Headquarters in St. Louis?  Jud, are you with the Mafia?  Are you really Maxwell Smart?  Come clean with your homeys, dude.

Jan's room has been changed to 717. I called but she was doing rehab and they would not let me talk to her. So I am assuming she is on the road to recovery. Keep those prayers going straight up to our Healer!

I meant "bud's not "bubs,right?right!Peaches,ya' got me doing it!

Sorry to hear about Jan's fall.She & I got to be bub's when I sold football tickets after lunch. Jan would "help" me so she could get a jump on the bell to next class.Obviously I didn't mind!She'll certainly be in my prayers for successful surgery and full & speedy recovery.

My dad's sister died at the age of 103.  My dad leans over and says, "There is a lot of family here but I don't see any of Betty's friends".  Duh!!  I have a friend in Duncanville that is in her 90's and made it a point many years ago to have younger friends along with her long time ones.  We still get together and have a great time with her.  Smart lady.  Linda I am sorry for your loss.  It is very painful but you will have a lot of people praying for you.

We have a friend who's 85, and the youngest of 13.  He recently lost his only surviving sibling at 92.  This is so hard on him.  He's still out of town, but we will be sure to include him in everything we can.

My mom was 91 in December.  She is still very active, lives alone and still drives (about a mile to church).  But she has lost two very close friends during the last year and she told me she was tired of going to funerals!  She is number 10 of 13 children and has a younger brother (88) and sister (85) still living.  So far, her only problem is losing her hearing.  We are blessed.

How crummy that Jan's going through still another medical ordeal.  Knowing her, she will come through this just fine.  I will keep her in my thoughts for sure.

her surgery not your surgery. But I know ya'll knew that.

Just received a call from Jan Fincher Tanco. She fell and broke her hip. She is having hip replacement surgery tomorrow at Parkland Hospital. Her room is 562. She has requested the prayers begin for your surgery and recovery.

If my memory serves me,we had to go out in the hall way for atom bomb,and tornado drills. I remember being on my knees with my head on the floor and my hands covering the back of my neck. This could have been a Florida school drill .My dad was moved to Florida in 1959  -1961. I missed  Boude story that last year. Anyone remember seeing my favorite movie The Searchers at an afternoon showing at "Story"?

I just got an estimate from the tree service company and nearly fainted.  I guess the crown for my tooth will have to wait a while.  But at least it will be safe to walk in my front yard.

Ginger, I think we instinctively saved the china because we didn't want all that glass crashing around us!  Also, I remember watching the news and seeing the map with the fault line.  It ran from Utah all the way down to Mexico.

Back in 1975, Randy and I went to Tucson on Spring Break to visit some friends we had made while he was in the army.  They lived (rented) in a beautiful, old main house of what had once been a "dude ranch" back in the 1920's.  The furnishings were all antiques with several gorgeous oak china cabinets and lots of crystal.  While having coffee early one morning, everything started vibrating for about 15 seconds.  We all looked at each other like "What's happening?"  About a minute later, a stronger vibration occurred and we all jumped up and ran for the china cabinets to hold the doors shut and keep them from walking away from the walls.  Thank goodness nothing broke.  We turned on the TV and learned that there had been a 6.5 quake in the Utah desert and what we felt were the aftershocks.  That's as close as I want to be to an earthquake.

Sharon, I worked for a while in a law office in Preston Center on the 8th floor.  They were forever having false alarms and making us walk out of the building.  Eight floors is quite a trek, and one time I saw one of the funny lawyers outside, looking all fresh.  I asked him how he got there so fast.  "Elevator."  I said, "What if the building were really on fire?"  He said, "I have lived a long and happy life..."

I have worked in the same building (5th floor) for 13 years.  The first couple of years the fire alarm went off at least twice a month and we would have to evacuate the building.  It was always a false alarm and we would just mill around the courtyard until the fire department let us back in.  Thank goodness they got the problem solved and now they just test the system every year.  I remember all the students having to go to the basement of Harrell Budd Elementary one time during a storm.  It was just a couple of weeks after the tornado in '57 and everyone was in panic mode. 

I remember bomb drills from grade school, and recall worrying about the bad guys nuking Chance-Vought.  Also fire drills were never held on rainy days.  Why was that?  I've never been in an earthquake drill.  What do you do in one of those?