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Comments: Go Rangers! Of course it is a southern thing...Yankee "ladies?" would not have been as genteel or as refind......ahem! haaaaaa!! Or so I've heard...Bless their hearts!
Comments: With the World Series teetering on the brink, the Texas Rangers were in dire need of help. So, last night, if you were paying attention, you might have seen the good Dr Proctor in the crowd working his usual magic. Rangers 4-2, just what the doctor ordered. Rumor has it he was there with son and grandson. Well, I swan.
Comments: Skip, I just saw on the internet that I swan might have come from "I shall warrant," as in "I promise" or "I do declare." It all means the same thing as I swear, and no Southern lady would swear (when someone could hear her.) It's a Southern thing. Northerners don't swan or swannee. 
Comments: My mom used "I swan" and "swanee" all the the time.Must have been a generational thing.
Comments: Thanks Kathleen (and Bill). Maybe we can bring back "I swan" because it sounds better than some potty mouth girls I've overheard!
Comments: Lynell, I asked my linguist husband what "I swan" meant. He said it means "I swear". There are two ways to say it "I swan" or "I swun". The ladies knew that they weren't suppose to swear, so they said "I swan". I remember my grandmother saying it when i was young. Bill said he hasn't heard anyone say "I swan" since the fifties..
Comments: Charlotte, Granny Garrett would have said I swan or I swannee. I wonder what that means, the Swanne River? This was the deep south, so maybe that was it. But she lived very close to the Tennessee River in N. Alabama. I swannee, I wish I knew what it meant. 
Comments: Sandy, you kids from '66 know how to rock it! You all look spectacular.
Comments: BTW...4 out of the 5 children my Grand Parents raised graduated from college. Amazing!
Comments: My teeny grand mother was only about 5' tall...if that much...she probably weighed 90 lbs...at the most. She worked so hard in her young and elder life time. My Grand Parents (Anders) had 5 children so I know the life was hard too. My grand father died of lung cancer when I was only two so I don't remember him, but I remember seeing my tiny Granny wring the necks of chickens and pluck the feathers. She had a well, with wonderful clear cool water too...conveniently, it was attached to the back porch. My cousin who is 4 years older than me used to hang me over the side of the well and ask me if I wanted to go play with that little girl I see down there in the bottom...of course it was my reflection and I was scared he would drop me which was what he was after...so mean!....I remind him of that to this day....he just laughs...oh ha ha..NOT! Granny would exclaim, "Well, I declare!" in her southern accent when something puzzled, frustrated or shocked her. She was so gentle and sweet. When she let her hair down from her bun sometimes I would comb it for her as she sat in a chair. From a seated position her hair almost touched the ground. I have such fond memories of those days at Granny's. Looks as tho the 66 Reunion was a lot of fun.
Comments: Always an interesting read on the '63 GB. Congrats JS in being part of a very good deed! Just wanted to say Hi now that life is returning to normal after our 45th bash! I have the Fri night SOC Hop pics posted & some of Sat night. Still have another 150 or so of Sat to post.
Comments: As a sidebar to our Aggie ring rescue, the owner (Duane Brandt) insisted on taking all four of us out to dinner when his wife returns home from Los Angeles. He wants her to be part of the celebration. Turns out Duane is married to Connie Cooper, an actress on TV and the Big Screen. She is our age and from the Dallas area. Here is a link to a quick video sample of some of her roles: http://conniecooper.nowcasting.com/index.php?page=demo&actorID=conniecooper
Comments: Wow, lots of good reports to enjoy on Monday morning. Thanks everyone for the updates and recommendations. Red meat? I love my burgers (now and then) so hopefully that is not so bad. Geo Johnny - Hats off to you and your team for the excellent results of your hunt. Great job. Have a wonderful Monday everyone!
Comments: JS, congrats on the great find. Betcha that was one happy Aggie. Doug, thanks for the red meat warning from Harvard. Grandfather Garrett never saw much red meat, because they raised only hogs and chickens on the little cotton farm. Most meals during their many lean years were dry beans that they bought in 100-lb bags, and potatoes that they grew in that soft red Alabama sandy loam. They had nine children to feed. My grandfather smoked a zillion roll-your-own ciggies and everything he ate was seasoned with bacon fat or cooked with lard. He farmed until he was almost 90, bless his heart. None of his children had colon cancer. I will always wonder if one of his parents did, since the gastroenterologist told me it only goes from one generation to the next. Seeing how my grandparents lived made me very grateful for my own lifestyle and good fortune. Can you imagine having to pull up water from the well? Or catching and killing a chicken that you had raised from an egg? Eeeuw. They had a hard, hard life.
Comments: A week ago a gentleman contacted our metal detecting club to report an Aggie ring he lost 5 months ago - possibly in his yard, but it may have fallen out of a hole in his pocket as he ran errands around town. Yesterday at 9:00am, I showed up at his home with a crew of volunteers from the club. Duane B. lives in Spring, TX. He explained that the ring is 10K gold and has a diamond in it that once belonged to his grandmother - a lot of sentimental value. It is his 1966 Texas A&M class ring. He'd already checked into getting it replaced by the manufacturer, but the cost to do so was a steep $1,250. Duane directed us to the backyard to begin our search, since he recalled doing yardwork on the day in May that he lost the ring. After about 35 minutes of sweeping the yard, one of our guys (Jack) let out an exhuberant WHOOP! There was the ring sitting an inch or so deep in grass about 3 feet from the patio. Our crew and the ring owner were tremendously excited about the find. Duane told us he really never expected to see his ring again. What a great experience. Was it Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now who said "I love the smell of 10 carat gold in the morning!"? 
Comments: Studies at Harvard Medical School showed conclusively that folks who eat red meat have twice the incidence of colon cancer as folks who do not eat red meat.
Comments: Jud, I thought that doctor looked familiar. 
Comments: Was Doc Proc running a special?
Comments: Had my first colonoscopy last week. Wasn't bad at all, just scared on my part
Comments: I'd like to encourage everyone who has not had a colonoscopy to please do so. I did my second one yesterday, and would like to report that it was very easy. My first was at age 55, so I'm off the hook for another ten years. This important test is painless, and I believe it's even paid for by Medicare. My grandfather died from colon cancer, so I've always been concerned about getting it. Found out yesterday there's no worry about heredity unless the family member was a parent or sibling. However, lots of other things can bring it on. Better safe than sorry, so please go get your insides looked at if you have not already.
Comments: Well, Jud, we ARE in their home ya know...not the other way around......we displaced THEM and made the urban areas. It is natural for the critters to live around creeks and bayous and then go out to find food. Phil, I know that must have been so hard for your neighbor to see. Where ARE our cheerleaders and football players? have they gone to Face Book and deserted the SOC63 guest book. Some folks are not on F B and enjoy the news entered here. I am thinking I just might give up F B...I sure do get a lot of spam in my email since I joined it. I know it is too late now to stop that, but maybe getting off that network might help prevent other things. I don't like the new format anyway.
Comments: The extended drought is bringing more wildlife into urban areas. Plus, some people exacerbate the problem by feeding the critters.
Comments: Yes, Charlotte my neighbor saw the coyote get the cat. She said it was a scraggly looking thing. ps Don't rub your eyes are using jalapenos in your food 
Comments: e.e. cummings lynnellegsmith appreciate the suggestons. m g peters saved a phone # just b4 touching the archive res-ponse. planned to respond later -killed it. please resend. roddy s was great to connect after all the years since hbudd. buzz b hope my notes catch ip to you. peaches s walker we should meet some time, again THANKS, again to all, so much to learn and share each day. jg\'wells\'pendleton
Comments: What's with this wacky formatting? I'll e-mail the guestbook provider to see if they can fix it. sigh.
Comments: Hi Kathleen, The wild hogs are a result of domestic escapees...as I said, they breed like rabbits...........they are probably all over Texas. I know the Hill Country has major problems with them too. It only takes two escapees,male and female, to start a pack in an area. Soon there are hundreds that wreak havoc. We have been lucky that the ones we have had have been on the back 40 of our property so far...........of course, some of that area is hay making fields...they can destroy that in a heart beat.
Comments: Charlotte, It is not just the country folk who have trouble with wild critters. We live in the middle of Dallas and I've seen everything from weasels, snapping turtles, red foxes, wolves, armadillos, opossums, raccoons and coyotes. The coyotes seem to be the most aggressive. Recently, our headlights seemed to save our neighbors black cat which the coyote had chased into the corner sidewalk drain. Not liking the headlight glaring at him, he coyote grudgingly went back into the creek. I have a question: Why are there so many wild hogs running loose?
Comments: Boy, this guest book sure jumps around in format. Sharon, i can't even tell you how many armadillos have been trapped this summer at the ranch and carried miles off. Those little devils come to the irrigated part and just wreak havoc. They are after grub worms etc. That is why they dig up the world. The worst is my flower beds...It seems they always come the night before we are having company....It's like that is a cue for them to get busy destroying the beds. Our area has problems with wild hogs too....they breed like rabbits and some are in huge packs. They can destroy a whole pasture in one night rooting around. There is a whole group of folks that are into the hobby of trapping them...they have specially trained dogs that assist them in surrounding the pack and running them to the trap. These guys will come on your property and do this for the fun of it at no cost to the property owner. These guys carry them off, I have no idea what happens to the wild hogs.............some say they give them to people to feed and butcher etc. I know Ouida's area has them too. I think her neighbors set out traps. These are HUGE critters!
Comments: where have all the cheer loaders gone and the foutbull benders too???? have they all gone to arthurs ??? or the drive in/out??? or maybe winstars ??? welcome all ansers to those wonderings!!!! TROY FIELDS GLASS 1964 # 61 GUARD / LINOBACKER
Comments: I haven't seen any coyotes in my area yet, but I did have a big old armadillo rooting around the yard. He made a pretty big mess in a small area. I think it was eating the acorns that have fallen. But it evidently made a huge mess in my neighbor's yard. She said it was trying to dig under her foundation and there was a big pile of dirt. I haven't seen any traces of it for a week, so maybe she trapped it. Hey, Judy Gay Wells, I do remember you from HB, Boude Storey and SOC. Glad to have you on board. |
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