Anita Marbury (Marbury)

I wish I could be there with all of you.

You have my heart.

Linda Marmion (Linder)

Many thanks to William for honoring our Waltrip men who gave their lives while serving our country! We all appreciatiate your thoughtfulness and time in making this plaque become a reality. I look forward to being there, and I'm thrilled that the current student body will be involved. I hope to see many members of the Class of '65 there. Encourage friends to attend!

Patricia Bissonnet (Bissonnet)

Thank you William for all of your work in honoring our servicemen.  I wish I could be at the dedication, but since I can't, I hope that those who attend will take a pc or two,and post them along with telling us what took place.  

Linda Webster

Thanks William. I wish I could attend but I'm in the middle of a big move. Take a lot of pictures and I hate to miss the dinner, but it just can't be helped.

Have a great time everyone!

Linda Webster

Hilda Carol Smith (Godell)

Ingrid Sears (Spiteri)

Thanks Hilda for the information about Mrs. Synnott.  I have lost touch with Sue over the years and was sad to hear the news about her Mother's passing.  She was like a 2nd Mom to me when I was growing up.  

Kay Watters (Greene)

I did post a bit ago, but it didn't go through.  Just wondering what everyone is doing and hoping that Harvey didn't get ya too badly..  I've really been enjoying the long extended fall, always thought fall was too short, not complaining now....The fall colors are not as good the last 3 yrs as before.  The stars are just as beautiful as always.  Anyway one of my pet projects was always doing home repairs and design and I've certainly enjoyed it out here.  However, just wondering if anyone has used the chalk paint on furniture.  How did this go?

Just remember, you don't have to be articulate, or extremely funny to get on this forum, "folksey" would be nice, just speak, lets get this site going again.

I've lived out here in Anderson for the last 22 yrs, and the town hasn't grown much. I really thought it would, but the Germans settled out here and they like it this way.  It is really beautiful and little known.  Everyone knows Navasota by now....we are tucked in the country eight miles from there.

  We now have a beautiful Junior and High school, the beautiful Courthouse where trials go on weekly, the famous Fanthorpe Inn, you can still visit for $1, tour and get the history, most weekends.  We even have a Senior Center and serve hot meals and great socialization.  Yes, it is a far cry from Houston, peaceful and quiet though, plenty of deer, and a great little hamburger place....Kott's cafe..  

Jan Barnes (Nimtz)

Kay, I was thinking the same thing around here (Boerne, TX hill country) that the leaves were not going to "turn" this year. Most years they start showing color in early to mid October. However last week everything that turns color (Spanish Oaks, Flame-Leaf Sumac, Big Tooth Maple) became brilliant almost overnight. Here is what our property looks like now!






 

Tom Britton

Absolutely beautiful!!

Kay Watters (Greene)

Jan, these are gorgeous pics.  Hill country is really beautiful.  Guess I've never seen it in the Fall.   Maybe soon, then, I may be a little premature. 

I have to explain the double comments.  I have it set up so the first, newest comment appears on the top in the 1964 Message forum, that is why I thought I lost it....lol.

Sandy Spears (Koslosky-Siddall)

Kay, I tried the Chalk Paint on my great-grandmother's wash stand. Just cleaned off the dirt and painted and it looks great.That said it is a rough finish which is fine for this type furniture. I noticed HD has a knockoff chalk "like" paint which I haven't tried. It's much cheaper but on something this important to me I'm not sure I'd chance it.

Lana Johnson (Horne)

I used chalk paint to paint my baby rocker--70 years old with 2 coats of paint.   No prep is needed other than just a water and soap cleaning, but I did use the wax to seal it when I was finished painting.  It looked great and my nearly 4 year old grandson has used it for the last 3 years. It still looks great!   Good Luck!

Joanna Hinton (Garrett)

I look up to you ladies using the chalk paint.  I had my Great Grandmother's dresser which was a gift by her husband and I took it out to my husband's shop and he made me tear it completely down to the bones scraping all of the rabit glue from the joints and then more to put it back to gether and refinish it back to it's original bones.  It took me over 8 months to finish it and I am so proud of myself in taking on the project (ran my hubby crazy with a million questions).

Stephen Ray Puckett

Well, we got our 1st snow of the season today, about 4", a bit more than Houston got.  It's pretty but damp, making shoveling more difficult.  It's not too deep along the Gulf Coast today but it has been bad in the past.

In 1895 Houston got 22 inches!!  Drifts were up to 5 feet.  Other amounts:

Austin, TX: Approximately 6";

Baton Rouge: 12.5";

Beaumont, TX: Approximately 28-30";

Brownsville: Approximately 6";

Galveston: 15.4";

San Antonio: 4.2";

Lake Charles, LA: 22.0";

New Iberia, LA: 13.5";

New Orleans: 8.2" downtown & 10.0" at the New Orleans Audubon;

Lafayette, LA: 14";

Rayne, LA: 24";

Cameron, LA: 15";

Houma, LA: 16";

Alexandria, LA: 8":

Baton Rouge, LA: 12.5";

Hattiesburg, MS: 8.6";

Biloxi, MS: 6.2".

More about it, with many photos:

https://spacecityweather.com/houston-snow-1895-galveston/

Imagine how it was!  I bet not a single car was on the road that day!

Stephen Ray Puckett

Memories of Christmas past: my first 'grownup' pair of boots - Christmas, 1952 

You can see those boots advertised here (1950):

If the boots were good enough to be sold at Roy's Corral, they were good enough for me!

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Carolyn Johnson (Blake)

Wow Steve, that sure triggered a memory. I had a cowgirl outfit, with red cowboy boots, and a red felt hat, with white letather binding. Little fringed skirt and matching shirt and my Roy Rogers guns and gunbelt. I was Dale Evans all the way!

Hilda Carol Smith (Godell)

Roger Felton

Hey Hilda, I was watching an old Roy Rogers episode on TV just last week.  Corny but when you're a kid you miss the obvious.  Back in  the 80's I was trying to put a promotion for a community crime prevention program together.  I got the bright idea to see if I could arrange for the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) to come to town for an appearance.  It seems Criminal Justice has turned to Criminal Compassion and prisons are simply revolving doors where criminals are popularized and victims are stacked in forgotten piles.  The LR and Tonto would catch the bad guys and they wouldn't see the light of day for 50 years.  Ah, the good ole days....

Anyway, someone at the Texas Rangers baseball team front office gave me a phone number and I called it.  With the word "Hello", I knew that deep resonant voice was him.  The moment would have been monumental if I had not forgotten that 8:00a Central was 6:00a Pacific.  I had just awoken the Lone Ranger!

He quickly forgave my stupidity and we had an amazing talk. He wasn't able to arrange his schedule for an appearance but it didn't matter.  I was spellbound.  We talked about his early career and his celebrity life as the Lone Ranger.  I told him about my belief in the impact he and his peers of that 50's-60's era had on kids.  Morally, spiritually, ethically America was a better country back then.  The days of unlocked doors when we knew all our neighbors as trusted friends.

Clayton Moore was touched.  Humbled perhaps.  It was as if he had never considered the concept that maybe the pinnacle of his career was more than just a TV kiddie show.  Did he make a difference in impressionable young minds?  I think so.

If we could bring Roy and Dale, the Lone Ranger and Tonto, Gene Autry, and all the others who helped teach us that good wins over evil, in today's world, their efforts would probably be futile for we are too far gone for simple solutions.  But those were wonderful times, weren't they?  

Clayton Moore sent me an autographed photo of him and Jay Silverheels with a note of thanks for the call.  For 40 minutes in 1984 it was Tonto on Scout, the Lone Ranger on Silver and me on my swaybacked quarterhorse, Charlie.  I was a kid again living a magical moment I never dreamed possible.  Rest in peace, Mr. Moore...and thanks for the unforgettable ride back in time. 

Arletta Parnell (Glankler)

Gee Roger! That was awesome reading.  Yes, I agree that all our favorite shows did have an impact on us, and it is ashame todays children can't learn the same morals we did. Remember Sky King, Fury, and Rin Tin Tin? Those truly were the good days.

Ingrid Sears (Spiteri)

What a great story, Roger.  I really enjoyed reading that.  Yes, all of those cowboy heroes definitely did shape our lives.  I remember when Roy Rogers came to the rodeo and I reached through the fence and got to shake his hand. My little hand was engulfed by this huge leather gloved hand.  I was so thrilled to have been able to shake hands with Roy Rogers. That moment is burned into my memory as if it was yesterday.

Roger Felton

Glad ya'll enjoyed my brush with greatness, lol.  Ingrid, that is so cool that you got to shake hands with Roy Rogers.  He had to have been a terrific person.  Dale, too, I bet. 

If that had been me I would never have washed that hand to this day...though not many would want to greet me at the reunions.

Tom Britton

Way too cool, Roger!!!

Carolyn Johnson (Blake)

Hello all,

I am posting the photo of the rubbing of Robert Johnson's entry on the Viet Nam Memorial. I posted earlier about how my friend found this for me during her visit last Fall. If anyone wants to use this photo in any way for the class memorial, I am sure Robert would be honored.

Carolyn

Hilda Carol Smith (Godell)

Teddie Jordan ' 64

Great story Roger. Good always won out over evil, and it only took 30 minutes to sort it all out. Such were the idyllic times of our post WWII youth in Mayberry, I mean OF and Garden Oaks. How blessed we were!

And Roy and Dale were my heroes. I used to ride out into the pasture on my boyhood horse Buddy and stop, and imagine that we were Roy and Trigger riding out into the center of the arena at the rodeo.