Hello friends. Bill, Christie and Colby Biggs and four grandchildren have returned from a weeklong vacation in Puerto Penasco, Mexico. We saw them Sunday afternoon, looked at vacation video and heard all about their trip. Christie said it was pretty relaxing after the boys got used to minding and found that “Grandpa don’t mess around”.
Grandpa Bill has lots of quotes that Christie calls “Bill’isms”. Marty and Sean grew up with these and now the grandkids are learning things like “One learning is worth a thousand tellings”.
Vanessa got her learning experience when she went through a revolving door out of security in the Dallas Airport and was almost sent to Mexico by herself. Dakota got his when he dived into the ocean with eyes and mouth wide open. He asked Grandpa Bill why he didn’t tell him about the salt water and Bill said, “would you have listened”. No probably not, so there you go.
Puerto Penasco is a fishing village so they enjoyed the fresh seafood and an unforgettable cruise aboard a rustic and rusty triple-decker vessel.
I fried a mess of trout for dinner Sunday evening and they were so good! Rick got a really big one with pink meat like a salmon. Of course we ate too much so he had to go fishing again Sunday night, hoping to get a Wall-Eye or two. High winds and rain cut his fishing trip short, but he did bring home a 21-inch Wall-Eye.
We share a mailbox post at the end of our drive with Martha DuFlot and that is where we catch a few minutes to visit once in awhile. Last week there was a mama bear with three cubs in her back yard and a big daddy bear carried off granddaughter Nicole’s bottle of bubbles. I think that was closer than they cared to be to the black furry creatures.
After dark Saturday night I began building a hotdog fire in the Chimenea and asked Ashton and Erin if they wanted to cook hot dogs. They said that sounded good, but “what if a bear comes up?” I tried to act brave and did not tell them I had already thought about that myself. I told them the fire would probably keep it away and we had our roasting sticks for weapons. We enjoyed our wiener roast and cats were the only furry visitors we saw. Of course, it was dark and a black bear would not have been easily seen!
Rick saw Scotty Van Allen at O’Reilly’s last week; he said she did not recognize him at first as his hair and beard are a lot grayer than they used to be.
Thursday afternoon we took Neal, LeaAnn, Ashton and Erin to the Noah show for LeaAnn's birthday. We got to sit in a different location than last week and it gave us a different perspective. The kids enjoyed it every bit as much as we thought they would and we saw things second time around that we missed the first time. After the show we went to Golden Corral for dinner.
Friday night we took Ashton and Erin to the Bull Rides in Ozark where we saw Pine Ridge neighbors, Jim and Julie Evans. They were enjoying their first live bull ride experience and found it to be much more "real" than on TV. Jim has been really busy at Sight and Sound Theater with the Noah show where he is in charge of all kinds of things. Their daughter, Violet, is working concessions at Sight and Sound and we had bought Cappucino and yummy roasted almonds from her.
Last week we went to visitations for Dale Adkisson and Yvonne Cook Canida. I visited with Dale's son, John, who used to work with Daddy on the Lake Queen in Branson. He said that he and Keith Wyman worked together that summer and would catch a ride with Daddy at the end of H. On their way home in the evenings they would stop and take a bath in Bull Creek on F Hwy. That was when there was still a slab bridge and it was easy to pull off the road and get to the water.
Yvonne Canida is one of our Lone Star family and will be missed a lot. It was good to see Wanda Ehlers, a former teacher at Lone Star School; sixty-some years ago. Wanda stayed with Ernest and Rosa Lathrop and walked to school with their daughter, Lora Lee, aka Debbie. I think Debbie and Yvonne were in the same grade; they were also cousins on the Lathrop side of the family.
Jim and Dawn Bilyeu had company last week as her sister, Sarah Riley, was here from Oklahoma. Dawn's foot is better and Dr. said surgery will not be necessary. I noticed Jim got the last corner of the walls down at the old house; the area where they were working when the nail went through her foot.
Hosea Bilyeu and Big Smith will be in concert at Ridgecrest Baptist Church in Springfield Thursday, June 12 @ 7:00 p.m. Big Smith backs their Uncle Hosea for his CD release, “Little Hosea and Big Smith”, and will perform a few gospel tunes on their own. It promises to be an evening filled with music that will warm your heart and put your toes to tapping. Bye for now.
Grandpa Bill has lots of quotes that Christie calls “Bill’isms”. Marty and Sean grew up with these and now the grandkids are learning things like “One learning is worth a thousand tellings”.
Vanessa got her learning experience when she went through a revolving door out of security in the Dallas Airport and was almost sent to Mexico by herself. Dakota got his when he dived into the ocean with eyes and mouth wide open. He asked Grandpa Bill why he didn’t tell him about the salt water and Bill said, “would you have listened”. No probably not, so there you go.
Puerto Penasco is a fishing village so they enjoyed the fresh seafood and an unforgettable cruise aboard a rustic and rusty triple-decker vessel.
I fried a mess of trout for dinner Sunday evening and they were so good! Rick got a really big one with pink meat like a salmon. Of course we ate too much so he had to go fishing again Sunday night, hoping to get a Wall-Eye or two. High winds and rain cut his fishing trip short, but he did bring home a 21-inch Wall-Eye.
We share a mailbox post at the end of our drive with Martha DuFlot and that is where we catch a few minutes to visit once in awhile. Last week there was a mama bear with three cubs in her back yard and a big daddy bear carried off granddaughter Nicole’s bottle of bubbles. I think that was closer than they cared to be to the black furry creatures.After dark Saturday night I began building a hotdog fire in the Chimenea and asked Ashton and Erin if they wanted to cook hot dogs. They said that sounded good, but “what if a bear comes up?” I tried to act brave and did not tell them I had already thought about that myself. I told them the fire would probably keep it away and we had our roasting sticks for weapons. We enjoyed our wiener roast and cats were the only furry visitors we saw. Of course, it was dark and a black bear would not have been easily seen!
Rick saw Scotty Van Allen at O’Reilly’s last week; he said she did not recognize him at first as his hair and beard are a lot grayer than they used to be.
Thursday afternoon we took Neal, LeaAnn, Ashton and Erin to the Noah show for LeaAnn's birthday. We got to sit in a different location than last week and it gave us a different perspective. The kids enjoyed it every bit as much as we thought they would and we saw things second time around that we missed the first time. After the show we went to Golden Corral for dinner.
Friday night we took Ashton and Erin to the Bull Rides in Ozark where we saw Pine Ridge neighbors, Jim and Julie Evans. They were enjoying their first live bull ride experience and found it to be much more "real" than on TV. Jim has been really busy at Sight and Sound Theater with the Noah show where he is in charge of all kinds of things. Their daughter, Violet, is working concessions at Sight and Sound and we had bought Cappucino and yummy roasted almonds from her.
Last week we went to visitations for Dale Adkisson and Yvonne Cook Canida. I visited with Dale's son, John, who used to work with Daddy on the Lake Queen in Branson. He said that he and Keith Wyman worked together that summer and would catch a ride with Daddy at the end of H. On their way home in the evenings they would stop and take a bath in Bull Creek on F Hwy. That was when there was still a slab bridge and it was easy to pull off the road and get to the water.
Yvonne Canida is one of our Lone Star family and will be missed a lot. It was good to see Wanda Ehlers, a former teacher at Lone Star School; sixty-some years ago. Wanda stayed with Ernest and Rosa Lathrop and walked to school with their daughter, Lora Lee, aka Debbie. I think Debbie and Yvonne were in the same grade; they were also cousins on the Lathrop side of the family.
Jim and Dawn Bilyeu had company last week as her sister, Sarah Riley, was here from Oklahoma. Dawn's foot is better and Dr. said surgery will not be necessary. I noticed Jim got the last corner of the walls down at the old house; the area where they were working when the nail went through her foot.
Hosea Bilyeu and Big Smith will be in concert at Ridgecrest Baptist Church in Springfield Thursday, June 12 @ 7:00 p.m. Big Smith backs their Uncle Hosea for his CD release, “Little Hosea and Big Smith”, and will perform a few gospel tunes on their own. It promises to be an evening filled with music that will warm your heart and put your toes to tapping. Bye for now.
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