Saturday afternoon thoughts:

Kind of a slow Saturday afternoon and noticed that the blog hadn't been messed with for a while. Here goes:

• Kasi called today needing directions to Mother's place here in Decatur. One of Kasi's girls had played a basketball game near here and Kasi took the opportunity to see her G'mommy. They live nearby (30 minutes from Decatur) and are enjoying a new house.
• Mother's thinking is getting fuzzy.
• I rankle when someone advertises a "home for sale." I believe that the people who live in the house constitute the "home." The "house" is the sticks and bricks. That's just me.
• Every one of my siblings took English from Ethel Pyles. Didn't hurt us a bit. One could probably use the term "master teacher" to describe Mrs. Pyles.
• Just talked to Robert (Bob) Young in San Antonio. Bob is the son of my aunt Nydia (Daddy's sister...Vera). The older I get, the more I appreciate old family/friend relationships that have stood the test of time and space. Bob, forward this to your 3 kids. and maybe they'll send me their email addresses.
• Do you think there'll be a day when almost nobody has a "land-line" telephone? Our two grown children and their families don't have a "house phone" between them. They only use their cell phones which will do everything communication-wise worth doing on the planet. They can send/check email, become "triangulated" on the planet, browse the internet, and send/receive text messages...all while sitting in the bathroom....in any city that has access to a tower. Life is good.
• A new Lewisville friend who grew up in Ralls recently went through Lorenzo, retrieved 2 saddles that have been stored in our barn for 30 years, and brought them to me. Don't know what I'll do with them, but I didn't want them to just "disappear."
• What did we do before liquid soap? Remember going in to a public restroom and washing your hands before there was "squirt soap?" I don't remember.
• I've recently added some "friends" with Lorenzo ties to my Facebook account. A lot of them are young adults who grew up in Lorenzo, or are the children of Lorenzo friends. Facebook makes the connection sends me a notification, and then it's up to me to send a "friend request," hoping they won't think I'm an old coot when I write, "Tell your folks Gerre says howdy." Some of my Facebook friends are old coots like me.
• I've heard of the editor/owner of the Crosbyton (Ralls?) paper many years ago, whose last name was Joiner. I know there was a controversy of some sort. What was the big deal? What became of this Joiner guy?

Must go. Hope all is well where you are.

I got Coy Keene's okay to post this great note about his family.

We're more than blessed - Mom is doing okay for 86. She is in Dallas now, just down the street at the Edgemere. As for the rest of the fam - Tommy (29) and wife Sarah are in Phili where he teaches New Testament theology and Greek at Westminster Sem. while finishing his Dr. - Kevin (25) and Jordan have been a married a year and live here is Dallas Kevin is with Price Waterhouse. Amanda (23) just got her degree this spring from Penn State and is job hunting in Big "D". Gail and I are more than blessed and very undeserving of Gods grace.