Homecoming 2013 at Ankeny High School.  My friend Dottie, mother of the center cheerleader, was all over town gathering the costumes.  The football team looks great!  The game wasn't so great.

carry on........

Summer is gone

and it's time to get ready to Roll on down that blue highway.....here are the group photos from our 4 class reunion.  It was a party to celebrate the 100th graduating class from Ankeny High School. These four classes made up the last  "four class high school".  I was a freshman, the next year we moved back to Parkview School, which became the high school.  We started at Parkview and ended there.

The Senior, Class of 64

 

Class of 67, the Babies, two years, bottom of the barrel

The Sophomore Class, 1966

 The Juniors, Class of 65.

Faculty and wives of administrators
 

Big week end

golfing at the Preserve at Honey Creek at Rathbun Lake in southern Iowa.  It is an ALS event, then it was reported that it is for Alzheimers......whatever, we are sponsoring a hole. The Rathbun people  tried to be  HONEY CREEK, but my friends already owed that name, Honey Creek Golf Course in Boone, Iowa.  Up scale course, I can't wait to play this nice course. I hope my teammates can putt.

About a half dozen OLD softball teammates will join up for this event. Some I have not seen for over 20 years.   I guess this is a thank you to facebook, that is how we have kept in touch and found the announcement and made the plans.  We did use the tele to contact one person that does not use FB, that's OK.......I am taking the camera along, I heard that on Saturday night we will have the biggest moon of the month.  I think they are talking about the moon in the sky,  not the moons of my BUTT shots photo album.....it should be very peaceful, at the bonfire.........moon watching...........

Alumni events upcoming. I hope my classmates will get on the stick and send in some money for our FOUR class reunion.  that will be a great time.  The last four year high school in Ankeny.  As we celebrate our 100th graduating class and embark into a new future in Ankeny, TWO high schools..
A city divided.   I live maybe 5 blocks from good old AHS, but the kids on my street will go to the new high school.......go figure........carry on........

Winter was NOT over

when I arrived back in Iowa for the summer.  When I awoke on Day two being home, it was snowing and it stopped about 48 hours later.  There was only about 2-3 inches of accumulation. I was cold, I was going to have to wear long pants, I needed some groceries.........which meant driving in snow.  My car has never been in the snow. I don't have 4 x 4 wheel drive or front wheel drive, so I had to wait until late afternoon when the snow was mostly melted.  Call me a wimp.....YES, I am very climatized to the Texas weather.

Day one, looking at beautiful tulips that are usually all gone by the time I cruise down that Blue Highway.

Day two, about 7 AM, looking out my bedroom window at the neighbor's gazing ball.  

Day three, same viewpoint, looking out the bedroom window.  I was getting depressed at this point and was thinking about returning to Texas.

Our beautiful Magnolia tree or tulip tree as some people call it.  Last  year the blooms had already fallen by the time I arrived in Iowa for the summer.  Spring was about 6 weeks early.  However, this year........you just gotta laugh!

Carry On..........

Winter is over

I hope. This statement makes it OK to travel down that Blue Highway again.  Time to travel north to rainy weather, summer fun, more golf, reunions.  However, I will miss the Bobbing time in the pool, the palm trees, the many friends from all over the world, besides Iowa.  Here's hoping that next fall will bring the same agenda:  working at the Double Bogey Bar and Grill, ladies golf league, trips to South Padre Island and Progreso, Mexico.  Life is good in the Rio Grande Valley, even though we have had less than an inch of rain in the last 7  months PLUS.........still a serious drought and it really hurts the farmers and the people that live here full time.  This county is one of the poorest in the USA.  I have been very delinquent about posts on this blog all winter long.......maybe I will get my act together this summer and bring y áll up to date with a photo story about the winter. Carry on........

Catch Up or Ketschup?

 

It is taking way toooo looooong to download these photos, so I will stop here, tonight. A couple shots

on the beach, South Padre Island and one piece of the mural honoring Tom Landry, on the

side of Doubleday's Sports Bar in Port Isabel, right next to

Fisherman's Restaurant, who serve the best

Club Sandwich in the world!

 

 

 

March Madness

has started, with the Big Ten Women's BB tournament. The Hawkeyes won their first round game, then were defeated by my hometown girl/coach Connie Yori and the Cornhuskers.  Today I think Purdue pulled out the championship game, bummer, since Iowa beat them two times this season. On to the Big 12 women.  ISU played two fine games and will face #1 Baylor and Greiner the giant in the championship game on Monday night.  The Iowa men won their last conference game of the season and will open the Big 10 Men's tourney on Thursday.  GO Hawks.  The Iowa wrestlers were off to a fantastic start in the Big 10 wrestling, but PSU was hot again and won.  Guess that is why Cale moved away from ISU, he could not win there, but he has some studs out east.  I think I will take a break tomorrow night and watch JR Ewing's funeral on TNT @ 8 pm. A great old show, it almost made me miss AHS football games, thank goodness we had VCR's back in the day.  Work is going fine, our Friday Night event @ the golf course is very popular, espicially with great entertainers and a fish fry during Lent.  One more fish fry for the season and three nights of music, then we pack it in for another winter season.  Where did the winter go?  Is the snow done in Iowa?  I do not want to see anymore white stuff.............carry on...............

I am in shock

that I have not made a post in four months.  Time to make up for lost time. Starting in December with a walk around the park, to the Schmidt house, my Christmas rug and the golf cart parade, ending with Patches telling his mom that he did NOT want to ride in the parade. Patches took off for home.