by FlyingHighNow 25 Replies latest social family
Love that movie, love tales of the south...loved reading them while growing up thousands of miles away. Thanks for sharing that bit of trivia.
I love them, too. I lived a lot of them, just grew up during the very late 50's 60's and 70's down there. I grew up in Mobile, AL, Morgan City, LA and the suburbs of Atlanta. It really is a charmed place and I miss the characters most of all.
I am going to call my sister now. I will update.
I just called my Neal's cell phone. He answered. He's in ICU still, weak, but he wanted to talk. He told me of the mortgage woes they have and how they must give up their humble home and move up to Taos to live with his son and his wife, who is a JW and a nurse. He sounds weak, but god how good it was to speak with him. I talked to him about JUlian and he said, "It sounds like Julian is living a normal life." Normal. Yet he spoke of the four horseman of the apocolypse and how they seem to riding these days. He even mentioned Obama and McCain and how they likely will not be able to undo this mess we are in.
Anyhow, I think unless he takes a turn for the worse, he will survive this. We all love him so much. He's just done neat things for us over the years. He used to record tapes for the kids with characters and sound effects. One of them was about Texas Red and the Lonesome Cattle Drive. He played most of the characters. He would have us come stay with him, the kids and me and he would take all of us to Taos, NM and Red River and give us money to spend in the tourist shops. We visited the Pueblo together and my son Jesse called the Indians there, who call themselves The Red Willow People, the Red Walking Dudes. Or they would take us to the Renaissance Games and fair. The kids would dress up. I might post some pics later and then take them down. So you can all see Neal and how handsome he was and still is.
Here are some pictures of Neal. His senior picture: Class of 59, with my son Jesse in Pampa, TX at the Renaissance Games and in more recent years. My sister really loves him. They bicker a lot, but they love each other. I hope she will have him for 30 more years. She is convinced Arme is coming soon. And I told them I thought maybe these high gas prices would force people to care about each other again and they didn't think so. How sad. But how JW. Neal has some realistic thinking about the org, but part of his brain still half believes it. I miss how they were before they were JW's. They were an interesting couple.
Your BIL sounds like a cool guy. I just have one question-they let JWs do renaissance fairs??? They will lose him for sure if he ever gets to an SCA event
He loves Renn festivals. The one he is pictured at? It wasn't a festival. They have those groups of people who get together for battles and feasts. I guess this could have been one of the http://www.sca.org/ They dress the parts and have the weapons, etc. I would love to find one of those groups near by. It would be fun to participate in something like that, very romantic.