eighteen short months after construction began on the fenotee hilton , workers continue at a fever pitch …. there’s two crews , one building… one doing demolition on work previously completed..the play room and pool dressing room used to be a garage…. the pool area used to be a breakfast patio… the patio surrounding [...]
Archive for May, 2008
popeye’s pipe-yard pumlin
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
rags to riches real estate…
Posted in Uncategorized on May 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
i got an inquisitive e-mail this a.m. from a certified real estate appraiser. he was wondering about the for-sale sign posted on the five wire fence along the highway frontage of the thousand acre bottom-land ranch of the renowned bull-dozer salesman on salt creek.. i’m talking about the walker ranch…. he’s got that homestead [...]
montague medical
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
#1 grandson heath taylor has been on the d.l. for a couple of weeks now…. that’s baseball talk for disabled list… he hurt his throwing arm while passing out some heat in north carolina… removed from the game after only a couple of innings..
he flew to cleveland ohio yesterday to visit the indians doctor…. after [...]
poison pen prediction
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ground breaking has finally begun on the wooded acreage overlooking the freeway… the future home of bowie high school… fifty acre campus with a view of the lake…
the windowless school of 66 is obsolete… overcrowded… inadequate…inefficient…a brownbrick dinosaur… a perfect campus for underclassmen..
other groundbreaking activity includes the ozona bank on fifty nine , [...]
high school track phenom
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
click on bonnie richardson… in the right hand column of this page…. read about this unbelievable track star…. texas born and bred !
montague honeymoon
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28, 2008 | 5 Comments »
forty two years ago today , carolyn began her civic duty … a monumental undertaking… a lifetime of servitude as the child bride of the shortfellow…
we were married in a small church in bowie with family and friends looking on with jealous hearts … she was the prettiest thing this country boy had [...]
california carter cousin…
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
much to my amazement , a third time forewarded e-mail revealed that the california wonder is actually a california cousin… i’m tellin ya ! she’s a carter ! i’ve been searchin for my roots ever since i saw kunta-kentae in prime time … now i’m on a solid trail at last…
i’m thinking during [...]
welcome ! to the west-coast woman…..
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
i’ve known for quite some time that the roans sis in colorado is a dedicated reader of the blog… kody in bellview washington is also a loyal visitor , but only recently learned from tom that there is a new reader on the west coast… he referred to her as the california kid… or [...]
memorial day memories…
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
chipper and i spent the day monday doing the veterans thing… had breakfast with sargent major mac at the bowie american legion hall..sausage ,eggs , bacon and the works…. visited with a few of the sparcely scattered remaining veterans of w.w.II . they’re dying by the thousands nation wide every day from natural causes and old [...]
underwear for underwoooooood !
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
on a recent airplane ride with chipper it came to my attention just how many private swimming pools there are within three or four miles of the courthouse…north , south , east and west… i’m not talking about above ground plastic pools , i mean cement ponds burrowed into back yards… patios and diving boards.. secret [...]
