The Gallerita!

been awhile

It has been awhile since I have posted anything. Jerry and I carved pumkins for Halloween. I did one, Jerry did two. I went to the Hobby Lobby and bought a couple of carving kits. The one I carved was entitled, "Unwelcome Guest." Jerry did one freelance which I called "Snaggle-tooth" and a patterned one that was a skull with a gash in it. We had several trick or treaters. We were even rewarded with praise from the parents of some of the little ones. They said our pumkins were the best ones they had seen...This past week has been spent driving back and forth to Wichita Falls to do some work in one of our Central Offices there. We drive about 6 hours round trip to do 4 hours of work. It is very crazy. The bonus is that I have gotten to eat dinner with mother a couple of times. She tells a story when she was young and at an age to harrass her older sister, Sarah. The rule was that any gentlemen callers had to be out of the house by 11PM. On occasions that Sarah would be entertaining her future husband and the hour passed 11PM, Bobby and Mother would get a pair of their dad's shoes, put them on and stomp up the porch steps. This would cause the would be caller into making a hasty departure. Also, her oldest sister, Aunt Sister had two different boyfriends that she dated. One was Jimmy, whom she later married, and John. Sister and her date would be in the parlor behind closed doors and mom would yell through the closed door, "Who are you with tonight, Jimmy or John?" Mom was quite the imp in her younger days. John married someone else and mother took great pride in telling me that he named one of his daughters Kitty Lou...I am working tonight from about 11PM til probably 4AM. There is a switch cut in the central office where I worked before I joined my current crew. I should be napping right now. Oh well. I have to leave here in 2 hours. I think I will try to catch a few Zs.