Grandpa Paul Rodriguez introduced us to grandson Justice Rodriguez recently, and this talkative little fellow immediately told us he had a rabbit in a box in the back of the car. Now there’s a lad that believes in getting ready for Easter early.-----Darla Kruciak Stewart says that Charley Ruckman is one of the more noisier persons to show up at the hospital. How do you mean that, Darla; with feet, or with mouth?-----Vivian Urbanczyk tells us the quality and quantity of Dalton Kowalik and those other coffee drinkers who show up daily at the City Pharmacy remains about the same as they were when Emily Bordovsky and Paul Bordovsky ran the place.-----Frank Gohlke and Aleen Gohlke still brooding over the fact that the only real tall tree in their yard came crashing down the other day. We think this tree was started on its ill-fated journey by Hurricane Claudette in July, and those strong winds in February finished the job. -----Word about good food always gets around. When Tonie Powell and husband first started showing up at Edgar and Gladys’s Café in Nordheim, there were no accomplices with them. But now, weeks later, the crowd seems to grow and grow.-----Keep a light foot on the pedal now when you are driving through Hays County. Mama tells us that daughter Pauline Cortez now has taken a job on the staff of the Sheriff of that county.-----Enjoyed leaning over the counter the other day and discussing relatives and acquaintances with Pink Ladies Lillian Williams and June Stewart. Lillian tells us she is an offspring of the Hoffer family in Runge, and she is a graduate of Runge High School. (Did we get that right, Lillian?) And June traces her relatives back to the Kenedy family (and others) around the Edgar community in DeWitt County. Some of those folks are mutual relations of June and us, but she is lucky because none are direct relations.-----Rynda Clark called us early one morning to ask if we knew about, or had a picture of, an old room-and-board establishment that used to operate up the road in Hobson. Told her our knowledge wasn’t that wide, but we would make inquiry of you more knowledgeable people in Hobson. If you have a picture or other information, let us know and we will pass it along to Rynda, who is the daughter of the late Kyle Clark and Mabel Clark.-----Saw Leo Buehring and Slim Remmers trailing each other out of a café recently, and decided we had better check the kitchen to find out if adequate supplies left over before latecomers like Marie Schendel and Raymond Schendel made themselves comfortable at a table. Fortunately for them, there was.-----Peggy Schroeder still loyal to former boss Daulton Metting. When we casually asked her if she had heard about his Yorktown neighbors chasing him out of town, she huffily told us there wasn’t an ounce of truth to that rumor. It was just the magic of his grandchildren that had lured him and good wife Janie Metting to the City of Roses.

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