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ESCAPING FLYING ROCKETS AND INSECTS IN SUMMERTIME SHERMAN, TEXAS

      This time of year I always remember the stifling heat of summer in north Texas during the 50’s & 60’s.   No one had air conditioning and it was torture to attempt to go to sleep in a hot bed and wake up in warm, sweaty sheets.   I read recently the human body dispenses north of 25 gallons of sweat annually into our beds.   (The point being, change the sheets weekly.)   In Sherman, Texas, that number had to be considerably higher in the summer months.        One source of relief from the summer inferno was the Sherman municipal swimming pool.  It seemed anytime I was at the pool, my late childhood hero Judd Bell was present.  Judd was about 3-4 years older than me and always seemed to be in the midst of an adventure.  I witnessed someone finding a bottle rocket and Judd placed it down the back of his swim suit,  bent over and lit the fuse.  The rocket shot off his butt and into hot blue sky ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMILY ANN AND MY LITTLE BROTHER BOB

      Today, July 7th, is a pretty important birth date for me.   My daughter in law, Emily, celebrates her 35th birthday today.   I am awfully glad she was born…she makes my son extremely happy, is a joy to be around and has presented me with two wonderful grandchildren, including my only grandson, who happens to share my middle name!   (Tough thing to do for a little guy.)          It has made us all very happy for Emily to be in our family and I have been impressed with her zeal to do the right thing.  She works hard at being a good mama, wife and partner, while maintaining her sense of humor and making us all feel loved.  I thank God she and Jacob found one another and this has been a blessing in all our lives.      Today would also have been the 64th birthday of my little brother Bob.  He was killed in December 1967 in a bicycle accident, when he was only 14.  It is hard to imagine ...