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Just Rambling August 2019 Issue:

Just Rambling: I hope each of you don’t object but I am going to write about my family this month since so many things have happened and are happening with my family. To begin with I had a new grandson, Hudson Shiloh, born on December 21, 2018 not long after my daughter, Velvet, passed away. He is the son of my daughter, Avery Vanessa and her husband, Jerome Wilson. For many years they said they didn’t want children so Avery was thirty-six when Hudson was born. You should see them NOW! They are proud parents and needless to say, Hudson has them wrapped. Velvet was so excited about Avery and Jerome’s little boy to be born. She added the name Shiloh to Hudson which means “sent from God”. When Hudson was born he had a birth mark that shows when he gets upset—it is a V just above his eye line. He is precious and he has his Paw and Nana wrapped pretty good as well. On this past Father’s Day in June Brittany/Chance, Dana/Randy, Savanah/granddaughter, and Avery/Jerome and Hudson had lunch with us after church. Hudson was sitting on Dana’s lap and he was trying to talk to her and pull her hair. Avery was sitting beside me and I looked over at Dana with Hudson then I told Randy, (Dana’s husband) that Hudson needed a little cousin. Randy informed Avery and I that no way were they having a baby any time soon. Avery and I were discouraged about the response but accepted it as fact. About 30 minutes later Dana brought me in a homemade card which said you have been promoted. I said “promoted to what, more work!” She said “Open it”. When I did, it said from Grand Paw of the dogs to Grand Paw of a baby. Avery and I couldn’t believe it after what Randy had said. We were in happy shock. A few minutes later, Donnette came in to ask what was going on and she received the news. She was thrilled as well. The due date is January 30th, 2020. No determination on sex yet but we will be happy with a girl or a boy or maybe both since my father had a twin sister. They were Coy and Floy and they were born on January 29th, 1923. Brittany and Chance’s daughter, (my granddaughter) Katy, just returned from Alaska on a mission trip there. She had also gone to Columbia, South America on a mission trip in May and went to Zambia, Africa last year. She is a senior at La. Tech and will be graduating in 2020. I am so proud of this young lady. My daughter, Blair, is now a senior in Veterinary School at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Ms. She loves veterinary work and she along with all the others in Vet School have to work extremely hard to become a Veterinarian. When she first started there, I sat in a conference which was designed to inform parents about the Vet School program. After listening to the speaker talk about what would be expected of the students I told Donnette that I was glad it was Blair and not me. I don’t know if I could handle it. She has done well and is now starting her externships where she will travel to different Vet Clinics and Surgery Centers to work for three weeks to a month at each place. October 14, 2019 she will begin an emergency externship at the largest Surgery Center in the United States. She will be working at the Surgery Center in Manhattan, New York for approximately thirty days. I am excited for her but I am sure glad it is her and not me. I don’t know if this ole country boy could handle the city and I know I couldn’t handle the work. She just returned from Savannah, Georgia where she took part in a Veterinary Conference with some of the doctors from Mississippi State. Now I come to the conclusion of my rambling by telling you about my son, Cody and his wife, Jenny. They have been teaching in New Orleans for several years—Cody at a Catholic all boys school and Jenny, at a private elementary school. Cody decided he wanted to go back to Germany to teach or try to work for the State Department over there. Jenny already had her a job at an international school in Berlin but got to thinking about if she lost her job she couldn’t even work at McDonalds’s because she didn’t speak the language so she decided against going to Germany. Cody has taught in Germany before and can speak the language but Jenny prevailed. Guess where they have gone? New York City—Manhattan. They both have teaching jobs there beginning in late August. Donnette and I, along with Cody, moved all their belongings from New Orleans to Spearsville at the end of May. Jenny didn’t finish teaching at her school until the end of the first week in June then she came up to Spearsville. After they vacationed in New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas during most of June they came home to prepare for the trip to New York and to get an apartment there. Having got their apartment finalized they rented a U– Haul truck to move all their belongings to New York City. They left on Saturday, July 27th, and arrived today, July 30th to move in. Cody drove this U-Haul truck to Bowling Green, Kentucky, then to Washington, Pennsylvania, then to Rutherford, New Jersey, now into New York. My son loves big cities and traveling which is so much different than his ole Dad. He gets that traveling bug from his mother. Velvet would be so excited with everything happening in the family. She loved her siblings, their spouses and their kids. Her children, Savanah and Dusty are doing good but still miss their Mother very much. Savanah’s Aunt Brittany has taken her under her wing which has been a blessing for Savanah since she was just fourteen when Velvet passed away. During the D’Arbonne Range Rider’s Rodeo in June a memorial was held for Velvet. Savanah and I led Velvet’s horse, Beetle Bug around the arena with Velvet’s boots turned backwards and her hat on the saddle horn. The saddle was Velvet’s great grand father’s which my father rode. Brittany got Savanah a shirt and boots, just like her mother was buried in, to wear that night. It was a great memorial event for Velvet and we are so thankful to the D’Arbonne Range Rider’s for allowing this to take place. Thank you so much for reading my ramblings about my family. The Lord has blessed me and my family. Thank you Lord!