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Read moreWayne is out of pocket this week so we are running one of his columns from the past.
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At this stage of life, I spend a lot of time looking for things. (glasses, keys, pens, etc.) One of our readers said he thought of me when he read the following. Some of you other “old timers” might also identify with it.
Read moreMy Mom’s stepfather was a nice old guy and I loved him very much. But he talked a lot, chewed tobacco, and told some of the same stories over and over. His greatest pleasure come summertime was going to Cortez, Colorado for the summer months to visit my Uncle John and Aunt Lula out on their red bean farm out on the wild prairies near Cortez. He said the air was dry out there and “I don’t smother” so bad out there. So, he would pack up his deadly nightshade (digitoxin) and his little bottle of nitroglycerin, catch a bus in Stonewall and head out. But Grandpa was old, and he was forgetful.
Read moreAre we, at last, in the final days of this great Pandemic? Some sources still run on about fresh outbreaks in scattered places, but the overall picture is good. Cases are declining. Each week hundreds of thousands are receiving their shots. Over. Millions have already had the dread disease while many others think the thing was a hoax. But as the number of those who have had COVID increase and the number of those vaccinated meld we approach something called herd immunity. Soon? Yes.
Read moreWalker Ray (Corky) my wife Pat and I made a drive down to Eastern Oklahoma some years ago. Our destination was Maxie Cemetery, about a mile off US-270 a few miles this side of Wister, Oklahoma. We went there to place some new gravestones — the main one marking our grandfather George Washington Boyd’s grave. He was my mom’s dad and he died young in the great pandemic of 1918. May 17 of 1918 to be exact. There was the grave of my great Uncle there too and his was illegible too. So we replaced his too. His name was Mike Boyd. The old sandstones had faded away so bad you could not read the hand chiseled names and dates on them. Corky believed, as did I that families should see to things like this. Neglected graves can become “lost.”
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Oreo Cookies now Political?
Read moreBetty Hanner writes that we all like to complain about the cold weather Ɖ while we are snuggled in woolen socks, fleece-lined boots, thermal underwear, down-filled coats and whatever else we need to brave the cold outdoors. Then we come into centrally heated homes, soak in hot tubs of water, crawl into beds warmed by electric blankets, wake up to automatically brewed hot coffee, and go to work in heated cars Ɖ and still we say we are cold.
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