Our South Georgia kin Neal and Evelyn Denman arrived for a brief visit in East Texas. Both have had major health problems but each declares before "going under the knife" that he or she will get well and they intend to come home to our part of the country. Evelyn's folks have a weeklong reunion in Mexia and then here Joe and Barbara Cranza hosted a fish fry for them. Other guests enjoying food and fellowship were Joyce Webb, Cletus and Gladys Russell, Reba Clark, Mildred Denman, Brad Wells, Vickie Denman, Kerry, Tyler and Megan Baxter, Lynn, Sundra, Josh, and Lori Denman. Jill, Donald, Jordon, Tiffany, and Luke Young, Huntington; Kathy and Bob Comunale, Willis; Frank Clark, Greg and Tern Denman, Sonny Denman, Wayne, Melissa, Tate and Cade Jordon, Lufkin. Neal and Evelyn stopped in Atlanta, Texas to visit his sister Ethel and Louis Pate.
It is possible the folks at Colorado Springs, Colorado Chamber of Commerce might take up collection to bribe Lulla and Bob Adams into staying out of town. Every time they arrive at Karla, Chris, Cad, Cole and Ella Carroll's house it snows and is terribly cold. Three year old Ella was too sick to be with the other children so she and Lulla stayed upstairs while six year old Cole had his birthday party. Two days Bob and Lulla ate lunch at school with the boys and that made all the class happy.
Boots have to be in back packs for each child so they can play in the snow at recess. Karla works at a hospital closer to their house so the Adams visited her at work.
The second week Bob and Lulla were in the state they joined volunteers from all states at the Frontier Ranch in Buena Vista. The older folks and about 300 college students spiff up the ranch for the Young Life members who come from the bigger cities. Many of the college kids were from A & M and numerous adults told Lulla they could not believe the manners those students had. It is something to be proud of for us to have such nice young people.
Lulla and Bob were happy to be home but had to go to Tyler due to three year old Kaitlyn Adams being sick.
She is the daughter of Brent and Angel Adams. Also while in Colorado, Cade Carroll celebrated his 8th birthday.
We met the nicest couple and I noticed the back of her t-shirt said in big letters "Brandon's Nana". It seems their grandson is Brandon Bostick. Cecil and Sherry Hance live in Corrigan and are in our neighborhood often to see Brandon or watch him play ball. He is four years old and Sherry laughed and said 19 family members showed up to watch him at a school function. I think that is wonderful and hope they continue to support him through his entire school years.
Brandi Lankford and Leslie Campbell planned to be in Canton this first weekend of the month but could not get anybody to go with them. By the time they stopped in Canton, they had on board Pat Garrett, Bettie Westbrook, Jodi Morgan, of Lufkin and Carol Giles and Courtney Nix of Longview.
It had been five years since Beamon and I had been to Tennessee to Randy's and Eileen's. Leslie Campbell spent the nine days with Mother and had backups with Pat Garrett and Christal Shaw. Randy had been telling me about the changes from here to there, especially in Mt. Juliet where they live. Along the way many old buildings were torn down and new business have gone up in their places. I was anxious to see what they had done to one particular bottleneck of highways in Memphis. They were working on it five years ago when we came home, then Randy reported they finally finished it and the going was much easier. As always crossing the Mississippi River is mind boggling to me. Imagining folks long ago getting across the massive body of water without the bridge is almost unthinkable. Soon after crossing the bridge, we began to turn eastward in the general direction of Nashville. The newly constructed miles of highways were much better for the flow of traffic. It runs parallel to some deplorable buildings that I'm sure humans live in but how is unclear. The surprising thing was that the trees in five years have grown so tall and bushy right now that they hid the awful sight. Also a beautiful wall was erected and proved to be the best investment the state will ever make. There will surely be a full time job for highway people keeping the wall clean and pretty. Highway construction was evident in many, many places but it never stopped the 18-wheeler traffic. We drove Monday and Tuesday and the traffic really was not bad. It is awesome to see how our country thrives and depends on the trucks moving our goods anywhere and everywhere. If there's a bypass to a city, Beamon takes it; that is the truck driver still coming out of him. Doesn't want to fool with the "four wheelers" or cars. We talked to a couple of guys in the motel room next to ours as we were loading the car and they were checking on their motorcycles. They were beautiful bikes and I bragged on them. One had ridden his bike from Idaho to Dallas where his friend lived so they could ride to Washington, D.C. for a rally. I'm still trying to figure out where in that place you could put that many more people even if they were on motorcycles. I'll continue this next week
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