9-11/12-8 with O.Hinds

1. Beckey put an American Flag from the Jonesboro Sun the day after 9-11-1. It is still on our front (East) picture window! I worked a bit stacking the cut up logs from the two Pecan trees. At 6:45am I helped George Ford get ready for breakfast. Pauletter had visited an hour with him Sunday. The place was a buzz from Carmel L. smacking Ann (the resident Ann) on the forehead(11 stitches) with a cane. I left about 7:45 and made my rounds: THS first ( Mickey helped me with a pass I had misplaced), Sav-A-Lot, Post office, goatville and piggly-wiggly Oscarhut. I worked about the place for the day. Bobby talked me into keeping the chain-saw a few more days, since I do have a lot of wood on the ground.
2. I really like the new parking that I have put in. I can work there without the grime and mud! I put down more 4x4s and 2x4s for framing going up to the Quonset Hut. Perhaps Jim S. will have some more concrete soon.
3. Brook said the girls still have the 1/3 grown red squirrel that fell, nest and all, some 40 ft to the ground. It was so docile!
4. D. Bradley was that Southwestern telephone worker that I tried to remember to F. Noblin.
5. Talked with Jr. next door. Erma said the gas was going up. Beck and filled up our tanks at Wal-Mart ($96 for both).

9-12-8

1. Up early--helped George F. get ready for breakfast. I went over to the school and turned in the June 22,1948 Trumann Reporter (8 pages) by Arlen Vaden (editor) to be laminated. I also had several of Mel Brown's pages from his scrapbook permatized. I talked with Mickey McDaniel, John Troxel, Jetta Skillern, Joe W., Charles K., Brenda H., Justin Smith and several others.

2. I took the 88 Escort over to Bryan M. to have the oil changed($13.49 for the special of 5 qt. of oil and filter. The transmission is not right. I bought a quart for $3.39 and tax. It still dosn't shift right.

3. I went back to school and picked up my lamination. I met Zac Thompson, B.J. Carter, Quatrain ?, and a few other ball players... gave them the high sign for victory!

4.Picked up milke($3.94, sandwich bread($1.09), eggs($2.49 for 18 large).

5. Home and wrote in the blog... Beck has bad headache..... 6. John B. and C. are in Memphis ... will be in Trumann to met us manana..

"Oliver,we're now in Memphis, staying two nights at the Heartbreak Hotel so we'lldo the sightseeing here now and head off to Trummann on Saturday and thenstay until Sunday, focusing on you and Trumann. I hope that suits you andBecky.We're so much looking forward to seeing you both!All the best /John"

7. I thought this was a great email about "pig-catching:" "
How to catch a wild pig
There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day, while the class was in the lab the professor noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist government.
In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?' The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.
The young man said it was no joke. 'You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again, and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, so you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly, the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon, they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.'
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America . The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, free medical, $600 economic stimulus, etc. While we continually lose our freedoms - just a little at a time. One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free lunch! Also, a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.
Bravo to the young man! He explained it perfectly. If you see that all of this wonderful government help is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America , you might want to send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life then you will probably delete this e-mail, but God help you when the gate slams shut!
'A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.' -- Thomas Jefferson" ... Ballgame tonight against Nettleton! I met Coach Dover last Friday night when we crushed Rivercrest!..... O.Hinds