58 PM

#2424

John Burgess Webb

catching up here on the forum and e-mail messages;still without a computer but im thinking about another one.im on an h.p.right now and kinda like the speed.im not sure which one to get compac or h.p.illsee.anyway its nice to hear from the center;out here in bowie county there is an island of civilization tyhat is quite nice but its good to hear from the front.
i wont be able to make it to fudds again this month;drs.appoinyments on the 13th and 14th.there is a better chance for may though.im getting stronger a little at a time.see everybody before pi becomes 3 for real.god help us.
love,
burge

03/25/10 07:45 PM

#2425

Lloyd Pond

I've been down this week with the back misery.Going to need some therapy and some lifestyle changes to soothe a ruptured disk. Remember reading about the B=25s that bombed Tokyo one was nicknamed the Ruptured Duck. Never thought that I would be in that category. Ferrell sees me in such pain she says, I've got something to fix you up and gives me some Tylenol with Codene. Whoo boy about 30 minutes later I'm white as a sheet and oh what pretty stars went whizzing around my head. conditions today are much better after lots of rest this week.

03/25/10 10:46 PM

#2426

Beau Wann, Jr.

Amen brother bearcat, amen!!!
Lloyd, make some rice socks and heat em up in the microwave for 2 mins! They dont stop the pain, but they do feel good! Some nights I'm packed in with a half dozen rice socks! Got two on me now!!! It smells pretty good too! Generally have a couple of cats sittin or laying on top of me, and a couple of dogs next to me! Need all the heat I can get!!!
Lloyd, how do you change your lifestyle??? I dont know how to do anything but work! If I dont work, hurtin or not, I feel like a bum! I vacuumed today, which just killed my back, but I cant stop doing stuff!!

They got me trying this nerve med, and It aint working to well, or as good as Id like it to! The good news, is that it hasnt made me crazy and swing from the ceiling fans and run down 43rd howling at the moon! And, thats a good thing! Lord thats a real good thing!!!

I have taken some medicine that absolutely just took over my brain! I am fortunate that I didnt kill some one and eat their gizzard! Man, I'd rather hurt, and so I do, than take those mind bending meds!!!

What an absolutely beautiful day! I mostly sat out in the swing with John Boy with Cooper at my feet! Oh, that sun felt so good!!! Gods choir, the birds, were just magnificent!!!

LADIES, LISTEN UP, GUYS TOO!!! I found in the Macys catalog add they send in the mail, a perfume that is just heavenly! You may have already known about it, but this is my first time to snifalupalize it! WOW WOW WOW!!! It is called CASHMERE MIST BY DONNA KARAN! My beloved likes it too! think I will ride pegasus tomorrow and go to Macys and buy a bottle for her! It's about 70 dollars an ounce, but well worth it! Maybe they have an eau du colognie for a little less! But heck my beloved is worth it whatever it costs!!! It smells like a bouquet of roses!!!

Use to go to Palais Royal on 43rd, which is now gone, and buy my mom Fabrege'!!!

Got my guitar out to start practizin for the talentless show this april at our little country church in the city!
Hadnt played in a while, and now my fingers are really hurtin! But, it dosent take too long to get em back into shape, with calluses on the fingertips! ALL the cats came in to see what was the matter with me, and what all that caterwallin was about! Coop just slept through it, and Jim Bowies dog John Boy, looked at me and cocked his head to the side in disbelief!!!

Allright you ingrates, I aint that bad! I'm not going on American Idol or dancin with the stars, so just go on about your bidness, go back to sleep!!!
Well, my beloved likes it! Of course, she would like anything I do, playing a washboard, or the spoons!
Have never played the spoons, dont know how! Well, I have played the spoon in the ice cream, which is what I'm about to do! Got some freeeench silk and some caramel DElight I'm a hankerin to get into!!!

Guess it's time to sign off!

Hurt though I do,
Smile though I will.
For the beauty of this day,
will live on in me still!!!

Your pard Beauregard the bard

03/26/10 09:24 AM

#2427

Lloyd Pond

Life style changes is another way of saying lose weight, exercise,drink more water, no more smoking or drinking, stop acting like you are sixteen, pay someone else to cut the grass, etc.

As you said, this is a hard adjustment to make. Doctors always like to play the guilt card.."You do want to be able to enjoy your grandchildren, right?"

So I'll get with the program for a while anyway. Ironically, one thing that could have irritated my back was my jogging at the gym. I was going regularly for the last three months feeling rather good about myself. Now I'll have to modify the plan to "strengthen your core" (code for lose the gut) as well as switching from the treadmill to the elliptical or bike.

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