"Blurb" to Shelly Stuart

This is a friendly little "blurb" to Shelly Stuart, someone I once considered a friend----the friend and fellow horseman and animal lover  that I met when I had bought such wonderful alfalfa hay from her one winter, for my eight horses. Shelly has many horses, goats, and dogs. 

Shelly is the friend that my sister, Sue Lee--- now Shelly's former friend, too--  had in the past helped Shelly take care of her animals when Shelly--- for one reason or another--- could not. Livestock have to be taken care of whether you are ill or your rig is broken down or whatever--they still have to have hay and feed put out, especially in times of drought or in the dead of winter, when there is nothing--- not even a blade of grass--- in the pasture to eat. 

 Last winter, Sue---in the snow, no less!--- hauled a big load of hay with her own rig --her own pickup and her own big round bale cradle--- and put out the round bales for Shelly's animals, when Shelly wasn't able to, and the animals needed feeding.  When Shelly's hay hauling rig was broken down, Sue used her own rig----her own pickup and her own big round bale cradle---to deliver a big load of hay to one of Shelly's customers who had bought hay from her and needed it right away. Sue had helped Shelly take cows to the vet, run errands for her, and so forth. Sue was just doing what good neighbors and good friends do----helping each other out when needed.  

And Sue knew Shelly would have done the same for her, if help were ever needed, because that is what friends and neighbors do for one another, especially in a little town like Cranfills Gap, where everyone knows every one.  Or at least that's what they used to do. That special "I'll- help- you -out" and "Let- me- lend -you- a -hand" attitude is a big part of what has made the Gap such a special place for all those many years, so when that specialness--that neighborliness, that friendship--- is lost, it is particularly sad.

 There are all kinds of friends--the old friend; the new friend; the friend you don't see very often, but the connection and friendship are still there after many years; the barely-known friend considered a friendly acquaintance; the friendly neighbors who pull together for the good of the community. Friends come in all shapes and sizes. It just about breaks your heart when those great folks you thought so much of are no longer your friend. Not only you but the entire community loses so much when a friend or neighbor's friendship is lost. 

 Shelly---- like my sister, Sue---- is also a Cranfills Gap school board member. Shelly is the School Board Secretary.  Shelly recorded in the August 20th, 2007, Cranfills Gap school board minutes a statement about my efforts to publicize ---on the Internet--- the ordeal of my niece Kaitlan Head, the 2007 Valedictorian illegally banned from her graduation ceremony in May 2007 by former Superintendent Carla Sigler and Cranfills Gap school board members Kenny Wiese, Jeff Rose, Kathie Witte, Shelly Stuart, Virgil Tindall, and Jackie Ray Sorrels.  

 I understood Shelly to be saying that she considered that my efforts had resulted in inconsequential, unimportant, short, little "blurbs" on the Internet and implied my little "blurbs" would have no effect on anyone whatsoever and therefore would be of absolutely no consequence.

Well, Shelly, I wonder what you think of all those inconsequential, ineffective little "blurbs"now!!!!!!