We had a nice turnout for the July "Lost Friends Luncheon". Here are Angie and Steve Rocha with Gerry Huber. Good to see all of them again. The Wallners were laid up with a Sinus infections and were a rare no-show.

More pictures here.

Why don't you join us next month? We meet each month for lunch at Abuelo's on US75 in Plano at 11:30 a.m. on the 13^th of each month, or the following Monday if the 13^th falls on a weekend or holiday.

Our next luncheon will be Monday, August 15, 2022 at 11:30 a.m.

It's hard to believe, but Lucas just celebrated his THIRD birthday! Here he is with his parents and grandmother.

Before we left Dyer on the 2022 trip we stopped by to see Tommy Finch who is recovering from successful heart surgery. Angie snapped this show of Tommy's Cat which took an immediate liking to me, and sat in my lap the entire time. According to Tommy, he had the cat before he and Reba married so it's well over 25 years old.

The primary object of the trip to Tennessee was to meet up with my old high school friends for our annual reunion. We made it! So for 2022, here is the class of '61 sixty one years later! There are a few more of us left than this shows, but many were unable to attend this year for one reason or another.

Front Row L-R: Carol Stockton Mannon, Melba Owens Gilmore, Patsy London Reed, Alice Ball McCutcheon, Ms Brewer (Teacher), Frank Bailey, Gary Fesmire, Jim Harrison

Back Row L-R: Cleatus Woods, Jerry Mercer, Russell Watt, John Taylor, Jim Meadows.

Staying in Dyer with my cousin, Natalee Reed, one night after supper I told the old joke about dishes being "as clean as 'Cold Water' can get them". Joe and Max thought that was a great idea, but Natalee and Angie nixed the idea! 

Angie and I usually head to Tennessee in June of each year for my annual high school reunion. This year, 2022, we decided to be different and do some touristing along the way. Angie wanted to see Savannah, GA which she's encountered in several books, and I picked out a couple of places along the way. While we were in Savannah, we decided we might as well go see Charleston, SC again since we were so close. And then there was Hilton Head, Myrtle Beach, Chattanooga, etc. After all that we decided to stop by Lynchburg, TN and say howdy to Mr. Jack and his folks. As a great bonus, an old college friend lived just down the road in Scottsboro, AL, and he was nice enough to meet and treat us to dinner at Miss Mary Bobo's in Lynchburg. The food was superb, and it was great catching up with Ben again.

Pictures from our "Southern Vacation" trip are here.

2021: Angie's mother celebrating her 95^th birthday.

2021: After jumping through all kinds of hoops, Angie is off to Taiwan to visit her mother on her upcoming 95^th birthday. She sent me this picture of the cleaning and disinfecting crew at the TaoYuan airport shortly after her arrival. There are more cleaners and disinfectors than there are passengers - by a long shot! They're taking no chances.

She has to spend two weeks in solitary confinement, or quarantine, before getting limited freedom to be outside. Then one more week avoiding public gatherings and public transportation. She plans on getting a lot of reading done.

Some of the pictures she's sent are collected here.

2021: We got up to Farmersville to visit with Bill and Jane Harrison before Angie took off on her trip to Taiwan. They're still going strong if a little slower. Bill took us out to a local watering hole for a good dinner. Since I didn't get a pictue when we arrived, I took this one as I was leaving.

With apologies to Bill Anderson, "I was walking out backwards so they'd think I was walking in!"

2021: While on our 2021 Pacific coast trip we got to visit with great nephew Lucas Chu. I gave him one of my old cowboy hats and he looks like a natural. Here he is after a hard day of ridin' the range on that palomino horse.

2021: We went on vacation in August touring the northwest and visiting old friends and family. This map highlights the trip and some of the places we stopped. If you're interested, pictures from the trip are posted on flickr in the album at 2021 West Coast Road Trip | Flickr.

2021: It happened to be Angie's birthday while we were in Tennessee so we went down to Boyette's at Reelfoot lake for a catfish dinner to celebrate. It was goooood!

2021: Angie got to catch up on her reading while we were in Tennessee in 2021. Here she is with her new best friend "Max" standing guard. Needless to say, she wasn't disturbed!