Lou is becoming productive again. She sent her article about Jane Rushing to Candy Moulton at THE ROUNDUP yesterday. I told her not to expect another Stirrup award for this one, because a lot more people knew Tom Lea than Jane. But you never know. Her skills as an essayist are really good. She is reading and talking about working on her memoir book again. She started trying exercises this morning when we couldn't walk because of the rain. Her back is still bothering her, but the pain is moving around and maybe the exercises will help.
Today John Knudsen from A&M came to visit her. He works for the Liberal Arts college raising money for endownments, etc. He told of visiting a lawyer in Abilene who has histories of A&M and had read a chapter in a book about the history of the engineering college that I had written a chapter on Aerospace Engineering. He also told Knudsen about some woman that wrote about women writers. Knudsen told him about us. He didn't know we lived out here. Knudsen visits Lou every year and she tells him stories about students like John Korbell that he later visits. He tells her the latest going on at A&M in the Liberal Arts. They discussed that A&M is considering picking up publishing the TSHA journal. Be interesting if they transfered TSHA headquarters to A&M after being in Austin for so long.
Our wild life is picking up. While we were gone Joyce was checking the house and feeding the birds and found a rattlesnake. I haven't seen any snakes but Sunday we had a turkey hen go wandering across the front yard from South to North and I looked in the back yard to see a doe grazing at our well house. Her ears pricked up, she saw the turkey and went walking over to it. They looked each other over and went on their paths. We only got 0.2" of rain Monday morning when Cross Plains got 3 - 4" and it shut down the electric power, telephones and cell phones until noon. Then last night we got 2" while they are having flooding just east of us in Eastland County. I keep hoping for enough to start our creek flowing. Haven't had quite enough yet. It still has the promise of more rain.
Today John Knudsen from A&M came to visit her. He works for the Liberal Arts college raising money for endownments, etc. He told of visiting a lawyer in Abilene who has histories of A&M and had read a chapter in a book about the history of the engineering college that I had written a chapter on Aerospace Engineering. He also told Knudsen about some woman that wrote about women writers. Knudsen told him about us. He didn't know we lived out here. Knudsen visits Lou every year and she tells him stories about students like John Korbell that he later visits. He tells her the latest going on at A&M in the Liberal Arts. They discussed that A&M is considering picking up publishing the TSHA journal. Be interesting if they transfered TSHA headquarters to A&M after being in Austin for so long.
Our wild life is picking up. While we were gone Joyce was checking the house and feeding the birds and found a rattlesnake. I haven't seen any snakes but Sunday we had a turkey hen go wandering across the front yard from South to North and I looked in the back yard to see a doe grazing at our well house. Her ears pricked up, she saw the turkey and went walking over to it. They looked each other over and went on their paths. We only got 0.2" of rain Monday morning when Cross Plains got 3 - 4" and it shut down the electric power, telephones and cell phones until noon. Then last night we got 2" while they are having flooding just east of us in Eastland County. I keep hoping for enough to start our creek flowing. Haven't had quite enough yet. It still has the promise of more rain.
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