just a quick up-date on the progress of the montague county minor-leaguer… he got his second shut-out last night… his first win as a pro… pitched five and two-thirds innings.. gave up five scattered hits…zero runs… lowered his e.r.a. for twenty five innings of play to 1.78…. ground ball to fly ball ratio… 14–1 (line [...]
Archive for July, 2007
pam’s baby-boy
Posted in Uncategorized on July 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
remember recess
Posted in Uncategorized on July 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
i noticed that a crew of volunteers was erecting new play-ground equiptment over the week-end at montague school…. this new stuff looks totally foreign to me… bright colored plastic jungle… you can’t have any real fun on that stuff.. it’s all designed for safety… no thrill factor to it…
i didn’t see the standard [...]
lecherous liaison
Posted in Uncategorized on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
the reports are still trickling in from the saturday night gathering at the state park…. seems tom went missing about ten o’clock and a through search conducted by concerned friends was fruitless… eventually he did reappear as silently and quickly as he vanished…..
he explained it away by saying he had retired to the [...]
scott’s sermon
Posted in religion on July 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
i visited central christian church on sunday… what a beautiful old building. … high ceilings.. exposed beams.. plenty of wall length stained glass windows.. comfortable seats and a good air-conditioner… enough about the building..
while the congregation was small , the welcome feeling i experienced was large…
i’ve known scott for several years thru [...]
here’s one for winnie
Posted in Uncategorized on July 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
i met some new folks last night at tom’s place… one of which was winnie… actually i had met her and her husband once before at grumpy’s wedding , but only briefly … just prior to the fireworks display… they didn’t hang around too long after that…
anyhow turns out i see her often times [...]
all for nought
Posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
nobody reads this stuff on the weekend, but i’m writing it anyway…. just need to keep in practice for the report that is sure to come tonight at tommy o’neals air show.
i had a super good saturday.. just mowing grass and burning brush… we can still burn stuff out here in sub-urbs…no code enforcement…. [...]
prime cut appreciation
Posted in Uncategorized on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
mark the calander… tomorrow night - 5 p.m.- tom and his staff are hosting the biggest and the baddest thank-you extravaganza ever held in montague county..
first of all on the program is the dare-devil heart stoppin air show.. sure to thrill red-necks of all ages……then the night-crawler will do a couple of fly overs [...]
jubilee july
Posted in Uncategorized on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
when was the last time you remember green grass in july?? temperatures under a hundred.. lakes running over…. fat cattle..hay feilds covered with round-bales…. water hoses and sprinklers still in storage… peach trees breaking limbs from the abundance of fruit….flowers loaded with blooms… all these things giving testimony to the fact that God is good.. [...]
osh kosh
Posted in Uncategorized on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
chipper and two-shirts and steevie o’boy are currently in osh-kosh.. checkin out the airplanes… chipper will be wearing fresh starched round-house overalls and his trade-mark panama hat… talkin trash to any aviation buff that breaks stride… wonder if he’ll tell them about the time the bingham’s gave him mouth to mouth after missing the [...]
O stands for oil-change
Posted in Uncategorized on July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
big -o’s working at the barn the other day… changing the oil in a skid steer loader.. when his cell phone rang.. he quit his task momentarily to answer the phone… it was some guy that had closed a deal on a quarter- million dollars worth of lonita’s cattle.. he was leaving a fax [...]
