I am amazed at your hospitality, love, care, and kindness. You have made me feel so welcome in your gracious communities. I will sincerely miss every one of you.
I am pleased and saddened at the same moment as I announce my retirement. It has been my greatest pleasure to serve you as your UPS delivery man for 17 and a half years. My last day to deliver to you will be Thursday, October 27.
I’ll Take the Oldies
I remember when my family bought their first TV (black and white of course).
It was so exciting to watch. We were limited then on channels, and it took a very funny metal thing placed on the roof to make it work.
One of my favorite shows on Friday and Saturday nights was “Command Performance.” It came on after the news report.
Most of these movies were made in the 30s & 40s. They would be comedy, drama, mystery, and romance. You learned to love all those stars.
Please Don’t Climb!
As I looked across the street this morning, I saw a herd of boys headed to the practice field. Yes, it’s that time...football season.
In 2007, we had an ex-student who wanted to donate something very special for our football stadium. He wanted his gift donated in honor of one of his best friends...Johnny King.
In 1960 and1961, our LIONS won back to back State Championships.
School’s
Coming!
If you ask the question, “Are you excited about school starting,” you may get some different answers. The answers range from “I can’t wait” to “I hate school.”
That second one bothers me.
I remember elementary as being really great. I moved here in my fourth grade year. The elementary school was practically brand new and very modern. The beginning of a school year was always exciting.
You usually got maybe a couple of new dresses and a new pair of school shoes (that had to last the entire year).
I’m running a little late, but I did want to say “Congratulations” to all of our 2019 graduates. What a wonderful time in your life.
Many of you will be headed off to colleges for continued education, and you will be making new friends. Some of these new friends will turn out to be lifetime friends.
Some of you have decided to go to work. There will also be those who decide to go into the military. Whatever you do in the future, do it well.
Here are a few lifetime tips:
•Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
If you were watching Fox News this past week, you may have seen that our little town of Albany, Texas landed a place on their broadcast.
The story was about a homeowner near Albany having trouble with his cable system. He crawled under his house looking for the problem. What he found was definitely not a cable problem but a rattlesnake problem.
The rattlesnake experts came and cleared out 45 snakes.
I guess that could be called a real RATTLESNAKE ROUNDUP.
I hope all of you had a nice spring break last week. At least we got a few days of pretty weather. I know all the parents were glad to see the sunshine.
I took a short trip to Aledo to visit my closest grandchildren – Alex, Henry, Ben, and Anna.
Henry and Ben both had birthdays. I got each boy a new game.I bought PIZZA MONOPOLY and a new game called PICTORIA.
They were games they didn’t already have. I had checked the weather forecast and noticed that we might be stuck in the house for awhile.
What did we do before cell phones?
Well, that’s an easy question to answer. Most of us carried on conversations talking face to face. Imagine that!
Sometimes we would even visit over the backyard fence. WOW! When was the last time you did that?
Back in the “olden days,” we did have telephones, which would probably now be called “antiques.” They were basically all black, and you dialed the number you wanted.
