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“Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.” Aristotle

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GOT DUST BUNNIES ON YOUR SILK/ARTIFICIAL PLANTS?

By Ginger Lane

My mom used to keep me in live plants by letting me keep one until it was almost dead and then trading me a fresh healthy one! Then, when she got tired of growing her own, I had to look for other ways to keep greenery in my house. Key word here is greenery because dust thrives here and turns my beautiful silk flowers into shabby junk and my leafy plants into dull dust collectors. I found an easy and inexpensive way to rejuvenate your ‘fake’ plants. Go to Dollar Tree and buy a vcan of $1 furniture polish. Take your plant outside and soak every leaf and every flower so that it is dripping off of each one. Don’t be stingy, completely drench them. Let it dry and VOILA! Your plants will look good as new!

Before After

A little girl and a little boy were at day care one day. The girlapproaches the boy and says, “Hey Tommy, want to play house?”

He says, “Sure! What do you want me to do?”

The girl replies, “I want you to communicate your feel-ings.”

“Communicate my feelings?” said a bewildered Tommy. “I have no ideawhat that means.”

The little girl smirks and says, “Perfect. You can be the husband.”*****You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes andwonder what else you can do while you’re down there.***** Jones came into the office an hour late for the third time in one week and found the boss waiting for him. “What’s the story this time, Jones?” he asked sar-castically. “Let’s hear a good excuse for a change.” Jones sighed, “Everything went wrong this morning, Boss. The wife decided to drive me to the sta-tion. She got ready in ten minutes, but then the draw-bridge got stuck. Rather than let you down, I swam across the river -- look, my suit’s still damp -- ran out to the airport, got a ride on Mr. Thompson’s helicopter, landed on top of Radio City Music Hall, and was carried here piggyback by one of the Rockettes.” “You’ll have to do better than that, Jones,” said the boss, obviously disappointed. “No woman can get ready in ten minutes.”*****Eat a live toad first thing in the morning, and nothing worse can happen to you the rest of the day!*****Sound travels slowly.Sometimes the things you say when your kids are teenag-ers don’t reach them till they’re in their 40s.*****Sign on a Bus: “When you exit this vehicle, please lower your head and watch your step. If you fail to do so, please lower your voice and watch your language. Thank you.”***** A car was involved in an accident. As one might expect, a large crowd gathered. A newspaper reporter, anxious to get his story, pushed and struggled to get near the car. Being a clever sort, he started shouting loudly, “Let me through! Let me through please! I am the son of the victim.” The crowd made way for him. Lying in front of the car was a donkey.


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Things You’d Like To Say At Work

I don’t know what your problem is, but I bet it’s hard to pronounce.

How about never? Is never good for you?

I see you’ve set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.

I’ll try being nicer if you will try being smarter.

I’m out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message.

I don’t work here, I’m a consultant.

It sounds like English, but I can’t understand a word you are saying.

I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.

I’m already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth.

I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.

Thank you, we are all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.

The fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean you are an artist.


Do You Have Any Grapes?A duck walked into a pharmacy He asked the pharmacist “Do you have any grapes?”

“No, but the grocery store two blocks down sells grapes.” he replied.

The next day, the same duck walked into the same pharmacy and asked “Do you have any grapes?”

“No, two blocks down on the right.” replied the pharmacist somewhat annoyed.

The third day, the same duck walked back into the same pharmacy and asked the same question.

This time the pharmacist said “We don’t sell grapes here. You have asked for grapes now for three days in a row. I have told you we don’t sell them here, this is a pharmacy not a grocery store. If you come back in here tomorrow asking for grapes again, I am going to nail your little webbed feet to the floor, NOW GET OUT OF HERE!”

The next day the same duck walks back into the same pharmacy, this time with quite a bit of trepidation. He looked around and asked the pharmacist “Do you have any nails?”

“No” replied the pharmacist.

“Well then... Do you have any grapes?”

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There once was a rich man who was near death. He was very grieved because he had worked so hard for his money and he wanted to be able to take it with him to heaven. So he began to pray that he might be able to take some of his wealth with him.

An angel hears his plea and appears to him. “Sorry, but you can’t take your wealth with you.” The man implores the angel to speak to God to see if He might bend the rules.

The man continues to pray that his wealth could follow him. The angel reappears and informs the man that God has decided to allow him to take one suitcase with him. Overjoyed, the man gathers his largest suitcase and fills it with pure gold bars and places it beside his bed.

Soon afterward the man dies and shows up at the Gates of Heaven to greet St. Peter. St. Peter seeing the suitcase says, “Hold on, you can’t bring that in here!”

But, the man explains to St. Peter that he has permission and asks him to verify his story with the Lord. Sure enough, St. Peter checks and comes back saying, “You’re right. You are allowed one carry-on bag, but I’m supposed to check its contents before letting it through.”

St. Peter opens the suitcase to inspect the worldly items that the man found too pre-cious to leave behind and exclaims, “You brought pavement?!!!”


WHY DO WE SAY?Pass the buck? Look up ‘buck’ in the dictionary and you’ll find a couple of dozen assorted nouns, verbs and adjectives. The most common use of the word these days is as the slang term for the American dollar. That’s not the buck meant here though. Look a little further down the list and you’ll find the definition ‘buck: an article used in a game of poker’ - and that’s the buck that was first passed. Poker became very popular in America during the second half of the 19th century. Players were highly suspicious of cheating or any form of bias and there’s considerable folklore depicting gunslingers in shoot-outs based on accusations of dirty dealing. In order to avoid unfairness the deal changed hands during sessions. The person who was next in line to deal would be given a marker. This was often a knife, and knives often had han-dles made of buck’s horn - hence the marker becoming known as a buck. When the dealer’s turn was done he ‘passed the buck’.It’s raining cats and dogs? Best Answer: Long ago when roofs were made

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of straw dogs and cats did not live inside they stayed out-side and when it would rain really hard and it was cold, dogs and cats would go up to the roof and snuggle un-der the straw but sometimes they would fall off. People would look out the windows and see their dogs and cats fall off the roof and said “look it’s raining cats and dogs!”Bless you or gesundheit? For the most part, the various sneeze responses originated from ancient superstitions. Some people be-lieved that a sneeze causes the soul to escape the body through the nose. Saying “bless you” would stop the devil from claiming the person’s freed soul. Others be-lieved the opposite: that evil spirits use the sneeze as an opportunity to enter a person’s body. There was also the misconception that the heart momentarily stops during a sneeze (it doesn’t), and that saying “bless you” was a way of welcoming the person back to life.OK? The trend started out in Boston and spread throughout the West. It soon became fashionable to make facetious abbreviations using purposely misspelled words , such as saying “NC” for “’nuff ced” instead of “enough said.” OK is believed to have begun as a similar witticism, standing for “oll korrect,” which 19th century folk found particularly humorous because neither “all” or “correct” are, well, correct.Under the weather? If you’ve ever heard someone say they’re “un-der the weather,” you may be surprised to find out this expression has nothing to do with hail, sleet or snow. People say “under the weather” to express that they’re feeling ill or unwell. “Under the weather” is an idiom, which is a phrase whose meaning is different from the meaning of the words themselves. Believe it or not, historians think this idiom comes from the sea. In the days before airplanes, people usually traveled by ship.During storms, the seas would get rough, causing ships to rock back and forth. The rocking motion often caused passengers to become seasick.Seasick passengers would head below deck to a lower point where the rocking was less noticeable. Passengers were thus forced under the deck by the weather… and the expression “under the weather” was born!

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We are excited to be chosen for Business of the Month with the LTRCC! 429 Marina & RV Park offers a new look to visitors, including a rebuilt marina, a 150 ft. fishing pier, fuel dock, boat slips, laundromat and re-strooms with showers. Our general store offers food, drinks, sundries and ice. We also carry a large stock of fishing tackle, cut and live bait. Our quiet corner of Lake Tawakoni offers a fam-ily atmosphere, where kids and big fish can be displayed with pride. There’s ample space with grassy areas for an afternoon picnic. 429 Marina has its own private cove for shore-line fishing. Crappie and Catfish are the main catches. You can take a pleasure ride on the lake or fish to your heart’s content. Whether you’re looking for a peaceful day or weekend, a rewarding fishing challenge or a change in lifestyle, try spending a little time with us at 429 Marina & RV Park on beautiful Lake Tawakoni. RV Parking (day, week, month or year round rv space rentals), Tent Camping, Boat Launch, Storage, Wet Boat Slip Rentals, Dry Boat Storage, RV Dump

Hunt Regional Healthcare, located in Greenville, is an affiliate of Baylor Health Care System. Offering ser-vices including high performance digital imaging, aggres-sive cancer treatment at the Lou & Jack Finney Cancer Center, an NAPBC-accredited breast center and advanced cardiac care, Hunt Regional Medical Center in Greenville provides North Texas residents with premiere treatment

and wellness options. HRMC’s state-of-the-art surgery center hosts a highly skilled, multi-disciplinary team, which performs an extensive list of surgeries including bariatric surgery, orthopedic procedures and general sur-gery. Women and infants will find exceptional care at the Truett & Margaret Crim Maternity Center, which houses a level III neonatal intensive care unit. An extensive list of outpatient and diagnostic services are also available at Hunt Regional’s additional facilities in Rockwall, Com-merce and Quinlan. Hunt Regional is accredited by the Joint Commission. For more information or to find a phy-sician, please visit www.huntregional.org.

D. Earls Tax Service has been serving North Texas for over 36 years. The family owned and operated business is now in its 3rd generation. Daniel Earls is the President, his wife Megan runs payroll leasing, Cousin Stacy Earls is the Quinlan office manager and Cousin Brad’s wife Carla Earls is the friendly face you will meet at reception. This commitment by family and the valu-able loyalty of long-term employee, (honorary Earls) Cary Chamberlin and our newest addition Angie Smith to our Quinlan bookkeeping department is why D. Earls Tax Service can truly be called a labor of love. D. Earls Tax Service offers year round tax preparation, business consulting, incorporating, as well as other business supportive solutions. Bookkeeping ser-vices can be tailor designed to meet any businesses indi-vidual needs with timely options to match your business demands. D. Earls Tax Service also offers Payroll Leasing with worker’s compensation and unemployment benefits all processed through D. Earls Company. Our goal as a company and member of this great community is to be available and ready to meet your businesses every need and the knowledge to get you and your company where you want it to be. D. Earls has two locations in Hunt County, our

office in Quinlan with the distinctive green roof and cov-ered wagon everyone has come to recognize on Highway 34 South next to McDonalds, as well as our Greenville location at 3414 Wesley St, where we were excited to de-molish and build a brand new office in the same spot we have been for the last 20 years next to Adkisson’s Florist. We hope to demonstrate to Hunt County our commitment to this area and our desire to see our community flour-ish by investing financially in the belief that North Texas and Hunt County is a place where businesses can be born and thrive. Stop by our new building and see our scrap-book chronicling our transition there. The office manager Misty Little, bookkeeper Maria Vargas, receptionist Jayde Hollis and of course Megan Earls will be happy to show you around. We at D. Earls Tax Service were excited to be named the 2013 #1 Accounting Firm in Hunt County by the readers of the Greenville Herald Banner. We take great pride in being of service to our community. Our family at D. Earls Tax Service is actively involved in several non-profit and community building organizations. We have members on the board for Lake Tawakoni Chamber of Commerce, United Way for Hunt County, Greenville Chamber of Commerce, CASA for Hunt County, and Lion’s Club, as well as the Quinlan Planning & Zoning committee. You can find us at any number of other vol-unteer opportunities throughout Hunt County as we are always happy to lend our time and energy to our commu-nity. That is another reason we offer free copying, faxing and notary services at both of our locations. We also offer many great discounts available for the asking. Give us a call or just stop by, we are always glad to see you! We will be manning a water station on Park St. for Drug Free Greenville Saturday May 3rd, come say hi.

Thanks to the Lake Tawakoni Regional Cham-ber of Commerce for naming Atmos Energy “Business of the Month”. Atmos Energy has natural gas residential

and commercial customers in most of the communities served by the LTRCC. The company believes in support-ing the local chamber of commerce in the communities we serve. Chambers of Commerce serve a vital role by promoting local businesses and activities in the commu-nity and the company and its employees want to be a part of that effort. Being named Business of the Month provides Atmos Energy with the opportunity to let the public know April is designated as “National Safe Digging Month” to promote and educate the general public about calling 811 before you dig. Every six minutes an underground utility line is damaged because someone decided to dig without first calling 811. Damage to underground utilities is a ma-jor problem for Atmos Energy and for many other utili-ties in Hunt County and throughout Texas and the United States. That’s why Atmos Energy is dedicating every day in April to educate the public to “Call 811 Before You

Dig”. Atmos Energy has been in business since 1906. The company started in Amarillo as Pioneer Natural Gas. Its legacy companies serving the area were Lone Star Gas and TXU Gas. The cities were piped with gas during the early 1960s. Even though the company may be the only natu-ral gas provider, Atmos Energy is committed to provid-ing the very best value and service possible. Safety is our number one priority and excellent customer service is also a high priority. The company also works closely with the cities’ staff and elected officials to provide safe, reliable service. Although Atmos Energy does not have a physi-cal presence in the communities, our employees are in south Hunt County daily. We have employees who read our customers’ gas meters monthly; customer service technicians who are there to turn on/turn off gas, locate

gas leaks when they are notified the company’s Customer Service Center; and construction crews who install new gas mains, relocate and repair natural gas lines as needed. The Atmos Energy vehicles have a large decals on the doors for identification. The employees who work in the Lake Tawakoni area report to the District offices in Greenville and Sul-phur Springs. There is also a marketing department that works to promote natural gas equipment and appliances. Jeanette Moser, Manager of Public Affairs acts as a li-aison with the communities, the LTRCC and with local non-profits. For customer service, please contact the Atmos Energy Customer Contact Center at 1-888-286-6700. For emergencies, call 1-866-322-8667 or call 911.

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Another Reason to Hate Those Plastic Grocery Bags!BY Ginger Lane

My mom was about as ‘middle of the road’ as you can get. She didn’t get overly excited about many things. However, one day she expressed a passionate dislike of plastic grocery bags. I had to laugh when she said, “I just hate those things!” When I asked why I was surprised when she told me it was because they were all over the high-ways and blew everywhere. It just wasn’t in my mother’s nature to let most things even reach her ‘upset radar’ about anything, so the out of the blue remark stuck with me, and I’m with her. Those trash bags are a menace to be reckoned with.Here’s another reason to avoid them; sent to me over the internet and the author is un-known. Avoid driving over plastic grocery bags when it’s safe to do so. I am a profes-

sional mechanic and have seen firsthand all the damage these bags can do. First off let me say, be safe out there! Avoid swerving dangerously at the sight of a bag. Check your mirrors and carefully change lanes to go around the bag. If you run one over watch your rear view mirror to see if the bag passed under your car and is still in the roadway. If not and it’s safe to do so, pull over and look under your car in a parking lot. As stated I am a professional mechanic and I see at least once a week a car come in with damage caused by a plastic grocery bag. Most people are completely un-aware they hit the bag or that it was causing problems.Here is a list of problems plastic bags can cause: Getting sucked into the drive belts and wrapping themselves around alterna-tors, AC compressors, pulleys, etc. When they do this it can cause anything they are wrapped around to fail, leading to expensive repairs, and even a risk of fire. Getting wrapped around half axles and destroying the axle boot and leading to axle failure. This is really common, the bag gets sucked up into the spinning axle and then wraps itself tightly around the rubber CV joint boot, and ends up tearing the boot allowing all the axle grease to escape and destroying the CV joint/axle. Getting stuck to the exhaust system components and melting, causing burning smells inside the vehicle and sometimes fires. This is another really common problem. I have even seen a bag become stuck to the exhaust, catch fire, and then burn up the wiring on the O2 sensor. That resulted in a check engine light, and a costly repair for the vehicle owner. Getting sucked into the torque converter, clutch area. This is pretty uncommon, but I have seen at least one example of this. This is just a quick short list. There are many more issues these bags can cause. And often it’s not cheap to repair and can lead to dangerous situations for the vehicle owners. So next time you are driving and see a bag floating across the roadway, try and avoid it.


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While I sat in the reception area of my doctor’s office, a woman rolled an elderly man in a wheelchair into the room. As she went to the receptionist’s desk, the man sat there, alone and silent. Just as I was thinking I should make small talk with him, a little boy slipped off his mother’s lap and walked over to the wheelchair. Plac-ing his hand on the man’s, he said, “I know how you feel. My Mom makes me ride in the stroller too.”

***** Out bicycling one day with my eight-year-old granddaughter, Carolyn, I got a little wistful. “In ten years,” I said, “you’ll want to be with your friends and you won’t go walking, biking, and swimming with me like you do now.

Carolyn shrugged. “In ten years you’ll be too old to do all those thingsanyway.”

****** Working as a pediatric nurse, I had the difficult assignment of giving immunization shots to children. One day, I entered the examining room to give four-year-old Lizzie her injection.“No, no, no!” she screamed.“Lizzie,” scolded her mother, “that’s not polite behavior.” With that, the girl yelled even louder, “No, thank you! No, thank you!”

****** On the way back from a Cub Scout meeting, my grandson innocently said to my son, “Dad, I know babies come from mommie’s tummies, but how do they get there in the first place?” After my son hemmed and hawed awhile, my grandson finally spoke up in disgust, “You don’t have to make up something, Dad. It’s okay if you don’t know the answer.”

***** Just before I was deployed to Iraq, I sat my eight-year-old son down and broke the news to him. “I’m going to be away for a long time,” I told him. “I’m going

to Iraq.” “Why?” he asked. “Don’t you know there’s a war going on over there?”

*****

God’s Problem Now! His wife’s graveside service was just barely fin-ished, when there was a massive clap of thunder, followed by a tremendous bolt of lightning, accompanied by even more thunder rumbling in the distance.. The little, old man looked at the pastor and calmly said, “Well, she’s there.”

*****

One time when I was home visiting my folks, my mom asked me to set the table for dinner. I opened the refrigerator and taped to the inside of the door was a risque picture of a lovely, slender, per-fectly built, but scantily-clad young woman. “Mom, what’s this?” I asked. “Oh, I put that up there to remind me not to over-eat,” she answered. “Is it working?” I asked. “Yes and no,” she explained. “I’ve lost 15 pounds, but your dad has gained 20!”


A very faithful woman . . . An elderly lady was well-known for her faith and for her boldness in talking about it. She would stand on her front porch and shou...t “PRAISE THE LORD!” Next door to her lived an atheist who would get so angry at her proclama-tions he would shout, “There ain’t no Lord!!” Hard times set in on the elderly lady, and she prayed for GOD to send her some assistance. She stood on her porch and shouted “PRAISE THE LORD. GOD I NEED FOOD!! I AM HAVING A HARD TIME. PLEASE LORD, SEND ME SOME GROCERIES!!” The next morning the lady went out on her porch and noted a large bag of groceries and shouted, “PRAISE THE LORD.” The neighbor jumped from behind a bush and said, “Aha! I told you there was no Lord. I bought those groceries, God didn’t.” The lady started jumping up and down and clapping her hands and said, “PRAISE THE LORD. He not only sent me groceries, but He made the devil pay for them. Praise the Lord!”

***** Before Linda became engaged, she was quite the beauty, and didn’t mind letting her boyfriend know it, too. “A lot of men are gonna be totally miserable when I marry,” she told him.

“Really?” asked the boyfriend, “And just how many men are you intending to marry?”

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Caddo Mills third graders Emily Baxter and Jacob Wright and second graders Kase Helm-berger and Morgan Fox were selected as Lee El-ementary Outstanding Students for the second nine weeks. Students are selected based on traits such as character, academic accomplishments, participation, and citizenship. CMISD School Board recognized these pupils recently during the February board meeting.

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Jill RichardsonCaddo Mills High School

Jill Richardson recently received the 2013 UIL Sponsor Excellence Award. Jill Richardson has served as an accounting sponsor for 27 years, but she has also dedicated several years to coaching editorial writing, current issues, spell-ing and vocabulary, and literary criticism. Over the years, she has coached teams to two accounting team state championships, and several individual accounting state championships. Richardson has also led students to state

competition in editorial writing. “I believe UIL competition is one avenue where our students learn that all forms of competition require hard work and dedication,” Richardson said. “The re-wards of competitions enable students to develop pride in our school and in themselves while at the same time opening their eyes to future careers and opportunities.”

Caddo Mills Middle School Outstanding Students

Nicole Hewett and Taylor Norris*****

Caddo Mills Middle School One Act Play CastCMHS Band

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L to R: Courtney Hall, Carley Torbert, Jenna Ackenback, Miranda Roberts and Jesseca KeetonCongratulations Quinlan Ford 14 3A All-District Basketball

Selections...Jesseca Keeton Named to Texas Round-up All-Star Game

District Co-MVP Jesseca Keeton, Senior and Carley Torbert, SophomoreFirst TeamMiranda Roberts (Unanimous), Senior and Courtney Hall, Senior Second TeamCharity Timmons (Not pictured), Junior and Jenna Ackenback, Junior Coaching Staff of the Year - Quinlan FordHonorable MentionMelody Timmons, Senior (Not pictured) Senior Jesseca Keeton has been selected as one of the top basketball players in Texas and invited to participate in the 15th Texas Roundup All-Star game to be held on March 15, 2014, in Maypearl, Texas. The Texas Roundup, considered one of the states most prestigious events, selects 24 boys and 24 girls from Class A to Class AAA schools. The game is scheduled for 3:00 pm at Maypearl High School.

First Year to Offer Construction Trades as a Career Path ~ Two FHS Boys STATE BOUND

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Ford HS Advances 19 Choir Members to State Solo and Ensemble Contests

Members of the FHS Choir competed in the Region 3 UIL Vocal Solo and Ensemble Contest recently at Texas A&M - Commerce. Twenty-nine students entered and earned thirty-three medals. Nineteen students qualify to compete at state solo and ensemble contests. “This is the largest number of students from FHS to qualify for the state solo and ensemble competition. I am elated with their hard-work. They literally were amazing to listen to, and I am very proud to be the Ford High School Choir Director,” said Judith McCarty, Choir Director. Earning Superior Ratings on Class 2 and Class 3 Solos:Jonathan Allen, Melanie Lim and Claudia Trevino earned Superior Ratings on Class 2 solos and Emi’Lee Crenshaw earned a Superior Rating on a Class 3 solo. Earning Superior Ratings on Class 1 Solos and progressing to State are:Lane Cannon, Shelby MacDonald, Anthony Majewski, Kourtney McCloud, Jaycob Pritchett, Michael Ross, Miguel Serrano, Tad Serrano, Theo Serrano, Rhiannon Smith (not pictured) and Cheyenne Vargas Earning Superior Ratings on Class 1 Ensembles and progressing to State are:Katie Brown, Lane Cannon, Katrina Eudy, Kristin Hill, Madison Huss (not pictured), Shelby MacDonald, John McCloud, Kourtney McCloud, Kaylyn O’Bryant, Dakotah Pitts, Michael Ross, Miguel Serrano, Tad Serrano, Theo Serrano, Cheyenne Vargas and Emerson Wright


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Over breakfast one morning, a woman said to her husband, “I bet you don’t know what day this is.” “Of course I do!” he indignantly answered, getting up from the table and go-ing out the door to the office. At 10am, the doorbell rang. When the woman opened the door, she was handed a box containing a dozen long-stemmed red roses. At 1pm the doorbell rang again. This time, a foil-wrapped, two-pound box of her favorite chocolates arrived. Later, a boutique delivered a designer dress. The woman couldn’t wait for her husband to come home. When he did, she exclaimed, “First the flowers, then the chocolates and then the dress! I’ve never had a more wonderful Groundhog day in my life.

***** A distraught senior citizen phoned her doctor’s office. “Is it true,” she wanted to know, “that the medication you prescribed has to be taken for the rest of my life?” “Yes, I’m afraid so,” the doctor told her. There was a moment of silence before the senior lady replied, “I’m wonder-ing, then, just how serious is my condition, because this prescription is marked ‘NO REFILLS’.”

***** A woman came home to find her retired husband waving a rolled up newspa-per round his head. Wife: “What are you doing dear?” Husband: “Swatting flies - I got 3 males and 2 females” Wife: “How do you know which gender they were?” Husband: “Easy - 3 were on the beer, and the other 2 were on the phone”

***** One day a police car pulled up to Grandmas house and Grandpa got out. The police officer explained that this elderly gentlemen had said he was lost in the local park. “Why, Harold, “said Grandma, “You’ve been going there for over 30 years! How on earth could you say you had got lost?” Leaning close to Grandma so the police officer couldn’t hear, he whispered, “I wasn’t exactly lost. I was just too tired to walk home.”

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I get a lot of recipes from a lot of places, mom’s cook books, the internet, friends, cousins…well, their wives… and our editor, Sandee Farm-er comes through for me a lot. When she sends me something and says: “You Have Got To Try THIS!!!” I begin the search for what I need to make the dish. Everyone I have shared this with loves it as much as I do. Thanks Sandee, love it when you share goodies with me!! I found the Reuben bake in one of mom’s “rescued” cook books (they were free because they were about to go into the trash). It’s one that’s also made with bought items, but when you are tried after a day’s work, easy and yummm work so well. And my last one, my dad found looking through the paper. He saw the word sorghum and began telling me about how good sorghum syrup was. And how bought syrup just isn’t the same. In reading the article, I found a Sorghum buttermilk pie. Now, I love buttermilk pie, and now I love sor-ghum buttermilk pie. It’s a tie as to which I like the best. Everything is Daddy Tested and YUMMM.

BISCUIT CINNAMON ROLL CAKE2 Tubes ref. biscuits (I used Pillsbury Grand’s honey butter)3 tbs butter, melted ½ C pancake syrup (I used real maple) 1/3 C. packed light brown sugar½ tbsp. cinnamon Optional ¼ C. pecan pieces &/or ¼ C. almonds &/or ¼ C. raisins Spray a bunt ban with a heavy coat of spray. Combine melted butter and syrup in a small bowl and set aside. In another bowl combine sugar, cin-namon (& nuts and raisin if you use them).

Place ½ the syrup mixture in the pan, sprin-kle ½ sugar/nut mixture. Lay the biscuits on the bottom of the bunt page with the edges overlapping to form a ring. Top with remaining syrup & sugar/nut mixture. Bake at 375° oven for 20 – 25 minutes ( if you use the bigger Grand’s biscuits, you may need 30 – 35 minutes cooking time). Cool about a minute and invert onto serving dish. IT’S YUM-MMM!!!!!!

REUBEN BAKE6 oz. Corned Beef chopped (I used shredded from deli and chopped that)1 ½ C. shredded Swiss cheese ¾ C. Sauerkraut rinsed & well drained1 small onion chopped 3 tbs. 1000 Island dressing 2 tubes ref. crescent rolls1 egg white 1 tbs. sesame seed Combine first 7 ingredients. Unroll 1 tube of crescent roll dough and seal all seams well. Spread half mixture on middle of the dough. Cut dough to within 1 inch of mixture. Now braid the dough over mixture. Brush with egg white and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Repeat with second tube of rolls and bake at 375° for 25 – 30 minutes. It’s YUMMM!

SORGHUM BUTTERMILK PIE1 C. sorghum ½ C. buttermilk 1 C. sugar 2 Tbs. flour ½ tbsp. baking soda3 eggs, beaten 1 unbaked 9 inch pie crustPreheat oven to 300° F Stir sorghum, buttermilk, sugar, flour & baking soda together in a large, high-sided sauce-pan. Add beaten eggs to the pan and stir to thor-oughly combine all the ingredients. Use a whisk to break up any flour lumps. Place the pan over medium-high heat & cook, stirring constantly with a het-safe spatula or a wooden spoon, until mixture comes to a boil.

Scrape the bottom and sides of the pan frequently to prevent scorching. When mixture reaches a boil, immediately remove from heat & continue stirring for a few minutes until the foaming subsides. Carefully pour filling into the prepared crust, filling it to the top; it may appear that there is more filling that the crust will hold; let the poured filling settle for a few minutes, then gently stir in the remaining filling. If you are worried about spills, place the pie on a foil-lined baking sheet. Bake the pie for 50 – 60 minutes until it is firm with just a little wobble to it. Chill until firm. It’s YUMMM!!!!! Note from Sandee: I cannot take credit for the Bis-cuit Cinnamon Roll Cake...my daughter in law, Pam, found the recipe, made it, shared it with me...and I passed it on to Debs!

A Kiowa ledger drawing possibly depicting the Buffalo Wallow battle in 1874, a fight between Southern Plains Indians and the U.S. Army during the Red River War.Date 1874 Courtesy of Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ledger-sm2.jpg

RED RIVER WARRED RIVER WAR. The Red River War, a series of mili-

tary engagements fought between the United States Army

and warriors of the Kiowa, Comanche, Southern Chey-

enne, and southern Arapaho Indian tribes from June of

1874 into the spring of 1875, began when the federal

government defaulted on obligations undertaken to those

tribes by the Treaty of Medicine Lodge in 1867. Rations

to be issued the Indians consistently fell short or failed

entirely, gun running and liquor trafficking by white

profiteers were not curtailed, and white outlaws from

both Kansas and Texas who entered the Indian Territory

to steal Indian stock were not punished or even, in most

cases, pursued. On all these counts, the two federal Indian

agents who dealt with the Indians, James M. Haworth at

Fort Sill and John D. Miles at Darlington, both Quaker

missionaries, did everything in their power to remedy the

situation, but they received no cooperation from either

the military or the Washington officials of the Office of

Indian Affairs.

The army declined to enforce provisions of the Medicine

Lodge Treaty prohibiting white entry onto tribal lands,

and between 1872 and 1874 organized, professional

buffalo hunters based in Dodge City, Kansas, wiped the

herds out on the Cheyenne-Arapaho Reservation. With

no rations arriving from the government and nothing left

to hunt, all four tribes were in a desperate situation. A

Comanche medicine man named Isa-tai called for a Sun

Dance, even though that ritual had never been part of the

Comanche religion. At that gathering, he and a young war

leader of the Quahadi band of Comanches, Quanah Park-

er, recruited warriors for raids into Texas to avenge slain

relatives of theirs. Other Comanche chiefs, notably Isa-

Rose (White Wolf) and Tabananica (Sound of the Sun) of

the Yapparika band, identified the hide merchants as the

real threat to the Indian way of life, and suggested that if

Quanah were to attack anybody, he should attack them. A

war party headed west into the Panhandle of Texas.

The second battle of Adobe Walls occurred between June

27 and July 1, 1874, when a war party of 700 Coman-

che, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Arapahoe warriors attacked

the buffalo hunters’ camp at Adobe Walls on the Cana-

dian River in what is now Hutchinson County. In the first

skirmish of that conflict three whites were killed, but as

many as seventy Indians were killed and wounded. After-

ward, the Indians maintained a sporadic siege of Adobe

Walls until July 1. In this battle William (Billy) Dixon’s

renowned “long shot” occurred, and the local restaura-

teur, William Olds, accidentally shot himself in the head

as he was descending from a watchtower.

The great majority of Kiowas did not take part in the

Adobe Walls episode. Instead, they awaited direction at

their annual Sun Dance, held the first week in July at the

western edge of the reservation. There, Chief Kicking

Bird persuaded most of the Kiowas to return to the agency

with him. The principal chief, Lone Wolf, succeeded in

recruiting a war party of just fifty men, and that with the

help of Maman-ti, the only other chief who voted for war.

In the “Lost Valley Fight” on July 12, in a shallow draw

near Jacksboro, Texas, they confronted a force of Texas

Rangers of the Frontier Battalion, commanded by Maj.

John B. Jones, and killed two, David Bailey and William

Glass. The rangers escaped under cover of night.

After numerous bloody incidents in Texas, Kansas, and

the Indian Territory, the federal government organized an

attack. The strategy was that of Gen. William T. Sherman

and Lt. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, who commanded the

Military Division of the Missouri, in which the trouble

had broken out. Peaceful Indians were to be quickly reg-

istered at their agencies and confined to the reservation

before the hostiles could return. Then, troop columns

would enter the field from five different directions, force

the warriors into their traditional refuges in the canyons

along the Caprock of the Texas Panhandle, and there an-

nihilate them or else force their surrender. This strategy

was in force by July 25.

In the battle of Palo Duro Canyon the first column in the

field was that of Col. Nelson A. Miles. His force left Fort

Dodge, Kansas, on August 11, 1874. It comprised eight

companies of the Sixth Cavalry, four companies of the

Fifth Infantry, plus artillery (one Parrott ten-pounder and

two ten-barrel Gatling guns), scouts, and Delaware Indian

trackers. A number of Miles’s scouts were buffalo hunt-

ers who had been present at Adobe Walls. Advancing into

the Texas Panhandle in a searing midsummer drought,

Miles fought a running battle with a force of Cheyennes

from August 27 to 31, before the Indians dispersed and

vanished. This was along the Red River in the far lower

reaches of Palo Duro Canyon. The battle is sometimes

styled the first battle of Palo Duro Canyon, and the subse-

quent action by Ranald S. Mackenzie, the second. Miles’s

and Sheridan’s reports depict this action as a significant

victory, but later sources indicate that the engagement

was at best inconclusive because Miles outran his supply

lines and left himself open to attack from the rear.

Confinement of tractable Indians at their agencies re-

sulted in violence at the Wichita Agency at Anadarko,

Indian Territory, and caused once-peaceable Kiowas to

stampede for the Llano Estacado. On the upper Washita

they crossed the path of a thirty-six-wagon army-supply

train commanded by Capt. Wyllys Lyman, which was be-

ing desperately awaited by Miles. The Kiowas pounced

on Lyman’s Wagon Trainqv on the morning of Septem-

ber 10, killing a sergeant and civilian teamster, and main-

tained a siege thereafter for, according to Indian sources,

the sake of the excitement. After a desperate escape from

the Indians, William Schmalsle returned on September 14

with a relief column, but by then the Kiowas had aban-

doned the fight.


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Colonel Miles sent scouting parties back along his trail to

try to locate his supply train. One of these parties, consist-

ing of Billy Dixon, Camp Supply interpreter Amos Chap-

man, and four soldiers, was pinned down in a buffalo wal-

low on the morning of September 12 by the same Indians

who had attacked the wagon train. One of the whites was

killed and all except Dixon were wounded; all six were

awarded the Medal of Honor. The awards of Dixon and

Chapman, however, were later revoked because they

were not in the regular army (see BUFFALO WALLOW

FIGHT.) Another of Sheridan’s troop columns came east

from New Mexico under Maj. William Redwood Price

and arrived at the scene on the afternoon of September

12. Price escorted the wagon train south, but refused aid

to the scouts in the buffalo wallow, an act for which Miles

censured him and assumed command of Price’s troops.

A third column of eight companies of the Fourth United

States Cavalry, five companies of the Tenth and Eleventh

Infantry, and an assortment of scouts including Seminole,

Lipan Apache, and Tonkawa Indians, assembled at a base

camp on Catfish Creek, about 150 miles west of Fort Grif-

fin, Texas. Under the command of Colonel Mackenzie

this group fought a skirmish in Tule Canyon on Septem-

ber 26. Two days later, Mackenzie outwitted a large force

of Kiowas under Maman-ti, Comanches under a chief

named O-ha-ma-tai, and Cheyennes under Iron Shirt,

who had taken refuge, trapping them with their families

in their main hideout in upper Palo Duro Canyon. In a

daring dawn attack down the steep canyon wall, Mack-

enzie’s troops killed only two or three Indians, but cap-

tured and torched several entire villages and slaughtered

over a thousand captured Indian ponies. This action broke

the back of much of the Indian resistance. The warriors,

dismounted and short of supplies, began drifting back to

their reservations.

The weather during the fall turned unusually wet, and the

Indians still at large referred to the miserable pursuit as

the “Wrinkled Hand Chase.” On November 8, 1874, Lt.

Frank D. Baldwin led a detachment from Miles’s column

and destroyed a large Cheyenne camp at the headwaters

of McClellan Creek, where he rescued two of the German

sisters, Julia and Addie. Numerous smaller actions were

fought throughout the autumn and winter of 1874–75,

and the troops were joined by others from Fort Sill, com-

manded by Lt. Col. John W. Davidson, and from Forts

Griffin and Richardson, Texas, commanded by Lt. Col.

George Buell. Surrenders increased in number until the

last holdouts, Quahadi Comanches under Quanah Parker,

surrendered to Mackenzie at Fort Sill, Indian Territory, on

June 2, 1875. Previously, on April 28, 1875, about seven-

ty-two captured chiefs had been sent by Sherman to Fort

Marion, Florida, where they were held until 1878.

The Red River War, characterized by supply problems on

both sides, was an important event in Texas and South

Plains history. It saw the virtual extinction of the south-

ern herd of buffalo, the final subjugation of the power-

ful Comanche, Kiowa, and southern Cheyenne Indians,

and consequently the opening of the Texas Panhandle to

white settlement. The advent of the ranching era followed

swiftly.

James L. Haley, “RED RIVER WAR,” Handbook of Tex-as Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qdr02), accessed March 19, 2014. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

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