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03/24/10 01:27 PM #494     Jennie Anderson (Dylan) Thanks for the great suggestions! I have cut, pasted and sent them on. I don't suffer from insomnia, but I copied one for me so if I ever do I can try some of these. Kay, I'm glad you put your cattle raising that way. It is easier to then just hug and love them.

03/24/10 02:28 PM #495     Richard Meek Jennie and Kay there is a great article in this morning's Chronicle about a young woman that won second in the cow & calf competition at the HLSS & Rodeo. She found someone to buy her cow and calf with a promise not to slaugther them. She also got him to agree to bathe them once a week! Jennie you probably remember that the show used to be called the Houston Fat Stock Show and Rodeo. It was changed to the Houston Live Stock Show and Rodeo when all the information started being published about how good beef fat is about clogging your arteries. They wanted to get away from the negative conotation of "fat stock". Probably tmi. Kay have you thought about raising miniature horses? People just buy them for pets so you don't have you worry about them being someone's dinner. There is a Catholic religious order over around Bellville I think that raises them for sale.

03/24/10 03:34 PM #496     Kay Watters (Greene) Aaaah Richard, you are too much....but helpful. I forgot to mention that my twin had two minature horses because they thought they were cute....not worth a darn thing. Their manes were always knotted, they bit and kicked, and they are f a s t, when you are having to corral them, jumpy actually. Always trying to mount my regular horse....but you are right on the cows being pasture art. Kinda like our old grandparents that bought pony, chickens, ducks, peacocks, etc. so we could enjoy them. I have visited the Catholic farm when I moved out here. It is on 105 toward Brenham. I think they've closed to the public now.

03/24/10 04:42 PM #497     Richard Meek I think I saw the small horses on the Eyes of Texas. They mentioned that they act like any other horse. They don't know they're small I guess. A cousin of mine used to raise Brangus cattle on his acreage in Waller. He had it all planted in Coastal Bermuda. Those black cows sure looked good in those pastures. You're right that Herefords are very good looking also. Good luck on raising them.Where I go fishing down near Sargent there is a ranch that has a herd of Longhorns.They are magnificent. It must have been a sight to behold when they used to drive a whole herd north to the railroads.

03/24/10 04:53 PM #498     Jennie Anderson (Dylan) Janne Semeyn Boone volunteers caring for miniature horses and shetland ponies. In pictures they look so cute. She spends a lot of time brushing burrs out of them. They seem to ALWAYS have burrs. Horses probably require more time than cows, but I love seeing both out in pastures. Last summer during the drought I missed seeing them on my way back and forth to Austin.

03/25/10 08:15 AM #499     Robert (Robby) Wallis All the cattle are standin' like statues All the cattle are standin' like statues They don't turn their heads as they see me ride by But a little brown mav'rick is winkin' her eye I love the Ray Charles / Count Basie rendition of this tune...Shirley we all know the title and composers of the tune these lyrics are part of?

03/25/10 04:56 PM #500     Jan Barnes (Nimtz) Of course! Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'!

03/26/10 02:55 PM #501     Talley Hudson I'm heading down your way tomorrow. Will stay with my cousin outside of the big town of Industry and hit the Antique Fair for a couple of days. Then meeting Pat Bissonnet and Suzie Cunningham for a swinging night in Smithville, on to Wimberley to visit my dad and back to Austin for a night with Lou Ann. I am counting on some good weather, so use your powers to make it happen please! Sure hope the reunion falls on a weekend when I can make it back down to see lots more of you.

03/26/10 11:08 PM #502     Leah Favella Jennie I keep telling you to come to Florida for a real beach just walk across the bridge from my house and walk straight to the turquoise blue waters of the Atlantic,oh yes and the Beach...Beats the long drive to Galveston...the walk will take you about 10 minutes...or sit on my couch and watch the boats go down the InterCoastal.......Really a calming experience that I am sooo luckey to experience every day....The invite is always open!!!

03/27/10 12:16 AM #503     Talley Hudson Robby, we'll go to Warrenton and Round Top, or is it Round Rock?? I get those round towns mixed up. It goes on for miles and miles--lots of "stuff" to see. Always fun for me, though. Won't be entering Harris Co. on this trip (no warrants that I know of) but hope to if a date is ever set for the reunion. Leah, how many of us can you put up at once??

03/27/10 02:56 PM #504     Jennie Anderson (Dylan) Leah, it sounds like a vacation to me, I'll shoot for this summer sometime. I have always loved Florida. Janne and I used to surf on the East Coast of Florida every single summer and spring break of college. We almost got arrested in Ft. Lauderdale one vacation, if fact out dates did. I was the only one of age at the time and our car got stuck in the sand on the beach with, unfortunately, beer. Fortunately, the cop didn't arrest me for buying the stuff, so we were free to go. Spent all night trying to figure out how to get them out of jail. What fun times those were, ooh, if I COULD BE 19 AGAIN!!!!!!

03/28/10 09:13 PM #505     Ingrid Sears (Spiteri) Jennie, another good remedy for insomnia is to take 2 Benadryl. They won't hurt you, but will make you sleepy. Had some great wine up in Napa. My niece works at the Etude Winery..fantastic wine and I can get it for 1/2 price with her employee discount.

03/29/10 10:12 AM #506     Richard Meek Jennie, I noticed in the paper yesterday that CVS has a special on Barefoot Wines (They're part of the Gallo empire) 2 for $10. I haven't tried all the wines they sell but the ones I have drunk were well made and a very good value. I'd only want to be 19 again if I could take what I've learned bck with me. Now that would be the way to go! Ingrid you have a super opportunity there. Etude is a very good winery. Do you drive up to Napa along the coast? What a great drive. It's challenging for us flatlanders to focus on driving and see all the breathtaking scenery. You're right there are good wines being made all over CA. The Rhone style wines from the Santa Barbara area are really excellent. Believe it or not the Texas wine industry is turning out some really good wines now. The winery at College Station, Mesina Hof makes some really good ones. They grow their grapes out around Lubbock.Just remember, drink no wine berore it's time. It's time!

03/29/10 04:32 PM #507     Jennie Anderson (Dylan) Thanks Richard, I will try them out on my nephew that is coming over Easter. We've done some wine tasting together in New Braunfels a couple of summers ago. 2 for $10, how can that be beat????? My friend is very happy with the insomnia suggestions. She's trying them out and seems better at the moment. She sends a great big thank you to all of the contributors.

03/31/10 02:01 AM #508     Ingrid Sears (Spiteri) Richard, Yes, we drove up the coast and stopped in Monterey and did the 17 mile drive...had beautiful weather. No matter how many times you see Big Sur, it's beauty still takes your breath away. Another terrific winery in Napa is Round Pound. Their 2006 Cabernet is about the best I have ever tasted...very fruit laden. They also produce a rich and robust olive oil from trees they grow on the property. It is worth taking the tour and doing the tasting. Last year when I was in the Hill Country I was really surprised by all the vineyards. I hear they make some pretty decent wine there.

03/31/10 10:00 AM #509     Richard Meek Ingrid you are right. Big Sur is amazing. The more I learn about it the more interesting it becoomes to me in addition to being beautiful. There is a restaurant south of Carmel (can't think of the name at the moment) that sits right on some cliffs overlooking the ocean. I spent a great morning there on one trip watching whales breaching just off shore. A half grown whale came right up to the base of the cliffs and spent a while just investigating. What an experience. My friends that live in Carmel told me in all the years they had lived there they hadn't gotten that close a look at one of the whales. Just good luck on my part. I'll look for Round Pound and give it a try. A couple of wineries in the Hill Country that I like are Becker in Fredricksburg and Texas Hills near Johnson City. A little bit of trivia. In the 1800's the French vineyards were being destroyed by the plant louse, Phyloxera. A horticulturist in Denton, TX, T. V. Munson sent root stock from native Texas grapevines to France. The French gafted their noble vinifera vines onto that root stock and that was what saved the French vineyards. The Texas root stock is resistant to Phyloxera. I think they also got some nativerootstock from California. The French don't like to talk about this too much.

04/01/10 12:19 PM #510     Ingrid Sears (Spiteri) Richard, That is an interesting piece of trivia...doesn't surprise me about the French though. My brother has a home in Johnson City; I'll have to try the wineries you suggested next time I'm there.

04/02/10 09:58 AM #511     James N (Tam) Siedow Several years ago I bought a used book about wine that was published in the 1920s and it focused pretty heavily on French wines. The guy who wrote it was the worst kind of snob about French wines and he spent quite a few pages insisting that there hadn't been a truly great French vintage after the American root stocks had been grafted onto the French scions. It's also worth noting that Phylloxera came over to Europe in the first place on imported American grape vines. That is interesting about Munson Richard. I did not know there was a Texas connection. Thanks for pointing that out.

04/02/10 11:25 AM #512     Richard Meek Apparently T.V. Munson thought Texas was an ideal place for wine grapes. Texas apparently had a pretty thriving wine industry until that "noble experiment" called Prohibition wiped it out except for Val Verde Winery down on the Rio Grande in Del Rio (I think). They are still in business today. They just kept on growing grapes and making wine. It was too small and too far from civilization for the Revenuers to fool with. The California wineries that managed to stay in business made sacramental wines. They also sold grapes to home wine makers all over the country. People could still make wine for their own consumption. From what I've read when the revenuers raided some of the wineries they poured the wine in local creeks. The locals were running downstream and filling whatever containers they had with the wine. Must have been quite a scene to witness. Not too humorous to the families it put out of business.

04/02/10 01:52 PM #513     James N (Tam) Siedow That sacramental wine thing is interesting. We have visited quite a few wineries in California over the years and among the larger ones it amazes me how many managed to stay afloat during prohibition. They generally talk a lot more about making sacramental wine than they do selling home winery kits. I can only surmise that we were a relatively religious bunch during prohibition. I suppose abstinence will do that to you.

04/03/10 02:34 PM #514     Richard Meek Jim I've often wondered how much of it was sacramental and how much was just called that. Apparently though home wine making was more common back then than it is now. Many box car loads of grapes or more probably grape juice ws sent back east. I've also wondered if some of them either regrafted or replanted their vines and grew table grapes. Then converted back to wine grapes after prohibition went away.

04/06/10 04:42 PM #515     Stephen Ray Puckett Speaking of, ahem, medicinal herbs, was there experimenting with such during high school? I certainly wasn't aware of anything like that at the time...but then, there were a lot of things I wasn't aware of in those daze. About 20 years or so ago, I was talking with a woman from a later class. She told me that it was definitely happening in my class - a giant surprise to me and still hard for me to believe. Another surprise for me: I was going through my annual shoe/belt maintenance routine a few weeks ago and realized that I have shoes older than my boss! I went back to work the next day, looked around, and discovered that I am probably the oldest one on my floor and likely the oldest one in my department that is in this town. We have quite a few that are a few years younger but no one my age or older. That has never happened before to me in a workplace. I am still thinking about that one. I guess it comes with the age.

04/07/10 10:29 AM #516     Talley Hudson Back from my trip to Texas. Had a blast! Will post a couple of pictures later. Robby, I didn't see your post until after I went to Warrenton. I actually bought a metal armadillo to put on my deck. Bet TSA was trying to figure out what that was in my luggage! The weather was wonderful and the wildflowers were popping all over. Loved it! Picked up a nice Pinot Grigio in Wimberley. It was from the Llano winery. Did you know there is a Talley winery in California? I bought a wine opener and a couple of glasses from them because I was excited to find anything that had my name on it. It was always a bummer for me growing up that the little keychains, etc., never had a Talley. So, Stephen, I can totally relate to being the oldest at work. Last year on January 28 I was sitting with my boss and another person in our office, and I mentioned that it was the anniversary of the space shuttle explosion. Then we started talking about memorable dates and I mentioned Kennedy's assassination. Turns out neither of them had been born! Oh well, the good news is that I'm still alive and actually feel pretty good for an "old" woman! Hope to see all of you at the reunion.

04/07/10 10:58 AM #517     Richard Meek I think Jan and Talley are right. Don't think of yourself as old. As my sister says, "we're just not young anymore". Just so you don't feel old I recently read taht John Wooden (former basketball coach @ UCLA) is still working (writing and speaking gigs) at 99, Ernest Borgnine is still working at 92. He and Tim Conway are voices for characters on the cartoon show Sponge Bob Square Pants. Brognine also appears in four movies that are due for release. I read a book about longevity (Blue Zones) recently. It says that in Okinawa that people only work to 97. After that they're taken care of. So just keep on keeping on. You'll be way better off.

04/07/10 12:36 PM #518     Kenneth Armbrister We are all 18 year olds trapped in 60 something bodies. My wife describes me as "her child that won't grow up and won't leave home".

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