Birthdays Are Time For Reflection

From left to right: Donna, Mark, Barbee, Mother

It was my birthday last week , and on my birthdays I tend to think back on some old memories. Well I thought that I should put some of these old school pics out here. So here is my brother with a couple of friends.

We always had a little get togeather at my house at Christmas time, Good Time's and Good Friends

We would always go to the Guadalupe River on the Memorial Day weekends, we would raft, canoe, ride in inner tubes.I did this for about 13 to 14 yrs in a row.

Me and these two guys have been friends for many years, I learned to shoot a bow from Link, which I still do today, and I have been trying to get Morgan to shoot but he just hasn't had the desire to shoot much, so I don't push. I figure he will come around someday.

Here are some more of my friends, Eddie,the guy wearing the Mack truck hat, passed away in the summer of 09. We were friend for many years starting around 1974, Eddie and his brother passed within days of each other, Eddie from complications of diabetes, and Eloy from some kind of cancer. Well I hoped you enjoyed some of the pics, I know some who are in them might.





Monday After Superbowl

Well it is the Monday after the Superbowl and a week of ice. I really do not know how those folks up north deal with the cold and cabin fever, better them than me. So let's talk a little football shall we. Halftime sucked, it should have been a country show being's how it was in Texas, what were the planners thinking, halftime is for the fans, enough about that. As far as the game went, it was pretty good, and I am glad that Pittsburgh lost. Now let's talk ice, the week pretty well sucked also. If the weather would have been like it should have been , North Texas would have hosted a really successful  Superbowl and we would have got all the out of towners money. Now that's not to say that it doesn't snow and have ice storms in February because we do.

Snowed In

Feb. 1 2011 Ice storm who would have thought it, well I would. All one has to do is live here in Dallas for 40 years and they can figure it out. I got up to go to work and was driving in it at 5:30am and it was not really that bad, I was at the Walmart on I30 in Rockwall, that is where i meet the guy I carpool with.

 He didn't show up so I called him and he was already downtown as he got a call to be in early in case of any water pipe busts (he is a plumbing supervisor) and he said that it was pretty bad out there, so I decided that I didn't need to go to work that bad as I don't make enough to cover the deductible in case I am in a accident.

I decided to gas up but the gas was $2.95 a gallon up from $2.82 last night, so I went to Tom Thumb's ($2.81) in Rowlett got gas then went into Tom Thumb and got  some bread and Dr.Pepper's and when I got on 66 to go back to Rockwall the road had about 2" of icy slush and it was getting worst.

With the sorry road conditions and cold temperatures, this will put a damper on the Superbowl festivities, hopefully we will get back to the weather that is easier to travel and party in.