Monday was rainy. I picked up Wallace Bennett to meet with the folks at the Library interested in doing Oral History for Cross Plains. We looked at buying a Vivitar video camera on sale by Sears. Wallace said he would take one so I ordered two, one for him and one for me. I ordered a red and black one and he can have his choice. We feel that the video recording will be much better than just an audio disk and can even take it and walk down Main street with old-timers who remember how it used to be. We now have a long list of potential interviewees and should make some progress soon.
I then drove to Abilene and stopped to eat at China Garden where I got a shock. It will close March 19. McMurry University bought it to make a parking lot out of it. I will miss the good food and service at the lowest cost in Abilene. I picked up cleaning, recycled paper and got the copies of Lou's Story from Hendrick Hospice. When I got home I worked trying to download TurboTax and got that done.
Tuesday Lydia came to clean, the plumber came to replace water valves in the front flower bed so that I can turn off the water to the pond during freezing weather. I went to CP and visited with Carl Edington who is home from the hospital. We put him on the list of Oral History interviewees. He grew up in the Burkett area going to school at small schools long gone. He started working in the oil fields, then went to a copper mine in Arizona. He left that to join the Army in WWII and ended up in the Marines as a MP. He came back went to McMurry for a while got back in the oil business and finally got a degree in Petroleum Engineering after starting in geology.
I went to Kiwanis and we had a lot of visitors from Early and Abilene. We also had a new member from the Cottonwood area, Arnie Smith. When I asked for his email address he said he couldn't remeber because his wife uses the computer but he would email me at my address on my column so I knew he read The Livestock Weekly. So he is my kind of guy! I got home and worked until 9:30 on my taxes.
Today I finished my taxes and e-filed before noon. Tonight I got an email saying it was accepted by the IRS so I am happy. It was a complicated filing with the gifts to TWU to account for. On the way to Granbury I finally stopped at T. Lindsey Baker's museum at Thurber. He had left to go back to Tarleton to prepare for a class he will teach tonight. It is an interesting look at the people and times of the 1920's with coal mines and later oil production by the railroads. The owner lived in NYC but came out often in his private Pullman car on the railroad to see the operation. The photos of the school children were interesting. Most of the boys were barefoot and one had huge paddle feet.
This morning's mail brought a note from Vonnie Rutherford telling me that she taught Ann Coulter in school when her name was Jean. She also taught her older sister. I am impressed.
Driving somewhere near Lipan an animal I first thought was a dog was limping across the road in front of me. I slowed to keep from hitting it and realized it was a scroungy coyote and my friend Larry will be mad that I didn't try to put him out of his misery. I mailed an envelope in Lipan and got to Granbury in time to have some great split-pea soup Nancy made.
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