A Visit With the Guidry Girls

November 18, Betty and I spent the night with Kim and the girls. Sunday morning Abbigale (who admits to being the most perfect little girl in the whole wide world) fixed breakfast. Here she is making eggs. See how fashion concious she is even in the early morning.

Here's a picture of Savannah and Betty in front of the fireplace. I have no idea of what was so funny.

Having a Smoke In Albuquerque

Bobby, Sam and Lisa having a smoke outside the house in Albuquerque. They won't smoke in the house which is good for the boys.

Jack-O-Lanterns Made by Kids

Here are the results of the three boys' endeavors at carving pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns. As Bobby said, they look like jack-o-lanterns made by three kids. Don't try to tell me that that boy isn't observant.

 

Carving Jack-O-Lanterns

It was almost Halloween, so, of course, the boys had to make jack-o-lanterns. Here they are at work carving out the pumpkins.

 

Sam and Christine

Bobby's friends and neighbors, Sam and Christine (Merick's parents) stopped by for a visit, pizza and some drinks. Sam had burned both of his hands when he grabbed up a flaming lamp and threw it out of his mother-in-law's house to keep it from setting the house on fire. He sustained first and second degree burns on both hands and missed a week of work. He is now the hero of the block.

Christine is a happy go lucky pregnant mom.


Here Christine feeds her hero, Sam, because he can't use his burned hands. Isn't she sweet?

Playing Games in the Arcade

The boys each got a cup full of tokens and played games in the arcade. They all seemed to enjoy themselves. Morgan and Merick gathered a bunch of tickets and turned them in for some good old plastic "made in China" toys.

At the Hinkle Family Center

Bobby and the boys wanted to go to the Hinkley Family Center in Albuquerque (well, the boys did, any way), so we got the boys and Morgan's friend Merick and went to have some fun. Here are three photos of the "boys" in the bumper boats. Merick was too short to ride by himself so Bobby "had to" drive for him. Hmmmmmm.

 

Owen Lewis Wilson-Cathers

While In Albuquerque, I tried to get some photos of my grandson Owen, but it is hard to do because he is always mugging for the camera. Here are three that I got of him. He's a cute kid.

Morgan Wade Wilson-Cathers

The last weekend in October I went to Albuquerque and visited with my son and his family. These photos are of my grandson Morgan. The first he is lying onthe floor watching TV as usual.

In this second photo, he is being a dork with his pajamas pulled up to his shoulders. Silly kid!

In this third picture, he is in the middle of the street being a boy and harassing his brother and the other kids in the neighborhood. I guess that is just being normal.

 

A Visit With The Guidrys

After the football game, I spent the night in Oscar, La., with the Guidrys in their new home. Here are a couple pictures that were taken Saturday as I was getting ready to head for home. As always, I had a good time and enjoyed my time with them.

Abbigale Greace -- Cheerleader/Dancer

On October 13, 2006 (Friday 13th --Oooooo) and about 120 other young girls got to participated in a half-time presentation at her school, False River Accademy. The little girls were great. The youngest were about age three. Here are a couple pictures of Abbi as she performs the routines. The quality of the photos is not the best but I think they show the enthusiasm of Abbi and the others.


 

Another Before and After

Here are a couple more pictures, one from about 46 years ago and one from last month. Look in the black and white picture and see if you can find the two people in the more recent color

Hint: The blond in the lower right of the black and white photo is not in the color photo.

The newer photo is of my old Air Force buddy, Carl William "Billy" Schunck, and me. (Thank God we have both managed to retain our young boyish figures!) Billy is retired from the Air Force and the USPS and lives in Indiana not too far from Hamilton, Ohio. The black and white photo was taken about 1960 when were stationed together at Rhine-Main AFB in Frankfort, Germany. The others in the picture are Bob Nicely and Don Clough.

Left click on the black and white to make it larger.

Woody's Pig Roast

Here is my nephew, Woody Collins, standing behind his smoker. Woody built this piece of equipment from cast off heating and airconditioning ducts, etc. The man is a genius. Who'd a thunk it?

Mmmmmmm. Roasting, smoking pork.


Cooking fresh vegetables in a garbage can. Woody put the vegetables in the new garbage can in layers with corn on the cob at the bottom and others according to how long it would take for them to cook with the steam generated from the fluid in the vegetables. Them briarhoppers are pretty smart.

A plate of food from the pig roast. It was GOOOOOD!

 

Mary Jane's First Chicken Festival

Here is a picture of Mary Jane and me at the Chicken Festival. This was made just before the festival was shut down because of an approaching storm with winds of up to 40 m.p.h. It was reported that two possible tornados were seen in or near Pitsburg, Ky. 

World Chicken Festival Washout

Well, this year the World Chicken Frestrival was pretty much a washout as far as my family is concerned. Mary Jane and her mother-in-law, Jackie, went for the first time. Thursday while we were traveling was fine. The weather was great. The same thing for Friday. It was beautiful. Then came Saturday morning. We all got ready for the parade and went to the festival site only to be told that the parade had been cancled because of the rain. So, we went to Woddy's for his pig roast, had a good time, and then came back to the festival later that afternoon. We were there for less than an hour when the day's festivities were called off because of an impending storm. We left and went back to our motel and did not return to the Chicken Festival. Here are several photos that were taken during our time there.

Mary Jane and Jackie inside the tent at the Sanders Stage waiting for the Colonel Sanders Look-Alike Contest to begin. It didn't, at least not that day. Don't know if they had it on Sunday.


One of the displayers at the festival was Windstream which, I believe, is some sort of telephone of communications company. Their bossman wanted a picture of me with the ladies. I obliged.

Marie's first greatgrandson, Logan Matthew, me and Carla. Sissy's daughter, Nancy, is the mother and father Sean is on duty in Iraq.