MY SPOUSE IS A FELLOW-AGAIN!!
Lou now has her third Fellow plaque to put on her wall. Last month she recieved the Fellow citation that she had been awarded by the Texas Folklore Society and today the West Texas Historical Association who awarded their first ever Fellow awards. They presented three with Lou now a Fellow of that organization. Their web site is: http://swco.ttu.edu/westtexas/. I don't know when they will post this event.
Lou also was a runner-up for the Rupert Richardson award for the best book on West Texas history. Her biography of Jane Gilmore Rushing and a book by Patrick Dearen: "Saddling Up Anyway: the Dangerous Lives of Old-Time Cowboys" were runners-up to the winner Bill Neal with his book on Getting away with Murder on the Texas Frontier.
Lou also gave a paper on how Jane Rushing used West Texas history in her novels. She got many compliments on the paper. She also handled the events better than I thought she would be able to. She used a prescription pain pill for the 6 hour drive to Canyon and that helped a lot. She was able to walk to the meetings and visit with all of her friends by sitting down as often as possible. And she made the trip back feeling fairly well. Her cold has her coughing a lot, but it is getting better. Mine is about completely gone. Our drive back was with a mean cross wind out of the SW but less dust than I had expected. The plowed fields were being irrigated and the only bad dust we saw was blowing down a dirt road. Most of the land was pasture land, although there are a lot of cotton farms along the way. We left Canyon at 2:38 and got home at 7:20. We only stopped one time for gas in Lubbock.
All in all it was a great 3 day meeting for Lou. The Holiday Express where we stayed had biscuits and sausage gravy yesterday and biscuits, sausage and a cheese omelet this morning. Lou ate her raisin bran and skimmed milk, so we were both happy. And the cost was less than $100 a night.
Lou now has her third Fellow plaque to put on her wall. Last month she recieved the Fellow citation that she had been awarded by the Texas Folklore Society and today the West Texas Historical Association who awarded their first ever Fellow awards. They presented three with Lou now a Fellow of that organization. Their web site is: http://swco.ttu.edu/westtexas/. I don't know when they will post this event.
Lou also was a runner-up for the Rupert Richardson award for the best book on West Texas history. Her biography of Jane Gilmore Rushing and a book by Patrick Dearen: "Saddling Up Anyway: the Dangerous Lives of Old-Time Cowboys" were runners-up to the winner Bill Neal with his book on Getting away with Murder on the Texas Frontier.
Lou also gave a paper on how Jane Rushing used West Texas history in her novels. She got many compliments on the paper. She also handled the events better than I thought she would be able to. She used a prescription pain pill for the 6 hour drive to Canyon and that helped a lot. She was able to walk to the meetings and visit with all of her friends by sitting down as often as possible. And she made the trip back feeling fairly well. Her cold has her coughing a lot, but it is getting better. Mine is about completely gone. Our drive back was with a mean cross wind out of the SW but less dust than I had expected. The plowed fields were being irrigated and the only bad dust we saw was blowing down a dirt road. Most of the land was pasture land, although there are a lot of cotton farms along the way. We left Canyon at 2:38 and got home at 7:20. We only stopped one time for gas in Lubbock.
All in all it was a great 3 day meeting for Lou. The Holiday Express where we stayed had biscuits and sausage gravy yesterday and biscuits, sausage and a cheese omelet this morning. Lou ate her raisin bran and skimmed milk, so we were both happy. And the cost was less than $100 a night.
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