By: W.C. Reader

One of our fresh granddaughters, Lauren Richmond (age 4 1/ 2 years), walked up behind us the other day and asked, “Grandpa, why don’t you have hair on the top of your head?” That’s when you know that you grandchildren are growing up! ----- Folks at the R&R Café in Runge asking us why that Karnes City duo Paul Bordovsky and Charley Ruckman, don’t drop in anymore. Said they used to generate a lot of money for the business, even if somebody else had to pay for the coffee. ----- Kaye Osburn telling us that daughter Sherry Hackney observed a birthday in January, but we are wise enough not to ask how old a woman is. ----- Understand that our old friend, Clifford Barth, of many years past still is receiving his mail in Denver, Colorado, even through three of his children are living in Texas. Clifford, why don’t you give up all of that snow and those mountains and come back down where your roots are? ----- Dr. John Frels reporting that longtime residents of Yorktown, Dalton Metting and Janie Metting, have just about completed their move to Victoria, and Dalton now is getting his social affairs back in order. ----- Enjoyed talking on the phone the other day with our old friend of many years, Tony Manka of Panna Maria and finding out whether he and his good wife, Teresa Manka, are going to church regularly and keeping the wood box full during this recent cold snap. ----- Is this right? One of our old amigos told us the other day that the only dairy left operating in Karnes County is the one owned by Larry Schendel in Runge. ----- Stopped to exchange pleasantries with Kim Janecek Moy in Wal-Mart’s recently and couldn’t help but notice that she still wears that same winsome smile she used to display when she rode around town in a pickup with her late father, Kemp Janecek. ----- Don’t know whether these young folks remember how to dance the “Twist”, but at his birthday party the other day, A.B. Green and wife Pat Green demonstrated that they still are young enough to do it. ----- Enjoyed a brief chat with Ruth Hollman the other day and tried to get her to bring us up to date about the doings of Becky Sansom and her clan, but she wouldn’t tarry, saying she had to go home and cut some wood, fill the coal oil can, split some kindling, and put out a box of kitchen matches so she would be ready for the next norther and rainy spell that’s on the way. ----- That reminds us; we have to get our equipment in order so we can resume giving rainfall reports to you folks. David Franke already has provided us with a CARDUI calendar on which we keep our records. But while we were out of circulation last winter, our rain gauge froze up, and now we are going to have to chisel a new one from Gaylon Oehlke, Jim Fox or H.J. Kolinek so we can get back in business again. ----- Happy Valentine.

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