INTERESTING THURSDAY
First a wildlife report. I actually saw some koi in the fish pond. And they ate a little food, but were very timid. I looked at the wildlife camera for three days. 155 photos four had deer, one rabbit and 150 of raccoons from one to four in each photo. My annual wildlife report form lists raccoons as species to be controlled like coyotes and feral hogs. I may have to shoot some raccoons. The other day I found my rain guage on the porch in three pieces. The glass gauge on the walk, the aluminum holder pulled out and the cement frog knocked over off the step it was on. I can only blame the vandalism on raccoons.
Today I walked to the mailbox twice, once to mail letters, and again to retrieve the mail. I also cranked up the Deere riding mower and trimmed a little around the house, but left most of the wild flowers to go to seed. Still need rain.
This afternoon I went to the Invent Abilene meeting sponsored by the City and Texas Tech in Abilene. The speaker was David Miller, Vice-Chancellor of Tech in Lubbock who is in charge of creating profitable corporations from the inventions both from the University and others. The meeting was to encourage entrepreneurs in Abilene to develop new companies that will hire workers and create income for the city. The newly elected city councilman, Shane Price, who defeated an incumbent was there as was the Mayor of Abilene, Norm Archibald. He introduced me effusively because his wife and my daughter, Kathy were friends from high school in Bryan. Kathy was in their wedding party. I have always been interested in creating new businesses and have worked with new companies in Cross Plains. I have been getting the emails from Invent Abilene for years but this was the first opportunity I had to attend a meeting.
I got a call from Bob Harrell at the Funeral Home saying he had a letter addressed to me mailed to him. I asked who it was from and he said Molly Mead from Hawaii. The last I heard of her she was in Fort Worth and haven't seen her for years. I am looking forward to picking the letter up to here what is going on with her. They lived next door to us in Fort Worth and I later hired her husband to come to Bryan to work for a company I set up off campus. They later divorced and she moved back to FW. That was in the 1960s.
Kathy and Keith will come through tomorrow on their way to Lubbock to move Vanessa to College Station. I am praying for rain and they would like for it to hold off for the weekend.
First a wildlife report. I actually saw some koi in the fish pond. And they ate a little food, but were very timid. I looked at the wildlife camera for three days. 155 photos four had deer, one rabbit and 150 of raccoons from one to four in each photo. My annual wildlife report form lists raccoons as species to be controlled like coyotes and feral hogs. I may have to shoot some raccoons. The other day I found my rain guage on the porch in three pieces. The glass gauge on the walk, the aluminum holder pulled out and the cement frog knocked over off the step it was on. I can only blame the vandalism on raccoons.
Today I walked to the mailbox twice, once to mail letters, and again to retrieve the mail. I also cranked up the Deere riding mower and trimmed a little around the house, but left most of the wild flowers to go to seed. Still need rain.
This afternoon I went to the Invent Abilene meeting sponsored by the City and Texas Tech in Abilene. The speaker was David Miller, Vice-Chancellor of Tech in Lubbock who is in charge of creating profitable corporations from the inventions both from the University and others. The meeting was to encourage entrepreneurs in Abilene to develop new companies that will hire workers and create income for the city. The newly elected city councilman, Shane Price, who defeated an incumbent was there as was the Mayor of Abilene, Norm Archibald. He introduced me effusively because his wife and my daughter, Kathy were friends from high school in Bryan. Kathy was in their wedding party. I have always been interested in creating new businesses and have worked with new companies in Cross Plains. I have been getting the emails from Invent Abilene for years but this was the first opportunity I had to attend a meeting.
I got a call from Bob Harrell at the Funeral Home saying he had a letter addressed to me mailed to him. I asked who it was from and he said Molly Mead from Hawaii. The last I heard of her she was in Fort Worth and haven't seen her for years. I am looking forward to picking the letter up to here what is going on with her. They lived next door to us in Fort Worth and I later hired her husband to come to Bryan to work for a company I set up off campus. They later divorced and she moved back to FW. That was in the 1960s.
Kathy and Keith will come through tomorrow on their way to Lubbock to move Vanessa to College Station. I am praying for rain and they would like for it to hold off for the weekend.
posted by Dr. Rodenberger at 8:54 PM
1 Comments:
Good job, Charles! Just to let you know I am still an avid reader of your blog.
Superb. Keep it up! As you said, "Good info for your family history."
P. S. It seems you need a passle of coon dogs around your place..;)
Regards,
Curtis
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