MONDAY MOURNING

I went to Cross Plains to take more Robert E. Howard cowboy story columns to the Cross Plains Review. I took a Senior Citizens meal to Vanda and then ate at the Center. I like salmon patties. It was there that I found while I was gone for Thanksgiving that my neighbor Jean Draper died from cancer and was buried in the Cottonwood cemetery. She was only 63, a blow to her husband who participated in the Cancer Walk a couple of months ago.

The weather is predicted to change to a wintry mix. I have prepared the fireplace because the temperature isn't supposed to get above 39 tomorrow.

MORE AGGIE EMOTION

After seeing the DVR and the emotion of winning the game in 1999, the Aggies scored on their first possession and looked good to start the game. They were looking good up to the end of the first half. It was the highest scoring game ever for the series and had a lot of excitement. Val and I watched on HD TV at Sylvia's house while all the rest of the family and Sylvia were at the game. Therefore when the game was over I got to bed while the real fans had to spend another hour and half getting back to the house. I got a good night's sleep and Kathy made a great breakfast caserole with biscuits and fruit. We got up late and enjoyed the morning. I was amazed at how fast Kathy and Keith got the house returned to normal. Kathy washed the sheets and towels. I slept on a fold out couch that was returned to couch condition when I wasn't looking. Kathy packed up all of the food with distribution to her daughter, Vanessa and to me and Sylvia. I even took a slice of chocolate pie home with some slices of ham and turkey.

I drove Highway 36 and stopped at 1 in Comanche to eat at China Star and get my Chinese fix. My fortune cookie said "You have an active mind and a keen imagination." Sounds like me. Got home at 3 and sorted three days of mail. Got the toll road bill from Austin. Mark called tonight and said that he hadn't gotten one of those mail toll charges from a Dallas trip in Oct. He told about Ross and Ashley getting a fine notice because they didn't get a toll charge due to changing addresses and not getting the the first notice. They negotiated a settlement but it was aggravating. With cameras everywhere we don't have a lot of privacy anymore. And they know your address when they take a photo of your license plate. It is convenient because I didn't have to stop at a toll booth, but a little worrisome about the intrusiveness.

At least the weather is nice and I got home at 3. Now to catch up on everything.

EMOTIONAL AGGIE ANNIVERSARY

Monday I finished writing the Administrative Council minutes and got them out for correction. I finished the Flame for November and sent it to be edited and finished my laundry and ironing. Tuesday I delivered a box of books that Mary Carleton had sent to Ike and Sue and tried to speed up Sue's computer by deleting extra files but had to leave it running. I bought copies of the Review that had the story on the Library dedication for the family and copies of the three issues that had stories on Al Pickett to send to him. I visited Carl Edington who was able to attend Noah Johnson's funeral. He was married to Noah's sister. I then presided at a small Kiwanis gathering. Seems like everyone had something else to do that day. Two visitors traveling from a place they had bought in Lake Brownwood back to their home in Nebraska came in to eat and we captured them to join three Key Clubbers. Matt McGowen was the speaker and told about his moving to work for an organization that is establishing orphanages in Sudan, Kenya (I think) and Romania to help children escape their lives of slavery, prostitution and rape. He will be taking volunteer groups from the US and working with churches to get support.

I finished Tuesday driving to San Antonio. Keith and I drove to Bryan this morning stopping to eat at Maxine's in downtown Bastrop. If you eat breakfast there and get a small plastic cup with something red in it, don't dump it on your potatoes thinking it is catsup, it is the jelly to go on your toast or biscuit.

This afternoon Sylvia Grider had tickets for us to attend the world premier showing of a new DVR entitled BURNING DESIRE that was produced by the A&M athletic department's TV studio called 12th Man Productions. It is part of a two DVR set with the other one being the 1999 A&M-TU football game that A&M won in the last quarter. Burning Desire is the story of the 12 students killed when the bonfire stack collapsed a week before the game. It was an emotional film that brought tears as they documented the events following the game. Dr. Sylvia Grider has two or three interviews in the film talking about the memorabilia that was left in remembrance at the site. After we came back the family were talking about their response. Valerie was a student at that time working part time in the engineering building that overlooked the stack site, and she was so distraught she couldn't look out the window. Dr. Grider told how they asked her and other faculty to go to St. Joseph's Hospital to help the police control all of the students who were overwhelming them trying to see their friends who had been injured and taken to ICU. Then the police asked them to try to help keep all of the TV people from disturbing the families of the injured students.

I hope everyone will buy the $35 two DVR set and look at the documentary.

FOOTBALL AND LOCKHEED

Friday morning I got the Methodist church open and helped take some of the large collection of deer horns and hunting implements to decorate the Fellowship Hall for the Library fund raiser that had Dr. Stanley McGowen demonstrate how blind people like himself can go deer hunting using computers so that the blind hunter can pull the trigger when the scope is on the live deer and he can harvest his own animal.

I left the competent team decorating and went up to Sue's house to help update her virus protection and load Open Office so that she can read the MS Word documents that she gets from Mary Kay headquarters. Her computer runs slow and I ran out of time so I wasn't able to test it but I think I got it loaded. I got home in time to nap for an hour before I drove to Fort Worth. Mark, Kathy and I ate at BooRays in Weatherford then got on the I-30 parking lot to drive to the new Cowboy stadium in Arlington. It started sprinkling rain. I was glad I was wearing my new black cowboy hat. Kathy and Mark had her pink umbrella. We had to wait in a long line to buy tickets. While waiting Diana and Logan Levisay from Stephenville came by so we got to see them. They sat on the other side of the stadium from us rooting for Aledo. Friends had reserved seats on the 40 yard line and we walked all the way around the stadium to get there. Great seats with the huge TV screen by tilting out heads up. It helped with the replay of interesting plays. The game was a great show by two good high school teams. Stephenville had twice the statistics and when the game was finished tied 20-20 and it was 10 p.m. Mark said we had to get up early so we left while the overtime game was played. There are TV screens all over the place so we watched as we left to see Stephenville kick a field goal, leading 23-20. We got to the car and could hear the crowd but didn't know what was happening until we found a local station broadcasting the game and heard that Aledo scored a touchdown to win 26-23. And we were ahead of all the traffic and got home at the speed limit even with the light rain. When we sat down the roof was open and light mist falling. We saw the roof close. It was still chilly because the ends are open to the breeze.

This morning we ate breakfast drove to Kathy's mother's apartment to pick up Ashley, Ross and Mary. Mark drove us into the parking lot and we all went to the security gate where a guard took our driving licenses and prepared plastic ID cards with our name good for the date. Mark then drove us into the area and from the south end of the mile long factory to the north end where his F-16 project to rebuild two old F-16s for Pakistan was going on with overtime workers. They let us climb up on the stands to look at the work after we went through a FOD (Foriegn Object D?) that requires you to take all jewelry, my shirt pocket stuff and put them in a container until we got back. Mark knows all the people working for him. You could tell they respected him.

We then drove down the flight run station line but could only peek through the partially open doors to see his first Pakistan production F-16 that is going through flight tests with another scheduled for Monday. F-35s were also there. When we first got there there was low clouds but we saw at least six F-16 from the National Guard take off as they get their weekend training from the old Carswell side of the runway. Mark then drove back to the south end of the plant. He went in and brought out an eight passenger electric cart, loaded us all in and drove inside the plant. Starting at the south end where incoming parts are received we saw the construction of the parts. When I worked there many years ago that part of the plant was metal working tools that carved parts out of aluminum. There are still some computer driven machines doing that but the largest change was the enormous addition of carbon fiber plastic parts that are laid up in clean rooms and cured in enormous autoclaves. The new F-22 and F-35 planes are largely fiber plastic airplanes. However we saw the internal metal parts being assembled as we drove north. Crossing the Fifty foot aisle, where we stopped and looked at the display of photographs depicting the history of General Dynamics and Lockheed. I was impressed by an unmanned aircraft that was flown in 1916 showing that there isn't anything new. We then continued up the production line with F-16s on one side and the F-35s on the other. The F-22 line was being removed because production has completed on it.

Mark then took us over across 820 to his office building 500 that was built over 20 years ago when there was concern about electromagnetic stealing of information. The building is lined with lead, the entry is a maze with the ceiling formed of cones to make an anechoic chamber all to prevent electromagnetic waves from leaking from the building. Cell phones didn't work until they installed repeater stations recently. At the guard station we were informed that we could not go into Mark's office. He went up and brought down an F-16 model that all of the Pakistani officials got during their ceremony. Kathy thought Mark needed one and arranged to get one for him for his birthday which is Monday.

We then went back to Mary's apartment in order to pick up Ashley and Ross' BD gift and then drove to Mi Cocina on Hulen to eat Mexican food. Mark opened their gift of a movie he wanted. I had given him Glenn Beck's latest book. We then drove back to Mary's apartment where Kathy put one candle on the special Neapolitan bunt cake she had cooked. It was three layers of vanilla, peppermint and chocolate iced with chocolate icing. Mark blew the candle out. Ashley took photos and we parted company. I left for home under the cloud cover listening to another football game this time with A&M ahead of Baylor at the half with the Baylor announcers saying that Baylor was a second half team and had come from behind in two games to win. I listened to the game all the way home. I got there just as the game finished and Baylor wasn't able to come back. So all of my Aggie family was happy. Texas Tech beat OU who had clobbered A&M so what can we expect next week?

I am still behind on my column, Flame and will study for SS tomorrow morning. Good planning on my part. But it was a great couple of days and a real nostalgic trip for me.

TUESDAY TO THURSDAY

Tuesday breakfast was French toast. I walked it off by walking two miles to get the mail. Kiwanis met to plan the annual Christmas program.

Wednesday back to cereal with blueberries, flax seed and soy milk. Walked that off with another 2 miles to get mail. Worked on Quicken and spent two hours reloading McAfee to remove the constant efforts to get me to buy an update to old programs I didn't need. Mowed with the Deere riding mower around the house. Took the minutes at the Methodist Administrative Council after we had a birthday party for Betsy Rosson hosted by Susan Hunter and great chocolate cake with pecan Bluebell ice cream. It increased my weight this morning by a half pound.

Today I started writing the minutes but stopped to get the Trustee's report that was supposed to be emailed to me. Not here yet. I then had an adventure by driving to Wichita Falls to meet a retired MSU professor of nursing. She had printed the photo of me on the Segway and showed me her photo from a cruise to Mexico where her group was put on Segways and they made her the leader. She was better protected than me. They made her wear a helmet and knee pads. After we shared a large salad and the largest dessert of chocolate cake and ice cream I have ever seen. I can't imagine one person eating that dessert. We couldn't even finish it. Then she took me to the life size sculpture of the Wichita indians on the banks of the river portraying the story of the chief who made his wife wade across the river first. If she could make it then he would follow. She waded to the middle and showed the water to her waist thus "waist is tall" wichita? Great life like sculptures.

My son called with great news. He has arranged a Saturday tour of Lockheed for Kathy, her mother, Ashley and Ross and me. I was going to spend Friday night to be there for the morning tour. He said that Aledo is playing Stephenville in a playoff game Friday night and it will play in Jerry Jones new Cowboy stadium. That is a great way to see the stadium with the smaller high school crowd. I am looking forward to this weekend. Tomorrow I have to help the Library get set up at the Methodist church for the fund raiser event Saturday. So maybe I will be able to get my column written, the AC minutes finished, and SS prepared.

FAMILY AND FUMC

It was great having the family here for The Lord's Acre celebration. Mark and Kathy R. had a lot of contributions that I told about yesterday. Last night they also contributed by buying things I would never have bought for them. Kathy bought an antique cranberry scoop. Then they bought a bench for Dotty. I don't know if they are going to change the paint from orange to maroon. I contributed my KLBJ cap to the auction because I won the bid on a Resistol Black Hat. I never thought I would be a black hat guy, but I wore it with my black suit this morning and got some quizzical comments on it. I had been wanting to buy the coated pine cones to use for fire starter and got some this time. When I entered Tom Stephenson told me that Arlene had prepared basket that had a lot of chocolate goodies in it, so I got the bid on it. Not only was there chocolate fudge, but a lot of cookies and goodies, but the best thing was a fancy cookbook with not only her 97 year old mother's recipes but photos and stories of her growing up in Kanardo on the border of Kansas and Colorado. Tom said that his father-in-law told him that when he worked on a fence post and walked around it he was in two states and two time zones.

We had a resurgent in attendance at Sunday School. Val drove me in and we had one other visitor. I was pleased because we had been running low for the last couple of months. Maybe they thought Susan was going to teach again and came to hear her. We got started on Leviticus with all of the blood and guts of how to prepare and a sacrifice for even unintended sins. Since I don't have a herd I guess I would have had to bring a buck or doe for my sacrifice. I would hesitate to bring a couple of my doves. We asked the question about what has happened to the concept of sin in today's society. In church when all of the family came in our preacher's sermon was on church attendance with a lot of humorous stories about excuses for not going to church so I was glad my family helped attendance today.

Kathy R. made two kinds of soup along with a lot of other foods to help celebrate Kathy W's birthday. Her birthday brownie was a work of art made on a heart shaped pan. We let Kathy, Sue and Mark blow out the candles to celebrate Sue on the 10th Kathy today and Mark on the 23rd. Photos were taken but they haven't emailed them to me to post on the blog.

ABILENE TWICE



Yesterday I got educated on the use of Plinkit, the software for web sites for Public Libraries that we are using for the Cross Plains Library. Judy Luter has been doing all this work by herself so Michelle Kaiser and Kathy Anderson went with her to learn enough so that we can help in the future. Class was scheduled from 9-3 but we ate lunch at 11 and finished at 2. I ate with the ladies at Cypress St. Station. They have just opened a microbrewery so I tried their Bock with Fish and Chips. Judy ate my usual spinach pasta salad.



Kathy Wilcox's birthday is tomorrow so she wanted to go to Abilene to celebrate today. She looked for quilt stores that we put on our schedule. We drove in to the first one and it was closed. So we went to Texas Star to do some Christmas shopping. Glenn and Carol Dromgoole were both working. Glenn showed me Elmer Kelton's last book, OTHER MEN'S HORSES and pointed out that it was dedicated to Glenn and Ron Anderson. Glenn doesn't know Ron but thinks he owns a book store in Fredricksburg who also had Elmer do a lot of book signing. Glenn had Elmer in Abilene every month it seemed like.



We all ate next door at Cypress St. Station again. Val and I had their special Shepard's Pie, Kathy had Thai salad, Mark had the Fish and Chips and his Kathy a salad, We tried the sampler of their micro brews that were four small glasses of each of their flavors. We had the bruschetta and baked potato with cheese appetizers.

After we walked down Cypress and at the Texas Star corner a TexasTech worker was demostrating a Segway. First Kathy R. took a ride, then Mark and finally I tried it. Kathy used her iPhone to send this photo.



Thursday morning early I drove to CP for Methodist Men and drove through fog and pockets of moisture that made me run the wipers but no rain. I walked two miles and got my mail and now I am back to normal operation because a replacement November DayTimer came in. I didn't know what was on my schedule without it.



Wednesday, Veterans Day I took my flag to post at the front gate when I walked my two miles. I realized the mail doesn't run on Veterans Day even though the stock market was active.



This morning Mark and I took Kathy's contribution to the Lord's Acre to the church. She had a beautiful jacket she made with a blouse she bought to go with it for the auction. She had several boxes of Red Hot jelly that she makes with cinnamon red hots, I don't know how many jars. She had a dozen or more crayon rollups that she makes for the Cook Children's Hospital. Made from colorful fabric she puts 10 crayons in each one. She had a box of at least two dozen cloth holders for the little Kleenex packets. She has supported the LA for years. Tonight we will go eat the turkey dinner and attend the auction for about the 25th year.

CLOUDY AND SMELLY

I drove up 281 from San Antonio in clouds, fog and a little mist. I made it in about the same time as going I-10 and through Mason and Brady. It was cloudy all the way. I got home about 11:15 and my second trip to bring in luggage the sun came out for a few minutes. I did the laundry, sorted the mail from three days, ate lunch and then went out to feed and water the wildlife. I was filling the bird baths when the UPS truck drove up. The driver saw me out back and brought the package to the back. As he started back he yelled, you have a skunk in the trap and I think he sprayed me. Sure enough I had set the trap without putting any bait into it just to see how to set it. A skunk had entered and tripped it. I think he/she had been there for a few days. I talked sweetly to it and opened the door without getting sprayed. I urged it to leave but the stupid creature turned around and curled up in the far back end. How it kept from tripping the trap again I have no idea. Every once in a while I would go urge it out, but it just curled up in a ball in the sunshine. They are primary nocturnal and don't like the sun. Then about dark a cloud came over and I got 0.02" of rain. When I checked the skunk had left and was eating sunflower seeds on the terrace. When I went out the door to close the trap it ran off into the cedars.

Never a quiet moment around here.

RAIN SHORTENED AIR SHOW

Keith took me to the annual Randolph Air Show that started late due to unexpected rain. We were VIPs. We parked and registered to get our arm bands. A bus took us to the ramp where we had food from Taco Cabana. Keith was the guest of his friend Mark Frye. I got to meet Kathy Wells who is the incoming Chair of the Chamber of Commerce who sponsors the annual air show.

Due to the low ceiling they cancelled the parahute team from the Air Academy. They were able to start the show with radio-controlled aircraft. Then the manned show started with an aerobatic biplane that put on a good show. This was followed by the Tora Tora air show of the Commemorative Air Force with all of the explosions and description of the attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 that I remember when the Sunday radio gave us the report.

A B-25 and B-17 taxied by but didn't fly due to the weather. A couple of P-41s and an A-26 were able to fly their shows. An A-10 Warthog put on a good show with strafing runs being highlighted by the pyrotechnics across the field. The final highlight was a F-18 making high speed passes with the moisture being coned into an interesting pattern as it flew by. I was hoping to see the F-22 but the rain moved in and stopped the show early. We got home about 4 to rain moving in and I got a good nap. Kathy and Val went to Devine for their baby shower for Mandi.

Kathy then showed me the new web site for Korbell's Double C Ranch that they have developed as a hunting site. http://texasgameranch.com/links.php

FAMILY GET TOGETHER

Yesterday Kathy fixed a great breakfast with special toast, scrambled eggs and turkey bacon. I had lunch with an eHarmony match that reviews books for Good Readers and had an amazing background of activity including starting to college at TT in Petroleum Engineering but dropping out to get married. She still owns a small ranch south of Spur where one of her sons shot a buck and a doe yesterday. She reads extensively and knows history of the Huns that I had never heard and their influence on France and German populations.

I came back to Kathy's for an hour nap and all of her kids, including Jon-Marc who flew in from his job in Wisconsin plus a woman doctor friend of Valerie joined to hold a baby shower for Mandi. Jim and my great-grandsons were there. Keith's family members Cricket and her son Jay along with Bob and Carol Thormer. We ate Kathy's dips and brownies with home made ice cream, meat balls and fancy pasta salad from Carol while Keith bbqed chicken with his special sauce. We had a good visit with an interesting discussion of the latest cell phones. Jay works for Verizon in Dallas and Jim teaches technology in high school so we learned a lot about the latest cell phone technology.

This morning Kathy had cereal with blueberries, flax seed and banana so I felt right at home. Keith was going to take me to Randolph AFB for a special air show, but it is raining big drops and the show has been postponed until later. The storm is supposed to move on out but it doesn't seem to be letting up here at 11:07 a.m.

TWU DEDICATION CEREMONY

My camera can't handle my shaking hands, so these are not archival quality photos but provide a little insight into the dedication ceremony dedicating the Woman's Collection to Lou. Ann Stuart, Chancellor chaired the meeting attended by a lot of Lou's friends active and retired from TWU. Most of the Library staff were there that Lou worked with on a lot of her research. Phyllis Bridges reviewed Lou's life. Dawn Letson told about her gifts of her papers and books on Texas Women to the Library that are being processed. Kathy Wilcox responded for the family.

Kathy Rodenberger looks at the display that will be changed occasionally.
This is out of focus but Ashley with her mother and dad is looking at the permanent display of Lou's books and papers under the sign commenorating her.

Sue thanks Dawn Letson for her work on the displays.

This is the sign above the permanent display, but is hard to photograph because of the lights and reflections but it says WOMAN'S COLLECTION NAMED IN MEMORY OF LOU HALSELL RODENBERGER University Archives - Cook Book Collection.

I hope that all of Lou's friends will find the time to visit the displays. Her papers are in the archives for research. Dawn took us into the humidity controlled room where Lou's papers are stored. She is working on logging in all of Lou's books on Texas Women Authors that they didn't have in the collection and will have them on the shelves shortly.

Mark, Kathy and Ashley, Kathy and Val Wilcox, Sue and Ike Neal were all family members who were seated in the front at the dedication and then treated to the luncheon for Kevin Moriaty who is the Artistic Director for the Dallas Theater and the Joyce Thompson lecturer. After the luncheon we all were seated on the stage for Moriaty's talk. He said he was celebrating the day in November 546 BCE (I may have the date wrong) when Thespius in Athens gave the first appearance in a stage play. He then brought us up to date in his thinking of the importance of the theater today. His current production of MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT is being played in Dallas now at the Wyly (SP?) theater and is recieving rave reviews. He is a dynamic speaker for a little fellow. We enjoyed him and Paul Thompson, Joyce's nephew, who flies in every year that he can for the lectures. He wanted to meet the family because he has been Lou's friend since the lectures started. Lou and I attended all of them up to the last couple of years.

I spent the night with Mark and Kathy, drove in this morning and during my two mile walk I treated fire ant beds along the right-of-way. I filled the deer feeder and put another charged battery to run it. So tomorrow I can go to spend the weekend in San Antonio to celebrate Mandi's baby shower and Keith has arranged for me to go to an air show Sunday afternoon, so I won't be back till Monday.

BUSY TUESDAY

Yesterday I finished the day by completing my ironing which should be a Tuesday task. When I walked this morning I decided it was time to clean the trash because they are beginning to mow the right-of-ways and it helps that they don't mow the trash. Makes it much harder to pick up. I realized that smokers can't read. One cigarette pack had a pretty design on the front. One side said that the Surgeon General says cigarettes can kill you. The other side says "Do not litter". If they could read they wouldn't have bought it and by littering they compound their illiteracy. I got a full sack of trash.

I then went to town where I voted, mailed a Flame to Tim Dill in prison, took a check to Lawrence Farm and Ranch Supply, got my hair trimmed, visited Carl Edington, made Kiwanis and bought groceries. So I was ready for a nap when I got home.

Got more photos from the Book Festival and had to add one of me plus the one where Kinky was working his political visits. The Folkfore Society booth was successful in signing up members and ran out of brochures. I am curious how many that took brochures will mail in an application for membership.

Tonight it is interesting that Obama's campaigning apparently didn't win voters over. I think voters are reacting against the high spending policies of the Congress. But I have avoided politics in this blog. I have loaded Lou's box of papers on her research for her thesis and dissertation in the car to take to TWU along with a CD of all of her computer files. Another full day tomorrow.

Kinky Friedman visits with a Folklorist.

Rodenberger tries to talk another Texas into becoming a Folklore member.

LITERATURE REVIEW

Today I went to Abilene and forgot to take my camera so I don't have photos. Sherrie McLeroy from Aledo talked about writing her book TEXAS BRAGS but all of her illustrations she quizzed us with are not in the book she was selling. So I have to read the book to see what brags are there. She argues that she has enough bragging material to publish even after she passes on. I enjoyed visiting with her. Lou and I visited her nine years ago at her cabin in Colorado and met her 7 year old daughter who is now 16 and a typical teenager. She had photos to share with me.

Speaking of photos. Thankfully someone brought a camera to the Festival and here is a photo of where I worked for two days. This was the first day when Lucy West and Meredith Abarca started the opertion. Three PhDs who looked and acted like folklore characters we are.

BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY

An extra hour of sleep was helpful because I missed my afternoon nap driving back. The Festival didn't open until 11 but I got there at 10 to help get started. I did my book buying. I had A&M Press bring me 10 copies of LET'S HEAR IT so that I can have some to give as presents. I still think it is the best short story collection in existence.

I forgot that yesterday I got to see Mark Busby and his wife who were very warm in greeting me. We get along great even though they are on the other side of the political spectrum. Then today Paula Marks and her husband came by and visited. Bill Neal and his wife greeted me. Bill was on a panel this morning and had a blast. I still think his book SEX MURDER AND TEH UNWRITTEN LAW ought to sell a million copies just based on the title. I haven't had time to read it but he writes in a folksy storytelling manner. He has researched the subject with his lawyer's insight and shows how the law was interpreted by old Southern morals. So it was OK to kill an adulterer. And your wife if she had been a willing participant.

I was a poor salesman and didn't sell one membership during my hour of work this morning. I hope the others did a better job after I left. But I learned that I was a failure as a salesman 50 years ago. I left about 12:30 and stopped at DQ in Lampasas to eat a grilled chicken sandwich and I always drink a small chocolate shake. I got home at 4. I accidently tuned in the last two minutes of the Dallas Cowboy game to hear them win.

I am mad at myself for losing my November Day Timer and will have to get a notebook to keep my records for the month and it will be a full month with all of the traveling and meetings. Tomorrow I plan to hear Sherrie McLeroy at the Abilene Public Library at noon in their author's series. Then Wednesday we all go to Denton for the dedication of the Lou Rodenberger Woman's Collection in the TWU Library and then hear the Joyce Thompson lecture by the Dallas artistic director who has been on WBAP for the last week talking about their new musical series in Dallas.