DOGWOOD ACRES WEEKLY 01/21/08

DOGWOOD ACRES, 01/21/08, ELANE CRUM

Hello friends. With Monday morning appointments, I am trying to write on Sunday night and that creates a brain freeze. Isn’t it silly? My mind is not ready to put Dogwood Acres thoughts together until Monday but I have to try.

We talked to Rick’s mom in Oregon after church tonight. She sounds good and the recent pictures that she sent show that she still has way less gray hair than her boys do.

Thursday night Rick and I donned our new black and red Blue Eye Bulldogs sweatshirts and went to the Forsyth vs. Blue Eye girl’s basketball game. Christie’s granddaughter, Vanessa Bilyeu, is the littlest bulldog Varsity guard that we are cheering for this year.

I also have to dig out a green shirt for the Plainview Cougars where Erin is playing on the third grade team. Erin marked all of her games for the next month on our calendar. Fortunately, their season is not very long.

I got a letter recently from Bessie Rossner Gideon who lives in Stockton, CA. She has so many memories of long ago days in the Lone Star Community and I enjoy hearing them. Her baby brother, Herman, and Rick’s dad, Lloyd, were best friends and spent a lot time together. Bessie said they used to hunt crow’s nests in the spring and knock them out of the trees so the little ones did not hatch and eat the crops.

Rick and I went on a closet cleaning spree last week and actually managed to give up a few things. Deep in his closet, he found two pairs of vintage Levis, big bell-bottom style. He liked wearing them when trucking as they fit well over his cowboy boots and then, of course, he was just plain styling. So, here they are brought to light after many years….can he still wear them? He could not even get his legs into them. I got them on and they did not look bad as long as I could wear a long tailed shirt to cover the gaping zipper.

Ashton could have worn them but she is used to the new low rider jeans and these actually came to her waist. We thought they looked good, but what do we know? We had a lot of laughs after church on Sunday when Neal and LeaAnn tried them on. Although a little short on LeaAnn, they otherwise looked good, but she would not be caught dead wearing bell-bottoms. More than a little short on Neal, he just looked plain dorky. Finally, we got a winner when Mary Lou tried them on and they were a perfect fit. Rick told her she looked like a little hippy, but they were very cute on her.

LeaAnn remembered the pink and orange plaid bell-bottoms that Mary Lou wore years ago. The legs were so big that when she grew tired of them, she made LeaAnn a skirt from the fabric in one leg. Isn’t it funny what kids remember?

Rick’s puppies are growing and getting cuter each day. Their little eyes have opened and they are changing colors. The ones that were white with black spots have now developed red spots, like red tick hounds. He says he will keep two, one he has definitely chosen and its name is Bud, named after Bud White who gave him the Momma and Daddy dogs. He keeps changing his mind about which other one he will keep but is talking about increasing the dog run space.

Linda Groves and I caught up on our visiting when she cut my hair last week. When I got there, she had just fixed a pot of potato soup to take to Newt & Billie for lunch. Billie is still healing, but slowly and continues to have a lot of pain.

We received the sad news that Uncle Don Davis, Mother’s younger brother, passed away last week at the VA Hospital in Wichita, KS. Donald Davis was born September 17, 1930, to Xury and Grace (Pritchard) Davis in Reno Hollow near Spokane, MO. He is survived by three children, Terry Davis, Citrus Heights, CA, Danny Davis, Stockton, CA, and Alisa Davis of Sacramento, CA, six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, two sisters, Wanetta and Roscoe Keithley, Branson, MO, Roma and Bill Smith, Forsyth, MO, one brother, Walter and Nadine Davis, Fall River, KS. Uncle Don proudly served his country in the U.S. Army with overseas duty in the Korean War. Bye for now.