Randy Stephens

Celinda.....................Sorry to hear that a piece of your childhood will be going away with your Mom's move and the selling of the house. That sucks but sometimes some things just happen and we have to roll with the punches or get knocked out. Rolling is a bit better that being knocked out. Both suck but................

Growing up in Swisher County I remember living in five different places. First we rented the old Ward place (may have been related to you) in the middle of a pasture. Then we bought the house at Dallas Street when I was just a toddler. Next we moved back to the country at a place we called The Rattle Snake Place about a mile from what would become the home place. Then we moved to the Home Place and while there I road a bus to Happy and acquire my elementary education. Then we moved back to Dallas Street and after I graduated the family moved to Hale St. but I lived either at Dallas St. or at the Home Place after that, being all grown up and all.

First the house on The Rattle Snake Place clasped, Then Dallas St. was sold and later torn down and then the Home Place was torn down. Mom sold Hale St. several years ago. My childhood life is now filled with passing ghosts in the night and memories of what was. That sucks toooooooooooooooooo!!!!! 

You can remember it. You can dream about it. You can smile about it. You can revisit it. You can feel it. You can sometimes even smell it. You can do a lot of things about it but the one thing you want to do you can't. You can't bring it back to you and you can't go back to it. All you can do is hold it in your heart. Remember. Smile. Cry. And cuss. That sucks tooooooooo. But that's it.

Yet all that wonderful stuff of yester year will always be alive in my heart and being remembered in my mind will always be. And as you know there is one other thing you can do. You can recreate it again to some degree where you are now by pictures on the wall of your house. In your garden. At your shop. The old truck you drive. The bird bath in your yard...........

Maybe thats why I live way out in the country, rase horses and drive a big green tractor. One that is sexy of course. YEW HAW YAH!!! GET YOU SOME OF THAT!!!!!

Somebody just say Boooooooooooooooooo

Randall

Randy Stephens

Hello my speechless classers,

HAPPY THANKSGIVINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"CREEPING........KINDA LIKE MOLASSES IN LATE DECEMBER JUST A CREEPING.........."

Randall

Randy Stephens

Hey classers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MERRY XMAS AND HAPPY NEW TO YA ALL

XOXO!@#$%^&*()_++-=[]{}';":/.,<>? Oh that felt so good!!! You should try it sometimes. It may even help you get your kink on ......... or out........ whichever you need!!

"HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTKE CHRISTMAS NOW..........."

"ME AND MY GANG!!!"

Randall

Mike Wesley

Merry Christmas to as well Randy.  Doesn't seem to be too many on these days but Merry Christmas to all who come here!

Celinda (Cindi) Ward (Hanna)

I hope everyone had a joyful and very Merry Christmas.  Here's wishing each of you a very Happy New Year!

May 2013 bring you health, happiness & prosperity.

Randy Stephens

ROLL TIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lloyd Singer

Dear friends... I don't have time or energy to  type more nor chat tonight. 

But, please, check out the info I just posted on this site's 'In Memory' page.  Please prepair for very bad news.    Thank you Cindi for continuing this wonderful site for us!

Lloyd

Randy Stephens

Here's to Miller.

Mark you know I will miss you. You were always a good friend and in school one of my best friends.

We laughed, drank, fought, partied and burnt up dip street together. We chased girls, danced to live bands at the SugarShack, changed a flat tire in the dark while being shot at by one of you crazy neighbors, talked about the girls we kissed, smoked all kinds of things together, rocked at concerts together, swam in Tulia Lake with snakes, skinny dipped with the girls and had that crazy keg smoking party at my farm. We were so loud and Cray that night that the cattle stamped breaking down the fence and hung over the next day I had to round them up while Dad took what was left in the keg and went to Alton Cox cotton gin and gave a drink to everyone who stopped by that day.  

Then there was the night that I was drunk and drove my 383 Dodge into you lake thinking it was your front yard. Walking drunk to your house I broke in and after knocking over lamps, stumbling over furniture, you came down stars to my rescue. You called my parents and told them I was staying over, saving my ass. The next morning  we pulled my car out of the lake with the J.D. Later I stole your 57 Chev and raced to Herford to see my sweetheart.

Then there was that fateful day that we meet at W.T. and raced off together to the party that we never made it  too.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           But you and your busted head and me and my broke back went on to a good, full and happy life. I never told you but thanks for the letters you wrote keeping me up dated on things while I was in Africa. 

I'll miss you man but I know that you're on an amazing and wondrous new journey now. Enjoy the ride, open your heart wide to it all and say hi to our classmates there with you. Fly high buddy! Kiss the Sun! swim with the stars and when you here someone in the dark stumbling and breaking things down stares it'll be me coming to visit.  

See you later Mark.

Randall   

Celinda (Cindi) Ward (Hanna)

Soooo - is there anyone out there?  I can't believe it's been 6 months since there's been a posting on this site! Have we all run out of things to say?  I was in Tulia last weekend for my mom's 90th birthday celebration and did get to see Lloyd, JK & Bonnie and Randy Pope but the visits were all too brief. It was the first time in many years of my summer trek to Tulia that I missed the parade and did not go to the Park during the barbeque.  The only other folks I saw were those who came to mom's reception and we had a nice crowd to help her celebrate.  I didn't even crash any class reunions this year! It was a busy week and we had tons of family around but I did manage to visit the El Camino 3 times in about 5 days. 

Hope you are all staying cool this summer and this posting finds you happy and healthy! Take care my friends. 

Connie Lee (Ash)

Hi, ok I will admit I check in to see if there have been any posts, like Cindi said, there hasn't been.  I figure that I am not the only one checking the site.

I am looking forward to seeing everyone at the 45th reunion.  We have all changed, I'm feeling that more and more lately, especially with so many friends that are the same age as myself that have lost a parent this year.  It is always best to look forward and live for today, but also to remember the good friends we have made through the years.

I am also going to use this post for a kinda selfish reason.  I have a Facebook page that I would like for you to check out.  Any classmate that I graduated with, I will offer a 25% discount, if shipping is involved I will ask that you pay for that.

https://www.facebook.com/TreasuredMemoriesByConnie

Randy Stephens

Ok. hit the wrong button and lost it all. so I'll try again.

BOOOoooooOOOOOooooo!!!!!

It's Halloween right. Well almost.

I'm back.

Miss me? I thought so.

OK. Here goes.

April 2012 my first job, which I worked at for 7 years went south. Not to Mexico but further. ALL THE WAY TO HELL.

So I increased my hours at my second job and did even better than when working the two jobs. All went well till that dreaded old phone call came on August 15 2013. I was told not to schedule any more work after September 15. The company was in trouble with the I R S. So now this old man is looking for employment.

A couple of my friends in the industry have told me they could get me a job with their company and were working on that now.  But I did take the opportunity to fly to Lanchaster, CA. and spend 2 weeks with my son and grandsons. Good to be back home and resume the hunt.

The horses are doing fine. Had three folds this year. One born on my birthday and she is a beauty.

I'm currently on page 175 of my novel entitled "Samuil" and no it is not miss spelled. That's the European spelling before Ellis Island butchered it like they did so many. Including some of my ancestors.

I'll always be soooooo grateful that my classmates encouraged me to write, even to the point of twisting my arm. You have inspired me to write a trilogy. And now writing is a passion for me.

Thanks I think.

I have 4 more chapters to write in Samuil and it will finished. I have already written 1 chapter in book two. My son is writing the book with me. I'm the creative writer and he is the grammatical one. Thats a good thing seeing that I learned so very little in my senior packed adventure of 4 English classes. If not for my son and spell check I'd be doomed.

"I'VE GOT TO RUN TO KEEP FROM HIDING..........."

Randall

PS

Hi Cindi. Hi Connie

PS,PS

Here's my excuse. Everybody needs one.

My old lap top gave up it's lap, or gave up the ghost, and I lost my stored password and also forgot it. First try at getting back here failed and after months of depression and discouragement over my rejection I tried again and I'm back. Surprise, Surprise, Surprise. 

Now let's hear your excuse.

Randy Stephens

Hello classers

I,ve just got hired as America's first 007. Now the adventure begins!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scared??????!!!!!!!!!

"....THE BOYS ROUND HERE DRINKING THAT ICE COLD BEER!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Randall

Celinda (Cindi) Ward (Hanna)

Randall: It's good to see you back on the site. So sorry about the employment situation. I am sure it's not easy being unemployed at this age unless it is by choice.  Good luck in the job search!  At least it gives you time to pursue your literary career. Best of luck with that, too.  I'm sure you will have a best seller on your hands! 

Interest in the site appears to have stalled a bit.  Nonetheless, I plan to keep up the monthly fee to keep it active. I'm still interested as are a couple of regular visitors so that's good enough for me!  Like Connie, I'm hoping to see everyone in 2015.  The 40th reunion was a lot of fun and I am sure we can scare up enough interest in the next couple of years to do it again!  Comments, complaints or  suggestions?

Hope this finds you all happy and healthy and ready for Old Man Winter.  Fall is definitely in the air so cold weather can't be far behind.  We are loving the cooler temps here in the Desert.  It will be perfect for my trip in to Anaheim tomorrow. I'm taking my 6 year old grandson on Wednesday for his first visit to Disneyland.  I love going there myself but there's nothing better than seeing it through the eyes of a child! 

Take care - please let us hear from you!

Randy Stephens

Thanks Clinda,

Hey girl. Thanks and all. I'm doing fine. My situation with Alabama unemployment is one of education. I'm educating them. Go figure!

Just got back from LA. and a trip to Disneyland with grandsons. They had a blast and I got several "Roll Tide" all day long. Guess it had something to do with my T shirt and cap. Go figure.

While I was in Lanchaster the mountains had snow on them. Cool.

Randall

PS

Yall talk!!!!!!!!!

Talking is fun!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Randy Stephens

Hey.

Just setting on a rainy morning drinking coffee and looking at all the new colors. We've had a couple frosts and a freeze so a lot of the trees are turning. I have various shades of reds, yellows, oranges, golds and greens.

I went to the profile page and caught up on all the new stuff in ya''ll lives. Shouldn't have done that. Now I'm blue, sentimental, and melancholy. Won't be worth a damn the rest of the day. I'm stuck back in our 60's.

193 pages into my novel and lack 4 chapters.

I'm think about starting my own business with my son-in-law. I'm the best damn boss I know and all my job leads went south with the birds.

Other than all that I just need a beer but I don't think it's five o'clock anywhere.

"CHEWDA BACCA, CHEWDA BACCA, CHEWDA BACCA SPIT."

Randall

J. K. Milam

Like the rest of us, I check our website too infrequently. It's good to see others still posting and hopefully I will as well. A 45th reunion makes me feel old, I don't like feeling old, but it will be good to see everyone if it comes about, I will be there for sure.

SE New Mexico finally had a rainy spell. Almost 7 inches in a month. I know, that's just a spring shower for some of you folks, but for us that was almost our average annual rainfall. It's been a good year.

Bonnie and her sisters took a little trip to Paris this spring. (Not Paris, TX) Had a fun time, glad they left me at home, but I slipped off to Ft. Worth to meet up with a couple of college friends and see how much beer we could drink. Wasn't as much as I thought it should be, but we survived.

Just recently took a road trip to Ashland, Oregon. Bonnie has a sister that moved there a few years ago. Beautiful country but oh so liberal minded. Such a touchy feel state. Glad do be back in NM were no one really cares how you feel just get er done.

I talk to Randy and Lloyd occasionally, they're about the same. Mostly talking about the weather, the way old men do.

Randall keep up the literary pursue, who knows you could be the next John Grissom, or more likely Stephen King. Your epitaphs are always enjoyable to read.

Take care for now, hope some others post some thoughts. Thanks to Cindi for keeping the website up.

Randy Stephens

Hey JK.

Great to hear from ya. You should have gone to Paris. Just think of what you missed.

RED LIPS, LONG LEGS, SHAKEN BOTTIES AND BIG HOOTERS! But then you would have gotten in so much trouble. Next chance you get a chance don't be afraid. Just call me and I'll go along as your body guard. Of course there will be a small, phenomenal fee for services rendered.

Going back to work Tuesday. Same old stuff just different company and for no more pay than before. Beat the band... ant that the shit's.

ROLL TIDE!

Randall 

J. K. Milam

Randall, the mere thought of you and me in Paris would make ol' Ben Franklin and Tommy Jefferson roll over in their graves or maybe their spirits would join us and show us the sights. Either way I see a disaster. American/French foreign relations would never recover.

How's the bood coming?

I keep seeing this ROLL TIDE thing.

How about an old fashioned GIG 'EM AGGIES.

Randy Stephens

JK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

I'm gonna try this again. Bad weather has followed me around all week and today in sweet home Alabama it's overcast and fogy but I'll give it another shot. Bad weather messes with the net big time round here.

I think gay Parie would be rocking if we were there.

We could get the spirits of old Ben and Jeff to introduce us to the great granddaughters of their lovers. I heard that old Ben was a skirt chaser big time.

We could party the leaning tower straight up or straight down.

ROLL TIDE!!!!!

HOOK UM HORNS!!!!!!!

Randall

The book you ask.

I'm on page 209 with three and a half chapters to go. I think it'll sell like hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Connie Lee (Ash)

Hi Classmates,

I just want to say MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone.  I hope all of you get what you want from Santa Clause. 

Just remember the most important thing, Jesus Is The Reason For The Season, happy birthday Jesus!

Looking forward to see everyone in 2015, take care, be healthy and be safe!

Connie

J. K. Milam

Well Randy, the Crimson Tide stopped rolling, the Horn's quit hooking, and the Aggies, well their defense finally cost them, and last but not least the Cowboys just keep on wanting to give the ball back to the other team with less than three minutes left just to give them a chance and guess what they did.Think I'll takeup watching golf. Almost as good as baseball for napping. Remember naps are our friends.Thanks for the reminder Connie, Christmas is the time we need to give thanks for the many blessings we have received.  Hope everyone has a very enjoyable and blessed Christmas with friends and family.

Randy Stephens

Hey JK

Yep, my tide fell down, rolled over and couldn't get up. Bad as I hate to I reckon I'll cheer for Auburn. Keep the championship in the state for the fifth year.

Maybe the Horns will get a good coach and there's no hope for the cowgirls.

MERRY MERRY AND HAPPY HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike Wesley

Man, what a bunch of people showing up in the "In Memory" section.  In some ways it seem like I saw them yesterday.  In other ways so long ago it is like I never knew them.  Enjoy life and friends while while you can.  You never know.

Randy Stephens

Hey classers,

Anyone know what happened to Roulie.

I'm recouping. Fell ten foot and landed on my butt on concrete. Hurt my old broken back. Now I'm writing, collecting my workman Comp check and eating free meds.

It's been cold as icy hell here for a couple days. High yesterday was 23, last night 9. today 34 tonight 10. We've had a week in Dec. like that and two weeks in Jan. Usually we only have weather like that once in five years. If it wasn't for global warming we would freeze to death. Think I'll move farther south like Old Mexico.

Have a new grand daughter born Sunday the 26th in Lanchaster, CA. her name is Ayla Hope. Kathy and my youngest daughter are flying out next week to see her.

Hope everyone has a good 2014.

"TOES IN THE WATER"... but its frozen... "ASS IN THE SAND" ... But it to cold.....

Randall

Randy Stephens

Hey dudes and dudetts,

Hows it shaking dudetts. Hows it hanging dudes.

In my neck of the woods it's hanging on to the knot at the end of the rope and the only shaking going on is the old shake and bake but Kathy threw me out of the kitchen. Oh well I'll just hang onto my knot a swing. "JUST A SWINGING....."

Randall