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Charles and I celebrated our 50th anniversary tonight with a nice dinner at a lovely restaurant. We hope to go on a trip this summer or maybe in the autumn. Can't believe that so many years have passed, and can't believe we are Seniors getting some nice discounts now and then! We were reminiscing about our first night as a married couple. We had been married in Richardson at the church I had always attended, then drove to fabulous WACO, a few hours later. A Lion's Club celebration was going on with some noisy guys and gals whooping it up and stumbling around outside our door. (It was pretty darn funny to us that night...) We were on our way down to San Antonio to catch a flight the next day to Guadalajara's El Tapatia resort. It was a beautiful hotel, but now the area is full of cartels creating a lot of danger for Americans. Wish it was not so.......

02/25/23 04:37 PM

#26947

Janalu,

Happy anniversary! He is supposed to get you something golden. Maybe a three piece dinner from Golden Chick!

02/25/23 04:49 PM

#26948

He did get me something golden, but it is a secret between just us!

I can tell about it a little later this year.

Thanks for the good wishes!

I like Golden Chick, but I like Church's even better, or Chik-fil-A. Do you remember Leslie's in Waco? They had tasty chicken livers et al!

And wasn't there a Youngblood's in Dallas years ago?

02/25/23 05:30 PM

#26949

Congrats, Janalu! You are about ten months ahead of the Cordells. We're going to celebrate with a European river cruise this summer.

Yes, re Youngblood's.

Separately --

Have you heard about the move toward a four day work week? They asked President Biden what he thought about it. His response: "Why would they want to double the number of days in the work week?"

02/25/23 07:16 PM

#26950

Wayne Gary

Janaou,

Happy anniversary.

There was a Youngbloods on Beltline and Central.(Richardson Heights) I remember when drivers ed srudent jumped the curb wile parking and ran into the building, They had not installed the instructors brake.

There was a Youngbloods in Bryan.

02/26/23 02:13 AM

#26951

Thanks Wayne and David, for the good wishes!

02/26/23 09:31 AM

#26952

Russ Stovall

Janalu:

Congratulations on your 50th anniversary

02/26/23 01:25 PM

#26953

Jim Bedwell

Lady Lanajuju,

Ditto. Happy 50th anniversary!!!

02/26/23 03:10 PM

#26954

Thank you all! I wish for each of you the same good wishes in your marriages, and good health as well.

02/26/23 11:12 PM

#26955

Janalu,

Leslie's with the big chicken sign was one of the two things I remember about Bellmead. The other was the speed trap. I liked the chicken pottery and salt and pepper shakers at Leslie's. There was a place in Amarillo called Myers Fried Chicken that was just as good. I don't like Church's because my chicken is always underdone, A good crispy chicken place is Chester's at the truck stops.

02/26/23 11:47 PM

#26956

Underdone chicken? Gross!

You mean when you bit into it some pink juices ran out?

Don't blame you if that happened!

We used to eat Church's in San Antonio and it was good! What we had was crispy and nice. I guess some places were not up to par.

Leslie's was a favorite of my Dad's when he had to travel between Richardson and Austin in the Fifties, as he was working on finishing his doctorate. He would stop there and enjoy the chicken, as well as having a nice rest time from the road.

When our family would travel together to Austin for visits to the area in the late 50s and in the 60s, he would always take us there for lunch. They would have honey bottles on the tables to pour on your chicken pieces. It was plenty tasty, but I always wished they had cream gravy, my favorite!

I heard one family owned the place, so when they said, "That's it!" That was it..... and the big chicken sign came down for good.

Adios ya'll.

02/27/23 08:37 AM

#26957

Janalu,

Yeah, it was always pink and juicy next to the bone on their thighs, Happenned to me about three times.

02/28/23 06:15 AM

#26958

Two items In the Dallas Morning News this morning.

1) There is an organized crime group that has stolen identities of 3,000+ Texans of Asian descent. They get information off the dark web and then request replacement driver's licenses. Then they match the DL picture of the real person with someone in their group who looks similar enough to pass.

2) About 20 years ago, my family was traveling from Dallas to Lubbock and I decided to take a side trip to Archer City (Anarene in The Last Picture Show) to see Larry McMurtry's book store and massive collection. I had had a one-on-one dinner with him in about 1974 when my committee brought him to UT to speak. I was there very briefly just to see it an walk around. In fact, it was so brief that I left my uninterested family in the car. Anyway, the store has been closed since McMurtry's death in 2021. He left the buildings and inventory to the store manager. Now it has changed hands. Who bought it? Chip Gaines of Fixer Upper and Magnolia fame. Whodathunkit?? Turns out his parents and grandparents lived in Archer City.

02/28/23 07:28 AM

#26959

Wayne Gary

Steve and Janalu

This chicken is for you

03/01/23 06:46 PM

#26960

Kurt Fischer

Tommy:

I am amazed at the traveling you and David and Jimmy did at such a young age. How in the world did you secure a job as a roustabout in the North Sea? And what did you do to deserve being asked to leave sooner than Jimmy?

One of my business peers has visited Grindenwald on a couple of occasions when we were on business trips to Basel. Great hiking up the mountain and on another occasion he had a great time paragliding from pretty high up and down to the valley.

I'm always interested in your trip memories.

03/02/23 07:42 AM

#26961

About the student loan issue ---

I am curious about the aspect of the case relating to "standing", i.e. that the states suing have no standing if they can't show that they will be hurt if the loans are forgiven.

President Biden wants to sign a 400 BILLION dollar check. What is to keep him from giving more money away without Congressional approval? Maybe he gives 20 billion dollars to the state of Delaware. Who is hurt? Maybe he gives 100 billion dollars to cancer research. Who is hurt?

It seems to me that if no one has standing, then the president can do anything he wants as long as it doesn't hurt anyone.

I want that job.

At least that part of it.

03/02/23 09:27 AM

#26962

https://www.ucsc.edu/about/mascot.html

When I was a student at UT Austin, there was a movement (of morons) who wanted to change the school mascot from the Longhorn to the armadillo. Personally, it always bothered me a bit that the mascot was a steer, although it would be many years until I, myself, elected to get snipped. (Sorry, TMI.)

When I saw that the University of California's mascot is the banana slug, I thought it must be an Onion or Babylon Bee story. But, nooooo!

What is their team yell? Slime 'em Slugs????

03/02/23 10:11 AM

#26963

Lowell Tuttle

Ken and Edna, an aging married couple, went to the air fair every year, and every year Ken would say that ride on the helicopter is something I would like to try.

Every year Edna said, yeah, but fifty bucks is fifty bucks...

Finally one year, Ken told Edna "Edna, I'm 75 years old, and if I miss it this year I might never ride in that helicopter."

Edna pointed out that "Fifty bucks is fifty bucks."

The helicopter pilot heard the two (again) and said, "I'll make a deal with you two. I'll take you on a ride in the helicopter, and if you don't say a word, it'll be free. But if you speak, it'll cost you fifty bucks."

So, Ken and Edna went on the helicopter ride.

That pilot tried like hell swervin, divin, pointin up, pointin down...and not a word.

When he landed he asked and commented on how quiet they had been...

And Ken replied, "Well, Edna fell out after the first swerve, but fifty bucks is fifty bucks."

03/02/23 12:11 PM

#26964

Bob Davidson

This morning, I read an article by a writer I enjoy, Naomi Wolf. She was once an establishment liberal and a prominent liberal feminist. I don't know how much I agree with her, as usual, but I enjoyed the article. She extended some things I've been thinking far beyond how I've ever taken them and, to grossly simplify, looks at our current situation as the possibility that our actions have caused God to withdraw his blessings on us. She comes at it from a Jewish Chosen People angle I wouldn't have thought of.

She achieveed a certain notoriety in conservative circles when she was Al Gore's image advisor when he ran against Bush, Jr. Rush made fun of her advice to make Gore have a more masculine image, a lot.

She changed in the past few years. She's no longer part of the national cool kids club since she was a COVID sceptic, back when the government line was holy writ, and she was banned by the fascist-type censors.

I don't think our liberal compatriots have realized, or maybe even heard (or just suffer from cognitive dissonance), that the FBI has admitted that COVID probably came from a Chinese lab, that health officials admit that masks were ineffective and "social distancing" was a crock, states that closed everything didn't do any better than the free ones, the vaccines were ineffective and possbily dangerous especially to the young, COVID wasn't a particular threat to the healthy, and generally everything that the experts told us was either wrong or a lie. I said "think" because I really don't understand how the Dems' minds work anymore -- they just don't make sense to my worldview.

Here's a link -- I'm curious about anyone else's reaction, including the Biden supporters, if such people really exist and are not putting everyone on or just being disagreeable contrarians..

https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/have-the-ancient-gods-returned

03/02/23 12:25 PM

#26965

Bob Davidson

David -- I'd forgotten about the the armadillo mascot thing. I remember it as a smartass anti-establishment jibe at the Bevo-loving frat-rat culture that some of us felt unfortuantely dominated The University fifty some years ago. As a young smartass, I thought it was hilarious and loved the reaction it provoked in people like Frank Erwin and the pre-Jeff Jones student government. Now I think I'm older and wiser.

03/02/23 01:12 PM

#26966

Bob D.,

I'm with you. I don't understand the current Democrat at all, or their total worship STILL, of Barack Obama, who was obviously a Marxist/Progressive, and an adherent of Saul Alinsky's Marxist methods, one of which was to 'overwhelm the system, to cause failure of the system'; as in our southern border crisis. I also never believed he was truly a genuine Christian, but merely a man who was a little familiar with some parts of what the Bible taught. He liked to say that he was a Christian, to gain favor with some Americans, but was never very convincible to me.

The way Schumer was able to pull the wool over Manchin's eyes and get Manchin to go along with the horrible omnibus bill, or whatever they called the monstrosity, was downright mean and nasty, but predictable for a super, liberal, progressive Democrat of today. The used-to-be moderates of that party have been rolled, and have been forced to tow the line of the Progressive/Marxists by the top of the party's dictatorial level honchos.. They have become a detriment to our country, as we can see clearly, IN MY OPINION. (In my opinion!)

03/02/23 11:18 PM

#26967