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02/08/09 11:38 PM	#12
Cyndie Chrystal (Williams) Cyndie Chrystal Williams: I tag Connie Marsh Wood and Harold Johnstone. I would tag Dee Allen, but I think he's told us way more than 25 things about himself. Just kidding Dee, I tag you also!

02/09/09 09:53 AM

#13

Margaret Dubois (Ammons)

This was tough! I put this off because I couldn't think
of 25 things to say! Here goes-
1. I don't feel old, but by body and the mirror tell me
otherwise.
2. I swear I'm not going to color my hair again, but then that same mirror changes my mind.
3. I'v not had Botox- I use "natural collagen" (otherwise
known at FAT) to fillout the wrinkles.
4.#3 is my excuse for my body and NOT dieting!
5. I have been in an earthquake-Walnut Creek, CA in the
early '80's at my brother Mike's wedding reception. I
told him we would always remeber his wedding as an
"earth shaking" experience.
6. I slept with ny right arm in my robe that night in
case it happened again and IT DID!
7. I have had a tornado go over my tent while attending
Boy Scout Leader Training at Camp Karankawa.
8. My memory is not that good anymore-I say my hard drive is full and need to delete some data to have room for more info.
9. I have whispered sweet nothings in a Charlois heifers ear while my youngest son prepped her for showing at the County Fair.
10. I have also shoveled more cow manure than I care to think about - but I loved that "MOOOOODY GIRL"
11. I worked for Mrs. Clelland renting surfboards at Surfside Beach during summers in high school.
12. The above is where I met and fell in love with HL
Thanks to Florence Glover for the matchmaking!
13. Still Married to HL (37 years now)
14. Until reading my classmates profiles, I thought I
had fun in high school-boy was I boring!
15. I tried out for cheerleader in high school-bet no one but me remembers that!
16. I have a lot of aqaintances but not many friends.
17. I adore by family.
18. I can't wait to meet my new granddaughter when she is born in March.
19. I lived in Vernal, Utah for one year. (LOVED IT)
20. I lived in Albuquerque, NM for two years (LOVED IT, TOO)
21. I'm the primary caregiver for my mother-in-law who lives with us. Bettye Ammons (for those of you who had her as a teacher) has Chronic Progressive MS and has been been confined to the bed for almost 9 years.
22. I still work full time and probably will work until they fire me or I die at my desk.
23. I love my job
24. I miss not being able to be more active in church because of my other commitments.
25. I feel that through everything, God has truly blessed me.

While proofreading this, I realize that I can't type very well either!

02/09/09 03:02 PM

#14

Dee Allen

Before I post my response, I would like to note that Cyndie tagged me at 12:38 a.m. If I’m up at that time it is for one of my several nightly trips to relieve my bladder.

1. My undergraduate degree is in Fine Art. I’m not very cultured. I don’t know Monet from Manet. I do like the way the impressionist mixed color on the canvas. I do like all the works of Edward Hopper. Sculpture amazes me. That does not include anything that has been created, in the name of art, over the past 50 years. That’s all crap. Real sculpture is “Eternal Spring” by Auguste Rodin or “David” by Leonardo da Vinci. I don’t like these because they are naked people. My favorite is “Coming Through the Rye” by Frederic Remington. That’s four men with their clothes on.

2. I went to New York City once. It was like driving through a never ending Houston. People were real friendly though. They would stand with one foot in the street and wave at you real big. I would honk and wave back. People like yellow cars there. Most everybody has one. I was surprised that there were hills in NYC.

3. My favorite time of the year is the fall. I love deer season. Building a fire, keeping a link of sausage going on the fire, playing cards until early morning, spitting in the fire, watching plastic melt. Sometimes I even go into the woods. Last year I watched foxes pounce on mice. I had a pair of bobcats come out every day. I like to see how close the squirrels will come down the limb towards me. I haven’t killed a deer in years. Seen some really nice ones. Waiting on the really really nice one.

4. I miss fishing offshore. You never know what you are going to see or catch. Saw a leatherback turtle one time.

5. I ate my first pizza at Fred’s Pizza in September of 1969 in Huntsville, Texas. I did not know what it was before that. What a rube. The only “chain” eating establishments we had in B’port, in the spring of ’69, was the DQ in Freeport across from Henke’s. I had no business going off to school, and I proved it in less than a year.

6. Before I went to college (not the first, second, or third time) I was accepted at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. This was after I read Hal Lindsay’s book “The Late Great Planet Earth”. It literally scared the Hell out of me. I didn’t go. I am a licensed Baptist Minister though. That and five bucks will get me a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

7. I always wanted to know who would pay five bucks for coffee. I never drank coffee until I was 40. I still don’t drink it in the morning. I like it at 3:00 in the afternoon.

8. I don’t know the difference between cappuccino and a latte.

9. I’m not real big on sushi. As a mater of fact, If I ever eat it again, it will be too soon.

10. I can’t program a DVD.

11. I don’t know how we ever lived without copy machines, computers, GPS, air conditioning, and NetFlix.

12. I can skin an alligator.

13. I’m a damn good shot with a rifle but I can’t hit the side of a barn with a shotgun – go figure. Everybody loves to go bird hunting with me because they know they will get to shoot my limit.

14. I found all those pounds everybody lost.

15. Janet is my best friend. Sorry Strickland.

16. I don’t get into music much. I was the only kid to try out for the choir, in the fifth grade, that didn’t make it. I own two (2) CDs. One is “Willie Nelson Live at Billie Bob’s” and the other is “Merle Haggard Live at Billie Bob’s”. I bought them at the same time. Guess where.

17. Thanks to Janet, we own every “Chick Flick” ever filmed in Hollywood, including, but not limited to:
Hope Floats, Sweet Home Alabama, Sabrina (Bogart and Ford versions), Two Weeks Notice, Notting Hill, You’ve Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, and the list goes on and on and on.

18. I like “Chick Flicks”.

19. I like theater popcorn too, Cyndie. Try chewing it up with one of those big nickel pickles that cost $2.00.

20. My goal is to personally build a house on our lake property. I have built it a hundred times in my imagination.

21. I love going to the hardware store.

22. I own every tool invented by man since the end of the stone age (when we graduated from HS). I could go into the house building business except they would all look like a lake cabin.

23. I am currently building a boat (18’ tunnel hull scooter).

24. I’m not bragging but I make the best Gumbo, Etouffee, Jambalaya, and homemade Boudin west of the Sabine.

25. The things that I want most are:
a. all my friends and relatives to be freed from personal bondages by the knowledge of the grace (unmerited favor) of Jesus upon them;
b. an early crappie spawn; and
c. Texas to secede from the Union.

02/09/09 03:34 PM

#15

Margaret Dubois (Ammons)

Dee-
I'm going to have to challenge the gumbo and etoufee clain-my family seems to really like mine.

02/09/09 03:38 PM

#16

Winona Hebert (Spinks)

It takes a real Cajun to make gumbo the right way -- of course, I'm talking about my mother!

Dee -- It's good to see you still have a great sense of humor. I noticed you're "sort of" in my neck of the woods--we live in Burleson (only claim to fame is Home of the original American Idol Kelly Clarkson).

Winona Hebert Spinks

02/09/09 08:38 PM

#17

Becky Cobb (Rasmussen)

Carrol, thanks for tagging me. Yes, I've had my colonoscopy, a bone scan, mammogram and everything else. I don't want to talk about them though. :)- Becky

1. I married Larry Rasmussen two years out of high school.
2. We just had our 38th wedding anniversary Feb. 6.
3. Didn’t know Larry in high school – probably a good thing. I knew him only eight months before we married. I think it might last.
4. My career has been eclectic. I worked at several area banks for some time, stayed home with children for a little while, dabbled in journalism and advertising, worked in the graphics department at Dow, managed a communications company, co-owned a marketing/communications company, and currently work at OverNite Software in Angleton as the graphics coordinator. I’m still trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up.
5. We have two sons, one daughter –Jason, Lance and Kelly -- the most amazing things I’ve done.
6. Have five wonderful grandchildren, 2 boys, three girls, 9-1 years of age. We’re Me-me and Pap-Pap.
7. All my kids live nearby, so I get to see them and babysit often. How great is that!
8. Lost my mother-in-law, father and father-in-law, in the mid 80s over three years, in that order. It was tough.
9. My mother is 86, still lives on her own, and in decent health, given her age. When she’s being nice, I’m blessed. I hope I inherited her longevity. I hope I don’t have to move in with her.
10. I’ve lost 30 pounds. It took watching my mother struggle with diabetes and heart disease to realize I better do something quick or I was headed down the same path. I walk nearly everyday at lunch.
11. I still live in Oyster Creek. We say when you buy here, you die here. I like being close to my Mom (when she’s being nice).
12. I’ve never lived outside of Brazoria County, except as a very young child.
13. I like drinking wine, sometimes a little too much.
14. I discovered pottery about 10 years ago, and we’re in the process of remodeling a portable building as my studio. I love teaching pottery classes. I’m not a pro by any means, but pretty good at teaching the basics.
15. I saw Paris and the Netherlands last year. It was truly awesome. I looked over Paris at night from the Eiffel Tower and visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. I DIDN’T visit any coffee shops.
16. I went on an Alaskan Cruise last year. (Yes, I indulged myself a little, and I deserved it.) I went whale watching, but it wasn’t the up-close experience I expected.
17. Given the current state of the financial world, my retirement plan is to work forever.
18. I teach little kids’ Sunday School at Oyster Creek Methodist Church.
19. I had to put our 13-year-old Cocker Spaniel to sleep a year ago. I thought I could handle it. I couldn’t.
20. I feed feral cats. (I know, you’re not supposed to do that.) My daughter says she hopes she doesn’t see me on the news someday.
21. I like listening to country music. George won his first Grammy! Whoo-hoo!
22. Learning to play the piano is on my bucket list.
23. I loved the Outlander series of books by Diana Gabaldon.
24. I love the outdoors -- camping, fishing, boating and anything else that gets you out in the fresh air. I really like gardening, but don’t find as much time for it as I once did.
25. Did I say how much I enjoy and love my grandchildren?

02/10/09 08:25 AM

#18

Winona Hebert (Spinks)

1. Three of Becky (Cobb) Rasmussen’s grandchildren are my Great Nieces—and yes, they’re adorable! We’re still hoping for grandchildren someday. Our son will marry in May 2009. Our daughter is still looking for the right guy to have a family with—do you know a 30-something guy who isn’t afraid of commitment? Kelly’s a great cook!
2. When I visit my family in Freeport, I still look for familiar faces but rarely ever recognize anyone. Somehow we don’t look like I remember us!
3. I didn’t grow any taller (5’2”) but I did grow wider.
4. I wear glasses to see up close. Yes, I’ve had my colonoscopy but I’m overdue for the well-women stuff. I’m going to start taking better care of this body just in case I’ve inherited my 99-year old grandfather’s good genes.
5. Favorite teachers were Mrs. Jane Shaw (English) and Mrs. Loretta Senterfitt (Shorthand/VOE). I owe them both for the skills and discipline used throughout my administrative jobs.
6. Biggest regret was being in the Vocational Office Education class—I missed out on so much (pep rallies, football games, marching in the band).
7. I went to college at a late age to show my kids how it’s done. Graduated with 3.85gpa—not bad for an old lady.
8. We’re members of the Lone Star Corvette Club of Dallas. I’m the Publicity Coordinator so I’m always behind the camera—sometimes I Photoshop myself in a photo to prove I was there too.
9. Corvette owners typically wave as they pass one another, so our personalized license plate is Wave On. Texas country artist, Pat Greene autographed the plate because it was actually inspired by his song, “Wave On Wave.”
10. I have learned how to detail our Corvette with precision—using Q-tips and toothbrushes—60+ trophies as proof of the hard work.
11. John’s garage/workshop is a Corvette shrine filled with posters, memorabilia, die cast models and, of course trophies.
12. We’re (still) building the 1956 Chevy I bought for our son in 1990. Poor kid never did get to drive it.
13. My daily driver is a Chevy Silverado crew cab truck.
14. I love garage sales and antiquing; that’s what the pickup truck is for.
15. I enjoy making greeting cards. My craft workshop looks as though I have stock in Michael’s and Hobby Lobby. I wish they would quit sending me those 40% off coupons—gotta save money—HA!
16. I have so many bears that they have their own room. Imagine that—Hebert is a bear collector. John often says I should have stopped at "a bear."
17. I climbed all 293 steps of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy and toured castles in Germany including Neuschwanstein (Disney’s inspiration) and Herrenchiemsee Palace (modeled after Versailles).
18. While living in Las Vegas I played the slot machines at Albertson’s before shopping—sometimes the groceries were FREE—most times they weren’t.
19. Our menagerie consists of: Bobbie (cross-eyed calico cat); Belle (yellow lab); Chloe (black lab mix); Samson & Delilah (black cocker spaniels); Frank (a huge koi); and “the Monster” (a 14” algae eater)—yes, I even name the fish.
20. I love living in the country except when the dogs bring me snakes.
21. Can hardly wait for spring—my iris garden should be beautiful.
22. As a computer specialist, I maintained three government web sites for the General Services Administration and designed IT/Telecommunications marketing literature.
23. Almost three years ago I took early retirement from that government job as part of a DOWNSIZING effort. Now the new President wants to stimulate the economy by GROWING THE GOVERNMENT! Believe me; the government already has plenty of non-essential jobs. However, I do enjoy receiving that monthly check for doing absolutely nothing.
24. My Beta Sigma Phi sorority sisters have truly become my family.
25. Seeing Niagara Falls and riding in a hot air balloon are two things on my Bucket List.

I’m tagging Ron Honea, Mary Jane Boomhower, and Greg Hackey.

02/10/09 12:36 PM

#19

Dee Allen

I spent a FULL day at "work" yesterday trying to think of 25 things. I started as soon as I got to work, at 9:45, and worked on it all day. I left in such a rush, at 3:00, that I forgot to tag someone.

I tag Mike Strickland, Glenn Mallory, and Joey Creswell.

Carrol forgot to state, in the rules of this game, that when you get tagged, you are supposed to send $5.00 up the chain to the person who tagged you.

Margaret and Winona, I’m not scarred. I will take all you coonass women. Reunions usually sponsor golf tournaments and things. I think we need to have a Cajun cook off.

02/10/09 01:01 PM

#20

Dee Allen

I looked at the rules and saw that there was no limit. I also need the money so I am tagging:

Dexter Widner,
Alice Day,
Debbie Hansen,
Kenny Hays,
Ginger Walling,
Dee ann Trout,
Terry Stifflemire,
Lynn Rasberry,
Miles Pace, and
Paul Oliver.

I want to tag more but that wouldn't leave any for anyone else to tag.

02/10/09 01:29 PM

#21

Margaret Dubois (Ammons)

Dee-
I'm ready!

02/10/09 07:01 PM

#22

Carrol Reneau (Jeffers)

Alice is still cute, isn't she? YOU HAVE TO PUBLISH YOUR OWN LIST OF 25 BEFORE YOU GO TAGGING SOMEONE ELSE!

You folks that tag others - you need to e-mail them on their profile to let them know - they may not be checking the website. Mike Strickland e-mailed and said he couldn't think of 25 things. This is his opportunity to do his own 25 or we could each contribute a few for him . . . I'm thinking he would like his own better.
Dee, I want to know if the $5 works out because I will start billing some folks.

02/10/09 08:40 PM	#23
Mike Strickland Carrol, I still have that picture of you wearing that prestigious tiara. Mess with me, and I'll post it here in full magnified glory. Ha!

02/10/09 08:50 PM

#24

Carrol Reneau (Jeffers)

Well, that picture would explain part of #1 and #2 on my list of 25 now wouldn't it? By the way, that tiara may have been on my big head but I didn't make it. Who did,you? Cheryl Lewellen? And I'm thinking I have a picture of you ATTEMPTING to cook an egg in a very unconventional way (and not looking your best) - a picture is indeed worth at least 1,000 words.

02/10/09 09:40 PM

#25

MaryJane Pratt (Boomhower)

OK!! NONA!!! and CAROL!!! YOU ASKED FOR IT!!!! And I think Carol started it so blame her!!!

1.) Never had a by=pass or heart surgery!!! It still ticks although I don't know why!
2.) Had my heart broken into a million pieces when my "18" year old daughter, "Danielle was killed in a very mysterious and bizarre, one car accident!! "Mama loves you and misses you "Danni!"
3.) Haven't had any cosmetic surgery YET!!!
4.) I still have all of my own hair!!!
5.) Still a real blonde, I just have to camouflage the white that wants to sneak up on me!!! I am winning that battle so far!!! Me and my best friend "Miss Clairol!"
6.) Lost the "Mr. Peabody" goggles for reading and got contact lens!!! Now my nose doesn't hurt so much from the weight of my "mono goggles!!!!!
7.) I was hoping to have the "Lasik" surgery!! My husband and I were both going to have it done at the "Mann Eye Center" in Houston. These people are so professional and put you thru a ringer of exams before they will do this procedure on anyone!!! My husband and I "Both" had a very rare disorder/anomaly in our corneas that would have caused us to go blind if we had gone thru with the surgery!!! This place refused to touch us!!! Can you "IMAGINE" a doctor passing up on thousands of dollars???? A doctor with standards?
Kidding, sorta, I have had my share of those who shouldn't be in practice!!! THEY EVEN ASKED IF WE WERE "BLOOD KIN"? I WONDERED IF I LOOKED LIKE I PLAYED IN THE MOVIE "DELIVERANCE?" OH!!! THEM MOUNTAIN BOYS!!!!
7.) When I went to Tahoe several, several years ago, I built an anatomically correct snowman on "Heavenly Mountain!!! (Branches were in abundance!!!) **** SHORT ONES, LONG ONES, FAT ONES, SKINNY ONES!!! Since it was "Heavenly Mountain", I figured "The Lord" would want me to be professional in my artwork!!!!
8.) I was married right out of school, to a guy that was determined to be the next "Mohammed Ali!" and since we didn't have a lot of extra money he just used me for his "punching bag!!!" "WHAT A MAN!!!"
9.) I divorced that "BULLY" in 1981! "13" years of Mohammed was enough!!!
10.) Not to get stuck on that subject but because of "That Man!" I did have the pleasure of "brain surgery!" two years ago! I dumped him in 1981 and found out the damages were permanent in 2006!!! But, I'm okay!! Just wait and see!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!
11.) I got to "ride in the back seat of a cop car"...all the way to the emergency room after "Mohamed " broke the door down to my apartment the night before my divorce was final!!! "WHAT A MAN!!"
10.) I look very little like I did in high School! THANK GOODNESS!!!
11.) I weigh about 15/20 pounds less than I did in High School! Kind of a physical problem, and not good for conversation!
12.) I have had the pipeline thru my innards/colonoscopy three times!!! Every two years now!!!
13.) I have had my wrist broken once.
14.) I have had my nose broken twice!!! Once to the right and once to the left so it back where it belonged!!! AHHHH! Jimmy Buffett!!! "Fins/nostrils to the left...Fins/Nostrils to the right!! HAHAHA! Not funny!
15.) I was in a wreck and busted my chin open, crushed my kneecaps on the dashboard (Now I know what that "" darn belt looking thing""" was for???!!!!) squeezed the steering wheel so hard trying to stop my car, I became "THE HULK!" I actually crushed a wide gold band so far into my finger, holding onto the steering wheel, that I almost had to have my finger cut off to stop the bleeding!!! Whew****great doctor!!!
16.) I have fallen on two separate "Halloweens" and broken my arm!
17..) I broke my right leg walking up a raised sidewalk and not looking where I was going/ at a construction site where I was office manager.
18.) My only living child, a daughter also, lives next to my millionaire "EX!" I am not allowed to see my precious grandchildren. "I" didn't buy her new house! "I" didn't put in the luxurious landscaping or the procey swimming pool!
19.) I own a precious and "VERY PRECOCIOUS" Pekingnese, "Baxter,( in my picture with me!!! ) Someone, no names, asked me if I was ever "Gonna put that dog down?!" It is a good thing my little man wasn't near enough to hear someone call him a "DOG!" I would be paying for Canine Psychiatrists now!!!!
20.) I am now married to a "Yankee!!!", For Real!!! Born and raised in NEW YORK!! And he is a "Yankee" fan!!!! We haven't made it to "Yankee Stadium" yet! See Every game they play in Arlington!!!
21.) In January we drove "24" hours straight to Pittsburgh for the AFC Championship Game!!!!! "GO STEELERS"!!!
We had seats on the fourth row from the field and the "46" yard line!!! UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL!!!!
"ON THE STEELERS SIDE OF THE FIELD!!!
"Did I mention I like Sports"???????
22.) I didn't marry him just because he would tolerate my love of sports!!!
23.) I didn't evacuate for "IKE"!!! My house has an "8 inch" core of cement for the entire outside walls!!
As a matter of fact, I slept right thru "IKE!" BUT!! When the electricity went out, I was OUTTA HERE!!!
24.) My father passed away when I was only twenty three from massive heart failure. He had heart problems for many years. There were three times as many people there as our church could hold. I never knew he was so loved by so many!!!
25.) I am very glad I am still alive and well enough to go to my "40th" Class Reunion!!!!

"AS PORKY SAYS" Da!Da!Da! Dat's All Folks!!!!

See Ya'll Soon!!! MJ

02/10/09 09:48 PM	#26
Mike Strickland Carrol, But didn't I look hot in those maroon courderoy pants and maroon paisley shirt? It is better to look good than to feel good.

02/10/09 09:52 PM

#27

Dee Ann Trout (Glenn)

1. I have been happily married for 36 years to my best friend, Tom Glenn. I have retired from teaching after 31 years. Teaching was great while it lasted even though my husband was my boss for 20 years. However, he only got to be the boss at work.
2. I don’t love snow skiing, but keep at it. Everyone in my family can ski so much better than me. I am known as the whiner. We have skied Winter Park every spring break for the past 20 years. Yeah, you would think I might have the hang of it by now.
3. I love being a grandma. I have 3 grandchildren, Carson (girl) and Caden (boy) age 3.
Lexi Sue just turned 4 months. My granny name is DeeDee. I have DeeDee school with the grandtwins on Thursdays.
4. I have very talented children (who doesn’t). Courtney (age 26) is a self-taught harmonica player and John (age 33) is somewhat of a magician. He can cause any electrical equipment to malfunction just by walking by. Actually Courtney has an amazing talent for writing and John is one of the best dads around.
5. Both of my parents are deceased. My mom died 49 years young of breast cancer. So yes, I keep up with my mammogram. Still getting up the courage to have the colonoscopy that everyone is discussing on this site.
6. I love living in the Austin area, but miss the bayou. The mosquitoes, not so much.
7. I joined facebook and find that I am a little addicted.
8. I have taken a grocery cart ride down a steep hill. It was not of my choice. Thank heaven for the many beverages that kept me from getting hurt when I crashed.
9. I have ridden a bike down the volcano Haleakala in Maui. This time I had no beverages in me and boy did it hurt this time when I crashed.
10. I was detained in East Germany by a very unhappy East German guard, Frau Sourpuss. She must have been a former member of the German SS. This happened at Check Point Charlie. When the wall was up, it was not a good idea to try to sneak in Deutsche Marks.
11. I hate price stickers that cannot be removed from something new. I hate the new plastic packaging that you cannot open and I hate hard-to-peel boiled eggs. And I especially hate e-mails that you are asked to forward to your friends. How is that being a friend? I guess I am putting my financial well being at risk since I won’t be coming into some new money in the near future.
12. My favorite smell is freshly cut grass (the lawn type). It reminds me so much of my younger days in Lake Jackson. Which makes me think of fireflies or lightening bugs as we called them. I think they might be on the endangered species list now. Maybe I contributed to their demise since I would pull off their little “lights” and watch my fingers glow as I sat in my dark closet. I was a little sadistic.
13. I love to read killer books. Favorite authors are James Patterson, Jeffrey Deaver and David Baldacci.
14. I have too many favorite movies to list. I will go to just about any movie. However, I will not go see Marley and Me (too sad). I will go see stupid scary movies. My daughter and I have a mom/daughter tradition of going to these movies just to jump, scream and laugh.
15. We have 2 dogs that we love…Stix and Stonz.
16. I love to fish with a cane pole and worms.
17. My favorite T.V. shows are of course the killer shows. CSI (all of them), NCIS,
Criminal Minds, etc. “The New Adventures of Old Christine” and “The Big Bang” make me laugh.
18. After a trip to Cabo, Tom and I joined a vacation club. We don’t have our next trip planned as of yet but have many places we want to visit. Maybe I should check with Jim Barnett for travel ideas. His photos are beautiful!
19. I have been to Italy. It was a wonderful whirlwind tour. I loved the Isle of Capri…so beautiful, relaxing and what great wine!
20. Do kids today know how to play ante over, butts up, hot lava, hopscotch, jacks, paper football, red light green light, double jump rope, follow the leader and spin the bottle? By the way, my first kiss was Stanley Walker in 7th grade. Instead of playing “horse” in a basketball game, we played “kiss”.
21. My favorite holiday is Christmas. Unfortunately I live with Scrooge and he will never put up outside lights. Bah Humbug!
22. I love relaxing at our little tiny lake house on Lake LBJ in Kingsland. I have become friends with the geese, lake gulls and the coots (not the old kind, but the bird kind). When I whistle they will come for food. During the summer I have about 30 catfish friends that I feed.
23. I haven’t slept through the night in years.
24. I miss my childhood friends, Pam Marcum Williams, Donna Dowlen and Greg Willbanks.
25. One thing I want to learn is how to be a great photographer. I want to take pictures of all those animal friends at the lake.

02/10/09 09:56 PM

#28

Dee Ann Trout (Glenn)

I tag Michael Poehl, Denise Riggin Kennedy and Micky Mixon

02/10/09 10:00 PM

#29

MaryJane Pratt (Boomhower)

It's me again!!! Hubby hollered for a haircut and I lost my train of thought! The most important and heartbreaking thing that has happened in my life recently, was that my "Mom" passed away last September?
Any of you remember my brother "David"!
He still looks just like he did in High School!!!
The blonde hair is a little whoter, otherwise, no change!!! Some things are just not fair!!!

02/11/09 10:39 AM

#30

Connie Marsh (Wood)

1-2. Is this a favorite color and favorite lunchmeat kind of thing? If so, yellow (cheerful light sunny yellow - not shocking egg yolk yellow) and smoked turkey. That's not what this is? What?? Darn it. I'm counting it as my first two anyway.

3. I am a genius at work. Sadly many of my customers are slow to recognize my skills. As are my coworkers, bosses, and casual acquaintances.

4. I got married way too young and became a mother way too early - at least by current sensibilities. Okay, by any generation's sensibilities … Tim and I worked through the various bumps in the road and are still together - and are darn happy about it, depending on the moment of the day you ask either one of us. I can't imagine life without him.

5. I also can't imagine life without our four children who we (1) miraculously didn't kill because we were young and foolish or in a fit of rage and (2) actually love us and each other. Of course, they're all grown and are able to pay for their own mental health care now. They're also beautiful, wildly successful and geniuses and I'm not at all prejudiced.

6. I finished my college degree in Business Management (BS in BM … funny) just before my first grandchild was born.

7. I love to cook (I want your published recipe, Cyndie!), garden, read, travel, camp, do home projects, think about how I would decorate my house if I had the money to do it, lie in a lawn chair looking at the sky, think about lying in a lawn chair, and playing with grandbabies.

8. I adore hanging out with extended family but I am not the 'please drop the kids off and leave them for a week' kind of grandmother. I relish the fact that it's just Tim and I … finally.

9. I love playing Texas Hold'em. It's our new family passion and we all look for opportunities to get together and play all night. My abject apologies if this offends anyone that considers gambling a sin. Hey, I didn't say I gambled the house away. Yet. But my son would own it and he would probably let me live here for a nominal fee.

10. College football is the absolute best thing there is in the world. Okay, it's near the top. I follow a lot of teams but the Texas Longhorns have my heart and I follow everything from recruiting to attending every possible game with Tim.

11. I've surprised myself by falling in love with working out, lifting weights, and an elliptical machine at my advanced age. I've always avoided exercising like the plague so this is one of the more surprising late-breaking developments.

12. I'm only a little embarrassed by the fact that I read the entire Twilight series and loved every minute of it. I assure you I will read 10 high-minded books right away to make amends...

13. My husband is an ordained minister. He was in the ministry full time for 10 years. He's fulfilled his calling for the past 20+ years as a football coach and teacher in our local middle school. He loves coaching but finds teaching more frustrating with each passing year. He performed both marriage ceremonies for our sons. It was very special.

14. I want to know more about Dee Ann's vacation club. Like her, I love photography. I can see that becoming a passion when I no longer have to get up at 5:30 each morning to go into Dow.

15. I live with two horses in my house. We call them Dessa and Hogan. They are really German Shepherds. I am really a cat person. No one wants to rob my house, though.

16. We own five acres outside of Wimberly, Texas … a place my family used to go to on summer vacations when I was a child. We can't wait to build there. I love the idea of living closer to Austin but know I will miss the lush greeness of the Gulf Coast.

17. Mike Strickland was the sweetest boyfriend any high school girl could have had. And I was fortunate to call him my boyfriend for several years. He's about to have a birthday but, regrettably, will never be as old as me.

18. Like Dee, I've been working on this at work because it's clearly way more important than anything Dow is doing these days - which harkens back to #3. I also agree with him that Texas should secede from the Union … now. Hurry.

19. Words I Live By: "If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason." -Jack Handey

20-25. I could keep adding but it seems I'm not all that interesting. Ya'll aren't the bosses of me anyway. Can't wait to see you all this fall when we are all sweating together at an Exporter game in early September when the temps are still 99 deg.

02/11/09 11:39 AM

#31

Connie Marsh (Wood)

One more thing: I remember riding my bike with wild abandon as a child behind the mosquito fogger truck through the streets of Lake Jackson many times. This could be the explanation behind many of my answers.

I tag Dianne Dorman Allen, Janis Snavely Dennison, Laura and Lee Huebel, Candy Sullivan Silcott, Linda Neely Grubb, Lucinda Schumm Watson, Marilyn Schuhmann, Mike Strickland and Tommy Parker - who I would always challenge for first chair clarinet in junior high. None of these people will respond to this because they are all responsible adults and not cool, fun people like all of us here.

02/11/09 12:09 PM

#32

Mike Strickland

I’m not going to number these. If it’s important to anyone that I get to 25, you can count them yourowndamnself.

Yes, Connie, you will always be older than me. As it should be. But you are aging better than I am. Hard to believe we met in 1966. Criminy.

I have owned three dogs since college. They lived to be 17, 18, and 15. One won second place in an ugly dog contest in Houston in 1979. He was on TV and won a trophy (which I still have) and $10. I was going to start a college fund for him with the $10, but bought a bottle of Bacardi instead. He never knew the difference.

All my references to booze in high school and college are now particularly humorous. Now, I can’t finish even a light beer and don’t even try very often. They’re more filling and taste worse.

My children thought I was pretty boring in my youth until they met Dee’s mother when Dee’s daughter was married. Then my son spent several weeks working with Dee last summer. Dee says he remembers all that stuff about what we did, but I think he makes it up because he knows I don’t remember. At least my mother still thinks I was perfect.

Davis, you couldn’t have told your mother about the whisky anyway. She would have never believed that I would do such a thing.

While traveling through life in the last 40 years much of it, at the time, seemed full of forks in the road. Looking back, it was really pretty linear.

My favorite books are To Kill A Mockingbird and Lonesome Dove. Mockingbird for the wonderful metaphorical scenes, and Dove for the tome of hard work, right vs. wrong, lifelong friendship, taking on big dreams and seeing them through to the end. My favorite movie is Dove, but No Country For Old Men is pushing into a tie. I see a different nuance every time I watch the latter. (Steel Magnolias is right up there too, although it would be too unmanly to say where).

In 1974, I went into the Marriot on LBJ in Dallas to meet a friend. Billy Martin was drinking dinner at the bar by himself. He offered to buy me a drink. I told him thanks but I had already had too many. He told me I was too young to make decisions like that. Given how he died 15 years later, I guess he also thought 61 was also too young.

In 1973 I worked for a few weeks at the “South Fork” ranch. Well, working may not be the word for it. We made several trips to El Paso to recruit workers for the ranch. Times were kinder and gentler back then. It was a real horse ranch back then owned by a guy really named J. R. (Joe Rand Duncan). He lost it during the real estate crash of the 80s, but I think he later bought it back and turned it in to the tourist trap it is now.

I played competitive amateur baseball until I was 28 or 29, then played softball for several years after that. My last memory of hard ball is sliding in to second with my car keys in my back pocket. I still love the game.

One of my favorite possessions is an autographed 1958 Mickey Mantle card and an autographed 1962 Roger Maris card. Which just brought to mind that fateful day in 1974, when my mother called and asked if I wanted those four shoeboxes of baseball cards from the late fifties and early sixties. Nah, throw ‘em away, he said nonchalantly. Another bad financial decision.

I got a BBA from Sam Houston, an MBA from Texas, and passed the CPA exam almost 30 years ago - before you had to retain a criminal lawyer to say you were a CPA.

Brazosport in the 60s was a great place to grow up. I wouldn’t change that for anywhere else. My children grew up in Richardson and Pflugerville, which weren't too bad.

I divorced after 27 years in October 2001, remarried in September 2004 at the age of 53. Someone told me getting remarried after age 50 was the victory of faith over experience. I never bought in to the concept of soul mate until I met Linda. I also inherited another daughter. The two girls look so much alike it’s weird. They are also best friends.

Dee recited my vows when I got remarried. As an attorney, he cautioned me about part of it (“I promise to speak and to listen”), but I said them anyway – after some hesitation. I actually live up to those words occasionally.

I stunned them all at the reception by quoting Yeats in my toast to Linda. How about that, Caroline Huff?

Between my ex, Linda, my daughter, and me, we have 6 degrees from UT. But they still call for money.

I still mow my own yard. I love the smell of cut grass, and love to jump in the pool to cool off.

My favorite music ranges from Haggard to Diana Krall to Miles Davis to Johnny Cash (his American CDs).

I enjoyed the 20th reunion and had a blast at the 30th. I'm really looking forward to this one.

The End.

02/11/09 01:12 PM

#33

Glenn Mallory**

I started working at 15 for BISD during summers. John McGee ('68) and I worked with paint crews. Painted inside and outside of almost every school in our district, including Hopper Field pressbox (standing on 6" board with no safety lines). To this day, I'm afraid of heights and I refuse to pick up a paint brush. The painting thing is in my marraige contract and of course, scaling deer stands and mountains is optional.

Injured my knee in South Houston football game our senior year. Dr Zeek taped me up the following Monday and sent me out to practice where in short order the injury was made worse. Sat out for 3 weeks then got to play for 2 weeks before injuring again. This trial and error treatment lasted throughout the season until the tear locked my knee in place at a 20 degree angle. Had to miss baseball and other spring sports and had corrective surgery 3 days after graduation.

Spring break 1971, the day before Easter, Marc Davis and I were returning home from a day of golf. Two miles from home we were involved in a head-on collision with a drunk driver. The other driver died, we were lucky. Marc had a concussion and nearly cut off his ear. I had broken knees, hip, ankle and injured neck. Spent a week in the hospital and could not walk for a month. I had to withdraw from all classes at Brazosport College for that semester. Clifton Williams (our class) was a passenger in the other car and was severly injured, but survived.

Got to work with many fellow BISD grads during Dow strike in 1971. Anybody remember the mag cells? I remember taking home close to $4,000 that summer. What a windfall for a college kid. Tommy Palmer and I went together and spent $100 on an old Chevy truck to drive through the picket lines. Old Smokey would burn about a quart of oil per mile. Crossing the picket lines caused some rift with union family and friends. The $4.25/hour and extreme work conditions were great motivators for continuing higher education.

Graduated from Sam Houston in 1993 BBA, Business Management and Economics. Our intermural football team, MAURADERS, won the school championship 3 years in a row. Never allowing school to interfere with fun, we also played golf almost daily when possible. I also landed probably the best job ever. I was hired to work part-time for the university maintenance department. My assignments were the girls dorms and sorority houses. Our battle cry when we entered the building was "Man In the Hall". What an education!

Met and married,Judy, my best friend, and bride of soon to be 31 years while employed as purchasing agent for Southwest Chemical and Plastics in Seabrook, Texas. Feel free to feel sorry for her, she deserves better.

Got to work with Marc Davis in the late 70's at Baker World Trade in Houston. Will never forget our whirlwind trip on the company lear jet to Calgary, Canada.

We have two great kids, Shane, born in Clear Lake, 1980 and Courtney, born in Katy, 1983. Today both live in Austin. Shane works in film industry and Courtney in marketing. Both are single. I continue to wait, not very patiently, for grandkids to spoil.

In 1983, I joined forces with a college room mate. Through our friendship and corporations, we continue to do our part to help with the engery crisis. We are now in our 26th year in the oilfield specialty chemical industry. We have developed and continue to market products worldwide that are used in the drilling process for oil, gas and water exploration.

I was an avid golfer until kid sports consumed my time. Got to play with several of my heroes: John David Crow, Roger Maris and Lou Holtz. (I would always wear either Mantel #7 or Maris #9 in Little League.) I was amazed with the physical stature of Roger Maris. I will never forget the Popeye like forearms. (No steroids added.) Have not touched a golf club in 10 years!

Was also an avid runner for 15 years. Went from 40+ miles a week to walking a few miles a week. (Knees said NO MAS!)

Coached youth sports for 12 years (baseball, basketball and softball). I remain very competitive at most things I try to acoomplish.

Stephenville is where my mother was raised and where my father owned the airport in the late 1940's. They met and married in Stephenville. As a kid I would spend many family vacations there. My great grandfather traded a herd of horses for his land. We built our home in Stephenville in 1994 on 400 acres of old family property we purchased from my grandparent's estate. The property dates back to the Spanish Land Grant and our home is built on the same spot as old 1800's home. The Bosque River crosses our property. Great fishing and scenery.

For fun we raise cattle on our homeplace and deer at our "Buckwild" ranch located "east of Eden" in west Texas. Judy is very understanding as I get to spend many hours having fun outdoors. Of course, this too is in our marriage contract.

I still enjoy my work. With today's technology we are able to take care of business from anywhere. I'm thinking I may stick around for one more market boom!

We are still huge fans of high school sports and support our local Stephenville teams. College football also ranks high on our to do list.

I'm reminded that in 1994 Stephenville was to face Allan Weddell's LaMarque Cougars for the second year in a row for the 4A State Football Championship. Stan Alcott convinced me to call Allan on a few occasions and talk smack. Finally, Allan told me that if LaMarque won he was going to tell our booster club that I gave him all of our plays and they would then burn my house down. I never got to thank Allan for "throwing" that game and saving my house! If my memory serves me well, Stephenville owns a 2-0 advantage in State Championship games vs. Allan's Cougars.

We donate at least 2000 pounds of high protein meat to various food banks and senior nursing homes on an annual basis. I also volunteer for Meals on Wheels as time allows.

I'm proud to say my shoe size has not changed in 40 years.

I have all of my hair except for the solar panel.

My beard looks bleached blonde, much like Dee's head. I'm thinking a gradual reveal to expose baby butt smooth skin. The gradual part is so I won't spook young children and older women!

My blonde roots are not showing as much as Dee's and I have had no artificial enchancements. My only enhancements have been caused by groceries.

Son, Shane, is a member of Screen Actors' Guild, Writers' Guild, and voting member for Academy Awards. He gets to view movies in advance of public release. We are kept up-to-speed on the good,bad and ugly flicks in the pipeline. Many times I go to the theater strictly for the popcorn. Nothing comes close to a good chick flick, popcorn and a power nap at the movies!

Jack Bauer and Rush Limbaugh rule!

The Davis/Carrol frog affair reminds me of Tommy Palmer's love of snakes. Ask Tommy about the snake I turned loose in our apartment at Sam Houston.

All this chatter about gumbo strikes a nerve. We don't get much fresh seafood up north. The Luke side of our family from Louisiana made the best. I'm thinking road trip to eat (seafood) my way up or down the coast.

I remain a very positive person and stive to find good in every situation. I always look forward to tomorrow. I have been very blessed in this life for which I thank the Lord everyday!

Wow, this should probably be put on Christmas stationary and updated every year in a Christmas card!!!!!

I tag Marc Davis, Tommy Palmer, Stan Alcott, Allan Weddell and my cousin, Byron Luke.

02/11/09 02:01 PM	#34
Jd Barnett: Happy Birthday, Danny Cappel!!

02/11/09 03:01 PM

#35

Carrol Reneau (Jeffers)

Nancy Bryan Gilbert e-mailed this to me for posting - so here it is.

From Nancy Bryan Gilbert
Subject Re: 25 Random Things About Me

1) John and I have now been married 39 years.
2) John and I raised 4 sons: Bryan, Brad, Austin and Justin. Empty nest is more fun than I thought it would be.
3) Now after raising 4 sons we have 4 grandsons. Ages range from 8 years down to 8 months.
4) After living in Angleton for 20+ years, for the last 8 years, we now live in Lake Jackson on the Lake.
5) I taught school in Angleton for 8 years and 4 years at the College.(GED review classes) I did legal assistant work for a few years.
6) My hobbies are gardening and working out at the gym.
7) Chocolate is my down fall. I find all kinds of excuses to have another piece of chocolate.
8) I have taken a "bunch" of cooking classes but could stand to spend a little more time cooking in my kitchen.
9) I have loved church work for years but now beginning to slow down on that.
10) After never doing anything musical in my life, I played the handbells for the last 10 years.(If I can anyone can do this)
11) Have made a few trips over the last years: France, Florence, Italy, Ireland, Israel. (am hoping for more)
12) John and I love the Texas Longhorn games. Last season we were back there with season tickets.
13) Trips to Austin are fun as we have 3 grandsons in Liberty Hill. (nw Austin) Back to needing the stadium seats on the weekend.
14) I love shopping trips or just fun days in Houston.
15) These days we are waking up earlier and earlier. I think it may be a sign of "old age."
16) The gray hair is beginning to show up. After raising 4 boys, I guess it is time.
17) My parents turned 80 in 2008. Both look great and are in good health.
18) John's mom is living just down the road from us at the Carriage Inn.
19) I'm still basically an outside person so I have a hard time picking up any sewing hobby. I talk about this but that is it.
20) I suppose my favorite food is still Mexican Food.
21) My favorite place to be is still the beach. It doesn't matter which beach.
22) I have realized that we really have few good friends and we need to take good care of them. Some "friends" seem to simply go in and out of our lives and some stay forever.
23) I have seen that life is too short and we simply need to love and feel the joy and peace within our hearts.
24) I have learned that happy are the flexible.
25) I still feel the same on the inside as I did 40 years ago--the face and body just look quite different.

02/11/09 05:42 PM	#36
Glenn Mallory** Dee, I forgot to tell you, my $5.00 payola check will be in the mail as soon as I receive my stimulus package.

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