Wonderful News

I am almost my old self today...the flu this year is a real booger-bear! I was at the high school today...got to see all the kiddos I have substitute taught since they were in the 3rd grade...I have been a very good fit this year at 5th and sixth grades...last week, I subbed for the high school science teacher.. he told me today that his students told him that they had all been so good for me because they said I was like their grandma and they would not misbehave for their grandma! LOL!!! I have known them for over six years now. What a compliment that they think so highly of me!

 I went to the McLennan County Courthouse after school to get the 2007 tags for my pickup. Did not have time to stop in and see Andy Harwell, County Clerk, as I usually do when I go to the Courthouse...Andy was a teenager back in the '80's when he and his dad, Jack Harwell, Sheriff of McLennan County for many years, would visit us at Hilltop Lakes, Leon County, to deer hunt and just stay a few days.... Jerry Davis and Louie Lee usually came along, too.

Anyway, I had to get back to pick up some more of that Arizona alfalfa hay for the horses. I did take time to find out who had bought the old homeplace, 2220 North 4th Street, where I, Sue, and Charlie grew up and had such wonderful childhood memories. I was thrilled to find that it is a young couple with children, who plan to live there one day. Sue and I had seen the For Sale sign and were afraid someone would buy the property and tear the house down. 

Daddy built that house in 1948, and it is still a good house. He was an excellent carpenter and built many homes and commercial properties in and around Waco as Head Carpenter for W.B. Lenamon Construction Company in the 1950's and 1960's. I called the family and told them how thrilled I was they had purchased it...that if they were told two old women had been seen walking around it, it was just me and my sister, Sue.  2220 North 4th  (my old homeplace where I grew up) and 2224 North 4th ( next door to it and now just an empty lot that is a part of Cameron Park but was the old Head homeplace from 1921 to 1957) are both so special to my family. So much life went on there! And of course, Cameron Park being right across the street from those two addresses made them even more special.

I look forward to meeting the family...I will have to ask their permission before using their names, as a lot of folks do read my blog, and they may not want it to be such public knowledge! I called Sue, and she was thrilled also! We have a lot of old pictures of the places and our family for them to see. What wonderful news!