May 29, 2014
Little known fact:
If you are highly motivated, you can sleep on a cot, with a beagle, with phone alarms set for 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. and the next day believe you had a restful and an unremarkable night.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Monday, May 26, 2014
Drive
May 26, 2014
I know this sounds too bad to be true, but for the third time in the last 21 months we are in Columbus attending Davis's knee surgery. ACL repair tomorrow. Report to check in at 5:00.
This time it's a little different. I don't know if you have heard, but Walter and I have a new business partnership: the Doggie Summer Camp and Orthopedic Rehab Service. Davis and Lyndon are our first customers!
As soon as they are travel ready, we'll head back to Texas.
We have spent the last two days driving for the pick up! I can tell it was about 21 hours in the car because I'm a bit stiff through the hips, shoulder, and neck.
And, with apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, I can tell I drove through east Texas because I saw:
I know this sounds too bad to be true, but for the third time in the last 21 months we are in Columbus attending Davis's knee surgery. ACL repair tomorrow. Report to check in at 5:00.
This time it's a little different. I don't know if you have heard, but Walter and I have a new business partnership: the Doggie Summer Camp and Orthopedic Rehab Service. Davis and Lyndon are our first customers!
As soon as they are travel ready, we'll head back to Texas.
We have spent the last two days driving for the pick up! I can tell it was about 21 hours in the car because I'm a bit stiff through the hips, shoulder, and neck.
And, with apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, I can tell I drove through east Texas because I saw:
- a bank advertising on a billboard with a picture of a ginormous chicken and the words "we delight in poultry financing."
- a second billboard $895 CREMATION as the only words besides the company name.
I can tell I drove through Tennessee because there were more Cracker Barrels, Waffle Houses, and Shoneys than there were Starbucks.
Also, can anybody tell why Ohio farm houses are white and Ohio barns are red?
Final Thought: I think people in Brazos County should pay me to go out of town. When we went to Galveston week before last, it rained 5 inches in Bryan. I understand that the rain started today at noon and has already rained a couple of inches with more expected tomorrow.
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Win
May 24, 2014
Before I ever donate any books that may have come from Fort Stockton to the Friends of the Library book sale, I always have to check them for goodies. Janice, Walter's mom, was an absolute demon for tucking things inside books whether they were related to the book or not.
Here is evidence, found tucked into a song book for children, published in 1938, that the Walter L. Buenger, Sr. family were a creative force in Fort Stockton.
From the Fort Stockton Pioneer, 1969--"The front door of the Walter Buenger residence at 705 N. Missouri presents a holiday welcome which won first prize in the door decoration contest judged here Sunday night by members of the Fort Stockton Garden Club."
Before I ever donate any books that may have come from Fort Stockton to the Friends of the Library book sale, I always have to check them for goodies. Janice, Walter's mom, was an absolute demon for tucking things inside books whether they were related to the book or not.
Here is evidence, found tucked into a song book for children, published in 1938, that the Walter L. Buenger, Sr. family were a creative force in Fort Stockton.
From the Fort Stockton Pioneer, 1969--"The front door of the Walter Buenger residence at 705 N. Missouri presents a holiday welcome which won first prize in the door decoration contest judged here Sunday night by members of the Fort Stockton Garden Club."
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