We are covered-up with Raccoons, Squirrels and Rabbits.
Our live traps are catching animals daily.
The grand-sons bait, set the traps
and release the animals.
May 26, 2012
May 25, 2012
May 24, 2012
Golf Champions
Rev. B. T. Skelton (fourth from left) led his team of Jay Pennington, Clyde Brewer, Ed Johnson and Freddie Keel
to the winner’s circle in the Pendleton Harbor Golf Tournament with a score of eleven under par.
On The Bright Side – May 23, 2011- Mary Howell
On The Bright Side
Mary Howell
An Open Letter to the Class of 2012.
You will soon be completing your high school education, This will be the biggest accomplishment for you thus far.
You have completed twelve, thirteen or fourteen years of study with your friends. Some of you may not see each other on a day-to-day basis as you have in the past. You are now going separate ways and you may not see each other but once or twice in the future.
I would like to encourage you to put God first in your life and love your parents and family members. They are the ones who care about you the most. Life will be different for you now. You will be responsible for the decisions you make. You will no longer be secure under your parents roof.
Some of you will continue your education in college. I encourage you to choose the subjects that interest you the most. Some of your friends may choose a military career in service of our country.
When you choose a career, make sure that it is one that will be financially secure and one that will bring satisfaction to you. Respect your bosses and your co-workers. Save your money for your future. If possible, put aside one to two hours pay each day for a rainy day. Never spend your money before you earn it and never spend your last dollar.
Save time for your family if you choose to marry and have children. Make their care a priority.
Avoid habits that will be harmful to your health. The way you take care of your body when you are young will determine your health when you are old.
I congratulate you on your graduation from Hemphill High School. West Sabine high School and Brookeland High School. May God bless you as you begin a new journey in your life.
May 23, 2012
May 22, 2012
May 21, 2012
Mamaw’s Banana Pudding
I can’t remember when mom started making banana puddings.
I can remember many of their guest requesting her recipe
which she generously provided.
At church bazaars, fire department feeds, community fish fries, and
any time our family got together her banana pudding was a hit.
In this video she enjoys a banana pudding made from her recipe.
Bottom right icon of video give you full screen
and ESC to return.
May 20, 2012
“AN ALARMING SITUATION” – Neal Murphy
“AN ALARMING SITUATION”
BY: NEAL MURPHY
The boarding house on Wettermark street near the campus of Stephen F. Austin State College was the setting for many a juvenile prank during the fall of 1955. I was a freshman student at the Nacogdoches college living in the large, two-story house with eight other male students at the time. More time was invested in playing pranks on each other than in studying the expensive courses required for a degree.
Looking back on this year I am amazed that I passed any courses at all as so much time was spent playing dominoes or forty-two than anything else, except perhaps jokes and pranks on the other residents.
One of the residents was a young man from a small town near Tyler. He was somewhat socially inept, the perfect target for innocent harassment. One fall afternoon while *Jim was gone someone of our group devised the perfect practical joke which had Jim’s name all over it. After explaining the details of the prank to the rest of us, we all agreed. All the tools needed were as many alarm clocks as we could gather together, which was a total of five.
Most alarm clocks in those days were the wind-up kind not needing electricity to work. We entered Jim’s room and began carrying out our devious plot. We set each alarm clock to go off at thirty-minute intervals, beginning at two o’clock in the morning. Then we hid each one in places such as desk drawers, the closet, chest of drawers, and under his bed. Our plan completed, we all retreated to our own rooms and waited.
Jim returned home just in time for supper at the boarding house, an experience in itself. Around midnight we all retired for the night awaiting the results of our plan. At two o’clock I heard the muffled sound of an alarm clock in Jim’s room. Then the sounds of someone stumbling over furniture in the dark combined with a few choice words. Our scheme was working.
Things settled down for awhile as he evidently located the clock and turned it off. It would not be long before the second one would go off.
At the sound of the second alarm clock more choice words were heard as he searched out the location of this clock. This time he yelled out, “Who the hell is doing this to me?” I heard several voices from other rooms: “It wasn’t me.” “I didn’t do it.” “What clocks?” “Anybody hear any clocks?”
After the third clock chimed Jim finally got up and began an all-out search for the remaining clocks which he located. Seems I recall a couple of them being hurled at the wall. “This is not funny. I have a test tomorrow”, he whined. The boarding house was extremely quiet the rest of the night.
Poor Jim was a good-natured fellow and accepted our pranks as just a part of college boarding house culture. However, I recall that the next week several of us had our beds “short-sheeted” by a person or persons unknown. Tit for tat, an eye for an eye, sowing or reaping, giving and receiving – whatever one wants to call it, it was definitely in effect here.
I have often wondered what happened to Jim. He did not return to the boarding house the next year. It was suggested that he probably became a clock and watch repair man, considering his background and experience.
* name changed
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About the Author
Neal Murphy resides in his birthplace, San Augustine, Texas, with his wife Clara. He has two children, Kay Fatheree, a pastor’s wife now living in Abilene, Texas, and Douglas Murphy, a police officer in North Carolina, and has five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Neal earned a bachelor of business administration degree from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, and a master’s degree in insurance from the Insurance Institute of America. He also attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he studied religion courses. He is a deacon at a Baptist Church, has taught Sunday school classes, and directed church choirs for many years. He began his writing in 2005, and many of his short stories about his life growing up in a small Texas town have been published in Reminisce Magazine, Good Old Days Magazine, Looking Back Magazine, and the Town Square Magazine. He had a story included in Memories of Mother, a book published by Xulon Press. Another story was published in the book Dear Old Golden School Days published by the DRG Publishing Group. He published a book, From the Heart of a Country Preacher, by Xulon Press in 2006. His second book entitled Those Were the Days was published by Xlibris Inc. in 2007. In 2008 he published another book, The Psalms—From the Heart of a Country Preacher, by Xlibris Inc. He is a founding member of the Deep East Texas Literary Guild of San Augustine, Texas, founded in 2009. He has weekly stories in the San Augustine Tribune and the Toledo Chronicle, an online newspaper. He has a monthly story in the Shelby County Today online newspaper.
May 19, 2012
Look what the grandsons caught in the live trap!
Lukie should have taken this to school for “show and tell”
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And it would have made a great pet for Brett,
but his mom thought otherwise.
May 18, 2012
Our family is growing
