Lynda Alpenfels sent me an email about "Two moons on 28 August". The planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August. It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will cultivate on August 28 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles of earth. Be sure to watch the sky on August 28 early morning. It will look like the earth has two moons. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287. No one alive today will ever see it again.
Lana Hines told me about the Beulah Country Store & Restaurant being opened by Amy Sullivan. The hours are Monday to Saturday from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on on Sunday from 12:00 to 6 p.m. Daily lunch specials are $5.99 and include a drink. The grill is open seven days a week. She also carries LA Candles, which are made in Beulah. The telephone is 829-2900.
Zach Marberry, son of Kathy and Rick Marberry, played on the Lufkin Dizzy Dean All-Star baseball team of 16-year- olds that traveled to Southhaven, Miss and came home the winner of the World Series. Zach had his first ever home run in their first game, and he hit for the cycle (single, double, triple and home run) in their third game. Zach was the catcher for the Panther baseball team. One of his teammates was Seth Thompson who also hit a home run and was chosen the MVP for the series. He is the son of Dana and Mike Thompson and the grandson of W. A. and Jan Dempsey. Baseball runs in that family. Seth was on the Panther JV team last year. Others on the team are: Eddy Duron, Bobby Byrd, Luis DeJesus, Michael Conlin, Trent Collins, Cory Lyles, Wes Waggonner, David McFarland, Tim Tang, Colby Keeling, Joey Solis and Brian Roy. Head coach is Joey Waggonner and assistants are Gary Keeling and Kevin Roy.
Margaret Dillahunty had knee replacement surgery and is on her way to feeling better.
Lynda Maberry Zimmerman is looking for Huntington High School records, annuals, programs from the early 1930's and late 1930's. She is doing research on the Modisette family and Huntington schools. Helen Herrington's daughter Bettye Craddock had some things for Lynda. Betty and her brother Boozer Herrington brought me some LHS things that were Mrs. Herrington's. I have shared them with the LHS classes of 1957, 1967, 1968, and 1972. These classes are having reunions this fall and these essays that were written by people in these classes were kept by Helen all of these years. Sharon Poland, at the main post office, was surprised when I took her the essay that she wrote in 1963 about her daddy's car. Bill Byrd wrote about his dad, Joe Byrd's 1935 Model A.
Kay and Bill Gunn wanted to know if we stayed up 24 hours to get all the things done that we did on vacation with the Herde family. Bill and Kay....we do sleep.
Enid Hunter watches the History Channel "Ice Road Truckers" looking between her fingers with her hands over her face according to husband Mike Hunter.
I enjoyed lunch at Tokyo Japanese Restaurant with Karla Yates, Abby Yates and Kaitlyn Ramsey. Kaitlyn's family, Tom and Amy Ramsey, are moving to South Carolina. Her parents had gone to look for a house, and her brother Ethan stayed with Michael and Lorraine Dorman and their son Clark. Jordan Ramsey stayed with grandparents. All of the community and Woodland Heights will miss the Ramseys.
Crown Colony server Trecina Ilesanmi's fiancé is Brandon Arnold. Shelley Aguilar waited on us at Crown last Tuesday and said that we could "rent" her children any time.
The Adoption Center of East Texas is sponsoring Mexican Fiesta Gala on Tuesday, August 28 at the Lufkin Civic Center. Contact them at 639-1741 for more information
Happy Birthday: Debbie Todd, Adam Huggins, Bonnie Allen, Reed Porterfield, Andrew Hines, Otto Brittain, Keith Hanks, J. B. Stubblefield, Betty Bruitt, K. C. Platt, Jerry Huffman, Geneva Newsom, Carol Anderson Moore, Marie Carnes, Peggy Metteauer, Irene Hendricks, Karen Jumper, Jonnie Warren, Millicent Irish, Jaime Hensley, Jordan Nutt, Laura Jo Welch, Rick Meredith, Suzanne Miller, Patress Schaeffer, Elizabeth McNeil, Jerry Whiteker, and Cathy Kettering.
Happy Anniversary: Melissa and Buford Abeldt, Jeannie and Mark Cook, Glenda and Roy Spradley, Janice and David Davis, Ladeen and Jim Pluss, Frances and Buddy Pullen, Martha and George Chandler, Carlyn and Duncan Garner, Joy and Charles Fredrick, Phyllis and Bill Royle.
I am behind....Tom and Misty Croley and son Garrett built a home on Quail Creek between the Ed Domingues and Jack Halters. They sold their home on Brookhollow to Mark and Julie Wieke. He is the minister at Carpenter's Way.
Kira Leigh Boede and Tyrel Dennis Smith of Round Rock were married in a July 4th ceremony at Millard's Crossing chapel in Nacogdoches. The Rev. Ed Williamson officiated. Parents of the couple are Rev. Leigh Ann- Rawlings of Austin and Dennis and Becky Smith of Nacogdoches. The bride wore a ruched silk strapless Mori Lee gown by Madeline Gardner. Providing music for the evening was the Vista String Quartet with Carole Veptula. Best man was Ben Smith of Dallas, brother of the groom. Grandparents of the bride are Patricia Mokry and the late Mr. and Mrs. Vladimir Mokry. Grandparents of the groom are Sue Neal Smith and the late Howard Coy Smith and the late Mr. and Mrs. Harry Reed of Lufkin. Also in attendance was Evie Lee Smith, great-grandmother of the groom. Photography was by Shawn Kennedy of SK Images, Austin. Wedding guests enjoyed a dazzling fireworks display at the reception hosted by the groom's parents. The couple will reside in Round Rock, Texas, where the bride is employed as a casting director and the groom is employed as a pilot for Kalitta Air.
Donna and Pete Smart are building off Harmony Hill Drive on Shady Springs Bend in the Timber Cove addition. The house should be ready in four months. Their son, Roger and Amanda Smart, are moving into the Smart's home in Diboll on the thirty plus acres. This way Pete can keep his shop where he does wood work and glass etching.
Katherine Goodwin, daughter of Kay and Philip Goodwin, is engaged to Ben Rolf, son of Sue and Max Rolf. They have set the wedding date for June 7, 2008. Katherine gradated in May from Texas A&M University and is teaching 5th grade at Brandon. Ben graduates in December from Texas A&M with his degree in Industrial Distribution.
Enjoying Pasta Night at Crown Colony were: Buford and Melissa Abeldt, J. R. and Pat Ritchey, Derrill and Ann Cates, Dick and Loretta Woodall, L'Ida Lee Zeleskey and John Richter, Terri and Jimmy Zeleskey, Jim and Jane Horn, Jim Bob and Sally Odom, Phillip and Emmie Leach, Jetta Westerholm, Mary Nell Taylor, Carolyn and Ed Booth, Alvis Bullock and Patricia Lawson.
Back to our trip to New Canaan, Connecticut: On Saturday the weather was spring like with flowers daises, hydrangeas, roses, day lilies, marigolds, petunias, althea bushes, Rose of Sharon, hostas all in bloom. We left town for the Gillette Castle State Park near Hartford. Along the I 95 were tons of maple trees, cottonwood, sweet gum, winged sumac, honey locust and yellow poplar. The Whistle Stop Café in Deep River looked quaint so we stopped for a hamburger. The grill master was from Texas and his wife from Louisiana. He left Victoria some eleven years ago for college up east and never came back to Texas. Mike and Hedy Kayser were the owners. His brother has All Star Carpet Cleaning in Livingston. Small world!! Another fun fact that was in the travel book was Connecticut claims that the hamburger was invented at Louis' Lunch in New Haven in 1900. We took the Chester Hadlyme Ferry that is over 200 years old across the Connecticut River. It is the second oldest (1789) ferry in Connecticut in continuous operation on the Connecticut River. Sarah paid the $3 fee. The ride with the children in the car is pleasant with their Ipods, DVD players, game boy and Harry Potter book.
About two hours later, we arrived at the Gillette Castle State Park on 184 acres. The 19th century thespian, William Gillette, owned the acreage. He is famous for his Sherlock Holmes portrayal on the stage. It took five years to built this 24-room mansion of local granite fieldstone and white oak woodwork in 1919 for at that time $1 million. He called the castle the Seventh Sister and it overlooked the Connecticut River. He designed the home like a medieval fortress on the Rhine River. It was modern in 1919 for its day with a generator for electricity. In the house were 47 wooden carved doors - no two identical. Gillette was famous for his stage portrayal of Sherlock Holmes. He purchased the rights to Sherlock Holmes from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for the stage. The attire Sherlock wears was from Gillette who wrote 13 original plays and other adaptations. The house has two floors and the third floor was added for his art collection. At the Gillette Castle refreshment stand, I asked for a Popsicle and the server said, "you are from the south". I said, "How can you tell?" On down the road in East Haddam was Devil's Hopyard State Park and Chapman Falls, which drops 60 feet in a series of steps. The origin of the name "Devil's Hopyard" varies from story to story. We saw the pothole stone formation in the rock that was perfectly cylindrical from inches to several feet in diameter and depth. The potholes were formed by stones moved downstream by the current and trapped in an eddy where the stone was spun around and around wearing a depression in the rock. When the rock wore itself down, another would catch in the same hole and enlarge it. Gasoline ranged from $3.19 to $3.69 a gallon. Nancy bought me the book "1,000 Places To See in the USA and Canada Before You Die". I am marking how many places that we have seen. The Gillette Castle was in the book. Saturday night, Michael made homemade pizza for us when we got back home. Nancy and Michael took us to the LaGuardia airport about an hour drive from their house. We had no trouble with security or the plane being delayed. Oscar Dillahunty was at the airport and brought us to Lufkin after we had a meal at Pappa's in Houston. Our 12 days were busy but fun.
Jo Ann Nerren emailed me that her great-nephew, Bo Ricks, is on the Lubbock Southwest baseball team playing in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He plays third base and I watched them on Saturday night. It was 45-years-ago that a member of the Ricks family went to the World Series.
I came home from tax-free shopping and a limb had fallen from Edd Kenley's yard into the street. I stopped and took the limbs out of the street and came into the house and NO POWER. I called Woodie Hicks and Christine Richardson and they had power. The Joe Byrd's did not have power. I had been talking to my TXU daughter Julie Jumper Morris when I got home and found no power. She called Waco and reported our outage. Richard Martinez with Oncor Electric Delivery was here in less than an hour to reset the fuse or what ever and I had power again. Thanks Richard!!!!
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