12/4-19/08 with O.Hinds

The tree that is shading the red car was cut this week. This is a picture of the vacant lot at 216 Speedway, Trumann, AR. Among others the Youngs lived next door back in the 40s and 50s. So many things happened here!

1. Went over some communication terms with grandson, Stephen. He has his finals for this semester yesterday and today. He is a 10th grader. Mark is a 7th grader and has played football this year.


2. Sunday the 12th I skipped my visiting in Jonesboro and drove behind Sarah/Landon Hope to Stateline RD C of C and visited with Ira's family. We ate at Logan's Steak House... really good! We went on back to Van/Diana's and had a great time visiting a part of our family that I generally miss. I had called Viv and left a message for Maxine about my plans.


3. Well, it is Friday,the 19th, before our family Christmas "get-to-gether." Strange how this gets around a bit quicker each year.


4. Will make my rounds in T-town and then be back early.

Sunday-Monday past reunion-12-1-8

Now brother Terrell is gesturing to Willis, Theresa and Mary Ann. Vivian,Debbie and Beckey are talking and Connie is pecking on her computer. We all(some 70 of us) were at the Sports Complex in Trumann, AR.

Now Marianne Hinds and I went to the first level of this the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Derrick Hinds went on up to the top! It has a great view and one can see the only natural hill where the Sacred Heart Church is built. However this group of O.Hinds and siblings were just superimposed by a niece at the base of said tower. The picture was made on the 11-29-08.

I played the music for this wedding. It was the Wedding March and as far as I know, it was the first time that instrumental music had ever been played in the building at the Pine and Cedar C of C.

I believe this picture has been enlarged more than it can bear... makes me laugh. I think that I was designed to slip over a tea cup and here I am being stretched over a barrel and I think that I feel a rip!!!! Ha!

Well, visited my dear friends when Sister Viv is. Clarence H. held on to my hand and we talked of the old quartets... I started "Life's Evening Sun" and he did the bass along with a few others and I put in some soprano and some alto with some others. He is Jr. Higgins dad. His mind is still very sharp. I visited William G. at Skill care and put bread in his bird feeder. Gertie Mills Skaggs tells me she can show me the house where her grandmother(my Aunt Emma Knight) lived. She said that Joe and Eula often visited there. (had to be previous to Michigan home with Aunt Dove)... Saw Gene B. had nurse clean him up and get that breathing mask over that tracheotomy opening. She thanked me... I am there every Sun morn about 8:00-8:30... saw Ed Watson.. told him I had just talked with JR. Isbell at SC... Many times I am a messenger boy..ha. Saw Stoney Busby's widow at SC and told her "hello" from Lorene Sharp(Orville Sharp's widow)... both Munri Cristy Busby and Lorene Charger Sharp are widows of former Trumann policeman.