Speaking of swimsuits, Cousin Johnny, are you gonna weigh in on that little Jimmy Buffett Margaritaville number you picked up at Costco, or are you just going to forward photos?   Guess I could suggest the SOC '63 Swimsuit edition!  Ginger?  Charlotte?  Kathleen?  Dr. Proctor?

One thing's for sure, Sharon.  Just about everybody in Dallas knows where Church Road is.  HUD sent a team out a few years ago to fix up Ms. Johnson's little house for her.  It was amazing to watch what they could do in a day.  The lady in the house behind hers looks out for her and helps her financially.  We live in a good world.

Thanks, Lynell.  When you see something for the first time that has obviously been there for years, it makes you curious.  It also made me realize how unobservant I am.  I just have tunnel vision when it comes to driving to and from work.

Barry, thanks for the Splash Day info.  Chicken on the high board! 

Leftnell:  Do you and David still live down the street from LHHS?  I took a detour on my way home last week and for the first time noticed a tiny, frame house at the intersection with Skillman.  It sits on a huge lot and still has a propane tank.  And, it looks as if someone still lives there!  So totally out of place with everthing that has been built around it.  I bet that lot is worth a pretty penny.  By the way, thanks for all your hard work, the new site is great.

What a nice surprise today to hear from my buddy Martha Jo Alice Bass Hunt who was in town and looking for someone to shop with.  T J Maxx never knew what hit it.  Being an optimist who's looking forward to warm weather, I bought a swimsuit.  When does Glendale open?

Tsk, Tsk, Tsk...Bill or.....Tacky, Tacky, Tacky....as Dorothy Virginia Hopson Hearn use to say...

                           Virginia Ann 'Ginger' Hearn
                                                                                         

I worked at Southwestern Bell from 65-70. I worked in information and there were thousands of names like David Smith.. You would think that Ginger Hearn was more unique than it is. I've googled me and found there are at least 4 of us. 2 of us have taught school in Tenn... Well, you all have fun with your politics..
Tea Bagger is derogatory?? Sam, since you have info, tell us what Tea Bagger means?? There's Carpet Bagger... Tea Bagger??    I like my tea to be in bags..I use 'loose' tea, but tea bags are much more convenient...!

I don't know the first thing about candidate David Smith, but I was slightly relieved that he didn't win.  Even though he's in Plano, I know our phone would ring with complaints about trash pickup or something.  There was a coach at SMU named David Smith.  We had collect calls at all hours from boys who wanted to play basketball.  A publishing agent by that name gets calls here, too.  There are hundreds of David Smiths in Dallas, so I suppose all of them get these wrong numbers.  If your name is unusual, be happy about it!

Kathleen knows that's a derogative, rude slang term.  We've had that discussion.  I'd just say Cousin Johnny, I'd be careful to hang my star on the Democrat candidate for Texas governor, just because he was previously a Houston mayor.  It's not really a left of center state at the moment, and a country that's figured out the unsavory agenda and is moving right.  Other than that, I wish Bill White, and Kinky well.  

There is no moral party out there..Char. You know they tried to sell the Republican Party as the moral party. Perry might be guilty... I'll seek the truth, Char. Are you 'buds' with the Perry's?  Do you know Kinky? Do I need your autograph too?
 It's cold at night, 40's in the day. May warm up to the 60's this weekend..My DAR chapter is serving coffee, punch and cookies to the veterans and families at the VA Hospital every Wednesday throughout March..I'm on duty tomorrow. It's good for us little old ladies to do something nice every once in a while.. You know Char, most of those DAR ladies are Republicans!! Imagine that?  
                                                                           

Ginger, why do you insist that Gov Perry has a mistress.........do you think this just because he is a man and a politician? Or is it because you know this as fact.  If so, produce the facts.  Otherwise I will assume it is another media maneuver and that you are not as independent as you claim to be...

Ginger, just because I'm on a first name basis with Kinky Friedman doesn't mean I know all the "affairs of state".  You may be confusing me with cousin Southworth, who hangs with Farouk Shami for political reasons, or for the hair care products.  I hate to break it to Johnny but.....oh never mind.  Now, who is it I'm supposed to know?  Hopefully Debra Medina will beat Perry and Hutchison in the primary.  We need a good Tea Partyer in Austin!     

Have you-all seen the list on "How You Can Tell If Someone is a Republican"..??
It's very entertaining... I'm going to see if I still have that email...Ginger               
                                               

Lynell, it was the same here.  Maybe all the democrats voted early and often.

There you are Ms..Char..! I knew you would speak up..So...how is...Bill White.?
I remember when Bill Boner was Mayor of Nashville...That was another hoot..! Divorced from the mother of his children...and married some country western singer. They made fun of him...Okay...I'm checking into this Perry 'thingy'...

                                               

OK, I will step down off the soap box now.